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‘Fashion Police’ Writers Chant On Picket Lines: “Give Us Back Our Paycheck B****”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 23, 2013 @ 12:25pm PDTTags: E! Entertainment, Fashion Police, WGA

Ross Lincoln is a Deadline contributor

UPDATE, 12:25 PM: The protest just wrapped up around its scheduled 12:30 PM target. Among the speakers was writer Bryan Cook, who addressed the picketers that reached about 150 in number and generated notice from passersby on foot and in cars along Wilshire Boulevard. He touched on why the writers are seeking union representation. “We’ve worked hard to make Fashion Police one of E!’s top-rated shows, and we don’t even get health care benefits,” he said. “It can be hard to get how hard this work is. It’s not like were working in a coal mine — you can’t get black lung from writing jokes, but rest assured, E! will try to find a way.” Said fellow writer Ed Rice to Deadline as the event was breaking up: “I don’t know what’s specifically next on our part. To a certain extent, its a stand-off — the ball’s really in their court. What we want is a phone call from the network to our representative at the guild saying they accept them as representation and would like to offer us a guild contract. That’s the only next step from the network we will accept.”

PREVIOUS, 11:43 AM: Striking writers from the Joan Rivers-hosted series Fashion Police are protesting today in front of E!‘s headquarters on the Miracle Mile in LA. Among the chants overheard from the 100-plus on the scene holding signs: “We’re … Read More »

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2013 Student Academy Awards Finalists

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 10:18am PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Student Academy Awards

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Thirty-eight students from 17 U.S. colleges and universities as well as nine students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards competition. Winners will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

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“Beyond the Spheres,” Meghdad Asadi Lari, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Bottled Up,” Rafael Cortina, Occidental College
“Bye Hyungjik,” Hyungjik Lee, Florida State University
“The Compositor,” John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts
“File Not Found,” Maria Sequeira, University of Southern California
“The Pirate of Love,” Sara Gunnarsdottir, California Institute of the Arts
“Zug,” Perry Janes, University of Michigan

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RealD Showcases Technology To Show 3D Movies On White Screens: CinemaCon

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 15, 2013 @ 9:19am PDTTags: CinemaCon, RealD

LAS VEGAS (APRIL 15, 2013) – RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD) announced today the introduction of Precision White Screen technology for cinema projection, combining 2D white screen performance with the ability to project polarized 3D images. Designed to deliver enhanced 2D and 3D presentations with wide viewing angles similar to white screens of equivalent gain, Precision White Screen technology features edges 4 to 5 times brighter than a standard silver screen. The improved screen efficiency results in 40% more total light coming off the screen, providing more uniform brightness than a standard silver screen. Precision White Screens also feature a smooth, white surface which generates better image contrast for improved image quality in 2D and 3D.

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Academy Museum Model Unveiled: Photos

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 11, 2013 @ 3:14pm PDTTags: Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is hosting a dinner tonight to give its biggest donors — David Geffen being the most recent with his $25M gift — to say thanks and give an update on the project and its $300M capital campaign. The dinner will include a booklet with photos that provide details about the nearly 300,000-square-foot Academy Museum of Motion Pictures that is slated to open in early 2017 on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax. Among the tidbits about the Renzo Piano- and Zoltan Pali-designed museum (the model below emerged on the Acad’s Twitter page today, with a spokesman saying there’s more photos coming this evening): six levels of exhibition and programming spaces; interactive family-friendly moviemaking labs; a 15,000-square-foot landscaped public piazza for visitors and connect the museum with the LA County Museum of Art campus; and special event spaces for groups of up to 1,000 people and a rooftop terrace with views of the LA basin and Hollywood Hills.

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IMAX Set To Move Into Former Grauman’s Chinese Theatre; Deal Needs City Approval

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday April 11, 2013 @ 2:24pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, IMAX, TCL Chinese Theatre

