Academy
Awards
March 25 (Los Angeles)
A
record 46 countries have submitted films to the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences for Academy Award consideration as Best
Foreign Language Film of 2000, announced Academy President Robert
Rehme announced today. Each country is invited to submit its best
film of the year to the Academy. Selection of those e...
National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures
December 6, 2000
The
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures named Philip Kaufman's
Quills the top film of 2000. Starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate
Winslet, the film is a story about the life of the Marquis de Sade.
The award for best foreign film went to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger
Hidden Dragon (out in US theatre...
Golden Horse Awards
December 2
The
37th Golden Horse Film Award was held on Dec 2 in Taiwan, and the
media was mad for the brilliant presence of all the Chinese cinema
vips who appeared in couples such as Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and Tony
Leung Chiu-wai (In
the Mood for Love), Sammi Cheng Sau-man and Andy Law de-war
(Needing you), and the Bond girl Michelle Yeong Zi-King (Cro...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
November 10 - 19 (Greece)
With daily temperatures of 26-27 degrees
C and nightly festivities fuelled by the generous flowing of sponsors'
highly drinkable products, Thessaloniki's 's 41st International
Film Festival proved a lively fin de saison event thay not only
showcased a strong selection of features from other festivals bu...
Festival of Young East European Cinema
November 1 - 5 (Cottbus,
Germany)
The
10th jubilee edition of the only festival devoted to new East European
cinema got off to a fiery start with folk musicians and fire-eaters
adding a characteristically quirky note to the opening event.
Eight
juries gave out awards totalling 45,000 DMs ...
New
Yorkers Vote for Traffic
After
five hours of deliberation, the 35 members of the New York Film
Critics Circle have announced their award winners for the year 2000.
The group, the oldest of its kind in the United States, has been
around since 1935. Steven
Soderbergh's Traffic, about the international drug trade,
was named best picture and Soderbergh w...
Flanders Int'l Film Festival
Ghent (Belgium), October 10 -21, 2000
In what is becoming a worldwide trend, Alejandro Gonzales
Inarritu's Amores
Perros (Love's A Bitch) grabbed the Grand Prize at
yet another festival -- the 27th Flanders International Film Festival
in Ghent. The Mexican director personally claimed the award at an
intimate ceremony held in the Festival Vill...
Stockholm
International Film Festival
November 9 - 19 (Sweden)
The highlight of the 11th Stockholm
International Film Festival was the Lifetime Achievement award given
to Lauren Bacall: "for her memorable portrayal of timeless female
beauty and refinedelegance." Six films she selected were shown in
a Bacall retrospective, and her film noir stills were the festival
...
The Hollywood
Foreign Press Association today announced its nominees for the 58th annual Golden
Globes, the ceremony considered the harbinger of Oscar glory. Traffic
by Steven Soderbergh and Gladiator by Ridley Scott led the list with
five nods each. The films nominated for Best Motion Picture are Billy Elliot,
Erin Brockovich, Gladiator, Sunshine, Traffic, and
Wonder Boys. Julia Roberts was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama
for her role in Erin Brockovich. Others...
Academy Vice
President Sid Ganis will chair the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'
post-awards dinner-dance, the Governors Ball, for the sixth straight year. The
dinner for winners, nominees, presenters and participants of the 73rd Academy
Awards Presentation will immediately follow the annual Awards telecast on Sunday,
March 25, 2001. Again joining Ganis is lyricist Alan Bergman, who has been appointed
vice-chair and will work closely with Ganis to create the l...
Bush supporters have taken out a full page ad in The Hollywood Reporter
this week, wishing Alec Baldwin a happy four years abroad and a "Bon Voyage
Mr. Baldwin." The message to the actor was sparked by a comment his wife Kim Basinger
made in the months prior to the US Presidential election. In an interview with a German magazine, Basinger reportedly said that her husband would "leave the country for four
years" if Bush were elected. ...
