Event to move to Hull, the UK City Of Culture 2017, for fourth edition.
The 2017 edition of annual UK exhibitors’ industry conference This Way Up has revealed its key topics.
Set to take place November 7-8 at Hull’s Truck Theatre, this year’s event will focus on four subjects: the power of culture (which will look at the role of the film industry as the world sees seismic cultural and political shifts); technological change (how exhibitors can harness new technologies); ethics and resilience (how to preserve cultural values in the face of commercial pressure); places, spaces, and global community (as content becomes more available on small devices, how to cinemas remain important spaces to consume culture?).
The event has also announced two keynote speakers.
Jenny Sealey, winner of the Liberty Human Rights Award, co-director of the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony, CEO-artistic director of Graeae Theatre since 1997, and a pioneer in disabled-led theatre.
Moira Sinclair...
The 2017 edition of annual UK exhibitors’ industry conference This Way Up has revealed its key topics.
Set to take place November 7-8 at Hull’s Truck Theatre, this year’s event will focus on four subjects: the power of culture (which will look at the role of the film industry as the world sees seismic cultural and political shifts); technological change (how exhibitors can harness new technologies); ethics and resilience (how to preserve cultural values in the face of commercial pressure); places, spaces, and global community (as content becomes more available on small devices, how to cinemas remain important spaces to consume culture?).
The event has also announced two keynote speakers.
Jenny Sealey, winner of the Liberty Human Rights Award, co-director of the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony, CEO-artistic director of Graeae Theatre since 1997, and a pioneer in disabled-led theatre.
Moira Sinclair...
- 8/17/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Statistics presented at UK cinema conference also revealed that 51% of audiences believe the cinema experience does not justify the overall expense.
Tanya Easterman, senior relationship manager at Cinema First, the cross industry body which runs the Meerkat Movies promotion, has warned that cinema-going is perceived by audiences as a prohibitively expensive activity, something which poses a signficant challenge to the sector.
Presenting new research conducted by the company during a session at UK cinema conference This Way Up at Glasgow Film Theatre on November 30, Easterman began on a positive note: “The proportion of people who have claimed to have visited the cinema over the last quarter was up 23% (over the previous quarter), that’s reflective of the film slate at the moment.”
The same figure for specifically the month of October was 49%, up 7% year-on-year, she added.
Easterman proceeded to analyse the drivers of cinema visits. “The overall cinematic experience is the most important factor, other drivers...
Tanya Easterman, senior relationship manager at Cinema First, the cross industry body which runs the Meerkat Movies promotion, has warned that cinema-going is perceived by audiences as a prohibitively expensive activity, something which poses a signficant challenge to the sector.
Presenting new research conducted by the company during a session at UK cinema conference This Way Up at Glasgow Film Theatre on November 30, Easterman began on a positive note: “The proportion of people who have claimed to have visited the cinema over the last quarter was up 23% (over the previous quarter), that’s reflective of the film slate at the moment.”
The same figure for specifically the month of October was 49%, up 7% year-on-year, she added.
Easterman proceeded to analyse the drivers of cinema visits. “The overall cinematic experience is the most important factor, other drivers...
- 12/1/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Statistics presented at UK cinema conference also revealed that 51% of audiences believe the cinema experience does not justify the overall expense.
Tanya Easterman, senior relationship manager at Cinema First, the cross industry body which runs the Meerkat Movies promotion, has warned that cinema-going is perceived by audiences as a prohibitively expensive activity, something which poses a signficant challenge to the sector.
Presenting new research conducted by the company during a session at UK cinema conference This Way Up at Glasgow Film Theatre on November 30, Easterman began on a positive note: “The proportion of people who have claimed to have visited the cinema over the last quarter was up 23% (over the previous quarter), that’s reflective of the film slate at the moment.”
The same figure for specifically the month of October was 49%, up 7% year-on-year, she added.
Easterman proceeded to analyse the drivers of cinema visits. “The overall cinematic experience is the most important factor, other drivers...
Tanya Easterman, senior relationship manager at Cinema First, the cross industry body which runs the Meerkat Movies promotion, has warned that cinema-going is perceived by audiences as a prohibitively expensive activity, something which poses a signficant challenge to the sector.
Presenting new research conducted by the company during a session at UK cinema conference This Way Up at Glasgow Film Theatre on November 30, Easterman began on a positive note: “The proportion of people who have claimed to have visited the cinema over the last quarter was up 23% (over the previous quarter), that’s reflective of the film slate at the moment.”
The same figure for specifically the month of October was 49%, up 7% year-on-year, she added.
Easterman proceeded to analyse the drivers of cinema visits. “The overall cinematic experience is the most important factor, other drivers...
- 12/1/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The 2016 edition of the UK exhibition conference took place in Glasgow, November 29-30.
Topics in the spotlight at the 2016 edition of This Way Up – the annual UK exhibition conference aimed at independent cinemas – included changing audiences, ticket pricing, and virtual reality.
Read: This Way Up 2016: 78% of audiences see the cinema as “an expensive activity”
While attending independent industry expressed concern around Brexit and challenges to audience growth, the conference also sounded a largely positive note about the UK film business.
Data driven
Film data analyst and researcher Stephen Follows was in Glasgow to deliver a lecture in which he highlighted some of the growing trends around cinema audiences.
Follows was keen to point out that the overcrowded release calendar is representing a real challenge for exhibitors and filmmakers alike. Focusing on the independent sector, he noted that two-thirds of UK releases were classified as “indie or specialist” but that they represented “a small fraction of the...
Topics in the spotlight at the 2016 edition of This Way Up – the annual UK exhibition conference aimed at independent cinemas – included changing audiences, ticket pricing, and virtual reality.
