Entertainment tech entrepreneurs Michael and Peter Cioni have raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding to launch their new company Strada, which is aimed at building an AI-enabled cloud platform with tools for production and postproduction.
Announced backers include filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Rabbit Hole, This Is Us, Crazy, Stupid, Love); Jason Fotter, a co-founder and former Cto of VFX studio FuseFX; and an investment group behind Donut Media, Endcrawl, Goldieblox and principals of Ataboy Studios.
“We’re starting a new company that is focused on AI technology for workflow,” says CEO Michael Cioni, noting that while generative AI is currently a hot topic, “we believe that AI is going to be equally as valuable and powerful in the [utility] space, which is the workflow space, the tasks that nobody wants to do.”
The plan is to launch a cloud platform with an a la carte subscription “marketplace” of tools for editors,...
Announced backers include filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Rabbit Hole, This Is Us, Crazy, Stupid, Love); Jason Fotter, a co-founder and former Cto of VFX studio FuseFX; and an investment group behind Donut Media, Endcrawl, Goldieblox and principals of Ataboy Studios.
“We’re starting a new company that is focused on AI technology for workflow,” says CEO Michael Cioni, noting that while generative AI is currently a hot topic, “we believe that AI is going to be equally as valuable and powerful in the [utility] space, which is the workflow space, the tasks that nobody wants to do.”
The plan is to launch a cloud platform with an a la carte subscription “marketplace” of tools for editors,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Disney+ unveiled the trailer Season 2 of Disney’s ‘Launchpad,’ a collection of six short films from underrepresented filmmakers whose unique and evocative voices bring new perspectives to storytelling.
Season 2 is a collection of live-action shorts from a new generation of dynamic filmmakers. This season showcases six writers, five directors and one writer-director from underrepresented backgrounds who were given the opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions.
Continuing the goal of the first season, which was to diversify the types of stories that are being told by giving access to those who historically have not had it, the six new shorts for Disney+ are based on the theme of “connection.”
Panavision again provided the camera and lens packages for the six original shorts, and Light Iron, Panavision’s post-production division, provided dailies, final color and finishing services for all of Season 2. “Panavision and Light Iron are proud to support the...
Season 2 is a collection of live-action shorts from a new generation of dynamic filmmakers. This season showcases six writers, five directors and one writer-director from underrepresented backgrounds who were given the opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions.
Continuing the goal of the first season, which was to diversify the types of stories that are being told by giving access to those who historically have not had it, the six new shorts for Disney+ are based on the theme of “connection.”
Panavision again provided the camera and lens packages for the six original shorts, and Light Iron, Panavision’s post-production division, provided dailies, final color and finishing services for all of Season 2. “Panavision and Light Iron are proud to support the...
- 9/13/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced a call for applicants for its new program, the 2022 Cinematography Intensive for Women presented by Panavision.
As female cinematographers have fought to close the gender gap for recognition, the program seeks to help aspiring female cinematographers. The four-day program will be held on the AFI Campus in Los Angeles from July 15 through July 18. Applications open May 20.
The goal of the program is to provide participants with a toolkit to secure on-set experience in the field and first-hand industry insights demonstrating the path to professional career success.
AFI Conservatory Cinematography Discipline Head Stephen Lighthill, ASC said, “I am thrilled that we can, once again, offer this program on our campus. Access to professionals working in the field and hands on experience is a total game changer for individuals looking to advance their career in cinematography. There is no shortage of talent, we’re just...
As female cinematographers have fought to close the gender gap for recognition, the program seeks to help aspiring female cinematographers. The four-day program will be held on the AFI Campus in Los Angeles from July 15 through July 18. Applications open May 20.
The goal of the program is to provide participants with a toolkit to secure on-set experience in the field and first-hand industry insights demonstrating the path to professional career success.
AFI Conservatory Cinematography Discipline Head Stephen Lighthill, ASC said, “I am thrilled that we can, once again, offer this program on our campus. Access to professionals working in the field and hands on experience is a total game changer for individuals looking to advance their career in cinematography. There is no shortage of talent, we’re just...
