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The Venice Film Festival will fete Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master & Commander) with its honorary Golden Lion at its forthcoming 80th edition. Accepting the honor, Weir said: "The Venice Film Festival and its Golden Lion are part of the…

The 13th Annual Governors Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday night came in with a vengeance. It was, perhaps, the biggest crowd of industry notables, Oscar contenders, and others I can ever remember at one of these events…

As one of its final acts, the current Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted honorary Oscars to directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy and songwriter Diane Warren and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Michael J. Fox. They will be presented at the 13th Governors Awards on…

Oscar-nominated director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead Poets Society) and location manager Michael J. Meehan (Dead Poets Society, Pirates of the Caribbean) will be honored at the upcoming 6th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards. Weir will receive the Eva Monley Award, which recognizes and honors industry…

If you thought Natalie Dormer could gut her opponents with a glance on Game of Thrones, the actor will leave you impressively chilled in the new version of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Launching on May 25, Amazon's six-part limited series based on Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel set in 1900 Australia is a lush, often haunting…

Here's the story of an Oscar campaign aiming not to be first, but dead last: Academy members have begun receiving what is believed – and intentionally planned – to be the final screener of the season, Peter Weir's independently produced and distributed adventure epic The Way Back. For those with short memories, the…

In my September 3rd post about The Way Back's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, I indicated that Newmarket would likely be scheduling a December Oscar qualifying run before a wider release date on January 21st. It was never locked in stone — until today when it was confirmed that director Peter Weir's…

TELLURIDE: Peter Weir's The Way Back is about an epic journey of survival, an appropriate metaphor for the film's own treacherous journey through the current wobbly state of the movie industry which just didn't seem to know what to do with this stunning adventure, the kind of movie Hollywood used to make all the time…

The Way Back, Peter Weir’s first film since 2003’s Master and Commander, has come off the board as an acquisition title before it screens in Telluride. Newmarket acquired U.S. rights and will distribute the film next January. It doesn’t exactly count as a real acquisition, since Newmarket is owned by Exclusive Media…