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Spain has submitted period epic The Endless Trench as its contender for the 2021 International Oscar prize. The film premiered at San Sebastian last year and Netflix swooped on its global rights shortly after; the streamer will debut the film in the U.S. on November 6. Directed by the trio of Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran communications executive Liz Biber has been named partner and Head of Content at the Lede Company in what is a new position at the agency. The former Senior PR exec of Open Road Films, Weinstein/Dimension and Sony is overseeing a new content division at Lede focused on developing and executing…

The Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Monday that they have agreed to move all children’s categories from the Primetime Emmy Awards (overseen by the TV Academy) to the Daytime Emmy Awards (overseen by NATAS). The move will mean no more kids categories in the Creative Arts…

To those of a certain generation, James Bond 007 will forever be defined by the way the original movie Bond, Sean Connery, played him. Recalling where you were when you saw Goldfinger for the first time has almost the same impact as many other momentous events in our young lives. As I was reminded this morning in an…

EXCLUSIVE: “My mom was from a very small town and my dad was a farm boy, and when I read this book I recognized that I had really been looking for a story that I could tell that would allow me to apply my own sensitivity to this aspect of our American culture that I really relate to through my family in a way these…

Canada is sending Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy to this year's International Oscar race. The film is directed by Deepa Mehta, whose 2005 pic Water was Canada's submission that year and was Oscar nominated. Funny Boy, which is in Tamil, English and Sinhalese, depicts a young boy's sexual awakening in Sri Lanka during the…

It’s Terrific! That was the simple advertising line that adorned most posters and newspaper ads for the landmark film Citizen Kane when it was released in 1941. Let me say the same line applies to David Fincher’s masterpiece Mank, a film centering on the creation of the script for Kane and the man who shares official…

Germany has become the latest country to make its submission for the 2021 International Oscar race, choosing Julia von Heinz’s political drama And Tomorrow the Entire World. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival in Competition. It stars Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas…

EXCLUSIVE: Three years after an eventful awards season with Garth Davis's Lion, composers Dustin O'Halloran and Volker Bertelmann look to contend once again, with their score to Francis Lee's Ammonite. On Wednesday, the pair said their latest original motion picture soundtrack, from Milan Records, will debut on…

South Korean Oscar sensation Parasite was the big winner at this year's Asian Film Awards, which were held today in an online format due to continued pandemic challenges. The movie won Best Film, Best Screenplay for co-writers Han Jin Won and director Bong Joon Ho, Best Production Design and Best Editing. Bong Joon Ho…

Diane Weyermann has elected to step down from her position as co-chair of AMPAS’ International Feature Film Executive Committee. The move is due to her professional relationship with a film officially selected for this year's International Feature Film Oscar race. The title in question is understood to be Alexander…

Demi Lovato has been set to host the 2020 E!’s People’s Choice Awards, which will air November 15 live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The news came Tuesday during a Twitter conversation between the Grammy-nominated singer and the cable network. Lovato, who has won five People’s Choice Awards in 12 nominations…