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Ryan Gosling Hosts ‘SNL': Hunk Factor and Mike Myers Don’t Save Weak Episode
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Ryan Gosling turned in an acceptable “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut, but the appearance was rife with exactly the types of drawbacks that you’d imagine with somebody like him — too much reliance on the whole “holy crap, this guy is so damn hot!” joke, and a few too many crackups. The material throughout the show was also not quite up to par with previous episodes this season. The cold open featured Taran Killam and Cecily Strong as the Trumps. Sure, these actors nailed their impersonations, but the joke of The Donald reciting a naughty and nice list was a. »
- Pat Healy
'Youth' cinematographer Luca Bigazzi on accepting 'beauty of the Swiss Alps' (Podcast)
2 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
The collaborations of director Paolo Sorrentino and cinematographer Luca Bigazzi have produced some of the most visually resplendent films of recent times including the 2013 Oscar winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, "The Great Beauty." In our recent podcast chat (listen below), the Dp spoke extensively about their latest outing, “Youth,” which finds two old friends (Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) reflecting on their pasts and contemplating their futures while on vacation. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions “The pictorial beauty is the beauty of the Swiss Alps,” Bigazzi says humbly, giving much of the credit to the gorgeous landscapes against which the film was shot. Yet it wasn’t always the intention of the filmmakers to embrace those landscapes. “This is exactly the kind of thing you’d like to avoid,” »
'Brooklyn' production designer Francois Seguin on recreating 'golden age of America' (Exclusive Video)
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In “Brooklyn,” Saoirse Ronan plays Ellis, a young Irish woman who leaves her hometown to travel to America and start life anew. “She went from one culture to another one,” explains production designer Francois Seguin during our recent webcam chat (watch below). He was tasked not only with recreating the look and feel of the 1950s, but with portraying the emotional journey the character takes as well. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions One of the ways Seguin and his team achieved this was by playing with the size of the spaces Eilis inhabits. Of her home in Ireland, he says, “It’s a bit small: the house is small, the shop she works in is small. She is in a small town.” Upon arriving in America, everything is shown to be much larger. “She suddenly has room to grow. She goes from a »
Inside the 2015 Ida Documentary Awards (Full Winners List)
2 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Emceed by Tig Notaro at the Paramount Theatre, Saturday night's 2015 Ida Documentary Awards in Los Angeles handed top honors to Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Look of Silence," which made the Oscar shortlist earlier this week. This PGA-nominated followup to "The Act of Killing" has a winning streak going back to Venice 2014, where Oppenheimer collected five awards including the Grand Special Jury Prize. "Act of Killing" was Ida-nominated in 2013 but lost to Netflix's "The Square." Read More: Oscar Documentary Shortlist of 15 Revealed Director Matthew Heineman accepted the Courage Under Fire Award from his executive producer Kathryn Bigelow for Sundance winner "Cartel Land," which is on the Oscar shortlist. Other Academy shortlisters that scored Ida Awards include "Listen to Me Marlon," whose director Stevan Riley hopes the film will restore Marlon Brando's reputation; short doc "Last Day of Freedom" and Vidal vs. »
- Anne Thompson
‘The Look of Silence’ Wins Ida Award for Best Documentary of 2015
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“The Look of Silence,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s critically-acclaimed companion piece to “The Act of Killing,” won top honors at the International Documentary Association’s Ida Awards Saturday night. The film is one of 15 finalists squaring off for Oscar nominations this year.
Winning in the short category was Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman’s “Last Day of Freedom,” an animated account of Bill Babbitt’s decision to support and help his brother in the face of war, crime and capital execution, which is also on the shortlist of Academy contenders.
Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s “Best of Enemies,” about the 1968 televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., won a pair of awards: best editing and the ABC News VideoSource Award.
