The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2015 winners in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of seventeen film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio.
Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough, Best Screenplay, and Best Documentary. From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five in each category have been placed on the final ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order. The results were once again tabulated and the winners were decided.
This year, there...
Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough, Best Screenplay, and Best Documentary. From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five in each category have been placed on the final ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order. The results were once again tabulated and the winners were decided.
This year, there...
- 12/14/2015
- by Administrator
- CinemaNerdz
Newly-formed production shingle Eden Road Pictures principals - Luke Jaden Sawicki, Cort Johns, and Phil Wurtzel - have optioned rights to Emmy Award-winning TV reporter and author Lee Thomas’ memoir, "Turning White: A Memoir of Change," to adapt into a film that the Thomas is on board to executive produce, with Eden Road producing. In the thought-provoking "Turning White," Lee Thomas shares the physical and mental battle he is waging with vitiligo, a skin disorder that is literally turning him white. At age 25, Thomas had a dream job in a dream city as a feature/entertainment reporter for the ABC networks flagship TV station in New York. Then he...
- 10/13/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Eight teams have been selected from the iFeatures slate for further development funding, as the Creative England’s low budget feature film initiative enters its full development phase.
Three of the projects will be greenlit in early 2015, each with a budget of £350,000 ($570,000).
Partners Creative England, the BFI and BBC Films will fully finance, with the BBC pre-buying UK free TV rights. The accompanying professional development programme is supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund.
Christopher Granier-Deferre, iFeatures executive producer, said: “Covering a wide range of genres from dark unsettling thrillers to intoxicating period dramas while tackling the universal themes of grief, guilt and pride, and raising thought-provoking questions about religious, racial and sexual identity across a variety of locations, the eight filmmaking teams represent an eclectic mix of stories and illustrate the rich diversity of voices and ideas to be found in the English regions.”
The shortlisted eight are:
Fen Tigers
Setting: East Anglian Fenlands
Writer...
Three of the projects will be greenlit in early 2015, each with a budget of £350,000 ($570,000).
Partners Creative England, the BFI and BBC Films will fully finance, with the BBC pre-buying UK free TV rights. The accompanying professional development programme is supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund.
Christopher Granier-Deferre, iFeatures executive producer, said: “Covering a wide range of genres from dark unsettling thrillers to intoxicating period dramas while tackling the universal themes of grief, guilt and pride, and raising thought-provoking questions about religious, racial and sexual identity across a variety of locations, the eight filmmaking teams represent an eclectic mix of stories and illustrate the rich diversity of voices and ideas to be found in the English regions.”
The shortlisted eight are:
Fen Tigers
Setting: East Anglian Fenlands
Writer...
- 9/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New projects from Screen Stars of Tomorrow, playwrights, TV talent.
UK low-budget filmmaking scheme iFeatures has selected 18 projects (below) for its next development slate.
The scheme, backed by Creative England, BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, selected 18 - instead of the usual 16 - feature-length projects from more than 400 submissions.
Three films will be ‘greenlit’ in March 2015 at budgets of £350,000.
The roster of writing and directing talent includes Lynsey Miller, Hope Dickson Leach and Dan Gitsham, all recent Screen Stars of Tomorrow; Rachel De-lahay, winner of 2013 Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright; Dominic Leclerc, director of Skins and The Village; Alice Birch, winner of this year’s George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright; Olivia Poulet, star of The Thick Of It; BAFTA Scotland winner Zam Salim; Broadcast Hotshots Abby Ajayi and Alex Kalymnios; and William Oldroyd whose short Best won the 2013 Sundance London Short Film Competition.
Producers include Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Fodhla Cronin...
UK low-budget filmmaking scheme iFeatures has selected 18 projects (below) for its next development slate.
The scheme, backed by Creative England, BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, selected 18 - instead of the usual 16 - feature-length projects from more than 400 submissions.
Three films will be ‘greenlit’ in March 2015 at budgets of £350,000.
The roster of writing and directing talent includes Lynsey Miller, Hope Dickson Leach and Dan Gitsham, all recent Screen Stars of Tomorrow; Rachel De-lahay, winner of 2013 Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright; Dominic Leclerc, director of Skins and The Village; Alice Birch, winner of this year’s George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright; Olivia Poulet, star of The Thick Of It; BAFTA Scotland winner Zam Salim; Broadcast Hotshots Abby Ajayi and Alex Kalymnios; and William Oldroyd whose short Best won the 2013 Sundance London Short Film Competition.
Producers include Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Fodhla Cronin...
