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Can You Guess Sean Young’s Favorite Film?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent As everything with Sean Young, who’s busy these days with ComicCon’s, Film work, TV Guest spots, Celebrity appearances, plus a TCM gig with Disney Cruises, the final result is spectacular… if you wait long enough. Actually, that’s an inside joke because actor Sean Young delivers more than promised for…
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Get Out the Vote for YUDIE to Join National Film Registry at the Library of Congress
NEW YORK, NY: The NYWIFT Community encourages everyone to vote for Mirra Bank’s YUDIE short film, so it can join The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Screenmancer, the female-run film site in Hollywood since 1997, endorses NYWIFT’s support for this pathfinder among 1970’s feminist documentaries. Vote here and read on… Based on…
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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising Opens Big at TIFF
Toronto, Ontario: Makwa Creative Inc. has announced that Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, a documentary about the culture-shifting youth-led land-back occupation, will have its world premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Sept. 2025. Focused on the life of Louis Cameron who led the charge, Ni-Naadamaadiz is written/directed by award-winning Métis filmmaker Shane Belcourt.…
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AMPAS’ Chang says ACES system to join ASWF
LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) today announced that the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), the global standard for color management, is joining the ASWF, a home for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader industries. “ACES has become a…
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Izumi Hasegawa’s Top 10 Japanese Films Watchlist
by Izumi Hasegawa, Hollywood News Wire Inc. EXCLUSIVE: Izumi Hasegawa is an entertainment journalist based in Los Angeles. Originally from Japan, Izumi has interviewed more than 5,000 stars and filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Angelina Jolie. A long-time friend of Screenmancer, Hasegawa has covered innumerable film and television awards, premieres,…
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Top 10 Russell Crowe Films Ranked & His Band
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Most of us in Hollywood remember when Sharon Stone plucked an Australian bad boy out of obscurity from a ballsy indie movie called ROMPER STOMPER, where clench-fisted lead Hando has a goggle-eyed stare that scared the crap out of first-look audiences. Hando was 28-year-old Russell Crowe who even showed…
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Prod. Lynette Howell Taylor now Academy President
LOS ANGELES, CA: Producer Lynette Howell Taylor has been elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) by the Board of Governors. Academy CEO Bill Kramer said, “Lynette has been a vital part of the Academy Board of Governors for many years, most recently revitalizing our awards work as chair of…
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Top 10 Freaky Plastic Surgery Films for Jamie Lee Curtis
by Chad Aiggia, Freelance Correspondent Because we love Jamie Lee Curtis at all her ages au naturel, including now as older JLC, who just spoke out in “The Guardian”(UK) news pages against the odd-faced Hollywood obsession with plastic surgery? Screenmancer presents a very unusual entry in our Top 10’s this Summer dedicated to her. That…
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Cree filmmaker WaaPaKe scores theater premiere for Angela’s Shadow
TORONTO, ON: ANGELA’S SHADOW from award-winning Cree filmmaker Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin (WaaPaKe) has launched in theatres across Canada after a successful festival run. The theatrical run started in Vancouver, then Winnipeg and will have its Ontario premiere at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto on Friday, July 25th with Koostachin in attendance for a post-screening…
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Top 10 Summer Watchlist for a Post-Choice Reality
LOS ANGELES, CA: Screenmancer presents a Top 10 list for women and girls of all ages in a post-Roe v Wade reality now that the landmark Jan. 22, 1973 legislation has fallen. Norma McCarvey, who died in 2017, was that real-life Jane Roe who stood for all her contemporaries on a cold day in January…
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Top 10 Queer and Queer-Adjacent Summer Picks
Curated by Panta Mosleh for Screenmancer So this summer isn’t just about blockbusters with capes, it’s about stories with soul! From queer coming-of-age dramas to chaotic anime royals, this list is a love letter to the films and shows that made me laugh, cry, scream “OMG YAAAAS,” and enthusiastically recommend them to strangers. Some are…
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Amy Alkon’s Curated Menopause and Perimenopause Film Series
LOS ANGELES, CA: Amy Alkon is the author of a powerful new book that Screenmancer highly recommends, GOING MENOPOSTAL: What you (and your doctor) need to know about the real science of menopause and perimenopause. Exclusively for Screenmancer, Amy gives us her top 10 movies—fierce, funny, and real—that speak to women in menopause and perimenopause.…
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Josh Brolin rolling dirty for Pay Dirt Supercross
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Remember when JAWS, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer, hit screens and changed the way everyone looked at the beach? A few years earlier in 1971, a film by Bruce “Endless Summer” Brown came out that changed the way everyone looked at the dirt. Starring motorcycle buff Steve…
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Academy taps Tom Cruise, Dolly, Debbie Allen & Wynn Thomas for Gov Awards
LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that its Board of Governors voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to Debbie Allen, Tom Cruise and Wynn Thomas, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Dolly Parton. The four Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the Academy’s 16th Governors Awards event…
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Academy looks back on storied life of its own Richard Kahn
LOS ANGELES, CA – Former Academy President Richard Kahn passed away Saturday, April 5, in Los Angeles. He was 95. “All of us at the Academy are deeply saddened to learn of Richard’s passing,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang. “Richard was a devoted member of the Academy and the film…
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