Actor and comedian Bob Odenkirk presented the org’s Pioneer Award to Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, while Danny Glover presented Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha »
- Kristopher Tapley
‘The Look of Silence’ Wins Top Prize at Ida Awards
2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Joshua Oppenheimer‘s “The Look of Silence,” a companion piece to his Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary “The Act of Killing,” was named the best documentary of 2015 at the International Documentary Association’s Ida Documentary Awards on Saturday night. The film, which follows the family of a victim of the mass killings in Indonesia in the 1960s as they confront one of the perpetrators, beat a field that included “Amy,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Listen to Me Marlon,” “The Russian Woodpecker” and “What Happened, Miss Simone?” “The Look of Silence” recently made the 15-film Oscar shortlist in the documentary feature category, »
- Steve Pond
Morgan Freeman’s Plane Crash Lands in Mississippi
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
A plane carrying actor Morgan Freeman crash landed in Mississipi on Saturday after a tire blew out. The actor was not injured, but the plane was badly damaged. “I was on my plane on the way to Texas to shoot a segment for The Story of God,” Freeman an Academy Award-winning actor, said in a statement to TheWrap. “Sometimes things don’t go as planned and a tire blew on take-off which caused other problems. But thanks to my excellent pilot Jimmy Hobson we landed safely without a scratch. I cannot say the same about my plane.” No injuries were reported to. »
- Sharon Waxman
Review: 'Doctor Who' is 'Hell Bent' on saying goodbye to a great character
4 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
A few thoughts on tonight's "Doctor Who" season finale — and on this season as a whole — coming up just as soon as we have lunch followed by breakfast... As someone with virtually no "Doctor Who" experience prior to the reboot, I've always appreciated Russell T. Davies' decision to kill off the Timelords. As it is, the new version of the series has plenty of links to the old — especially since Davies couldn't stop himself from continually bringing back more and more Daleks — but I've only occasionally felt like I arrived at class without having done the reading assignment when I watch episodes dealing with the Doctor's former friends and enemies. Obviously, the series has lots of fans who can recite chapter and verse on every adventure going back to William Hartnell, but for us relative newbies, sidelining the Time Lords did a good job of boiling the show down »
- Alan Sepinwall
President Obama to Address Terror Threat in Address to Nation on Sunday
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
President Obama will address the nation at 8 pm Eastern on Sunday about “the threat of terrorism and keeping the American people safe,” the White House said in a statement on Saturday. Broadcast networks were expected to carry the address live and bump scheduled programming to accommodate the speech. Tomorrow at 8pm Et, @Potus will address the nation on the threat of terrorism and keeping the American people safe → https://t.co/b68B45RuKg — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 5, 2015 The president cancelled his attendance of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony on Sunday, an unusual step. He and Michelle Obama were still scheduled to. »
- Sharon Waxman
Ash vs. Evil Dead Bad Skeletons and Good Intestines
5 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
I’m still unsure if the show knows exactly what its tone is supposed to be. Evil Dead has always been more gross, creepy and over the top than straight-up scary. This episode opens with Ruby and Fisher investigating Brujo’s house before being attacked by a truly terrible CGI skeleton that seems to be designed to be more badass scary, like the wights of Game of Thrones. One of the things that makes great campy horror like Evil Dead work is straddling that line between creepy and goofy (which the human-possessed-as-Deadite makeup does so well). But does AvED want to be camp? Sticking with the old-school deadite look and all the yuk-yuk one-liners indicate yes, while the attempts at legitimately unsettling baddies like Eligos (which worked as creature effect) and this Flaming Skeleton (which looks like ass) indicate no.Although, on another level, the clumsiness of the CGI around »
- Chris Wade
Doctor Who Season Finale Recap: Duty of Care
5 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
One aspect of Steven Moffat’s writing that doesn’t get nearly enough praise is its unpredictability. In any given season, people develop theories about what will happen. Sometimes, in the broadest sense, a few folks correctly call a thing or two ahead of time. But nobody, anywhere on the planet, in any corner of the world that this show is viewed in, predicted that this season would end with Clara and Ashildr/Me flying off into time and space in a diner-shaped Tardis. Nobody. Like so many of Moffat’s season enders, “Hell Bent” is a highly operatic and deeply emotional affair. This may be putting too fine a point on it, but it seems likely your feelings on “Hell Bent” will largely hinge on whether or not you’ve been a fan of Clara Oswald, and if her character development and story arcs over the past three seasons have resonated with you. »
- Ross Ruediger
How accurate are the experts' Oscar predictions at Gold Derby?'
