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Controversial filmmaker Roman Polanski is set to get behind the camera again on The Palace, a drama set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of various guests intertwine. The project was revealed today by Paolo Del Brocco, the CEO of Italian outfit Rai Cinema, which will produce alongside…

Kate Winslet said she is “grappling” with regrets over working with film directors Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, both accused of sexual misconduct with minors. In a candid Vanity Fair interview with Julie Miller, Winslet admitted, “I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can't turn…

UPDATED with Polanski lawyer statement: Roman Polanski won't be voting on the winners for the 93rd Academy Awards, a California judge decided Tuesday. At a downtown hearing this morning, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel concluded that the disgraced Oscar winner had been given more than enough of a…

The Motion Picture Academy's decision to expel Roman Polanski in 2018 is headed for court again on Tuesday, and savvy observers likely will distance themselves from the rancor that the case will generate. Polanski is resolutely pursuing his appeal because he feels he was denied due process. The Academy is defending…

Back on June 26, a little-noticed court filing in Roman Polanski's lawsuit over his expulsion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offered a rare glimpse at dealings within the Academy's Board of Governors. The view is limited, and colored by the advocacy of Polanski' lawyer, Harland W. Braun, who…

Theaters are shut, production postponed, dealmaking stalled and writers are twisting in the wind. Given these conditions, it's perversely appropriate that the hottest new book about the movie business is focused on an angst-ridden writer. The Big Goodbye doesn't try to make the writing trade seem like fun, but the…

There were bound to be some pin-drop moments during tonight’s César Awards, but for the most part things ran smoothly until Roman Polanski was named Best Director for his Dreyfus Affair drama, An Officer And A Spy, late into the evening. The film had already taken Best Costumes and Best Adapted Screenplay, yet when it…

UPDATED, writethru: Ladj Ly’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize laureate Les Misérables was the big winner at Friday night’s 45th annual César Awards, France's equivalent to the Oscars, including taking the top honor of Best Film. The night unfolded, however, under tumultuous conditions owing to controversy surrounding R…

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, whose An Officer And A Spy leads nominations for France’s César Awards, has said he will not attend the prize ceremony tomorrow night. In a statement to Agence France Presse, Polanski said, “For several days, people have been asking me if I will or won’t be coming to the ceremony. The…

A group of nine feminist associations has called upon voting members of France's Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma not to mark their César Awards ballots for Roman Polanski's An Officer And A Spy. The Dreyfus Affair drama has a leading 12 nominations for the prizes which will be handed out on February 28 in…

France's Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma is facing strong backlash within its membership ranks, a little more than two weeks ahead of the César Awards, the local equivalent to the Oscars. Some 200 artists published an open letter in Le Monde on Monday, calling into question an "elitist and closed" Academy…

Just because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been quiet about its inner workings—a museum fund-raising announcement here, an Oscar press release there—doesn't mean it's been quiet inside. Every once in a while, rumblings from the Wilshire Blvd. headquarters are loud enough to be heard out…