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The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for television, commercials and documentary for its 76th annual DGA Awards today, a list headed by three-time winner Bill Hader and installments of the third and final season of HBO’s “Succession,” which claimed four of the five Drama Series nomination slots – the fifth going to an episode of fellow HBO hour “The Last of Us.”

The Comedy Series nomination lineup features the directors of a pair of episodes of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” along with two installments of FX’s “The Bear” (including a repeat nomination for showrunner Christopher Storer – the acclaimed “Fishes” edition from Season 2 of the series – and a first for comedian and actor Ramy Youssef).

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The Apple TV+ limited series “Lessons in Chemistry” also scored multiple bids in the Movies For Television/Limited Series category with three.

Further prizes awarded to Quentin Tarantino, Edward Norton, Peter Greenaway and Richard Gere.

Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher won the Golden Frog at Poland’s EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday (November 16).

The box-office hit, starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips, also won the audience award at the festival, which returned to Torun, Poland.

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The Silver Frog went to cinematographer César Charlone for his work on Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, while Vladimír Smutný won the Bronze Frog for Vaclav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird.

Second World War drama The Painted Bird,...

“Joker” cinematographer Lawrence Sher’s bid, along with director Todd Phillips, to try something “perhaps even a bit artful” won big Saturday in Torun, Poland as he took the top prize at the EnergaCamerimage Intl. Film Festival.

The Golden Frog for cinematography, along with the audience prize, went to his work filming Joaquin Phoenix in the dark origin story of Batman’s nemesis for its “dystopian storytelling” that “challenges us and unsettles us,” the jury said.

Sher quipped that such a gritty film from “the guys who made ‘The Hangover’ is not always expected.”

The fest wrapped in its new home, the historic city where it was first launched 27 years ago, after screenings of 188 films, most judged by some of 48 jurors in 10 competition categories.

The filming of cinematographer Cesar Charlone in Fernando Meirelles’ portrait of rivalry within the Vatican, “The Two Popes,” won the Silver Frog, while Vladimir Smutny’s...

I'm a sucker for good video game trailers and Rainbow Six Siege just got one of the coolest live action trailers yet! Come check it out!

The trailer is titled "Siege The Day" and is lead by actor Idris Elba talking about how one small move can change the tide in the game. What makes the trailer so cool is that Ubisoft notes it is an "actual live battle" taking place in an environment inspired by the house map within the game.

The trailer and the featurettes were shot over four days in Prague, directed by Park Pictures founder Seb Edwards along with Angus Wall, two-time Academy Award–winning film editor (The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and founder of Rock Paper Scissors and its sister company, VFX. Ubisoft worked with Los Angeles–based agency Omelet on development of the concept and overall creative direction and...

If "Fallout 4," "Star Wars: Battlefront," "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" or "Rise of the Tomb Raider" aren't keeping you busy, Ubisoft is here to remind you about yet another game about to hit shelves. "Luther" and "Pacific Rim" star Idris Elba is front and center in a new series of live-action spots for "Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Siege".

The first console release in the franchise since "Rainbow Six: Vegas 2" back in 2008, the company has gone all out and enlisted both famed commercials director Seb Edwards and Oscar-winning film editor Angus Wall for these promos for the new co-op shooter which hits PS4, Xbox One, and PC on December 1st.

Untitled Howard Hughes Project

Alec Baldwin is set to join Warren Beatty's untitled Howard Hughes project, portraying his lawyer Bob Mayhew. Martin Sheen, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins which deals with a love story between Hughes' young assistant (Ehrenreich) and a woman he is seeing (Collins). [Source: Deadline]

American Express

Charlize Theron is in talks to both star in and produce the indie movie "American Express" which Nash Edgerton ("The Square") will direct. Story details are being kept under wraps. [Source: The Wrap]

Sand Castles

Toby Kebbell ("Fantastic Four," "The Escape Artist") will join Nicholas Hoult in Seb Edwards' Iraq war drama "Sand Castle" for Umedia. Shooting kicks off in October in South Africa and Italy.

Iraq war veteran Chris Roessner penned the script is based on real events experienced by a platoon (led by Kebbell's character) sent to repair an aqueduct in the dangerous and remote village of Baqubah,...

Nicholas Hoult has himself a co-star in Iraq War drama “Sand Castle,” which he became attached to a couple of months ago. Now Screen Daily is reporting Toby Kebbell is joining the film, which also now has a fall start date. Shorts director Seb Edwards is making his feature directorial debut on the film based on Chris Roessner’s Black List script based on real events following a platoon sent to fix an aqueduct in a farming village and ending up having to defend it from enemy combatants. Hoult is playing Matt Ocre, a machine gunner, while Kebbell will play the [...]

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Toby Kebbell joins Mark Gordon’s Sand Castle, which heads to Cannes before planned October shoot

Umedia is to finance, executive produce and handle international sales on Iraq war drama Sand Castle, set to star Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies) and Toby Kebbell (Wrath of the Titans).

Iraq war veteran Chris Roessner’s Black List script is based on real events experienced by a platoon sent to repair an aqueduct in the dangerous and remote village of Baqubah, Iraq.

Mark Gordon (Source Code, Saving Private Ryan) is producing the feature from commercials and shorts director Seb Edwards, who is set to make his feature debut.

Hoult is set to play a young machine gunner, while Kebbell has been tapped for the role of Sgt. Baker, the Platoon leader who must keep his men sane in the face of mounting casualties.

The project is scheduled to shoot in October 2014 in South Africa and Italy.

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Nicholas Hoult was recruited to star in true-life Iraq War drama Sand Castle back in March, but it wouldn’t be much of a platoon without other actors. So Toby Kebbell will join him on the battlefield.Sand Castle is scripted by Chris Roessner, who spent two years serving in Iraq and went on more than 200 missions during his stint as a machine gunner in the war-torn country’s Sunni Triangle. The story will focus on Matt Ocre (Hoult), and platoon leader Sergeant Baker (Kebbell), as they and their troops attempt to protect a farming village in the crosshairs of some very dangerous enemies. At the same time, Baker has to keep his troops sane in the face of mounting casualties. Actor-turned-ads-director Seb Edwards is making the jump to the big screen for his first film job. According to Screen International, he’ll start the cameras rolling and the bullets flying in October,...