- 6/30/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The California Film & Television Tax Credit Program opens its application window June 3, but even supporters are worried it won’t be enough to curb rampant runaway production stoked by rival states’ more lucrative incentives. It’s not just tax dollars that are luring productions away from California. Georgia, for instance, has beefed up its production facilities, too. The Peach State will be the new home to Pinewood, the British studio’s first U.S. production facility. That development comes as Tyler Perry is planning to expand his studio from about five sound stages to 17, and Jacoby Development, an Atlanta developer, plans to build a 400,000-square-foot movie studio. “Eleven studio facilities have either located or expanded in Georgia since 2010,” said Lee Thomas, director of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office. That’s troubling members of the California Film Commission. “The only thing that will level the playing field is finding...
- 5/30/2013
- backstage.com
Atlanta — A few years ago, Georgia was locked in a bidding war with North Carolina over the Disney movie, "The Last Song," starring Miley Cyrus.
Both states wanted the movie to film in their state, and North Carolina was close to sealing the deal with an attractive tax incentive package. But Georgia snapped up the production, largely because it had recently expanded its own tax credit for films.
The state hasn't looked back since. Not only are TV shows like "The Walking Dead" and films like "The Hunger Games" sequel filmed in Georgia, but tens of millions of dollars are being invested to build up critical infrastructure. No fewer than five major studio developments or expansions have been announced in recent months with the goal of luring big-budget blockbusters.
"It really is about the whole package," said Lee Thomas, director of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office. "They can do everything here now.
Both states wanted the movie to film in their state, and North Carolina was close to sealing the deal with an attractive tax incentive package. But Georgia snapped up the production, largely because it had recently expanded its own tax credit for films.
The state hasn't looked back since. Not only are TV shows like "The Walking Dead" and films like "The Hunger Games" sequel filmed in Georgia, but tens of millions of dollars are being invested to build up critical infrastructure. No fewer than five major studio developments or expansions have been announced in recent months with the goal of luring big-budget blockbusters.
"It really is about the whole package," said Lee Thomas, director of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office. "They can do everything here now.
- 4/28/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
"How do you go on when something like that happens to your child?" With those words opening Torn, the new novella by Lee Thomas (coming soon from Cemetery Dance as part of their "Novella Series"), I knew I was in for what might at times be an uncomfortable read. I'm a father – a relatively new one at five years in – and while many things have changed in my life in those few years, my ability to process bad things happening to children (even of the fictional variety) has changed the most. In fact, it was completely short-circuited the moment my daughters were born. Sure enough, Thomas confirmed my initial trepidation by opening his story with the abduction of 11-year-old Maggie Mayflower. Maggie...
- 6/5/2012
- FEARnet
After my chat with Judy Greer I've been feeling homesick for Detroit. Or maybe it's just the ghost of Christmases past floating about though I haven't done a Christmas in Michigan in years. So what a perfect day for the Detroit Film Critics to announce their winners! The Artist is no sweeper but it's proving to be a formidable competitor on the critical map. A nice surprise from Detroit is the solid support afforded Shame which took two of the six acting prizes.
Picture The Artist
Director Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Screenplay Moneyball
Documentary Tabloid
...and the acting prizes
Actress Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Actor Michael Fassbender, Shame
Supporting Actress Carey Mulligan, Shame
Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Breakthrough Performances Jessica Chastain
Ensemble Carnage
How amazing is this ad for Shame from a UK paper I believe?
Since I used to live in the Detroit area, I know...
Picture The Artist
Director Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Screenplay Moneyball
Documentary Tabloid
...and the acting prizes
Actress Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Actor Michael Fassbender, Shame
Supporting Actress Carey Mulligan, Shame
Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Breakthrough Performances Jessica Chastain
Ensemble Carnage
How amazing is this ad for Shame from a UK paper I believe?
Since I used to live in the Detroit area, I know...
- 12/16/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
[1] Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon premiered this week at the Moscow Film Festival, and the first reviews have begun to appear online. What did people think of the film? Was it better than Revenge of the Fallen? Does it surpass the first film? Is this the first live-action film worth seeing in 3D since Avatar? I've compiled links to the first wave of reviews, and printed excerpts after the jump. Harry Knowles on AICN [2]: "Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is simply the best film of the franchise – by a great deal." .... "this film is astonishing to watch in 3D. Easily the best 3D since Avatar - and in many respects I think it is superior." ... "Personally, I'm looking forward to checking out the 3D again - that last hour is just jaw-dropping." ... "After I saw the film, my brain felt tired. Not from great thoughts, but...
- 6/27/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
The internet was abuzz last week when Michael Bay took it upon himself to coerce and instruct projectionists to present his blockbuster baby Transformers: Dark of the Moon in the highest brightness possible. The director and his crew seem to be spewing every chance about its technical merits. Its star Shia Labeouf (who is known for saying whatever audiences want to hear) told the La Times that “it’s the greatest 3-D film ever made.” Is he lying or could this be true after the abysmal Revenge of the Fallen?
The review embargo lifts tomorrow (when I’ll be seeing it), but I’ve rounded up any impressions I could get my hands on below. Deadline also has the actual letter Bay sent to projectionists. Check it out below, followed by impressions of the film.
