Promised Land, The: Denmark Picks Nikolaj Arcel’s Period Piece, Starring Mads Mikkelsen, as its Entry for Best International Film Oscar

Denmark has picked its 2024 Oscar contender, selecting period epic The Promised Land as its official Academy Award entry in the best international feature category. 

Hollywood 2023: Writers Guild Agreement Reveals Details of Tentative Deal With Studios on AI, Data Transparency, Mini Rooms 

The union reached provisional agreement, still subject to member ratification, with Hollywood’s top studios and streamers on Sunday night, Sep. 24.

Oscars: Academy to Replace the Oscar for ‘Gone With the Wind’ Winner Hattie McDaniel, 60 Years After It Disappeared

The Academy will present the replacement award to Howard University at an October 1 ceremony in Washington D.C.

Hollywood and Vietnam: Countercultural Films–Easy Rider, The Strawberry Statement, Getting Straight

Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), the anti-heroes of Easy Rider, the most commercial film of the cycle of countercultural films, were new screen protagonists: hippies on motorcycles in search of “America.”

Youth: Paolo Sorrentino’s Art Film (Cannes Film Fest 2015), Starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano

With the star-studded, English-speaking Youth, filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino aims at appealing to a larger, global audience that he has with his previous Italian features.