By Erik Pedersen
23.01.2020 - 20:16 / variety.com
In a prescient Variety column in 1978, reporter Jim Harwood talked about the blurring distinction (artistic and technical) between film and television. He wrote: “Is a ‘motion picture’ any less of an accomplishment if it’s beamed from Hollywood directly to a wall-sized screen in somebody’s home instead of being hauled in cans to something called a theatre? We suppose there will be a lot of arguments about that in the next 50 years.”
Yes, Mr. Harwood, there have indeed been many heated
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Lashana Lynch is “honoured to be able to proudly fly (a) big Jamaican flag” in the new James Bond movie No Time to Die.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has renewed its feature film agreement with Spanish pay-TV leader Moviestar Plus.
As a dignifying corrective to the demeaning portrayal of Bruce Lee on the Green Hornet set in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which let's face it, basically made him the butt of a white he-man joke, Be Water has value. But as a survey of the life and legacy of the hugely influential martial arts game-changer, Bao Nguyen's slickly packaged, engrossing bio-documentary for ESPN feels less than definitive.
Some movie stars level a kind of divinity that transcends personal preference — woe betide the dissenter who openly finds Audrey Hepburn cloying, or Cary Grant less than charming. That Bruce Lee had long ascended to that level of iron-clad cool was underlined by the biggest popular quibble with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” over the single scene when Mike Moh’s fictive Lee is portrayed as an arrogant, bullying jerk easily whupped by Brad Pitt’s stuntman Cliff.
With Kate Middleton and Prince Williamjoining top movie stars in the audience, the winners of the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards were revealed at a ceremony at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sunday.
Sam Mendes’s war film 1917 leads the Bafta accolades with seven wins.
The BAFTA film awards have kicked off in London, with Graham Norton hosting this year at the Royal Albert Hall.
The 73rd British Academy of Film and Television’s Film Awards are due to kick off at around 18.45 GMT (10.45 PT).
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Harry Hamlin says playing a gay writer in the 1982 big-screen drama Making Love put his career on ice for several years.The actor, looking back now, says the film "was too early. It was 10 years too early, I guess, and it completely ended my career.
SAG Awards 2020 has come and gone and while there were some obvious wins like Joaquin Phoenix for Joker and Renée Zellweger for Judy, the biggest surprise of the night were the winners of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The nominations for the category included The Irishman, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Bombshell, Jojo Rabbit and Parasite.
Nine films are up for best picture at the 2020 Oscars, with all of this year's contenders for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' top honor receiving multiple nominations across the awards' 23 other categories.Todd Phillips' Joker scored the most nominations,with 11 nods, immediately followed by The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which each received 10 nominations.