NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR THE EE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS IN 2016
Bridge of Spies and Carol each receive nine nominations. The Revenant is nominated in eight categories. Mad Max: Fury Road has seven nominations. Brooklyn and The Martian are each nominated six times. The Big Short, The Danish Girl and Ex Machina receive five nominations. Star Wars: The Force Awakens receives four nominations.
Bridge of Spies is nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Director for Steven Spielberg, Original Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design and Sound. Mark Rylance is nominated for Supporting Actor.
Carol is nominated for Best Film, Director for Todd Haynes, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Cate Blanchett is nominated for Leading Actress and Rooney Mara is nominated for Supporting Actress.
The Revenant receives nominations for Best Film, Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Make Up & Hair and Sound, whilst Leonardo DiCaprio is nominated for Leading Actor.
Mad Max: Fury Road is nominated in the following categories: Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair, Sound and Special Visual Effects.
Brooklyn is nominated for Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair, with two further nominations for Saoirse Ronan in Leading Actress and Julie Walters in Supporting Actress.
The Martian is nominated for Editing, Production Design, Sound, Special Visual Effects and Director for Ridley Scott, with Matt Damon nominated for Leading Actor.
The Big Short receives nominations for Best Film, Director for Adam McKay, Adapted Screenplay and Editing, with Christian Bale nominated for Supporting Actor.
The Danish Girl is nominated for Outstanding British Film, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair, with Leading Actor and Leading Actress nominations for Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander respectively.
Ex Machina is nominated for Outstanding British Film and Special Visual Effects, with nominations for Alex Garland in Original Screenplay and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Alicia Vikander receives a further nomination for Supporting Actress.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is nominated in Production Design, Sound, Original Music and Special Visual Effects. Ant-Man completes the nominations for Special Visual Effects.
Spotlight completes the Best Film nominees, with two further nominations in Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo and Original Screenplay. Also nominated in Supporting Actor is Benicio del Toro for Sicario, which receives two further nominations for Original Music and Cinematography. Idris Elba completes the nominations in Supporting Actor for Beasts of No Nation.
Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet are nominated in Leading Actor and Supporting Actress respectively for Steve Jobs, which is also nominated for Adapted Screenplay. The nominations for Leading Actor are completed by Bryan Cranston for Trumbo.
The Hateful Eight is nominated in Original Screenplay, Original Music, and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Jason Leigh. Also nominated in Leading Actress is Brie Larson for Room, which receives a further nomination for Adapted Screenplay. The nominees for Leading Actress are completed by Maggie Smith for The Lady in the Van.
The Animated Film nominees are Minions, Shaun the Sheep Movie and Inside Out, which also receives a nomination for Original Screenplay.
Amy receives nominations for Outstanding British Film and Documentary. Also receiving Documentary nominations are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Listen to Me Marlon and Sherpa.
45 Years and The Lobster are also nominated in the Outstanding British Film category, whilst the nominations for Costume Design are completed by Cinderella.
Theeb is nominated for Film Not in the English Language and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Naji Abu Nowar (Writer/Director) and Rupert Lloyd (Producer). Also nominated for Film Not in the English Language are The Assassin, Force Majeure, Timbuktu and Wild Tales.
Second Coming (Debbie Tucker Green, Writer/Director), The Survivalist (Stephen Fingleton, Writer/Director) and A Syrian Love Story (Sean McAllister, Director/Producer; Elhum Shakerifar, Producer) complete the nominations for Outstanding Debut.
The British Short Animation nominees are Edmond, Manoman and Prologue. The five nominations for British Short Film are Elephant, Mining Poems or Odes, Operator, Over and Samuel-613.
The nominees for the EE Rising Star Award, announced earlier this week, are Bel Powley, Brie Larson, Dakota Johnson, John Boyega and Taron Egerton. This audience award is voted for by the British public and presented to an actress or actor who has demonstrated exceptional talent and promise.
