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  • Craig Zadan, Neil Meron return to produce the Oscars

    Craig Zadan, Neil Meron return to produce the Oscars

    MUMBAI: The motion picture, television and theater producing team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return to produce the Oscars for a second time next year.

    Academy president Hawk Koch made the announcement. The Academy Awards will air live on ABC in the US on 2 March, 2014.

    Koch said, "Craig and Neil have the overwhelming support of the Academy’s Governors to produce the Oscars again in 2014. In order to establish continuity with this year‘s enormously successful show, we felt it was important to give these consummate professionals the green light now to begin creating another great evening."

    Zadan and Meron said, "We are very honored to have been asked to return as Oscar producers for a second year. We look forward to creating a distinctive and entertaining show."
    Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said, “Craig and Neil have great relationships, a sense of showmanship, and a passion for our Academy. And they’re a pleasure to work with. All perfect qualities for our show."

    The February 2013 Oscars hosted by Seth MacFarlane, drew an average audience of 40.3 million total viewers and delivered a 13.0 rating among adults 18-49. The show was TV’s most-watched entertainment telecast in the last three years on ABC. Overall, it was the Oscars second-most-watched telecast since 2005.

    Among the innovations that Zadan and Meron plan to bring back to the 2014 show is the Oscar Experience College Search, which allows young filmmakers to assist with bringing the Oscar statuettes on-and-off stage during the show.

    The Zadan/Meron Oscars displayed a signature style that incorporated a single concept for the entire evening which linked together the disparate elements of the Oscar show through music, especially classic movie themes and the frequent appearances by MacFarlane to announce the evening’s presenters. The 2013 show was also distinguished by the use of motion picture talent as performers in the show such as the dance numbers performed by Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

  • Academy opens open-air theatre

    Academy opens open-air theatre

    MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences opened its open-air theatre in Hollywood on May 19 in the presence of Academy president Tom Sherak and CEO Dawn Hudson with a screening of the Kevin Kostner-starrer Field of Dreams.
     
    The new facility, located in the heart of Hollywood consists of a public-access park, where the Academy will hold a 10-week screening series titled Oscars Outdoors throughout the summer. “It took us almost two and a half years to all agree this was a good idea. Sometimes you have to wait for good things,” Sherak has been quoted to have said.
     
    “We hope Academy members will come, but it was built for the community, it was built for the city of L.A., and it was built for tourists around the world,” he added.
     
    Classic PG-13 films will be shown on Friday nights, while family-oriented affair (think Goonies) will be screened on Saturday nights. Admission will range from $3-$5.

  • Manus & Welsh co-presidents of Film Independent

    Manus & Welsh co-presidents of Film Independent

    MUMBAi: The Film Independent Board has announced the appointment of senior director Sean Mc Manus and director of artist development Josh Welsh as its co-presidents.


    In their new positions, Mc Manus and Welsh will work together to lead the organization and run its year-round programs that nurture independent filmmakers and expand the audience in which their work can be appreciated.


    They succeed executive director Dawn Hudson, who left the organisation in June to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as CEO.
     
    Sean Mc Manus has nearly 20 years of experience building organizations that have come to make a meaningful impact in both the domestic and international film and non-profit worlds.
     
    He joined Film Independent in 1998 as Development Director and was promoted to Senior Director in 2006, overseeing 36 full-time staff members and more than 100 contract employees including management and administration, fund development, marketing and communications, technology, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival and the Film Independent at LACMA Film Series.
     
    For the last ten years, Josh Welsh has been responsible for the overall design, strategic planning and implementation of all of Film Independent’s Artist Development programs that include the Filmmaker Labs for Directors, Screenwriters, Producers and Documentarians, Fast Track, and the Grants Program and four years administering Film Independent’s signature diversity program, Project Involve.