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UTA has signed BAFTA and Golden Globe winning actor Bill Nighy in all areas. The global talent, entertainment and sports company will help build upon Nighy’s career across a range of verticals.

Over a career spanning five decades, Nighy won several awards, including a supporting actor film BAFTA for “Love Actually” (2003), the BAFTA TV best actor award for “State of Play” (2003) and the Golden Globe for best actor in a miniseries for “Gideon’s Daughter.” He is also known for his roles in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Recently, Nighy starred in “Living,” which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. He will soon be seen as the lead in Thea Sharrock’s Netflix feature “A Beautiful Game.” The actor is currently shooting a lead role in thriller “Role Play,” opposite Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo, directed by Thomas Vincent for Studiocanal, Picture Company and Amazon Prime Video.

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Exclusive: Oscar-winning production designer William A. Horning and Oscar-nominated production designer, costume designer and producer Polly Platt will be inducted into the Art Directors Guild’s Hall of Fame this year for their “extraordinary contributions to the art of visual storytelling.”

The guild’s 26th annual awards will be held in-person March 5 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

“The creative and professional standards set by the 2022 Adg Awards Hall of Fame recipients Polly Platt and William A. Horning are nonpareil,” said Nelson Coates, the guild’s president. “The breadth of the narrative design achievement and depth of storytelling excellence of both legendary designers has served as a benchmark for production design and collaboration and will continue to inspire for generations to come.”

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Horning, who died in 1959, won Oscars for Ben-Hur and Gigi and was Oscar-nominated for The Wizard of Oz,...

“I never drank alone before rehab,” cracks Hildy Good (Sigourney Weaver), a divorced, 60-year-old real estate agent whose façade of grace and stability is crumbling even faster than that of the quaint Massachusetts harbor town where her family has lived since the days of the Salem witch trials; what’s happening to Wendover isn’t what you’d call “gentrification,” but the influx of chain businesses and white-collar types buying up all the colonial houses has made the place a shell of what it used to be. Hildy is on the verge of getting priced out, herself, and she’s not taking it well.

By the time we meet her, she’s already talking to herself — or to us through the fourth wall — with the performative casualness of someone who’s about to have the rug pulled out from under them. It’s a device that helps Maya Forbes and...

Sigourney Weaver celebrates her 69th birthday on October 8, 2018. The three-time Oscar nominee has proven herself a capable leading lady in a variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, comedy, horror, and drama. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Weaver made her film debut with a walk-on role as Woody Allen‘s girlfriend in “Annie Hall” (1977). Her breakthrough came just two years later for Ridley Scott‘s landmark sci-fi thriller “Alien” (1979). As Ripley, the lone survivor aboard a spacecraft besieged by a snarling, ferocious extra-terrestrial, Weaver broke down barriers for female action stars and helped launch a franchise that led to three sequels: James Cameron‘s “Aliens” (1986), David Fincher‘s “Alien 3” (1992), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet‘s “Alien: Resurrection” (1997).

“Aliens” brought Weaver her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress, a rarity for the genre. Not to be typecast, she...

With over 1,000 people voting worldwide, Sigourney Weaver is your top choice to be the 47th life achievement award recipient from the American Film Institute. Gold Derby has been hosting a poll over the past few days about which of 10 actresses would be the best selection. The official AFI announcement will most likely be released this week, and the person will be honored in June, 2019.

Weaver received 25% of support in our poll results, beating Glenn Close with 17%. The other actresses with double digit votes were Julie Andrews (16%), Jessica Lange (14%) and Nicole Kidman (12%). The other five women in the poll were Sally Field (6%), Jodie Foster (4%), Julia Roberts (3%), Sandra Bullock (2%) and Annette Bening (1%). All people in this poll are at least 50 years old, which is the usual standard for selection.

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Weaver is a past three-time Oscar nominee for “Aliens,” “Working Girl...

Fixture of independent film world had been planning to attend Cannes with Mrs Lowry & Son.

