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ASC Names Cinematography Nominees
Nominees for the 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition were announced today. Competing in the feature film category are: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" photographed by Claudio Miranda; "The Dark Knight" shot by Wally Pfister, ASC; "The Reader" by Chris Menges, BSC and Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC; "Revolutionary Road" by Deakins; and "Slumdog Millionaire" by Anthony Dod Mantle. The awards will be presented in Los Angeles on February 15. "This annual celebration is our way of letting our colleagues from around the world know that their peers in the ASC recognize their inherent visua...
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"Winnipeg" Wins Inaugural Canadian Film Award
"My Winnipeg," Guy Maddin's black-and-white love letter to his Manitoba hometown, is the first winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's new Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award. The award, which carries a $10,000 cash prize, was presented to Maddin by Sarah Polleyat the TFCA's gala dinner, hel...
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Hardwicke, Hagman and Boothe to Receive TX Hall of Fame Awards
Director Catherine Hardwicke ("Twilight") and actors Powers Boothe ("Nixon") and Larry Hagman ("Dallas") will be inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame during its ninth annual event in Austin, TX on Thursday, March 12, the Austin Film Society, which organizes the charity bash announced Tuesday. A native of McAllen, TX, Hardwicke's work includes "Lords of Dogtown," and "Thirteen." Her latest, "Twilight" is the highest grossing film by a female director. Hagman, who is best known for his role as oilman J.R. Ewing from TV's "Dallas" and his role on '60s comedy "I Dream of Jeannie," will be presented with his award by his "Dallas" co-star, Lin...
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Academy Announces Makeup, Visual Effects Finalists
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 81st Academy Awards. They are "Australia," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Dark Knight," "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," "Iron Man," "Journey to th...
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Alive Mind Acquires "Gates" As First Theatrical Release
Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles' documentary "The Gates" has been acquired for North American distribution by Richard Lorber's nine-month old distributor Alive Mind. "The Gates," which chronicles the conception and evolution of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Central Park installment by the s...
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Magnet Goes "Mutant" in the U.S.
Simon Hunter's sci-fi/action film, "Mutant Chronicles" has been picked up for the U.S. by Magnolia Pictures' genre label, Magnet Releasing as part of the Wagner/Cuban Companies' "Ultra VOD" program. "Mutant" will premiere on VOD on Friday, March 27, followed by a theatrical release in select cities on Friday, April 24, according to the company. Magnet/Magnolia's SVP Tom Quinn and head of business affairs, Jason Janego negotiated the deal with Cinetic Media which represented the filmmakers. The film is described by the company as "set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control...
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Regent Takes Japan's "Departures" for North America
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to Japanese director Yojiro Takita's "Departures" (Okuribito), the company announced Monday morning. The film, which lead the Japanese Academy Award nominations and is the country's foreign language entry for the 81st Annual Academy Awards in the U.S., will open in select U.S. cities this summer. The acquisition deal for "Departures" was negotiated between Mark Reinhart for Regent, and Satoko Ishida of Shochiku Co., Ltd. According to Regent, "Departures" follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without ...
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USC Scripter Nominees Announced
The USC Scripter Award, which honor both the original work and the adapted screenplay of the previous year's films, announced their 2008 nominees: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Iron Man," "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road," and "Slumdog Millionaire." Last year, all five USC Scripter nomine...
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Producers Guild of America Announces Annual Nominees
Nominees for the Producers Guild of America awards were announced today with five films competing the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" produced by Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall and Cean Chaffin; "The Dark Knight" produced by Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas; "Frost/Nixon" produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Eric Fellner; "Milk" produced by Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen; "Slumdog Millionaire" produced by Christian Colson. Nominated for Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures are: "Man On Wire" produced by Simon Ch...
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