- 5/13/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
“Us Kids,” a documentary set in the aftermath of the tragic 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been acquired by New York-based global documentary film sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing.
On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 more. After the events of that day, the students went from experiencing a mass tragedy to launching a global youth movement against gun violence that included more than 800 groups across the U.S. and around the world, including in London, Madrid, Rome and Tokyo.
Director Kim Snyder documents the story of a whole new generation of youth leaders who chose to overcome their trauma and try to make the world a safer place. The film includes many of the central figures in the movement, including Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg. It premiered at Sundance 2020.
Snyder...
On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 more. After the events of that day, the students went from experiencing a mass tragedy to launching a global youth movement against gun violence that included more than 800 groups across the U.S. and around the world, including in London, Madrid, Rome and Tokyo.
Director Kim Snyder documents the story of a whole new generation of youth leaders who chose to overcome their trauma and try to make the world a safer place. The film includes many of the central figures in the movement, including Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg. It premiered at Sundance 2020.
Snyder...
- 3/5/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
NewFest is hosting a reading of Ang Lee’s groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain at its New York LGBTQ Film Festival on October 18, employing an all-trans cast for the event that commemorates the film’s 15th anniversary.
The cast features Leo Sheng (The L Word) as Ennis, Brian Michael Smith (911: Lone Star) as Jack, Jen Richards (Tales of the City) as Alma, Alexandra Grey (Empire) as Lurleen and Disclosure director Sam Feder as the narrator.
The original film starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, respectively, cowboys who meet in the summer of 1963 and forge an unexpected lifelong connection full of joy, complication and tragedy. It scored eight Oscar nominations and won three, including for Lee’s directing and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s script.
Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to The NewFest Future Fund, to benefit the organization and its programs for LGBTQ+ youth, filmmaker resources,...
The cast features Leo Sheng (The L Word) as Ennis, Brian Michael Smith (911: Lone Star) as Jack, Jen Richards (Tales of the City) as Alma, Alexandra Grey (Empire) as Lurleen and Disclosure director Sam Feder as the narrator.
The original film starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, respectively, cowboys who meet in the summer of 1963 and forge an unexpected lifelong connection full of joy, complication and tragedy. It scored eight Oscar nominations and won three, including for Lee’s directing and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s script.
Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to The NewFest Future Fund, to benefit the organization and its programs for LGBTQ+ youth, filmmaker resources,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
1917 was the top winner tonight at the 34th annual Asc Awards, as Roger Deakins took home the marquee Theatrical Release trophy from the American Society of Cinematographers. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, History’s Project Blue Book and AMC’s The Terror: Infamy took the top TV awards during the ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Sam Mendes’ WWI film continued its steady award-season run, besting fellow nominees Ford v Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael), The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson) and Joker (Lawrence Sher). This was Deakins’ fifth Asc win and 16th nomination. He also was awarded the group’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Across town at about the same time Saturday, 1917 and director Sam Mendes won the top DGA Award, making both men the front-runners for the Oscars.
At the Asc Awards, Deakins took the stage with his wife Isabella Ellis,...
Sam Mendes’ WWI film continued its steady award-season run, besting fellow nominees Ford v Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael), The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson) and Joker (Lawrence Sher). This was Deakins’ fifth Asc win and 16th nomination. He also was awarded the group’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Across town at about the same time Saturday, 1917 and director Sam Mendes won the top DGA Award, making both men the front-runners for the Oscars.
At the Asc Awards, Deakins took the stage with his wife Isabella Ellis,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Denise Petski and Diane Haithman
- Deadline Film + TV
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival four documentaries spotlight adolescents who inspire change while also holding a mirror up to a society that provoked their pain and path to resistance.
In Kim Snyder’s “Us Kids” the director focuses her lens on a handful of teenagers who survived the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. which claimed 17 lives. The docu examines the lasting trauma of gun violence while also chronicling determined young survivors who speak out against the national gun-violence epidemic and develop the March For Our Lives movement.
