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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… Regina King changes your outlook on 4 future icons
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentYou might flash on Regina King as Cuba Gooding Jr’s fierce wife in the Jerry Maguire movie, but flash-forward to her 2019 Oscar win for IF BEALE STREET...
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Will PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN lift Carey Mulligan to gold this year?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentShe’s won BAFTA awards and other industry accolades, but hasn't gone beyond Oscar Nominee yet; so will 2021 ring in the gold for Carey Mulligan for...
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Award Season’s first salvo is Gary Oldman’s Oscar-worthy MANK
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent“Times are changing, Mr. Mankiewicz,” says GOT’s Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in the Gary Oldman starrer MANK, but have they really changed?...
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Filmmaker Jon Alston talks AUGUSTUS, entry for Best Live Action Short
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent“I am America’s original sin…" and a patriot, opens Director Jon Alston’s AUGUSTUS, spoken by the titular character. With this brief introduction, here is...
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Hollywood is alive and well: Aaron Ryder forms RPC & seals MGM first-look deal
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentJust when you thought Hollywood might be DOA for 2021, or at least dormant for the Pandemic, Aaron Ryder just established Ryder Picture Company, and...
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President Biden's Press Office notice on Paris Agreement
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentOn a typical day, the Screenmancer Staff inbox receives most of the usual Hollywood notices. But after midnight of the Inauguration, we received an...
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Tommy Lee Jones: Men in Black… Coffee, hey, it’s funny
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentHere’s a completely gratuitous Tommy Lee Jones moment, brought to you courtesy of coffee company Suntory in Japan. Never had their “Boss” Rainbow Mountain...
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AFI Awards 2020 Honorees: All Good, No Surprises
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentOn Jan. 25, AFI announced the recipients of the 2020 AFI Awards, and stated that “AFI’s global Movie Club program will showcase the official selections...
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Dive into the VFX in Tom Hanks’ GREYHOUND & Hanks wrote it too
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentWhat can’t Tom Hanks do? He can MC a Presidential inaugural celebration, and apparently write a top-flight screenplay for recent release GREYHOUND, where...
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Kristen may be a Stewart after all, or former Windsor, as Lady Diana in SPENCER
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentZeitgeist moments happen with movies, and Pablo Larrain’s upcoming Netflix release SPENCER starring Kristen Stewart may just be that spark that brings...
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Sacha Baron Cohen gets his due as SBIFF's Outstanding Performer set for April
by Quendrith Johnosn, Los Angeles CorrespondentBORAT and its subsesquent "Movefilm" made quite a splash with the Rudy Giuliani moment. Ironically Mr. Giuliani's "hair dye" press conference was even...
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TCM honors legend, icon Cicely Tyson on Jan. 31
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentIt surprises many to realize Cicely Tyson (1924-2021) was once married to Miles Davis, and when she passed away on Jan. 28 at 96 years of age, younger...
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Delroy Lindo of DA 5 BLOODS to receive SBIFF’s American Riviera Award
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentDelroy Lindo is so convincing in Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS, it feels like a documentary. But this latest outing is only a fraction of the deeply gifted...
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A-DOC & OYEATMF join for talkbacks, interviews with filmmakers Jan. 30
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentIf you're looking for a virtual event this weekend in the rush of Award Season, here's a deep dive into some contenders...From Screenmancer:VIRTUAL EVENT:...
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Film Fest 919 lines up awards contenders Feb. 8 thru March
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent‘Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina’ is actually a line from the 1947 Al Jolson song, but it’s also applicable to the uncanny Award Season...
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Promising Nominees Line Up for 25th Satellite Awards Feb. 15
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentWith Award Season 2021 quashed by the Pandemic and forced to go virtual for the first time in Hollywood's long history, the 25th Annual Satellite Award...
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Every Promising Young Woman Should See Carey Mulligan’s Movie of Same Name
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentAOC, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is the US Congressional representative from the 14th district in New York who just revealed she is a "survivor of sexual...
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Golden Globes hit the gas with MANK in the tank leading the noms
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentThere’s a scene in MANK from Netflix where the reading of a love letter turns into a rollover accident for Herman J. Mankiewicz, so with the Hollywood...
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Welcome to Stories Matter, Leslie Zemeckis' Cure for Lockdown
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentLeslie Zemeckis is a filmmaker known for bringing lost voices of burlesque into the world with her film BEHIND THE BURLY Q, but she is also a champion of...
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AFI Movie Club celebrates MINARI’s Alan S. Kim, Lee Isaac Chung & more
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentThe buzz about MINARI is deafening lately, and AFI Movie Club had some announcements today that show just what a contender this film really is for Award...
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