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"Someone I Loved" and "Welcome" Bookend LA's COL-COA French Event

Fifty films with 30 features and 20 shorts are slated for this year's City of Lights, City of Angels (COL-COA) series spotlighting French film in Los Angeles, taking place April 20 - 26. Kicking off the 13th annual event is the international premiere of Zabou Breitman's "Someone I Loved" (Je l'aimai...

Quaid, Moore Set To Play Clintons

UK's The First Post is reporting that Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore have been cast as Bill and Hillary Clinton in "Special Relationships," a film that sets out to explore the relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton during the period of the Monica Lewinsky scandal (Variety is reporting the...

MoMA Announces Mike Nichols Retrospective

The Museum of Modern Art has announced "Mike Nichols," a two-week retrospective of 17 films that surveys the wide range of Mike Nichols' directing career running April 14-May 1, 2009.

"Modern Love," "Anywhere" Win at Boston Underground Fest

The Boston Underground Film Festival announced the winners of its 11th annual festival on Sunday night at Tommy Doyle's in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Modern Love is Automatic," by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Zach Clark, won the Jury Award for Best Feature, while Chusy Haney-Jardine's "Anywhere USA" won...

Gerima, Portabella To Head Venice Section juries

Academy Moves 82nd Oscars to Early March

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has moved back its date one week for the 2010 Academy Awards. The 82nd Oscars will take place March 7 next year, Academy President Sid Ganis announced Wednesday. Again, the ceremony will take place at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in...

Blockbuster Teams Up With Tivo

MPAA Underplays 2008 B.O.

iW BOT Update: "Valentino" Leads Chart; "Super" Bombs

This week's indieWIRE Box Office Chart finds Matt Tyrnauer’s “Valentino: The Last Emperor," a doc on legendary designer Valentino Garavani, exceeding initial estimates to lead the chart with a $21,762 gross from New York's Film Forum.