“I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a film centered around an indigenous woman, one of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights, a character that historically has been relegated in the background in cinema,” said Alfonso Cuarón, who won Best Director and Best Cinematography for his…
Shepperton Studios has had its $640M (£500M) expansion plans approved by the local authorities. The move is a boon for the production sector in the UK with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Disney as well as traditional broadcasters looking for more studio space.
Spelthorne Borough Council’s Planning Committee has…
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma has unquestionably been the hit of the critics’ awards circuit this season, far outpointing its closest competitors as it makes a bid to become the first foreign-language movie ever to win a Best Picture Oscar (it just scored a PGA Award nomination this morning). This is heady stuff for such a…
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Turteltaub could soon be swimming with a shark, a great big historic toothy critter. He’s now circling Meg, an adaptation of the novel that Warner Bros is moving forward with in conjunction with China-based Gravity, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing. This is a film 20 years in the making, and…
Harry Potter series Producer David Heyman has been selected to receive the The Producers Guild of America’s 2016 David O. Selznick Achievement Award. Named for the producer behind Rebecca and Gone With The Wind, the award recognizes a producer’s outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The award will be presented…
Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón will chair the International Jury for the Competition at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in September. The appointment by the board of directors comes two years after the helmer’s Gravity opened the festival out of competition and one year after his pal Alejandro G. Inarritu raised the…
The European film festivals, notably Cannes, have often played a role in launching what go on to be Oscar nominees and winners across varying categories come the following February. But Venice and Berlin showed increasing muscle this year. And right about now, Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera has to be…
Like one of the characters from the books that the TNT series is based on, Rizzoli & Isles author Tess Gerritsen won't give up the fight. Gerritsen filed an amended complaint in the matter earlier this week, as she said she would. Last month, a federal judge dismissed the author's initial $10 million…
A judge has dismissed Rizzoli & Isles author Tess Gerritsen’s lawsuit against Warner Bros that claims her 1999 Gravity novel and the 2013 Alfonso Cuaron-directed film might be related. There’s still a chance, however, that she could resurrect a new complaint in the $10 million breach-of-contract action.
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Following his much talked about critical tweets on Gravity, astrophysicist/TV personality Neil DeGrasse Tyson has emerged as a top authority on big-budget Hollywood movies set in space. While he insists he is not a critic and doesn’t do movie reviews, DeGrasse gave Chris Nolan’s saga as thorough science examination as…
Warner Bros. has boosted Niki Sherrod to SVP,Music as the film music exec goes into her eighth year with the studio. Sherrod had most recently served as VP Music after joining the company in 2006 following stints at Atlantic Records’ soundtrack division and Warner Music Group, where she served as creative director for…
The “Detached” trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s awards-season favorite Gravity floated away with the top honor at tonight’s Golden Trailer Awards. The pic scored Best of Show and scooped up three other nods including Best Drama Poster and thriller TV spot. Godzilla and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire also scored four…