Snyder, who directed the 2016 doc “Newtown” about Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as the 2018 nonfiction short “Notes from Dunblane: Lesson from a School Shooting,” had no intention of making another film about gun violence.
“I was very weirdly and karmically in Florida the week of the (Parkland) shooting,” recalls Snyder. “Within days...
In Kim Snyder’s “Us Kids” the director focuses her lens on a handful of teenagers who survived the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. which claimed 17 lives. The docu examines the lasting trauma of gun violence while also chronicling determined young survivors who speak out against the national gun-violence epidemic and develop the March For Our Lives movement.
Snyder, who directed the 2016 doc “Newtown” about Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as the 2018 nonfiction short “Notes from Dunblane: Lesson from a School Shooting,” had no intention of making another film about gun violence.
“I was very weirdly and karmically in Florida the week of the (Parkland) shooting,” recalls Snyder. “Within days...
- 1/24/2020
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
As the 2020 Sundance Film Festival readies to open Thursday, some of the biggest buzz is surrounding documentary titles, as mainstream audiences continue their hunger for high-quality nonfiction stories. Propelled by a parade of true-crime podcasts like “Serial,” documentaries like “Free Solo,” and bingeable series like Netflix’s 13-part “The Staircase,” there’s never been a better time to be in the business of making, buying, and selling real-life stories.
“The most exciting thing that’s happening in entertainment, for me, is what’s happening in documentary films,” said Bryn Mooser, co-founder of documentary studio Xtr.
Xtr and another newly launched player, Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim’s Concordia Studio, have seized on the doc-obsessed moment with promising results: Each company has four films on their Sundance slates, accounting for almost half of the U.S. Documentary Competition lineup. Together, they co-financed Bill and Turner Ross’ “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.”
“There’s no shortage of great projects,...
“The most exciting thing that’s happening in entertainment, for me, is what’s happening in documentary films,” said Bryn Mooser, co-founder of documentary studio Xtr.
Xtr and another newly launched player, Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim’s Concordia Studio, have seized on the doc-obsessed moment with promising results: Each company has four films on their Sundance slates, accounting for almost half of the U.S. Documentary Competition lineup. Together, they co-financed Bill and Turner Ross’ “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.”
“There’s no shortage of great projects,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
For Angie Villafane, who grew up in San Jose, Calif., movies were a “weekend ritual with my parents.”
For San Jose State library science student Villafane, the Academy Gold internship program was an entree point into the entertainment industry. In 2017, she was one of 69 interns in the diversity and inclusion initiative’s inaugural cohort. They attended workshops, networked and were paired with showbiz mentors.
On June 20, the newly minted 2019 class will enter the eight-week program run by the Academy’s Bettina Fisher, director of educational initiatives, and Niti Shah, the lead on Gold recruitment and strategy.
Starting with a two-day orientation, the interns learn everything from how to dress for success to how to effectively perform tasks and network. The interns then visit various studios and agencies, including Warner Bros., Disney and CAA, Fisher says.
The main thrust of the program is to develop a diverse pipeline of talent for the entertainment industry.
For San Jose State library science student Villafane, the Academy Gold internship program was an entree point into the entertainment industry. In 2017, she was one of 69 interns in the diversity and inclusion initiative’s inaugural cohort. They attended workshops, networked and were paired with showbiz mentors.
On June 20, the newly minted 2019 class will enter the eight-week program run by the Academy’s Bettina Fisher, director of educational initiatives, and Niti Shah, the lead on Gold recruitment and strategy.
Starting with a two-day orientation, the interns learn everything from how to dress for success to how to effectively perform tasks and network. The interns then visit various studios and agencies, including Warner Bros., Disney and CAA, Fisher says.
The main thrust of the program is to develop a diverse pipeline of talent for the entertainment industry.
- 5/15/2019
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
Saban Capital Acquisition is buying camera equipment specialist Panavision and Sim Video International in a $622 million cash and stock deal.
