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David Fincher’s Masterpiece Se7en Gets a Remaster
Tonight at the TCM Film Festival, David Fincher's Se7en will screen in 8K on IMAX: SE7EN (1995) was filmed in 35mm and released in 2.39 aspect ratio. Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original camera negative in 8k with all restoration work completed by David Fincher’s post-production team in 8k. Color by Eric Weidt. The original 5.1 sound elements were restored by Ren Klyce creating a new 5.1 mix. It's hard to believe a perfect film could get even more perfect. For lucky attendees of the TCM Fest, they'll have the chance tonight to see it restored to loving detail: In an interview with the Hollywood...
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A Note About Comments
Hello there, from time to time we've had to fix our comments. We've been using Disqus for a very long time, but at some point, it just stopped syncing the comments. I tried everything I knew how to fix it, but instead Ryan and a few of us manually synced them several times per day. That means syncing them from...
Can the Oscars Survive the Imminent Death of Hollywood?
The Oscars are barreling toward their 97th year, and will turn 100 not too long from now. Yet, the industry and the Oscars, are facing a reckoning -- an existential crisis that could topple the empire. Not that you'd ever hear much about this. With Jay Penske having a monopoly on coverage you can pretty much be assured it will...
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s ‘Los Frikis’ Wins Marimbas Award at 41st Annual Miami Film Festival
Miami, FL (April 16, 2024) – “Los Frikis,” directed by Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz, took the festival’s top jury prize, the $20,000 MARIMBAS Award, at the 41st edition of Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Film Festival. The event ran from April 5 - 14, 2024. The award is an international competition for the jury-selected new narrative feature film...
The SAG Awards Will Have No Impact on Oscar Voting
The SAG/AFTRA awards have released their calendar for this year. Here is how it shakes out, vis a vis the Oscars. It's a hit and miss prospect, whether the Oscars will match the SAG awards. Last year, Lily Gladstone won the SAG and lost the Oscar to Emma Stone, on account of the Oscars mirroring the BAFTAs almost exactly. It...
Legendary Icon Carol Burnett to Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at 49th Annual Gracie Awards Gala on May 21
LOS ANGELES, CA (April 16, 2024) – Today, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) is thrilled to announce that Carol Burnett, a legendary figure in entertainment, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th Annual Gracie Awards Gala on May 21 at the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills. The Gracie Awards'...
The Holdovers and American Fiction win at the WGA!
Finally, The Holdovers wins a well-deserved award for Screenplay. Congratulations. Take a bow. 2024 WRITERS GUILD AWARDS: WINNERS ANNOUNCED Los Angeles and New York – Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) announced the winners of the 2024 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and...
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NATAS Announces 2024 Daytime Emmy® Nominations
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards. The Daytime Emmy® Awards telecast will be presented live on Friday, June 7, at 8 PM EDT / delayed PT, on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+*. The Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle...
‘Expats’ Production Designer Yong Ok Lee Explains How She Recreated Hong Kong in Los Angeles
The crux of Yong Ok Lee's production design for Lulu Wang's Expats was initially supposed to consist of a handful of sets built in Hong Kong, including apartments for Nicole Kidman's Margaret and Sarayu Blue's Hillary. Then COVID hit. And production had to move to L.A., meaning Lee and her team had to rebuild and recreate their sets and build...
‘Shōgun’ VFX Supervisor Michael Cliett Talks Beheadings, How They Pulled Off the Earthquake Sequence in ‘Episode 5
Awards Daily chats with Shōgun VFX supervisor Michael Cliett about the work that goes into crafting the perfect beheading and how they pulled off that earthquake sequence. VFX supervisor Michael Cliett has a special relationship with Shōgun. In the early 1980s, he watched the original NBC miniseries while living in Japan with his family. Provided by Michael Cliett "A special...
‘Under the Bridge’: A Harrowing Confrontation of Abandoned Innocence
I couldn't help but think about how we sometimes look at people in another age group with a mixture of envy and jealousy. Maybe there is some pity in there, too, but if we are older we can long for another chance to relive that exuberant adolescence that normally belongs to someone younger. Maybe we could make different choices if...
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Oscars 2024 – Closing It Out with One Last Podcast
We got together for one last podcast to close out the season. This time it's me, Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams,...
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