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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Producers</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/producers/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Producer Credits</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:39:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21698</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees The Blind Side and The Hurt Locker have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows: The Blind Side – Gil Netter, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>European Film Awards 2009: Prix Eurimages</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/prix-eurimages-2009/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/prix-eurimages-2009/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:05:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17620</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt (top); Kevin Bishop, Siobhan Hewlett, Marianne Faithfull in Irina Palm (middle); Nadja Uhl, Thekla Reuten in Twin Sisters (bottom) The European Film Academy has announced that the winners of the 2009 Prix Eurimages, an award &#34;acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry,&#34; will go to two producers &#34;who have combined their efforts to develop and promote European cinema&#34;: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/prix-eurimages-2009/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sylvia Miles, John Barry at MIDNIGHT COWBOY Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/sylvia-miles-john-barry-midnight-cowboy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/sylvia-miles-john-barry-midnight-cowboy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:50:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=9477</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the 1969 Best Picture winner Midnight Cowboy as part of the &#34;Monday Nights with Oscar&#34; series on Monday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York City. Pictured above (from left to right): composer John Barry, costume designer Ann Roth, cinematographer Adam Holender, Oscar-nominated actress Sylvia Miles, former United [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/sylvia-miles-john-barry-midnight-cowboy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Irving Thalberg: Q&amp;A with Mark Vieira</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/irving-thalberg-mark-vieira-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/irving-thalberg-mark-vieira-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:36:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=7892</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;The Wedding of the Painted Doll&#34; number from the musical The Broadway Melody (1929), the first talkie to win a best picture Academy Award; Louis B. Mayer, director Reginald Barker, Irving Thalberg on the set of The Dixie Handicap (1925); Norma Shearer and Chester Morris in the popular pre-Code melodrama The Divorcee (1930). &#160; HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/irving-thalberg-mark-vieira-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Laurence Mark, Bill Condon to Produce Oscar Show</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/laurence-mark-bill-condon-oscar-2009/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/laurence-mark-bill-condon-oscar-2009/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:39:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4667</guid> <description><![CDATA[Producer Laurence Mark has been chosen to produce and writer/director Bill Condon to executive produce the telecast of the 81st Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis has announced. It will be Mark and Condon's first involvement in the production of an Oscar show. Mark and Condon have worked together before. In 2006, Mark produced and Condon wrote and directed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/laurence-mark-bill-condon-oscar-2009/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>William Castle and ROSEMARY&#039;S BABY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/william-castle-and-rosemarys-baby/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/william-castle-and-rosemarys-baby/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:49:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3764</guid> <description><![CDATA[David Parkinson's &#34;The Horror Icon Who Spooked Himself: William Castle and Rosemary's Baby&#34; at Films in Focus: &#34;After 15 years toiling in such B-movie series as The Whistler and The Crime Doctor, William Castle sold his soul to horror. In 1958 he hit upon the notion of insuring the lives of those brave enough to see his new chiller, Macabre, and recouped around $5 million [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/william-castle-and-rosemarys-baby/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Walter Mirisch Book Signing at the Egyptian Theater</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/walter-mirisch-book-signing-egyptian-theater/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/walter-mirisch-book-signing-egyptian-theater/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:39:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2703</guid> <description><![CDATA[At 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 19, producer Walter Mirisch, 86, will sign copies of his new book of memoirs, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History, at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The book signing will be followed by a screening of two Oscar-winning Mirisch productions: Billy Wilder's mordant 1960 comedy The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and (gasp!) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/walter-mirisch-book-signing-egyptian-theater/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ROSEMARY&#039;S BABY at Robert Evans Salute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/robert-evans-salute/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/robert-evans-salute/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 02:28:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2610</guid> <description><![CDATA[Producer William Castle, Mia Farrow, Robert Evans on the set of Rosemary's Baby. &#160; &#34;An Academy Salute to Robert Evans&#34; will feature a 40th anniversary screening of (a brand new print of) Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, and an onstage &#34;conversation&#34; with all-powerful Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone (he of the Tom Cruise spat), film director Brett Ratner, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash (formerly of Guns N' Roses), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/robert-evans-salute/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Patrick Goldstein on New Line Cinema&#039;s Bob Shaye</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/patrick-goldstein-bob-shaye/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/patrick-goldstein-bob-shaye/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:12:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/patrick-goldstein-bob-shaye/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Patrick Goldstein's &#34;Hollywood's endangered entrepreneurs&#34; in the Los Angeles Times: &#34;It's hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner's Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he'd sold his company in 1993, Shaye continued to treat New Line as his personal mom-and-pop movie store. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/patrick-goldstein-bob-shaye/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Producers Guild of America Awards 2008</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pga-awards-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pga-awards-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:15:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pga-awards-2007/</guid> <description><![CDATA[2007 Producers Guild of America's Golden Laurel Awards 2007 PGA feature-film and long-form TV nominations: January 14, 2008. Television series nominations: November 15, 2007 2007 PGA winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 2, 2008 (&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category) &#160; The two biggest surprises among the PGA's 2008 Golden Laurels was the presence of Julian Schnabel's French-language The Diving Bell [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pga-awards-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gloria Swanson in THE TRESPASSER: Academy Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mother love and melodrama in The Trespasser: Purnell Pratt, Gloria Swanson, and Robert Ames, who would die two years after this film was made. &#160; Academy film scholar Cari Beauchamp will talk about the convoluted personal and professional relationship between actress Gloria Swanson and producer Joseph P. Kennedy (right) in a program featuring highlights from her upcoming book, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, on Thursday, November [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/gloria-swanson-the-trespasser/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Inceville: Film Pioneer Thomas Ince&#039;s Studios</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/thomas-ince-inceville/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/thomas-ince-inceville/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:56:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/thomas-ince-inceville/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Libby Motika in The Palisadian-Post: &#34;Once there was a city spread out idyllically on the slopes of Santa Ynez Canyon [between Santa Monica and Malibu] with sweeping views of the sea. The streets were lined with houses of many types, from humble cottages to mansions, and the buildings were fashioned after the architecture of many lands. &#34;But as ephemeral as Atlantis, this city appeared and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/thomas-ince-inceville/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pioneer Female Producer June Mathis: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/june-mathis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/june-mathis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:05:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/04/01/june-mathis/</guid> <description><![CDATA[June Mathis / &#169; Allan Ellenberger Collection June Mathis. The name means nothing to most of today's filmgoers and to the vast majority of self-proclaimed film historians. Yet, nearly nine decades ago June Mathis was, next to Mary Pickford, one of the two most powerful women in Hollywood. "She fairly lives and breathes motion pictures," reported the New York Morning Telegraph in February 1924, "and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/june-mathis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS Producer John Sinno&#039;s Open Letter to AMPAS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/iraq-in-fragments-producer-john-sinnos-open-letter-to-ampas/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/iraq-in-fragments-producer-john-sinnos-open-letter-to-ampas/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:33:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/03/04/iraq-in-fragments-producer-john-sinnos-open-letter-to-ampas/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Below is an open letter (dated March 2) that producer John Sinno sent to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sinno co-produced James Longley's Iraq in Fragments, which earlier this year was nominated for an Academy Award in the best documentary feature category. Note: This year's best documentary feature Oscar winner was Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming. &#160; John Sinno [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/iraq-in-fragments-producer-john-sinnos-open-letter-to-ampas/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ALIENS Invade Hollywood</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/aliens-invade-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/aliens-invade-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:51:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/11/21/aliens-invade-hollywood/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Aliens screening in Hollywood, with producer Gale Ann Hurd hosting a discussion panel. Aliens (1986) was directed by James Cameron. Aliens starred Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn. Aliens is a sequel to Alien, a 1979 horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/aliens-invade-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Monty Berman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/monty-berman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/monty-berman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:26:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/08/12/obit-producercinematographerdirector-monty-berman/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brief Obit: British cinematographer, director, and film and television producer Monty Berman, whose television series The Saint became an international hit, died in London last June 14. His obit was reported in The [London] Independent on Aug. 4. Born in London in 1912, at the age of 17 Berman became a camera assistant at Twickenham Studios. In 1935, he developed into a full-fledged cinematographer, working [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/monty-berman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ismail Merchant</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/ismail-merchant/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/ismail-merchant/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2005 06:38:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/biography-obit/ismail-merchant/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mumbai-born producer and sometime director Ismail Merchant died today in London. He was 68. Merchant and his partner, American director James Ivory, were responsible for several classy productions made in the last four decades, including Heat and Dust (1981), starring Julie Christie as a woman traveling through India; the drama Quartet (1981), with Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, and Isabelle Adjani; and the solid dramatic comedy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/ismail-merchant/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
