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  • Monday, Dec. 16, 2013
Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola to produce "Fairyland"
NEW YORK -- 

American Zoetrope has acquired the motion picture rights for Alysia Abbott’s critically acclaimed memoir, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father (W. W. Norton & Company).  Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation, The Bling Ring) and Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom) will produce the film. Ms. Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.  Mr. Durham is a photographer who collaborates regularly with Ms. Coppola.

Praised by Alexandra Styron in The New York Times as “a daughter's compassionate, clear-eyed reckoning with the truths that defined her singular girlhood,” Fairyland is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.

“I love the book Fairyland; it’s a More

  • Monday, Dec. 16, 2013
SAG Voting to Choose Recipients of the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Opens For SAG-AFTRA Members Today
LOS ANGELES -- 

Member directions on how to vote for the Outstanding Performances of 2013 in five film and eight television categories were mailed via postcard today to the more than 100,000 eligible SAG-AFTRA members.

Voting information was sent via postcard to all SAG-AFTRA members residing in the United States who paid their November 2013 dues by Monday, Dec. 2. Online voting is encouraged. Paper ballots may be obtained by request before 5 p.m. (PT) on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. A list of this year’s Actor nominees maybe found at sagawards.org.

All votes whether cast online or via paper ballot must be received by noon (PT) on Friday, Jan. 17 at Integrity Voting Systems, the SAG Awards' official teller. The results will be tallied and sealed until the envelopes are opened onstage at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Jan. 18. The awards ceremony will be telecast live from the Los Angeles Shrine More

  • Friday, Dec. 6, 2013
Apple buys Topsy in pursuit of more Twitter tips
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 
Apple has bought Topsy Labs in a deal that will provide the iPhone maker with more insights about the chatter on Twitter.
 
Topsy pores through the stream of conversations occurring on Twitter to identify trends and people influencing public opinion. The San Francisco startup also runs a free search engine that boasts an index of every tweet posted since 2006, a resource that's not publicly available on Twitter's own online messaging service.
 
Apple Inc. spokeswoman Kristin Huguet confirmed the Topsy acquisition Monday without elaborating on the Cupertino, Calif., company's plans for the Twitter analytic tools. The acquisition price wasn't disclosed.
 
"Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," Huguet said.
 
Getting a better grasp on the hottest topics More
  • Friday, Dec. 6, 2013
Aussie Entry Makes Semi-Finals of Doritos Super Bowl Contest
"Finger Cleaner"
SYDNEY -- 

Photoplay Films director Tom Noakes has made the semi-finals of the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl competition with his irreverent "Finger Cleaner" spot, making him one of two Australian entries to crash the annual Super Bowl competition.

It's the first year the create-your-own ad contest has been open to global entries and Noakes’ spot has already gone viral with more than one million hits on YouTube, making it the most viewed in the competition so far. It has been consistently placed as one of the highest-rated entries of the 5,000 plus submitted to the Doritos microsite. (All semi-finalists can be viewed on www.doritos.com)

Online for just over one week, the ad’s far-flung global popularity is testament to its international reach. Photoplay Films producer Belinda Dean puts its success down to More

  • Friday, Dec. 6, 2013
First Round of Exec Jury Appointments Set For NY Festivals
Michael O'Rourke, president, New York Festivals
Five CCOs to judge World's Best Advertising
NEW YORK -- 

New York Festivals World’s Best Advertising, now in its 57th, year announced the first round of the 2014 Executive Jury appointments. For the fourth year in a row, NYF will assemble a “dream team” of elite worldwide chief creative officers. They will all meet together on one panel in New York City April 25th - 29th to select the World’s Best Advertising across all mediums.

“This year’s Executive Jury once again brings together the most innovative leaders in advertising that are responsible for the world’s most ground-breaking and highly awarded campaigns," said Michael O’Rourke, president, New York Festivals. As members of the Executive Jury, they join together to evaluate work across all competitions and categories, allowing them to curate a body of work that represents that year in advertising. These prominent creatives raise the bar by providing entrants the opportunity to have their work evaluated by More

  • Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013
Boston Marathon Bombing Affected David O. Russell's 'American Hustle'
From left, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from "American Hustle." While shooting in Boston, David O. Russell’s upcoming fictionalization of the Abscam investigation, “American Hustle,” found itself caught up in the Boston Marathon bombing. When the city was essentially shut down for the manhunt, the production had to be stopped for a day. The experience, Russell says, was felt closely by the production. (AP Photo/Sony - Columbia Pictures, Francois Duhamel)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

While shooting in Boston, David O. Russell found his film "American Hustle" caught up in the Boston Marathon bombing.

