Comprising one of contemporary Hollywood's great songwriting duos—who brought music and lyrics to Broadway hit Hairspray, and collaborated on acclaimed NBC musical drama Smash, among many other projects—Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman faced the biggest moment in their storied careers, with Mary Poppins Returns. A sequel to a timeless Disney classic, which has left its indelible mark on generations of viewers, Rob Marshall's film called for an original score and an array of… Read
Susan Cabral-Ebert and Robert Louis Stevenson are set to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards next year. The duo will accept their hardware February 16 at MUAHS’ annual awards ‘do at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The outgoing president of MUAHS (IATSE Local 706), four-time Emmy nominee Cabral-Ebert joined the guild at a time when it just was beginning to allow women as makeup artists. After working on such… Read
RBG, Three Identical Strangers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hal, Into the Okavango and twin climber titles The Dawn Wall and Free Solo have been nominated for the Producer Guild’s 2019 Documentary Motion Picture award. The winner will be announced January 19 at the PGA Awards at the Beverly Hilton, among the cappers to one of the most prolific years for the genre in recent memory.
The guild will take the wraps of its annual noms for Theatrical Motion Pictures, Animated… Read
The winners of the 46th annual International Emmy Awards were announced this evening with Spain’s Money Heist(also known as La casa de papel)winning for Best Drama and Nevsufrom Israel walking away with the trophy for Best Comedy.
Hosted by comedian and The Problem With Apu producer Hari Kondabolu at the New York Hilton, Fox Television Group Chairman and CEO, Dana Walden presented the International Emmy Directorate Award to Sophie Turner Laing, Chief Executive Officer… Read
The challenge of taking on the saga of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart was front and center at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles event held earlier this month at the DGA Theater in front of a SRO audience of Academy and key guild voters.
The Front Runner co-writer and director Jason Reitman was joined onstage by Hugh Jackman, who plays Hart in a role that has won the Australian star some of the best reviews of his career and immediate Oscar buzz. Jackman has never before… Read
On Suspiria, her first project with Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino, production designer Inbal Weinberg faced challenges that were almost insurmountable, on creative and practical levels. An homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic, rather than a straight remake, Guadagnino's film demanded boundless creativity on the part of the artisans involved. "It was tough from the beginning to push your imagination further, constructing something from nothing,"… Read
The 10th annual Governors Awards started out on a sober note Sunday night with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president John Bailey acknowledging the devastating impact of the California fires, and said it has hit close to home for many in the industry including the historic Paramount Ranch, where the Academy does a summer program. Like other recent events, AMPAS, out of respect for all those who suffered unimaginable loss, toned down the usual bustling… Read
Spoiler Alert: This interview features discussion of critical plot elements from Pixar's Incredibles 2.
When The Incredibles came out in 2004, it was a film ahead of its time. Marking a major paradigm shift in animation as a whole, Brad Bird's family-centric superhero story was so ambitious—in the midst of the technology and techniques of the era—that it seemed impossible to make, even for artists at Pixar, one of the most innovative and influential animation studios of… Read
Deep in the credits for the documentary Of Fathers and Sons comes a startling notation—a mention of the firm that supplied kidnapping and ransom insurance. That's an indication of just how dangerous the project was for director Talal Derki, who risked his life to get inside a radical Islamist family in Northwestern Syria.
Derki posed as a filmmaker sympathetic to jihadi ideology to gain the trust of Abu Osama, one of the founders of Al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of… Read
Since hanging up his claws as Wolverine in spectacular fashion with Logan, Hugh Jackman has been exploring. He returned to his first love, musical theatre, last year for the blockbusting The Greatest Showman, and now tackles perhaps the meatiest role of his career to date as 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. Jason Reitman's The Front Runner follows the three weeks it took Hart's leading campaign for the Democratic ticket to implode when reports surfaced of… Read
Jon M. Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians, will receive the Motion Picture Showman of the Year Award at the Cinematographers Guild's Publicist Awards, to be held February 22 at the Beverly Hilton.
"Jon M. Chu has made an extraordinary contribution to the art of filmmaking," said guild president Steven Poster. "His Crazy Rich Asians, adored by audiences throughout the world, is the first studio modern day film to feature an all-Asian cast in a quarter of a century. We… Read
One of the last shoes to drop in this year’s Oscar race just dropped.
Annapurna skipped the Fall Festival circuit and decided instead to take over the Bruin Theatre in Westwood today to put Adam McKay’s Vice (just finished a couple of days ago) out to the world. Judging by the reaction to this afternoon’s unveiling,you can probably expect to not only see nominations for stars Christian Bale – who, for lack of a better word, simply inhabits Cheney – and Amy Adams, equally… Read
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