AWARDS HEADLINES
Awards 2016: Caitlyn Jenner Announces She Will Embark On Oscar Campaign For Trans Drama ‘Tangerine’
The world’s most famous trans person is throwing her support behind the first-ever Oscar campaign for a trans actress, Tangerine‘s best supporting actress hopeful Mya Taylor. On the evening of January 4th, at a Los Angeles location still to be named, Jenner will host a screening for Academy members of Sean Baker’s critically-acclaimed indie and then attend a reception with Taylor, Baker and the film’s executive producers, Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass. (TR)
OTHER HEADLINES
Cord Cutting Survey: 19% of Young Adults Have Dropped Cable or Satellite TV Service
Latest Pew Research Center survey of broadband adoption rates has sobering statistics for Hollywood. Some 19% of adults in the 18 to 29 age range have become cord cutters, dropping cable or satellite TV service, while another 16% have never had a traditional subscription TV package. (VAR)
‘Star Wars’ Isn’t the Only Movie This Season To Get an HDR Dolby Release, as ‘The Revenant’ Does, Too
A Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos version of Alejandro G. Inarritu’s wilderness-set survival thriller has been created and will be released by Fox and New Regency in select cinemas that support the format. Dolby Vision is a new high-dynamic-range (HDR) format, meaning that it can reproduce a wider range between the blackest blacks and whitest whites in an image. (THR)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ Base Salary Drops, but On the Bright Side, His Stock Options Rise
Company’s top executive will be paid $900,000, down from the $1 million baseline salary he was paid in 2015 and the $3 million he received in 2014. But Hastings will make up for that cut with a rise in stock option allowances of as much as $19 million, up from the $13.7 million in stock option allowances that he received in 2015. (TB)
Twenty Years Later, How ‘Heat’, Michael Mann’s Masterpiece About Cops and Criminals, Has Aged So Well
It was one of the most anticipated films of 1995, with a perfect storm of elements working in its favor. Mann had shown his action-movie chops and his flair for romance with Last of the Mohicans three years earlier. There was also the small matter of Heat being the first time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would share a screen together. A major American auteur was clearly swinging for the fences. Attention had to be paid. (VUL)
Holiday Flashback: Outtakes From Jim Henson’s Delightful ‘Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas’
The Jim Henson Company posted a selection of these to their YouTube channel and it’s fun to see puppeteers like Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson and Jim Henson himself both stay in character and occasionally break when props fail to work or lines are flubbed. (BC)
On This Family Holiday, 50 Of the Manliest Movie Quotes In History
From “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?” to “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum,” and from “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn,” to “Pain don’t hurt,” plenty of lines to make you grow hair on your chest. (ESQ)
Trailer Buzz: ‘Sesame Street’
HBO has released the first trailer from its brand new season of the seminal children’s show. The new batch of episodes will run a “dynamic” 30 minutes (versus an hour), beginning with a double pump on January 16th (starting at 9 am ET). From there on, a new original will air every Saturday at 9, followed by a repeat. (TVL)
Screenwriters: ‘A Christmas Story’
The 119-page shooting draft, dated December 7th, 1982. Screenplay by Jean Shepherd, Bob Clark and Leigh Brown, based on original material by Jean Shepherd. (DS)