When the city was essentially shut down for the manhunt for suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev in April, the production - which had been shooting in the area - had to be stopped for a day. The experience, Russell says, was felt closely by the filmmaking crew and actors.

"It was hanging over us the whole time," Russell said in a recent interview.

"You just end up feeling the emotion and the strength of the community around you," said the director. "It just makes you more human, really, because you end up having a very human connection with, literally, everyone around you. I mean, everyone, strangers on the street. Everybody was moved and pulled together by that tragedy."

Russell, a New York native, has become increasingly identified with Massachusetts. A graduate of Amherst College More

  • Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013
Hawaii investigating 'American Jungle' TV show
By Audrey McAvoy
HONOLULU (AP) -- 

Hawaii officials said Wednesday they are investigating whether any state regulations were broken during the filming of the History channel's television show "American Jungle."

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said in a statement that an episode that aired Nov. 17 showed hunters at night, but hunting at night is illegal on both public and private land.

Maps used on the show also demark areas under the department's jurisdiction, even though the state denied a request by the production crew for a permit to film on state forest lands, the department said.

A spokeswoman for History owner A&E Television Networks LLC said the company would have no comment.

The History channel website says "American Jungle" depicts rival clans using knives and spears to hunt feral bulls, wild boars, goats and rams in "the island paradise of Hawaii." The clans are battling for hunting trails More

  • Friday, Nov. 29, 2013
Ang Lee plans to make movie in Philippines
MANILA (AP) -- 

Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, who plans to make a movie in the Philippines, said Thursday that independent Asian filmmakers have a better chance these days of finding audiences around the world.

The Taiwan-born director of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is in the country as a guest of Taiwan's de facto embassy, which honored him with a special screening of "Life of Pi."

Lee told a forum with filmmakers and media that he was inspired by how the world received the movie. He said 85 percent of the film's income came from outside of America, which used to be the market leader. The movie took four years to make, cost around $130 million and earned Lee his second Academy Award for best director.

"I think that's good news for all of us," he said. "You have a chance to make it and find your audience."

He said for Asian filmmakers who want to make mainstream More

  • Friday, Nov. 22, 2013
Obama to visit California DreamWorks studio
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) -- 

President Barack Obama will visit the home of "Shrek" next week to deliver remarks on the economy.
     White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the president will stop next Tuesday at DreamWorks Animation in Glendale, just north of Los Angeles. Earnest won't provide details but he says the U.S. movie and TV industry is creating thousands of jobs around the country.
     The studio's animated hits include "Shrek," ''Madagascar," ''Kung Fu Panda" and their sequels.
     DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is a big supporter of Obama and Democratic Party causes. Last year he gave $2 million to the group supporting Obama's re-election. During an August trip to California, the president and Katzenberg dined in Obama's Los Angeles hotel room.

  • Friday, Nov. 15, 2013
VER acquires Fletcher's Film & Digital Camera Division
CHICAGO -- 

Video Equipment Rentals (VER) and Fletcher Chicago, Inc. have reached an agreement to bring Fletcher's 16mm, 35mm and digital camera rental division into VER's cinema division, forming a new entity.  This collaboration  combines the strengths of VER's extensive inventory, comprehensive engineering and international reach along with Fletcher's film experience, knowledgeable staff and their respect for the craft of cinematography.
     "The nature of modern motion picture production requires an ever changing  variety of equipment and the ability to scale up to meet the needs of an often complicated and demanding production environment," stated Tom Fletcher of Fletcher Camera.  "VER's extensive inventory, engineering prowess and presence in every incentive-driven production center means that we can now more fully serve the DP's and AC's artistic and technical needs alongside the financial and business needs of producers. My entire staff is excited to More

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