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It’s true. After months of lockdown and at least one failed reopening attempt, some cinemas in China are expected to reopen later this month.

Director Sam Mendes has implored British government officials to put together a “rescue package” to save the U.K. theatre industry in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.The Covid-19 outbreak has brought the live events sector to a standstill since March, and without productions to put on, many venues and companies are facing the prospect of going out of business – unless authorities step in and lend their support.

After exploding on the awards season in late 2019, Sam Mendes’ stunning WWI epic 1917 makes its way to the home formats. Visually stunning, stunningly stage, and supremely acted by all involved, the film is deserved of all of its plaudits.

1917 is one of the best war movies of the past few years and the many awards that it has been rewarded with are definitely well-deserved. Ahead of the home release, which is set for May, we have a fantastic new behind the scenes featurette focussing on the amazing Oscar-winning cinematography by Roger Deakins. Deakins voices this 13-minute featurette presented by Universal which is well worth your time if you’re a fan of the man and filmmaking in general.

Cinematographers and their camera crews often tweak equipment to fit their needs. Sometimes it results in Garrett Brown inventing, designing and building the Oscar-winning Steadicam, or Nic Sadler developing the Artemis Director’s Viewfinder, which earned him an Engineering Emmy. But DPs and camera assistants regularly create tools and accessories to help them and their colleagues become more efficient — and occasionally gain a secondary revenue stream.

International production and distribution powerhouse All3Media has named former ITV and Virgin Media communications boss Mike Large as group director of communications.

Roger Deakins has won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for “1917” — his second Oscar in three years following his first Academy Award for “Blade Runner 2049.”

Just as the 92nd annual Academy Awards were starting to feel utterly predictable, Bong Joon Ho was announced as best director over perceived frontrunner Sam Mendes. A few minutes later, “Parasite” made history by becoming the first foreign-language film to ever win best picture. It not only defied expectation, it triumphed after the PGA Award went to “1917.”

The 92nd Academy Awards are almost here…

The shortest awards season in memory will come to a close Sunday evening with the 92nd Academy Awards arriving with wintry weather in the forecast.

Margot Robbie’s superheroine spinoff “Birds of Prey” is landing with a somewhat disappointing $34 million opening weekend at 4,236 North American sites, estimates showed Saturday.

We're just a few days away from watching Oscars 2020 as the best and brightest from the world of Hollywood will be recognised for their spectacular work in 2019. For many, the 92nd Academy Awards will be the first time ever that they win an Oscar. This list includes Joaquin Phoenix for his heartbreakingly terrific act as Arthur Fleck in Joker, Brad Pitt for his charming, suave performance in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and even Laura Dern for her snarky, scene-stealing act in Marriage Story.

1917, which is basically winning ALL of the awards at the moment is a technical jaw-dropper, a film that is designed to look like one continuous shot for its entire running time. Of course, it isn’t all just one shot, but a number of extended scenes – some running for many, many minutes, all cleverly spliced together.

The film that won no less than seven BAFTA awards at the weekend, 1917, is the hotly tipped movie for Oscar gold this coming weekend, and ahead of the huge event in Hollywood, here is a newly released featurette for Sam Mendes’ WWI ‘one-shot’ epic showing how they built the trenches in the phenomenal movie.

Sir Sam Mendes, Sir Elton John and Florence Pugh are among the British contenders hoping to take home an Oscar on Sunday – amid criticism of a lack of diversity among nominees.

The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away.

Seven-time Oscar nominee Dennis Gassner (“Blade Runner 2029,” “Jarhead”) was in Alaska recovering from back surgery when he got an interesting email.

Sam Mendes’ First World War epic 1917 was the big winner at the 2020 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday night (February 2, 2020).

The shortest Oscar season ever has been especially brutal for strategists trying to gain traction with smaller-scale offerings later in the season: Early birds and conventional choices scooped up the lion’s share of Oscar nominations. And yet, as final voting comes to a close on Feb.

And the biggest winner of the BAFTA 2020 is 1917. The war drama, directed by Sam Mendes, has been taking home some of the biggest awards this awards season. A week before the Oscars 2020 could commence, the star-studded movie has bagged as many as seven awards at the 73rd British Academy film awards. The movie bagged Best Film, Best Director, Best Special Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Sound. South Korean movie Parasite was another big winner at BAFTA.

After three weeks in theaters, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life” is officially the highest-grossing installment in the action-comedy series.

The 73rd British Academy of Film and Television’s Film Awards are due to kick off at around 18.45 GMT (10.45 PT).

Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life” is keeping the North American box office healthy as it heads for its third weekend crown at domestic multiplexes with about $17.4 million at 3,705 sites, estimates showed Saturday.

Ever since Universal-DreamWorks’ “1917” debuted, reporters have seemed fascinated with the fact that women played key creative roles in the film. The list included Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who co-wrote it with director Sam Mendes, and producers Pippa Harris and Jayne-Ann Tenggren.

A century after World War I ended, “1917” reminds us of the cost of official policies that figure the best conflict resolution calls for young people to slaughter each other. As two angelic-looking, not-yet-cynical Tommies trudge through no-man’s land to deliver a life-or-death warning, the carnage they encounter demands we be mindful of similar missions being carried out by similar innocents somewhere on the globe, every single day.

George MacKay delivers a star-making performance in “1917.” After making his film debut at age 10 in the 2003 live-action “Peter Pan,” he played occasional film and TV roles and realized at age 19 “acting is what I wanted to do.” Since then, he’s appeared in an earlier WWI saga, “Private Peaceful,” and played Viggo Mortensen’s rebellious son in “Captain Fantastic” —  and he has three more films coming up.

Filmdom’s battle between the haves and have-nots moved off-screen when Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month: Four films scored 10 or more nominations, with Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” leading the pack with 11, and Sam Mendes’ World War I nail-biter “1917,” Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster tale “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s retro “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” trailing a tick behind at 10 each. It’s rare for three films to land 10 or more nominations, let alone four.

Sam Mendes took home the top prize at the 72nd Annual DGA Awards on Saturday. The filmmaker won for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for .

STX’s “The Gentlemen” proved no match for Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” which again left box office competitors in the dust after collecting $34 million in its sophomore outing.

Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life” is dominating North American moviegoing with about $26 million at 2,155 sites, early estimates showed Friday.

Prior to working on “1917,” special effects artist Tristan Versluis had designed no more than five or six corpses. But Sam Mendes, director of the WWI drama, which has garnered 10 Oscar nominations, needed Versluis, who picked up one of those noms in the hair and makeup category, to create 30 corpses and dead horses, all at different stages of decomposition.

When the dust settled on the morning of Oscar nominations, the biggest surprise might have been that there were no real surprises in the best picture race. All nine films were also PGA-nominated — the only one left off the Oscar list was Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out.”

Variety hosted its sixth annual Artisans Awards on Jan. 20 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, where eleven artists were honored for their contributions to the best in film this year — including “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” production designer Barbara Ling, “The Irishman” costume designers Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson and “Frozen 2” songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez — each sharing insight into their collaborations and filmmaking processes.

“Bad Boys for Life” has given a jolt to the North American box office, blasting past forecasts with a $73.4 million opening over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

“1917” continued its award-winning streak on Sunday night when it took home the feature motion picture – dialogue award at the MPSE Golden Reel Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing. Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” won for feature motion picture – music underscore.