The EE British Academy Film Awards take place on Sunday 14 February 2016 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. The ceremony will be hosted by Stephen Fry and will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One and BBC One HD, preceded by a red carpet show on BBC Three. The ceremony is also broadcast in all major territories around the world.
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Saturday, January 9, 2016
"The Girlfriend Experience" Premieres on Starz in April 2016
STARZ Original Limited Series “The Girlfriend Experience” to Premiere Sunday, April 10th
Entire 13-Part Series from Executive Producer Steven Soderbergh, Filmmakers Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz, and Starring Riley Keough, Will Be Available for Binge to STARZ Subscribers On-Demand at Same Time
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced at today’s STARZ’ Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation at the Langham Huntington the new limited series, “The Girlfriend Experience,” will premiere on STARZ on Sunday, April 10th, 2016 at 8 pm ET/PT. All 13 half-hour episodes will also be made available simultaneously for STARZ subscribers on STARZ PLAY and STARZ ON DEMAND, in the U.S.
The series, starring Riley Keough (Magic Mike, Mad Max: Fury Road), is a reimagining of Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 critically acclaimed movie of the same name. Soderbergh executive produces, along with Philip Fleishman, Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, Gary Marcus and Jeff Cuban. Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz are the co-creators, writing and directing all 13 episodes.
CEO of Starz Chris Albrecht said, “We believe the provocative world created by Steven, Lodge and Amy, coupled with an absolutely mesmerizing performance by Riley Keough in the lead role will make ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ difficult to turn off. Providing binging access to the entire 13-episodes to STARZ subscribers, along with the traditional weekly episodic premiere schedule, allows us to accommodate all viewing appetites.“
“The Girlfriend Experience” follows Christine Reade, a second year student at Chicago-Burnham Law School and a new intern at the prestigious firm of Kirkland & Allen. Working hard to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price. Juggling two very different lives, Christine quickly finds herself drawn into the GFE world, attracted to the rush of control and intimacy. It also stars Paul Sparks, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Kate Lyn Sheil.
For more information, go to the official The Girlfriend Experience Facebook Page and follow @STARZ_Channel for up to the minute information. Join the conversation with #GirlfriendExperience.
About Starz
Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global media and entertainment company with operating units that provide premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television channels (Starz Networks) and global content distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com.
Starz Networks is a leading provider of premium subscription video programming through the flagship STARZ® and ENCORE® pay TV networks which showcase premium original programming and movies to U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies. As of September 30, 2015, STARZ and ENCORE serve a combined 55.8 million subscribers, including 23.3 million at STARZ, and 32.5 million at ENCORE, making them the largest pair of premium flagship channels in the U.S. STARZ® and ENCORE®, along with Starz Networks' third network MOVIEPLEX®, air more than 1,000 movies monthly across 17 linear networks, complemented by On Demand and authenticated online offerings through STARZ PLAY, ENCORE PLAY, and MOVIEPLEX PLAY. Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires entertainment content, distributing it to consumers globally on DVD, digital formats and traditional television. Starz Distribution's home video, digital media and worldwide distribution business units distribute original programming content produced by Starz, as well as entertainment content for itself and third parties.
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Entire 13-Part Series from Executive Producer Steven Soderbergh, Filmmakers Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz, and Starring Riley Keough, Will Be Available for Binge to STARZ Subscribers On-Demand at Same Time
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced at today’s STARZ’ Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation at the Langham Huntington the new limited series, “The Girlfriend Experience,” will premiere on STARZ on Sunday, April 10th, 2016 at 8 pm ET/PT. All 13 half-hour episodes will also be made available simultaneously for STARZ subscribers on STARZ PLAY and STARZ ON DEMAND, in the U.S.
The series, starring Riley Keough (Magic Mike, Mad Max: Fury Road), is a reimagining of Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 critically acclaimed movie of the same name. Soderbergh executive produces, along with Philip Fleishman, Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, Gary Marcus and Jeff Cuban. Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz are the co-creators, writing and directing all 13 episodes.
CEO of Starz Chris Albrecht said, “We believe the provocative world created by Steven, Lodge and Amy, coupled with an absolutely mesmerizing performance by Riley Keough in the lead role will make ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ difficult to turn off. Providing binging access to the entire 13-episodes to STARZ subscribers, along with the traditional weekly episodic premiere schedule, allows us to accommodate all viewing appetites.“
“The Girlfriend Experience” follows Christine Reade, a second year student at Chicago-Burnham Law School and a new intern at the prestigious firm of Kirkland & Allen. Working hard to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price. Juggling two very different lives, Christine quickly finds herself drawn into the GFE world, attracted to the rush of control and intimacy. It also stars Paul Sparks, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Kate Lyn Sheil.
For more information, go to the official The Girlfriend Experience Facebook Page and follow @STARZ_Channel for up to the minute information. Join the conversation with #GirlfriendExperience.
About Starz
Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global media and entertainment company with operating units that provide premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay television channels (Starz Networks) and global content distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com.
Starz Networks is a leading provider of premium subscription video programming through the flagship STARZ® and ENCORE® pay TV networks which showcase premium original programming and movies to U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies. As of September 30, 2015, STARZ and ENCORE serve a combined 55.8 million subscribers, including 23.3 million at STARZ, and 32.5 million at ENCORE, making them the largest pair of premium flagship channels in the U.S. STARZ® and ENCORE®, along with Starz Networks' third network MOVIEPLEX®, air more than 1,000 movies monthly across 17 linear networks, complemented by On Demand and authenticated online offerings through STARZ PLAY, ENCORE PLAY, and MOVIEPLEX PLAY. Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires entertainment content, distributing it to consumers globally on DVD, digital formats and traditional television. Starz Distribution's home video, digital media and worldwide distribution business units distribute original programming content produced by Starz, as well as entertainment content for itself and third parties.
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Movie Ticket Sales Are Up, and So Are Credit Card Swipe Profits
The Golden Globes Are a Golden Opportunity – For Big Banks
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following press release was issued by Merchants Payments Coalition:
Movie ticket sales rebounded in 2015, up 7 percent to $11 billion, according to the Box Office Mojo website. But it’s not the theaters raking in the biggest profit margins: It’s the banks.
Every time you swipe a debit or credit card to buy a ticket, your bank lops off a big chunk of the price for itself for processing the transaction. The banks inflate these “swipe fees” every year even as their costs drop. The profit margins are so high that few industries can match them: 500 percent for debit cards, according to the banks’ own figures, and as much as 10,000 percent for credit cards.
Say you buy tickets for a family of five at the average of around $8 each. Use a credit card to pay the $40, and as much as 4 percent -- $1.60 – goes directly to the bank that issued your credit card. That’s a big profit on a transaction that costs the bank only a few pennies.
And these swipe fees add hundreds of dollars every year to the cost of everything you buy, from gas to groceries – even if you don’t use a card. That, of course, hurts the poorest consumers the most.
At 4 percent, the banks could have made as much as $30 million on the top-grossing film of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which took in $750 million before the end of the year.
Even a relatively modest hit like Mad Max: Fury Road, nominated for a Golden Globe – the award ceremony is Sunday – represents a handsome profit for the banks. It took in $154 million (Number 20 in ticket sales last year), which at 4 percent would yield $6 million in swipe fees.
Two giant companies – Visa and MasterCard – dominate the swipe-fee market and price-fix fees without competition in order to lure banks to their brands. Swipe fees are merchants’ fastest-growing costs and are the second-largest operating cost for many, after only labor.
Bad for consumers, bad for merchants, bad for the economy – it’s time to make these fees more fair.
The Merchants Payments Coalition represents retailers, restaurants and other businesses fighting against unfair credit card fees and for a more competitive and transparent system fair for consumers and merchants alike.
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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following press release was issued by Merchants Payments Coalition:
Movie ticket sales rebounded in 2015, up 7 percent to $11 billion, according to the Box Office Mojo website. But it’s not the theaters raking in the biggest profit margins: It’s the banks.
Every time you swipe a debit or credit card to buy a ticket, your bank lops off a big chunk of the price for itself for processing the transaction. The banks inflate these “swipe fees” every year even as their costs drop. The profit margins are so high that few industries can match them: 500 percent for debit cards, according to the banks’ own figures, and as much as 10,000 percent for credit cards.
Say you buy tickets for a family of five at the average of around $8 each. Use a credit card to pay the $40, and as much as 4 percent -- $1.60 – goes directly to the bank that issued your credit card. That’s a big profit on a transaction that costs the bank only a few pennies.
And these swipe fees add hundreds of dollars every year to the cost of everything you buy, from gas to groceries – even if you don’t use a card. That, of course, hurts the poorest consumers the most.
At 4 percent, the banks could have made as much as $30 million on the top-grossing film of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which took in $750 million before the end of the year.
Even a relatively modest hit like Mad Max: Fury Road, nominated for a Golden Globe – the award ceremony is Sunday – represents a handsome profit for the banks. It took in $154 million (Number 20 in ticket sales last year), which at 4 percent would yield $6 million in swipe fees.
Two giant companies – Visa and MasterCard – dominate the swipe-fee market and price-fix fees without competition in order to lure banks to their brands. Swipe fees are merchants’ fastest-growing costs and are the second-largest operating cost for many, after only labor.
Bad for consumers, bad for merchants, bad for the economy – it’s time to make these fees more fair.
The Merchants Payments Coalition represents retailers, restaurants and other businesses fighting against unfair credit card fees and for a more competitive and transparent system fair for consumers and merchants alike.
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Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 1st to 9th, 2016 - Update #47
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NEWS:
From YahooMovies: The site offers their Golden Globe predictions. Ceremony is on Sunday night, Jan. 10th.
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From YahooMovies: Thanks to the boffo box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Harrison Ford is now the top grossing actor in domestic box office history with his films grossing $4.699 billion. He pasted Samuel L. Jackson who films have grossed $4.626 million in domestic box office.
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From TheWrap: 2016 BAFTA nominations (for films released in 2015) have been announced, with Todd Haynes' "Carol" and Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" leading with nine nominations each.
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From TheWrap: "Game of Throne" Season Six premiere date has been set, April 24, 2016.
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From BleedingCool: Guillermo del Toro is planning to remake the 1966 sci-fi film, Fantastic Voyage. Sounds like the del Toro golden age is over.
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From EW: M. Night Shyamalan to reboot "Tales from the Crypt" for TNT.
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From Variety: Universal Pictures wants to shoot at least some of "Fast and Furious 8" in Cuba.
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From YahooSports: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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From LatinoReview: Photos from "The Conjuring 2" and word that a teaser trailer drops Jan. 7th.
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From SlashFilm: First "Star War: Rogue One" rumors roll out, including character names and bit-part actors.
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From YahooMusic: Steely Dan frontman, Donald Fagen, in trouble for assaulting his wife.
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From People: The Olsen twins just to busy for "Fuller House," man!
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From WeGotThisCovered: Guillermo del Toro preps "Trollhunters" and a "Voltron" reboot for DreamWorks and Netflix.
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From DarkHorizons: Sylvester Stallone has retired Rambo, but will bring Rocky back for "Creed 2."
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From DarkHorizons: Sylvain Chomet announced that he has begun production on his next animated feature, "A Thousand Miles." He is an Oscar nominee for his previous animated films, "The Triplets of Bellville" and "The Illusionist."
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From TheWrap: Michael Bay confirms that he will direct "Transformers 5," which will be his last one.
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From BoxOfficeMojo: Disney is estimating that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has made $88.3 million for the 1/1 to 1/3/2016 weekend box office. This would make the Star Wars sequel the winner of the first weekend box office of 2016.
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From YahooBeauty: Dakota Johnson blasts Hollywood ageism, which affects her mother, Melanie Griffith, and grandmother, Tippi Hedren.
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From TheWrap: Raiders of the lost Gene Roddenberry floppy drive data.
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From EW: A crew member died from injuries sustained while making "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter."
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From YahooSports: Lakers may retire both of Kobe Bryant's numbers, #8 and #24.
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From TheVillageVoice: Quentin Tarantino on Quentin Tarantino.
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From BleedingCool: As Neil Gaiman said, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."
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From Vulture: Beyonce is apparently working on the kind of movie that might attract Oscar notice.
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From YahooMovies: 40 movies in 2016 that excite the "Yahoo Movies" staff.
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From Esquire: 6 degress from Iran-Contra to Peyton Manning.
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From YahooNews: Bill Cosby commits a Twitter fail.
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From TheWrap: Five theories about Steven Avery's innocence in "Making a Murderer."
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From TheWrap: First photo of former NBA star Lamar Odom since his October 2015 overdose.
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From ThePlaylist: "Alien: Covenant" set 10 years after "Prometheus."
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From Variety: The U.S. Postal Service will release "Star Trek" postage stamps to celebrate the series 50th anniversary.
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From YahooNews: Disney plots a return of Indiana Jones.
NON-POP NEWS:
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some New Year's resolutions for America.
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From YahooNews: A NYPD officer is stripped of her badge and gun in relation to the choking death of Eric Garner. But it is a Black female officer...
From Jacobin: Why we shouldn't demand police violence against the Oregon militia/racists/gunmen.
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From RSN: Michael Moore tells Donald Trump "We are all Muslims."
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From BuzzFlash: Return of the Chicken Hawks.
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From YahooNews: Cartoon by Carlos Latuff sums up double standard used to excuse white violence - Re: Tamir Rice.
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From YahooNews: Cliven Bundy's son occupy federal building. Will their fate be better than Tamir Rice's?
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From RSN: California's tech-hungry cities go after the homeless and poor.
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From TheDailyBeast: Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, and the power of the prosecutor.
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From the WashPost: 2015 will go down as one of the safest years for police officers. On-the job deaths down 14 percent from 2014. One-third of those were due to traffic accidents.
COMICS - Books and Movies:
From THR: Apparently, "Titans," the proposed TNT series based on the Teen Titans comic books, is not going to happen.
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From THR: 5 comic book creators to watch out for in 2016.
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From THR: Top 10 best selling comics of 2015 - by estimates - which Marvel Comics dominates.
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From THR: 6 comics to look out for in 2016.
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From ShonenJumpBlog: Naruto's son, Boruto, will be back in new manga starting Spring 2016 and it will run simultaneously in Shonen Jump in Japan and the U.S.
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From ComicBookBin: The CBB newsletter is back!
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From ComicBookBin: There is a reader survey for the hot comic strip, Johnny Bullet.
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From YahooNews: The runtime for Deadpool may be 1 hour and 46 minutes.
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From YahooNews: Olivia Munn shares set photo from "X-Men: Apocalypse."
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From Moviefone: Kevin Feige announces Ryan Coogler officially as the director of their "Black Panther" movie.
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From YahooNews: A peek inside the new Batcave.
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From MangaBlog: Best and worst in manga of 2015.
OBITS:
From Variety: The cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmos, has died at the age of 85 (Fri., Jan. 1st, 2016). He won an Oscar for shooting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He was nominated three other times, most recently for "The Black Dahlia" (2006), which was a terrible movie. He also shot "Deliverance" and "Blow Out."
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From THR: The singer-songwriter Natalie Cole has died at the age of 65 (Thurs., Dec. 31st., 2015). The Grammy Award-winning singer and recording artist was the daughter of the late singing legend, Nat "King" Cole.