The transaction, announced on Friday, is aimed at creating a comprehensive production and post-production entity. Saban Capital Acquisition Corp., headed by media mogul Haim Saban, intends to change its name to Panavision Holdings Inc. and is expected to continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Panavision president-ceo Kim Snyder will serve as chairman and CEO. Bill Roberts, chief financial officer of Panavision, will serve in that role for the combined company. The deal will close in the first quarter.
“Advancements in technology and the emergence of streaming have fundamentally changed how consumers watch and discover content,” Saban said. “This is driving significant growth in the market for production and post-production services. This secular trend creates a tremendous opportunity for Panavision to leverage its leading technology and pursue opportunistic acquisitions...
The transaction, announced on Friday, is aimed at creating a comprehensive production and post-production entity. Saban Capital Acquisition Corp., headed by media mogul Haim Saban, intends to change its name to Panavision Holdings Inc. and is expected to continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Panavision president-ceo Kim Snyder will serve as chairman and CEO. Bill Roberts, chief financial officer of Panavision, will serve in that role for the combined company. The deal will close in the first quarter.
“Advancements in technology and the emergence of streaming have fundamentally changed how consumers watch and discover content,” Saban said. “This is driving significant growth in the market for production and post-production services. This secular trend creates a tremendous opportunity for Panavision to leverage its leading technology and pursue opportunistic acquisitions...
- 9/14/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Saban Capital Acquisition is acquiring Panavision and Sim Video International Inc. in a $622 million cash and stock deal that would combine the companies to create a comprehensive production and post-production entity.
The three companies, to be united under the Panavision Holdings banner, are positioned to capitalize on the surge in content spending that’s been fueled by the rise of online streaming services.
According to documents filed this morning with the SEC, Saban Capital Acquisition will pay Panavision shareholders $368 million in cash and 8.1 million shares of Saban stock. Another 6 million shares vest over time, and are subject to certain conditions. Sim’s investors will receive $110 million in cash and 3.1 million shares of Saban stock.
Saban Capital Acquisition, which is a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with Haim Saban’s Los Angeles-based investment firm, intends to finance the acquisitions through funds held in a Cayman Islands trust and $350 million in loans...
The three companies, to be united under the Panavision Holdings banner, are positioned to capitalize on the surge in content spending that’s been fueled by the rise of online streaming services.
According to documents filed this morning with the SEC, Saban Capital Acquisition will pay Panavision shareholders $368 million in cash and 8.1 million shares of Saban stock. Another 6 million shares vest over time, and are subject to certain conditions. Sim’s investors will receive $110 million in cash and 3.1 million shares of Saban stock.
Saban Capital Acquisition, which is a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with Haim Saban’s Los Angeles-based investment firm, intends to finance the acquisitions through funds held in a Cayman Islands trust and $350 million in loans...
- 9/14/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
Kim Snyder & Mark Barden on ‘Newtown,’ PBS… by Uinterview On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and fatally shot 20 school children and six adult staff members. Nearly four and a half years later, the story of the grieving Newtown community and the trauma that has affected […]
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- 4/3/2017
- by Jacob Kaye
- Uinterview
Yesterday, the Academy announced one of their long lists, whittling down the Best Animated Feature contenders to just 15 finalists. They went from an initial listing of 145 titles, making this comparatively a very short list. It consists of all of the year’s big contenders, as you’ll see shortly, but it also has relatively few snubs. I’ll get into that momentarily, but that’s a nice change of pace. This is always somewhat of a crapshoot, category wise, so knowing there’s a ton of quality here is never a bad thing at all. Anyway, this is more information to take into account when doing your Oscar predictions. The puzzle is slowly coming together, ladies and gentlemen! Nothing too unexpected was left off this list, though Leonardo Dicaprio and Fisher Stevens’ Before the Flood, Werner Herzog’s Into the Inferno, Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years,...
- 12/7/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Documentary directors tried to pull film over cinema chain’s treatment of victims of Aurora shooting, but were bound by their contract
Newtown, a documentary about the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, hsa been shown at Cinemark movie theatres despite its makers attempting to withdraw it.
Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole had attempted to block the chain from showing the film in solidarity with the victims of the Aurora cinema shooting in 2012, where James Holmes killed 12 people during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
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Newtown, a documentary about the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, hsa been shown at Cinemark movie theatres despite its makers attempting to withdraw it.
Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole had attempted to block the chain from showing the film in solidarity with the victims of the Aurora cinema shooting in 2012, where James Holmes killed 12 people during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
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- 11/4/2016
- by Alan Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Newtown, the documentary that chronicles the Connecticut community in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, will continue to play at 100-plus Cinemark Theaters tonight despite the filmmakers’ initiative last week to pull the movie from the exhibition chain. Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole’s actions came about in an effort to show solidarity with the families who were victimized by the 2012 Cinemark Century 16 Dark Knight Rises shooting in…...
- 11/2/2016
- Deadline
Directors of Newtown withdraw film from chain after it emerged it was seeking legal fees from victims’ families for failed lawsuit
The makers of the Sandy Hook shooting documentary Newtown have joined a boycott of the cinema chain Cinemark over the latter’s treatment of the victims of the 2012 Aurora shootings.
According to Deadline, Newtown was due to screen in over 100 Cinemark theatres – including sites in Los Angeles, Detroit and Ann Arbor – as part of a one-night multi-cinema event on 2 November. (About 400 other cinemas were also booked.) However, Newtown’s directors, Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, have withdrawn the film from Cinemark, saying in a statement: “Out of respect for the families of the Aurora victims and with solidarity for the community as a whole, our decision to remove the film from playing in all Cinemark theaters is unequivocal.”
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The makers of the Sandy Hook shooting documentary Newtown have joined a boycott of the cinema chain Cinemark over the latter’s treatment of the victims of the 2012 Aurora shootings.
According to Deadline, Newtown was due to screen in over 100 Cinemark theatres – including sites in Los Angeles, Detroit and Ann Arbor – as part of a one-night multi-cinema event on 2 November. (About 400 other cinemas were also booked.) However, Newtown’s directors, Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, have withdrawn the film from Cinemark, saying in a statement: “Out of respect for the families of the Aurora victims and with solidarity for the community as a whole, our decision to remove the film from playing in all Cinemark theaters is unequivocal.”
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- 10/28/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, who made the documentary “Newtown,” have decided to pull their film from more than 100 Cinemark theaters, TheWrap has learned. Their film covers the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children and 6 adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut. As a sign of solidarity with shooting victims of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater massacre that happened that same year, Snyder and Cole have pulled their film from the chain that owns the theater where the shooting happened during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight.” “Cinemark has proven their insensitivity to victims...
- 10/27/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Newtown filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole, whose documentary chronicles the pain and suffering of the parents of murdered children Daniel Barden, Benjamin Wheeler and Dylan Hockley in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, have pulled their feature documentary from Cinemark Theaters to stand in unison with the Aurora theater shooting families. The film was to be released in about 500 theaters across the country. The well-reviewed…...
- 10/27/2016
- Deadline
Nate Parker’s Sundance sensation “The Birth of a Nation” opened in over 2,000 theaters this weekend. That’s not exactly a limited release for specialty distributor Fox Searchlight, which acquired the film for $17.5 million in a festival bidding war. The slave rebellion drama was far from a failure, but was a disappointment given its cost.
As the prime fall season continues, limited openings made no major impression, while not even the best of the expanding and longer-running films could muster as much as $300,000. Holocaust drama “Denial” (Bleecker Street) shows signs of hope, but overall comparisons to normal results for this time of year reveal that specialized product is lagging.
In the same weekend last year, both modest performers “He Named Me Malala” and “99 Homes,” neither considered breakout specialized films, grossed over $600,000. That was business as usual. Specialized grosses continue to decline.
Opening
“The Birth of a Nation” (Fox Searchlight) – Metacritic: 69; Festivals include: Sundance,...
As the prime fall season continues, limited openings made no major impression, while not even the best of the expanding and longer-running films could muster as much as $300,000. Holocaust drama “Denial” (Bleecker Street) shows signs of hope, but overall comparisons to normal results for this time of year reveal that specialized product is lagging.
