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Oscar Podcast #42: Fall Festivals Kick Off Oscar Season with La La Land, Moonlight, Arrival, Nocturnal Animals

Erik Anderson September 4, 2016

The Venice and Telluride Film Festivals have kicked off the beginning of Oscar season (even though we’ve been at it for months!), giving us a... Read More

‘LOVING’ to be Closing Night film at the 39TH MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL

Erik Anderson August 11, 2016

SAN RAFAEL, CA (August 10, 2016) – The Mill Valley Film Festival (October 6 – 16, 2016), presented by the California Film Institute, is pleased to announce... Read More

2017 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE (August)

Erik Anderson August 5, 2016

[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Animated Feature Oscar race is pretty competitive this year. While our #1 prediction, Moana, hasn’t even come out yet, what... Read More

Trailer for Major Oscar Contender ‘Loving,’ starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton

Erik Anderson July 12, 2016

The trailer for one of the most anticipated films of the fall and one of this year’s potentially major Oscar players lands today. Jeff Nichols’... Read More

First Look: ‘Loving,’ starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton

Erik Anderson May 16, 2016

With the unveiling of Jeff Nichols’s Loving at the Cannes Film Festival to mostly rapturous reviews (especially for Ruth Negga) comes the first clip of the... Read More

Cannes 2016 Distribution Watch: What’s Been Picked Up

Erik Anderson May 15, 2016

[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Sometimes it seems that for all of the prestige and pageantry of the Cannes Film Festival most American audiences will never see... Read More

Oscar Podcast #38: Cannes Predictions, Oscar Talk, Story of Your Life Gets a New Title

Erik Anderson April 11, 2016

In our 38th podcast, I am joined by three Gold Rush Gang members – Júlia, Evan and Kenneth – to first discuss the name change... Read More

2016 Oscars: SAG/GG Post-Mortem and Michael Shannon?

Erik Anderson December 10, 2015

With the two major critics groups (LAFCA and NYFCC), the National Board of Review (NBR), Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and now The Golden Globes... Read More

Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Predictions: Spotlight, Room, Brooklyn Expected

Erik Anderson December 8, 2015

The nominations for the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards are tomorrow morning and we have the FINAL predictions from The Gold Rush Gang. In the... Read More

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