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• Legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis dies at 91. [Reuters] • Screenwriters round table with Aaron Sorkin, Simon Beaufoy, Michael Arndt, John Wells, Todd Phillips and David Lindsay-Abaire. [Hollywood Reporter] • Todd Gilchrist talks to “Conviction” director Tony Goldwyn about capturing reality and avoiding the “Oscar Bait” curse. [Speakeasy]
11/11 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: R.I.P. Dino, screenwriters round table, Gonzalez Inarritu makes the press rounds
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:13 am · November 11th, 2010
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LONDON: ‘Conviction,’ ‘Amigo,’ ‘Everything Must Go’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:23 am · October 16th, 2010
“To get the challenge to play someone like this makes me a better person,” said a rather intense-looking Hilary Swank at yesterday’s London Film Festival press conference — the someone in question, single mom turned crusading lawyer Betty Ann Waters, sitting to her immediate left. Not being personally acquainted with Ms. Swank, I can’t verify […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Casting Sam Rockwell in ‘Conviction’ (clip)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:39 am · October 13th, 2010
Think fast: when was the first time you remember seeing Sam Rockwell on the big screen? Most people probably caught up with him in the late-1990s in films like “Safe Men,” “The Green Mile” and “Galaxy Quest.” Others perked up, surely, when George Clooney had the vision to give him the starring role in “Confessions […]
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10/12 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Obama with the ‘Superman’ kids, handicapping the docs, ‘Debt’ delayed
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:04 am · October 12th, 2010
• President Obama met with children featured in the film “Waiting for Superman” yesterday. [Associated Press] • Handicapping this year’s documentary feature Oscar race. [Vulture] • Dave Karger explains his Gurus choices, calls “Love & Other Drugs” (one of his predicted Best Picture nominees) one of the sexiest films he’s seen in years. [Oscar Watch]
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Goldwyn’s ‘Conviction’ keeps an even keel
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:50 am · September 29th, 2010
I’ve been meaning to write about “Conviction” since I saw it last week and just haven’t really settled on a way to gather my thoughts. In a nutshell, I liked it. Quite a lot, actually. It’s not rousing or inspiring to the point that I had to write immediately (obviously), but it’s relatively harmless and […]
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9/14 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:11 am · September 14th, 2010
• Ben Affleck discusses “The Town” across the pond. [Daily Telegraph] • The Best Picture race begins to take shape for Sasha Stone. [Awards Daily] • Michael Cieply talks to Kevin Spacey about his work as “Casino Jack” and his involvement with “The Social Network.” [New York Times]
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Searchlight and Hilary Swank, take two?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:45 pm · February 3rd, 2010
This is one of the films I’ve had an eye on for next year’s Oscar season. Perhaps a second try will prove better than this past year’s Searchlight/Swank outing. The press release, in part: Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley announced today that the company has acquired North American and select international […]
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