SSN Awards Spotlights: Thelma Schoonmaker, Jay Cassidy, Pete Beaudreau, Tyler Perry & Lionsgate ROI, ‘Psych’s Musical, Exec Shuffle, Rep Moves

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Awards Spotlight: 3 Time Oscar Winning Editor Thelma Schoonmaker Talks ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ & Martin Scorsese

A longtime collaborator with the legendary Martin Scorsese, she has cut every one of his narrative features since 1980’s Raging Bull, for which she won the first of her three Oscars for Best Editing. This month’s The Wolf of Wall Street marks their 17th collaboration together, and has Schoonmaker on the short list to get nomination number eight. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: ‘American Hustle’ Editor Jay Cassidy Talks David O. Russell & Scenes Left on the Cutting Room Floor

Equally adept at documentaries as he is at narrative features, Cassidy edited the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth as well as last year’s Silver Linings Playbook, for which he earned an Oscar nomination. He talks with SSN about editing American Hustle. (SSN)

Awards Spotlight: ‘All is Lost’ Editor Pete Beaudreau Talks First Reaction to Lack of Dialogue – “I Did a Spit Take”

Beaudreau was taken aback when he got the script for J.C. Chandor’s second film and found it was only 31 pages long with almost no dialogue. This was the first challenge Beaudreau would face on the project, but certainly not the last. (SSN)

Celebrating 26 Time Oscar Winner Walt Disney With His 10 Best Quotes

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, and passed away on December 15, 1966, so in honor of his life and work, here are 10 of his best quotes. (SSN)  

OTHER ORIGINALS

 

ROI Insight: Why Tyler Perry and Lionsgate will Continue to Make Madea Films

Madea goes to the bank: the revenue & ROI of the Madea franchise. (SSN)

Spotlight: ‘Psych’ Creator Steve Franks’ Musical Dream Finally Comes True

Franks wrote and directed the show, and worked with composer Adam Cohen to write the music. The two-hour episode airs Sunday, December 15 at 9:00 p.m. on the USA Network. SSN talked to Franks about how and why the episode finally came to fruition. (SSN)

Rep Moves For 12/13/13: CAA, ICM Partners, WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners

SSN’s weekly summary of the entertainment industry’s major rep changes. (SSN)

Exec Shuffle for 12/13/13: VH1, Pivot, Preferred Artists, Walden Media, Fox 2000

SSN’s weekly summary of the latest major corporate moves in entertainment and media. (SSN)