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Angel Grace Productions Takes On "Scout" Berlin's EFM is First Stop for Road Trip Film Starring Ellen Burstyn, Danny Glover, India Ennenga and James Frecheville BURBANK, Calif., Jan. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BrownBag Pictures and Decipher Entertainment announce that Angel Grace Productions will handle international sales on their recently completed film "Scout." Sales will commence at the EFM in Berlin, according to producers Beverley A. Gordon, Dwjuan Fox and Nicolas Emiliani, with the film having its first market screenings. Reder & Feig LLP represents US sales for "Scout." "Scout" tells the story of a rebellious girl who takes a troubled young man on a road trip to find her little sister, who has gone missing. Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn ("Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Interstellar"), Danny Glover ("Lethal Weapon" franchise) and Golden Globe® winner Jane Seymour ("East of Ede...

REINVENTING DOCUMENTARY FILM-MAKING IN DIGITAL SPACE. The 5th iREP Film Festival is scheduled to hold from the 19th to 22nd March, 2015, in Lagos, and it promises to be four days of over 40 documentary film screenings, insightful panel discussions, training and workshops, and networking. iREPRESENT Documentary Film Festival 2015 is planned to take full advantage of online connectivity and interaction through livestream broadcast and feedback. #‎iREP2015‬ is premised on the reality that Digital media technology is expanding narrative possibilities and shaping audiences’ experiences of how realities are articulated. Documentary filmmaking is coming to terms with these new realities and continuously finding hybrid strategies to navigate the blurred lines crisscrossing verite and satisfying the ever changing temperament of the digital world that is hip, fun-seeking, chaotic, multi-tasking, and attention sapping. For documentary filmmaking, digital technology presents a challenge an...

Martha L. Ruiz Named Co-Leader of PwC's Oscars® Balloting Team PwC Enters its 81st Consecutive Year Preserving Secrecy of Oscars Winners LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC announced today that Martha L. Ruiz has joined Brian Cullinan as the new Oscars balloting co-leader overseeing the Oscars balloting process, replacing longtime balloting co-leader Rick Rosas. This year marks PwC's 81st year leading the Oscars balloting process on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy). Ruiz joins a very small group of PwC partners who have safeguarded the world's most famous and best kept secrets for over eighty years. Ruiz and Cullinan will be the only two people in the world who know the identities of the Oscar® winners before they are revealed on ABC's live telecast at 4:00 p.m. PT (7:00 p.m. ET) on Sunday, February 22, 2015. "PwC's role in the Oscars balloting process represents the firm's lasting legacy of utmost a...

All 20 of this year's acting contenders are white. So what? There are no women in the directing or writing categories. So what? The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite on Twitter is unnecessary bellyaching. Africa made the the nominations with Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako's critically acclaimed "Timbuktu" competing for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. And he will make headlines all over the continent if he wins it. Thank God Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is BLACK, otherwise they would have called her a white supremacist from the KKK. All these bellyaching and farts over lack of diversity in the membership of the Academy and 2015 Oscar nominations are irrelevant to the fact that merit determined the nominations and not politics of racism. Politics should be separated from the Oscars and it would be stupid to use racial diversity and equality to determine the nominations and winners of awards whether in the Arts or Science...

Actor Chris Hemsworth with director Ron Howard, winner of the Critics' Choice LOUIS XIII Genius Award, during the 20th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on January 15, 2015 in Los Angeles, CA. source: Louis XIII de Remy Martin media contact info: http://www.LOUISXIII-COGNAC.com/. Chris Hemsworth Presents Prestigious Critics' Choice LOUIS XIII® Genius Award to Film Icon Ron Howard at 20th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards LOS ANGELES, January 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- LOUIS XIII & Broadcast Film Critics Association Honour the 'A Beautiful Mind', 'Apollo 13' and 'In the Heart of the Sea' Director for Demonstrating Unprecedented Excellence in the Cinematic Arts LOUIS XIII Cognac and the Broadcast Film Critics Association proudly bestowed the third annual "Critics' Choice LOUIS XIII Genius Award" to legendary filmmaker Ron Howard this evening, presented by actor Chris Hemsworth at the 20...

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Sony Pictures To Distribute "The Interview" Online Beginning Christmas Eve Through Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft's Xbox Video and Dedicated Website Film To Be Widely Available On Demand Throughout The United States The Interview Pervasive Language, Crude and Sexual Humor, Nudity, Some Drug Use and Bloody Violence In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show 'Skylark Tonight.' When they discover that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the most unlikely candidates, to 'take out' Kim Jong-un. Directors Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Genre Comedy Stars James Franco (Dave Skylark), Seth Rogen (...

Gone but Not Forgotten: "Gone with the Wind" is Still America's Favorite Movie Gone but Not Forgotten: Gone with the Wind is Still America's Favorite Movie The force is still strong with Star Wars in the #2 spot; Titanic rises from the depths to #3 NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- It may have premiered 75 years ago, but it would appear that Wind has still got legs: when asked to name their favorite movie of all time, the septuagenarian Civil War epic Gone with the Wind is Americans' top pick again (the film was also America's favorite movie in 2008). With six movies in the can and a much-discussed trailer now making the rounds for Episode Seven, Star Wars soars into the same runner up position it held in 2008. Meanwhile, Titanic is doing anything but sinking; after not making the top 10 in 2008, the 1997 love story may not quite be king of the world this time around – but surely rounding out the top three is none too shabby. (Full results,...

"Selma" official trailer. Photo: David Oyelowo (as Martin Luther King Jr.) and Carmen Ejogo (as Coretta Scott King), photographed on the set of "Selma" at the Georgia State Capitol building, in Atlanta. Credit: Vanity Fair David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo is Martin Luther King, Jr. and Carmen Ejogo is his wife Coretta Scott King in Ava DuVernay 's highly acclaimed American historical drama "Selma" based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel,Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. "Selma garnered four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director and Best Actor for Oyelowo and he has already won the 2014 African-American Film Critics Association's Breakthrough Performance Award for Best Actor, http://variety.com/exec/david-oyelowo/. "Selma" will open at the cinemas in the United States on Christmas Day 2014 and will open worldwide from January 9, 2015. Pa...

Photo: Omotola Jalade Ekeinde at the Time 100 Gala with the famous icons of Hollywood Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis. Yes, legendary Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg knows Lupita Nyong'o of Kenya who is famous for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed role of "Patsey" in Steve McQueen's multiple award winning historical drama "12 Years a Slave" (2013), and he also knows Rachel Mwanza of Democratic Republic of the Congo who won the coveted Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, Best Actress at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, Vancouver Film Critics Circle in 2012 and Best Actress at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards for her unforgettable role as "Komona" in the Academy Award nominated film "War Witch" (French: Rebelle) by Kim Nguyen. But Spielberg did not know Nigeria's Queen of Nollywood Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, aka O...

French-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako's highly acclaimed film "Timbuktu" is among the international nominees for the 19th Annual Satellite Awards for Motion Pictures. Timbuktu competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the François Chalais Prize. The film has been selected as Mauritania's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards coming up on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. INTERNATIONAL PRESS ACADEMY 2014 Nominations 19th ANNUAL SATELLITE™ AWARDS MOTION PICTURES Actress in a Motion Picture Anne Dorval MOMMY Roadside Attractions Felicity Jones THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Focus Features Gugu Mbatha-Raw BELLE Fox Searchlight Julianne Moore STILL ALICE - See more at: http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2014/12/international-press-academy-announces.html#sthash.2KsqjjVd.dpuf . Tweet