From People: Producer David Foster remembers Natalie Cole.
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From Variety: The actor Wayne Rogers has died at the age of 83 (Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2015). He is best known for playing "Trapper" John McIntyre during the first three seasons of "M.A.S.H."
NEWS:
From YahooMovies: The site offers their Golden Globe predictions. Ceremony is on Sunday night, Jan. 10th.
---------------
From YahooMovies: Thanks to the boffo box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Harrison Ford is now the top grossing actor in domestic box office history with his films grossing $4.699 billion. He pasted Samuel L. Jackson who films have grossed $4.626 million in domestic box office.
---------------
From TheWrap: 2016 BAFTA nominations (for films released in 2015) have been announced, with Todd Haynes' "Carol" and Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" leading with nine nominations each.
---------------
From TheWrap: "Game of Throne" Season Six premiere date has been set, April 24, 2016.
---------------
From BleedingCool: Guillermo del Toro is planning to remake the 1966 sci-fi film, Fantastic Voyage. Sounds like the del Toro golden age is over.
---------------
From EW: M. Night Shyamalan to reboot "Tales from the Crypt" for TNT.
---------------
From Variety: Universal Pictures wants to shoot at least some of "Fast and Furious 8" in Cuba.
---------------
From YahooSports: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
---------------
From LatinoReview: Photos from "The Conjuring 2" and word that a teaser trailer drops Jan. 7th.
---------------
From SlashFilm: First "Star War: Rogue One" rumors roll out, including character names and bit-part actors.
---------------
From YahooMusic: Steely Dan frontman, Donald Fagen, in trouble for assaulting his wife.
---------------
From People: The Olsen twins just to busy for "Fuller House," man!
---------------
From WeGotThisCovered: Guillermo del Toro preps "Trollhunters" and a "Voltron" reboot for DreamWorks and Netflix.
---------------
From DarkHorizons: Sylvester Stallone has retired Rambo, but will bring Rocky back for "Creed 2."
---------------
From DarkHorizons: Sylvain Chomet announced that he has begun production on his next animated feature, "A Thousand Miles." He is an Oscar nominee for his previous animated films, "The Triplets of Bellville" and "The Illusionist."
---------------
From TheWrap: Michael Bay confirms that he will direct "Transformers 5," which will be his last one.
---------------
From BoxOfficeMojo: Disney is estimating that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has made $88.3 million for the 1/1 to 1/3/2016 weekend box office. This would make the Star Wars sequel the winner of the first weekend box office of 2016.
---------------
From YahooBeauty: Dakota Johnson blasts Hollywood ageism, which affects her mother, Melanie Griffith, and grandmother, Tippi Hedren.
---------------
From TheWrap: Raiders of the lost Gene Roddenberry floppy drive data.
---------------
From EW: A crew member died from injuries sustained while making "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter."
---------------
From YahooSports: Lakers may retire both of Kobe Bryant's numbers, #8 and #24.
---------------
From TheVillageVoice: Quentin Tarantino on Quentin Tarantino.
---------------
From BleedingCool: As Neil Gaiman said, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."
---------------
From Vulture: Beyonce is apparently working on the kind of movie that might attract Oscar notice.
---------------
From YahooMovies: 40 movies in 2016 that excite the "Yahoo Movies" staff.
---------------
From Esquire: 6 degress from Iran-Contra to Peyton Manning.
---------------
From YahooNews: Bill Cosby commits a Twitter fail.
---------------
From TheWrap: Five theories about Steven Avery's innocence in "Making a Murderer."
---------------
From TheWrap: First photo of former NBA star Lamar Odom since his October 2015 overdose.
---------------
From ThePlaylist: "Alien: Covenant" set 10 years after "Prometheus."
---------------
From Variety: The U.S. Postal Service will release "Star Trek" postage stamps to celebrate the series 50th anniversary.
---------------
From YahooNews: Disney plots a return of Indiana Jones.
