Well, it looks like we’ll have Christmas after all. An end to Hollywood’s long and bitter writers’ strike appeared close on Saturday, as union leaders representing 12,000 movie and television writers said they had reached a tentative three-year deal with production companies. … The agreement would let writers claim to have bettered a similar deal…
Category: Movies
Heath Ledger, Dead at 28
Shocking and sad. Heath Ledger, the Australian-born actor whose breakthrough role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie “Brokeback Mountain” earned him a nomination for an Academy Award and comparisons to the likes of Marlon Brando, was found dead Tuesday in an apartment in Manhattan with sleeping pills near his body, the police said….
Oscar Nominations Annoucnced Today
The 80th annual Oscar nominations were announced today, here is a list of the nominees in the major and musical categories. Best Picture: “Atonement,” “Juno,” “Michael Clayton,” “No Country for Old Men,” “There Will Be Blood.” Best Actor: George Clooney, “Michael Clayton”; Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”; Johnny Depp, “Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber…
Stones Film to Open Berlin Film Festival
Marty and The Lads Photo: IMDB “Shine a Light,” the Rolling Stones concert documentary by Martin Scorsese, right, will open the 58th Berlin International Film Festival on Feb. 7. Mr. Scorsese and the Stones will be in attendance, Paramount Pictures announced. The film, derived from more than half a million feet of concert footage, captures…
Sundance Film Festival 2008 Shorts
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 17-27, 2008. From January 18 to January 27, the Sundance Film Festival will be presenting one free short film a day as part of the “10 Shorts 10 Days” series at www.sundance.org/festival/shorts. Also starting on January 18, over 40 2008 Sundance Film Festival shorts will be available…
The Not So “Golden Globes” Telecast
This sounds super awesome! …[H]amstrung by the ongoing writers’ strike and actors’ refusal to cross the picket line, the Globes will be presented as a one-hour press conference on NBC at 9 ET Sunday night. The press conference will air from the Beverly Hilton, home to the Globes since the early ’70s. “Access Hollywood” hosts…