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PGA, DGA, and finally WGA: Let’s get Award Season sorted out for 2022
by Screenmancer Staff Call it an embarrassment of riches, or a chance to jumble hundreds of nominee names and studios in a huge crush of announcements today from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Writers Guild all at once in Hollywood right now. Sorting machines needed, but human hands on this one as…
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Glenn Weiss comes back direct the 94th Oscars set for March 2022
LOS ANGELES, CA: The Oscars® show producer Will Packer announced today that veteran director Glenn Weiss will return to direct the 94th Oscars. The Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT. “You need someone with the deep technical knowledge and creative insights…
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Okay, so here are the winners from the (No-Show) 79th Golden Globes
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent No, it was not a good night for darling film Licorice Pizza, widely tipped to win at least something tonight at the unusual un-televised 79th Golden Globes. But Jane Campion’s odd prairie saga The Power of the Dog made no bones about it, picking up Best Director for Campion,…
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26th Satellite Awards highest honor goes to Tom Skerritt for IPA’s 2022 Show
Los Angeles, CA: The International Press Academy (IPA) has named Tom Skerritt, indelibly famous for his TOP GUN franchise run, as the recipient of one its highest honors. Skerritt will received the “Mary Pickford Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry” at the 26th Annual Satellite™ Awards. For over fifty years, Tom Skerritt…
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George Clooney intros Jackson Browne for his endearing film THE TENDER BAR
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Who doesn’t want to see Director George Clooney introduce a Jackson Browne song from his new movie THE TENDER BAR? Browne’s “My Opening Farewell” is a featured attraction of this film. How about Clooney introducing an actual performance by Jackson Browne… wait for it. Meanwhile you can see J.R.…
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Penske Media buys The American Pavilion at Cannes Film Fest
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Today, Penske Media (PMC) announced the acquisition of The American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival, a relied upon communications, hospitality, and media center for global attendees. For over 30 years, The American Pavilion has made its mark providing an impressive array of facilities and services, including membership for the international film community, provocative and insightful programming, the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase and immersive student programs. “We…
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Spotlight: Riz Ahmed & Aneil Karia’s THE LONG GOODBYE on 2022 Oscar Shortlist
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If we wind the clock back to last year’s Award Season, SOUND OF METAL starring Riz Ahmed as a hearing-impaired rock drummer blew away the uninitiated as the band-fronter film picked up six Oscar®️ nominations and won two for Best Editing and Best Sound. Notable among the nominations was…
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94TH OSCARS® SHORTLISTS in 10 AWARD CATEGORIES ARE HERE
LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 94th Academy Awards®: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects. DOCUMENTARY FEATUREFifteen films will advance…
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Ben Affleck’s TENDER BAR premiere snap take & set-styled Hollywood afterparty
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Even though this joke – “A termite walks into a bar, and asks ‘where is the bar tender?’” – wasn’t in the movie, on Sunday, Dec. 12 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, J.R. Moehringer’s film-memoir THE TENDER BAR had a showing for an enthusiastic packed audience. It even had a star-studded…
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Indie Spirit Awards name noms, like C’MON, C’MON, THE LOST DAUGHTER & many more
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Set for an in-person comeback on Sunday, March 6, 2022, the 37th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will return “to the beaches of Santa Monica” with a slate of noms to winners announced this morning by Naomi Watts, Regina King, and Beanie Feldstein. Just watch what they had to…
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CYRANO’s Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett & Kelvin Harrison Jr. dazzle in London
by Screenmancer Staff What would French poet and playwright Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1868 – 1918), better known simply as Edmond Rostand, think of his 1897 creation “Cyrano de Bergerac” in the hands of filmmaker Joe Wright? If he’d seen Wright’s screen rendition of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” no doubt Rostand would have applauded…
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BEING THE RICARDOS’ Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, cast, stroll LA’s red carpet
by Screenmancer Staff There’s so much to love about the Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz romance revisited in BEING THE RICARDOS, with the LA premiere at the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum being no exception. Slated for theatrical release on Dec. 10, the star cast made their way down the newly minted Academy Museum’s red…
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TCM nod to Lily Tomlin is star imprints & Leonard Maltin gets Robert Osborne Award
LOS ANGELES, CA: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today announced it will honor iconic actress and comedian Lily Tomlin with a hand and footprint ceremony in the courtyard of the world-famous TCL Chinese Theatre Imax® in Hollywood during the 13th TCM Classic Film Festival on Friday, April 22. In addition, the third Robert Osborne Award, recognizing an individual who has helped keep the cultural heritage…
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94TH OSCARS® International, Doc and Animated Films in the hunt for gold arrive
Screenmancer has the complete list of eligible films for the 94th Academy Awards®, including THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD from Norway, and a double nomination for FLEE in documentary and animation, among other surprises. LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the…
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NIGHTMARE ALLEY’s Bradley Cooper, star gallery, from Alice Tully Hall premiere
by Screenmancer Staff Last night at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, NIGHTMARE ALLEY lead Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, and Director Guillermo del Toro showed up, with more of the cast, to wry smiles at the opening of this novel-adapted film about a carnival grifter who pierces the veil to nibble on the hapless1940’s upper…
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