It may be Cannes that generates all the media-friendly controversy, but as it turns out, it was the Venice Film Festival that was quietly hatching the eventual NC-17 films. First came "Shame," which received...
Finding an appropriate location to watch the Academy Awards ever year in Los Angeles is akin to making sure you get invited to the right New Year's Eve party. Chances are it's going to be crowded, there won't be...
The Weinstein Company and one of the film's subjects will appeal the MPAA’s decision give an “R” rating to their upcoming documentary "Bully," which tackles the nation's school bullying epi...
Oh, it wouldn't be the final stretch of Oscar voting without a minor kerfuffle over some or other campaign strategy. The people ruffling feathers this time, you'll be shocked to hear, are The Weinstein Company, ...
"The Artist" is indeed a runaway train. Here is lightning, here is a bottle, and that's the 2011 Oscar season. Really, that's the Oscar season in general, capturing a feeling, an emotion, a vibe, and riding ...
Dimension Films has hired young writer Matt Lieberman to pen their upcoming remake of "Short Circuit", the 1986 family hit about an experimental robot who gains sentience after being electrocuted in a lab accident. Th...
It's a regrettable sign of awards-season distractedness that I didn't learn until yesterday that Damien Bona, patron saint of Oscar geeks, passed away last week. If his name isn't familiar to you, his book "Insid...
One of the documentary features nominated by the Academy Tuesday was Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Matin's "Undefeated." No, not the Sarah Palin thing. This is a chronicle of an inner-city North Memphis, Tenn...
As everyone reading this certainly knows by now, Hollywood is ultimately a numbers game. In the conference rooms of the industry's movers and shakers, all talk of artistry and technical brilliance takes a backseat to ...
Spanish director F. Javier Gutierrez, who helmed the 2008 apocalyptic drama "Before the Fall" (a.k.a. "Tres Dias"), has replaced his countryman Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ("28 Weeks Later") ...
