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Most Important Lesson Every Screenwriter Should Learn: Don't Wait
Award Winning, Nominated Atchity Productions!
A STORY MERCHANT company
The Meg - Awards
New Zealand Cinematographers Society
Won,
Gold Award
Specialised Cinematography
Kina Scollay
Underwater photography
Golden Trailer Awards
Nominated, Golden Trailer
Best Home Ent Horror/Thriller
Warner Bros. Pictures, Trailer Park
Nominated, Golden Trailer
Best Billboard
Young Artist Awards
Nominated, Young Artist Award
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actress
Shuya Sophia Cai
2018
Chinese American Film Festival (C.A.F.F.)
Won, Golden Angel Award
Best Actress
Bingbing Li
Won,
Golden Angel Award
Best US-China Co-Production Film
Golden Trailer Awards
Won,
Golden Trailer
Golden Fleece
Warner Bros. Pictures, Trailer Park
IGN Summer Movie Awards
Nominated, IGN Award
Best Action Movie
2018
New Zealand Cinematographers Society
Won,
Gold Award
Specialised Cinematography
Andrew McGeorge
Kennedy Detail - Awards
1 Nomination
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Nominated, Emmy
Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form
Lisa McCubbin (producer), Kenneth Atchity (executive producer), Gerald S. Blaine (producer), Brooke Runnette (executive producer), Chi-Li Wong (executive producer), Grant Axton (producer), David Garfinkle (executive producer), Jay Renfroe (executive producer), Vince DiPersio (co-executive producer), Liza Maddrey (producer) Discovery Channel
Erased - Awards
2015
SOCAN Awards
Won,
SOCAN Award
Domestic Feature Film Award
Jeff Danna
Nominated, Jutra
Best Make-Up (Meilleur Maquillage)
Colleen Quinton
Nominated, Jutra
Best Editing (Meilleur Montage Image)
Dominique Fortin
Hysteria – Awards
2 nominations
2012
Casting Society of America, USA
Nominated, Artios Award
Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Feature - Studio or
Independent Comedy
Gaby Kester (casting director)
2011
Rome Film Fest
Nominated, Golden Marc'Aurelio Award
Tanya Wexler
Gosepl Hill – Awards
2 wins
Nashville Film Festival
Won,
Rosetta Miller Perry Award
Giancarlo Esposito
Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Won,
Jury Award
Seashell Best of Fest
Giancarlo Esposito
Adam Resurrected - Awards
1 win & 1 nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
Nominated, Golden Spike
Best Film
Paul Schrader
Gabriel Yared
Joe Somebody - Awards
1 nomination
2002
Young Artist Awards
Nominated, Young Artist Award
Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress
Hayden Panettiere
Falling Over Backwards - Awards
4 nominations
1991
Genie Awards
Nominated, Genie
Best Achievement in Sound
Abbey Neidik National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Paul Soles
Nominated, Genie
Best Sound Editing
Diane Le Floc'h, Gudrun Christian, Abbey Neidik, Andy
Malcolm, Michele Cook
1990
Valladolid International Film Festival
Nominated, Golden Spike
Best Film
Mort Ransen
Angels in the Snow - Awards
1 nomination
Young Artist Awards
Nominated, Young Artist Award
Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, Special or Pilot
- Young Actor
Kolton Stewart
The Lost Valentine - Awards
1 win & 6 nominations
Movie Guide Awards
Most Inspirational Television Acting
Betty White
Most Inspiring TV Program
Most Inspirational Television Acting
Katie McGrath
Most Inspirational Television Acting
Sean Faris
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Nominated, Actor
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television
Movie or Miniseries
Betty White
2011
Gold Derby Awards
Nominated, Gold Derby TV Award
TV Movie/Mini Supporting Actress
Betty White
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Angels in the Snow - Streaming on Amazon!
The dysfunctional Montgomery family go to their cabin for Christmas where a blizzard traps them inside. When the Tucker family arrives needing shelter, they are welcomed inside and remind the Montgomery family how to love each other. http://amzn.com/B018JG96RE
For cable networks, holiday movies are the gift that keeps on giving
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| Photo Credit: UPtv |
Even Ebenezer Scrooge might have been impressed with how TV networks are profiting from holiday movies.