Read: This Way Up 2016: 78% of audiences see the cinema as “an expensive activity”
While attending independent industry expressed concern around Brexit and challenges to audience growth, the conference also sounded a largely positive note about the UK film business.
Data driven
Film data analyst and researcher Stephen Follows was in Glasgow to deliver a lecture in which he highlighted some of the growing trends around cinema audiences.
Follows was keen to point out that the overcrowded release calendar is representing a real challenge for exhibitors and filmmakers alike. Focusing on the independent sector, he noted that two-thirds of UK releases were classified as “indie or specialist” but that they represented “a small fraction of the...
- 12/1/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The 2016 edition of the UK exhibition conference took place in Glasgow, November 29-30.
Topics in the spotlight at the 2016 edition of This Way Up – the annual UK exhibition conference aimed at independent cinemas – included changing audiences, ticket pricing, and virtual reality.
Read: This Way Up 2016: 78% of audiences see the cinema as “an expensive activity”
While attending independent industry expressed concern around Brexit and challenges to audience growth, the conference also sounded a largely positive note about the UK film business.
Data driven
Film data analyst and researcher Stephen Follows was in Glasgow to deliver a lecture in which he highlighted some of the growing trends around cinema audiences.
Follows was keen to point out that the overcrowded release calendar is representing a real challenge for exhibitors and filmmakers alike. Focusing on the independent sector, he noted that two-thirds of UK releases were classified as “indie or specialist” but that they represented “a small fraction of the...
Topics in the spotlight at the 2016 edition of This Way Up – the annual UK exhibition conference aimed at independent cinemas – included changing audiences, ticket pricing, and virtual reality.
Read: This Way Up 2016: 78% of audiences see the cinema as “an expensive activity”
While attending independent industry expressed concern around Brexit and challenges to audience growth, the conference also sounded a largely positive note about the UK film business.
Data driven
Film data analyst and researcher Stephen Follows was in Glasgow to deliver a lecture in which he highlighted some of the growing trends around cinema audiences.
Follows was keen to point out that the overcrowded release calendar is representing a real challenge for exhibitors and filmmakers alike. Focusing on the independent sector, he noted that two-thirds of UK releases were classified as “indie or specialist” but that they represented “a small fraction of the...
- 12/1/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The annual exhibition conference is taking place at Glasgow Film Theatre.
The full programme and line-up of speakers for this year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (November 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, has been unveiled.
This year’s keynote speakers are Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and Dawn Walton, founder of black-led theatre company Eclipse Theatre Company.
Oscar-winning film-maker Roger Ross Williams, winner at this year’s Sundance with Life, Animated, will be in conversation with BBC Radio Scotland presenter Janice Forsyth.
Other speakers at this year’s event include the BFI’s head of audiences Ben Luxford, The Levelling writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, Dogwoof’s head of distribution Oli Harbottle, British Council film programmer Jemma Desai, National Media Museum film manager Kathryn Penny, Regional Screen Scotland CEO Robert Livingston and BFI London Film Festival film programmer Kate Taylor.
This year’s...
The full programme and line-up of speakers for this year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (November 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, has been unveiled.
This year’s keynote speakers are Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and Dawn Walton, founder of black-led theatre company Eclipse Theatre Company.
Oscar-winning film-maker Roger Ross Williams, winner at this year’s Sundance with Life, Animated, will be in conversation with BBC Radio Scotland presenter Janice Forsyth.
Other speakers at this year’s event include the BFI’s head of audiences Ben Luxford, The Levelling writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, Dogwoof’s head of distribution Oli Harbottle, British Council film programmer Jemma Desai, National Media Museum film manager Kathryn Penny, Regional Screen Scotland CEO Robert Livingston and BFI London Film Festival film programmer Kate Taylor.
This year’s...
- 10/27/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The annual exhibition conference is taking place at Glasgow Film Theatre.
This year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (Nov 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, will spotlight the following topics:
The Problem of Abundance: exploring the continued increase of film content in UK cinemas – there were 759 films distributed in 2015, up from 527 in 2008 – and what this means for exhibitors.
The Future of Storytelling: highlighting the new technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality, which have played major parts at international film festivals this year, and how these can sit within traditional exhibition models.
The Power of Place: focusing on how exhibition spaces affect audiences, and what exhibitors’ roles are within communities.
Hacking the Back Office: looking at digital tools utilised by cinemas to manage time, resources and showing films.
This year’s keynote speakers will include Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and [link=nm...
This year’s This Way Up film exhibition conference (Nov 29-30), held at the Glasgow Film Theatre, will spotlight the following topics:
The Problem of Abundance: exploring the continued increase of film content in UK cinemas – there were 759 films distributed in 2015, up from 527 in 2008 – and what this means for exhibitors.
The Future of Storytelling: highlighting the new technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality, which have played major parts at international film festivals this year, and how these can sit within traditional exhibition models.
The Power of Place: focusing on how exhibition spaces affect audiences, and what exhibitors’ roles are within communities.
Hacking the Back Office: looking at digital tools utilised by cinemas to manage time, resources and showing films.
This year’s keynote speakers will include Bobby Allen, VP business development at Mubi, Swedish broadcaster and media analyst Johanna Koljonen, and [link=nm...
- 9/15/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Notes On Blindness and Life, Animated among four features to benefit from exhibition fund.
Film exhibition conference This Way Up has announced the four winners of its Exhibition Innovation Awards, who will share a fund of $67,000 (£50,000).
Dogwoof, Live Cinema UK, Sheffield Doc/Fest & Curzon Artificial Eye and Cinema Nation will each use their share to entice audiences across the UK to specialised films.
