Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced this morning in L.A., and if you are La La Land, Moonlight‘s Mahershala Ali or Elle‘s Isabelle Huppert, you're probably feeling a mountain high — just like most of the Hollywood film industry now attending the Sundance Film Festival. However, for others including S…

Sometimes, when it comes to greenlighting a big movie in this town, it boils down to an assistant. In the case of Sully, the big-screen retelling of US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger's "Miracle on the Hudson" emergency landing, you can credit Clint Eastwood's right hand Kristina Rivera. Sully producers Frank Marsha…

In Episode #7 of Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr’s weekly The Bart & Fleming Podcast, the pair dig into the puzzling nature of Tom Hanks and his lack of nominations for his role in Sully, after being left out most recently by the Golden Globes. They also discuss who deserves awards for lead actor, and talk about some…

As part of Warner Bros’ presentation at this year’s annual award-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, the studio highlighted its Clint Eastwood-directed and Tom Hanks-starring drama Sully. In front of a DGA theater full house of Oscar and key guild voters, producers Frank Marshall, Allyn Stewart and Tim…

Descending from a lineage of Oscar-sound editors—including his Oscar nominated grandfather, Robert G. Henderson, and his father, Oscar winner Alan Robert Murray—editor Blu Murray quickly realized through firsthand experience that sound editing wasn’t for him. Of interest, though, was the craft of picture editing…

Netflix apparently didn't see it coming, the Donald Trump victory. The streaming company wrapped Wednesday morning's print edition of the New York Times with a four-page advertisement for its series The Crown, built around a message of female empowerment that seemed to welcome a Hillary Clinton presidency. "We have a…

As it turns out, Todd Komarnicki’s path from the first pitch to being hired to write the script for the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic Sully was anything but certain. As he relayed today during the film’s panel at Deadline the Contenders event moderated by Pete Hammond, he spent nearly four months waiting for an…

EXCLUSIVE: The Clint Eastwood-directed film about US Airways Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger will make its debut in the Middle Kingdom on December 9. The news comes as Tom Hanks’ other autumn release, Inferno, opens in China this weekend. Word is that the story of the “Miracle on the Hudson” was very popular in…

Leslie Jones took on the trolls – the internet kind, not the Halloween variety – on NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night, blasting both the idiots who last summer hacked into her computer and the deplorable haters who posted vile racist and sexist insults on her Twitter page. “I don’t know if you all know this about…

It’s bound to be another downer weekend at the box office. Following Labor Day, this fall’s ticket sales currently total $682.8M through the second weekend in October, which is -10% versus the same frame last year and -8% when compared to that time frame in 2014. According to ComScore, since 2012 the annual fall B.O…

Tom Hanks will receive the Hollywood Actors Award at the 20th annual Hollywood Film Awards next month, producer dick clark productions said today. Two-time Oscar winner will be feted for his role as hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s film Sully. "Tom Hanks delivered another amazing performance…

Warner Bros has acquired rights to the memoir by onetime kidnapped American aid worker Jessica Buchanan, with the idea of making a dramatic feature film that could be the next project for Clint Eastwood. The studio and Eastwood just teamed on another true-life pic, Sully, which has made $167.2 million at the global…