New on DVD and Blu-ray: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)

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Product Description: It’s the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio (Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family’s villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver (Hammer), a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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WGA Awards 2018: The Complete Winners List

The Writers Guild of America handed out their annual awards during a ceremony that was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton and Edison Ballroom on Sunday. The WGA provided the first major surprise of the awards season when they awarded Best Original Screenplay to Jordan Peele's "Get Out", as all eyes were fixed on Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" to solidify its Oscar odds. It's also worth mentioning that "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" was ineligible for WGA consideration. James Ivory won Best Adapted Screenplay for "Call Me By Your Name".

In the television category, the WGA honored "The Handmaid’s Tale", "Veep" and "Big Little Lies", among others.

Read the complete list of WGA Awards 2018 winners after the jump.

Producers Guild Awards Movie Nominations 2018 Announced

The Producers Guild of America has announced its nominees for the 2018 awards season and they include most of the usual suspects with one big surprise. Since an unexpected tie occured, the Darryl F. Zanuck award for theatrical motion pictures includes 11 nominees this year, instead of the usual 10 films. The more or less expected picks were "The Big Sick", "Call Me By Your Name", "Dunkirk", "Get Out", "I Tonya", "Lady Bird", "The Post", "Molly's Game", "The Shape of Water" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".

The big surprise, however, is the nomination of DC comics adaptation "Wonder Woman". It was a decent comic book adaptation, certainly better than expected, but not what I would call a great film, and certainly an odd pick overall. Still, this isn't the first time that the PGA has favored successful comic book adaptations with positive critical reception. "Deadpool" and "The Dark Knight" were also nominated by the PGA.

The animated features nominated for the PGA awards are "The Boss Baby", "Coco", "Despicable Me 3", "Ferdinand" and "The LEGO Batman Movie".

The PGA awards are usually reliable Oscar precursors, matching picks with the Academy in 19 out of 28 years. The last two years showed some divergence, with the PGA choosing "La La Land" in 2017 and "The Big Short" in 2016, while the Oscars picked "Moonlight" and "Spotlight" for those respective years.

The winners of the 2018 Producers Guild Awards will be announced on January 20th.

Read the complete list of PGA 2018 awards nominations after the jump.

New Soundtracks: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Various Artists)

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Composer:
Various Artists

Total Time:
71:08

Label:
Madison Gate Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

Release Date
November 3, 2017

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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Trailers, Clips, Featurette, Images and Poster

The romantic drama "Call Me Be Your Name" is the third and final installment in director Luca Guadagnino's "Desire" trilogy, which also includes "I Am Love" (2009) and "A Bigger Splash" (2015). The film is adaped by James Ivory ("The Remains of the Day") from the novel of the same name written by André Aciman, and chronicles the romantic relationship between a precocious 17-year-old American-Italian (Timothée Chalamet) and his father's American assistant, Oliver (Armie Hammer), in 1980s Italy.

The film also stars Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel and Peter Spears.

"Call Me Be Your Name" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It opened in select theaters on November 24th, 2017. The film received universal praise from critics and is widely considered one of the Top 10 best films of the year.

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In Theaters: COCO, THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, DARKEST HOUR and CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

This week in theaters we have only one new wide release, which is Disney and Pixar's highly acclaimed (what a surprise) new film "Coco". However, there are a handful of really great new limited releases, as well, including "The Man Who Invented Christmas", an intriguing look at the creation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", the Winston Churchill biopic "Darkest Hour" featuring an awards-caliber from Gary Oldman, and the acclaimed romantic drama "Call Me By Your Name".

Synopses, details, critical reception, trailers, clips and more after the jump.