Dogwoof will use the fund to support the release of documentary Life, Animated, the story of an autistic child who navigates life through his love of Disney films
Working alongside popup cinema partners throughout the UK and Ireland, and organisations specialising in Autistic spectrum conditions and Asperger’s Syndrome, Dogwoof is planning preview screenings of the film from September to December, followed by panel discussions exploring the film’s sensitive content.
Live Cinema will dedicate its share of the fund to The Unfilmables, which takes abandoned film ideas such as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune...
Film exhibition conference This Way Up has announced the four winners of its Exhibition Innovation Awards, who will share a fund of $67,000 (£50,000).
Dogwoof, Live Cinema UK, Sheffield Doc/Fest & Curzon Artificial Eye and Cinema Nation will each use their share to entice audiences across the UK to specialised films.
Dogwoof will use the fund to support the release of documentary Life, Animated, the story of an autistic child who navigates life through his love of Disney films
Working alongside popup cinema partners throughout the UK and Ireland, and organisations specialising in Autistic spectrum conditions and Asperger’s Syndrome, Dogwoof is planning preview screenings of the film from September to December, followed by panel discussions exploring the film’s sensitive content.
Live Cinema will dedicate its share of the fund to The Unfilmables, which takes abandoned film ideas such as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune...
- 8/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
The 2nd Vertical Film Festival will be held on Saturday 21st May 2016 in Katoomba (Blue Mountains, Australia). This particular festival is a rare chance for filmmakers to push the boundaries of filmmaking by shooting their films in portrait (tall-screen) format. During the festival there will be two main categories, Tall Shorts that will showcase a mix of films from around the world, and a competition called ⇧ This Way Up ⇧.
The festival organizers also want us to know that there is still time for filmmakers to send their films until April 30th 2016.
The competition conditions are the following:
– Filmed vertically (in 9:16 aspect ratio) in High Definition.
– No more than 3 minutes long.
– Vertical videos longer than 3 minutes may be considered for out of competition screening.
– Free Entry.
– Open to all genres and subject matter.
Deadline: Saturday 30th April 2016.
To submit your film please follow the next link: http://www.verticalfilmfestival.com.
The festival organizers also want us to know that there is still time for filmmakers to send their films until April 30th 2016.
The competition conditions are the following:
– Filmed vertically (in 9:16 aspect ratio) in High Definition.
– No more than 3 minutes long.
– Vertical videos longer than 3 minutes may be considered for out of competition screening.
– Free Entry.
– Open to all genres and subject matter.
Deadline: Saturday 30th April 2016.
To submit your film please follow the next link: http://www.verticalfilmfestival.com.
- 3/27/2016
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
Picturehouse and former Curzon exec engaged in a heated debate over the changing face of cinemas.
A debate on the price and value of cinema descended into an on-stage war of words at the recent This Way Up exhibition conference in Manchester.
Jason Wood, the artistic director of film at Manchester’s Home arts centre, voiced concern on the panel that cinemas are focussing too little attention on movie audiences.
“I worry that cinemas aren’t seen as cinemas but as somewhere to come to have a drink,” said Wood, who was previously director of programming at Curzon Cinemas.
Referring to the recently opened Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, Wood said: “I think the pricing is outrageous but they’ve named screens after film-makers and prominent industry figures. At least they’re making an effort.
“Some of the other chains, they couldn’t give a fuck. They couldn’t give a fuck about the audiences...
A debate on the price and value of cinema descended into an on-stage war of words at the recent This Way Up exhibition conference in Manchester.
Jason Wood, the artistic director of film at Manchester’s Home arts centre, voiced concern on the panel that cinemas are focussing too little attention on movie audiences.
“I worry that cinemas aren’t seen as cinemas but as somewhere to come to have a drink,” said Wood, who was previously director of programming at Curzon Cinemas.
Referring to the recently opened Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, Wood said: “I think the pricing is outrageous but they’ve named screens after film-makers and prominent industry figures. At least they’re making an effort.
“Some of the other chains, they couldn’t give a fuck. They couldn’t give a fuck about the audiences...
- 12/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Falling director spoke at This Way Up conference in Manchester.
Film-maker Carol Morley (The Falling, Dreams Of A Life) slammed the “disgraceful” state of gender imbalance in the film industry during an in conversation event at the This Way Up cinema conference in Manchester today (Dec 3).
When quizzed by BFI Film Fund director Ben Roberts about whether the narrative around women film-makers helped or hindered Morley with the release of The Falling, she responded: “To be perfectly honest, it’s just an absolute irritant.
“It’s very lazy, disgraceful, it’s like ‘Oh my god, we’re in the 21st century’. It’s really baffling to me.”
The director highlighted that she is always quizzed about the lack of women in film but - as a working director - was the wrong person to ask:
“I am a feminist, I’m going to talk about that, but why are we always questioning women about women film-makers...
Film-maker Carol Morley (The Falling, Dreams Of A Life) slammed the “disgraceful” state of gender imbalance in the film industry during an in conversation event at the This Way Up cinema conference in Manchester today (Dec 3).
When quizzed by BFI Film Fund director Ben Roberts about whether the narrative around women film-makers helped or hindered Morley with the release of The Falling, she responded: “To be perfectly honest, it’s just an absolute irritant.
“It’s very lazy, disgraceful, it’s like ‘Oh my god, we’re in the 21st century’. It’s really baffling to me.”
The director highlighted that she is always quizzed about the lack of women in film but - as a working director - was the wrong person to ask:
“I am a feminist, I’m going to talk about that, but why are we always questioning women about women film-makers...
- 12/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Speakers to discuss emerging cinema trends at conference in Manchester, UK.
Film exhibition innovation conference This Way Up (Dec 2-3) is to return for a second year at a new venue, the Home cinema in Manchester, and has unveiled its programme of events and speakers.