Sources tell me that a deal for IMAX to take over the iconic theater on Hollywood Boulevard is nearly complete, subject to permitting approval. The news comes just a few months after Chinese TV maker TCL paid more than $5 million for the naming rights to the venue which is now called TCL Chinese Theatre. With IMAX getting involved the plan now is to turn the Hollywood location into the Canadian company’s premiere theater for big budget premieres. “IMAX doesn’t have any theaters in Southern California that are suited for the opening of big action movies. With such a prime location, this would become it,” a source told me today. Details are sketchy on when discussions started on IMAX moving into the Chinese and how much money changed hands. Also, because of the historical landmark status of the Chinese Theatre, any deal would have to get the approval of the City of Los Angeles to go forward. However, sources tell me that IMAX doesn’t anticipate any problems with that. Once those approvals are in place, the theater will shut down in late May for a full technological refurbishment. It is expected to reopen in September with a new screen, new seats, a new sound system and a digital projection system. That digital projection system will be replaced about 18 to 24 months later with the new laser projection system that IMAX is bringing … Read More »

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Academy Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ With Robert Zemeckis And Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 1:47pm PSTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a new digital restoration of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary on Thursday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will feature a post-screening onstage discussion with director Robert Zemeckis and members of the cast and crew, including actress Joanna Cassidy, voice actor Charles Fleischer, supervising animator Andreas Deja, screenwriter Peter S. Seaman and associate producers Don Hahn and Steve Starkey. The panel will be moderated by director Rich Moore, who received an Oscar® nomination for Animated Feature Film for “Wreck-It Ralph” this past year.

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5TH UPDATE: 2013 Oscars Party Roundup

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday February 18, 2013 @ 7:39pm PSTTags: Oscar Parties




Sunday, February 17
6:30 PM: LA Italia Film Festival honors Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Lawrence, David O. Russell
Location: Chinese Theatre, Hollywood

Tuesday, February 19th
9 PM-12 AM: Vanity Fair and L’Oreal’s DJ Night Benefits the Fund for Girls Education
Teddy’s at The Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood

Wednesday, February 20th
6 PM: 10th Annual Global Green Pre-Oscar Party
Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine St, Hollywood

6 PM-8 PM: LaCoste Symposium and Costume Designers Guild Awards After-Party
Siren Studios, 6063 West Sunset Blvd, Hollywood

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: For Tom Hooper and Les Miserables cast benefiting L.A. Fund for Public Education
Eveleigh, 8752 West Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood

7 PM: The Art of Elysium’s Pieces of Heaven Art Auction
Ace Museum, 400 S. La Brea Blvd, Los Angeles

Thursday, February 21
12 PM: Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon
Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Blvd, Beverly Hills

12 PM: WME and Sonos Lunch
Eveleigh, 8752 W. Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood

6 PM-8 PM: Larry Gagosian’s Art Show and Dinner
Gagosian Gallery, 456 N. Camden Dr followed by Mr. Chow, 344 N. Camden Dr Beverly Hills

6 PM-9 PM: Love Gold Cocktails in Honor of Fred Leighton
The Selma House, Chateau Marmont, 8091 Selma Ave, West Hollywood

6:30 PM-11 PM: 8th Annual Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film
Bad Robot, 1221 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica

7 PM-9 PM: Vanity Fair and Fiat along with Hans Zimmer and Ron Howard present “Una Notta Verde”
Cecconi’s, 8765 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood
Benefitting UN International Labor Organization and Green Jobs Program

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OSCARS Q&A: Tim Burton

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday February 17, 2013 @ 1:04pm PSTTags: Awardsline, Frankenweenie, Oscar Best Animated Feature, Oscars, Tim Burton

Anthony D’Alessandro is Managing Editor of AwardsLine

In the final stretch before the Oscar ballot deadline, there’s still hope that voters remain undecided in the animation category. Though Disney has cornered the Oscar slot with three titles, its Frankenweenie, directed by Tim Burton, stands as an island against the epic Brave and the existential crisis comedy of Wreck-It Ralph. The film is an auteur’s youthful dream short, once buried by the studio that has resuscitated it as a 3D stopmotion feature — the first in black and white. This Frankenstein homage about a boy who brings his dead dog back to life is signature Tim Burton. Many will argue Burton is overdue for an Oscar. He was nominated in the animated category for 2005’s Corpse Bride. His 1994 absurdist biopic Ed Wood garnered a supporting actor win for Martin Landau (as Bela Lugosi) and best makeup, while 2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street won best art direction and earned noms for Johnny Depp as best actor and for Colleen Atwood’s costumes. Another appealing Burton attribute for Oscar voters is that he remains an iconoclast among big-studio directors working today — he’s a visual artist with a spooky canon that appears alienating with its deep subtext but lures the masses with its fanciful spins on children’s tales such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. AwardsLine recently spoke to Burton about his career and Frankenweenie’s place in it.

