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Makoto Shinkai's hit anime Weathering With You has been selected to represent Japan in the International Feature Film category at the 92nd Oscars. The movie, which will have its North American premiere in Toronto, is about a runaway boy who befriends a girl who can manipulate the weather. It has been a runaway success…

From too many years in and around the movie business, I've consciously kept exactly one souvenir. It's a smallish chip of concrete, about 3" x 4", with some daubs of red and blue paint. Ray Stark gave it to me not quite thirty years ago. He was just back from the Berlin Film Festival, which in February of 1990 had…

Bong Joon-ho’s multi-genre comedy-thriller Parasite is Korea’s submission for the International Feature Film prize at the 92nd Oscars.The Korean Film Council announced the selection today, giving Bong his second potential shot at a place in the final race after 2006’s Mother which was also submitted. Parasite, about a…

System Crasher, a social drama from director Nora Fingscheidt, has been chosen as Germany’s representative for the International Feature Film Award at the 92nd Oscars. An independent jury made the selection from a group of seven films that were submitted to German Films for consideration. A Silver Bear Alfred Bauer…

File this under … just plain old weird. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office can't or won’t say why, but the criminal case against the man who allegedly stole Frances McDormand's Best Actress Oscar in 2018 is over, at least for now. Terry Bryant was up against a felony grand theft charge for lifting the Th…

Iran has chosen documentary Finding Farideh, directed by Azadeh Mousavi and Kourosh Ataee, to represent it for the Oscars’ newly-dubbed International Feature Film category — formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film race. The picture follows the titular character who travels to Iran to find her real family…

I thought I'd figured out Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: "The NRA doesn't represent America," and "we're tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns." Then I saw the trailer for…

“Will I be seeing you in Telluride?” I asked new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president David Rubin as he celebrates his first full week on the job today, after presiding over the graduation of the third class of Academy Gold Star interns as his first official duty over the weekend. At Telluride, the…

One of Hollywood's most respected casting directors cast himself in a thankless new role last week. As the new president of the Motion Picture Academy, David Rubin conveys a smooth self-confidence, but that likely will change. His predecessor, John Bailey, a cinematographer, became dour and defensive during his term…

David Rubin, who on Tuesday was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, sent a note out to members today in one of his first communiqués as head of the Oscar organization. Rubin, the first casting director to be elected to AMPAS’ top spot, used the letter, obtained by Deadline, to touch…

David Rubin, a veteran casting director and Academy board governor, has been elected the next president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after a vote Tuesday evening. He will take over for current president John Bailey, who is terming out after two years in the top position. AMPAS presidents can be…

Kerry Brougher, who for the past five years has been director of the long-in-the-works Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, is exiting the post, the museum’s board said Monday. He has been named Founding Director and will work with the museum’s senior team in the transition to a new director. A search for his…