[Translate] The AMPAS Festival Grants Committee Chair Buffy Shutt, announced earlier in the week that the Academy would be awarding 450,000 dollars to film festivals in the upcoming year. The academy had this to say about their Film Festival Grants program. “While the grants are awarded for a variety of festival programs, organizers are encouraged to...
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[Translate] In more Academy news, the “Monday Nights With Oscar” series returns to the Academy Theatre at Lighthouse International in New York city after being put on hold for most of the year due to renovations. The AMPAS series will resume on November 15th with a showing of “Funny Girl,” starring Barbara Streisand. “Funny Girl,” was released...
[Translate] In Academy news this week, the AMPAS announced that it will be hosting the final installment of their “Contemporary Documentaries” Series on November 17th at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood. The 29th Annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series has been running influential documentaries, both full feature and short length, every Wednesday...
[Translate] Conan O’Brien returns to late night TV after an 8 month hiatus as stipulated by his severance agreement with NBC. The fallout with NBC started when the network decided to push the “Tonight Show” back half an hour and give the time slot to Jay Leno. Jay Leno’s new show hadn’t been doing well in the ratings and it was thought...
[Translate] The Walking Dead is a new series on AMC about, you guessed it, the walking dead. I am a huge fan of zombie movies and so when I saw promos for this show while watching a movie on AMC I was immediately excited. I have always had a fetish for post apocalyptic scenarios and so I went to the website where they are streaming the first episode. I...
