Academy Award Winning Costume Designer Colleen Atwood to Introduce First-Ever Apparel Collection With HSN

HSN, the leader in multi-channel retail, announced lately the addition of three-time Academy Award winning Hollywood costume designer Colleen Atwood to its inspiring list of fashion authorities. The internationally acclaimed designer will debut a collection of exclusive apparel motivated by her work on Universal Pictures upcoming "Snow White and the Huntsman". Atwood will appear on HSN as part of a one-time, 24-hour live shopping event on May 30. The film, starring Kristen Stewart, Oscar winner Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth, releases on June 1, 2012.

With the release of her "Snow White and the Huntsman"-inspired line, Atwood brings the epic action-adventure to life with a curated variety of beautiful designs featuring faux suede, leather trim, lace and chiffon details, all reflecting the spirit of the film. The chic collection will range in price from $39 for a short sleeve top with delicate lace detail to $169 for a wonderful embroidered dress inspired by one of the Queen's gowns.

Oscar Award 2012 Best Picture Winner The Artist Returns To Theaters This Mother’s Day Weekend

The Weinstein Company announced lately the re-release of Academy Award Best Picture winner The Artist on a national scale this Friday, May 11, 2012. This will be the final chance for moviegoers to experience the 5 time Academy Award winning love letter to films in a movie theater - the way it was planned to be experienced, and it is the ideal opportunity for a Mother’s Day outing.

TWC President of Marketing Stephen Bruno stated that as summer approaches, they wanted to give audiences across the country one more occasion to experience The Artist in a theater where it has charmed and entertained so many this year. This is the ideal family outing for Mother’s Day weekend.

Oscar Venue Renamed As Dolby Theatre, Awards Show To Continue In Hollywood

The Hollywood venue that hosts the Academy Awards has been renamed the Dolby Theatre in a new sponsorship deal. 

The 3,400-seater building, which has been the abode to the annual Academy Awards ceremony since 2002, was in the past known as the Kodak Theatre. 

Previously this year a judge granted Eastman Kodak permission to end the $74 million, 20-year naming rights deal it signed in 2000. 

Dolby has approved a 20-year contract with theatre owners the CIM Group. 

Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS) stated that the Academy's Board of Governors believes that the home for the awards is in Hollywood.He also added that it is where the Academy and the motion picture industry are rooted.He said that they were pleased to have a new agreement with CIM that will continue their long-standing partnership. 

Kevin Yeaman, of British-founded audio technology specialists Dolby, stated that the partnership enables the theatre to be not only the world stage for the Academy Awards, but for Dolby innovations for decades to come.

The Best Jack Nicholson Movies of All Time On His 75th Birthday

Jack Nicholson, one of the greatest actors of Hollywood turned 75 on April 22, 2012.A brief history on his entry into movies…

When he initially got to Hollywood in the late fifties with a dream to make a living in the movies, Jack was not an immediate hit. For some time, he was an assistant at Hanna-Barbera, and essentially showed promise as an animator. But drawing cartoons wasn't his reason for being there. So he gave up.

He then worked with  Roger Corman now and then for several years, appearing in such cult items as ‘The Little Shop Of Horrors’ (1960) and ‘The Raven’ (1963).By the late sixties,though he was not successful as an actor,he was step by step resigning himself to working behind the camera as a writer/director. Then providence played a hand.

His good friend Dennis Hopper was getting ready to shoot ‘Easy Rider’  and had a huge tiff with  character actor Rip Torn, who'd been cast to play gonzo lawyer George Hanson in the film.All of a sudden, Rip was out, and Jack was in.

Jack almost stole that movie, earning himself his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Though clearly he'd broken through, it was hardly predicted the level of success that was to follow.

Over the next six years, Jack was nominated for Best Actor four times, and won his first Oscar in 1976, for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’. Thus far, he has been nominated 12 times, and won three Academy Awards.

Though Jack is 75, he seems ageless, chiefly when you revisit his best films which includes:

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• Chinatown
• Easy Rider
• The Last Detail
• Carnal Knowledge
• About Schmidt
• The Shining
• Terms Of Endearment
• A Few Good Men
• Something's Gotta Give
• As Good As It Gets

Octavia Spencer, Academy Award Winner, Might Star As Oscar Grant's Mom In Fruitvale

Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer is apparently in negotiations to play the role of Oscar Grant's mother in the forthcoming indie film about the New Year's Day 2009 killing of the Oakland man. Spencer is best known for her role as Minny in the 2011 film ‘The Help’. 

The film, titled ‘Fruitvale’ will feature the final hours before Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle after he got off the train at the Fruitvale station in Oakland. The shooting was video-recorded by other passengers, making it one of the most sensitively charged officer-involved shootings in Oakland's latest history. Mehserle was convicted of unintentional manslaughter but was released from prison on good behavior after serving 11 months of his two-year sentence. The movie, being written and directed by Oakland resident Ryan Coogler, is set to air by July.