AwardsLine: Why was this the best time to make Frankenweenie as a stopmotion feature. You could have conceivably made it in 1993 instead of Nightmare Before Christmas.
Tim Burton: All these projects take a long time. I remember when I first designed Nightmare, it took about 10 years to get that in place because nobody really wanted to do stopmotion, and in a way, there weren’t a lot of facilities that were doing it. We did the Frankenweenie short many years ago, and I never really planned on it being anything else. Over the years, I just kept kind of thinking about the relationship with my dog, but also other monster movies, the kids and teachers from my school, and even the downtown places in Burbank. A lot more thoughts came into Frankenweenie, Read More »

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OSCARS: Street Closures Begin Sunday

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 5:40pm PSTTags: Oscars

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – To ensure public safety, support security strategies and facilitate the production of this year’s Oscars®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the City of Los Angeles have finalized street closure plans around the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood.

To accommodate the construction of press risers, fan bleachers and pre-show stages along the Oscars red carpet, Hollywood Boulevard will be closed between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive beginning at 10 p.m. on Sunday, February 17, and remain closed until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, February 26.

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Specs On Endangered List? Lionsgate-Summit Acquires ‘Endangered’ For Alli Shearmur

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 5, 2013 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Lionsgate
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EXCLUSIVE: Long live the spec script! Lionsgate just bought Endangered, a spec script by Ryan Belenzon and Jeffrey Gelber for Lionsgate/Summit with Alli Shearmur producing. It’s an action-adventure script about a team of scientists on a mission to find the fountain of youth. This might be the first spec script deal of the year and comes along just when I was thinking that specs were on the endangered list. The writers, who were recently Nicholls finalists, also have Clarity, a character-driven sci-fi piece set up at BonaFide and are producing Dito Montiel’s Boulevard, which has Robin Williams set to star. They are repped by Paradigm, Zero Gravity and attorney Ryan Nord.

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How Tina Fey’s ’30 Rock’ Lasted Seven Seasons And Changed The Game For Female Comedy Creators

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: 30 Rock, NBC, Tina Fey

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

When the NBC comedy 30 Rock leaves the air tonight after seven seasons and 139 episodes, it will be exiting a far different TV landscape than it entered. The series premiered on October 11, 2006 as an anomaly: the original vision of a single creator-producer-writer-star named Tina Fey at a time when TV actors generally stayed in front of the camera (with NBC’s The Office proving a rare exception with its double-duty writer-performers). Fey made no secret of being a writer first and an actress second, and there is little debate that her success paved the way for comedy performers dreaming of some semblance of creative control of the product. Without Fey’s 30 Rock, it’s harder to imagine the environment would have existed for a creator-star like Mindy Kaling to rise with The Mindy Project at Fox, or certainly for a daring and controversial writer-producer-star like Lena Dunham to make Girls at HBO.

That Fey was able to steer her quirky satirical tale on a broadcast network made the achievement all the more unlikely. And then to keep 30 Rock going for so many critically acclaimed seasons when its ratings rarely rose above the level of abysmal is fairly unprecedented. Rock remained, throughout its run, the little engine that could, overcoming long odds and a cancellation ax poised constantly over its head. Those with a good memory will recall that the series  entered NBC’s primetime schedule with two strikes against it — as one of a pair of series launching on NBC that peered behind the scenes of a fictitious sketch comedy show. The other was of course Aaron Sorkin’s hourlong Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, which was the favorite of the two to survive due to the Sorkin pedigree. It’s the one that NBC put its marketing and promotional might behind, plastering Studio 60 on billboards in Times Square and on Sunset Boulevard. Instead, it was SNL vet Fey’s comedic creation that had the artistic legs for the long haul. Read More »

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TCL Places Smartphones In ‘Iron Man 3′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 7:40pm PSTTags: Iron Man 3, TCL Group

A week after China’s TCL Group paid $5 million for naming rights to Hollywood Boulevard’s iconic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the company has moved to place its smartphones in Marvel Entertainment’s Iron Man 3, which has been filming in China. The company hopes to raise awareness of its smartphones in the global market dominated by Samsung and Apple, according to Bloomberg. The product-placement deal will have Robert Downey Jr.’s character Tony Stark using TCL products in his battle with the Mandarin. Real-world features such as handheld devices interacting with TV, will be replicated in the movie. In addition to phones and TVs, TCL also makes camcorders and appliances. Like its Chinese rivals ZTE, Huawei Technologies and Lenovo, TCL’s goal is to increase sales and brand credibility against better-known competitors.

