Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:
Kassim the Dream – the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire – this [...]
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Turns out the movie business keeps rolling whether you’re paying attention to it or not. Here’s a handful of recent casting announcements featuring interesting actors in not-so-interesting projects.
Amy Adams is set to star as NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden in a film based on Lyden’s memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba. A fixture at NPR [...]
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Anthony DeMarco in Jake’s ClosetÂ
Like the recent Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, writer/director Shelli Ryan’s feature debut Jake’s Closet takes a segment of the horror genre, in this case zombies, and uses it to explore the traumas of childhood. While not as literary or effective as the terrific Tomas Alfredson film, it [...]
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Gus Van Sant and his Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have been attached to an adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a while now, but the film is now apparently one step closer to reality. Borys Kit reports in THR that Fox Searchlight has picked up the project which tells the [...]
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