Along with early displays of decorations by retailers, the continuous loop of holiday music on radio and the festive color of Starbucks coffee cups, nothing rings in the season quite like the volley of holiday movies that flood the small screen.
These holiday movies are proliferating because they're cheap to produce, generate strong ratings and lots of advertising revenue for the television networks. Hallmark parent Crown Media Holdings credited its holiday programming for helping to spur an 11% increase in advertising revenue last year to $328 million.
November and December are key months for advertisers that want to get in front of consumers in festive moods. Advertisers spent $13.8 billion on television spots during November and December last year, comprising 18% of all ad dollars spent in 2014, according to ad-tracking firm Kantar Media.
"Advertisers are attracted to eyeballs," said Jason Maltby, head TV buyer at the prominent advertising agency Mindshare. "There's the added benefit that holiday programming tends to be upbeat and positive, and you're always looking to put your brand message in an environment that makes people feel good."
The television channel guide is littered every year with festive titles such as "Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery," "The Flight Before Christmas" and "Elf" as dozens of original and acquired movies, as well as a long list of specials, roll out on cable, broadcast and streaming networks in November and December. In some cases, the Yuletide ringing started on Halloween.
Broadcast networks rely more heavily on specials and perennial favorites such as "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
But the surge of holiday programming is more apparent on cable, where networks such as Hallmark, Lifetime, ABC Family and the small channel UP can dedicate weeks, or months, of programming to the genre.
The holly jolly is working. ABC Family saw its ratings double last year in the holiday period that encompassed the week of Thanksgiving through the first week of January, according to Nielsen.
The network's programming block, dubbed "25 Days of Christmas," is more heavy on acquired movies such as "The Polar Express" and "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas," as well as the occasional holiday-themed episode of its original series. The block has proved to be such a key tent-pole event through the years that in 2007 the network launched a supplemental block, "Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas," for November.
"The holidays are one of the biggest times of the year for families all across the country," said Salaam Coleman Smith, ABC Family's executive vice president of strategy and programming. "There's been such a wealth of Christmas movies and programming that have been created over the years … [that] we really felt like there was a unique opportunity to create this stunt that featured the best of Christmas content. There's something for everyone."
Hallmark, meanwhile, saw its ratings last year nearly double in the holiday period. UP TV experienced a 74% bump, while Lifetime saw it's ratings go up 4% in the holiday period compared with the rest of the year.
"Viewers are really rabid for this content," said Michelle Vicary, executive vice president of programming for Studio City-based Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. "All we hear every year is that people want more of it."
Additionally, these programs are good investment for cable channels because they are inexpensive to produce and are evergreens, returning for years to come. These two-hour movies cost about $1 million to $3 million to produce, which is equivalent to the cost of producing one episode of an hourlong drama on cable.
TV movies on the Big Four networks have waned in recent years as broadcasters have preferred long-form series that keep viewers engaged over an expanded period of time. That has created an opportunity for some cable networks to become the main suppliers of holiday movies.
The investment in made-for-TV movies is a less risky one on cable because the platform allows for repeated plays the year that a movie debuts and beyond.
"You hear people say, 'We watch your movies while trimming the tree' or 'We watch your movies while wrapping gifts,'" said Barbara Fisher, UP's senior vice president of original programming. "And for us networks that are geared toward families, it's a no-brainer to be in this space."
The holiday movies are popular in part because they follow a simple formula: a Scrooge-like character discovering his or her Christmas spirit; someone stranded while trying to get home for the holidays; and, of course, the heartwarming romance.
There's also a growing roster of talent eager to star in holiday movies. Actresses such as Candace Cameron Bure, Beverley Mitchell and Lacey Chabert have become mainstays of the genre.
"It makes me giggle," said Cameron Bure, who this year stars in "A Christmas Detour" on Hallmark. "I will wear the title proudly. I get so many messages from people saying, 'I hope you have a new Christmas movie coming out.' I love that people know me from those."
