2012 Academy Award Nominees Announced
The number of genre films earning Academy Award nominations, and the number of those nominations, seem fairly constant... Read more [...]
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Artist Ralph McQuarrie Dies
Artist Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012) was instrumental in the look of the Star Wars films, and won an Academy Award...
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2011 Razzie Award Nominees Announced
The Razzie Awards, honoring the worst in film, have announced this year's nominees. They include...
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Alan Lee will be World Fantasty Convention 2012 Artist Guest of Honor
World Fantasy and Academy Award winning artist Alan Lee has been named Artist Guest of Honour for the 2013 World Fantasy Convention...
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Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman Dies
Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman (1930-2011) was nominated for an Academy Award, and wrote Logan's Run and Eyes of Laura Mars...
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Edge’s new Gaslight anthology to feature an Oscar winner’s cover art
Dave Elsey, who recently won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, is the cover artist on the forthcoming Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes...
Read more [...] 2010 Razzie Award Nominees Announced
The Razzie Awards, honoring the worst in film, have announced this year's nominees. They include...
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Actor Tony Curtis Dies
Actor Tony Curtis (1925-2010) was nominated for one Academy Award, but had a huge, long career in many different genres...
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2009 Razzie Award Nominees Announced
The Razzie Awards, honoring the worst in film, have announced this year's nominees. They include...
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2010 Producers Guild of America Award Nominees
The Producers Guild of America will soon be handing out its 21st annual awards. A number of genre films are nominees, and two special awards will go to Joss Whedon and John Lasseter...
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Irish actor Richard Todd dies
Irish-born actor Richard Todd (1919-2009) was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949, participated in the D-day invasion and then acted in its film version, The Longest Day, and appeared in Doctor Who...
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Cinematographer Jack Cardiff Dies
British cinematographer Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and was made an OBE in 2000. His credits stretch back to the 1920s, and include...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in February
A new (well, perhaps not entirely new) horror film opens at #1, an Academy Award winner is still on the charts, Twilight brightened a bit, and...
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Producer Robert Evans sells second volume of memoir
Film producer Robert Evans, who had a hand in The Phantom, Popeye, and Rosemary's Baby, sold his second memoir volume to Phoenix Books...
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French film artist Claude Berri dies
French actor, writer, director, and producer Claude Berri (1934-2009) won an Academy Award, and appeared in every possible job in French cinema for half a century...
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