The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) was established in 1997 and is comprised of Toronto based journalists and broadcasters who specialize in film criticism and commentary. All major dailies, weeklies and a variety of other print and electronic outlets are represented.
The 2016 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (TFCA) were voted by TFCA members at a meeting on Sunday, December 11, 2016. The membership also chose the three finalists for the “Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.” They are How Heavy This Hammer, directed by Kazik Radwanski; Operation Avalanche, directed by Matt Johnson, and The Stairs, directed by Hugh Gibson. The winner will be named at the TFCA Awards Gala, to be held at The Carlu in Toronto Tuesday, January 10, 2017.
The full list of 2016 / 20th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up:
BEST PICTURE
“Moonlight” (Elevation Pictures)
Runners-up
“Manchester by the Sea” (Mongrel Media)
“Toni Erdmann” (Mongrel Media)
BEST ACTOR
Adam Driver, “Paterson” (Mongrel Media)
Runners-up
Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
Peter Simonischek, “Toni Erdmann”
BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Hüller, “Toni Erdmann”
Runners-up
Rebecca Hall, “Christine” (The Orchard)
Isabelle Huppert, “Elle” (Mongrel Media)
Natalie Portman, “Jackie” (Fox Searchlight)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
Runners-up
Ralph Fiennes, “A Bigger Splash” (Elevation Pictures)
Michael Shannon, “Nocturnal Animals” (Focus Features)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”
Runners-up
Viola Davis, “Fences” (Paramount)
Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”
BEST DIRECTOR
Maren Ade, “Toni Erdmann”
Runners-up
Damien Chazelle, “La La Land” (Entertainment One)
Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED OR ORIGINAL
“Manchester by the Sea” by Kenneth Lonergan
Runners-up
“Moonlight” by Barry Jenkins
“Toni Erdmann” by Maren Ade
BEST FIRST FEATURE
“The Witch” directed by Robert Eggers (Elevation Pictures)
Runners-up
“The Edge of Seventeen” directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (VVS Films)
“Swiss Army Man” directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (D Films)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“Zootopia” (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Runners-up
“The Red Turtle” (A-Z Films)
“Kubo and the Two Strings” (Focus Features)
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
“Toni Erdmann”
Runners-up
“Elle” (Mongrel Media)
“The Handmaiden” (Mongrel Media)
CANADIAN TIRE ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD
“Cameraperson” (Films We Like)
Runners-up
“Fire at Sea” (Films We Like)
“The Stairs” (Midnight Lamp Films)
ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD FINALISTS (to be named at the 2016 TFCA Awards gala on January 2017)
“How Heavy This Hammer” directed by Kazik Radwanski (MDFF)
“Operation Avalanche” directed by Matt Johnson (Entertainment One)
“The Stairs” directed by Hugh Gibson (Midnight Lamp Films)
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Academy Announces 2016 Oscar Shortlist for Animated Short Films
10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2016 OSCAR RACE
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 89th Academy Awards. Sixty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
"Blind Vaysha," Theodore Ushev, director (National Film Board of Canada)
"Borrowed Time," Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj, directors (Quorum Films)
"Happy End," Jan Saska, director (FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
"The Head Vanishes," Franck Dion, director (Papy3D Productions, National Film Board of Canada and ARTE France Cinema Department)
"Inner Workings," Leo Matsuda, director, and Sean Lurie, producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
"Once upon a Line," Alicja Jasina, director (University of Southern California)
"Pear Cider and Cigarettes," Robert Valley, director, and Cara Speller, producer (Massive Swerve Studios and Passion Pictures Animation)
"Pearl," Patrick Osborne, director (Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures)
"Piper," Alan Barillaro, director, and Marc Sondheimer, producer (Pixar Animation Studios)
"Sous Tes Doigts (Under Your Fingers)," Marie-Christine Courtès, director, and Ludivine Berthouloux, art director (Vivement Lundi! and Novanima)
Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
Nominations for the 89th Oscars® will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2017.
The 89th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 89th Academy Awards. Sixty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
"Blind Vaysha," Theodore Ushev, director (National Film Board of Canada)
"Borrowed Time," Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj, directors (Quorum Films)
"Happy End," Jan Saska, director (FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
"The Head Vanishes," Franck Dion, director (Papy3D Productions, National Film Board of Canada and ARTE France Cinema Department)
"Inner Workings," Leo Matsuda, director, and Sean Lurie, producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
"Once upon a Line," Alicja Jasina, director (University of Southern California)
"Pear Cider and Cigarettes," Robert Valley, director, and Cara Speller, producer (Massive Swerve Studios and Passion Pictures Animation)
"Pearl," Patrick Osborne, director (Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures)
"Piper," Alan Barillaro, director, and Marc Sondheimer, producer (Pixar Animation Studios)
"Sous Tes Doigts (Under Your Fingers)," Marie-Christine Courtès, director, and Ludivine Berthouloux, art director (Vivement Lundi! and Novanima)
Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
Nominations for the 89th Oscars® will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2017.
The 89th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
"Beyblade Burst" Coming This Fall; Debuts in Canada September 10th
BEYBLADE Offers Fans a New Way to Battle with the Launch of BEYBLADE BURST
The Next Generation of the Legendary BEYBLADE Franchise Launches with New Integrated Physical and Digital Play Experience, Animated Series and More
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This fall, the BEYBLADE phenomenon returns with a new way to battle with the launch of the next generation--BEYBLADE BURST. Global play company Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) has teamed up with SUNRIGHTS INC. and d-rights Inc. to launch BEYBLADE BURST in North America beginning this fall (in Canada, September 10, 2016 on Teleton) with an innovative toy line that integrates with a new digital app and an animated series that will excite existing and new fans alike.
@HasbroNews and #Sunrights launch @beyblade_burst with integrated play experience, animated series and more!
he BEYBLADE BURST product line from Hasbro features a dynamic “burst” feature designed to bring more excitement to the successful battling play pattern. Setting the stage for suspenseful competition, battling can trigger the spinning tops to burst into pieces. The initial line will consist of customizable BEYBLADE BURST tops with interchangeable components, plus a BEYBLADE BURST BEYSTADIUM and BEYBLADE BURST EPIC RIVALS BATTLE SET for fans to engage in head-to-head competitions where they will want to ‘battle for the burst'. The BEYBLADE BURST line will be available in Canada at Toys“R”Us in September, followed by additional retailers in Canada later in 2016. The BEYBLADE BURST line will hit shelves in the U.S. in January 2017 with Europe, Latin America and certain other markets to follow in 2017.
BEYBLADE fans can expand their play digitally with the BEYBLADE BURST app available now in the App Store and Google Play in the U.S. and Canada for supported iOS and Android devices with certain other markets to follow in 2017. Players can scan their BEYBLADE BURST tops into the app where they can interchange components with other BEYBLADE BURST tops in their virtual collection and battle digitally. The BEYBLADE BURST app also includes a local multi-player experience and a tournament mode.
“We are excited to reinvent the BEYBLADE franchise with the BEYBLADE BURST product line and app experience,” said Jerry Perez, senior vice president of marketing at Hasbro. “The breakthrough new burst component, combined with our most in-depth integrated digital experience ever, allows fans to engage in epic BEYBLADE battles and strive to become a BEYBLADE master.”
“We are thrilled to see this new generation come to life through the BEYBLADE BURST toy line and digital app,” says Daizo Suzuki, President of SUNRIGHTS INC. “The animation brings exciting new characters, stories and battles to a new generation of fans who can participate in an immersive digital world of BEYBLADE BURST.”
The new BEYBLADE BURST animated series is created by production company OLM and includes new characters, stories and dramatic battles. The series will air in Canada beginning Saturday, September 10 at 3pm on Teletoon with other broadcast deals to be announced.
The BEYBLADE franchise was inspired by traditional Japanese battling tops called "Bei-Goma” and originally created in 1999 by TOMY Company, Ltd. as a modern battling top system. The brand has been an international phenomenon in over 80 countries, with two full generations to date, including seven series, two movies, and three spin off series.
SUNRIGHTS INC., the fast growing New York based entertainment arm of Japanese production company d-rights Inc., will handle the distribution of broadcast, non-toy merchandising and promotional rights for BEYBLADE BURST outside of Asia. Learn more on SUNRIGHTS INC’s website and social channels at www.beyblade.com, Facebook.com/officialbeyblade, Twitter.com/Beyblade_burst and instagram.com/officialbeyblade/.
About Hasbro
Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is a global company committed to Creating the World's Best Play Experiences, by leveraging its beloved brands, including LITTLEST PET SHOP, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, MONOPOLY, MY LITTLE PONY, NERF, PLAY-DOH and TRANSFORMERS, and premier partner brands. From toys and games, television programming, motion pictures, digital gaming and consumer product licensing, Hasbro fulfills the fundamental need for play and connection with children and families around the world. The Company's Hasbro Studios and its film label, ALLSPARK PICTURES, create entertainment brand-driven storytelling across mediums, including television, film, digital and more. Through the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families. Learn more at www.hasbro.com, and follow us on Twitter (@Hasbro & @HasbroNews) and Instagram (@Hasbro).
About SUNRIGHTS INC.
SUNRIGHTS INC. is an entertainment rights management company backed by one of the top advertising agencies in Japan, Asatsu DK, and the trading conglomerate Mitsubishi Corp. Located in New York City, SUNRIGHTS directly manages the development of intellectual property globally outside of Asia. Learn more about us at http://sunrights-inc.com.
About d-rights Inc.
d-rights, Inc. is a key player in international production of animated content for families and children globally. They are recognized for brands such as BEYBLADE, B-Daman, and Scan2Go. d-rights manages every aspect of content creation from production to distribution, financing, marketing and product licensing. Co-owned by Asatsu-DK Inc. (ADK) who distributes popular titles including "Yu-Gi-Oh!", "Doraemon", "Crayon Shin-chan" and "One piece”, and Mitsubishi Corporation, d-rights assumes a key role in the global business. Check out our properties at http://www.d-rights.com.
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The Next Generation of the Legendary BEYBLADE Franchise Launches with New Integrated Physical and Digital Play Experience, Animated Series and More
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This fall, the BEYBLADE phenomenon returns with a new way to battle with the launch of the next generation--BEYBLADE BURST. Global play company Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) has teamed up with SUNRIGHTS INC. and d-rights Inc. to launch BEYBLADE BURST in North America beginning this fall (in Canada, September 10, 2016 on Teleton) with an innovative toy line that integrates with a new digital app and an animated series that will excite existing and new fans alike.
@HasbroNews and #Sunrights launch @beyblade_burst with integrated play experience, animated series and more!
he BEYBLADE BURST product line from Hasbro features a dynamic “burst” feature designed to bring more excitement to the successful battling play pattern. Setting the stage for suspenseful competition, battling can trigger the spinning tops to burst into pieces. The initial line will consist of customizable BEYBLADE BURST tops with interchangeable components, plus a BEYBLADE BURST BEYSTADIUM and BEYBLADE BURST EPIC RIVALS BATTLE SET for fans to engage in head-to-head competitions where they will want to ‘battle for the burst'. The BEYBLADE BURST line will be available in Canada at Toys“R”Us in September, followed by additional retailers in Canada later in 2016. The BEYBLADE BURST line will hit shelves in the U.S. in January 2017 with Europe, Latin America and certain other markets to follow in 2017.
BEYBLADE fans can expand their play digitally with the BEYBLADE BURST app available now in the App Store and Google Play in the U.S. and Canada for supported iOS and Android devices with certain other markets to follow in 2017. Players can scan their BEYBLADE BURST tops into the app where they can interchange components with other BEYBLADE BURST tops in their virtual collection and battle digitally. The BEYBLADE BURST app also includes a local multi-player experience and a tournament mode.
“We are excited to reinvent the BEYBLADE franchise with the BEYBLADE BURST product line and app experience,” said Jerry Perez, senior vice president of marketing at Hasbro. “The breakthrough new burst component, combined with our most in-depth integrated digital experience ever, allows fans to engage in epic BEYBLADE battles and strive to become a BEYBLADE master.”
“We are thrilled to see this new generation come to life through the BEYBLADE BURST toy line and digital app,” says Daizo Suzuki, President of SUNRIGHTS INC. “The animation brings exciting new characters, stories and battles to a new generation of fans who can participate in an immersive digital world of BEYBLADE BURST.”