Mariah Carey, the unofficial queen of the holidays with her hit "All I Want for Christmas," directed and stars in "A Christmas Melody" for Hallmark. And Dermot Mulroney, also for Hallmark, stars in "North Pole: Open for Christmas."
"The stigma of doing cable TV Christmas movies has really diminished in the last few years," said Tim Johnson, the producer of Lifetime's "Becoming Santa" and "A Gift Wrapped Christmas." "Ten years ago, it was harder to get actors to do it. Now we're getting calls from agents saying, 'We have this client who wants to do a cable Christmas movie.' They know the audience is there."
Of course, the flood of holiday dramas could reach a tipping point. But for now at least, they are ratings gold for some networks.
Planning has already begun for next year's slate and beyond, and expansion in the number of hours dedicated to the programming and/or the number of original TV movies is expected. Hallmark, for one, is looking to increase its output of originals to 28 in 2018.
"The demand is there and the suppliers are there and there's room for more," said Dan Angel, an executive producer of "The Bridge" on Hallmark. "We just have to keep up."
Reposted from the LA Times
Angels in the Snow Sunday, November 22nd at 7 pm ET
When nothing short of a miracle can hold a deteriorating family together, a Christmas getaway sets the stage for a miracle to occur. A heartwarming family story of love,loss, and rediscovery.
‘Buffy’ Movie Star Kristy Swanson Joins UP TV’s ‘Angels in the Snow’
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| Ken Atchity with Kristy Swanson on the set of Angels in the Snow |
Christmas offering will revolve around two families trapped in a cabin by a blizzard
Kristy Swanson is moving on from vampires to angels.
Swanson, star of the film “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has signed on for the UP TV Christmas movie “Angels in the Snow,” which began production last week in Vancouver, Canada.
Based on the Rexanne Becnel novel “Christmas Journey,” the domestic drama revolves around two very different families who find themselves snowbound together in a luxurious cabin during a Christmas blizzard. The affluent yet troubled Montgomery family is headed by workaholic real estate developer Charles (played by Chris Potter of UP’s “Heartland”) and his wife Judith (Swanson) a former New York fashion editor who he’s trying to mend fences with.
The couple bring their three cell phone-dependent, squabbling kids — Alexandra, Jennifer and Emily — on a getaway to the cabin that Charles has built. However, when a snowstorm makes them a prisoner of their “dream home,” the parents start fighting, and Emily makes a wish to keep her parents together.
Meanwhile,the Tucker family show up on the doorstep of the cabin, exhausted and in need of shelter after their van slides off the snow-covered road.
As the families wait out the storm, it soon becomes evident that the Tuckers offer an example of love, togetherness and caring that is seemingly gone from the Montgomerys’ lives. But perhaps the Tuckers’ example — and friendship — can reignite the Montgomery family’s spirit this season.
“The UP premiere movie ‘Angels in the Snow’ is a captivating family drama with heart; strong, diverse characters; and more than a couple of surprises,” UP’s senior vice president, original programming Barbara Fisher said. “Starring fan-favorite Kristy Swanson and popular ‘Heartland’ star Chris Potter as the struggling Montgomerys, the drama is our first Christmas film to go into production this year, and will be a key component of our popular, annual Christmas programming slate in 2015.”
The cast also includes Colin Lawrence (“The 100″), Catherine Lough Haggquist (“Continuum”) and Nick Purcha (“iZombie”), among others.
MarVista Entertainment and Odyssey Media are producing “Angels in the Snow,” with Norman Stephens, Ken Atchity, Kirk Shaw, Keith Shaw executive producing, Chi-Li Wong co- executive producing. Ken Atchity, Chi-Li Wong and Julie Brazier wrote the treatment of Becnel’s novel, with Brazier (UP’s “My Mother’s Future Husband”) responsible for the adapted script.
George Erschbamer (“My Mother’s Future Husband,” “My Name Is Sarah”) is directing.
Reposted from The Wrap
Angels in the Snow
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With leading lady Kristy Swanson and fellow Executive Producer Kirk Shaw at excellent Blue Water Cafe on Hamilton.
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Eye on the Angels
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KJA on set of "Angels in the Snow," Maple
Ridge, Canada
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Photo by DP Cliff
Hokanson
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