AWARDS HEADLINES
‘The Revenant’ And ‘Inside Out’ Are Big Winners At The Cinema Audio Society Awards
The Revenant and Inside Out sound mixing teams have won the 52nd Cinema Audio Society Awards for outstanding sound mixing. (LAT)
‘The Big Short’ And ‘Show Me A Hero’ Win Adapted USC Scripter Awards
The Scripter Awards go to both the original author and the adapter. In the the last five years, the Scripter award winners have gone on to win the Adapted Screenplay Oscar: The Social Network, The Descendants, Argo, 12 Years A Slave, and The Imitation Game. (IW)
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Emerges As Big Winner At Makeup And Hairstylist Awards
Furious 7, Pitch Perfect 2 and Cinderella also score film wins; American Horror Story: Hotel dominates TV with five prizes. (VAR)
OTHER HEADLINES
Box Office: ‘Deadpool’ Bedevils ‘Risen,’ ‘The Witch’ With $55M
Deadpool easily won the North American box office in its second outing, earning a sizable $55 million from 3,277 theaters to trounce biblical resurrection tale Risen and the demonic-laced The Witch. (THR)
Nelson Mandela Pic In The Works From Maven Pictures
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures is teaming up with Going Clear producer Jacqui Lewis to produce the film adaptation of Zelda la Grange’s best-selling book Good Morning, Mr. Mandela. (DH)
New ‘Star Wars Land’ Concept Art Further Reveals Disney’s Theme Park Plans
New concept art was revealed during ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland at 60 TV special, with Harrison Ford greeting screaming Disney fans to unveil some footage that showed off Disney’s preliminary plans for the theme park addition. (COLL)
Dan Mazer’s Rock Star Comedy ‘Stiff’ In The Works As Movie
Andras Hamori’s H2O Motion Pictures is launching development on the rock-star comedy Stiff, based on a script from Dan Mazer, the long-time writing and producing partner of Sacha Baron Cohen. (VAR)