The new BEYBLADE BURST animated series is created by production company OLM and includes new characters, stories and dramatic battles. The series will air in Canada beginning Saturday, September 10 at 3pm on Teletoon with other broadcast deals to be announced.
The BEYBLADE franchise was inspired by traditional Japanese battling tops called "Bei-Goma” and originally created in 1999 by TOMY Company, Ltd. as a modern battling top system. The brand has been an international phenomenon in over 80 countries, with two full generations to date, including seven series, two movies, and three spin off series.
SUNRIGHTS INC., the fast growing New York based entertainment arm of Japanese production company d-rights Inc., will handle the distribution of broadcast, non-toy merchandising and promotional rights for BEYBLADE BURST outside of Asia. Learn more on SUNRIGHTS INC’s website and social channels at www.beyblade.com, Facebook.com/officialbeyblade, Twitter.com/Beyblade_burst and instagram.com/officialbeyblade/.
About Hasbro
Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is a global company committed to Creating the World's Best Play Experiences, by leveraging its beloved brands, including LITTLEST PET SHOP, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, MONOPOLY, MY LITTLE PONY, NERF, PLAY-DOH and TRANSFORMERS, and premier partner brands. From toys and games, television programming, motion pictures, digital gaming and consumer product licensing, Hasbro fulfills the fundamental need for play and connection with children and families around the world. The Company's Hasbro Studios and its film label, ALLSPARK PICTURES, create entertainment brand-driven storytelling across mediums, including television, film, digital and more. Through the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families. Learn more at www.hasbro.com, and follow us on Twitter (@Hasbro & @HasbroNews) and Instagram (@Hasbro).
About SUNRIGHTS INC.
SUNRIGHTS INC. is an entertainment rights management company backed by one of the top advertising agencies in Japan, Asatsu DK, and the trading conglomerate Mitsubishi Corp. Located in New York City, SUNRIGHTS directly manages the development of intellectual property globally outside of Asia. Learn more about us at http://sunrights-inc.com.
About d-rights Inc.
d-rights, Inc. is a key player in international production of animated content for families and children globally. They are recognized for brands such as BEYBLADE, B-Daman, and Scan2Go. d-rights manages every aspect of content creation from production to distribution, financing, marketing and product licensing. Co-owned by Asatsu-DK Inc. (ADK) who distributes popular titles including "Yu-Gi-Oh!", "Doraemon", "Crayon Shin-chan" and "One piece”, and Mitsubishi Corporation, d-rights assumes a key role in the global business. Check out our properties at http://www.d-rights.com.
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Monday, July 25, 2016
VIZ Media Announces Partnership with Tubi TV
VIZ MEDIA PARTNERS WITH TUBI TV TO DELIVER EXCITING ANIME CONTENT TO AUDIENCES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA
San Francisco, CA – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, has announced a partnership with Tubi TV, a leading provider of free movies and TV shows, to stream some of VIZ Media’s most popular anime titles to audiences across North America, including to legions of viewers based in Canada.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Tubi TV is the largest North American ad-supported provider of free streamed movies and TV shows. In addition to its own website (Tubitv.com), the Tubi TV app is accessible from platforms including Apple TV, Xbox One & Xbox 360, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung televisions – in addition to iOS and Android mobile devices.
All VIZ Media content on Tubi TV is presented with original Japanese dialogue and features English subtitles. DEATH NOTE (37 episodes) as well as the full original NARUTO series (220 episodes) are now available for streaming in the U.S. and Canada on Tubi TV. In addition, fans in Canada may now catch the entire classic SAILOR MOON series (200 episodes) and Seasons 1 and 2 of SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL (26 episodes). Additional VIZ Media anime series and episodes will be added regularly. Please visit Tubitv.com or download the app for more details and to access the free episodes.
“VIZ Media has incredibly popular anime series and we are thrilled to stream these blockbusters for free to our passionate anime fans,” said Farhad Massoudi, CEO, Tubi TV.
“Tubi TV has built an extremely robust and interoperable platform that offers audiences a compelling alternative to traditional, paid content streaming services and we are very happy to partner with the service to give anime fans a whole new way to access some of the genre’s most legendary titles,” says Brian Ige, VIZ Media Vice President of Animation.
For additional information on these as well as other anime and manga titles distributed and published by VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.
About Tubi TV
Tubi TV is freeing TV with the best streaming entertainment experience for movies and TV shows. We are “free” as in we are making a promise to you, the viewer, that we will never ask you to pay to watch great entertainment. We’re also “freeing” TV by finding premium movies and TV shows, which you would usually have to pay to watch on other services, and making them freely available with no hidden hassles. With an immersive selection of categories and titles (including those not on Netflix) that we update weekly, Tubi TV is the largest provider of free and legal movies and TV shows on mobile devices, Connected TVs, streaming set-top-boxes, and the web.
Tubi TV is powered by adRise, the leading content distribution and monetization platform for premium content owners, such as MGM, Lionsgate, and Paramount. Find out more at TubiTV.com or download our app on Apple TV, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Samsung.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Established in 1986, VIZ Media is the premier company in the field of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing. Along with its popular digital magazine WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, DRAGON BALL, SAILOR MOON, and POKÉMON, VIZ Media offers an extensive library of titles and original content in a wide variety of book and video formats, as well as through official licensed merchandise. Owned by three of Japan's largest publishing and entertainment companies, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media is dedicated to bringing the best titles for English-speaking audiences worldwide.
Learn more about VIZ Media and its properties at www.VIZ.com.
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San Francisco, CA – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, has announced a partnership with Tubi TV, a leading provider of free movies and TV shows, to stream some of VIZ Media’s most popular anime titles to audiences across North America, including to legions of viewers based in Canada.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Tubi TV is the largest North American ad-supported provider of free streamed movies and TV shows. In addition to its own website (Tubitv.com), the Tubi TV app is accessible from platforms including Apple TV, Xbox One & Xbox 360, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung televisions – in addition to iOS and Android mobile devices.
All VIZ Media content on Tubi TV is presented with original Japanese dialogue and features English subtitles. DEATH NOTE (37 episodes) as well as the full original NARUTO series (220 episodes) are now available for streaming in the U.S. and Canada on Tubi TV. In addition, fans in Canada may now catch the entire classic SAILOR MOON series (200 episodes) and Seasons 1 and 2 of SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL (26 episodes). Additional VIZ Media anime series and episodes will be added regularly. Please visit Tubitv.com or download the app for more details and to access the free episodes.
“VIZ Media has incredibly popular anime series and we are thrilled to stream these blockbusters for free to our passionate anime fans,” said Farhad Massoudi, CEO, Tubi TV.
“Tubi TV has built an extremely robust and interoperable platform that offers audiences a compelling alternative to traditional, paid content streaming services and we are very happy to partner with the service to give anime fans a whole new way to access some of the genre’s most legendary titles,” says Brian Ige, VIZ Media Vice President of Animation.
For additional information on these as well as other anime and manga titles distributed and published by VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.
About Tubi TV
Tubi TV is freeing TV with the best streaming entertainment experience for movies and TV shows. We are “free” as in we are making a promise to you, the viewer, that we will never ask you to pay to watch great entertainment. We’re also “freeing” TV by finding premium movies and TV shows, which you would usually have to pay to watch on other services, and making them freely available with no hidden hassles. With an immersive selection of categories and titles (including those not on Netflix) that we update weekly, Tubi TV is the largest provider of free and legal movies and TV shows on mobile devices, Connected TVs, streaming set-top-boxes, and the web.
Tubi TV is powered by adRise, the leading content distribution and monetization platform for premium content owners, such as MGM, Lionsgate, and Paramount. Find out more at TubiTV.com or download our app on Apple TV, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Samsung.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Established in 1986, VIZ Media is the premier company in the field of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing. Along with its popular digital magazine WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, DRAGON BALL, SAILOR MOON, and POKÉMON, VIZ Media offers an extensive library of titles and original content in a wide variety of book and video formats, as well as through official licensed merchandise. Owned by three of Japan's largest publishing and entertainment companies, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media is dedicated to bringing the best titles for English-speaking audiences worldwide.
Learn more about VIZ Media and its properties at www.VIZ.com.
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
Review: Halle Berry Stellar in "Frankie & Alice"
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
Frankie & Alice (2010)
Running time: 101 minutes (1 hour, 41 minutes)
MPAA – R for some sexual content, language and drug use
DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Sax
WRITERS: Cheryl Edwards, Marko King, Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse; from a story by Oscar Janiger, Philip Goldberg, and Cheryl Edwards
PRODUCERS: Halle Berry, Vincent Cirrincione, Simon DeKaric, and Hassain Zaidi
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Newton Thomas Sigel (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: David M. Richardson
COMPOSER: Andrew Lockington
Golden Globe nominee
DRAMA/BIOPIC
Starring: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgard, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson, Alex Diakun, Joanne Baron, Brian Markison, Matt Frewer, and Scott Lyster
Frankie & Alice is a 2010 Canadian drama from director Geoffrey Sax and starring Halle Berry. The film received a limited theatrical release in 2010 in order to qualify for the 2010-2011 movie awards season. It did receive a wider theatrical release in August 2014. Frankie & Alice follows a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder and the psychotherapist who tries to help her.
Frankie & Alice opens in Los Angeles in 1973 where we meet Francine “Frankie” Lucinda Murdoch (Halle Berry), an African-American female go-go dancer. During an attempted sexual encounter, Frankie experiences a personality change that throws her life into chaos. Eventually her manic episodes land her in a mental care facility. Frankie meets Dr. Joseph “Joe” Oswald (Stellan Skarsgard), a.k.a. “Dr. Oz.”
Dr. Oswald believes that Frankie suffers from multiple personality disorder (now known as “dissociative identity disorder”). He identifies that Frankie has two other personalities: “Genius,” a seven-year-old child; and “Alice,” a Southern racist White woman. “Genius” and “Alice” are aware of each other, but Alice wants control of Frankie. In order to discover a way to help Frankie, Dr. Oswald must uncover a terrible trauma in Frankie's past that is either forgotten or kept secret.
Halle Berry had apparently been trying to get Frankie & Alice produced since the 1990s. Serious movement began on the film around 2004, apparently, but it was another six years before the film saw even a limited theatrical release. That was reportedly almost two years after the film had finished production. That is a shame really, because Frankie & Alice is a good movie. In this film, Berry gives one of the best performances of her career, one that I think is on par with her Oscar-winning turn in 2001's Monster's Ball.
As a film, Frankie & Alice is not a fancy, big, prestige biographical drama in the tradition of such films as A Beautiful Mind and The King's Speech. However, it is not quite one of those infamous disease-of-the-week made-for-television movies. In some ways, the film is similar to a two-actor stage drama, focusing on the characters that Berry and Stellan Skarsgard portray. Although he delivers a nice performance, Dr. Oswald is not close to Skarsgard's best work, and that is mainly because the character is not that well developed. The movie gives us glimpses into him, but that is as far as that goes.
Watching the film and trying to follow its story, it is easy to see that eight different writers worked on it over the course of many years. Frankie & Alice does have a patchwork feel to it. There are so many other good characters with small roles, like Frankie's mother, Edna (Phylicia Rashad), and sister, Maxine (Chandra Wilson). These two characters could have enriched both their stories and Frankie's.
Still, Halle Berry, of whom I am a huge fan, is so good here. She carries this movie in a way that engages the audience with Frankie, but also with the characters, “Genius” and “Alice.” Quite frankly, Berry should get credit for giving three excellent performances. Her turn as the troubled and brittle “Alice” is superb; she sells that character as genuine, but she makes you believe that “Alice” could be a menace to Frankie. Her turn as the sweet, but fearful “Genius” is heartbreaking and borders on brilliant.
Berry does not give one of those showy performances that cries out for an Oscar nomination, which she deserved, but did not get for this film. She honestly plies her craft as an actor, and delivers a brilliant performance as an artist. In fact, whatever faults it has, Frankie & Alice is still a quality drama because Berry is at its center delivering stellar work.
