https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmYWk7kerU Here's the sequel to Terrence Malick's To the Wonder that we never knew we needed. Kind of. Thy Kingdom Come is a 43-minute short film premiering this March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Directed by Euguene Richards, a photojournalist for The New Yorker, it utilizes bonus footage that Malick [...]
In the last major guild ceremony before the Academy Awards on March 4, winners went according to the awards season script as the Writers Guild of America announced their choices for the best screenplays of 2017. Jordan Peele won Original Screenplay for his debut film Get Out, while legendary Brit filmmaker James Ivory won the Adapted [...]
You know nothing, Star Wars fans. Coming completely out of nowhere, Lucasfilm dropped a Death Star sized announcement into its expanding universe: Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will be creating and producing an entirely new series of Star Wars films. Not a bad Plan B to follow up with after their now-defunct controversial HBO series Confederate. The [...]
The DGA is following the 2017 Awards Season script. As expected, the Directors Guild of America presented their 70th award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film to Guillermo del Toro for his Cold War period fantasy fable The Shape of Water. This follows del Toro wins at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice [...]
Talk about perfect casting. Tom Hanks, the most beloved guy in Hollywood, has been tapped to play Mr. Rogers, the most beloved guy in pop culture. And after nearly twenty years of not being up for a Best Actor Oscar (his last nod was for 2000's Cast Away), it's as if Hanks is daring the Academy [...]
UPDATED: 11:15 A.M. Jan. 23 This year, the Academy didn't bite on the Oscar bait. The headline from the announcement of the 90th Annual Academy Awards is that, as expected, The Shape of Water led the pack with 13 nominations including Best Picture, Actress (Sally Hawkins), and Director (Guillermo del Toro). That's one short of [...]
The Oscar race is over before the nominations have even been announced. In one night, the 2017/18 Awards Season went from being the most wide open in memory to being locked in. If you're a betting person, put your Best Picture money on Three Billboards. Then lay more down on all four acting categories. Not [...]
The shape of the Oscar race curved towards water at the 29th Annual Producers Guild of America awards gala, giving the Darryl F. Zanuck top prize for Best Film to The Shape of Water. It's a producer-y pick as picks go, favoring a film with bigger production ambitions than smaller films can match. The Post [...]
It's official: two locks for Oscar wins just got unlocked. For the first phase of the awards season - a.k.a. Critics Groups - the Supporting Actor and Actress categories were dominated by Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird). They had become the safest bets of the entire Oscar season. Then the [...]
If history is any indication, the winner for Best Picture at the upcoming 90th Annual Academy Awards will be one of these three films: Get Out Lady Bird Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri They were among the five nominated by the Directors Guild of America for 2017's Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film. The [...]
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