Press Releases Archive for December, 2012

104 ORIGINAL SCORES IN 2012 OSCAR® RACE

December 10, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   BEVERLY HILLS, CA – One hundred four scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2012 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 85th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. The eligible scores along with their composers…

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Sundance Institute Announces 10 Films and Art House Theaters for Sundance Film Festival USA on Jan. 31

For Immediate Release Ann Arbor, MI | Boston, MA | Brooklyn, NY | Chicago, IL | Houston, TX | Los Angeles, CA | Nashville, TN | Orlando, FL | San Francisco, CA | Tucson, AZ Park City, UT — January 10, 2012 — Sundance Institute announced today the films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival that…

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AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES AFI AWARDS 2012 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOS ANGELES, CA, December 10, 2012– The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2012 – the awards season event favored by artists and entertainment executives for its intimacy and collaborative recognition where everyone is a winner – that documents the year’s most outstanding achievements in film…

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Supreme Court to Hear 83-Year Old Widow’s Challenge to Defense of Marriage Act

The Supreme Court also agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, which relates to the right of same-sex couples to marry in the State of California.

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2013 Critics Awards: National Board Of Review

  Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty Best Actor: Bradley Cooper Silver Linings Playbook Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Best Supporting Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained Best Supporting Actress: Ann Dowd, Compliance Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson ,Looper Best Adapted Screenplay: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook…

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FASCINATING 2013 FEATURE FILM COMPETITION SLATE

GROUNDBREAKING FIRST TIME FILMMAKERS DEBUT IN PARK CITY LOS ANGELES – December 5, 2012 — Slamdance today announced their Narrative and Documentary Feature Competition Programs for the 19th Annual Slamdance Film Festival. The Feature Competition Programs present breakthrough films by first-time feature film directors from around the world. The 2013 Slamdance Film Festival will showcase…

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2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM PROGRAM

For Immediate Release December 4, 2012 Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The 2013 Short Film program is comprised of 65 short films selected from a record…

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FINAL FILM OF ACTRESS BRITTANY MURPHY, “SOMETHING WICKED,” COMPLETES POST PRODUCTION, OUT TO DISTRIBUTORS

December 4, 2012 – Los Angeles – Fans of the late actress Brittany Murphy will no longer have to wait to see the beloved star in her last role. “Something Wicked,” Murphy’s final film, has completed post production and will be presented to distributors in the next few weeks. Fans can follow the Facebook page for…

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SUNDANCE CHANNEL’S “TOP OF THE LAKE” TO PREMIERE AT THE 2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AS THE FIRST LONG-FORM SCRIPTED SERIES TO SCREEN AS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION

Created By Jane Campion, Holly Hunter And Elisabeth Moss Star In Thi Seven-Part Series The Network’s Scripted Television Series “Rectify” From Ray McKinnon Will Debut In Park City In Private Screening NEW YORK – December 3, 2012 – Sundance Channel today announced that two of their highly anticipated original scripted series, “Top of the Lake” and…

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15 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES ADVANCE IN 2012 OSCAR® RACE

December 3, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BEVERLY HILLS, CA– The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®. One hundred twenty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 15 films are listed below in…

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2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILMS IN PREMIERES AND DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES

For Immediate Release December 3, 2012   Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, “We…

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2012 European Film Awards Winners

THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: WINNERS The more than 2,700 members of the European Film Academy—filmmakers from across Europe—have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented: EUROPEAN FILM 2012: AMOUR France / Germany / Austria, 127 min Written & directed by Michael Haneke produced…

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon