January 22, 2008 | Oscar® Nominations for Mongol and La Vie en Rose!

HBO Films congratulates Picturehouse whose films received the following Academy Award® nominations:

MONGOL
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film! Directed by Sergei Bodrov MONGOL and starring Tadanobu Asano. Mongol is the epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become the legendary conqueror and father of Mongolia.

LA VIE EN ROSE
Nominated for Best Actress in a leading role (Marion Cotillard), Achievement in Costume Design, and Achievement in Makeup! A swirling, impressionistic portrait of Edith Piaf, featuring an astonishing performance by Marion Cotillard in the lead role.

January 14, 2008 | HBO Films Wins 4 Golden Globe® Awards

HBO Films congratulates all of our 2008 Golden Globe® Award-winners! The full list includes:
Longford: Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Jim Broadbent
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Samantha Morton
Life Support
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Queen Latifah

Septmber 17, 2007 | 'Wounded Knee' Wins Six Emmys®

HBO Films' 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee' won six Emmys® at the 59th Annual Emmy Awards including Outstanding Made For Television Movie. The full list of awards includes:

Outstanding Made For Television Movie

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie Ornstein, Michael Brown

Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or Movie David Franco

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special Avram Gold, Steffan Falesitch, Eric Hertsgaard, Patricia Liebenson, Denise Horta, Adam Johnston, Paul Berolzheimer, Dean Beville, Jeff Sawyer, Ken Young, Mike Flicker, David Fine, Hilda Hodges

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie George Tarrant, Rick Ash, Edward C. Carr, III

Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Non-Prosthetic) Gail Kennedy, Rochelle Pomerleau, Joanne Preece

August 16, 2007 | Production Begins on 'The Pacific'

Production has begun in Australia on THE PACIFIC. Shooting through mid-2008, the epic ten-hour miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy®-winning 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."

THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production is based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming taking place in and around Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and multiple locations in Far North Queensland. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project. THE PACIFIC is scheduled to debut on HBO in 2009.

The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Carl Franklin (HBO's "Rome"), Jeremy Podeswa (HBO's "Six Feet Under"), Tony To (HBO's "Band of Brothers"), Tim Van Patten (HBO's "The Sopranos") and Graham Yost (HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon") will direct episodes. Writers and additional directors will be announced as they are confirmed.

In addition to James Badge Dale ("The Departed"), Joe Mazzello ("Without a Trace") and Jon Seda ("Kevin Hill"), actors featured in THE PACIFIC include (in alphabetical order) Akos Armont, Jon Bernthal ("The Office"), Joshua Biton ("National Treasure"), Adam Booth ("Doctors"), Simon Bossell ("Hotel de Love"), Laurence Breuls ("Ghost Rider"), Tom Budge ("Last Train to Freo"), Linda Cropper ("McLeod's Daughters"), Brendan Fletcher ("Tideland"), Eamon Farren ("The Outsider"), Leon Ford (HBO's "Tsunami: The Aftermath"), Daniel Frederiksen ("Stingers"), Scott Gibson ("Lucky Number Slevin"), Joshua Helman, Ashton Holmes ("A History of Violence"), Andrew Lees, Rami Malek ("The War at Home"), Martin McCann ("Closing the Ring"), Ian Meadows ("Home and Away"), Toby Moore ("Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback"), Rohan Nichol ("All Saints"), Henry Nixon ("Happy Feet"), Keith Nobbs ("The Black Donnellys"), Annie Parisse ("Law & Order"), Sam Parsonson ("Love My Way"), Jacob Pitts ("The Novice"), Rupert Reid ("The Matrix Reloaded"), Mitch Ryan, William Sadler ("The Shawshank Redemption"), Gary Sweet ("Down in Splendor"), Anna Torv ("Young Lions"), Sandy Winton ("Two Twisted"), Dylan Young and Ashley Zukerman. Additional actors will be announced as they are confirmed.

THE PACIFIC is based on the books "With the Old Breed," by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war," and "Helmet for My Pillow," by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book "Band of Brothers"), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries.

THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman; co-executive producers, Tony To, Graham Yost; supervising producer, Bruce McKenna; producer, Gene Kelly; co-producers, Robert Schenkkan, George P. Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford.

June 1, 2007 | HBO drafts cast for 'Kill' mini

By Nellie Andreeva (Hollywood Reporter)

HBO Films has assembled the principal cast of its ambitious seven-part miniseries "Generation Kill," from "The Wire" creators David Simon and Ed Burns.

Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Stark Sands, Jon Huertas and Lee Tergesen lead the ensemble cast of the mini, which chronicles the first month of the American-led 2003 Iraq invasion through the eyes of young Marine whose unit was part of the first wave of the U.S. military assault on Baghdad.

Susanna White and Simon Cellan Jones have been tapped to direct "Kill," which is based on Evan Wright's award-winning nonfiction book.

Also co-starring in the mini are David Barrera ("Evan Almighty"), newcomer Josh Barrett, newcomer Wilson Bethel, Nabil Elouahabi ("The Path to 9/11"), Neal Jones ("Rescue Me"), Chance Kelly ("The Departed"), Michael Kelly ("The Sopranos"), Eric Ladin ("Surface"), Jonah Lotan ("24"), Billy Lush ("The Black Donnellys"), Kellan Lutz ("Accepted"), newcomer J. Salome Martinez Jr., Marc Menchaca ("The Alamo"), Eric Nenninger ("Malcolm in the Middle"), Pawel Szajda ("Under the Tuscan Sun"), Rey Valentin ("One Tree Hill"), Brian Patrick Wade ("The Guardian") and Owain Yeoman ("The Nine" ).

Also a key member of the ensemble cast is former Marine and Iraq War veteran Rudy Reyes, who will play himself.

"Kill," produced for HBO Films by Company Pictures, will be filmed through year's end in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia for a 2008 premiere on HBO.

White ("Bleak House") and Jones ("The Trial of Tony Blair") will direct from scripts by Simon, Burns and Evan Wright.

Simon, Burns, George Faber, Charles Pattinson and Anne Thomopoulos will executive produce. Nina Noble serves as co- executive producer and Andrea Calderwood as producer.