The two-day event will include workshops, labs, panel discussions and keynotes, exploring emerging trends, models and ideas currently impacting the sector.
Keynotes will be presented by Anna Higgs, former head of Film4.0 and executive producer of High-Rise, The Duke of Burgundy, A Field in England; BBC director of audiences Nick North; and National Theatre of Scotland producer Marianne Maxwell.
Topics under discussion will include the rise of event cinema and alternative content; generating audience loyalty through different pricing models; embracing user-generated video; if the power of the film critic is dwindling; and the use of data in exhibition.
Other topics will explore if documentary is being sidelined by theatres; the use of...
Film exhibition innovation conference This Way Up (Dec 2-3) is to return for a second year at a new venue, the Home cinema in Manchester, and has unveiled its programme of events and speakers.
The two-day event will include workshops, labs, panel discussions and keynotes, exploring emerging trends, models and ideas currently impacting the sector.
Keynotes will be presented by Anna Higgs, former head of Film4.0 and executive producer of High-Rise, The Duke of Burgundy, A Field in England; BBC director of audiences Nick North; and National Theatre of Scotland producer Marianne Maxwell.
Topics under discussion will include the rise of event cinema and alternative content; generating audience loyalty through different pricing models; embracing user-generated video; if the power of the film critic is dwindling; and the use of data in exhibition.
Other topics will explore if documentary is being sidelined by theatres; the use of...
- 11/11/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf has dedicated the Robert Bresson Award to imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.
The award was presented this morning (Sept 7) during the Venice Film Festival by the Fondazione ente dello Spettacolo (FedS) and the cinema magazine Rivista del Cinematografo in recognition of “a director who has given testimony of the difficult path towards the search for the spiritual meaning of life”.
Founded in 1999, the award has been received in past years by directors such as Manoel de Oliveira, Alexander Sokurov, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders.
Makhmalbaf’s most recent film, The President, was shown in Venice last year.
Speaking to ScreenDaily ahead of the award ceremony, Makhmalbaf said that he had been made aware of Sentsov’s fate by festival programming director Alexey Medvedev when he served as jury president at the On The Edge Film Festival in the Russian Far East town of Sakhalin last month.
¨In recent...
The award was presented this morning (Sept 7) during the Venice Film Festival by the Fondazione ente dello Spettacolo (FedS) and the cinema magazine Rivista del Cinematografo in recognition of “a director who has given testimony of the difficult path towards the search for the spiritual meaning of life”.
Founded in 1999, the award has been received in past years by directors such as Manoel de Oliveira, Alexander Sokurov, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders.
Makhmalbaf’s most recent film, The President, was shown in Venice last year.
Speaking to ScreenDaily ahead of the award ceremony, Makhmalbaf said that he had been made aware of Sentsov’s fate by festival programming director Alexey Medvedev when he served as jury president at the On The Edge Film Festival in the Russian Far East town of Sakhalin last month.
¨In recent...
- 9/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Research will explore the growing live cinema industry in the UK.
Live Cinema UK is to carry out the first piece of national industry research on the live cinema industry, funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
The report, to be titled ‘Live cinema in the UK, will aim to identify the economic value and impact of events such as Secret Cinema - film screenings accompanied by immersive theatre, live soundtracks or other experiential activity.
Surveying the industry as a whole alongside live cinema public audiences, the research is set to produce a searchable online database of projects, artists and exhibitors in a bid to encourage further collaboration between the film and arts sectors.
Artists including DJ Yoda, British Sea Power and Asian Dub Foundation will continue to a series of online videos covering their experiences of creating live music to film screening.
The film report will be published in May 2016 to coincide with the...
Live Cinema UK is to carry out the first piece of national industry research on the live cinema industry, funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
The report, to be titled ‘Live cinema in the UK, will aim to identify the economic value and impact of events such as Secret Cinema - film screenings accompanied by immersive theatre, live soundtracks or other experiential activity.
Surveying the industry as a whole alongside live cinema public audiences, the research is set to produce a searchable online database of projects, artists and exhibitors in a bid to encourage further collaboration between the film and arts sectors.
Artists including DJ Yoda, British Sea Power and Asian Dub Foundation will continue to a series of online videos covering their experiences of creating live music to film screening.
The film report will be published in May 2016 to coincide with the...
- 7/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Two UK exhibition projects awarded with £50,000 prize.
The inaugural This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation conference at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle closed yesterday with the announcement of the pitch winners.
The panel, which considered three pitches, has awarded the Exhibition Innovation Fund prize of £50,000 to two projects: Move It, led by Animate Projects and the Centre for the Moving Image, and Edinburgh and Av Festival’s major site-specific installation DS30 by Test Dept.
Move it is a ‘networked’ season of British and international animation covering a breadth of film and art practice, from Aa to Aa (Aardman to Artists’ moving image).
Premiered in March 2014, DS30 is a political collage of sound and image featuring archive film footage from the 1984/85 miners’ strike.
The first-ever Exhibition Innovation Fund was pitched live to conference delegates and considered by industry panel members. The panel was comprised of Shona Thomson, producer Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema; Sarah-Jane Meredith of UK Wide Audiences...
The inaugural This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation conference at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle closed yesterday with the announcement of the pitch winners.
The panel, which considered three pitches, has awarded the Exhibition Innovation Fund prize of £50,000 to two projects: Move It, led by Animate Projects and the Centre for the Moving Image, and Edinburgh and Av Festival’s major site-specific installation DS30 by Test Dept.
Move it is a ‘networked’ season of British and international animation covering a breadth of film and art practice, from Aa to Aa (Aardman to Artists’ moving image).