7 of 10
B+
Saturday, December 19, 2015
NOTES:
2011 Golden Globes, USA: 1 nomination: “Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama” (Halle Berry)
2011 Image Awards: 2 wins: “Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture” (Halle Berry) and “Outstanding Independent Motion Picture;” 2 nominations: “Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture-Theatrical or Television” (Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Cheryl Edwards, Joe Shrapnel, Marko King, and Anna Waterhouse), and “Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture-Theatrical or Television” (Geoffrey Sax)
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Image Comics Gives "We Stand on Guard" the Deluxe Treatment
WE STAND ON GUARD ATTACKS THIS MAY
“Intriguing, emotional and engaging.” —Paste Magazine
New York Times bestselling and multiple Eisner-award winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS, PRIVATE EYE) and legendary storyboard artist Steve Skroce’s WE STAND ON GUARD’s jaw-dropping military thriller will be collected for the first time into a deluxe hardcover edition—which will include original sketches and other never-before-seen extras—available this May.
Set in a future where a heroic band of Canadian civilians must defend their homeland from invasion by the United States, WE STAND ON GUARD launched to critical acclaim and blends the episodic up-tempo pacing of Y the Last Man with an invasion story full of suspense and action.
WE STAND ON GUARD Deluxe Hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-63215-702-7) collects the complete series, issues 1-6, and hits comic book stores on Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 and bookstores on Tuesday, May 10th, 2016, and will be available for $24.99.
It can be ordered by retailers from Diamond Book Distributors with Diamond code FEB160645. It can be preordered now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Indigo.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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“Intriguing, emotional and engaging.” —Paste Magazine
New York Times bestselling and multiple Eisner-award winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS, PRIVATE EYE) and legendary storyboard artist Steve Skroce’s WE STAND ON GUARD’s jaw-dropping military thriller will be collected for the first time into a deluxe hardcover edition—which will include original sketches and other never-before-seen extras—available this May.
Set in a future where a heroic band of Canadian civilians must defend their homeland from invasion by the United States, WE STAND ON GUARD launched to critical acclaim and blends the episodic up-tempo pacing of Y the Last Man with an invasion story full of suspense and action.
WE STAND ON GUARD Deluxe Hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-63215-702-7) collects the complete series, issues 1-6, and hits comic book stores on Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 and bookstores on Tuesday, May 10th, 2016, and will be available for $24.99.
It can be ordered by retailers from Diamond Book Distributors with Diamond code FEB160645. It can be preordered now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Indigo.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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Sunday, March 6, 2016
2016 Canadian Screen Award Nominations - Complete Film Category List
The Canadian Screen Awards honor achievements in Canadian film and television production, as well as achievements in digital media. In 2012, the formerly separate Genie Awards (for film) and Gemini Awards (for television) merged into a single ceremony, the Canadian Screen Awards.
The Canadian Screen Awards are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. This is a national, no-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media. The Academy describes itself as a “Unifying industry professionals across Canada, the Academy is a vital force representing all screen – based industries.”
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television Awards will be handed out on Sunday, March 13, 2016. The nominations list below is only for the film categories, excluding the television, digital media, and special award categories (except for two).
2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominations:
Best Motion Picture / Meilleur film
Brooklyn – Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Corbo – Félize Frappier
The Demons | Les Démons – Philippe Lesage
Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira – Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
The Forbidden Room – Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso, Phyllis Laing, David Christensen, Guy Maddin
My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre – Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers – Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
Remember – Robert Lantos, Ari Lantos
Room – David Gross, Ed Guiney
Sleeping Giant – Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Marc Swenker, James Vandewater, Aaron Yeger
Achievement in Direction | Meilleure réalisation
Philippe Lesage – The Demons | Les Démons
Maxime Giroux – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Anne Émond – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Andrew Cividino – Sleeping Giant
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Interprétation masculine dans un premier rôle
Maxim Gaudette – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Christopher Plummer – Remember
Rossif Sutherland – River
Jacob Tremblay – Room
Jasmin Geljo – The Waiting Room
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Interprétation masculine dans un rôle de soutien
Waris Ahluwalia – Beeba Boys
Tony Nardi – Corbo
Irdens Exantus – My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
Nick Serino – Sleeping Giant
Patrick Hivon – Ville-Marie
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Interprétation féminine dans un premier rôle
Leah Goldstein – Diamond Tongues
Hadas Yaron – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Karelle Tremblay – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Céline Bonnier – The Passion of Augustine | La Passion d’Augustine
Brie Larson – Room
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Interprétation féminine dans un rôle de soutien
Balinder Johal – Beeba Boys
Mylène Mackay – Endorphine
Christine Beaulieu – The Mirage | Le Mirage
Joan Allen – Room
Cynthia Ashperger – The Waiting Room
Achievement in Art Direction / Production Design | Meilleure direction artistique
Louisa Schabas – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Galen Johnson, Brigitte Henry, Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski – The Forbidden Room
Ken Rempel, Kathy McCoy, Erik Gerlund – Forsaken
Arv Greywal, Steve Shewchuk, Larry Spittle – Hyena Road
Ethan Tobman, Mary Kirkland – Room
Achievement in Cinematography | Meilleures images
Yves Bélanger – Brooklyn
Sara Mishara – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Rene Ohashi – Forsaken
Karim Hussain – Hyena Road
Danny Cohen – Room
Achievement in Costume Design | Meilleurs costumes
Joanne Hansen – Beeba Boys
Judy Jonker – Corbo
Christopher Hargadon – Forsaken
Katelynd Johnston – Hyena Road
Arabella Bushnell – Songs She Wrote About People She Knows
Achievement in Editing | Meilleur montage
Renee Beaulieu – Adrien | Le Garagiste
David Wharnsby – Hyena Road
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Nathan Nugent – Room
James Vandewater – Sleeping Giant
Achievement in Make-Up | Meilleurs maquillages
Catherine Beaudoin – Anna
David Scott, Trina Brink – Backcountry
Gail Kennedy, Rochelle Parrent, Jojo Preece – Forsaken
Jayne Dancose, Debra Johnson, Charles Porlier – Hyena Road
Sid Armour – Room
Achievement in Music – Original Score | Meilleure musique originale
Michel Corriveau – Anna
Michael Brook – Brooklyn
François Dompierre – The Passion of Augustine | La Passion d’Augustine
Stephen Rennicks – Room
Chris Gestrin – Songs She Wrote About People She Knows
Achievement in Music – Original Song | Meilleure chanson originale
Peter Katz, Karen Kowsowski – 88 – “Where the Light Used to Be”
Martin Léon – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers – “Red and Yellow”
Noah Reid – People Hold On – “People Hold On”
Jenny Salgado – Scratch – A Hip-opera | Scratch – Un Hip-Opéra – “C’est aujourd’hui que je sors”
Kris Elgstrand – Songs She Wrote About People She Knows – “Asshole Dave”
Achievement in Overall Sound | Meilleur son d’ensemble
Sylvain Brassard, Arnaud Têtu, Pascal Van Strydonck, Olivier Léger – Adrien | Le Garagiste
Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Daniel Bisson, Jean-Charles Desjardins, François Grenon – Endorphine
Lou Solakofski, Ian Rankin, Joe Morrow, Russ Dyck, Graham Rogers, James Bastable, André Azoubel, Don White, Jack Hereen – Hyena Road
Lou Solakofski, Kirk Lynds, Kristian Bailey, Don White, Jack Heeren,
Rob Coxford, Peter Caristedt – Into The Forest
Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Daniel Bisson, Claude La Haye, Benoît Leduc – My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
Achievement in Sound Editing | Meilleur montage sonore
Benoît Dame – Adrien | Le Garagiste
Sylvain Bellemare, Claire Pochon, Jérôme Décarie, François Senneville – Endorphine
Mark Gingras, Jill Purdy – Forsaken
John Gurdebeke, David Rose – The Forbidden Room
Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Martin Gwynn Jones, Barry Gilmore, David Evans, Dave Rose, Brennan Mercer, Ed Douglas,
Kevin Banks, Goro Koyama, Andy Malcolm – Hyena Road
Achievement in Visual Effects | Meilleurs effets visuels
Darren Wall – Borealis
Alain Lachance, Eve Brunet – Endorphine
Phil Jones, Sarah Wormsbecher, Eric Doiron, Anthony DeChellis, Lon Molnar, Geoff D.E. Scott, Nathan Larouche, Mark Fordham – Hyena Road
Eric Doiron, Sarah Wormsbecher, Nathan Larouche, Anthony DeChellis, Geoff D.E. Scott, Jason Snea, Joel Chambers, Kaiser Thomas, Lon Molnar, Rob Kennedy – Remember
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Paulo Barcellos, Adams Carvalho, George Schall, Luis Dourado, Emerson Bonadias, Diego Moreira, Luciano Santa Barbara, Thiago Sá, Luis Dreyfuss – Zoom
Adapted Screenplay | Meilleure adaptation
Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout – Eadweard
Emma Donoghue – Room
Wiebke von Carolsfeld – The Saver
Original Screenplay | Meilleur scénario
André Turpin – Endorphine
Philippe Falardeau – My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
Anne Émond – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Benjamin August – Remember
Matt Hansen – Zoom
Academy Legacy Award
EUGENE LEVY AND CATHERINE O'HARA
Lifetime Achievement Award
MARTIN SHORT
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The Canadian Screen Awards are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. This is a national, no-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media. The Academy describes itself as a “Unifying industry professionals across Canada, the Academy is a vital force representing all screen – based industries.”
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television Awards will be handed out on Sunday, March 13, 2016. The nominations list below is only for the film categories, excluding the television, digital media, and special award categories (except for two).