5 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
If you're wondering how seriously you should regard the current Oscar predictions of Gold Derby's experts, consider our accuracy rate on this same day (Dec. 5) last year. We nailed 71% of the eventual nominees in 19 categories. In terms of predicting winners, we correctly foresaw three of the top six categories: Best Actress (Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"), Supporting Actor (J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash") and Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"). We got these three races wrong: Best Picture, Director and Actor. -Break- See how our 22 experts rank Oscar contenders according to likelihood of winning "Boyhood" was our overwhelming favorite to win Best Picture with the backing of 18 out of 26 pundits. "Selma" was ranked second with the backing of three experts. Eventual champ "Birdman" was ranked third and only had the support of one very smart guru: Mary Milliken (Reuters). Last year we corr »
President Obama to Address Nation Sunday on Terror Threat, Cancels Kennedy Center Honors Appearance
6 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
President Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night to address the threat of terrorism in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
Obama has canceled his planned appearance at Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors evening ceremony, an annual ritual for presidents for nearly 40 years. Obama will still address the Kennedy Center Honors reception event at the White House at around 5 p.m. Et.
The White House said Obama’s address to the nation will run from 8-8:30 p.m. Et. Fox, ABC and CBS confirmed they would carry the speech, hastily adjusting primetime schedules to accommodate the President.
According to a statement from the White House, the President “will provide an update on the ongoing investigation into the tragic attack in San Bernardino. He will also discuss the broader threat of terrorism — including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, »
- Marianne Zumberge
Adele's '25' Sells 1.11 Million in Second Week in U.S.
7 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The final sales figures are in for the second week of Adele’s 25. Nielsen Music reports that it sold 1.11 million in pure album sales in the seven days ending Dec. 3 in the U.S. As earlier reported, 25 is now the first album to sell a million copies in two different weeks since Nielsen began tracking point-of-sale purchases in 1991. In its first two weeks on sale, 25 has sold a whopping 4.49 million copies. The set debuted with a record-breaking 3.38 million sold in its first week. { "nid": 844101, "type": "news", "title": "Adele's '25' Official First Week
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- Keith Caulfield, Billboard
Obama to Give Sunday Night Oval Office Address in Wake of California Shootings
7 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
President Barack Obama will deliver a prime-time address to the nation that networks will broadcast live Sunday at 8 p.m. Et. Obama has canceled his appearance on Sunday night at the Kennedy Center Honors, a ceremony the president traditionally attends. He will, however, deliver remarks with First Lady Michelle Obama at the Kennedy Center Honors reception at 5:05 p.m. Et from the East Room. { "nid": 808807, "type": "news", "title": "Kennedy Center Honors Tap George Lucas, Carole King, Rita Moreno", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kennedy-center-honors-tap-george-808807", "relative-path": "/news/kennedy-center-honors-tap-george-
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- Arlene Washington
Smf: Southeast Asian Film Financing Project Market Winners
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Operated as a component of ScreenSingapore for the first time, with Europe’s Ties That Bind and Singapore-based Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association [Saava], the Singapore Media Festival’s project market unveiled its winners on Friday.
Southeast Asian Film Financing Project Market Winners
Grand prize (Silver Media Group first look deal worth Sgd 25,000)
“The Happiness (R)evolution” (Bhutan/Singapore) Producer – William Lim. Director – Thukten Yeshi. Genre – Documentary. Budget SGD120,000
Red cinema package worth Sgd 25,000
“The Happiness (R)evolution”
“One Two Jaga” (Malaysia) Producers – Bront Palarae, Rozi Isma Abdul Karim. Director – Nam Ron. Crime Drama. SGD420,000
Gateway to Digital Award (Sgd 10,000 of post-production services)
“The Long Walk” (Laos) Producers Douangmany Soliphanh, Pithai Smithsuth, Mattie do. Director – Mattie Do. Supernatural Drama. SDGD292,000
“Lonely Fish” (Vietnam) Producer Nguyen Hoang Diep. Director Vo Thach Thao. Drama. SGD380,000
Red Education course worth SGD4,500
“The Happiness (R)evolution”
“One Two Jaga”
G-Drive prizes (SGD2000 + G-Drive Thunderbolt hard drive »
- Variety Staff
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