In the same weekend last year, both modest performers “He Named Me Malala” and “99 Homes,” neither considered breakout specialized films, grossed over $600,000. That was business as usual. Specialized grosses continue to decline.
Opening
“The Birth of a Nation” (Fox Searchlight) – Metacritic: 69; Festivals include: Sundance,...
- 10/9/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
There would seem to be no words to describe the unspeakable horror of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a deranged gunman took the lives of 26 people, most of them children. And yet the men and women featured in Newtown do find words. They speak soberly, candidly, and even philosophically about how they’ve coped with the loss of their kids and the violence that tore their Connecticut community apart. Kim Snyder’s wrenching documentary consists largely of interviews with townspeople, including parents of the victims, surviving siblings, educators, first responders, religious leaders, and ER surgeons—basically anyone directly affected by the tragedy. Relying heavily on talking heads is usually the mark of a documentary without much imagination, but what more should a movie on this subject do than create a space for these people to discuss their pain and trauma?
Most of the interviews in Newtown ...
Most of the interviews in Newtown ...
- 10/6/2016
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Another bad weekend where nothing really popped, which is bad news for a month at the box office where only Clint Eastwood’s Sully exceeded any expectations. Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children came out just below my predictions with $29 million, but the Mark Wahlberg-Peter Berg disaster flick Deepwater Horizon was right around where I predicted with $20.2 million. The comedy Masterminds tanked with just $6.5 million for the weekend to end up in sixth place while Disney’s The Queen of Katwe did slightly better than predicted with $2.5 million.
The first full weekend in October has a good deal of competition from the release of the video game Mafia III to the...
This Past Weekend:
Another bad weekend where nothing really popped, which is bad news for a month at the box office where only Clint Eastwood’s Sully exceeded any expectations. Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children came out just below my predictions with $29 million, but the Mark Wahlberg-Peter Berg disaster flick Deepwater Horizon was right around where I predicted with $20.2 million. The comedy Masterminds tanked with just $6.5 million for the weekend to end up in sixth place while Disney’s The Queen of Katwe did slightly better than predicted with $2.5 million.
The first full weekend in October has a good deal of competition from the release of the video game Mafia III to the...
- 10/5/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
That wailing you hear is all the best-documentary aspirants who did Not make the Doc NYC “Short List.” It’s considered one of several key steps for landing on the Academy doc branch’s eventual short list – which, like the Doc NYC list, also numbers 15.
The stats are impressive: In each of the past three years, the Doc NYC Short List had nine or 10 titles that overlapped with the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last five years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: “Amy” (2015), “Citizenfour” (2014), “20 Feet From Stardom” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), and “Undefeated” (2011).
With such a wide field of contenders, respected festivals wield even more than their usual influence in turning movies into must-sees. Oscar documentary branch voters have to see more than 130 movies released theatrically in 2016; inevitably, the movies nabbing the best reviews and most attention move to the top of the queue.
The stats are impressive: In each of the past three years, the Doc NYC Short List had nine or 10 titles that overlapped with the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last five years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: “Amy” (2015), “Citizenfour” (2014), “20 Feet From Stardom” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), and “Undefeated” (2011).
With such a wide field of contenders, respected festivals wield even more than their usual influence in turning movies into must-sees. Oscar documentary branch voters have to see more than 130 movies released theatrically in 2016; inevitably, the movies nabbing the best reviews and most attention move to the top of the queue.
- 9/28/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
That wailing you hear is all the best-documentary aspirants who did Not make the Doc NYC “Short List.” It’s considered one of several key steps for landing on the Academy doc branch’s eventual short list – which, like the Doc NYC list, also numbers 15.
The stats are impressive: In each of the past three years, the Doc NYC Short List had nine or 10 titles that overlapped with the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last five years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: “Amy” (2015), “Citizenfour” (2014), “20 Feet From Stardom” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), and “Undefeated” (2011).
With such a wide field of contenders, respected festivals wield even more than their usual influence in turning movies into must-sees. Oscar documentary branch voters have to see more than 130 movies released theatrically in 2016; inevitably, the movies nabbing the best reviews and most attention move to the top of the queue.