2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominations:
Best Motion Picture / Meilleur film
Brooklyn – Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Corbo – Félize Frappier
The Demons | Les Démons – Philippe Lesage
Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira – Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
The Forbidden Room – Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso, Phyllis Laing, David Christensen, Guy Maddin
My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre – Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers – Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
Remember – Robert Lantos, Ari Lantos
Room – David Gross, Ed Guiney
Sleeping Giant – Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Marc Swenker, James Vandewater, Aaron Yeger
Achievement in Direction | Meilleure réalisation
Philippe Lesage – The Demons | Les Démons
Maxime Giroux – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Anne Émond – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Andrew Cividino – Sleeping Giant
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Interprétation masculine dans un premier rôle
Maxim Gaudette – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Christopher Plummer – Remember
Rossif Sutherland – River
Jacob Tremblay – Room
Jasmin Geljo – The Waiting Room
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Interprétation masculine dans un rôle de soutien
Waris Ahluwalia – Beeba Boys
Tony Nardi – Corbo
Irdens Exantus – My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
Nick Serino – Sleeping Giant
Patrick Hivon – Ville-Marie
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Interprétation féminine dans un premier rôle
Leah Goldstein – Diamond Tongues
Hadas Yaron – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Karelle Tremblay – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Céline Bonnier – The Passion of Augustine | La Passion d’Augustine
Brie Larson – Room
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Interprétation féminine dans un rôle de soutien
Balinder Johal – Beeba Boys
Mylène Mackay – Endorphine
Christine Beaulieu – The Mirage | Le Mirage
Joan Allen – Room
Cynthia Ashperger – The Waiting Room
Achievement in Art Direction / Production Design | Meilleure direction artistique
Louisa Schabas – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Galen Johnson, Brigitte Henry, Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski – The Forbidden Room
Ken Rempel, Kathy McCoy, Erik Gerlund – Forsaken
Arv Greywal, Steve Shewchuk, Larry Spittle – Hyena Road
Ethan Tobman, Mary Kirkland – Room
Achievement in Cinematography | Meilleures images
Yves Bélanger – Brooklyn
Sara Mishara – Felix and Meira | Félix et Meira
Rene Ohashi – Forsaken
Karim Hussain – Hyena Road
Danny Cohen – Room
Achievement in Costume Design | Meilleurs costumes
Joanne Hansen – Beeba Boys
Judy Jonker – Corbo
Christopher Hargadon – Forsaken
Katelynd Johnston – Hyena Road
Arabella Bushnell – Songs She Wrote About People She Knows
Achievement in Editing | Meilleur montage
Renee Beaulieu – Adrien | Le Garagiste
David Wharnsby – Hyena Road
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Nathan Nugent – Room
James Vandewater – Sleeping Giant
Achievement in Make-Up | Meilleurs maquillages
Catherine Beaudoin – Anna
David Scott, Trina Brink – Backcountry
Gail Kennedy, Rochelle Parrent, Jojo Preece – Forsaken
Jayne Dancose, Debra Johnson, Charles Porlier – Hyena Road
Sid Armour – Room
Achievement in Music – Original Score | Meilleure musique originale
Michel Corriveau – Anna
Michael Brook – Brooklyn
François Dompierre – The Passion of Augustine | La Passion d’Augustine
Stephen Rennicks – Room
Chris Gestrin – Songs She Wrote About People She Knows
Achievement in Music – Original Song | Meilleure chanson originale
Peter Katz, Karen Kowsowski – 88 – “Where the Light Used to Be”
Martin Léon – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers – “Red and Yellow”
Noah Reid – People Hold On – “People Hold On”
Jenny Salgado – Scratch – A Hip-opera | Scratch – Un Hip-Opéra – “C’est aujourd’hui que je sors”
Kris Elgstrand – Songs She Wrote About People She Knows – “Asshole Dave”
Achievement in Overall Sound | Meilleur son d’ensemble
Sylvain Brassard, Arnaud Têtu, Pascal Van Strydonck, Olivier Léger – Adrien | Le Garagiste
Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Daniel Bisson, Jean-Charles Desjardins, François Grenon – Endorphine
Lou Solakofski, Ian Rankin, Joe Morrow, Russ Dyck, Graham Rogers, James Bastable, André Azoubel, Don White, Jack Hereen – Hyena Road
Lou Solakofski, Kirk Lynds, Kristian Bailey, Don White, Jack Heeren,
Rob Coxford, Peter Caristedt – Into The Forest
Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Daniel Bisson, Claude La Haye, Benoît Leduc – My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
Achievement in Sound Editing | Meilleur montage sonore
Benoît Dame – Adrien | Le Garagiste
Sylvain Bellemare, Claire Pochon, Jérôme Décarie, François Senneville – Endorphine
Mark Gingras, Jill Purdy – Forsaken
John Gurdebeke, David Rose – The Forbidden Room
Jane Tattersall, David McCallum, Martin Gwynn Jones, Barry Gilmore, David Evans, Dave Rose, Brennan Mercer, Ed Douglas,
Kevin Banks, Goro Koyama, Andy Malcolm – Hyena Road
Achievement in Visual Effects | Meilleurs effets visuels
Darren Wall – Borealis
Alain Lachance, Eve Brunet – Endorphine
Phil Jones, Sarah Wormsbecher, Eric Doiron, Anthony DeChellis, Lon Molnar, Geoff D.E. Scott, Nathan Larouche, Mark Fordham – Hyena Road
Eric Doiron, Sarah Wormsbecher, Nathan Larouche, Anthony DeChellis, Geoff D.E. Scott, Jason Snea, Joel Chambers, Kaiser Thomas, Lon Molnar, Rob Kennedy – Remember
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Paulo Barcellos, Adams Carvalho, George Schall, Luis Dourado, Emerson Bonadias, Diego Moreira, Luciano Santa Barbara, Thiago Sá, Luis Dreyfuss – Zoom
Adapted Screenplay | Meilleure adaptation
Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout – Eadweard
Emma Donoghue – Room
Wiebke von Carolsfeld – The Saver
Original Screenplay | Meilleur scénario
André Turpin – Endorphine
Philippe Falardeau – My Internship in Canada | Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
Anne Émond – Our Loved Ones | Les êtres chers
Benjamin August – Remember
Matt Hansen – Zoom
Academy Legacy Award
EUGENE LEVY AND CATHERINE O'HARA
Lifetime Achievement Award
MARTIN SHORT
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Monday, December 7, 2015
"Ex Machina" Dominates 2015 British Independent Film Awards
In 1998, Raindance created the British Independent Film Awards to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking. The awards also honor new talent and promote British films and filmmaking to a wider public.
The 2015/18th Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced in London. The winners were announced in a ceremony on Sunday, December 6, 2015 at Old Billingsgate. The event was live streamed on www.bifa.film.
The 2015 Moët British Independent Film Awards winners:
Best British Independent Film sponsored by Moët & Chandon
EX MACHINA - Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Alex Garland
Best Director
EX MACHINA - Alex Garland
Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films
EX MACHINA - Alex Garland
Best Actress sponsored by MAC
SAOIRSE RONAN - Brooklyn
Best Actor sponsored by Movado
TOM HARDY - Legend
Best Supporting Actress
OLIVIA COLMAN - The Lobster
Best Supporting Actor
BRENDAN GLEESON - Suffragette
Most Promising Newcomer sponsored by The London Edition
MIA GOTH - The Survivalist
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) sponsored by 3 Mills Studios
THE SURVIVALIST - Stephen Fingleton
The Discovery Award sponsored by Raindance
ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING - Jeanie Finlay
Best Documentary
DARK HORSE: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF DREAM ALLIANCE - Judith Dawson, Louise Osmond
Producer of the Year
PAUL KATIS, ANDREW DE LOTBINIERE - Kajaki: The True Story
Outstanding Achievement in Craft
ANDREW WHITEHURST - Visual Effects, Ex Machina
Best British Short Film:
EDMOND - Emilie Jouffroy, Nina Gantz
Best International Independent Film:
ROOM (Canada, Ireland) - Ed Guiney, David Gross, Emma Donoghue, Lenny Abrahamson
The Variety Award:
Kate Winslet
(The Variety Award recognises a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK.)
The Richard Harris Award:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
(The Richard Harris Award was introduced in 2002 in honour of Richard Harris and recognizes outstanding contribution to British film by an actor.)
Special Jury Prize:
Chris Collins
(A BFI executive who died late last year.)
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The 2015/18th Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced in London. The winners were announced in a ceremony on Sunday, December 6, 2015 at Old Billingsgate. The event was live streamed on www.bifa.film.
The 2015 Moët British Independent Film Awards winners:
Best British Independent Film sponsored by Moët & Chandon
EX MACHINA - Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Alex Garland
Best Director
EX MACHINA - Alex Garland
Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films
EX MACHINA - Alex Garland
Best Actress sponsored by MAC
SAOIRSE RONAN - Brooklyn
Best Actor sponsored by Movado
TOM HARDY - Legend
Best Supporting Actress
OLIVIA COLMAN - The Lobster
Best Supporting Actor
BRENDAN GLEESON - Suffragette
Most Promising Newcomer sponsored by The London Edition
MIA GOTH - The Survivalist
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) sponsored by 3 Mills Studios
THE SURVIVALIST - Stephen Fingleton
The Discovery Award sponsored by Raindance
ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING - Jeanie Finlay
Best Documentary
DARK HORSE: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF DREAM ALLIANCE - Judith Dawson, Louise Osmond
Producer of the Year
PAUL KATIS, ANDREW DE LOTBINIERE - Kajaki: The True Story
Outstanding Achievement in Craft
ANDREW WHITEHURST - Visual Effects, Ex Machina
Best British Short Film:
EDMOND - Emilie Jouffroy, Nina Gantz
Best International Independent Film:
ROOM (Canada, Ireland) - Ed Guiney, David Gross, Emma Donoghue, Lenny Abrahamson
The Variety Award:
Kate Winslet
(The Variety Award recognises a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK.)
The Richard Harris Award:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
(The Richard Harris Award was introduced in 2002 in honour of Richard Harris and recognizes outstanding contribution to British film by an actor.)
Special Jury Prize:
Chris Collins
(A BFI executive who died late last year.)
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Saturday, November 21, 2015
10 Entries Vie for 5 "Best Animated Short" Nominations at 88th Oscars
10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2015 OSCAR RACE
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards®. Sixty pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso),” Gabriel Osorio, director, and Pato Escala, producer (Punkrobot Animation Studio)
“Carface (Autos Portraits),” Claude Cloutier, director (National Film Board of Canada)
“If I Was God…,” Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada)
“Love in the Time of March Madness,” Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano, directors (High Hip Productions and KAPWA Studioworks)
“My Home,” Phuong Mai Nguyen, director (Papy3D Productions)
“An Object at Rest,” Seth Boyden, director (California Institute of the Arts)
“Prologue,” Richard Williams, director, and Imogen Sutton, producer (Animation Masterclass)
“Sanjay’s Super Team,” Sanjay Patel, director, and Nicole Grindle, producer (Pixar Animation Studios)
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos,” Konstantin Bronzit, director (Melnitsa Animation Studio)
“World of Tomorrow,” Don Hertzfeldt, director (Bitter Films)
Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 14, 2016, at 5:30 a.m. PT at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards®. Sixty pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso),” Gabriel Osorio, director, and Pato Escala, producer (Punkrobot Animation Studio)
“Carface (Autos Portraits),” Claude Cloutier, director (National Film Board of Canada)
“If I Was God…,” Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada)
“Love in the Time of March Madness,” Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano, directors (High Hip Productions and KAPWA Studioworks)
“My Home,” Phuong Mai Nguyen, director (Papy3D Productions)
“An Object at Rest,” Seth Boyden, director (California Institute of the Arts)
“Prologue,” Richard Williams, director, and Imogen Sutton, producer (Animation Masterclass)
“Sanjay’s Super Team,” Sanjay Patel, director, and Nicole Grindle, producer (Pixar Animation Studios)
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos,” Konstantin Bronzit, director (Melnitsa Animation Studio)
“World of Tomorrow,” Don Hertzfeldt, director (Bitter Films)
Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 14, 2016, at 5:30 a.m. PT at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
"Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" to Screen in 50 Canadian Theaters
FUNimation To Screen "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" In More Than 50 Theaters Across Canada
Limited Theatrical Release Set for August 6, 8 and 10 in Canadian Theaters
FLOWER MOUND, Texas /CNW/ -- FUNimation® Entertainment announced today that the limited theatrical release of "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" will screen on August 6, 8 and 10, 2015 in more than 50 theaters across Canada in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" opened on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 in the U.S. and will screen in more than 1,000 theaters across both countries. The movie is an event style theatrical release and includes a special 15-minute pre-show.
"Canada is home to countless anime fans and a growing market for FUNimation," said Gen Fukunaga, CEO and founder of FUNimation. "We're pleased to bring Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' to so many cities and provinces across the country - a significant increase over our number of theaters there for last year's Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
."
FUNimation produced the special 15-minute, Dragon Ball Z themed pre-show to create a unique experience for fans that can only be found in theaters. The show includes exclusive cast interviews discussing Frieza's revival and his role in the Dragon Ball Z series. Fans will also be tested on their knowledge of the Dragon Ball Z franchise, with an interactive trivia show featuring the English cast and crew. Fans will be able to play along in real-time, using their mobile phone and the hashtag #DBZRF on Twitter. Winners will be picked from across Canada and the U.S. throughout the entire theatrical run.
"The response to Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' has been incredible across both Canada and the U.S.," said Mike DuBoise, COO of FUNimation. "With just three screening days available in Canada, I encourage fans to purchase tickets as early as possible to ensure they don't miss the opportunity to experience the movie in theaters; as well as join others in our interactive trivia contest as part of the special pre-show."
"Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" is the 19(th) film in the Dragon Ball franchise. The story is the follow up to "Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods" and showcases the return of Frieza - one of the greatest villains in all of anime. The new film, which promises even more action than last year's, will screen from August 4 - 12, 2015 in select theaters across Canada and the U.S. Tickets are available for advance purchase at www.dragonballz.com. The final theatrical trailer for the movie, which was released at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, can be viewed here.
For more information on "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" or to purchase tickets, please visit www.dragonballz.com. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dragonballz & www.facebook.com/funimation , and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/funimation.
About FUNimation Entertainment
FUNimation Entertainment is the leading anime company in North America. FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands. They manage a full spectrum of rights for most of their brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, Internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.
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Limited Theatrical Release Set for August 6, 8 and 10 in Canadian Theaters
FLOWER MOUND, Texas /CNW/ -- FUNimation® Entertainment announced today that the limited theatrical release of "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" will screen on August 6, 8 and 10, 2015 in more than 50 theaters across Canada in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" opened on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 in the U.S. and will screen in more than 1,000 theaters across both countries. The movie is an event style theatrical release and includes a special 15-minute pre-show.