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Specialty Box Office Preview: ‘Quartet’, ‘Struck By Lightning’, ‘Baytown Outlaws’, ‘Let My People Go!’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 8:08pm PSTTags: Quartet, Specialty Box Office Preview, Struck By Lightning

Brian Brooks is Managing Editor of MovieLine.

This weekend’s roundup of specialty offerings includes three feature newcomers and one filmmaker’s sophomore effort. Dustin Hoffman’s feature directing debut Quartet will launch its regular theatrical run in limited release following a short awards-qualifying run last month. Barry Battles is taking his Black List script (co-written with Griffin Hood) The Baytown Outlaws to theaters with a cast that boasts Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria, while French-born filmmaker Mikael Buch brings to U.S. theaters his comedy Let My People Go! from a script co-written by César-nominated filmmaker Christoph Honoré. And Saved! director Brian Dannelly returns to the big screen with Struck By Lightning, written by and starring Glee‘s Chris Colfer.

Quartet
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Writer: Ronald Harwood
Cast: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

TWC picked up Dustin Hoffman‘s movie last spring for a “moderate price,” noted the company’s president of theatrical distribution Erik Lomis. It centers on a home for retired opera singers whose annual concert is disrupted by the arrival of an eternal diva — also the ex-wife of a resident. “We think of [Dustin Hoffman] as such an icon that it’s funny to think of him debuting anything,” said Lomis who noted TWC will, unsurprisingly, target a mature audience. Lomis noted that Hoffman’s wife encouraged him to officially take on the director role for the first time in his five decade-plus career. “He liked this material,” said Lomis. “It’s a compelling story about how you’re not too old to do what you do or to fall in love. It appeals to mature audience but it’s heart-lifting and inspirational for younger audiences as well.”
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Robin Williams Joins Dito Montiel’s ‘Boulevard’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 4:12pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film

Robin Williams has signed on to the Dito Montiel-directed Boulevard. The Academy Award winner will play Nolan Mark in the film. The character is a long married man forced to come face to face with his own secrets after meeting the emotionally closed young adult Leo, played by Roberto Aguire. Production on the film is scheduled to start in Nashville in May 2013. Douglas Soesbe wrote Boulevard’s screenplay. Camellia Entertainment’s Monica Aguirre Diez Barroso and Mia Chang produce alongside the team of Jeffrey Gelber and Evil Media Empire’s Ryan Belenzon. Barrett J. Klausman executive produces. Aguire makes his feature debut in Struck By Lightning, opening this week. He is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and SDB Partners. The Sundance Award winning Montiel recently finished directing the indie crime drama Empire State starring The Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne Johnson. He is repped by WME and Underground. Williams, who plays President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Lee Daniels’ upcoming The Butler, is repped by WME and MBST Entertainment.

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Stanley Kubrick To Be Honored By Motion Picture Academy

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 2:19pm PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Stanley Kubrick

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the life and career of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on Wednesday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Malcolm McDowell, the evening features film clips and personal remembrances by his friends and collaborators, including Paul Mazursky, Ryan O’Neal and Matthew Modine. The salute is presented in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), leading off its retrospective screening series “2012: A Kubrick Odyssey,” and in conjunction with its exhibition “Stanley Kubrick.”

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Controversy, Record Entries, French Frontrunners As Oscar’s 2012 Foreign Language Race Kicks Off Tonight

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday October 12, 2012 @ 12:58pm PDTTags: A Royal Affair, A Separation, Amour, The Intouchables
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The Foreign Language Film race for the 85th Annual Academy Awards kicks into high gear tonight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre with a double feature. Denmark’s  period costume drama, A Royal Affair will be followed by the Dominican Republic entry Jaque Mate, the first two of a record 71 entries (up from 63 in 2011) for this year’s competition. Is it good or bad to be first? Last year two films, Footnote and A Separation screened over the first weekend and both got nominated, with the latter actually winning.

