Scorsese, Eastwood Say U.S. Movie Theatres May Not Survive Pandemic

Films such as Ordinary Love, Black '47 and Rosie, and actors Andrew Scott and Jessie Buckley have won big at the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) awards last night..

WINNERS OF THE IFTA FILM & DRAMA AWARDS 2020Best film 2020 Ordinary LoveBest film 2019 Black ’47Director – film Paddy Breathnach (Rosie)Scriptwriter – film Mark O’Halloran (Rialto)Actor in a leading role – film Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Rialto)Actress in a leading role – film Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose)Actor in a supporting role – film David Wilmot (Ordinary Love)Actress supporting role – film Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses)George Morrison feature documentary The Lonely Battle of Thomas ReidIrish Film

Hollywood director Martin Scorsese will lead a star-studded Irish Film and Television Awards ceremony (Iftas) on Sunday evening.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorUPDATED with additional signatories. The list of people in the creative community attaching their names to an urgent appeal to Congress on behalf of movie theaters has grown to 120 names. (See the full list below.)Talent initially joined with the Directors Guild of America, the National Association of Theatre Owners and the Motion Picture Association on September 30 to call for federal government aid for theaters.

Criterion is kicking off 2021 with a loud, rock and roll bang in January with its new releases headlined by the home video debut of Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed Netflix documentary, “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.” READ MORE: The Essentials: Martin Scorsese’s Best Films As mentioned, leading the way in January is Scorsese’s Bob Dylan doc, “Rolling Thunder Revue.” Since this film was distributed by Netflix, there has yet to be a physical release of the film and what

Eli Countryman Award-winning Cinematographer Kent L. Wakeford, best known for his work on Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” has died at the age of 92.On Oct.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticKent L. Wakeford, a cinematographer who served as Martin Scorsese’s director of photographer on the groundbreaking 1973 film Mean Streets and the following year’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died Oct.

Kent Lon Wakeford, who served as director of photography on the Martin Scorsese films Mean Streets and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, has died. He was 92.

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The ever-busy multi-hyphenate Clint Eastwood will direct and star in an adaptation of the 1970 novelCry Macho for Warner Bros. Cry Macho will re-team the filmmaker with his Richard Jewell studio, and will see the Oscar winner play a washed-up rodeo star that takes a job from his former boss to bring the man's young son back to Texas from rural Mexico.

Even if most of the industry is still on lockdown, barely trying to ease back to work, Hollywood’s favorite nonagenarian actor-director-producer Clint Eastwood looks to be trying to move lightning fast to get his next movie, “Cry Macho” going. And, you know, if anyone can get a movie up and going, and maybe even finished by the time we get a vaccine, it’s Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood has lined up his next project, Deadline reports.

Also Read: Clint Eastwood Takes Aim at the FBI and the Media in 'Richard Jewell' Trailer (Video)Eastwood most recently directed “Richard Jewell” and “The Mule,” which were both released by Warner Bros.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Even as the industry slowly gets back to work, Clint Eastwood looks to be moving quickly to get his next movie going. Deadline hears the iconic director is coming on to direct and star in Cry Macho for Warner Bros.

Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and James Cameron have signed a letter calling for U.S. politicians to bail out cinemas hit by the COVID-19 crisis.The letter was signed by more than 70 directors and producers along with bosses at the National Association of Theater Owners, the Directors Guild of America, and the Motion Picture Association.It reads: “The moviegoing experience is central to American life.

Cinemas are in trouble. And what makes it worse is that this existential problem facing movie theaters, which existed before the pandemic but has only been exacerbated by the virus, comes at a time when people are watching more movies than ever before.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorDozens of established filmmakers joined with the Directors Guild of America, the National Association of Theatre Owners and the Motion Picture Association to urge Congress to come to the aid of movie theaters devastated by COVID-19.“Absent a solution designed for their circumstances, theaters may not survive the impact of the pandemic,” the letter warns.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The classic spaghetti western that helped launch Clint Eastwood’s career looks to be getting the TV treatment as We are hearing Mark Gordon Pictures is developing A Fistful of DollarsTV series. The company has acquired the rights to the film as well as the Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai epic, Yojimbo, which the Eastwood film was based on.

James Cameron is glad he chose to film his Avatar sequels in New Zealand because he was able to complete the films amid the COVID-19 crisis.The Titanic filmmaker revealed during the 2020 Austrian World Summit on Sunday (September 27, 2020) that Avatar 2 is complete, while the third installment is nearly finished, despite having to shut down production due to the global health crisis in March (2020) and only starting up again in June (2020).“We’re 100 percent complete on Avatar 2 and sort of 95