Broadway Musical About Ladies’s Struggle to Vote
Movie Unbiased has set the date of Saturday, Feb. 22 for the fortieth Spirit Awards. The awards come a couple of weeks forward of the March 2 Oscars date.
“For 40 years, the Spirit Awards have been the beacon for daring and authentic unbiased storytelling,” stated Josh Welsh, President of Movie Unbiased. “As we commemorate this important milestone, we sit up for celebrating with the unbiased artistic neighborhood on February twenty second.”
The Spirit Awards nominee brunch will happen on Jan. 4.
Seattle Movie Pageant Units Lineup, Opening With ‘Thelma‘
The Seattle Worldwide Movie Pageant has revealed its lineup for the fiftieth version, which takes place Might 9–19 at venues throughout Seattle and adopted by per week of choose digital screenings on the SIFF Channel Might 20–27. This system consists of 261 movies representing 84 nations and areas, together with 92 options, 47 documentaries, 5 archival options, two particular tributes, two secret screenings and 115 brief movies.
The competition will open with Josh Margolin’s motion comedy “Thelma” from Magnolia Footage, which is able to display on the Paramount Theatre throughout SIFF’s opening night time on Might 9. Different highlights embrace “Dìdi” (“弟弟”), a directorial debut from Oscar nominee Sean Wang; Neon’s “Babes” written by and starring Ilana Glazer and directed by first time director Pamela Adlon; IFC’s “Ghostlight” and Concord Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft”. SIFF will shut with Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing” from A24, which is able to display on Might 18 at SIFF Cinema Downtown. Tickets and schedules may be discovered on the competition’s web site.
Miky Lee to Ship USC College of Cinematic Arts 2024 Graduation Handle
Miky Lee, government producer of “Parasite” and “Previous Lives,” will ship the USC College of Cinematic Arts 2024 Graduation deal with, introduced Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC College of Cinematic Arts (SCA). Director, author and SCA alumnus James Grey (“The Immigrant,” “Armageddon Time”) can even obtain the Mary Pickford Alumni Award on the in-person commencement ceremony held on Friday, Might 10, on the Shrine Auditorium.
“Miky Lee is a real pioneer and ambassador of collaborative world filmmaking, and we’re so completely happy to have her share her perception and experience with our graduating college students,” Daley stated. “Miky works throughout borders, cultures and genres, and champions the sorts of initiatives our college students aspire to creating. We’re so happy she agreed to be this 12 months’s commencement speaker.”
As graduation speaker, Lee joins a current listing of leisure figures together with Brian Grazier and Ron Howard, Matt Reeves, Ryan Coogler, Jon M. Chu, Paul Feig, Jim Gianopulos, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Donna Langley, Barry Meyer, Ron Meyer, Sumner Redstone, Jay Roach, Stacey Sher and Laura Ziskin.
GKIDS Acquires North American Distribution Rights to “Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence”
GKIDS, the distributor of the Studio Ghibli movies, has acquired theatrical distribution rights for North America to Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence.” In celebration of the movie’s twentieth anniversary, GKIDS will launch a 4K restoration of “Ghost In The Shell 2” in theaters nationwide this summer time.
“We’re honored to be working with the group at Manufacturing I.G in bringing this visionary movie, from a real auteur, to theatrical audiences in North America,” stated Rodney Uhler, GKIDS Director of Acquisitions and Growth. “Mamoru Oshii was and stays, in some ways, a filmmaker forward of his time so we’re thrilled to have the ability to share his movie, with a lovely, 4K remaster, with new and previous audiences alike.”
The deal was negotiated between Uhler of GKIDS and Francesco Prandoni of Manufacturing I.G.
SAG Awards 2025 Broadcasts Key Dates, Reside Stream on Netflix
The Display Actor Guild Awards introduced that its thirty first annual telecast will likely be streamed stay on Netflix on Feb. 23, 2025 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Final 12 months’s SAG Awards have been additionally streamed stay on the platform, marking the award present’s stay debut to the streamer.
The SAG Awards has historically run on cable networks, Netflix struck a deal to televise the present in 2022, when the award present ran on the streamer’s YouTube web page. The SAG Awards beforehand had a longstanding take care of TBS/TNT that expired the identical 12 months.
The SAG Awards additionally introduced eligibility dates and a calendar for the following awards season.
