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  • Hollywood Reporter: SAG factions search for support Jan 5, 2009

    E-mails fly as sides tussle for position

    While SAG members got some relative peace during the holidays, the airwaves were not completely silent. In the matter of the recently delayed strike-authorization vote, voices on both sides of the debate continued to chatter and cajole.

  • Variety: NSFC names 'Bashir' best picture Jan 5, 2009

    Animated war doc named best picture by Critics

    “Waltz With Bashir” edged “Happy-Go-Lucky” and “Wall-E” to win the 43rd annual best picture prize from the National Society of Film Critics.

    “Happy-Go-Lucky” was the other big winner, prevailing in four categories.

  • LA Times: Pat Hingle dies at 84; veteran actor was perhaps best known for 'Batman' role Jan 5, 2009

    Pat Hingle, the veteran actor with more than half a century of impressive work in theater, film and television who was perhaps best known to a generation of movie fans as Commissioner James Gordon in the first four "Batman" films, has died. He was 84.

    Hingle died Saturday night of myelodysplasia, a type of blood cancer, at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C., according to Lynn Heritage, a cousin who was acting as a spokesperson for the family.

  • IndieWIRE interview with FIND Fellow Cherien Dabis Jan 5, 2009

    In Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka," a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, and they find their new lives replete with challenges. "Amreeka" is screening in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Competition as a world premiere.

  • Financial Times: 3D games and films to launch in living rooms Jan 5, 2009

    Three-dimensional technology is spreading from the cinema to the home with media companies and consumer electronics manufacturers gearing up for living-room launches of the viewing technology.

    A number of 3D product announcements are expected at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, the biggest electronics trade fair of the year, with video game devices expected to be among the first to find their way into the hands of consumers.

  • Ted Hope: What Do You Want Our Film Culture To Be? Jan 2, 2009

    Is this the time of the year that we are supposed to reflect?  Or is it that the point when we get to dream?  Is any point in time truly different in this regard  -- or has the calendars and clocks once again fooled us into thinking we are supposed to do something different based on what has passed?
    Well, since we can only really move forward in this game, I am going to choose Door #2.  What are we reaching for? We can build anything, right?  So: what do we want our film culture to be.

  • Hollywood Reporter: Bernie Hamilton of 'Starsky and Hutch' dies Jan 2, 2009

    Actor also appeared in more than 20 films

    Bernie Hamilton, who played the no-nonsense police captain on the 1970s TV series "Starsky and Hutch," has died. He was 80. Hamilton died of cardiac arrest Tuesday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his son, Raoul Hamilton.

    Born in Los Angeles in 1928, Hamilton ran away from home as a teenager and wound up staying in someone's garage and attending Oakland Technical High School, where he played football and got involved in acting.

  • Hollywood Reporter: Mystery writer Donald Westlake dies Jan 2, 2009

    Earned an Oscar nom for 'Grifters' screenplay

    NEW YORK -- Donald Westlake, a prolific author considered one of the most successful and versatile mystery writers in the U.S., has died. He was 75.

    Westlake collapsed from an apparent heart attack as he headed to New Year's Eve dinner while vacationing in Mexico, his wife, Abigail, told the New York Times.

  • Mercury News: Chips drive Hollywood closer to its most special effect Jan 2, 2009

    With a big assist from Silicon Valley technology, a movie superstar like Angelina Jolie could keep starring as Lara Croft in "Tomb Raider" sequels — forever.

    Aided by increasingly powerful microprocessors and incredibly sophisticated software, movie makers and video game developers are getting closer to achieving the holy grail of animation: creating computer-generated actors that are visually indistinguishable from real people. Consider it Hollywood's most special effect.

  • Variety: Studios expand winter film slates Jan 2, 2009

    Production for 2009 is being scaled back

    Hollywood studios are scaling back production, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the multiplexes in the first part of 2009.

    The first few months of the year were once a graveyard for the least promising fare, but ’09 is seeing a flood of titles entering the marketplace.

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