NON-POP NEWS:
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some New Year's resolutions for America.
---------------
From YahooNews: A NYPD officer is stripped of her badge and gun in relation to the choking death of Eric Garner. But it is a Black female officer...
From Jacobin: Why we shouldn't demand police violence against the Oregon militia/racists/gunmen.
---------------
From RSN: Michael Moore tells Donald Trump "We are all Muslims."
---------------
From BuzzFlash: Return of the Chicken Hawks.
---------------
From YahooNews: Cartoon by Carlos Latuff sums up double standard used to excuse white violence - Re: Tamir Rice.
---------------
From YahooNews: Cliven Bundy's son occupy federal building. Will their fate be better than Tamir Rice's?
---------------
From RSN: California's tech-hungry cities go after the homeless and poor.
---------------
From TheDailyBeast: Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, and the power of the prosecutor.
---------------
From the WashPost: 2015 will go down as one of the safest years for police officers. On-the job deaths down 14 percent from 2014. One-third of those were due to traffic accidents.
COMICS - Books and Movies:
From THR: Apparently, "Titans," the proposed TNT series based on the Teen Titans comic books, is not going to happen.
---------------
From THR: 5 comic book creators to watch out for in 2016.
---------------
From THR: Top 10 best selling comics of 2015 - by estimates - which Marvel Comics dominates.
---------------
From THR: 6 comics to look out for in 2016.
---------------
From ShonenJumpBlog: Naruto's son, Boruto, will be back in new manga starting Spring 2016 and it will run simultaneously in Shonen Jump in Japan and the U.S.
---------------
From ComicBookBin: The CBB newsletter is back!
---------------
From ComicBookBin: There is a reader survey for the hot comic strip, Johnny Bullet.
---------------
From YahooNews: The runtime for Deadpool may be 1 hour and 46 minutes.
---------------
From YahooNews: Olivia Munn shares set photo from "X-Men: Apocalypse."
---------------
From Moviefone: Kevin Feige announces Ryan Coogler officially as the director of their "Black Panther" movie.
---------------
From YahooNews: A peek inside the new Batcave.
---------------
From MangaBlog: Best and worst in manga of 2015.
OBITS:
From Variety: The cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmos, has died at the age of 85 (Fri., Jan. 1st, 2016). He won an Oscar for shooting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He was nominated three other times, most recently for "The Black Dahlia" (2006), which was a terrible movie. He also shot "Deliverance" and "Blow Out."
---------------
From THR: The singer-songwriter Natalie Cole has died at the age of 65 (Thurs., Dec. 31st., 2015). The Grammy Award-winning singer and recording artist was the daughter of the late singing legend, Nat "King" Cole.
From People: Producer David Foster remembers Natalie Cole.
---------------
From Variety: The actor Wayne Rogers has died at the age of 83 (Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2015). He is best known for playing "Trapper" John McIntyre during the first three seasons of "M.A.S.H."
Friday, January 8, 2016
Dark Horse Announces "Shinji Ikari Raising Project" Omnibus
The most popular Evangelion spinoff ever
MILWAUKIE, OR—Following the major success of previous manga omnibus editions, Dark Horse will deliver a new collected format of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project in summer 2016.
The famous final episode of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV show imagined the show’s main characters in an alternate world where friendship and romance could be as important as their task to pilot the Evangelion. That premise forms the story line of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project.
Stunning, hotheaded Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always sort of assumed they’d stay together—until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class! When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei, Asuka needs to figure out if she wants to be just friends with Shinji, or something more. But why are so many people keeping an eye on these relationships—people like homeroom teacher Misato, school nurse Ritsuko, and Shinji’s mother—NERV’s chief scientist, Yui Ikari . . . ?
Perhaps the most famous anime and manga franchise of the last 20 years, Evangelion celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2015, and a new movie is coming soon!
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Omnibus Volume 1 (978-1-61655-970-0) is in stores August 10, 2016.
