Oscars News

June 18--When Jody Kielbasa announced the lineup for last year's Virginia Film Festival, he had a solid contingent of films and filmmakers with Oscar pedigrees.

Harkness Screens, the world's leading manufacturer of cinema screens and front and rear projection surfaces for live events such as concerts, theatre productions and outdoor screenings has provided its popular Stagelite White/Black surface for the forthcoming Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Oscars Outdoors" summer series.

This bit of dialogue in Network , the black comedy written by Paddy Chayefsky, appears about 9 minutes and 45 seconds into the movie.

Based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel, the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is one of those timeless works that will always have relevance and meaning.

Enjoy a free screening of America, America by Elia Kazan on Friday, June 21, 7 p.m., at Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 South Pinellas Ave. The film is being show in conjunction with the Smithsonian Exhibit 'Journey Stories,' which runs through July 5. The 1963 film runs two hours and 54 minutes.

Reporting from the red carpet, one wag informs that Sasha Grey is "all old-school class in a long black dress and a string of pearls hanging down her chest."

In 2009, writer-director Neill Blomkamp stormed the Hollywood scene with "District 9," his alien thriller set in South Africa that took viewers and critics by surprise.

Channing Tatum chose Father's Day to reveal the first official photo featuring new mom Jenna Dewan-Tatum and their newborn daughter Everly.

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint. WHITBY -- Whitby columnist Andy Merey has nothing but praise for the Blu-ray version of the classic film 'On The Waterfront'.

Tonight, June 16, at 7 pm , the 21st Portland Jewish Film Festival opens with "Fill the Void" followed by a short documentary, "The Rabbi's Daughter" produced at The Ma'aleh School of Television, Film & the Arts, an orthodox film school in Israel.

While 100 days at the box office is- in itself a grand feat, Fox Star Studios' 'Life of Pi' breaks all records of recent times, by running successfully for 200 days straight, at PVS Film City, Cochin.

Every year the Oscars honor documentary filmmakers. This year's nominees included the film "Kings Point," a wonderful visit to a Jewish Delray Beach Florida senior enclave that was an affectionate, sometimes lighthearted and often troubling look into the lives of some caring and gentle residents who could be any of our relatives.

Adele and PJ Harvey have been awarded MBEs on the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Kristina Yee, a 2006 graduate of Armijo High School, has found herself among the likes of Spike Lee, John Lasseter and Robert Zemeckis.

The rumour in town about the love affair between Ghanaian screen goddess, Nadia Buari and Nigeria's Jim Iyke may finally come to a halt as Nadia, the model and actress revealed her new lover named Bomb Bacious Clay.

Hollywood is planning to bring movies centring on the story of data-snooping whistleblower Edward Snowden and the equally controversial US drones programme to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter .

'The Heat' star - who previously earned a Best Actress award for her role in drama 'The Blind Side' in 2010 - doesn't think the Academy Awards "respect" funny roles, even though she thinks comedy films are harder to make than dramas as actors in serious flicks receive "help" in post-production.

June 14--At first glance, "Blancanieves" looks like a gimmick: It's a Spanish film based loosely on the story of Snow White, and it's photographed to resemble a black-and-white silent film from the earliest days of narrative cinema.

The 'Heat' actress is in ''early'' negotiations for a role in Sony's updated version of the classic musical about an orphan girl, playing Miss Hannigan, the mean-spirited owner of the orphanage Annie lives in, according to TheWrap.com.

The Saenger will rise afresh at the start of the season, with a high-class fall lineup.