EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jason Clarke has signed with WME. The move comes as he has upcoming the WWII drama HHHH, opposite Rosamund Pike, and All I See Is You, opposite Blake Lively. Recent credits include Everest, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Terminator: Genisys and Zero Dark Thirty. Clarke had been repped by CAA. He will…

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have changed course. They were going to next make a movie on Bowe Bergdahl, and they participated on bringing to light the story of the Army sergeant captured and held by the Taliban for five years in Afghanistan, on Serial, the Peabody Award-winning podcast that spun off from This…

The CIA and the Pentagon regularly assist filmmakers whose scripts portray them in a positive light, while denying that same assistance to filmmakers whose scripts are critical of their operations. This happens even though the Supreme Court has ruled that it's unconstitutional for the government to favor speech it…

Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow and Annapurna’s Megan Ellison have found a new way to deal with the complicated issue of global terrorism on film. Bigelow has created a PSA to combat the appetite for ivory that comes from elephants slain in the jungle. She certainly makes a compelling case here in Last Days O…

Mark Boal, the journalist-turned-filmmaker who teamed with Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, has formed Page 1. The production company will hatch films and TV that will be backed by Megan Ellison‘s Annapurna Pictures. She financed Zero Dark Thirty, which Boal wrote and produced. Boal will be…

Notes from Monday night’s 23rd annual Pen Center USA Literary Awards Festival: These awards, handed out at a ritzy gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel, celebrate the “freedom to write” and generally honor books. But there were a few showbiz awards thrown in including the Screenplay honor to Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty…

Conventional wisdom is that Best Picture Oscar winners enjoy a 35% bump in theatrical grosses for the week after the show. But today Rentrak announced which titles had the largest box office growth since nominations were announced on January 10. Sure, Argo took home the gold. But Sony Pictures Classics' Amour…

It appears the Senate Intelligence Committee probe into Zero Dark Thirty is over. A Congressional aide today confirmed to Reuters that the Committee led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Carl Levin (D-Mich) has dropped its inquiry into Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-nominated film. The…

Many have said 2012 has been the most remarkable year for movies in the Oscar race in a very long time. The dense list of quality contenders makes for quite a race, and it's somewhat reminiscent of another legendary year for cinema a half-century ago. The year 1962 was an embarrassment of riches, and in many ways…

Anthony D’Alessandro is Managing Editor of AwardsLine. Paul Brownfield and David Mermelstein are AwardsLine contributors. Amour Auteurs wouldn't be auteurs if they weren't enigmatic, especially when it comes to deconstructing details of their oeuvre. "Let the film speak for itself" is often the motto, and for Amour…

Thomas J. McLean is an AwardsLine contributor The film editing race is both diverse and expected. All five nominated films are also up for best picture, and the individual editors range from three-time Oscar winner Michael Kahn to several first-time nominees and one nominee, William Goldenberg, nominated for work on…

Tonight’s Writers Guild of America awards show brought further clarity to this year’s topsy turvy awards race but it also brought some embarrassment to the guild. Is there any reason the WGA can’t coordinate the so-called “simutaneous” ceremonies between east coast and west coast so that winners aren’t being tweeted…