Vicky Krieps, best performance prize winner in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for “Corsage,” will star as Sophie Toscan du Plantier in six time-Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “Re-creation,” which is being presented in the Venice Gap-Financing Market.The docu-drama, which centers on the brutal murder in 1996 in Ireland of French film and TV […]
Continue readingThe 10th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, organized as part of the Venice Film Festival’s industry program Venice Production Bridge, has selected 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding.Filmmakers taking projects to Venice include Jim Sheridan, an Oscar nominee with “In America,” “In the Name of the Father” and “My Left […]
Continue readingThe Academy Award-nominated animated feature “Wolfwalkers,” from Kilkenny-based studio Cartoon Saloon, has won Best Film at the Irish Film and Television Awards this evening.It is the second time an animated feature has won in the category, the first being Cartoon Saloon’s “Song of the Sea” in 2015.“Avengers: Endgame” star Josh Brolin presented the award for […]
Continue readingThe Academy Award-nominated animated feature “Wolfwalkers,” from Kilkenny-based studio Cartoon Saloon, has won Best Film at the Irish Film and Television Awards this evening.It is the second time an animated feature has won in the category, the first being Cartoon Saloon’s “Song of the Sea” in 2015.“Avengers: Endgame” star Josh Brolin presented the award for […]
Continue readingProducer was longtime BAFTA LA board member.Paul Heller, the US producer whose credits included Withnail & I and Enter The Dragon and My Left Foot as executive producer, died on December 28. He was 93.Heller, a longtime board member of BAFTA LA, was born in New York on September 25, 1927, and spent many years […]
Continue readingThe Weinstein Company assets will be purchased by the Ron Burkle-backed Maria Contreras-Sweet, and all things Weinstein will be removed from whatever remains. After a nearly four-decade run, the legacy of the most successful specialized distributor in history comes down to the last five tumultuous months that mark an inglorious (if not inglourious) end.The Weinsteins […]
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