Submissions for nominations will open on Aug. 29 and shut on Nov. 1. and should be despatched in at sagawards.org/submissions. Eligible performances should air or premiere between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024 to be thought-about for the 2025 award.
Actors can submit their very own performances, or give permission to producers, studios/networks, brokers, managers or publicists to take action.
Nominations will likely be introduced Jan. 8, 2025. Key dates are as follows:
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2024
Submissions Open at sagawards.org/submissions
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Submissions Shut at 5 p.m. PT
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024
Nominations Voting Opens
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2025
Nominations Voting Closes at 5 p.m. PT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025
Nominations Introduced
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2025
Remaining Voting Opens
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Remaining Voting Closes at 12 p.m. PT
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2025
thirty first Annual Display Actors Guild Awards Reside on Netflix
Cinespia Reveals Lineup for Delight Month Hollywood Ceaselessly Cemetery Screenings
Cinespia has revealed the lineup for its Hollywood Ceaselessly Cemetery Delight Month movie sequence. The screening lineup consists of “Se7en” on Might 26, “Legally Blonde” on June 1, “Dazed and Confused” on June 8, “Throughout The Universe” on June 15, “D.E.B.S.” on June 22 and the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford basic “No matter Occurred to Child Jane” on June 29 in partnership with LA Delight.
“We’re so excited to be again on the Cemetery with some unimaginable, Cinespia fan-favorite movies to kick off the summer time,” stated John Wyatt, founding father of Cinespia. “As June ushers in a vibrant celebration of affection and variety, we’re thrilled to proceed our annual custom of partnering with LA Delight.”
For extra info or to buy tickets, go to www.cinespia.org
Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart to guide Cannes’ Caméra d’Or Jury
The 77th Cannes Movie Pageant will characteristic French actor Emmanuelle Béart and director and songwriter Baloji heading the Caméra d’Or Jury.
The Caméra d’Or award is introduced to the very best first characteristic movie. The aim of the award is to disclose and spotlight the significance of a director’s first film, whose qualities indicate that the they need to undertake one other undertaking. The prize is awarded in the course of the competition’s closing ceremony by the jury.
“Being a self-taught filmmaker and a filmmaker from the Congolese diaspora,” confides Baloji, “it’s an excellent honour to have the ability to witness the vitality of first-time administrators, to find their robust singularities and their inaugural work, which can have an enduring affect on the identification of their filmography.” Baloji, who recieved the New Voice Prize at Un Sure Regard final 12 months for his debut characteristic “Omen,” stated in an announcement.
Béart added in her assertion: “A primary movie is in regards to the impossibility of doing something apart from delving into the depths of 1’s being to seek out out what we will’t preserve quiet about. A deeply transferring and terribly free delivery: nobody is ready for you but. We’ll honor our responsibility with marvel and respect.”
Béart and Baloji will likely be aided on the jury by representatives of the business, together with press, business and filmmakers associations. Final 12 months’s Caméra d’Or was awarded to Pham Thien An for “Contained in the Yellow Cocoon Shell” by the Jury presided over by French actor Anaïs Demoustier.
Greta Gerwig, author and director of “Barbie,” would be the competition Jury president this 12 months. The 77th version of the Cannes Movie Pageant will happen Might 14-25.
Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman and Extra Will Honor Nicole Kidman at AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute
Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts and Reese Witherspoon will likely be among the many presenters on the forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute in honor of Nicole Kidman on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on April 27.
Streep who was the recipient of the thirty second AFI Life Achievement Award, will current the award to Kidman, who’s the primary Australian actor to obtain the kudo. Different former recipients embrace John Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, George Lucas and extra.
The tribute particular, “The forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman,” will premiere on TNT June 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT and on Turner Basic Films June 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. This marks the ninth 12 months the AFI Life Achievement Award particular will air on TNT.
DGA Broadcasts Date for 2025 Awards Ceremony
The 77th Annual Administrators Guild of America Awards will happen on Feb. 8, 2025 on the Beverly Hilton Resort. Additional info, together with the voting schedule and key deadlines, will likely be introduced later within the 12 months.
Cadillac will one once more function the official automotive sponsor for subsequent 12 months’s ceremony. Christopher Nolan was honored with the Excellent Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Movie Award for his movie Oppenheimer at this 12 months’s ceremony, which was additionally held on the Beverly Hilton Resort.
