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The Independent Spirit Awards are an annual award given in the name of independent film, featuring plenty of those little indies which deserve the honor and recognition that they won’t necessarily be receiving at the Oscars. The nominees for the 26th annual Film Indie Spirit Awards have been announced today (via SlashFilm / indieWIRE) and [...]

BBC-Masterpiece / Warner Home Video (2010), 2 Blu-ray discs, 270 mins plus supplements, 1080i high definition 1.78:1 widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, $40 The Movies: “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”. So said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s eminently proficient sleuth Sherlock Holmes to Dr John Watson on their very first encounter, and it’s [...]

He’s playing the Secretary of State.

Film Reviews: Veteran British commercials helmers Karl Howman and Ethem Cetintas work through their own paternal anxieties in their self-funded debut feature, “Fathers of Girls.”

Film News: Sony vet to also oversee pic co-financing deals — In another exec shuffle at Columbia Pictures, Andrew Gumpert has been upped to prexy of worldwide business affairs and operations for the label. The news was announced Tuesday by Sony chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal.

It seems Black Friday was good to Microsoft. The company announced that their Kinect peripheral for Xbox 360 has sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide to date.

At the end of October we heard from Matt Damon that he was planning on shooting Steven Soderbergh’s gestating biopic on famed pianist Liberace next summer. However, since the man attached to play the iconic musician, Michael Douglas, had contracted Stage 4 throat cancer, his future, both in his career and life, seemed uncertain. However, [...]

Film News: Sony vet to also oversee pic co-financing deals — In another exec shuffle at Columbia Pictures, Andrew Gumpert has been upped to prexy of worldwide business affairs and operations for the label. The news was announced Tuesday by Sony chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal.

Obituary: Veteran exec was in charge of film services, library — Milford “Mel” Rydell, who worked in film services at MGM, died Nov. 17 in Torrance, Calif., of congestive heart failure. He was 86.