From Awards Daily: The No Country for Old Men awards train keeps on rolling as the Producers Guild of America named it the best feature of 2007. The Coen Brothers film also recently snagged DGA and SAG honors leaving the producers of There Will Be Blood, Juno, Michael Clayton and Atonement to wonder if anyone will be up the trail [...]

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Numerous sources including Nikki Finke, The New York Times and Variety reported this afternoon that informal talks between the writers and the producers cleared “major roadblocks” on Friday that could lead to a new contract soon.
Hollywood has been in a holding pattern since the writers walked out on November 5 after negotiations over residuals from new media reached [...]

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Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis 
Based upon the autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, the animated Persepolis is a series of vignettes that follow the author’s life from little Iranian girl living under the Shah to young woman wondering where she fits in the world.
Growing up is hard enough by itself, but imagine having the [...]

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