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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
OSCAR PREDICTIONS
After several months of bickering, name-calling and no small amount of expert analysis that’s been right far more often than not, senior editor Neil Turitz and senior staff writer Dina Gachman wrap up this year’s awards season coverage with a comprehensive discussion of all things Oscar. Strap yourselves in and get your office pool ballot ready. Some serious knowledge is about to be dropped on you.
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Before taking on the position of editor at SSN Insider, Diane Panosian worked in TV production and home entertainment. She’d always wished to work on the Oscars, and when the opportunity arose to assist the supervising producer of the Academy Awards, she jumped at the chance. Now, she takes you behind the scenes on the eve of the Big Night.
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Maybe you’re going to the Academy Awards this year, and if that’s the case please have fun and take lots of photos. If you’re not, and you want a little live(ish) comedy to go along with your Oscar-watching experience, there are some very funny people you should follow on Twitter who can make that happen. So check out our picks for the five best people to follow on Twitter during this year’s Academy Awards.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
As usual, there’s action aplenty this week, with company launches, hirings in the film industry, lots of stuff going on in television, and of course the digital world is not to be left out, either. Click on the link to learn more.
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There are a series of interesting changes, including the increase from six titles in each category to seven, but as per the Academy's new rules, series with episodes of 30 minutes or less will now be defined as a Comedy and series with episodes of more than 30 minutes are considered Drama. Most notably, this means that
Orange Is The New Black will now be considered as a drama, rather than a comedy.
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Though the Paramount film’s release was moved from Christmas to July 31st, the latest installment of the Tom Cruise franchise has temporarily halted production to figure a new ending. Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie is huddling with Cruise and an unnamed other writer in an effort to “craft the perfect ending” for the film, which is due in theaters in just five months.
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The April 18th opener will run simultaneously at 10 p.m. across AMC, SundanceTV, IFC and We TV, in addition to BBC America. The move could provide a crucial boost to turn “Orphan Black” into a broader hit that reaches beyond its hard-core cadre of sci-fi fans. The move is also a sign that AMC Networks is wasting no time in finding ways to integrate BBC America with the rest of its networks.
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As the author of the crime novels that
Rizzoli & Isles come from said she would, Gerritsen filed an amended complaint in the matter earlier this week. Last month, a federal judge dismissed the author’s initial $10 million breach-of-contract action against Warner Bros. over her 1999
Gravity novel and the Oscar winning 2013 Alfonso Cuaron-directed and studio released film of the same name.
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Stone’s film will chart the experiences of Snowden, the whistleblowing National Security Agency contractor who began leaking classified documents to former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald in June 2013. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley are starring as Snowden and his girlfriend. Olyphant will play a CIA agent who befriended Snowden before he fled to Russia. The film has begun production for a Christmas release.
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The international trailer for the latest installment of the action franchise. The film opens April 3rd and stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Ronda Rousey, Tony Jaa, Ludacris, Nathalie Emmanuel, Djimon Hounsou, Lucas Black, Elsa Pataky, and Kurt Russell.
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