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Step Right Up! As The Film Awards Season Opens, Everyone Is A Winner
Now comes my favorite part of the film awards season, the very beginning, when everyone is a contender.
It's just like the old days, when the carnival came to town (also in late summer). Step right up, everyone's a winner! Take a shot, win a prize!! You can't win if you don't play the game!!!
We all know it isn't…
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Casting Software Company Talent Systems Acquires UK Platform Spotlight
EXCLUSIVE: North American casting software company Talent Systems has acquired Spotlight, the United Kingdom’s premier casting platform.
Talent Systems connects talent and their representatives with casting directors in film, television, theater, print, voiceover, and commercials.
The deal creates a unique and global…
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Snapchat Adds Spotlight Feature, Awarding $1M A Day For Most “Entertaining” Posts
Snap Inc. is adding a new product feature to Snapchat called Spotlight, which promotes the posts it determines are the most “entertaining” on its social platform.
As extra incentive for users to adopt the new feature, Snap is also planning to award $1 million a day, at least through the end of 2020. The prize may be…
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By Dade Hayes
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‘Spotlight’ Producer & Journalism Outfit Field Of Vision Offer $250,000 Relief Fund For Documentary Freelancers During Coronavirus Crisis
EXCLUSIVE: Visual journalism outfit Field of Vision is teaming with Spotlight production co Topic Studios to offer $250,000 in emergency financial help for struggling documentary freelancers during the coronavirus lockdown.
The two companies are divisions of First Look Media, the org set up by eBay founder and…
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By Tom Grater
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Steve Golin Dies: Anonymous Content CEO & Oscar-Winning Producer Was 64
Steve Golin, the founder and CEO of Anonymous Content and co-founder and former CEO of Propaganda Films, passed away peacefully late Sunday night in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. The revered film and TV producer, who won the 2016 Best Picture Oscar for Spotlight, was 64. His loss will be felt far and…
Both Movies And The News Media Need The Next ‘Absence Of Malice’
Will there ever be another great journalism film? Given the chaos in both movies and the news media—audiences polarized, anonymous sourcing resurgent, Twitter rampant, prevailing narratives debunked (or not)—the temptation is to say, no, probably not.
But common sense says the next great media movie is bound to…
‘First Man’ Scribe Josh Singer On The Value Of Truth-Telling Art In Troubled Times
The Oscar-winning scribe behind such historical projects as Spotlight, The Post and First Man, Josh Singer can't overemphasize the importance of getting his stories right. On the latter film from Damien Chazelle, based on a biography by James R. Hansen, the writer dove head first into a project of incredible…
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By Matt Grobar
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Mark Ruffalo On Death Of ‘Spotlight’ Archbishop: “Terrible Human Being” Who Hid “Profound Suffering”
The death of Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former Boston archbishop whose repeated and widespread covering-up of pedophile priests was the subject of the 2015 movie Spotlight, has brought a comment from that film’s star Mark Ruffalo.
“One can only hope the countless sexual abuse of children he allowed and the…
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By Greg Evans
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Awards Consultant Lisa Taback On The Evolving Art Of Oscar Strategy – Deadline Disruptors
"The formulas don't work," says awards consultant Lisa Taback, reflecting on the two most recent Academy Award Best Picture winners, Spotlight and Moonlight, which felt like long-shots for the Oscar stage when they first started their journeys.
There are no easy paths to awards glory, she insists. "It really comes…
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By Matt Grobar
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‘Spotlight’ Star Brian d’Arcy James Sets April Return To Broadway As King George In ‘Hamilton’
UPDATE, Thursday PM: Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of Hamilton, confirmed Deadline’s report last night that d’Arcy James will return to the show as King George III, beginning April 14. Former Saturday Night Live-r Taran Killam, who succeeded Jonathan Groff, Andrew Rannells and Rory O’Malley in the role, will play…
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‘Moonlight,’ Oscar’s Surprise Best Picture Winner, Will Shine Wide This Weekend
EXCLUSIVE: In its 20th weekend at the box office, A24’s Moonlight will expand to 1,500-plus theaters following its three Oscar wins Sunday.
That’s a bigger expansion than last year’s Best Picture winner Spotlight, which jumped to 1,227 theaters, and 2015’s Birdman, which flew to 1,213. Similar to those Best Pic…
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Peter Bart: Will Diversity Infusion Trip Up Highfalutin Frontrunners?
Filling out my Academy ballot this week, I find myself indulging in an exercise in Oscar futility: re-living my list of Oscar "should-haves." Brokeback Mountain should have won over Crash in 2005, Apocalypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and ET over Gandhi in 1982.
The Academy is, well, the Academy, but some 683…
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By Peter Bart
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