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New Year's Resolutions: What the Indie-Film Industry Hopes to Achieve in 2013
3 hours ago
Resolutions get a bad name only because the most commonly made ones are typically unattainable outside of a 12-step program or a winning lottery ticket. Good luck with keeping a promise made at a time of year marked by unfettered inebriation, rampant self-delusion, torturous family obligations and all-around gluttony. Just the same, we here at Indiewire are optimistic sorts. So we asked colleagues and cohorts to think a bit about what realistic expectations they have for the New Year -- with focus on business, personal achievement or the indie-film community. The mix of responses is pretty telling, and for every deep thought there's a humorous aside that's no less true for being flip. This, of course, seems perfectly fitting. Read More: The Indie-Film Industry's Top Ten Lists of the Best in 2012 Movies and TV So have some fun reading through their thoughts and think a little bit on what you »
- Indiewire
The Indiewire Honor Roll: 31 Interviews With the Most Notable Cinematic Voices of 2012
3 hours ago
Throughout December, Indiewire bid farewell to 2012 by running a daily series titled Honor Roll. The column featured new or previously published interviews with some of the year's most notable cinematic voices. The 2012 crop was a stellar one that included Joss Whedon, Jessica Chastain, Michael Haneke, Wes Anderson and many more -- no doubt our best roster since we launched the series a few years back. Below, catch up on all 31 unique profiles and revisit one fantastic year at the movies. December 1: The Team Behind "How To Survive a Plague" December 2: John Hawkes, "The Sessions" December 3: Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone" December 4: Bart Layton, "The Imposter" December 5: Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" December 6: Matthew McConaughey, "Magic Mike" / "Mud" / "Bernie" / "The Paperboy" / "Killer Joe" »
- Nigel M Smith
Project of the Day: A Teacher and a Student in 'Savage'
5 hours ago
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Savage" Tweetable Logline: 'Savage' tells the story of a dangerous entanglement between an idealistic teacher and her troubled student. Elevator Pitch: Sara believes that she alone possesses the ability to save James, her troubled student, from his “substandard” life. On this journey she's slowly derailed by her own prejudice, fears, and even repressed desire. Threatened by her subconscious, she's forced to accept that her motives are neither as pure nor as genuine as »
- Indiewire
Academy Extends Oscar Vote Deadline To January 4th
23 hours ago
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations by one day to Friday, January 4, 2013, 5.p.m. Pt. (The original date was Thursday, January 3, 5 p.m. Pt). Members may vote online or submit a paper ballot. Any votes received after the deadline will not be counted. This comes after some controversy surrounding the online voting process, where many members complained was problematic. This is the first year the Academy is providing its membership the opportunity to vote online. “By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible,” said Ric Robertson, Academy COO, in a statement. “We’re grateful to our global membership for joining us in this process.” In order to »
- Peter Knegt
Daria's Descendants: 5 Characters Who Owe Their Existence to MTV's Sardonic Animated Heroine
31 December 2012 11:52 AM, PST
If only Daria Morgendorffer could see the world she wrought. It's been a decade since the Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn animated series went off the air, but the impact of its eponymous heroine and her deadpan journey through life in the suburbs is still felt. Some of the sharpest female protagonists on television right now can trace their identity, at least partially, to the central figure of MTV’s teen comedy "Daria," which ran for five season and two TV movies, the second of which, "Is It College Yet?," found Daria bidding farewell to the high school life she found so trying. While her contemporary, Tony Soprano, spawned a legion of tortured male antiheroes, Daria pulled off a feat less discussed but all the more difficult -- she made the world a little safer for brainy, independent, socially maladroit young women everywhere. Here’s a look at a few current TV characters who, »
- Andrew Daglas
Congrats to 'Umbrella,' Indiewire's Project of the Week!