Before we get to those reviews and impressions, Michael Bay has also posted a letter...
The review embargo lifts tomorrow (when I’ll be seeing it), but I’ve rounded up any impressions I could get my hands on below. Deadline also has the actual letter Bay sent to projectionists. Check it out below, followed by impressions of the film.
Before we get to those reviews and impressions, Michael Bay has also posted a letter...
- 6/26/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Authors: Lisa Mannetti, Steven W. Booth, Harry Shannon, Rob Fox, Calie Voorhis, Stephanie Kincaid, Matthew Louis, David Dunwoody, Bev Vincent, Richard Jeter, Joe McKinney, Michelle McCrary, Boyd E. Harris, Nate Southard J.L. Comeau, Bob Nailor, Lee Thomas, Mitchel Whitington, Steven E. Wedel, Mark Onspaugh, and Morgan Ashe.
Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology is the first zombie compendium that this reviewer has sunk his teeth into. A diverse collection, this novel hosts over twenty short stories of everything undead. Released March 15, 2010 by 23 House, this is a well edited novel from zombie researchers Joe McKinney and Michelle McCrary. Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology is full of tales involving flood waters carrying zombies to those uninfected, those infected recovering from the zompocalypse and strange men using the re-animated for their very own sick desires. All of the excitement occurs in five sections, titled: Origin, The Plague Begins, In Dubious Battle,...
Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology is the first zombie compendium that this reviewer has sunk his teeth into. A diverse collection, this novel hosts over twenty short stories of everything undead. Released March 15, 2010 by 23 House, this is a well edited novel from zombie researchers Joe McKinney and Michelle McCrary. Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology is full of tales involving flood waters carrying zombies to those uninfected, those infected recovering from the zompocalypse and strange men using the re-animated for their very own sick desires. All of the excitement occurs in five sections, titled: Origin, The Plague Begins, In Dubious Battle,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Remove28DaysLaterAnalysisThis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
By Alan Kelly - In the first of my interviews on publishing, I talk to small-press CEO Monica S. Kuebler about Burning Effigy Press.
Hailing from Toronto, Canada Monica S. Kuebler has worked as a writer, performance artist and spoken-word artist, appearing on stages everywhere from New York to Chicago to San Francisco and London. This hard-working polymath is the managing editor of successful horror magazine Rue Morgue, the author of four chapbooks and the CEO of her own micro press Burning Effigy Press. Burning Effigy publishes a variety of fiction which includes Lovecraftian, speculative and atmospheric horror and will be expanding into EBooks early next year.
Monica tells me about the Catch-22’s of publishing, having to juggle her projects around a full-time career, whether she would accept corporate backing and the changes she is pushing for at Rue Morgue.
You have an interesting roster of writers over at Burning Effigy Press.
Hailing from Toronto, Canada Monica S. Kuebler has worked as a writer, performance artist and spoken-word artist, appearing on stages everywhere from New York to Chicago to San Francisco and London. This hard-working polymath is the managing editor of successful horror magazine Rue Morgue, the author of four chapbooks and the CEO of her own micro press Burning Effigy Press. Burning Effigy publishes a variety of fiction which includes Lovecraftian, speculative and atmospheric horror and will be expanding into EBooks early next year.
Monica tells me about the Catch-22’s of publishing, having to juggle her projects around a full-time career, whether she would accept corporate backing and the changes she is pushing for at Rue Morgue.
You have an interesting roster of writers over at Burning Effigy Press.
- 1/1/2011
- by BunnyFlask
- Planet Fury
On Writing Horror-Revised Edition: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association
Edited by Mort Castle
272 pages
Writers Digest Books (2007)
Isbn: 1582974209
Buy It Here
On Writing Horror is a collection of short essays by the top writers such as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum that will tell you everything you need to know to create horror fiction. The book is broken into eight parts. Each part is a collection of essays and tips that cover areas such as horror literature, horror history, developing concepts, innovation, differences between traditional and modern, genre and subgenre, and business. On Writing Horror gives a rare glimpse into the behind the scenes of the work that goes into writing horror literature. One of the many strengths of this book is that the essays allow many diverse looks into the different aspects of the horror writing. The book is exceptionally organized...
Edited by Mort Castle
272 pages
Writers Digest Books (2007)
Isbn: 1582974209
Buy It Here
On Writing Horror is a collection of short essays by the top writers such as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum that will tell you everything you need to know to create horror fiction. The book is broken into eight parts. Each part is a collection of essays and tips that cover areas such as horror literature, horror history, developing concepts, innovation, differences between traditional and modern, genre and subgenre, and business. On Writing Horror gives a rare glimpse into the behind the scenes of the work that goes into writing horror literature. One of the many strengths of this book is that the essays allow many diverse looks into the different aspects of the horror writing. The book is exceptionally organized...
- 11/17/2010
- by nick
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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