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Directors Guild (DGA), Cinematographers society (ASC), Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Preview and Predictions

Erik Anderson January 23, 2020

Saturday, January 25th will hold no less than five guild or industry awards ceremonies thanks to the shortened Oscar season (including the Annies and the... Read More

Trailer for Sundance thriller ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ from Academy Award nominee Dee Rees

Erik Anderson January 23, 2020

Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal.... Read More

Jon Stewart’s political satire ‘Irresistible’ gets summer release, first trailer from Focus Features

Erik Anderson January 22, 2020

Focus Features will release Jon Stewart’s Irresistible on Friday May 29, 2020 domestically in North America Written and directed by Jon Stewart, Irresistible is a comedy about what happens when a small... Read More

Santa Barbara Film Fest: Laura Dern accepts Cinema Vanguard Award

Erik Anderson January 22, 2020

Day 7 of the 35th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) presented by UGG featured an insightful tribute to Laura Dern, who received the... Read More

Santa Barbara Film Fest: Writers Panel featuring Greta Gerwig, Lulu Wang, Noah Harpster

Catherine Springer January 21, 2020

The writers panel at 35th Santa Barbara Film Festival featured a range of writers from all types of films that earned success in 2019. Here... Read More

Trailer for ‘Bull,’ starring Rob Morgan of ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’

Erik Anderson January 21, 2020

Annie Silverstein’s acclaimed Cannes drama will be in select theaters and on digital/VOD on March 20, 2020 Bull centers around 14-year-old Kris (Amber Havard), who, after... Read More

Anne Lai appointed Executive Director of SFFILM

Erik Anderson January 21, 2020

Veteran Film Executive to Take Helm on March 11 SFFILM, the longest-running film festival in the Americas, announced today that Anne Lai has been appointed Executive Director of the organization,... Read More

2020 Oscars: Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Rami Malek will return to present

Erik Anderson January 21, 2020

The Academy has announced the first slate of presenters for the Oscars and last year’s acting Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and... Read More

Oscars 2010-2019: The Decade of Studio Best Picture Nominations and Wins

Erik Anderson January 21, 2020

The 2010-2019 decade ended with Fox Searchlight (now just Searchlight Pictures under Disney) maintaining and extending its dominance as an Oscar Best Picture leader in... Read More

‘Parasite,’ ‘1917’ top Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) winners

Erik Anderson January 20, 2020

The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) have chosen Parasite as the best film of 2019, also rewarding the South Korean darkly comedic thriller Best Director... Read More

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