"Canada is home to countless anime fans and a growing market for FUNimation," said Gen Fukunaga, CEO and founder of FUNimation. "We're pleased to bring Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' to so many cities and provinces across the country - a significant increase over our number of theaters there for last year's Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
."FUNimation produced the special 15-minute, Dragon Ball Z themed pre-show to create a unique experience for fans that can only be found in theaters. The show includes exclusive cast interviews discussing Frieza's revival and his role in the Dragon Ball Z series. Fans will also be tested on their knowledge of the Dragon Ball Z franchise, with an interactive trivia show featuring the English cast and crew. Fans will be able to play along in real-time, using their mobile phone and the hashtag #DBZRF on Twitter. Winners will be picked from across Canada and the U.S. throughout the entire theatrical run.
"The response to Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' has been incredible across both Canada and the U.S.," said Mike DuBoise, COO of FUNimation. "With just three screening days available in Canada, I encourage fans to purchase tickets as early as possible to ensure they don't miss the opportunity to experience the movie in theaters; as well as join others in our interactive trivia contest as part of the special pre-show."
"Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" is the 19(th) film in the Dragon Ball franchise. The story is the follow up to "Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods" and showcases the return of Frieza - one of the greatest villains in all of anime. The new film, which promises even more action than last year's, will screen from August 4 - 12, 2015 in select theaters across Canada and the U.S. Tickets are available for advance purchase at www.dragonballz.com. The final theatrical trailer for the movie, which was released at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, can be viewed here.
For more information on "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'" or to purchase tickets, please visit www.dragonballz.com. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dragonballz & www.facebook.com/funimation , and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/funimation.
About FUNimation Entertainment
FUNimation Entertainment is the leading anime company in North America. FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands. They manage a full spectrum of rights for most of their brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, Internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.
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Monday, July 27, 2015
Nelvana Developing "Hotel Transylvania" as an Animated Series
Nelvana and Sony Pictures Animation check in together on Hotel Transylvania Animated TV Series
(Toronto, Canada) Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana, one of the world’s leading international producers and distributors of children’s animated content, today announced that it is developing an exciting new animated TV series based on the blockbuster feature film, Hotel Transylvania from Sony Pictures Animation.
Nelvana and Sony Pictures Animation will partner to bring the hit feature film to the small screen. Focusing on the teenage years of Dracula’s daughter Mavis and her friends in brand new adventures, the animated monster comedy television series will be developed and produced by Nelvana Studio in Toronto and is slated to launch on air in early 2017.
"We’re excited to be entering into a new relationship with Sony Pictures Animation to extend the world of Hotel Transylvania into a new TV series,” said Colin Bohm, Vice President, Head of Corus Kids. “The hilarious characters and clever premise of Hotel Transylvania set the stage for endless story possibilities."
Kristine Belson, President of Sony Pictures Animation commented: "Audiences have embraced the world and characters of Hotel Transylvania, so we are thrilled to be partnering with Nelvana to take them on new adventures, expanding on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the world-famous monster five star resort!"
Rick Mischel, executive producer at Sony Pictures Animation added, "Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana is a perfect creative partner and we look forward to sharing more Hotel Transylvania monster laughs with fans of all ages."
The theatrical release of Hotel Transylvania, which premiered in Fall 2012, set a record as the highest-grossing September opening ever at the U.S. box office. The film introduced Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world’s most famous monsters — Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more — to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’ 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem, but his world could come crashing down when a human stumbles on the hotel for the first time and takes a shine to Mavis.
Drac’s pack is back this Fall for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Hotel Transylvania 2, the theatrical sequel to Sony Pictures Animation’s comedy hit, scheduled to be released in North America on September 25, 2015. Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania. Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – "Vampa" Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. But little do they know that Drac’s grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – things are going to get batty!
Distribution for the Hotel Transylvania TV series will be handled by Sony Pictures Television in the U.S., while Nelvana Enterprises will distribute the series outside of the U.S. Sony Pictures Animation reserves global licenses for toys, games and publishing. For all other categories, Sony Pictures Animation reserves U.S. rights and Corus will hold international rights. Executive producing the series are Rick Mischel from Sony Pictures Animation and Colin Bohm and Irene Weibel from Nelvana.
About Nelvana
Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content. Nelvana produces a stable of award-winning and globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs. Nelvana’s content airs on Corus Entertainment’s kids channels in Canada and in over 160 countries around the world. The Nelvana library has well over 4,000 episodes of programming and has received over 70 major international program awards including Emmys® and Geminis. Visit the Nelvana website at nelvana.com.
About Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the 2012 monster hit comedy Hotel Transylvania, the hybrid live action/animated blockbusters The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, and the mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies—with the family comedies Hotel Transylvania 2 scheduled in September 2015 and the fully animated reboot Get Smurfy in March 2017. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas; and the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. In 2007, Surf's Up also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The division, whose first feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie franchise including the upcoming Open Season: Scared Silly in Spring 2016, turned 10 in 2012. Sony Pictures Animation is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group.
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• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SONYPicturesAnimation/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/sonyanimation
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• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SonyAnimation
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(Toronto, Canada) Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana, one of the world’s leading international producers and distributors of children’s animated content, today announced that it is developing an exciting new animated TV series based on the blockbuster feature film, Hotel Transylvania from Sony Pictures Animation.
Nelvana and Sony Pictures Animation will partner to bring the hit feature film to the small screen. Focusing on the teenage years of Dracula’s daughter Mavis and her friends in brand new adventures, the animated monster comedy television series will be developed and produced by Nelvana Studio in Toronto and is slated to launch on air in early 2017.
"We’re excited to be entering into a new relationship with Sony Pictures Animation to extend the world of Hotel Transylvania into a new TV series,” said Colin Bohm, Vice President, Head of Corus Kids. “The hilarious characters and clever premise of Hotel Transylvania set the stage for endless story possibilities."
Kristine Belson, President of Sony Pictures Animation commented: "Audiences have embraced the world and characters of Hotel Transylvania, so we are thrilled to be partnering with Nelvana to take them on new adventures, expanding on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the world-famous monster five star resort!"
Rick Mischel, executive producer at Sony Pictures Animation added, "Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana is a perfect creative partner and we look forward to sharing more Hotel Transylvania monster laughs with fans of all ages."
The theatrical release of Hotel Transylvania, which premiered in Fall 2012, set a record as the highest-grossing September opening ever at the U.S. box office. The film introduced Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world’s most famous monsters — Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more — to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’ 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem, but his world could come crashing down when a human stumbles on the hotel for the first time and takes a shine to Mavis.
Drac’s pack is back this Fall for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Hotel Transylvania 2, the theatrical sequel to Sony Pictures Animation’s comedy hit, scheduled to be released in North America on September 25, 2015. Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania. Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – "Vampa" Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. But little do they know that Drac’s grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – things are going to get batty!
Distribution for the Hotel Transylvania TV series will be handled by Sony Pictures Television in the U.S., while Nelvana Enterprises will distribute the series outside of the U.S. Sony Pictures Animation reserves global licenses for toys, games and publishing. For all other categories, Sony Pictures Animation reserves U.S. rights and Corus will hold international rights. Executive producing the series are Rick Mischel from Sony Pictures Animation and Colin Bohm and Irene Weibel from Nelvana.
About Nelvana
Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content. Nelvana produces a stable of award-winning and globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs. Nelvana’s content airs on Corus Entertainment’s kids channels in Canada and in over 160 countries around the world. The Nelvana library has well over 4,000 episodes of programming and has received over 70 major international program awards including Emmys® and Geminis. Visit the Nelvana website at nelvana.com.
About Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the 2012 monster hit comedy Hotel Transylvania, the hybrid live action/animated blockbusters The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, and the mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies—with the family comedies Hotel Transylvania 2 scheduled in September 2015 and the fully animated reboot Get Smurfy in March 2017. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas; and the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. In 2007, Surf's Up also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The division, whose first feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie franchise including the upcoming Open Season: Scared Silly in Spring 2016, turned 10 in 2012. Sony Pictures Animation is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group.
• Website: http://www.sonypicturesanimation.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SONYPicturesAnimation/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/sonyanimation
• Tumblr: http://sonyanimation.tumblr.com/
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SonyAnimation
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
"Hot Docs 2015" to Feature 8 Films from National Film Board of Canada
EIGHT NFB DOCUMENTARIES FEATURED AT HOT DOCS 2015
Includes a world premiere feature documentary and live preview of the closing chapter in the award-winning interactive project HIGHRISE
Toronto, Ontario – National Film Board of Canada - Mysteries and disappearances stranger than anything in a detective novel. Visionary one-of-a-kind figures in Canadian arts and politics. Feature documentaries and short works, and a live preview of the final installment in a legendary six-year digital project.
It’s all part of a rich National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presence at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where NFB works will be showcased this year from April 23 to May 3, 2015.
This year’s selection includes the world premiere of Sasha Snow’s feature documentary Hadwin’s Judgement, a spellbinding account of environmentalism, obsession and myth produced by True West Films and Passion Planet in association with the NFB, screening in the World Showcase program.
The festival is also hosting five Ontario premieres. Screening in the Canadian Spectrum program are Sophie Deraspe’s esperamos/NFB co-produced feature documentary The Amina Profile, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and Serge Giguère’s Productions du Rapide-Blanc/NFB co-production Finding Macpherson, a captivating 10-year look at an artist at work, which was named Best Feature-Length Documentary at Quebec’s Jutra Awards on March 15. Justin Simms and William D. MacGillivray’s Danny, a portrait of legendary Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, is one of just five titles chosen for Hot Docs’ Big Ideas program, while Mike Maryniuk’s eclectic multi-media film Home Cooked Music and Martin Bureau’s impressionistic Hell Runs on Gasoline! are featured in the Short Documentary program.
Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature-length Film at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, Luc Chamberland’s animated documentary Seth’s Dominion, about Canadian cartoonist Seth, is featured in the Next program, which explores creativity, pop culture and the arts.
As Hot Docs inaugurates its DocX program for innovative interactive documentaries, the festival will host a sneak preview of HIGHRISE: Universe Within with the one-night-only participatory live performance Universe Within, Live. Launching online later this year, HIGHRISE: Universe Within delves into the hidden digital lives of high-rise residents around the world and is the final iteration in the NFB’s many media, multi-year digital documentary project HIGHRISE, directed by Katerina Cizek, which has to date garnered a number of prestigious international honours: two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a World Press Photo Prize, two Canadian Screen Awards, and the first-ever IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling.
Quick Facts
Hadwin’s Judgement (86 min.)
· Inspired by the award-winning book The Golden Spruce, Hadwinʼs Judgement chronicles BC logging engineer and survivalist Grant Hadwin’s resolute struggle to reconcile what he regarded as an egregious affront—not just to the land, but to humanity as well. Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting on the last great temperate rainforest drove him to commit a desperate and illegal act. His crusade ends in a tragic mystery and prophetic warning.
· Hadwin’s Judgement is written and directed by Sasha Snow, and produced by Elizabeth Yake (True West Films), David Allen (Passion Planet), and David Christensen and Yves J. Ma (NFB).
The Amina Profile (Le profil Amina) (85 min.)
· Amina Arraf, a Syrian-American revolutionary who’s having an online affair with Montrealer Sandra Bagaria, launches the provocatively named blog A Gay Girl in Damascus. As the Syrian uprising gains momentum, the blog attracts a huge following―which increases when Amina’s reported abduction sparks an international outcry. But who is the real Amina? The Amina Profile is part love story, part international thriller, and a gripping chronicle of an unprecedented media and sociological hoax.
· The Amina Profile is written and directed by Sophie Deraspe, and produced by Isabelle Couture (esperamos) and Nathalie Cloutier (NFB). The film is distributed in Canada by Les Films du 3 mars.
Finding Macpherson (Le mystère Macpherson) (77 min.)
· Born of a friendship between Quebec singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc and Jamaican immigrant Frank Randolph Macpherson, the song “MacPherson” launched Martine Chartrand on a 10-year period of research to create her award-winning 2012 NFB paint-on-glass animated short MacPherson. Director Serge Giguère was with her from the start and chronicled her exceptional creative journey in Finding Macpherson.
· Finding Macpherson is written and directed by Serge Giguère, and produced by Nicole Hubert and Sylvie Van Brabant (Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc), and Colette Loumède (NFB).