Robbie Little, the British producer, co-president of The Little Film Company and stalwart of the independent world, has died unexpectedly in London en route to Cannes.

Little, who served alongside his wife Ellen, was a widely admired, deeply experienced and beloved figure in the film industry. At the time of his death he was working with producer Debbie Gray on the Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave drama Mrs Lowry & Son and The More You Ignore Me, and was planning to continue talks with international buyers on the Croisette.

Sigourney Weaver to receive festival’s Donostia Award.

Sigourney Weaver will receive San Sebastian’s Donostia Award at the European premiere of J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls (Un Monstruo Viene A Verme) during the 64th edition of the festival.

A Monster Calls, in which Weaver co-stars alongside Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall and Liam Neeson, was produced by Apaches Entertainment, Telecinco Cinema and Películas La Trini, and will be distributed by Universal Pictures International Spain.

The Spanish film is based on Patrick Ness’s novel of the same name which tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy struggling with his mother’s illness who is helped by a monster who comes to him in the middle of the night.

The third feature film in Bayona’s career, A Monster Calls closes a trilogy of tales that focuses on the bond shared by mothers and children. Bayona’s next project will be the sequel to Jurassic World.

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Wanderlust, or the obsessive need to explore and travel the world, is the the most appropriate word in your vernacular once you’ve been bitten by the travel bug and there is no cure. After you’ve been on one unforgettable trip to a new and exciting place, nothing is going to stop you from hopping on the next plane, train or automobile to get out of town again and again.

Your thirst for travel is indeed real, and your whole world centres around passports, suitcases, souvenirs and postcards. When you aren’t out and about exploring a new country, you’re at home working hard to save up for the next destination and annoyingly sharing your travel photos with anyone who will look at them.

You know you have serious wanderlust when your whole life revolves around travel. Everything you do leads to a trip,...

Versatile production designer, screenwriter and producer of Hollywood films

Popular legend has it that the new wave of American film-making in the late 1960s and early 1970s was an exclusively masculine phenomenon, a myth bolstered by the hard-living excesses documented in Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. But women were instrumental in many of the movies which defined that era, and few more so than Polly Platt, who has died aged 72 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

"I call myself a confused careerist," she said of her switches from production and costume design to writing and producing. She was credited as production designer on the films which brought to prominence her second husband, the director Peter Bogdanovich, notably The Last Picture Show (1971) and Paper Moon (1973), but her contribution extended far beyond that job description. "They discussed every shot," wrote Biskind of the making of The Last Picture Show.

Longtime Hollywood multitalent Polly Platt passed away this morning in Brooklyn, NY, after a battle with Als, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. She was 72. According to her official bio, the former costume and production designer and writer and producer was married to Peter Bogdanovich and helped him write his first movie Targets (1968) and did design on that film along with his The Last Picture Show (1971) and What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). (News reports say the 1984 film Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan O'Neal and Shelley Long and Drew Barrymore, is loosely based on her and Bogdanovich's marriage and divorce.) Later, Platt was partnered with director Jim Brooks and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his Terms of Endearment (1983). She also was an executive producer on his Broadcast News (1987) and a producer on his I'll Do Anything. She was an executive producer on The War of the Roses...

Hey people! Sorry we missed the spotlight last week. This is a series where we get to know members of The Film Experience community!

This week I'd like to introduce you to Borja from Spain. He's a talent agent so if you're an actor or actress, maybe one day he'll be staring at your headshot or reel!

Nathaniel: Borja thanks for doing this. How did you discover The Film Experience?

Borja: I was googling an actress two years ago and clicked over. I love your point of view Nathaniel and it's a place where people are passionate but respectful -- something rare on the web.

Thanks. Do you remember your first movie?

The first I remember vividly was Raiders of the Lost Ark and I left the theater changed forever. I was only six and it was my true favorite for a long time, the benchmark for all action and adventure movies.