Also available:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Volumes 1 - 15
Comign Soon:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Volume 16 TPB (978-1-61655-997-7) | 6/1/2016
About Dark Horse Comics
Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Geof Darrow, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Stan Sakai, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Milo Manara, Kazuo Koike, Neil Gaiman, and Frank Miller, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, X, and Barb Wire. Its successful line of comics, manga, and products based on popular properties includes Dragon Age, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Tomb Raider, Halo, The Witcher, Serenity, Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.
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2016 USC Libraries Scripter Award Nominations Announced
28th annual Scripter Award ceremony has a TV twist
For the first time, this year’s event honoring adaptations of the written word includes episodic television writing
The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, the annual ceremony has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. This year, for the first time, Scripter will honor excellence in adaptation of the printed word into a television episode in addition to a feature film. The television and film finalists compete in separate categories for their own Scripter.
The finalist writers for film are in alphabetical order by film title:
Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’ nonfiction work The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Screenwriter Donald Margulies for The End of the Tour, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”
Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay of Room
The finalist writers for television episodes are in alphabetical order by series title:
Screenwriters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the episode “Hardhome” from Game of Thrones, adapted from the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin
Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt for the episode “Axis Mundi” from The Leftovers, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta
Frank Spotnitz for the episode “The New World” from The Man in the High Castle, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
Michelle Ashford for the episode “Full Ten Count” from Masters of Sex, based on the biography by Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Screenwriters William F. Zorzi and David Simon for the miniseries Show Me a Hero, based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin
Chaired by Howard Rodman, USC professor and president of the Writers Guild of America, West, the 2016 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 73 film and 18 television adaptations.
Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Graham Moore, John Ridley and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Gale Anne Hurd and Suzanne Todd; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.
The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Feb. 20, 2016, in the Doheny Memorial Library. Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford will serve as honorary dinner chairs.
For more information about the Scripter — including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities and a list of sponsors — email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.
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For the first time, this year’s event honoring adaptations of the written word includes episodic television writing
The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, the annual ceremony has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. This year, for the first time, Scripter will honor excellence in adaptation of the printed word into a television episode in addition to a feature film. The television and film finalists compete in separate categories for their own Scripter.
The finalist writers for film are in alphabetical order by film title:
Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’ nonfiction work The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Screenwriter Donald Margulies for The End of the Tour, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”
Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay of Room
The finalist writers for television episodes are in alphabetical order by series title:
Screenwriters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the episode “Hardhome” from Game of Thrones, adapted from the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin
Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt for the episode “Axis Mundi” from The Leftovers, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta
Frank Spotnitz for the episode “The New World” from The Man in the High Castle, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
Michelle Ashford for the episode “Full Ten Count” from Masters of Sex, based on the biography by Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Screenwriters William F. Zorzi and David Simon for the miniseries Show Me a Hero, based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin
Chaired by Howard Rodman, USC professor and president of the Writers Guild of America, West, the 2016 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 73 film and 18 television adaptations.
Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Graham Moore, John Ridley and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Gale Anne Hurd and Suzanne Todd; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.
The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Feb. 20, 2016, in the Doheny Memorial Library. Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford will serve as honorary dinner chairs.
For more information about the Scripter — including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities and a list of sponsors — email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.
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Nomination Voting for 88th Oscars Ends Today, Jan. 8th, 2016
OSCARS NOMINATIONS VOTING ENDS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
Nominations voting for the 88th Oscars® will close on Friday, January 8, at 5 p.m. PT.
The votes will be tabulated and verified by the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The 88th Oscars Nominations Announcement will be broadcast live on Thursday, January 14, 2016 from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2015 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Nominations voting for the 88th Oscars® will close on Friday, January 8, at 5 p.m. PT.
The votes will be tabulated and verified by the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The 88th Oscars Nominations Announcement will be broadcast live on Thursday, January 14, 2016 from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2015 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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