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The two awards season front-runners kept the race interesting through the final weekend as Birdman took best film and Boyhood’s Richard Linklater best director at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards.

Michael Keaton earned best actor for Fox Searchlight’s Birdman and Julianne Moore corresponding actress honours for Still Life, which contributed to Sony Pictures Classics’ unbeaten five awards on the night.

Patricia Arquette collected the award for best supporting actress for IFC Films’ Boyhood at the traditional beachside ceremony beneath a cavernous tent in Santa Monica on Saturday afternoon (February 21).

Jk Simmons earned best supporting actor for Whiplash, which also saw editor Tom Cross prevail. Spc released the film. It was a good night for Bold Films, earning two for Whiplash as well as best screenplay and best first feature for Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler, distributed via Open Road.

Emmanuel Lubezki triumphed in the cinematography category for Birdman and Warner Bros’ Inherent Vice took the eighth...

Vancouver, BC. It's time to bring out the big guns. Last month, I was on a "Supernatural" 200th episode red carpet in Vancouver.  So far this week, I've posted the majority of the interviews. First I posted my red carpet Q&As with series creator Eric Kripke, plus long-time Ep Robert Singer and slight-less-tenured Ep Adam Glass. Then I posted my Q&As with supporting favorites Misha Collins, Felicia Day, Mark Sheppard and Genevieve Padalecki. But now, with Tuesday (November 11) night's 200th episode just hours away, it's time to post my interviews with Sam & Dean Winchester themselves. Because of all of their photo responsibilities and their various commitments at the party, I got Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki at the very end of the red carpet time and Jared in particular was only able to spare a couple minutes. But they're still fun, if brief, interviews. They're also the only...

Marti Noxon has written and executive produced for many critically acclaimed television series including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Brothers & Sisters, Point Pleasant and Still Life. She has also been a consulting producer for Mad Men, Prison Break and Angel. And now, to prove how in-demand she has become, she has also written two highly anticipated feature films for DreamWorks, with I Am Number Four (due out on February 18th) and the re-vamped Fright Night (due out in August). While at the press day for I Am Number Four, Marti Noxon did this exclusive interview with Collider, where she talked about how she came to the film, what her input and changes were on the script, balancing all of the aspects of such a complex story, why she thinks she can connect so well with high schoolers, why audiences connect so strongly with supernatural stories about young people,...

Diane Keaton is venturing into series television with a half-hour comedy at HBO.

Written by Marti Noxon, the untitled project stars the Oscar winner as a feminist icon who attempts to reignite the movement by starting a sexually explicit magazine for women.

The comedy hails from Grady Twins Prods., a production company recently launched by Noxon and Dawn Parouse. Noxon, Parouse and Keaton are executive producing.

"We've came a long way since the Kinsey report; women are more sexual now," said Noxon, referring to Alfred Kinsey's controversial 1953 report "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female."

Added Parouse: "There seems to be a new evolution of what women are sexually. Women are acting more like men sexually."

Noxon had carried the germ of the idea for a show that touches upon feminism as long as she can remember.

She was 12 when her mother came out as a radical feminist and a lesbian...

• Sleeping Dogs Lie is the third feature film from writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait. Yes. That Bobcat Goldthwait, the guy who played the wacked-out gang-leader in Police Academy 2, who got fired on Christmas Eve by Bill Murray in Scrooged, who has guest-starred on “Married with Children,” “That 70s Show,” “ER,” and countless others, who was doing stand-up on “David Letterman” at age 20, who has had two HBO comedy specials, who toured as an opening act for Nirvana, and who set a chair on fire on live television while appearing on “Jay Leno”. His resume includes over 100 films and television episodes as an actor and voice talent, and during the past decade he has done extensive work behind the camera for television, directing episodes of the Comedy Central series “Crank Yankers,” “The Man Show,” and “Chappelle’s Show,” and more recently, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ratings increased considerably when Bobcat took over

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Brillstein-Grey Management has added Colton Gramm to its team of managers. Gramm most recently worked as a talent manager at Original Film. Gramm's clients that he will bring to Brillstein-Grey include Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood), Nick Lachey (Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica), Gary Dourdan (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation), Richard Ruccolo (Two Guys And A Girl), Colin Egglesfield (12 Days Of Terror), Shea Whigham (Tigerland) and Corey Pearson (Still Life). "Colton is a great addition to our company," said Peter Safran, president of Brillstein-Grey Management. "Many of us worked with him closely when he was an agent and we are thrilled to have him now as a colleague. His taste in clients and material, combined with his relationships with the buyers, makes him a real asset for Brillstein-Grey." Gramm began his career in 1994 as a trainee in the mailroom at ICM before becoming an ICM talent agent. After six years at ICM, Gramm moved over to WMA where he worked as an agent for over 2 years.

In a vote of confidence for its new comedies, ABC has ordered four additional scripts each from Hope & Faith, I'm With Her, It's All Relative and Married to the Kellys. Meanwhile, after a promising ratings spike Tuesday, NBC has ordered five additional scripts from freshman comedies Whoopi and Happy Family. CBS has ordered six additional scripts from new drama Joan of Arcadia, and Fox has ordered three additional scripts from its upcoming midseason drama series Still Life. The script orders bode well for the freshman shows as they often are a precursor to additional episode pickups. If ABC gives back-nine orders to Hope & Faith, I'm With Her, It's All Relative and Married to the Kellys, it would mark the second year in a row that ABC has picked up all its new comedies for a full season.