Premiered in March 2014, DS30 is a political collage of sound and image featuring archive film footage from the 1984/85 miners’ strike.
The first-ever Exhibition Innovation Fund was pitched live to conference delegates and considered by industry panel members. The panel was comprised of Shona Thomson, producer Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema; Sarah-Jane Meredith of UK Wide Audiences...
- 12/4/2014
- ScreenDaily
Ben Roberts, Dave Moutrey, Jon Barrenechea, Marc Allenby, Emma Keith, among speakers at Newcastle event.
UK exhibition conference This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation (Dec 2-3), which will explore how films are showsn and consumed, has set its lineup.
Ben Roberts, director of the lottery fund at the BFI, will provide opening remarks, with Dave Moutrey, CEO of Home, Manchester (This Way Up’s venue for 2015) closing the conference.
Day One speakers will include Jon Barrenechea of Picturehouse Cinemas, National Theatre Live’s Emma Keith, Ian Frances from the Flatpack Festival and Abandon Normal Devices’ Gabi Jenks.
Michael Pierce from Cinema Nation/Scalarama will lead Anyone can be a programmer, analyzing the contemporary dialectic between the programmer and the audience as tastemaker while asking who is really in control of what we exhibit.
Breakout panels will feature John Wyver, media associate with the RSC developing their future policy for broadcasting and digital distribution; Sam Meech, founder of ScreeningFilm...
UK exhibition conference This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation (Dec 2-3), which will explore how films are showsn and consumed, has set its lineup.
Ben Roberts, director of the lottery fund at the BFI, will provide opening remarks, with Dave Moutrey, CEO of Home, Manchester (This Way Up’s venue for 2015) closing the conference.
Day One speakers will include Jon Barrenechea of Picturehouse Cinemas, National Theatre Live’s Emma Keith, Ian Frances from the Flatpack Festival and Abandon Normal Devices’ Gabi Jenks.
Michael Pierce from Cinema Nation/Scalarama will lead Anyone can be a programmer, analyzing the contemporary dialectic between the programmer and the audience as tastemaker while asking who is really in control of what we exhibit.
Breakout panels will feature John Wyver, media associate with the RSC developing their future policy for broadcasting and digital distribution; Sam Meech, founder of ScreeningFilm...
- 11/19/2014
- ScreenDaily
Two-day event will take place at the Tyneside Cinema.
BFI film hubs North, North West Central and Scotland are to host a two-day conference on trends in exhibition at the Tyneside Cinema.
This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation (Dec 2-3) will see the launch of fund This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation Fund, worth a total of £50,000, which is open to members from Film Hubs North, North West Central and Scotland.
Up to three projects will be awarded funding to build and develop audiences for specialised films. Projects will be presented in front of a panel of industry experts and peers at the December event, with decisions being announced on the day.
The annual event is set to move between the host Film Hub partners. Home in Manchester will host the 2015 event, followed by an event in Scotland in 2016.
BFI film hubs North, North West Central and Scotland are to host a two-day conference on trends in exhibition at the Tyneside Cinema.
This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation (Dec 2-3) will see the launch of fund This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation Fund, worth a total of £50,000, which is open to members from Film Hubs North, North West Central and Scotland.
Up to three projects will be awarded funding to build and develop audiences for specialised films. Projects will be presented in front of a panel of industry experts and peers at the December event, with decisions being announced on the day.
The annual event is set to move between the host Film Hub partners. Home in Manchester will host the 2015 event, followed by an event in Scotland in 2016.
- 10/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Two-day event will take place at the Tyneside Cinema.
BFI film hubs North, North West Central and Scotland are to host a two-day conference on trends in exhibition at the Tyneside Cinema.
This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation (Dec 2-3) will see the launch of fund This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation Fund, worth a total of £50,000, which is open to members from Film Hubs North, North West Central and Scotland.
Up to three projects will be awarded funding to build and develop audiences for specialised films. Projects will be presented in front of a panel of industry experts and peers at the December event, with decisions being announced on the day.
The annual event is set to move between the host Film Hub partners. Home in Manchester will host the 2015 event, followed by an event in Scotland in 2016.
BFI film hubs North, North West Central and Scotland are to host a two-day conference on trends in exhibition at the Tyneside Cinema.
This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation (Dec 2-3) will see the launch of fund This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation Fund, worth a total of £50,000, which is open to members from Film Hubs North, North West Central and Scotland.
Up to three projects will be awarded funding to build and develop audiences for specialised films. Projects will be presented in front of a panel of industry experts and peers at the December event, with decisions being announced on the day.
The annual event is set to move between the host Film Hub partners. Home in Manchester will host the 2015 event, followed by an event in Scotland in 2016.
- 10/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The oscar nominated animated short, This Way Up, tells the story of two undertakers who try to deliver a body to a graveyard. Of course, everything that can possibly go wrong does.
The film was produced by Nexus and directed by Smith & Foulkes, and it's very entertaining. It was nominated for an Oscar back in 2008, but recently popped up online for everyone to watch. You can no see for yourself why it was nominated for the prestigious award.
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
The animated caper is a series of emotional and literal pitfalls for the pall-bearing team, as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale culminating in the pair joining the old lady in a trip through the underworld.
I love everything about this short. It's extremely funny and morbid. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks to io9 for the tip!
The film was produced by Nexus and directed by Smith & Foulkes, and it's very entertaining. It was nominated for an Oscar back in 2008, but recently popped up online for everyone to watch. You can no see for yourself why it was nominated for the prestigious award.
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
The animated caper is a series of emotional and literal pitfalls for the pall-bearing team, as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale culminating in the pair joining the old lady in a trip through the underworld.
