Los Angeles, CA (February 2, 2011) – Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media Group ("Exclusive"), announced today that the company has brought Chris Miller on board to serve as President of Film Finance Operations for Exclusive, and as the new President of Spitfire Pictures.

Miller makes the m…

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in competition in the Makeup category for the 83rd Academy Awards.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:
"Alice in Wonderland"
"Barney's Version"
"The Fighter"
"Jonah Hex"
"True Grit"
"The Way Back"
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Here's the story of an Oscar campaign aiming not to be first, but dead last: Academy members have begun receiving what is believed – and <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-93252" title="The Way Back" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt width="267" height="…

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In my September 3rd post about The Way Back's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, I indicated that Newmarket would likely be scheduling a December Oscar qualifying run before a wider release date on January 21st. It was never locked in stone — until today when it was confirmed that director Peter Weir's…

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TELLURIDE: Peter Weir's The Way Back is about an epic journey of survival, an appropriate metaphor for the film's own treacherous journey through the current wobbly state of the movie industry which just didn't seem to know what to do with this stunning adventure, the kind of movie Hollywood used to make all the time…

The Way Back, Peter Weir’s first film since 2003’s Master and Commander, has come off the board as an acquisition title before it screens in Telluride. Newmarket acquired U.S. rights and will distribute the film next January. It doesn’t exactly count as a real acquisition, since Newmarket is owned by Exclusive Media…