Danny (84 min.)
· Through revealing back-room anecdotes and in-depth interviews, Danny tells the story of how former Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams battled Ottawa and Big Oil alike to ensure that the province received a fair share of its abundant natural resources, becoming the most popular—and controversial—Canadian politician of his era.
· Directed by Justin Simms and William D. MacGillivray, written by William D. MacGillivray, and produced for the NFB by Annette Clarke.
Home Cooked Music (10 min.)
· Is there anything more Canadian than a moose-antler electric guitar? Mike Maryniuk’s own eclectic creativity finds a fellow tinkerer in retired machinist Lorne Collie. The filmmaker stitches together weathered doc footage and hand-crafted animation, and the result is a folksy, one-of-a-kind portrait.
· Written and directed by Mike Maryniuk, and produced for the NFB by Brendon Sawatzky.
Hell Runs on Gasoline! (L’enfer marche au gaz!) (7 min.)
· A race at the Saint-Félicien racetrack goes from bone-jarring, ear-splitting infernal vision to an eerily silent cemetery of abandoned carcasses, in this short created through the first edition of the 5 Shorts Project (Projet 5 courts), an NFB short documentary initiative in partnership with regional artist-run centres and production centres in Quebec.
· Hell Runs on Gasoline! is written and directed by Martin Bureau, and produced by Nathalie Cloutier and Colette Loumède (NFB), and Catherine Benoit (Spirafilm).
Seth’s Dominion (42 min)
· Canadian cartoonist Seth, best known for comic books such as Palookaville, is one of the world’s great storytellers in the form. Luc Chamberland sheds light on his wry, articulate subject, mixing insightful biography with vivid animation in an artful fusion of filmmaking techniques that perfectly captures Seth’s manifold creative universe.
· Written and directed by Luc Chamberland, and produced for the NFB by Marcy Page and Gerry Flahive.
HIGHRISE: Universe Within, Live
· Launching the final iteration of the acclaimed HIGHRISE digital documentary project, Universe Within, Live takes audiences on a fascinating journey from Brooklyn to Mumbai to Guangzhou through the original portraits of highrise residents and their digital lives from around the globe. Mixing live and recorded images, documentaries and music, this performance is navigated by a live host in conversation with the audience.
· Directed by Katerina Cizek, performed by Misha Glouberman, and produced for the NFB by Gerry Flahive and David Oppenheim.
About the NFB
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creates groundbreaking interactive works, social-issue documentaries and auteur animation. The NFB has produced over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 14 Canadian Screen Awards, 8 Webbys, 12 Oscars and more than 90 Genies. To access acclaimed NFB content, visit NFB.ca or download its apps for smartphones, tablets and connected TV.
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Includes a world premiere feature documentary and live preview of the closing chapter in the award-winning interactive project HIGHRISE
Toronto, Ontario – National Film Board of Canada - Mysteries and disappearances stranger than anything in a detective novel. Visionary one-of-a-kind figures in Canadian arts and politics. Feature documentaries and short works, and a live preview of the final installment in a legendary six-year digital project.
It’s all part of a rich National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presence at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where NFB works will be showcased this year from April 23 to May 3, 2015.
This year’s selection includes the world premiere of Sasha Snow’s feature documentary Hadwin’s Judgement, a spellbinding account of environmentalism, obsession and myth produced by True West Films and Passion Planet in association with the NFB, screening in the World Showcase program.
The festival is also hosting five Ontario premieres. Screening in the Canadian Spectrum program are Sophie Deraspe’s esperamos/NFB co-produced feature documentary The Amina Profile, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and Serge Giguère’s Productions du Rapide-Blanc/NFB co-production Finding Macpherson, a captivating 10-year look at an artist at work, which was named Best Feature-Length Documentary at Quebec’s Jutra Awards on March 15. Justin Simms and William D. MacGillivray’s Danny, a portrait of legendary Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, is one of just five titles chosen for Hot Docs’ Big Ideas program, while Mike Maryniuk’s eclectic multi-media film Home Cooked Music and Martin Bureau’s impressionistic Hell Runs on Gasoline! are featured in the Short Documentary program.
Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature-length Film at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, Luc Chamberland’s animated documentary Seth’s Dominion, about Canadian cartoonist Seth, is featured in the Next program, which explores creativity, pop culture and the arts.
As Hot Docs inaugurates its DocX program for innovative interactive documentaries, the festival will host a sneak preview of HIGHRISE: Universe Within with the one-night-only participatory live performance Universe Within, Live. Launching online later this year, HIGHRISE: Universe Within delves into the hidden digital lives of high-rise residents around the world and is the final iteration in the NFB’s many media, multi-year digital documentary project HIGHRISE, directed by Katerina Cizek, which has to date garnered a number of prestigious international honours: two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a World Press Photo Prize, two Canadian Screen Awards, and the first-ever IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling.
Quick Facts
Hadwin’s Judgement (86 min.)
· Inspired by the award-winning book The Golden Spruce, Hadwinʼs Judgement chronicles BC logging engineer and survivalist Grant Hadwin’s resolute struggle to reconcile what he regarded as an egregious affront—not just to the land, but to humanity as well. Witnessing the devastation wrought by clear-cutting on the last great temperate rainforest drove him to commit a desperate and illegal act. His crusade ends in a tragic mystery and prophetic warning.
· Hadwin’s Judgement is written and directed by Sasha Snow, and produced by Elizabeth Yake (True West Films), David Allen (Passion Planet), and David Christensen and Yves J. Ma (NFB).
The Amina Profile (Le profil Amina) (85 min.)
· Amina Arraf, a Syrian-American revolutionary who’s having an online affair with Montrealer Sandra Bagaria, launches the provocatively named blog A Gay Girl in Damascus. As the Syrian uprising gains momentum, the blog attracts a huge following―which increases when Amina’s reported abduction sparks an international outcry. But who is the real Amina? The Amina Profile is part love story, part international thriller, and a gripping chronicle of an unprecedented media and sociological hoax.
· The Amina Profile is written and directed by Sophie Deraspe, and produced by Isabelle Couture (esperamos) and Nathalie Cloutier (NFB). The film is distributed in Canada by Les Films du 3 mars.
Finding Macpherson (Le mystère Macpherson) (77 min.)
· Born of a friendship between Quebec singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc and Jamaican immigrant Frank Randolph Macpherson, the song “MacPherson” launched Martine Chartrand on a 10-year period of research to create her award-winning 2012 NFB paint-on-glass animated short MacPherson. Director Serge Giguère was with her from the start and chronicled her exceptional creative journey in Finding Macpherson.
· Finding Macpherson is written and directed by Serge Giguère, and produced by Nicole Hubert and Sylvie Van Brabant (Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc), and Colette Loumède (NFB).
Danny (84 min.)
· Through revealing back-room anecdotes and in-depth interviews, Danny tells the story of how former Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams battled Ottawa and Big Oil alike to ensure that the province received a fair share of its abundant natural resources, becoming the most popular—and controversial—Canadian politician of his era.
· Directed by Justin Simms and William D. MacGillivray, written by William D. MacGillivray, and produced for the NFB by Annette Clarke.
Home Cooked Music (10 min.)
· Is there anything more Canadian than a moose-antler electric guitar? Mike Maryniuk’s own eclectic creativity finds a fellow tinkerer in retired machinist Lorne Collie. The filmmaker stitches together weathered doc footage and hand-crafted animation, and the result is a folksy, one-of-a-kind portrait.
· Written and directed by Mike Maryniuk, and produced for the NFB by Brendon Sawatzky.
Hell Runs on Gasoline! (L’enfer marche au gaz!) (7 min.)
· A race at the Saint-Félicien racetrack goes from bone-jarring, ear-splitting infernal vision to an eerily silent cemetery of abandoned carcasses, in this short created through the first edition of the 5 Shorts Project (Projet 5 courts), an NFB short documentary initiative in partnership with regional artist-run centres and production centres in Quebec.
· Hell Runs on Gasoline! is written and directed by Martin Bureau, and produced by Nathalie Cloutier and Colette Loumède (NFB), and Catherine Benoit (Spirafilm).
Seth’s Dominion (42 min)
· Canadian cartoonist Seth, best known for comic books such as Palookaville, is one of the world’s great storytellers in the form. Luc Chamberland sheds light on his wry, articulate subject, mixing insightful biography with vivid animation in an artful fusion of filmmaking techniques that perfectly captures Seth’s manifold creative universe.
· Written and directed by Luc Chamberland, and produced for the NFB by Marcy Page and Gerry Flahive.
HIGHRISE: Universe Within, Live
· Launching the final iteration of the acclaimed HIGHRISE digital documentary project, Universe Within, Live takes audiences on a fascinating journey from Brooklyn to Mumbai to Guangzhou through the original portraits of highrise residents and their digital lives from around the globe. Mixing live and recorded images, documentaries and music, this performance is navigated by a live host in conversation with the audience.
· Directed by Katerina Cizek, performed by Misha Glouberman, and produced for the NFB by Gerry Flahive and David Oppenheim.
About the NFB
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creates groundbreaking interactive works, social-issue documentaries and auteur animation. The NFB has produced over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 14 Canadian Screen Awards, 8 Webbys, 12 Oscars and more than 90 Genies. To access acclaimed NFB content, visit NFB.ca or download its apps for smartphones, tablets and connected TV.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
"Outcast" with Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen Opens February 6th, 2015
On February 6th, Entertainment One (eOne) is set to release Outcast in select theaters! The film packs an all-star cast, including Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen.
IN THEATERS: FEBRUARY 6, 2015
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Powell
WRITER: James Dormer
PRODUCERS:
Alan Zhang (Waiting in Beijing)
Jeremy Bolt (Shopping, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, The Dark)
Christopher Milburn (An American Haunting, Getaway, Transit)
Karine Martin (Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story)
Gary Hamilton (Lord of War, The Bank Job, Predestination)
Ye Ying (Three Kingdoms, 14 Blades, The Four)
George Mizen (The Holding)
Léonard Glowinski (The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, Unknown, Alexander)
Xun Zhang (CJ7, Forever Enthralled, The Founding of A Republic)
CAST: Nicolas Cage,Hayden Christensen, Yifei Liu
RUNNING TIME: 98 Minutes
RATING: Not rated
SYNOPSIS:
When the heir of the Imperial throne becomes the target of an assassination by his despised older brother, the young prince must flee the kingdom and seek protection. His only hope for survival is a reluctant war-weary crusader named Jacob, who must overcome his own personal demons and rally the assistance of a mythical outlaw known as The White Ghost. Together they must fight side by side in an epic battle to return the prince to his rightful place on the throne.
Trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRWrLzOHUg&list=UUKblsekljxEoeYXDwHb_peQ
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Review: "Wolves" Has Surprisingly Sharp Teeth
TRASH IN MY EYE No. 3 (of 2015) by Leroy Douresseaux
Wolves (2014)
Running time: 91 minutes (1 hour, 31 minutes)
MPAA - R for bloody violence throughout, and some sexuality
WRITER/DIRECTOR: David Hayter
PRODUCER: Steven Hoban
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gavin Smith
EDITOR: Geoff Ashenhurst
COMPOSERS: Ilya Kaplan and Alex Khaskin
FANTASY/HORROR/DRAMA with elements of action and romance
Starring: Lucas Till, Jason Momoa, Merritt Patterson, Stephen McHattie, Melanie Scrofano, and John Pyper-Ferguson
Wolves is a 2014 Canadian fantasy drama and werewolf film written and directed by David Hayter. The film's creature effects were created by Oscar winner Dave Elsey (The Wolfman) and Lou Elsey. Wolves focuses on a high school student who goes on the run and discovers a strange small town that may hold secrets about his family history.
Wolves introduces Cayden Richards (Lucas Till), a popular high school student and football player. His life, of late, has been complicated by horrifying nightmares and by the fact that Cayden has become unpredictable and wild. After the brutal murder of his parents, Cayden is forced to leave town, hoping to keep what he is seemingly becoming a secret.
