“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s visually inventive comedy-drama about the friendship between a misfit teenager and a classmate diagnosed with leukemia, received both the grand jury prize and the audience award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., added his name to the many voices weighing in on “American Sniper,” praising Clint Eastwood’s story of Chris Kyle and his experience in Iraq while taking aim at the movie’s critics.
Amazon Studios said it will produce and acquire original movies for theatrical release and early-window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video starting in 2015.
The actor, who adopts a mud-thick West Texas drawl and disappears behind a beard, an array of sweat-stained baseball caps and an extra 40 pounds of muscle to portray Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, is astonishingly good in the best work of his film career.
Show business satire “Birdman” and colorful caper “The Grand Budapest Hotel” led the Academy Awards nominees on Thursday with nine nods apiece, including best picture, in the quest for Hollywood’s top film prize.
Director Michael Bay’s special-effects spectacle “Transformers: Age of Extinction” led all movies in ignominy with seven Razzie Awards nominations, including worst picture, screenplay and director.
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” marched past the $700 million mark globally and dominated the foreign box office for the fourth week in a row.
Marvel and Disney are going small for “Ant-Man,” rolling out a 17-second clip of superhero film — starring Paul Rudd — as a “teaser preview” to the “human-sized” trailer launching next week.
One of the most disappointing realities about 2014 was that as box office shrank compared to last year, independent films were often hit the hardest.
