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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. And now it all comes down to this. On Sunday at the Dolby Theatre, the long, often bruising movie awards season comes to an end. And not a moment too soon. The predictions will end and the real winners will emerge as the 91st Annual Academy Awards…

Lionsgate has acquired North American and UK theatrical distribution rights to Monster Hunt 2, the sequel to the 2015 blockbuster that, for a time, was the highest-grossing film ever in China. The agreement also gives Lionsgate rights to the Monster Hunt property for its location-based entertainment venues in select…

While it seemed for a moment there that movies shot on film were on the ropes, a surge in film stock-shot pictures has Kodak feeling pretty bullish. Check out the letter written by Steve Bellamy, the president of Motion Picture and Entertainment for Kodak, who hailed numerous films and especially Quentin Tarantino’s Th…

Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke nearly took the company out of the celluloid film production business about a year an a half ago — relenting when Warner Bros, Universal, Paramount, Disney, and Weinstein Co. committed to buy a set amount of film stock for several years. But after finding several additional buyers for the product…

Kodak has named Bradford Young as the 2015 Cinematographer-In-Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Young, whose credits include Pawn Sacrifice, A Most Violent Year, Selma, and Ain't Them Bodies Saints, is the 16th recipient of the honor, which aims to to “enhance the learning experience of…

Thanks to the lobbying of Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson and a few others, you can take film stock off the endangered list. Kodak announced today it will supply 20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Paramount and Sony film for big screen and TV projects. Said Kodak CEO Jeff…

UPDATE: Add Martin Scorsese to the parade of directors applauding Kodak’s decision to continue producing film stock. He acknowledges that cameras shooting digital HD “are lighter, it's much easier to shoot at night, we have many more means at our disposal for altering and perfecting our images. And, the cameras are…