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EXCLUSIVE: Billions star Malin Akerman has signed on as executive producer on the Film Mode Entertainment and BondIt Media Capital horror film With Teeth, which has Lydia Hearst (Z Nation), Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom) and Jack Donnelly (Atlantis) starring. Akerman is also eyeing a key role in the film, which will…

Focus Features is bringing a collection of its classics to your home. Starting April 6, the studio will switch their current “Focus Fridays” livestream program to “Focus Movie Mondays”. Throughout April, Focus Features will livestream a film for free exclusively on their Facebook page every Monday starting with…

EXCLUSIVE: Kara Hayward racked up the accolades in her feature debut as angst-ridden lovebird Suzy in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. Now the 14-year-old actress is boarding her next project. She’ll play Etta, a high school freshman dealing with her parents divorce, in the indie pic Quitters written and directed by…

Anthony D’Alessandro is Managing Editor of AwardsLine. Paul Brownfield and David Mermelstein are AwardsLine contributors. Amour Auteurs wouldn't be auteurs if they weren't enigmatic, especially when it comes to deconstructing details of their oeuvre. "Let the film speak for itself" is often the motto, and for Amour…

With a Best Picture nomination from the Producers Guild Of America, one of AFI’s Top Ten Films of the Year  and nominations for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, BAFTA, WGA Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards (along with Best Feature there too), Director Wes Anderson and his co-writer Roman Coppola…

Like the Producers Guild earlier this week, the WGA did not produce a list of film nominees in the Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay categories that had any surprises. This in itself is not surprising since the WGA (I’m a member) — due to restrictive rules regarding eligibility of films only produced under…

Moonrise Kingdom amounted to Wes Anderson at his best. It was a relate-able story of first love, injected with Anderson’s playful wit, his sense of the absurd, and his singular visual style. The result was a $66 million worldwide gross and one of the year’s big specialty film hits. Since making his debut on Bottle Rock…

Christy Grosz is Editor of AwardsLine. With a list of collaborators that includes some of the most sought-after writers and producers in the business, Scott Rudin is no stranger to awards season. He's earned best picture nominations for the last two years running, for 2010’s The Social Network and True Grit and Extreme…

Cari Lynn is an AwardsLine contributor A tale of first love had been knocking around in Wes Anderson's brain for nearly a decade. But before it became the quirky, cherubic Moonrise Kingdom—which earned Oscar talk after being granted the coveted opening-night slot at the Cannes Film Festival and having gone on to…

EXCLUSIVE: Kara Hayward has joined the teen drama The Sisterhood Of Night. The Moonrise Kingdom actress will play a girl who exposes a secret society in her New Jersey suburb, leading to a witch-hunt in the town. The Sisterhood Of Night is directed by Caryn Waechter and based on Steven Millhauser’s short story…

New York, NY (October 18, 2012) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today the nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards™. Signaling the kick-off to the film awards season, IFP's Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations…

A trio of holdovers grabbed the bulk of specialty business this weekend, with Fox Searchlight’s Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Sony Classics’ To Rome With Love and Focus’ Moonrise Kingdom leading the pack. Three films, China Heavyweight from Zeitgeist, Magnolia’s The Magic Of Belle Isle and Red Flag’s The Do-Deca-Pentath…