The Director's Guild of America released its nominations today for awards that will recognize achievement in feature film directing from 2014. The list features two biopics, The Imitation Game and American Sniper, and one film, Boyhood, that was made under circumstances that all but turn it into a biopic of its cast and director, Richard…
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With The Imitation Game and Theory of Everything battling on one channel, Discovery will re-air the 2004 Benedict Cumberbatch Stephen Hawking film Saturday.
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We're in full awards season swing, as gross as that process can be. (Just see the attempts to tear down Selma for a good example of the nasty part of this season.) But the guild nominations and awards are always somewhat interesting, if only because they represent the efforts of a focused group to recognize…
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Get the full list of 2015 Producers Guild nominations. This year's contenders include Boyhood and Whiplash. Selma and Unbroken were overlooked.
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The Oscar nominations aren't out yet, but we're getting to the point where technical guilds will be announcing their nominations for the best achievements of 2014. The latest set to be released comes from the American Cinema Editors, which this morning revealed nominations for their 65th annual ACE Eddie Awards. The ACE Awards recognize achievements in editing…
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Check out our list of 25 movies to watch this Thanksgiving, from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay to The Imitation Game to The Babadook.
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Directed by Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as pioneering and unjustly prosecuted computer scientist Alan Turing, The Imitation Game has been squarely established as a key player in this year's awards race. That means it can be easy to talk about Cumberbatch's Oscar chances rather than the film itself. But set aside questions…
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The Sloan Film Summit by Film Independent takes place November 14-16 at LA Live and celebrates movies that center around science. Free screenings too.
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At festivals in September, Benedict Cumberbatch won praise for his portrayal of mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game and the film won the Toronto festival's all-important Audience Award. Directed by Morten Tyldum (Headhunters), the film follows Turing as he is recruited to work at Bletchley Park, wherein the UK's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS)…
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The Toronto International Film Festival is unique in a few respects, but one of the most interesting thing about the fest in relation to other film festivals is that the top prize is decided by audiences. The People's Choice Award may sound like an also-ran TV awards show, but in reality it's a big deal.…
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Watch the first The Imitation Game trailers, with Benedict Cumberbatch as brilliant but troubled mathematician Alan Turing. Keira Knightley also stars.
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That image above is Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role of The Imitation Game, in which he plays mathematician Alan Turing. The film is based on a Black List script by Graham Moore, directed by Morten Tyldum, and evidently Harvey Weinstein sees it as a primo Oscar contender to open later this year. The indie…
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Alan Turing served his country during WWII, when he helped develop one of Enland’s most significant machines to break German codes. He served mankind by doing other research and design that paved the way for future ideas in computer science and AI. And he was gay, for which led to criminal prosecution in 1952. That…
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Benedict Cumberbatch sure does love movies about technology. He stars as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate;Star Trek is based around technological advancement; and now the Sherlock star will play one of the most famous computer scientists and codebreakers in history. Leonardo DiCaprio was circling the film, The Imitation Game, a while back, but the role went…
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Clint Mansell's scores are often great pieces of work; his music complements films quite well, and many are excellent standalone artifacts. The only film to bear a Mansell score so far in 2013 is Stoker, which premiered at Sundance in January. But Mansell has also done music for Filth, the Irvine Welsh novel adaptation that…
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It's been a lot of fun watching the rise of Benedict Cumberbatch over the past couple years. The great BBC version of Sherlock propelled him to the top of some casting lists, and he quickly went from supporting roles in Four Lions, War Horse and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to being the lead villain in…
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Has The Dark Tower finally fallen? Imagine Entertainment partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have been working up a very ambitious three-film and dual-TV series cycle of productions to adapt Stephen King's epic novel series. But last summer Universal decided not to finance the project, and Imagine took The Dark Tower to other studios. In…
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The last time we wrote about a possible film version of Erik Larson's book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Leonardo DiCaprio's company had just optioned the book and attached the actor to star. He hadn't yet shot J. Edgar, which has already come and…
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Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars…
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Yesterday there was big news about David Yates and the development of a new Doctor Who film, which the director is overseeing with the BBC. That project is in the very early stages, with a writer yet to be hired. We're not going to see that new version of Doctor Who for a couple years…
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Leonardo DiCaprio's J. Edgar has yet to hit theaters, but the star may already be looking at his next biopic. Warner Bros. has picked up first-time screenwriter Graham Moore's spec script The Imitation Game, about the life and times of math genius Alan Turing, for a seven-figure sum today, outbidding several other indie companies. Although…
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