EXCLUSIVE: U.S. soccer star Hope Solo is to be the subject of a movie biopic produced by Hacksaw Ridge backers Argent Pictures. The currently untitled narrative feature about the World Cup winner and Olympic champion will be written and directed by Christine Crokos (Pimp) after Argent optioned the goalkeeper’s life…

Editors Note: Bill Mechanic is chairman and CEO of Pandemonium Films and a former top executive at Paramount, Disney and chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment when the studio generated Die Hard With A Vengeance, Independence Day and Titanic. He most recently produced Best Picture Oscar nominee Hacksaw Ridge. He …

It was a stunning upset, Moonlight won Best Picture tonight — after a historic gaffe in which La La Land was announced as the winner. Presenter Faye Dunaway read La La Land for the top award, and its principals came to the stage. But, in what many thought was a joke, Moonlight later was announced as Best Picture…

It was a double double win at the Humanitas Prize ceremony today, with Hidden Figures and Hacksaw Ridge taking the top feature film award and Ava DuVernay's 13th and Jim: The James Foley Story sharing top documentary honors. Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation won in the Sundance Feature Film category. (see full…

The winners for the 64th annual Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Awards, which recognize achievements in sound editing in feature film, TV, animation and web-based productions, were announced Sunday during a ceremony at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. During the opening address, MPSE president Tom…

“I didn’t believe it.” That was producer David Permut’s initial response upon hearing about Desmond T. Doss, the World War II medic who saved over 75 men in the battle at Okinawa without ever picking up a gun. “A medic on the front lines of World War II? I knew the combat medics needed to be trained in riflery,” says…

Hey exhibitors — are you listening? A recent Movio/AARP study recently highlighted that the 50+ age group is one of the more devoted moviegoing demos, particularly during Oscar season. During the period of Jan. 1, 2016-Feb. 5, 2017, those 50 and over repped 56% of the crowd for Oscar-nominated movies versus a 20%…

There can only be one winner, but each of the Best Picture nominees overcame creative, financial and logistical hurdles to get this close to the finish line. Here are their war stories. Arrival When Ted Chiang's sci-fi Story of Your Life first came across Denis Villeneuve's desk, it wasn't an immediate choice for the…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 1, 2016. When Mel Gibson and Andrew Garfield gather to speak on their WWII film Hacksaw Ridge, each has jetted into LA from Europe where they are making other movies. Gibson left the set of The Professor and the Madman, a movie he's starring in with Sean Penn…

Better to be a best picture Oscar nominee than a winner. At the box office, that is. This weekend, eight of the nine best picture nominees saw on average a near-two fold bump in their weekend-to-weekend stateside ticket sales. By Oscar night, their total cumes will have jumped an average of 44% since last Tuesday’s…

Every presidency comes with its own type of cinema. The Ronald Reagan administration of 1981-1989, which led into the tail end of the Cold War, saw a number of raunchy escapist comedies like Porky’s and National Lampoon’s Vacation, as well as the rise of the American action hero in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s canon and…

From the moment it world premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge seemed to signal a sea-change in perception of the director. Couple that with Gibson's recent signing with CAA — the first time he has agency representation since 2010 — and today's Oscar noms, Hollywood has clearly…