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Academy Launches 2018 Student Academy Award Competition

Erik Anderson March 29, 2018

Winners Eligible for Oscars® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy is now accepting entries for its 2018 Student Academy Awards® competition. All Student Academy Award® winners become eligible... Read More

Trailer for ‘Loro (Part 1)’ – Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s biopic on Silvio Berlusconi

Erik Anderson March 29, 2018

From Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty – Foreign Language Film) comes the first part of Loro, a sprawling epic detailing the life... Read More

Cannes Classics to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Erik Anderson March 28, 2018

Cannes Classics to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in Cannes, with world premiere of a 70mm print of the director’s 1968... Read More

MoviePass Inks Deal with Landmark Theaters

Erik Anderson March 27, 2018

MoviePass, the premier movie theater subscription service, has teamed up with the country’s largest network of theaters dedicated to the distribution of independent film, Landmark... Read More

Jack Black and Cate Blanchett are timed to spook in ‘The House with a Clock in its Walls’ trailer

Erik Anderson March 27, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award®... Read More

Alvin Ailey biopic in the works at Fox Searchlight; Alicia Keys to produce

Erik Anderson March 25, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] A biopic of legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey is in the works at Fox Searchlight with multi-Grammy winner Alicia Keys on board... Read More

2018 Cannes: Press Screenings Shuffled Ahead of World Premieres; Selfies Banned

Erik Anderson March 23, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] In an announcement a few years in the making, Cannes Film Festival head Thierry Frémaux revealed today that press screenings for... Read More

Chiwetel Ejiofor experiences a crisis of faith in Netflix’s ‘Come Sunday’ trailer

Erik Anderson March 22, 2018

Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) stars Come Sunday, the real-life story of internationally-renowned pastor Carlton Pearson who risks his church, family, and... Read More

Cannes 2018: What We Could See, What We Want to See on the Croisette

Erik Anderson March 21, 2018

We’re just over three weeks from the announcement of the official lineup of the 71st Cannes Film Festival (April 12) but I’ve been mulling over... Read More

Andrew Garfield Trips Out in Surreal Neo-Noir ‘Under the Silver Lake’

Erik Anderson March 21, 2018

Under the Silver Lake is the anticipated follow-up from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell finds loopy slacker Andrew Garfield embarking on a surrealist adventure... Read More

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