Inside the Academy Museum: Stars, Sketches and Ruby Slippers (Photos)
April, 12, 2013 4:54 pm | Comments On #With this week’s announcement of the naming of the David Geffen Theater, the release of design photos, the expansion of the museum website and the inaugural celebration party, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is making a lot of noise for a building that won’t open for another four years. Here are some photos, design plans and items from the museum's collection.
Photos and drawings courtesy of AMPAS
Read MoreBob Costas Slams CBS Sports for Ignoring the Golf-Masters' 'Racism and Sexism'
April, 12, 2013 10:47 am | Comments On #Augusta National, Bob Costas, CBS, CBS Sports, Masters, Media, sports, Television, The MastersBob Costas has slammed CBS Sports' television coverage of the Masters golf tournament, saying the network has never acknowledged the “history of racism and sexism” by the Augusta National Golf Club, the private club that runs the historic tournament.
Augusta National, which was established in 1933, did not admit its first black member until 1990, and it did not invite a woman to join until 2012, despite organized protests from the National Council of Women’s Organizations and pickets outside the grounds of the event.
In 2003 and 2004, it required CBS to broadcast the Masters commercial-free to stave off the threat of boycotts directed at the tournament...
New Emmy Rules Say Yes to Funny Stunts, No to Supporting Actors
April, 11, 2013 6:54 pm | Comments On #ATAS, Awards, Creative Arts Emmys, emmy awards, Emmys, John Leverence, miniseries, Movies or Miniseries, Television, Television AcademyThe Emmys have bad news for actors in TV movies and miniseries, but good news for folks who specialize in primetime pratfalls.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which presents the annual Primetime Emmy Awards, has posted its 2012-2013 rules on its website, detailing a few changes in the Emmy landscape that affect the supporting categories in the movie or miniseries genre, stunt coordinators and interactive content.
The biggest change is one that was announced last May: The Emmys are downsizing the miniseries-or-movie acting categories, combining the lead and supporting actor and actress awards.
The move, the Television Academy’s senior vice president...
Read MoreAcademy Unveils Plans for 'Landmark' Museum
April, 11, 2013 3:26 pm | Comments On #Academy Awards, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Awards, oscarsThe Academy has unveiled more details about its Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which it says will include 30,000 square feet of exhibition space, labs and galleries and a 15,000-square-foot landscaped public plaza.
The AMPAS release did not, however, address TheWrap’s observation that a new spherical structure at the site looked like the Death Star from “Star Wars.”
Also read: Is the Academy Building a Death Star at its New Museum?
The complex, according to the Academy, will be “a significant cultural landmark attracting visitors from across Southern California and around the world.” Its six levels will include moviemaking labs and flexible exhibition galleries in the former May Company department store...
Read MoreIs the Academy Building a Death Star at its New Museum?
April, 11, 2013 12:16 pm | Comments On #Academy Awards, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Awards, oscars, Star WarsThe Academy has tweeted a picture of a model of its upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures – and from the looks of things, they’re building a “Star Wars” Death Star adjacent to the former May Company building in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles.
And then they’re surrounding their AMPAS Death Star with giant lollipops.
This has been a week of news about the museum, which is expected to open in early 2017. The Academy is conducting a fundraising campaign co-chaired by Tom Hanks and Annette Bening, and said it is more than halfway to its goal of raising $300 million for the project.
On Monday, it announced that the David Geffen Foundation has given...
With 'To the Wonder,' Has Terrence Malick Gotten Too Terrence Malicky?
April, 11, 2013 11:41 am | Comments On #Ben Affleck, independent film, indies, Javier Bardem, Jessica Chastain, Movies, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Roger Ebert, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, to the wonderTerrence Malick’s “To the Wonder” is a film that may go down in history, but not because it’s another masterpiece from the man who made “Badlands,” “Days of Heaven,” “The Thin Red Line” and “The Tree of Life.”
Instead, “To the Wonder,” which opens in a limited release and on VOD on Friday, seems likely to be known because it was the last movie Roger Ebert ever reviewed, in a kind and thoughtful notice that was posted two days after Ebert’s death last week.
But as a movie itself, the film seems unlikely to end up a Best Picture nominee the way “The Tree of Life” was two years ago, and unlikely to earn the $36...
International Documentary Association Launches Screening Series, Ends DocuWeeks (Exclusive)
April, 11, 2013 8:34 am | Comments On #Awards, documentaries, DocuWeeks, IDA, International Documentary Association, MoviesThe International Documentary Association is launching an awards-season screening series that will take the place of its annual DocuWeeks theatrical showcase, which is being discontinued after 16 years of qualifying films for the Academy Awards.
The IDA Documentary Screening Series, IDA executive director Michael Lumpkin told TheWrap, will run from September through January and will allow members of the IDA and all other organizations that give out documentary awards to attend special screenings with filmmaker Q&As.
It will not qualify those films for the Oscars, but will help the docs boost their visibility with awards voters.
“The screening series allows us to take the...
Read MorePedro Almodovar's Kinky Comedy 'I'm So Excited!' to Launch L.A. Film Fest
April, 10, 2013 11:12 am | Comments On #film festivals, I'm So Excited, Los Angeles Film Festival, Movies, Pedro AlmodovarPedro Almodóvar’s comedy “I’m So Excited!” will have its North American premiere as the opening-night film of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Film Independent announced on Wednesday.
The LAFF screening will begin the festival on Thursday, June 13 at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, kicking off a program of more than 200 features, shorts and music videos, as well as panels and interview programs.
"Pedro Almódovar is the cinematic gift who keeps on giving," said David Ansen, artistic director of the festival, in a statement. "For four decades he's amazed us with movies that are funny and dangerous, lovable and challenging, subversive and wildly inventive. It's a privilege and pleasure to present his latest comic treasure as our opening night film."
Almódovar’s previous films...
Read MoreEvan Rachel Wood, Bryce Dallas-Howard and Whoopi Goldberg Get Jury Dury at Tribeca
April, 10, 2013 11:00 am | Comments On #film festivals, independent film, indies, Movies, tribeca film festivalBryce Dallas-Howard, Paul Haggis, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Longoria and Whoopi Goldberg are among the jurors announced on Wednesday by the Tribeca Film Festival, which will present $180,000 in cash and prizes in a number of different categories.
Other jurors will include actresses Blythe Danner, Mira Sorvino, Taraji P. Henson, Abigail Breslin and Christine Baranski, filmmakers Joe Berlinger, Tony Gilroy, Josh Radnor and Naomi Foner, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan, HBO Documentary chief Sheila Nevins, chef Bobby Flay and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rachel Dratch.
Films chosen by the jurors will be announced at the TFF awards ceremony on April 25. The ceremony will take place at TK and will be streamed live at TribecaFilm.com.
Tribeca also announced juries for the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards,...
Read MoreOndi Timoner Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Train Artists in 'Disruptive' Technology
April, 09, 2013 8:05 am | Comments On #independent film, indies, kickstarter, Movies, Ondi TimonerAward-winning documentary director Ondi Timoner, whose films include the Sundance champs “Dig!” and “We Live in Public,” is launching her first crowd-funding campaign to finance an extension of her A Total Disruption website, which chronicles innovators and entrepreneurs in the tech world.
"You can't just be an artist now," Timoner told TheWrap this week. "You have to be an artist-entrepreneur, and we want to set up a resource to show content creators how it can be done."
For the website, Timoner has produced more than 50 episodes dealing with innovators including Reddit’s Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian,...
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Steve Pond, author of the L.A. Times bestseller The Big Show, has been covering entertainment for more than two decades. He also writes on the awards circuit for TheWrap, in his column "The Odds."
