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Michael Wolf Snyder , the sound mixer for a number of film titles, including Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and The Rider , has died by suicide, according to a Facebook post from his aunt. He was 35. Snyder’s aunt, Cathy Snyder, shared a post from the sound mixer’s father, David Snyder, in which he details finding his son’s body in his Queens, N.Y. home. “Michael took his own life sometime in the last week, and it wasn’t discovered until I went to check on him Monday after he dropped out of contact for several days,” David Snyder originally wrote. “He has suffered from Major Depression for many years. For most people, this is an illness that waxes and wanes over the years. I’m sure it was difficult for Michael that he spent most of the last year alone in his small, Queens apartment, being responsible about dealing with the coronavirus.” Related Story 'Nomadland' Going Directly To Disney+ Star In UK Snyder, who detailed his son’s death in “The hope that it could … [Read more...] about Michael Wolf Snyder Dies: Sound Mixer For ‘Nomadland,’ ‘The Rider’ Was 35

REXCLUSIVE : Netflix ’s big spending at the virtual EFM is continuing with a mighty worldwide pre-buy of around $55M for Christian Bale Gothic horror-thriller The Pale Blue Eye , which will reunite the actor with director Scott Cooper. By our calculations, the deal marks a record for a worldwide deal at the European Film Market. The streamer beat out multiple competitors for the project. The movie, which Cooper has wanted to make for more than a decade, revolves around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Oscar-winner Bale will play a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become a world famous author, Edgar Allan Poe . Related Story Duffer Bros. & Steven Spielberg's Amblin Adapting Stephen King's 'Talisman' As Netflix Series Cooper scripts the adaptation of the Louis Bayard novel of the same name. Cross … [Read more...] about Netflix Strikes EFM Record $55M Worldwide Deal For Christian Bale Cross Creek Thriller ‘The Pale Blue Eye’

Decades before Chloé Zhao won the Golden Globe for directing 'Nomadland,' John Ford's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel earned Academy Awards for best director and best supporting actress (Jane Darwell). If Chloé Zhao manages to nab this year's directing Oscar for Nomadland , she won't be the first to win for a drama about down-on-their-luck itinerant workers making their way across the American West. John Ford was awarded the statuette in 1941 for his adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath , which sees the Joad family abandon the Oklahoma farm they lost to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl and head to California — a fabled promised land — in a broken-down 1926 Hudson Super Six sedan. Along the way, they are beset by all sorts of tragedy: the grandparents die, various relatives abandon them, they are stranded at a destitute work camp, and son Tom (Henry Fonda), who only recently got out of prison, accidentally kills a security guard, sending the family … [Read more...] about Oscars Flashback: ‘Grapes of Wrath’ and Its Depiction of Nomads Won in 1941