I love everything about this short. It's extremely funny and morbid. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks to io9 for the tip!
- 8/8/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Oscar-nominated creative duo planning interactive book, app, educational merchandise and first feature-length film. London-based Nexus producing.
British animation directors Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes have unveiled a new cross-media project that could also become the basis for their first feature-length film.
Entitled Radio Jones: Roboteer, the project revolves around a genius boy who builds himself the perfect robotic father.
Smith and Foulkes – who were Oscar-nominated for their short film This Way Up in 2009 and are also well known in the ad world for their Coca Cola and Honda spots — have just started production on an interactive children’s book based on the story and plan to start developing a related feature later this summer.
The production is a joint work with long-time collaborator Chris O’Reilly, co-founder alongside Charlotte Bavasso of London-based animations studio Nexus Production and digital sister unit Nexus Interactive Arts, which fosters collaboration between programmers and filmmakers.
Nexus Productions...
British animation directors Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes have unveiled a new cross-media project that could also become the basis for their first feature-length film.
Entitled Radio Jones: Roboteer, the project revolves around a genius boy who builds himself the perfect robotic father.
Smith and Foulkes – who were Oscar-nominated for their short film This Way Up in 2009 and are also well known in the ad world for their Coca Cola and Honda spots — have just started production on an interactive children’s book based on the story and plan to start developing a related feature later this summer.
The production is a joint work with long-time collaborator Chris O’Reilly, co-founder alongside Charlotte Bavasso of London-based animations studio Nexus Production and digital sister unit Nexus Interactive Arts, which fosters collaboration between programmers and filmmakers.
Nexus Productions...
- 6/17/2013
- ScreenDaily
Supergrass are to receive the Prs for Music Heritage Award next month. The band will be handed the honour at an event on October 3 at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford, where they were first signed. "Everyone aspired to play the venue back in the day and I remember seeing my brother's band This Way Up play there as early as 1983," explained Supergrass founding member Mick Quinn. "We received our first positive reviews as Theodore Supergrass at the Jericho in 1994, when the promoter Maccy burst into the dressing room after our gig telling us, 'You've got it!' "Soon after, the feeding frenzy of record company A&R men started." Guy Fletcher, Prs Chair commented: "It's a rare talent that epitomises the feeling (more)...
- 9/21/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Winner of the best short film Oscar in 2009 for Toyland, Jochen Alexander Freydank is currently prepping his first feature length project. According to THR, Freydank will adapt the rom-com best-seller Macho Man for Walt Disney Germany.
The film will be based off of Moritz Netenjakob‘s novel of the same name, which tells the story of a sensitive German man who attempts to be macho in order to land a sexy Turkish girl. Friedrich Mücke (Friendship!) will star alongside Pegah Ferydoni (Turkish For Beginners). The Experiment‘s Marc Conrad will produce under his ConradFilm banner with Klaus Dohle of Erfttalfilm.
Freydank isn’t the only recent award-winning short director with the opportunity to make his way into the world of feature lengths. We reported just a few weeks ago that Fox has hired Jesus Orellana to direct the feature length adaptation of his own sci-fi short Rosa, after it went viral back in November.
The film will be based off of Moritz Netenjakob‘s novel of the same name, which tells the story of a sensitive German man who attempts to be macho in order to land a sexy Turkish girl. Friedrich Mücke (Friendship!) will star alongside Pegah Ferydoni (Turkish For Beginners). The Experiment‘s Marc Conrad will produce under his ConradFilm banner with Klaus Dohle of Erfttalfilm.
Freydank isn’t the only recent award-winning short director with the opportunity to make his way into the world of feature lengths. We reported just a few weeks ago that Fox has hired Jesus Orellana to direct the feature length adaptation of his own sci-fi short Rosa, after it went viral back in November.
- 12/21/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
This was a piece of last week's news that we're getting to late - but is worth highlighting. It’s been reprinted 163 times, sold over 100 million copies and translated into over 40 different languages, so it comes as no surprise that, in an era of Hollywood producers scraping the bottom of the barrel for new ideas, a hugely popular book like Khalil Gibran’s masterpiece The Prophet will be adapted for the big screen. Deadline is reporting that Salma Hayek, operating under her Ventanarosa Productions banner, has partnered with Clark Peterson and Ron Senkowski to produce an animated feature based on the book of 26 poetic essays. Hayek’s producing partner, Jose Tamez, will executive produce along with William Nix and co-financing from Steve Hanson. As each essay deals with such differing topics as joy to death and religion to beauty, The Prophet will get produced along the same lines as Fantasia and Paris,...
- 3/8/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Well, sorry Kahlil Gibran, but they obviously have plans to direct your The Prophet!
Salma Hayek and her Ventanarosa Productions have teamed up with Clark Peterson and Ron Senkowski to produce an animated feature based on Gibran’s beloved book.
According to the latest reports, the intention is for different directors to helm each chapter, with “an interconnecting theme and a musical through-line.”
And we have quite interesting team on board, or, should we say that these are just expectations from this project at the moment?
“It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”
So, here are filmmakers expected to participate so far: Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”), Kunio Kato (“Tsumiki no ie”), Oscar-winner Chris Landreth (“Ryan”), Tomm Moore (“The Secret of Kells...
Well, sorry Kahlil Gibran, but they obviously have plans to direct your The Prophet!
Salma Hayek and her Ventanarosa Productions have teamed up with Clark Peterson and Ron Senkowski to produce an animated feature based on Gibran’s beloved book.
According to the latest reports, the intention is for different directors to helm each chapter, with “an interconnecting theme and a musical through-line.”
And we have quite interesting team on board, or, should we say that these are just expectations from this project at the moment?