The stats are impressive: In each of the past three years, the Doc NYC Short List had nine or 10 titles that overlapped with the subsequent Oscar Documentary Short List. For the last five years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Oscar: “Amy” (2015), “Citizenfour” (2014), “20 Feet From Stardom” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), and “Undefeated” (2011).
With such a wide field of contenders, respected festivals wield even more than their usual influence in turning movies into must-sees. Oscar documentary branch voters have to see more than 130 movies released theatrically in 2016; inevitably, the movies nabbing the best reviews and most attention move to the top of the queue.
- 9/28/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
While best documentary conversations start to take shape in January at the Sundance Film Festival, making the transition from rapturous festival play to awards-season contender is a harrowing road. A documentary must be truly extraordinary to make the final Oscar five.
The number of Sundance docs with awards potential is breathtaking: Breaking out of Sundance 2016 were U.S. Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” (IFC), an entertaining portrait of a politician brought down by his weakness for sexting, which turned into a summer hit; U.S. Documentary Directing Award winner “Life, Animated” (The Orchard), a moving portrait of an autistic child who grows up with Disney movies; and HBO’s Audience Award winner “Jim: The James Foley Story.”
Scoring great reviews were Ezra Edelman’s five-part movie “O.J.: Made in America” (Espn), an exhaustive examination of O.J. Simpson and race relations in Los Angeles from the ’60s through the Trial of...
The number of Sundance docs with awards potential is breathtaking: Breaking out of Sundance 2016 were U.S. Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” (IFC), an entertaining portrait of a politician brought down by his weakness for sexting, which turned into a summer hit; U.S. Documentary Directing Award winner “Life, Animated” (The Orchard), a moving portrait of an autistic child who grows up with Disney movies; and HBO’s Audience Award winner “Jim: The James Foley Story.”
Scoring great reviews were Ezra Edelman’s five-part movie “O.J.: Made in America” (Espn), an exhaustive examination of O.J. Simpson and race relations in Los Angeles from the ’60s through the Trial of...
- 9/23/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
While best documentary conversations start to take shape in January at the Sundance Film Festival, making the transition from rapturous festival play to awards-season contender is a harrowing road. A documentary must be truly extraordinary to make the final Oscar five.
The number of Sundance docs with awards potential is breathtaking: Breaking out of Sundance 2016 were U.S. Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” (IFC), an entertaining portrait of a politician brought down by his weakness for sexting, which turned into a summer hit; U.S. Documentary Directing Award winner “Life, Animated” (The Orchard), a moving portrait of an autistic child who grows up with Disney movies; and HBO’s Audience Award winner “Jim: The James Foley Story.”
Scoring great reviews were Ezra Edelman’s five-part movie “O.J.: Made in America” (Espn), an exhaustive examination of O.J. Simpson and race relations in Los Angeles from the ’60s through the Trial of...
The number of Sundance docs with awards potential is breathtaking: Breaking out of Sundance 2016 were U.S. Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” (IFC), an entertaining portrait of a politician brought down by his weakness for sexting, which turned into a summer hit; U.S. Documentary Directing Award winner “Life, Animated” (The Orchard), a moving portrait of an autistic child who grows up with Disney movies; and HBO’s Audience Award winner “Jim: The James Foley Story.”
Scoring great reviews were Ezra Edelman’s five-part movie “O.J.: Made in America” (Espn), an exhaustive examination of O.J. Simpson and race relations in Los Angeles from the ’60s through the Trial of...
- 9/23/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“I don’t think anybody needs to know specifically what we saw,” a Connecticut state trooper says, with eerie calm, early on in Kim Snyder’s documentary Newtown. Some details, he notes, are better left unspoken when they’re this dreadful. He’s talking about the carnage he witnessed upon entering Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. (It was, apparently, the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single individual, behind 2007’s Virginia Tech massacre, and the deadliest mass shooting at a primary school or high school. How unbelievably fucking twisted that we now have so many of these things that we can rank them?)So, how do you handle a subject like Newtown? Twenty young kids and six adults died in that 2012 school shooting, and such a slaughter is too difficult to contemplate. Can such a thing be turned into meaningful art?...
