The Directors Guild of America handed out its awards tonight for directorial achievement in 2013. Alfonso Cuarón took the top prize, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, for his work on Gravity. That all but locks him in as the Best Director Oscar winner. Steven Soderbergh won as best director of a TV movie or mini-series for Behind…
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American Hustle took home the big prize at the SAG Awards on Saturday night, but as it turned out, its moment in the sun was fleeting. 12 Years a Slave and Gravity regained their awards season momentum at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Sunday night, as both won the top trophy in a…
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World's End/Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright has in past years posted his favorite movies of the year online. Wright, being a real film geek, always has some great cinematic recommendations. This year Digital Spy cornered Wright at a late November junket to get his top 10 list on video. Of course, recording the…
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Dave, Devindra, and Russ reflect on how many great coming-of-age films are being released this year, praise HBO's customer retention strategies, and explain why they think Jim Carrey can do or say whatever the hell he wants. Be sure to read up on why The Lone Ranger is bad for our society and check out Jim Carrey's video on gun…
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The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biography Behind the Candelabra, airing on HBO later this month, didn't show us much of the work Michael Douglas did to bring the late entertainer back to life. This long featurette on the making of the film gives us a lot more to look at, while also introducing…
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Steven Soderbergh's retirement has turned out to be more of a transition. While he's done with theatrical features for now, he's as active as ever on the small screen. Just last week, he was talking up his plans to adapt John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor into a 12-hour miniseries. Perfectly positioned to mark that switch…
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The last film Steven Soderbergh made before his self-imposed retirement/hiatus was Behind the Candelabra, based on Scott Thorson's memoir about his secret romance with the entertainer Liberace. Michael Douglas plays Liberace and Matt Damon plays Thorson in Soderbergh's film, which premieres in late May on HBO. We've seen one teaser that was free of actual…
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It's been a few days since our last TV Bits (sorry!), so we have a ton of stuff to catch up on. After the jump: Alexis Bledel, Kyle McLachlan, Hope Davis, and more get pilots Downton Abbey loses one character but gains six more Jeffrey Wright will be a series regular on Boardwalk Empire A bunch…
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Is Steven Soderbergh really retiring from directing movies, or is he merely taking a nice vacation/hiatus, or spending some time thinking more about making TV projects rather than theatrical films? Hard to say for sure at this point, as his statements on the subject have ranged through all those possibilities over the past year. We…
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With shooting already underway, Joshua Michael Stern's Steve Jobs biopic is filling in some key supporting roles. (For clarification, this is a distinct project from the Aaron Sorkin-penned Jobs movie set up at Sony, which has yet to begin casting.) The latest addition to the cast is Matthew Modine, who's slated to play former Apple…
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E! workhorse and acclaimed journalist Jules Asner was the guest on the current episode of the Adam Carolla podcast. Amongst discussion of her work, the mysteries of the modeling industry, the unpleasantness of Brooke Burke and lots of other non-/Film business, conversation does eventually come to Steven Soderbergh, Jules' husband. If you drop in at…
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