“It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”
So, here are filmmakers expected to participate so far: Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”), Kunio Kato (“Tsumiki no ie”), Oscar-winner Chris Landreth (“Ryan”), Tomm Moore (“The Secret of Kells...
- 3/7/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
The 33rd Portland International Film Festival announces the Oregonian Audience Award winners. This year’s Festival wrapped up its 18 day run Sunday, February 28th after 195 total screenings at multiple theater locations in the downtown cultural district of Portland. This year’s Festival was attended by over 30,000 attendees and included 77 features and 39 shorts from over 40 countries.
Complete coverage of Piff 2010
Don’t forget to vote for the 8th Annual Tsr Movie Awards
Audience winners include Best Narrative Feature The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) and Best Documentary Feature The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (New Zealand). The winner of the Best New Director Award is Hernán A. Goldfrid with Music On Hold (Argentina).
This year’s Short Film Award goes to Portland filmmaker Kyle Bell with the film The Mouse That Soared.
This year’s Piff presenting sponsors include The Oregonian and Regal Cinemas Major sponsors include the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation,...
Complete coverage of Piff 2010
Don’t forget to vote for the 8th Annual Tsr Movie Awards
Audience winners include Best Narrative Feature The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) and Best Documentary Feature The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (New Zealand). The winner of the Best New Director Award is Hernán A. Goldfrid with Music On Hold (Argentina).
This year’s Short Film Award goes to Portland filmmaker Kyle Bell with the film The Mouse That Soared.
This year’s Piff presenting sponsors include The Oregonian and Regal Cinemas Major sponsors include the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation,...
- 3/1/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago – Believe it or not, a lot of people heard about some critically acclaimed 2009 films for the first time on Sunday night, when they won or were nominated for 2009 Academy Awards and are now wondering how they can see winning films like “Milk,” “The Reader,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” and shorts like “La Maison en Petits Cubes” and “Toyland”. Let us guide the way.
Milk
Photo credit: Universal Of course, the big winner of the night was “Slumdog Millionaire,” which does not yet have a DVD/Blu-Ray release date, but you can expect one soon. The film will probably get another expansion in theaters to capitalize on its eight Oscars before a DVD release in probably May or June.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” winner of three awards, didn’t get enough major trophies to get a theatrical expansion, but also doesn’t have a release date yet. Expect it...
Milk
Photo credit: Universal Of course, the big winner of the night was “Slumdog Millionaire,” which does not yet have a DVD/Blu-Ray release date, but you can expect one soon. The film will probably get another expansion in theaters to capitalize on its eight Oscars before a DVD release in probably May or June.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” winner of three awards, didn’t get enough major trophies to get a theatrical expansion, but also doesn’t have a release date yet. Expect it...
- 2/25/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
List Source: Variety
Okay, so another year and now it's the final show of the awards season. I don't know why but I'm not that enthuastic about the Oscars this year. Maybe it was last year's underwhelming show or maybe it's because The Dark Knight isn't nominated this year, probably both, but never-the-less the show is done and I want to put up the post of how the show went. Time for the ultimate post-oscar show breakdown...
<!--break-->
Best Motion Picture Of The Year
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
"Milk" (Focus Features)
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
Winner: "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)
Best Picture was a major disappointment. Less said about The Dark Knight - the better. For me, Milk is the most deserving of best picture this year. It's issues are more relevant and more original than all films on the list this year.
Okay, so another year and now it's the final show of the awards season. I don't know why but I'm not that enthuastic about the Oscars this year. Maybe it was last year's underwhelming show or maybe it's because The Dark Knight isn't nominated this year, probably both, but never-the-less the show is done and I want to put up the post of how the show went. Time for the ultimate post-oscar show breakdown...
<!--break-->
Best Motion Picture Of The Year
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
"Milk" (Focus Features)
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
Winner: "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)
Best Picture was a major disappointment. Less said about The Dark Knight - the better. For me, Milk is the most deserving of best picture this year. It's issues are more relevant and more original than all films on the list this year.
- 2/23/2009
- by admin
Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Slumdog Millionaire" has almost completely swept the Oscars® with awards including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture and both original song and score music categories. Other notable wins included: - Sean Penn who took home the Best Actor award, his second after 2004's "Mystic River."- Heath Ledger for his astounding performance in Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Dark Knight"- Kate Winslet - Once again for her work in "The Reader" after a two Golden Globe's earned for "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader"- Penelope Cruz - In Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" comedy As announced, here are the winners (noted in bold) of the 2009 Academy Awards which were announced on Sunday, February 22nd. Performance by an actor in a leading role Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films) Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features) Brad Pitt in...
- 2/23/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here are the results from the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Winners are marked in red.
Best Picture
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
'Frost/Nixon'
'Milk'
'The Reader'
'Slumdog Millionaire'
Best Director
Danny Boyle for 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Stephen Daldry for 'The Reader'
David Fincher for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Ron Howard for 'Frost/Nixon'
Gus Van Sant for 'Milk'
Best Actor
Richard Jenkins for 'The Visitor'
Frank Langella for 'Frost/Nixon'
Sean Penn for 'Milk'
Brad Pitt for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Mickey Rourke for 'The Wrestler'
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway for 'Rachel Getting Married'
Angelina Jolie for 'Changeling'
Melissa Leo for 'Frozen River'
Meryl Streep for 'Doubt'
Kate Winslet for...