- 1/27/2016
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
Kodak has developed a new color film designed to address industry concern about long-term preservation of movies and TV content in the digital age. “The Digital Dilemma reports published by the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have carefully outlined the risks of digital storage,” said Kim Snyder, president of Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging Division. “(Digital) file-based projects often end up stored on tapes or drives, which need to be continually re-mastered or migrated, and run the risk of format obsolescence. Our goal was to create an affordable film option designed for content owners
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- 8/23/2012
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film manufacturer Kodak says reports of its impending corporate-death have been exaggerated and it is still making billions of feet of film. The statement comes amid speculation that Kodak is seeking to raise about $US900 million from hedge funds to shore up its cash position as it attempts to restructure its business. Kodak.s Entertainment imaging division president Kim Snyder compared the company.s position to author Mark Twain who, upon hearing reports that he was lost at sea, said .reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.. .We at Kodak refuse to let the volatility of the market or the rumours distract us from our mission . to provide the highest quality tools to tell your stories,. Snyder wrote on the company.s website. .We...
- 10/31/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
IMAX is always on the cutting-edge, and today it has taken another step towards improving the movie-going experience. IMAX licensed the rights to use more than 50 patents for laser projection technology from Kodak. The deal will allow IMAX, for the first time ever, to deliver the highest-quality digital content available to their film-based screens larger than 80 feet and to dome theatres. This technology also will allow IMAX to distribute content with greater efficiency to the company's global theatre network. Keep reading for more details.
Here is the official press release:
IMAX Corporation (NYSE:imax) (Tsx:imx) and Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:ek) announced today a relationship that will broaden the application of digital cinema technologies in theatres and enhance the consumer's movie-going experience.
The companies announced that IMAX has licensed from Kodak certain exclusive rights in the digital cinema field to a portfolio of more than 50 patent families covering fundamental laser projection technology.
Here is the official press release:
IMAX Corporation (NYSE:imax) (Tsx:imx) and Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:ek) announced today a relationship that will broaden the application of digital cinema technologies in theatres and enhance the consumer's movie-going experience.
The companies announced that IMAX has licensed from Kodak certain exclusive rights in the digital cinema field to a portfolio of more than 50 patent families covering fundamental laser projection technology.
- 10/17/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Mirey Brantz's "6.5 Minutes in Tel Aviv," set in a Tel Aviv bus station, claimed the best of festival award at the 2008 Palm Springs International ShortFest, which concluded Wednesday.
The fest, which screened 317 short films, announced its winners Tuesday night at the Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs.
Marcal Fores' "Friends Forever" earned the Future Filmmaker Award, with honorable mention going to Nicolas Brault's "Hungu."
The Panavision Grand Jury Award was presented to Bogdan Mustata for "A Good Day for a Swim," which also picked up a Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Among awards voted by the audience, Jochen Alexander Freydank's "Toyland" was named favorite live-action short, with Khen Shalem's "On the Road to Tel-Aviv," the runner-up.
Adam Pertofsky's "The Witness: The View From Room 306" was chosen favorite documentary short, with Kim Snyder's "One Bridge to the Next," runner-up.
Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith's "This Way Up" was named favorite animation short,...
The fest, which screened 317 short films, announced its winners Tuesday night at the Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs.
Marcal Fores' "Friends Forever" earned the Future Filmmaker Award, with honorable mention going to Nicolas Brault's "Hungu."
The Panavision Grand Jury Award was presented to Bogdan Mustata for "A Good Day for a Swim," which also picked up a Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Among awards voted by the audience, Jochen Alexander Freydank's "Toyland" was named favorite live-action short, with Khen Shalem's "On the Road to Tel-Aviv," the runner-up.
Adam Pertofsky's "The Witness: The View From Room 306" was chosen favorite documentary short, with Kim Snyder's "One Bridge to the Next," runner-up.
Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith's "This Way Up" was named favorite animation short,...
- 8/27/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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