After years of rumors suggesting it was in the works, a remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion appears to be closer to releasing than ever, with some sources suggesting it could come as early as 2025. The modern version, created in Unreal Engine 5, would give fans of the open-world RPG series something to take their…
After years of rumors suggesting it was in the works, a remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion appears to be closer to releasing than ever, with some sources suggesting it could come as early as 2025. The modern version, created in Unreal Engine 5, would give fans of the open-world RPG series something to take their…
A Marvel TV series can’t exist for too long before its chronological placement in the tapestry of titles known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is revealed. Weeks before Disney’s cel-shaded series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man makes its debut, executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt decided to put the latest…
A Marvel TV series can’t exist for too long before its chronological placement in the tapestry of titles known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is revealed. Weeks before Disney’s cel-shaded series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man makes its debut, executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt decided to put the latest…
As destruction, uncertainty, and devastation engulf parts of California during the L.A. wildfires, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is postponing vital parts of the upcoming Oscar 2025 season. After extending the voting period by two days, the Academy will extend the window again to end at 5:00 p.m. PT on Friday, January 17. The nominations announcement is also getting moved from Sunday, January 19 (initially planned for this Friday) to Thursday, January 23, at 5:30 a.m. PT. AMPAS is also pushing the February 18 Scientific And Technical Awards ceremony to an unspecified date. Furthermore, the Oscar Nominees luncheon, initially scheduled for February 10, is canceled. Meanwhile, the Oscar ceremony is still scheduled for March 2, 2025.
Here is the official AMPAS statement from CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang:
We are all devastated by the impact of the fires and the profound losses experienced by so many in our community. The Academy has always been a unifying force within the film industry, and we are committed to standing together in the face of hardship.
Due to the still-active fires in the Los Angeles area, we feel it is necessary to extend our voting period and move the date of our nominations announcement to allow additional time for our members.
Additionally, as we want to be sensitive to the infrastructure and lodging needs of the region in these next few weeks, it is imperative that we make some changes to our schedule of events, which we believe will have the support of our industry.
Our members always share how important it is for us to come together as a community, and we are determined to use this opportunity to celebrate our resilient and compassionate industry. We also look forward to honoring our frontline workers who have aided with the fires, recognizing those impacted, and encouraging people to join the Academy in supporting the relief efforts.
We will get through this together and bring a sense of healing to our global film community.
The ongoing fallout from the L.A. wildfires is nothing short of catastrophic. Many people and countless animals have lost their homes, and rebuilding the area will take time, cooperation, and patience. We at JoBlo extend our best wishes to all affected by this monumental tragedy. While we continue to look forward to the Oscars 2025 ceremony, the safety and health of the L.A. area is far more critical.
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A lot of Minecraft’s more recent attention tends to be about the upcoming movie adaptation, but the game is still getting plenty of love and support. If you’ve been tuned out of Minecraft, you might’ve missed news about the recently released game drop, which added a brand-new biome to explore called the Pale Garden.…
A lot of Minecraft’s more recent attention tends to be about the upcoming movie adaptation, but the game is still getting plenty of love and support. If you’ve been tuned out of Minecraft, you might’ve missed news about the recently released game drop, which added a brand-new biome to explore called the Pale Garden.…
Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! In fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.
Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! In fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.
PLOT: While covering the 1972 Munich Olympics, the team at ABC Sports find themselves covering the horrifying Munich Massacre in real-time.
REVIEW: September 5 isn’t the first movie about the Munich Massacre. Steven Spielberg brilliantly depicted the events and their aftermath in Munich (perhaps his last truly great film). However, this movie takes a different approach in how it covers the events unravelling in real time from the studios at ABC Sports in Germany. We follow a team of sleep-deprived journalists who are supposed to be there covering the Olympics and find themselves chronicling events that they know can only end in tragedy and will have global consequences, the repercussions of which are still felt today.
For me, the film had particular resonance. Before I started working for JoBlo, I worked in radio as an “op”, which basically meant I handled the audio boards, screened the calls, and ran the operations side of live radio broadcasts. Whenever big event happened, everyone working that day went into overdrive, and no movie has ever captured what it’s actually like to be in the thick of things in a newsroom as well as September 5 has. The thing people don’t get about these events is that you’re running on adrenaline, and you have to make real-time calls on what you should or should cover without the benefit of context. I vividly remember working the board during a horrifying school shooting here in Montreal and the whole crew having to make snap decisions about what information should and shouldn’t be conveyed on air.
While this no doubt sounds grim – and it was – your adrenaline goes into overdrive, and you don’t really pause to think about how tragic things are – that comes later. September 5 brilliantly depicts that vibe, as John Magaro’s Geoffrey Mason, a new associate producer, shows up to work thinking he’s going to be covering sports and winds up helping literally write history as it unfolds.
Running a taut ninety minutes, the propulsive editing and pace makes us feel like the journalists themselves must have felt, with them alternatively energized and repulsed as they plough ahead with the coverage. All of the journalists are shown to rise to the occasion, with Peter Sarsgaard’s Roone Arledge, the head of sports, fighting to keep the ABC News team from taking over, instead entrusting his team, which includes a young Peter Jennings (played by Benjamin Walker), and a lot of rookies who are untested in covering event of this magnitude. Standouts include Leonie Benesch as the crew’s German translator, who becomes invaluable as the day goes on, while Ben Chaplin’s Marvin Bader fights to keep the journalists in-check. With so much conflicting information coming in, he shows us how hard it was to figure out what should be reported and, most importantly – what shouldn’t, as the terrorists themselves were reportedly watching ABC News coverage the whole day. John Magaro, who’s quickly rising as one of the best of a new generation of character actors, is superb as the plucky, creative, but occasionally hard-headed and impulsive Mason, who, like everyone else, isn’t immune from getting things wrong in a situation where there’s little margin for error.
Director Tim Fehlbaum has crafted an invaluable historical document that resists the temptation to sentimentalize or sensationalize events. The soundtrack is sparse, and the camera never leaves the news studio, with the efforts of sports journalists Jim McKay and Howard Cosell documented through archive footage. The only problem with September 5 is that everyone in the cast is so uniformly excellent that no one ever gets the chance to dominate (uniquely. – Paramount has chosen not to campaign anyone from the cast in the leading actor category). That might keep the film from earning the awards attention it deserves, as it’s so impeccably crafted and unshowy (for lack of a better term) that it comes off as effortless, even if it’s anything but. It certainly deserves its place in the pantheon alongside All the President’s Men and Broadcast News as far as great films about journalism go.
September 5 opens this Friday in wide release!
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