Focus Features firmed up some release dates today and the outlook for 2009 suddenly got a little more interesting.
Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control arrives May 22 while Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man is set for October 2. Neither made LiC’s 20 to Watch for 2009 because they didn’t yet have release dates. [...]
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For the second year in a row, LA Times awards jockey Tom O’Neil was denied a press pass to cover the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s awards banquet and for the second year in a row he’s using the snub to suggest LAFCA’s machinations aren’t above board. Noting that the critics group allows journalists who [...]
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London based Shorts International, purveyor of fine short films the world over is teaming up with Magnolia Pictures again this year to bring the Oscar-nominated live-action and animated short films to US theaters beginning February 6 with expansions into 60 cities to follow in subsequent weeks.
Those of you who like to watch your short films [...]
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On the eve of the Sundance Film Festival and nearly 6 months after being acquired by the documentary streaming site SnagFilms, indieWIRE launched a major site redesign today.
Positioning the site as a hub for filmmakers and film lovers alike, indieWIRE editor-in-chief and co-founder Eugene Hernandez said the site would continue to offer original content but [...]
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Best known in the United States for directing 1986’s Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, Claude Berri died Monday at the age of 84 of unspecified causes.
The Frenchman’s film career spanned 50 years as an actor, writer, director and producer. He won an Oscar for best short film with Le Poulet in 1965.
Berri [...]
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The American Cinema Editors announced the nominations for the Eddie Awards this morning and the picks for Best Editing in a Feature Film (Dramatic) lined up perfectly with the choices of the DGA and PGA. I was kind of hoping one of the five would be left out just to give us something to talk [...]
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The long, tortured history of John Madden’s Killshot comes to an end on January 23 when it finally gets a theatrical release. A crime thriller based on the Elmore Leonard novel, the film starring Diane Lane, recent Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Thomas Jane has been completed since 2006. Test audiences were [...]
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Happy Monday everyone and welcome to another LiC Watercooler, the place to talk about your weekend at the movies or anything else movie related that’s on your mind.
Of course the Golden Globes were on last night. Was it just me, or did most of the best moments have Kate Winslet in them?
Yeah, it was probably [...]
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