EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios and Scott Free have teamed to turn the Susanna Jones novel The Earthquake Bird into a feature with Wash Westmoreland adapting and directing. With the late Richard Glatzer, Westmoreland wrote and directed Still Alice, which won Julianne Moore the Oscar. This book is a female-driven noir…

Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer were life partners for 20 years, and the past four Glatzer was battling ALS. The filmmaker, with whom Westmoreland wrote and directed Still Alice, died Tuesday. They also wrote and directed The Last Of Robin Hood (2013) and double Sundance award winner Quinceañera (2006). Here is…

UPDATED with statement from Wash Westmoreland: Richard Glatzer, who wrote and directed Still Alice with his husband Wash Westmoreland, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of complications from ALS. He was 63 and had been hospitalized for the past three weeks. Julianne Moore won the Best Actress Oscar last month for her role…

Oscar victories typically translate into a box-office windfall for winners, none more so this year than  Birdman. After grabbing Best Picture and three other Oscars, Birdman took flight in its 20th weekend in theatrical release with a big expansion. Other winners – including Still Alice, The Theory Of Everything and Wh…

Oscar winners Birdman, Whiplash and Theory of Everything are available on VOD and DVD, but you wouldn’t think that looking at their fantastic box office results this weekend. And that wasn’t all. Still Alice, The Imitation Game, American Sniper and even foreign language film nominees Leviathan and Wild Tales were…

“Thank you so much. I read an article that said winning an Oscar could lead to living five years longer. If that's true I'd really like to thank the Academy because my husband is younger than me,” Still Alice star Julianne Moore said in accepting her first Academy Award, for best lead actress. “There is no such thing…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 has acquired The Shoe, a pitch from Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. They are the writer/directors of Still Alice, the touching adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel that has Julianne Moore in hot contention for Best Actress for her portrayal of a happily married linguistics…

With the Super Bowl hanging over the weekend, the small films debuting in the specialty box office have had a relatively tepid time of it amidst Oscar-nominated holdovers. Still Alice, starring the Oscar-nominated Julianne Moore, expanded decently and Focus took undersea thriller Black Sea, starring Jude Law, into…

Nearly 25 years ago, producer Christine Vachon's first film Poison won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Since that Todd Haynes pic, she hasn't snagged the award again, but this year Vachon and Pamela Koffler's Killer Films was back in Park City to celebrate 20 solid years as an indie…

As runups to a small film’s debut weekend go, snagging a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination in the previous five days ranks right up there. That’s the case for Sony Classics’ Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore in a tour de force role, as the film begins initial limited runs in five cities. Alice arrives with a…

There is no question in a career that has included one risk-taking performance after another—including Oscar-nominated roles in The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven, The Hours and Boogie Nights, as well as her memorable Emmy-winning Sarah Palin in HBO's Game Change—that Julianne Moore is about as good as it gets…

Julianne Moore has earned four Academy Award nominations — for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, The Hours, and Far From Heaven, the last two in the same year — but the Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice is the one Oscar watchers predict will land the actress her very first little gold man. Here’s the trailer for the…