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Jon Spaihts’ Passengers nearing green light

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Passengers, a science fiction romance written by Jon Spaihts, has moved a step closer to the big screen. Spaihts' script was on the 2007 Black List and has been in development at Company Films for some time now, with Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel producing. Now, Passengers is one of the three projects that have been fast-tracked by Morgan Creek, along with the psychological thriller Dream House, helmed by Jim Sheridan, and Antoine Fuqua's crime drama Scarpa, based on a true [Read more...]

Oscar winners 2009

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BEST PICTURE "Slumdog Millionaire" BEST ACTRESS Kate Winslet, "The Reader" BEST ACTOR Sean Penn, "Milk" BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight" BEST DIRECTOR Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire" BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Dustin Lance Black, "Milk" BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire" BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM "Departures" (Japan) BEST ANIMATED [Read more...]

Cinema Audio Society honours Slumdog Millionaire, John Adams

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Slumdog Millionaire's production mixer Resul Pookutty and re-recording mixers Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke were presented with the award for outstanding achievement in motion picture sound mixing at the 45th Annual Cinema Audio Awards ceremony, held on Saturday at the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel. Dedicating the award to the ''sound gods of India,'' Pookutty said: "This is the biggest honor I can ever get. Twelve years ago in India I started in production sound. There was basically no production [Read more...]

Berlinale ’09 ends – winners announced

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The Berlin Film Festival closed on Saturday with an awards ceremony. The International Jury presented the Golden Bear for Best Film to a Latin American filmmaker for the second year in a row. The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta asustada), the winner of the Golden Bear, is the second feature from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa. It follows a young girl faced with life in Lima after her mother dies. The Berlin jury issued a statement saying that "this year’s competition presents a broad range of [Read more...]

American Cinema Editors award Wall-E, Slumdog, Man on Wire

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American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the winners of the 2009 ACE Eddie Awards for best achievement in editing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night. Mel Gibson presented Richard Donner with ACE's filmmaker of the year award, while Robert Zemeckis handed the career achievement trophy to Arthur Schmidt, whose credits include Back to the Future and Forrest Gump. Sidney M. Katz was also presented with career achievement honours. Here are the winners: EDITED FEATURE FILM [Read more...]