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EXCLUSIVE: The race is on. Well, it might be a little early now to say that since the 93rd Annual Academy Awards won’t happen until April 25, 2021, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences today told its roughly 9000+ members (about to get much bigger with tomorrow’s New Member announcement) that the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2NIkXi9

Outplayed by Disney in a bidding war for 21st Century Fox Hollywood assets in 2018, Comcast instead acquired British satellite broadcaster Sky — for $36 billion more than it’s worth today, according to one Wall Street analyst, suggesting the plunging valuation may be less worrisome than the media giant’s lack of strategic vision for the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/31qVWQM

EXCLUSIVE: Enlightened Kingdom is producing the John Stephenson Obe-directed feature Lady of Heaven about Lady Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad. Separated by 1400 years, an Iraqi child, in the midst of a war-torn country, learns the importance and power of patience. After losing his mother, the child finds himself in a new home, […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2YKo8wj

It’s never been a better time to be a tabletop game nerd. Attractive celebrities are obsessed with  Dungeons & Dragons , Kickstarters for quirky board games raise millions of dollars, and documentaries are being made about the passionate community behind the board game industry. Concourse Media is making a board game documentary called Gamemaster , and they have released a trailer for the documentary directed by  Charles Mruz. Watch the  Gamemaster trailer below. Gamemaster Trailer From the team behind  Barista  and  Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show , comes a documentary love letter to board games in  Gamemaster , a documentary produced by  Jimmy Nguyen , Jason Rose ,  Wally Schrass , Kristopher Wile , and Jennifer Tocquigny . The documentary offers a deep dive into the board game business, which is seeing a renaissance as of late thanks to the arrival of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, and the prominence of nerd...

Thanks to a new vote from the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, agents – or “artists representatives” – are now eligible to cast votes for Academy Awards. Welcome to a new era of the Oscars. While some agents have been welcomed into the club of Academy membership over the past several decades, the right to cast votes was not included. Agents were “associate members” who had access to the same screenings and screener disks that were available to full-fledged members, but they were not allowed to vote – until now. The Hollywood Reporter relayed the new rule change, saying, “Henceforth, all agents who are already members will be transferred to the members-at-large branch — members of which do not fall neatly under one of the Academy’s 17 other branches, but do still get to vote — and all agents who are invited to become members in the future will automatically join that branch.” The Academy is supposed to announce its new member invitations later ...

EXCLUSIVE: The S.H.U., a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame, has been picked up for world sales by Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group. The pic follows an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife. A victim of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/31q6cIS

Despite its platitudes, the NFL has still yet to offer former superstar quarterback Colin Kaepernick a deal to return to play. However, the activist athlete has now snapped a whole new kind of game by officially teaming up with Ava DuVernay for a limited series on Netflix. Long-time friends and campaigners-in-arms for social justice, the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2YIgYbO