Backstage at the Grammys, It’s the Official Gift Lounge
Backstage at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards wasn’t just about prepping for rehearsals for the big night on Sunday. For three days leading up to music’s biggest night, LA-based entertainment marketing company Distinctive Assets put on the official gift lounge for Grammy performers and presenters to acknowledge their participation in the show. The company also produces the official Grammy talent gift bags. Grammy host LL Cool J was...
Exploring the Universe Behind Oscar Contender ‘The Theory of Everything’
“The Theory of Everything” is a film of many dimensions, a love story, a history lesson, a biography, an education in medicine and physics and an incredible true tale of triumph over physical limitations caused by a debilitating disease. With five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies for Eddie Redmayne, who stars opposite Felicity Jones, it tells the personal story of...
65th ACE Eddie Awards Laud ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ and ‘The Lego Movie
We’ve taken to calling them the B movies, although they are antithetical to what are widely considered B-movies in the traditional sense, because “Birdman,” “Boyhood” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” are the top contenders this awards season. Last weekend, it was “Birdman’s” time to soar with wins at the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild. But now the attention is back on early favorite “Boyhood,” and checking in at the...
The Making of ‘American Sniper:’ Screenwriter Jason Hall’s Journey
Writing a screenplay based on an autobiography is challenging enough. But for Jason Hall, the real-life story of “American Sniper” took a tragic and irreversible turn immediately after he finished the script for the Clint Eastwood-directing film, starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, whom Hall had been collaborating with in bringing his story to the screen, had just been murdered, ostensibly by a fellow Iraq...
‘Night Will Fall’ Reveals Untold Stories of Liberated WWII Concentration Camps
It was the movie from 1945 that had barely seen the light of day —until last night. Reels upon reels of raw footage recorded by military and newsreel cinematographers after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces are the basis of “Night Will Fall,” a powerful documentary that HBO ran Monday, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the most notorious of the...
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