Three committees divided into sections of Red, White and Blue (appropriate for an election year doncha think?) will each view a third of the entries with the White group seeing 23 and the other two each viewing 24 films. Other opening round entries are Norway’s Kon-Tiki and Slovak Republic’s Made In Ash showing Saturday morning and China’s Caught In The Web and Slovenia’s A Trip screening Monday night. In previous years there was a fourth Green committee but because of a time crunch the films are now being spread among just the three groups viewing more films. Committee members (which can number into the hundreds) must see a set minimum of their group’s titles in order to have votes count. Their six highest scoring movies move on to the semi-finals together with three others chosen by the small Foreign Language Executive Committee (usually “saves” of higher profile or more controversial entries the larger, generally … Read More »

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Academy Paying Tribute To Indie Animators

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 11:16am PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Move Animation John Hubley FaithBeverly Hills, CA – The husband-and-wife team of John and Faith Hubley, who brought a humanistic perspective and a distinctly modern style to postwar American animation, will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, September 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar®-winning animator and renowned animation historian John Canemaker will host this in-depth look at these two iconoclastic artists.

The films the Hubleys made, together and independently, earned seven Academy Award® nominations and two Oscars®. The Hubleys took home Oscars for “The Hole” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1962) and “Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1966) and were nominated for “Windy Day” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1968), “Of Men and Demons” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1969), “Voyage to Next” (Animated Short Film, 1974) and “The Doonesbury Special” (Animated Short Film, 1977, with Garry Trudeau). John Hubley also earned an Oscar for “Moonbird” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1959), and Faith served as producer on the film.

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Universal City Land Plan Scraps Residential Development, Moves Forward

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 16, 2012 @ 3:34pm PDTTags: NBCUniversal


NBCUniversal is moving forward with its 20-year real estate revamp of Universal City without an originally proposed residential segment that would have added almost 3000 units and associated retail spots on what is now Universal’s backlot. The no-residential alternative was encouraged by LA City Councilman Tom LaBonge and LA County Board Of Supervisors chairman Zev Yaroslavsky, who raised red flags over potential environmental impacts and potential production jobs lost after an extensive review of the original plan. Now the backlot will be kept for production use according to Universal president and COO Ron Meyer, and the plan moves forward with public hearings soon. Here’s Meyer’s statement:

Los Angeles has been the home of Universal for nearly 100 years and The Evolution Plan is our commitment to our community, to our neighbors and to our businesses. We have gathered feedback from thousands of members of our community, including our elected officials. And, after taking a hard look at the project, the current real estate market, our business needs and the needs of our surrounding communities, we believe it’s best to ask the City and County to focus on our 20-year plan without any residential development and to retain our backlot for production.

This is the right time in the process to make this decision and it will enable us to concentrate and invest in our core businesses — television and

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Academy Selects Movie Museum Architects

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 30, 2012 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

UPDATE: The Academy said during its conference call with the architects this morning that it is targeting the museum to open in early 2016. A firm has not been selected to design the exhibitions, which the Academy said will be open to naming by sponsors and donors.

Beverly Hills, CA – Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali will design the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced today.

“Renzo’s track record of creating iconic cultural landmarks combined with Zoltan’s success in transforming historically-significant buildings is a perfect marriage for a museum that celebrates the history and the future of the movies,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO.

Piano, who in 1998 was awarded the Pritzker Prize – architecture’s highest honor – is the founder of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. With offices in Paris, Genoa and New York, RPBW has been acclaimed for its international commissions. Piano’s significant design accomplishments include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Central St. Giles Court in London, the Kansai International Airport Terminal in Osaka, the Menil Collection in Houston, and the headquarters of The New York Times.

Piano also designed the expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), whose campus will include the upcoming Academy museum.

“We as architects make buildings that are portraits that represent our clients,” said Piano. “The Academy museum will take the visitor through the back door of cinema, behind the curtain, and into moviemaking magic.”

Pali, a Los Angeles native, is the design principal and co-founder of Studio Pali Fekete architects (SPF:a). He has been lauded for his design of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, for which SPF:a received a Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award and an AIA Los Angeles “Next LA” Award. In addition, Pali is renowned for his Los Angeles-area restorations of the Greek Theatre, the Gibson Amphitheatre, and the Pantages Theatre, the latter earning SPF:a an LABC Award for Historic Preservation. For the firm’s work as the executive architects on the renovation and expansion of the Getty Villa museum, SPF:a received the AIA Los Angeles Presidential Award.

“It is an honor and privilege to work with the Academy in bringing to life a historic, iconic building that I love with the story of motion pictures,” said Pali.

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