June 3, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Ron Moore and Michael Taylor’s SF pilot Virtuality will air on Friday, June 26 (8-10 PM ET/PT) on Fox. The pilot for the science fiction drama was filmed last year and its prospects of getting a series order seemed bleak only a couple of months ago. It remains to be seen if this will change, especially with the Friday night deathslot reserved for the premiere. Virtuality follows a 12 m... Read Full Story

May 25, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The 62nd Cannes Film Festival closed yesterday, when this year’s winners were announced at the awards ceremony. German helmer Michael Haneke won the Palme d’Or with his black-and-white prison drama The White Ribbon. Haneke had previously won the director award for Cache (2005) and the Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher (2001) at the Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix went to Fren... Read Full Story

May 13, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Fox has picked up its 2009 procedural Lie to Me for a second season and Shawn Ryan has been tapped as an executive producer where he’ll work alongside Brian Grazer, David Nevins and creator Sam Baum next season. Ryan, who’s also an executive producer of The Unit, is still awaiting the fate of the CBS drama. “Lie to Me came out strong, built a solid audience throughout i... Read Full Story

May 5, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Billy Elliott, The Musical scored as many as 15 nominations for the 2009 Tony Awards, which were announced on Tuesday morning. Other productions that earned multiple nods this year include Next to Normal (11 nominations), Hair (8), Shrek The Musical (8), Mary Stuart (7) and The Norman Conquests (7). Here is the full list of the 2009 Tony Award nominations: BEST PLAY Dividing the Estate A... Read Full Story

April 7, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Dollhouse’s leading man Tahmoh Penikett, Smallville’s Laura Vandervoort and Alan Cumming (X-Men 2, The L Word, Tin Man) have been cast in Riverworld, SCI FI Channel’s four-hour movie/backdoor pilot based on the series of novels by the recently departed science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer. Riverworld was previously adapted as a television film in 2003. Penikett, b... Read Full Story

April 6, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Passengers, a science fiction romance written by Jon Spaihts, has made it a step closer to the big screen. Spaihts’ script was on the list of the best unproduced scripts in 2007 (Black List 2007) and has been in development at Company Films for some time now, with Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel as on board as producers. Now, Passengers is one of the three projects that have been f... Read Full Story

February 23, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!BEST PICTURE “Slumdog Millionaire” BEST ACTRESS Kate Winslet, “The Reader” BEST ACTOR Sean Penn, “Milk” BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” BEST DIRECTOR Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Dustin Lanc... Read Full Story

February 16, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Slumdog Millionaire’s production mixer Resul Pookutty and re-recording mixers Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke were presented with the award for outstanding achievement in motion picture sound mixing at the 45th Annual Cinema Audio Awards ceremony, held on Saturday at the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel. Dedicating the award to the ‘’sound gods of India,” Pookutty said: ... Read Full Story

February 16, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Berlin Film Festival closed on Saturday with an awards ceremony. The International Jury presented the Golden Bear for Best Film to a Latin American filmmaker for the second year in a row. The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta asustada), the winner of the Golden Bear, is the second feature from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa. It follows a young girl faced with life in Lima after her mothe... Read Full Story

February 16, 2009 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the winners of the 2009 ACE Eddie Awards for best achievement in editing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night. Mel Gibson presented Richard Donner with ACE’s filmmaker of the year award, while Robert Zemeckis handed the career achievement trophy to Arthur Schmidt, whose credits include Back to the Future and Forrest Gump. Sidney M. Kat... Read Full Story