At a bar, Cayden meets a talkative and rundown-looking fellow who goes by the name, “Wild Joe” (John Pyper-Ferguson). Joe points Cayden to an isolated, small town named Lupine Ridge, but upon arriving there, Cayden is initially not well-received by the townsfolk. John Tollerman (Stephen McHattie), a local farmer, gives him work and a place to stay. There, Cayden finds peace, but he is soon caught in a blood feud between rival clans of “wolves.” To save his life and that of his new friends, Cayden will have to face the alpha male of a gang of wolves, Connor Slaughter (Jason Momoa), who has a shocking connection to Cayden's past.
Wolves' writer-director, David Hayter, was one of the writers on the film, X-Men (2000). In that first X-Men movie, we are first introduced to the power of mutants, humans with extraordinary powers, when we witness young Rogue hurt a friend with a kiss. Later, Rogue meets Wolverine (or Logan), another mutant. It is through Wolverine that we enter the world of the X-Men, a secret band of mutants.
In Wolves, Hayter uses his lead character, Cayden, to both introduce his unique take on the werewolf and to also take the audience into the murky and secretive world of the “wolves.” Hayter's “wolves” are a unique take on the legends and folktales about werewolves and other lupine shape-shifters. Instead of deluging the audience with his new ideas and rules about werewolves, Hayter has us learn them as Cayden learns them, experiencing the ups-and-downs and the bumps and bruises that come with entering a new world or environment.
Wolves is not the werewolf film as an X-Men movie, nor is it Twilight. If anything, Wolves is closer to the oddball werewolf film, Skinwalkers. Classic werewolf movies, The Wolf Man (1941) and An American Werewolf in London (1981), treat their lead characters as cursed. Their werewolf affliction might be the result of fate or by a fated accident, but they are cursed and only death will end the curse.
Movies like Skinwalkers and Wolves treat the werewolf as part of a person's basic make-up. It is inheritance. It's in the blood, and it's a DNA thing, like being a mutant of the X-Men variety. After discovering that he is werewolf, Cayden can live by making the best of it, like John Tollerman, or become a killer and a man living like a wild animal, like Connor (who comes to life thanks to a spicy performance by actor, Jason Momoa). Cayden does not have to be “cursed.”
Another thing that I would like to point out is that Wolves exemplifies the professionalism of the “technical” artists, craftsmen, and people who build the backgrounds and environments of low or small-budget films. Wolves looks good, from the costumes to the sets. The werewolf creature effects by Dave Elsey and Lou Elsey are impressive and come close to matching Dave Elsey's work on The Wolfman (2010), for which he and Rick Baker won an Oscar.
Released to VOD (video on demand) before receiving a small theatrical release, Wolves did not get the attention of a big studio release. It is not a great movie, but, as a fan of werewolf movies, I found it to be quite enjoyable. Wolves actually has bite, so it should not disappear into some werewolf or horror movie ghetto where mediocre films reside.
6 of 10
B
Sunday, January 18, 2015
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Friday, November 14, 2014
10 Animated Shorts Compete for Nominations for 87th Academy Awards
10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2014 OSCAR RACE
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 87th Academy Awards. Fifty-eight pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“The Bigger Picture,” Daisy Jacobs, director, and Christopher Hees, producer (National Film and Television School)
“Coda,” Alan Holly, director (And Maps And Plans)
“The Dam Keeper,” Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, directors (Tonko House)
“Duet,” Glen Keane, director (Glen Keane Productions & ATAP)
“Feast,” Patrick Osborne, director, and Kristina Reed, producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
“Footprints,” Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio)
“Me and My Moulton,” Torill Kove, director (Mikrofilm in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada)
“The Numberlys,” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, directors (Moonbot Studios)
“A Single Life,” Joris Oprins, director (Job, Joris & Marieke)
“Symphony No. 42,” Réka Bucsi, director (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest)
The Academy’s Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting at screenings held in New York and Los Angeles.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 87th Academy Awards. Fifty-eight pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“The Bigger Picture,” Daisy Jacobs, director, and Christopher Hees, producer (National Film and Television School)
“Coda,” Alan Holly, director (And Maps And Plans)
“The Dam Keeper,” Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, directors (Tonko House)
“Duet,” Glen Keane, director (Glen Keane Productions & ATAP)
“Feast,” Patrick Osborne, director, and Kristina Reed, producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
“Footprints,” Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio)
“Me and My Moulton,” Torill Kove, director (Mikrofilm in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada)
“The Numberlys,” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, directors (Moonbot Studios)
“A Single Life,” Joris Oprins, director (Job, Joris & Marieke)
“Symphony No. 42,” Réka Bucsi, director (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest)
The Academy’s Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting at screenings held in New York and Los Angeles.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Robert Zemeckis' "The Walk" Due October 2015
TRISTAR ANNOUNCES TITLE AND WRAP OF PRODUCTION FOR "THE WALK"
3D / IMAX 3D CAPER FILM DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS STARRING JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT BASED ON PHILIPPE PETIT’S BOOK "TO REACH THE CLOUDS"
This is the 40th Anniversary of Petit’s August 7, 1974 Walk Between the Twin Towers
MONTRÉAL, Canada, Principal photography has wrapped on the inaugural film from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, now officially titled The Walk. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book "To Reach the Clouds," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015.
August 7 was the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the director of such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future, Polar Express, and Flight, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds. The film is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center.
Also starring in the film are James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Charlotte Le Bon, Clément Sibony and César Domboy.
The production’s creative team includes director of photography Dariusz Wolski, production designer Naomi Shohan, editor Jeremiah O’Driscoll, and costume designer Suttirat Larlarb. The composer is Alan Silvestri.
Moviegoers can follow the film on the official movie site at www.thewalkmovie.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheWalkMovie or on Twitter @TheWalkMovie.
Photos from the film were made available at www.sonypicturespublicity.com on Thursday, August 7th at 9AM Pacific time.
About Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition and distribution; television production, acquisition and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. For additional information, go to http://www.sonypictures.com.
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3D / IMAX 3D CAPER FILM DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS STARRING JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT BASED ON PHILIPPE PETIT’S BOOK "TO REACH THE CLOUDS"
This is the 40th Anniversary of Petit’s August 7, 1974 Walk Between the Twin Towers
MONTRÉAL, Canada, Principal photography has wrapped on the inaugural film from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, now officially titled The Walk. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book "To Reach the Clouds," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015.
August 7 was the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the director of such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future, Polar Express, and Flight, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds. The film is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center.
Also starring in the film are James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Charlotte Le Bon, Clément Sibony and César Domboy.
The production’s creative team includes director of photography Dariusz Wolski, production designer Naomi Shohan, editor Jeremiah O’Driscoll, and costume designer Suttirat Larlarb. The composer is Alan Silvestri.
Moviegoers can follow the film on the official movie site at www.thewalkmovie.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheWalkMovie or on Twitter @TheWalkMovie.
Photos from the film were made available at www.sonypicturespublicity.com on Thursday, August 7th at 9AM Pacific time.
About Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition and distribution; television production, acquisition and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. For additional information, go to http://www.sonypictures.com.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Review: "Pompeii" an Enjoyable Historical Spectacle
Pompeii (2014)
Running time: 105 minutes (1 hour, 45 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content
DIRECTOR: Paul W.S. Anderson
WRITER: Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler, and Michael Robert Johnson
PRODUCERS: Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer, and Don Carmody
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Glen MacPherson (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Michele Conroy
COMPOSER: Clinton Shorter
HISTORICAL/DRAMA/ACTION/ADVENTURE
Starring: Kit Harrington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kiefer Sutherland, Jessica Lucas, Jared Harris, Joe Pingue, Currie Graham, Sasha Roiz, Dalmar Abuzeid, and Dylan Schombing
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii and the surrounding area (including another town) were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii is a 2014 historical drama and disaster film from director Paul W.S. Anderson, perhaps best known for his work on the Resident Evil film franchise. Theatrically released in 3D, this film is a German and Canadian co-production.
Pompeii is set during the last two or three days before Vesuvius destroys the city. The film focuses on a slave-turned-gladiator who finds himself in Pompeii and fighting to protect a nobleman’s young daughter from a corrupt Roman Senator, while nearby, Mount Vesuvius rumbles ominously.
Pompeii opens in Brittania in 62 AD. Roman soldiers brutally wipe out a tribe of Celtic horsemen, and a young Celtic boy named Milo (Dylan Schombing) watches as his parents are murdered. By 79 AD, the boy is a grown man known as “The Celt” (Kit Harrington), who is a Roman slave and talented gladiator.
Milo is taken to Pompeii during the “Festival of the Vinalia” in order to entertain the crowds. He has an encounter with Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of Pompeii's ruler, Marcus Severus (Jared Harris) and his wife, Aurelia (Carrie-Anne Moss). Milo and the young woman are drawn to each other. However, Milo must focus his attention on Atticus (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a champion gladiator who wants to use “the Celt” to gain his freedom.
Meanwhile, the arrival of Senator Quintas Attius Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), a close ally of Roman emperor, Titus, changes everyone’s plans. All that planning might be why Pompeii’s people and visitors are ignoring the noise and rumbles coming from Mount Vesuvius, which towers over the area.
In the history of films set in or during the Roman Empire, Pompeii won’t be memorable. It’s no Gladiator (2000), nor is it even on the level of a recent favorite of mine, The Eagle (2011). Pompeii is a sword and sandal film that mixes several genres, including action-adventure, romance, the disaster film, the swashbuckler, and the historical, among others. Each of those genres offers something enjoyable to watch in Pompeii, but overall this film is not well acted, directed, or written.
It looked to me like some of the film’s actors were struggling not to laugh during scenes when they were supposed to convey anger or pain. Kit Harrington as Milo the Celt is cute, but he is not much of an actor, at least here. Emily Browning as Cassia is seemingly quite passionate about this film and gives it her best effort. Why should you watch this movie? I don't know.
I found myself enjoying Pompeii. I have always liked Roman Empire movies, so obviously I was going to give this film a chance. I am glad that I did, but I won’t lie and pretend that this is an especially good film.
5 of 10
C+
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
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Friday, April 4, 2014
Review: "Porky's" is Still a Raunchy Classic (Remembering Bob Clark)
Porky’s (1982)
Running time: 94 minutes (1 hour, 34 minutes)
MPAA – R
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Bob Clark
PRODUCERS: Don Carmody and Bob Clark
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Reginald H. Morris (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Stan Cole
COMPOSER: Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer
COMEDY
Starring: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Cyril O’Reilly, Tony Ganios, Kaki Hunter, Kim Cattrall, Nancy Parsons, Scott Colomby, Boyd Gaines, Doug McGrath, Art Hindle, Wayne Maunder, Chuck Mitchell, and Alex Karras
The subject of this movie review is Porky’s, a 1982 Canadian-American sex comedy from writer-director Bob Clark. The film is set in 1954 and focuses on a group of high school boys who try to help a buddy lose his virginity and end up seeking revenge on the sleazy owner of a honky tonk and his redneck sheriff brother.
Porky’s spawned a franchise, including two direct sequels. The film won the Golden Reel Award at the 1983 Genie Awards and also received a “Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role” nomination for actor, Doug McGrath. Porky’s was a surprise box office success and for decades was the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time. It apparently still is, when adjusting for inflation.
Porky’s is set in Angel Beach, a small town in South Florida. There, we find six teens that are desperate for sexual satisfaction. These young, red-bloodied, American males, who play basketball for Angel Beach High School, have raging hormones and are horny for just about any female willing to do “it” with them.
The most desperate is Edward “Pee Wee” Morris (Dan Monahan), a short guy (in more ways than one), who wants desperately for a girl to relieve him of the burden of his virginity. Pee Wee and friends hope to find sexual relief at a notorious honky-tonk joint in the next county, Porky’s. However, the club’s owner, Porky (Chuck Mitchell) himself, rips them off and throws them out – even going so far as to seriously injury one of the teens who later seeks to get back at Porky.
So Pee Wee, Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and the rest of the gang plot an incredible revenge against Porky and his brother, the redneck Sheriff Wallace (Alex Karras). Meanwhile, the boys’ adventures and activities earn them the unwanted attention of the foul-tempered girls’ gym teacher, Beulah Balbricker (Nancy Parsons). Also, new junior basketball coach, Roy Brackett (Boyd Gaines), seduces sexy fellow gym instructor, Honeywell (Kim Cattrall), and makes a shocking discovery about how she acts during the heat of passion.
The late filmmaker Bob Clark is probably best known for his holiday movie classic, A Christmas Story (1983). His infamous teen comedy, Porky’s, is also fondly remembered and apparently has influenced other filmmakers who have made teen films.
With Porky's, Clark, who died with his son in a 2007 car accident, took an unabashed and fanciful look at raucous high school adolescence in the 1950s. However, the story has a timeless quality because of the truth at the heart of its idiocy: sex weighs heavily on the minds of both high school boys and girls. Porky’s can be pretty frank about that reality, but that is what makes this film both unique and unforgettable and difficult to duplicate – as its less successful sequels can attest.
Porky’s is silly, even a bit misogynistic, but I first saw it as a teenager and loved it. Other than being a teenaged male, I had nothing in common with the characters, but I loved the film. It is funny just to watch these high school kids’ antics – both guys and girls.
7 of 10
B+
Friday, April 04, 2014
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
Review: "Videodrome" Still Dazzles (Happy B'day, David Cronenberg)
Videodrome (1983)
Running time: 87 minutes (1 hour, 27 minutes)
MPAA – R
WRITER/DIRECTOR: David Cronenberg
PRODUCER: Claude Héroux
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mark Irwin (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Ronald Sanders
COMPOSER: Howard Shore
SCI-FI/HORROR/THRILLER with elements of fantasy
Starring: James Wood, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley, and Lynne Gorman
The subject of this movie review is Videodrome, a 1983 Canadian science fiction and horror film from writer-director, David Cronenberg. Possessing elements of the “body horror” genre, this film focuses on a sleazy cable television programmer who acquires a new kind of programming for his station then, watches as everything, including his life, spins out of control. The film received eight Genie Award nominations (once Canada’s top film award), and won four, including a best director honor for Cronenberg (who shared the win with Bob Clark of A Christmas Story).
Although the term “visionary director” is bandied about so often (even more so now with so many movie reviewers and film critics crowding information space via the Internet, print, and televised media), Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is truly a visionary as displayed in his film Videodrome.
Max Renn (James Woods) is a low-level cable TV operator who runs a television station and is looking for new material when he stumbles upon a kind of “snuff film” and porno TV broadcast called Videodrome. Max wants to acquire the rights to Videodrome, but has a hard time finding out who owns the rights or from where exactly the program’s signal originates. He finally discovers the creator of Videodrome, only to learn there is a larger conspiracy involved, and that watching Videodrome also causes the viewer to experience strange hallucinations.
The film has the usual characteristics of a Cronenberg production: bodily invasion and penetration, body alteration, hallucinations, rape paranoia, and altered realities. While certainly heavy with sci-fi and horror themes, Videodrome is firmly rooted in everyday reality. The film deals with how television and video images can physically, as well as mentally, alter and affect the human body. Cronenberg’s most successful experiment in this film is to make the viewer as totally lost and confused as Max Renn is. We truly don’t know anymore than he does, and he holds no clues secretly in head from the viewer.
The film’s third act is one of the most brilliant film portrayals of altered perception, as it becomes almost impossible to say what is the real world and what is imagination and hallucination. Even more brilliant, Cronenberg creates this sense of detachment from reality without loosing the viewer. We may never know what is meant to be “real,” as this film draws to its shocking finale, but we can’t look away.
Videodrome does drag a little in the first act, but Cronenberg is a smart filmmaker of smart films that unveil slowly and intelligently before our eyes. It is a dazzling examination of how TV has and is changing humanity – truly a movie masterpiece of the late 20th Century.
9 of 10
A+
Updated: Saturday, March 15, 2014
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Denis Villeneuve's "Enemy" Wins Canada's "Best Picture" Award
The Canadian Screen Awards honor achievements in Canadian film and television production, as well as achievements in digital media. In 2012, the formerly separate Genie Awards (for film) and Gemini Awards (for television) merged into a single ceremony, the Canadian Screen Awards.
The Canadian Screen Awards are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. This is a national, no-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media. The Academy describes itself as a “Unifying industry professionals across Canada, the Academy is a vital force representing all screen – based industries.”
The Academy’s Canadian Screen Awards is the annual awards show to celebrate the best in film, television and digital media. They are part of Canadian Screen Week (March 3‐9, 2014).
The 2014 Canadian Screen Awards were presented at an awards gala on Sunday, March 9, 2014. This two-hour live broadcast was presented on the CBC. Actor Martin Short was the host.
The following list of winners is only a partial list, which excludes the television and new media categories, as well as most of the 2014 Special Award winners. For a full list of winners and nominees, go here:
http://www.academy.ca/Canadian-Screen-Awards/2014-Nominees-Winners/Film
2nd / 2014 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS Winners (for the year in film 2013):
Feature Film Winners:
Best Motion Picture / MEILLEUR FILM (Sponsor / Commanditaire | William F. White International and Comweb Group):
ENEMY – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A. Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
Best Director: ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION / MEILLEURE RÉALISATION (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Pinewood Toronto Studios):
DENIS VILLENEUVE – Enemy
Best Actor: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
GABRIEL ARCAND – Le Démantèlement / The Dismantlement
Best Supporting Actor: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
GORDON PINSENT – The Grand Seduction
Best Actress: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
GABRIELLE MARION‐RIVARD – Gabrielle
Best Supporting Actress: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE /INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
SARAH GADON – Enemy
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY / MEILLEUR SCÉNARIO (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Harold Greenberg Fund):
SHANNON MASTERS – Empire of Dirt
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY / MEILLEURE ADAPTATION
ELAN MASTAI – The F‐Word
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN / MEILLEURE
DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE
MICHEL PROULX – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN / MEILLEURS COSTUMES
CARMEN ALIE – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY / MEILLEURES IMAGES:
NICOLAS BOLDUC CSC – Enemy
ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | The PostMan):
MATTHEW HANNAM ‐ Enemy
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE‐UP / MEILLEURS MAQUILLAGES (Sponsor / Commanditaire | M•A•C Cosmetics)
JO‐ANN MACNEIL, KAROLA DIRNBERGER, PAUL JONES – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ‐ ORIGINAL SCORE / MEILLEURE MUSIQUE ORIGINALE
DANNY BENSI, SAUNDER JURRIAANS – Enemy
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ‐ ORIGINAL SONG / MEILLEURE CHANSON ORIGINALE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Slaight Music)
JIMMY HARRY, SERENA RYDER – The Right Kind of Wrong – “It’s No Mistake”
ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND / MEILLEUR SON D'ENSEMBLE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Deluxe Toronto):
ANDREW TAY, DAVID DRAGE, DAVID GIAMMARCO, GREG CHAPMAN, MATT MCKENZIE, PETER PERSAUD – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE SONORE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | IMAX):
ALEX BULLICK, CHRISTIAN SCHAANING, J.R. FOUNTAIN, JILL PURDY, KEVIN BANKS, NATHAN ROBITAILLE, NELSON FERREIRA, STEPHEN BARDEN, STEVE BAINE – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS / MEILLEURS EFFETS VISUELS:
ANDY ROBINSON, DENNIS BERARDI, EDWARD J. TAYLOR IV, JAMES COOPER, JASON EDWARDH, JO HUGHES, LEANN HARVEY, SEAN MILLS, STEPHEN WAGNER, TREY HARRELL – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Docs & Short Film Winners:
Best Documentary: TED ROGERS BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR LONG MÉTRAGE DOCUMENTAIRE TED ROGERS
WATERMARK – Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Daniel Iron
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DOCUMENTAIRE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Hot Docs)
CHI – Anne Wheeler, Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DRAMATIQUE
NOAH – Patrick Cederberg, Walter Woodman
BEST ANIMATED SHORT / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE D'ANIMATION
SUBCONSCIOUS PASSWORD – Chris Landreth, Marcy Page, Mark Smith
Lifetime Achievement Award - For Exceptional Contribution to the Canadian Film & Television Industry: DAVID CRONENBERG
Earle Grey Award – For Acting: COLM FEORE
Claude Jutra Award: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Whitewash
Golden Reel Award: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
http://www.academy.ca/awards/
The Canadian Screen Awards are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. This is a national, no-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media. The Academy describes itself as a “Unifying industry professionals across Canada, the Academy is a vital force representing all screen – based industries.”
The Academy’s Canadian Screen Awards is the annual awards show to celebrate the best in film, television and digital media. They are part of Canadian Screen Week (March 3‐9, 2014).
The 2014 Canadian Screen Awards were presented at an awards gala on Sunday, March 9, 2014. This two-hour live broadcast was presented on the CBC. Actor Martin Short was the host.
The following list of winners is only a partial list, which excludes the television and new media categories, as well as most of the 2014 Special Award winners. For a full list of winners and nominees, go here:
http://www.academy.ca/Canadian-Screen-Awards/2014-Nominees-Winners/Film
2nd / 2014 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS Winners (for the year in film 2013):
Feature Film Winners:
Best Motion Picture / MEILLEUR FILM (Sponsor / Commanditaire | William F. White International and Comweb Group):
ENEMY – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A. Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
Best Director: ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION / MEILLEURE RÉALISATION (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Pinewood Toronto Studios):
DENIS VILLENEUVE – Enemy
Best Actor: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
GABRIEL ARCAND – Le Démantèlement / The Dismantlement
Best Supporting Actor: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
GORDON PINSENT – The Grand Seduction
Best Actress: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
GABRIELLE MARION‐RIVARD – Gabrielle
Best Supporting Actress: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE /INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
SARAH GADON – Enemy
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY / MEILLEUR SCÉNARIO (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Harold Greenberg Fund):
SHANNON MASTERS – Empire of Dirt
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY / MEILLEURE ADAPTATION
ELAN MASTAI – The F‐Word
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN / MEILLEURE
DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE
MICHEL PROULX – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN / MEILLEURS COSTUMES
CARMEN ALIE – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY / MEILLEURES IMAGES:
NICOLAS BOLDUC CSC – Enemy
ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | The PostMan):
MATTHEW HANNAM ‐ Enemy
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE‐UP / MEILLEURS MAQUILLAGES (Sponsor / Commanditaire | M•A•C Cosmetics)
JO‐ANN MACNEIL, KAROLA DIRNBERGER, PAUL JONES – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ‐ ORIGINAL SCORE / MEILLEURE MUSIQUE ORIGINALE
DANNY BENSI, SAUNDER JURRIAANS – Enemy
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ‐ ORIGINAL SONG / MEILLEURE CHANSON ORIGINALE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Slaight Music)
JIMMY HARRY, SERENA RYDER – The Right Kind of Wrong – “It’s No Mistake”
ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND / MEILLEUR SON D'ENSEMBLE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Deluxe Toronto):
ANDREW TAY, DAVID DRAGE, DAVID GIAMMARCO, GREG CHAPMAN, MATT MCKENZIE, PETER PERSAUD – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE SONORE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | IMAX):
ALEX BULLICK, CHRISTIAN SCHAANING, J.R. FOUNTAIN, JILL PURDY, KEVIN BANKS, NATHAN ROBITAILLE, NELSON FERREIRA, STEPHEN BARDEN, STEVE BAINE – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS / MEILLEURS EFFETS VISUELS:
ANDY ROBINSON, DENNIS BERARDI, EDWARD J. TAYLOR IV, JAMES COOPER, JASON EDWARDH, JO HUGHES, LEANN HARVEY, SEAN MILLS, STEPHEN WAGNER, TREY HARRELL – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Docs & Short Film Winners:
Best Documentary: TED ROGERS BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR LONG MÉTRAGE DOCUMENTAIRE TED ROGERS
WATERMARK – Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Daniel Iron
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DOCUMENTAIRE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Hot Docs)
CHI – Anne Wheeler, Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DRAMATIQUE
NOAH – Patrick Cederberg, Walter Woodman
BEST ANIMATED SHORT / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE D'ANIMATION
SUBCONSCIOUS PASSWORD – Chris Landreth, Marcy Page, Mark Smith
Lifetime Achievement Award - For Exceptional Contribution to the Canadian Film & Television Industry: DAVID CRONENBERG
Earle Grey Award – For Acting: COLM FEORE
Claude Jutra Award: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Whitewash
Golden Reel Award: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
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