31 December 2012 9:46 AM, PST
Thanks to your votes, the drama "Umbrella" won this weekend’s Project of the Week contest! Congratulations to "Umbrella" directors John Mitchell and Christina Zeidler. The filmmaker will receive a digital distribution consultation from SnagFilms and the film is now officially a candidate for Project of the Month. That winner will be awarded with a consultation from the Tribeca Film Institute. Here's what the project's about: We have all had to deal with forgiveness in our life. But what if you were a witness to a woman being attacked, and despite your best efforts in helping her, wound up having your leg amputated as a direct result of the melee? How about learning from the police that the woman you attempted to save was raped? How could you live with yourself? What if your wife, unable to cope with the stress and pressure of the marriage, decided to take another man into your bedroom? »
- Indiewire
The Growth of Original Web Series: What's Working and Why
31 December 2012 8:39 AM, PST
Original web content, especially in series form, continued to grow as a viable entertainment medium for artists and entertainers in 2012. Liz Shannon Miller has an article on GigaOm that looks at four success stories from the past year and what they may mean for the web’s future as a substantive entertainment forum. In the piece, Miller looks at the gaming show “Tabletop,” Onion Digital Studios’ parody shows, Justin Lin’s eclectic Yomyomf channel and the collaborating comediennes behind “Daily Grace” and “My Drunk Kitchen.” Here is the upshot, according to Miller: What’s the lesson I take from all this? That this is an era that rewards collaboration and multiplatform engagement. And the people having success in the space right now are those who aren’t afraid to experiment, and perceive the brand as bigger than the individual show or shows that make it up. You can read the full story here. »
- Jay A. Fernandez
Debate Continues to Rage Over 'Django Unchained' as It Gallops Past $64 Million at the Box Office
31 December 2012 8:06 AM, PST
Notable figures both in and out of Hollywood continue to weigh in on Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” taking sides on the film’s treatment of slavery, adherence to the racist lingo of the era and ethics of placing it all in a spaghetti Western context. The latest is “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua, who voiced some criticism of Spike Lee’s recent swipes at Tarantino while visiting the Capri, Hollywood Film Festival in Italy Sunday, according to the Hollywood Reporter’s Eric J. Lyman. Read More: Bigger Than 'Pulp Fiction'? Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Earns $34 Million in its First 3 Days Fuqua took issue with both the content of Lee’s criticism and the way he delivered it. "If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don’t do it publicly,” said Fuqua, »
- Jay A. Fernandez
Honor Roll 2012: 'The Deep Blue Sea' Star Rachel Weisz On Getting It Right
31 December 2012 7:29 AM, PST
Honor Roll is a daily series running throughout December that features new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-person stories of some of the year's most notable cinematic voices. Today, we're re-running an interview with "The Deep Blue Sea" star Rachel Weisz, who surprised this awards season by netting the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards's Best Actress prize. Despite plumbing intense depths in "The Deep Blue Sea," Terence Davies and Rachel Weisz are a cheerful team. During my chat with the duo, they called each other "darling" and laughed a lot. Their rapport is witty. But their business? Serious. "The Deep Blue Sea" -- which only marks Davies' fifth narrative feature in over two decades -- is a personal and radical take on Terence Rattigan's classic play. It also serves as stunning showcase for Weisz. In the drama, Weisz plays Hester, a woman torn between her barrister husband and a. »
- Austin Dale
Project of the Day: 'Action!' The Story of 'Rebel Without a Cause' Director Nick Ray
31 December 2012 7:29 AM, PST
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Action!" Tweetable Logline: The film about film you've been waiting for Elevator Pitch: Action is key on a movie set, Nick Ray said, what you want to do, and action in life is not so different from action in film. In Action! Hollywood outcast, legend, and filmmaker, Ray talks filmcraft, Hollywood, politics, technology, sex, relationships, baseball—Life. Filmmaking for him was not imitating life; it was a way of creating it. Some said Ray's teaching and direction were like shamanic healing. »
- Indiewire
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