Best Picture
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
'Frost/Nixon'
'Milk'
'The Reader'
'Slumdog Millionaire'
Best Director
Danny Boyle for 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Stephen Daldry for 'The Reader'
David Fincher for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Ron Howard for 'Frost/Nixon'
Gus Van Sant for 'Milk'
Best Actor
Richard Jenkins for 'The Visitor'
Frank Langella for 'Frost/Nixon'
Sean Penn for 'Milk'
Brad Pitt for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Mickey Rourke for 'The Wrestler'
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway for 'Rachel Getting Married'
Angelina Jolie for 'Changeling'
Melissa Leo for 'Frozen River'
Meryl Streep for 'Doubt'
Kate Winslet for...
- 2/23/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Did your favorite movies and stars win? Read on to find out! Performance by an actor in a leading role: Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features) Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight) Performance by an actor in a supporting role: Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features) Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax) Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) Performance by an actress in a leading role: Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics) Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal) Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics) Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax) Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) Performance by an actress in a...
- 2/23/2009
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Looks like I predicted all the winners yesterday, except for “Best Foreign Language.” Maybe I should have seen one of those before guessing in that category. What did you think? Did they get it right? Who should have won? Post below!
Here are the winners from one of the best Academy Awards ceremonies I can remember:
Best Motion Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn in Milk
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Kate Winslet in The Reader
Achievement in directing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher
Frost/Nixon,...
Here are the winners from one of the best Academy Awards ceremonies I can remember:
Best Motion Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn in Milk
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Kate Winslet in The Reader
Achievement in directing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher
Frost/Nixon,...
- 2/23/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
"Slumdog Millionaire," a rags-to-riches tale both on screen and off, was named best picture at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. The indie movie that fought an uphill battle to worldwide recogntion took home eight awards, including best director honors for filmmaker Danny Boyle.
Accepting the award, surrounded by the movie's cast and crew, many of whom had flown in from India for the awards, producer Christian Colson said, "together we have been on an extraordinary journey." Noting that the film had no stars, he cited a script that engendered "mad love...
Accepting the award, surrounded by the movie's cast and crew, many of whom had flown in from India for the awards, producer Christian Colson said, "together we have been on an extraordinary journey." Noting that the film had no stars, he cited a script that engendered "mad love...
- 2/22/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Click here for the 2009 Academy Award winners! This year I opted not to break down every category and discuss the merits of each individual nominee. Mostly because it takes a ridiculous amount of time, but also because there doesn’t seem to be as much excitement as in previous years. Maybe it’s the fact that the populist picks of the year (Dark Knight, for example) were snubbed in the major categories and replaced with little seen films like The Reader. Or maybe because many of the categories are foregone conclusions.
Either way, I wanted to post my favorites/predictions and hopefully get some discussion going on what you think will win and why. I’m posting my picks here, but included the full list of nominations below.
Best Picture
Slumdog Millionaire - It’s clearly the favorite going into the ballot counting having swept every major awards ceremony leading up to the Oscars.
Either way, I wanted to post my favorites/predictions and hopefully get some discussion going on what you think will win and why. I’m posting my picks here, but included the full list of nominations below.
Best Picture
Slumdog Millionaire - It’s clearly the favorite going into the ballot counting having swept every major awards ceremony leading up to the Oscars.
- 2/21/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
On Thursday morning, January 22, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have unveiled to the world their selection of nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Announced by Academy president Sid Ganis and Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the nominations were dominated by "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
Having been shunned away from any kudos at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, the David Fincher's drama has picked up 13 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson and Best Leading Actor for Brad Pitt. The movie about a man born in his eighties has landed a Best Original Score nomination for composer Alexandre Desplat, and received seven gongs for technical categories as well.
The success of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in collecting multiple nominations was followed by "Slumdog Millionaire", "The Dark Knight...
Having been shunned away from any kudos at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, the David Fincher's drama has picked up 13 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson and Best Leading Actor for Brad Pitt. The movie about a man born in his eighties has landed a Best Original Score nomination for composer Alexandre Desplat, and received seven gongs for technical categories as well.
The success of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in collecting multiple nominations was followed by "Slumdog Millionaire", "The Dark Knight...
- 1/23/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected the nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony, airing live on ABC February 22, 2009. The awards will be handed out at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Hugh Jackman has been hired to host the Oscars, the first time for the Australian actor, but more importantly the first time since 1989 a comedian hasn’t hosted. The producers (Laurence Mark and Bill Condon) have also made formal statements saying they do not plan to announce the presenters for the awards, hoping the surprise will drive viewership.
The telecast last year was the least watched in the 30-year history of the rating system. The industry had hoped a “Best Picture” nomination for The Dark Knight or Wall-e would help bridge the gap between popular, massive movies and lesser seen art house films. A poll by USA Today and Fandango showed 71% of respondents...
Hugh Jackman has been hired to host the Oscars, the first time for the Australian actor, but more importantly the first time since 1989 a comedian hasn’t hosted. The producers (Laurence Mark and Bill Condon) have also made formal statements saying they do not plan to announce the presenters for the awards, hoping the surprise will drive viewership.
The telecast last year was the least watched in the 30-year history of the rating system. The industry had hoped a “Best Picture” nomination for The Dark Knight or Wall-e would help bridge the gap between popular, massive movies and lesser seen art house films. A poll by USA Today and Fandango showed 71% of respondents...
- 1/22/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning at Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) in Beverly Hills by Sid Ganis and Forest Whitaker. Paramount Pictures' "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" edged ahead of competitors in the number of awards nominated for this years offering of films with a total of thirteen nominations. These included, among others Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Other contenders in the Best Picture category included Focus Features’ “Milk,” Universal’s “Frost/Nixon,” the Weinstein Co.’s “The Reader” and Fox Searchlight’s “Slumdog Millionaire.” "Aint nothin' but a thang" - Robert Downey Jr. secured an Oscar® nomination for his hilarious supporting role in Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder." As announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, here are the nominees: Performance by an actor in a leading role Richard Jenkins...
- 1/22/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.