It's time to have a good cry with Julianne Moore. Good grief, she cry's so much in her films that when you see it all edited together like this it's freakin' hilarious! The video called, Julianne Moore Loves to Cry, comes from pajiba's video editor Harry Hanrahan, and here's a note from the site:

It’s a telling video; if you ever want to minimize the talent of an actor, try isolating similar moments from different movies and reducing them to one three-minute video. The video is initially somber, but as you see the same face repeat itself through the video, it grows increasingly absurd.

I couldn't help but laugh through most of the video, enjoy!

Julianne Moore crying montage.

A-z List of films used:

A Map of the World (1999)

Assassins (1995)

Blindness (2008)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Far From Heaven (2002)

Freedomland (2006)

Hannibal (2001)

Jurassic Park II: The Lost World (1997)

Laws of Attraction (2004)

Magnolia (1999)

Prize Winner of Defiance,...

Angela Bassett would like to welcome you back to Streep at 60: Live From Carnegie Hall. Today's topic: Wes Craven's Music of the Heart (1999).

"I want to thank each of you for your generous support and I sincerely hope that you enjoy the blog post."If you need someone to introduce something, you choose Angela Bassett. It's the only way to go. She will always e•nun•ci•ate for you. I lead off with Angela's intro to the concert which concludes Music of the Heart because this is the sort of film that is entirely about its heartwarming climax. In fact, when it comes to movie narratives, the Inspirational True Story is the subgenre that most begs a swift telling. Inspirational Stories are about inevitable triumphs. The audience knows it's coming so too much dilly-dallying is deadly.

Music of the Heart tells the story of Roberta Guaspari (Meryl Streep...

You might know Peter Hedges, you might not. He's an author, screenwriter, and some time director. He wrote the novel for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, a spectacular flick with a performance by Leonardo DiCaprio that he can never surpass. He also wrote A Map of the World, and he was the writer/director on Pieces of April and Dan in Real Life. His novel work is compared to Tom Perotta and Jonathan Tropper, which may make some folks giddy, but which makes me a little gaseous. To me, it means it's going to be a novel full of quirky middle-aged folks who think they are intellectually superior to everyone around them, lead boring suburban existences, and suddenly catastrophically overblown incidents come into their lives and totally fuck everything in a whirlwind. At best, you're looking at The World According to Garp. At worst, well, most of the stuff cluttering the festival circuit.

Focus Features has bought the film rights to Peter Hedges' new novel "The Heights" for Hedges to adapt, direct and produce. Hedges' previous credits as writer/director include Dan in Real Life and Pieces of April . He also co-wrote About a Boy and A Map of the World , and adapted his own book What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the big screen as well. Publisher Dutton describes the book as follows: Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I'm now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate Oliver." Now, Kate is...

The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare

"A machiavellian dandy . . . Pure coldheartedness . . . Fabulously insincere." As I read out reviews of an old Bill Nighy performance, the actor grimaces and drums his knuckles on the table. "If ever a face was made for villainy, it's Bill Nighy's," I continue. "Wow," he murmurs. "Nighy's decadently long jaw and narrow, sneaky eyes serve him well . . ." He snorts, amused. "Sneaky eyes! Long decadent jaw! My God. I didn't know I had a decadent jaw."

Perhaps it is how Glorious 39 unfolds around him that makes you never quite trust Nighy as Alexander Keyes, a devoted father and aristocratic Conservative MP in Stephen Poliakoff's sumptuous new thriller about appeasement, set on the eve of the second world war. But perhaps Nighy has a singular talent for projecting unreliability into charming characters.

Indian-born actor Erick Avari has been acting for 30 years. From films, on and off-Broadway shows, TV, regional theaters to opera, Avari has developed a successful and varied career. He has appeared in movies such as The Mummy with Brendan Fraser, Mr. Deeds with Adam Sandler, Independence Day with Will Smith, Paul Blart: Mall Cop with Kevin James; acted with Shakespeare and Company in Stockbridge, Ma, been in many TV shows such as the soap Days of Our Lives, Heroes, Burn Notice, Jag, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, NYPD Blue; on Broadway, including A Midsummer's Night's Dream and in David Hare's A Map of the World; in the musical The King and I, and...