The ultra-violent, ultra-popular, and ultra-controversial Japanese film Battle
Royale will have its international premiere at the Film Festival Rotterdam in early
2001. The story follows two teenagers who are stranded on an island and forced
to kill each other until only one survives. When it was released, Japanese politicians called for it to be banned from theaters. Nevertheless, the film grossed $5.5 million opening weekend. ...
Following her success
with Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Michelle Yeoh is now in talks for the Matrix
role that had originally been reserved for Jet Li. According to Variety,
the Matrix team is interested in the switch because Li's price is too high:
he wanted $13 million, and was talked down to $3 million -- still a hefty sum
considering that Keanu Reeves is already guaranteed $30 million to star in the
sequel. ...
Director of Billy Elliot, big winner on the festival circuit in 2000, talks
about family as the battleground, about the character played by Jamie Bell,
about setting the story during a miner's strike, about theatre vs movie
making.
...
A look at the making of Billy Elliot with comments by Stephen Daldry....
Background information on the miner's strike in 1984, the backdrop for the
film Billy Elliot....
After her collapse last week on the set of TV show "Ally McBeal,"
actress Calista Flockhart is said to be recovering in her home. The actress
was rushed to a hospital in Torrance, California where she was treated for dehydration
and exhaustion, and was put on a drip for a few hours....
Actor Edward James Olmos has been honored with a plaque on the Latino Walk of
Fame. The Walk of Fame is located on Whittier Boulevard, and features Cesar
Chavez and former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Olmos is
known to audiences for his starring role as a teacher in Stand and Deliver
(1987) and for his charity work throughout Los Angeles....
It may cost her $100,000, but Elizabeth Hurley is still in the Screen Actors
Guild after all. The actress was fined the six-figure sum for filming an ad
for Estee Lauder cosmetics during the six-month strike. She claimed to have
not known about the strike, and donated $25,000 shortly after her mistake. This
donation will be used toward her fine. Hurley has just renewed her contract
with Estee Lauder and was seen most recently in the film Bedazzled....
Steve Martin will host the 73rd Academy Awards. "If you can't win 'em, join
'em," said Martin, who has not yet been nominated for an Oscar. Although he
has made several appearances as a presenter at the Oscars, this will be his
first time as host. ...
Written and directed by Lone Scherfig, Italian for Beginners has been
been slated to be screened in competition at Berlin 2001, according to Screen
Daily. The film presents a comic look at singles that meet up in an Italian
evening course and has faired quite well after its recent domestic release.
Sherfig is no newcomer to Berlin, having won the Kinderfilmfest prize for On Our Own in 1999. ...
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association made its selections for the best of 2000.
Leading the award winners was Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Chinese-language epic from director Ang Lee,
which won Best Film and Best Music. The Best Director award went to Steven Soderbergh
for Traffic and Erin Brockovich. He also won the prize for Best
Cinematography (under the pseudonym Peter Andrews). Julia Roberts won the Best
Actress award for her turn in Erin Brockovich, and Best Actor was...
Andrucha Washington's comedy Me,
You, Them (Eu, Tu, Eles) took the top prize, the Gran Coral, at the
22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. The festival
ran from December 5 through 15 and screened more than 350 films, after an opening
ceremony featuring Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Other winning films were That’s
Life (Asi Es La Vida) from director Arturo Ripstein, which took home
the Grand Jury Prize. The second Place went to Nueces Para ...
Shockwave.com
has announced that it will acquire AtomFilms in a stock swap. In the new arrangement,
Shockwave shareholders will own 70% of the consolidated company and AtomFilms
shareholders will own the remaining 30%. The chairman of the new company will
be Rob Burgess, chairman and CEO of Shockwave parent Macromedia. Mika Salmi,
founder and CEO of AtomFilms, will be CEO....
102 Dalmatians by Kevin Lima
If a leopard can never change its spots, how about a Dalmatian-killer? The devilish De Vil is released from prison after some shocking treatment and claims that she is a reformed woman. With great fur-vour Cruella's new incarnation as animal-rights activist ('call me Ella'), throws out the minks and stoles, and puts time and great fortune into an animal sanctuary. But can a felon reform? Cloe (played by Alice Evans), Dalmatian owner and Cruella's probation officer,...
