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'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' Lead Golden Globe Award Nominations
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David O. Russell's "American Hustle" and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" led the nominations for the 2014 Golden Globe Awards, each receiving 7 mentions. "Hustler" saw four of its cast members -- Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper (sorry Jeremy Renner) -- take nominations alongside bids for best motion picture (comedy or musical), best director and best screenplay. "12 Years," meanwhile, was nominated for best motion picture (drama) and also got nods for director, screenplay, original score and actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender. Other films nominated in the best motion picture categories included "Captain Phillips," "Gravity," "Philomena" and "Rush" (drama) and "Her," "Inside Llewyn Davis," "Nebraska" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" (comedy/musical). Notably shut out from those categories were "Saving Mr. Banks," "Lee Daniels' The Butler," "Dallas Buyers Club" and "August: Osage County." The latter three of those films had »
- Peter Knegt
Peter Pan Project ‘Pan’ to Fly on June 26, 2015
10 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Warner Bros. has dated “Pan,” its Peter Pan origin tale, for June 26, 2015.
Joe Wright is attached to direct from the Jason Fuchs script but the 3D film has not yet been cast with shooting planned for April. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the pic is certain to bring back the characters created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie about a boy who can fly and never ages.
Wright adapted “Pride and Prejudice” and “Anna Karenina.”
Greg Berlanti is producing. “Pan” is the fourth Warner title dated for the 2015 summer following “Mad Max: Fury Road” on May 22, “San Andreas” on June 5 and its untitled Batman-Superman movie on July 17.
“Pan” will face competition on June 26, 2015, with Universal’s sequel to “Ted.”
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- Dave McNary
Inside Llewyn Davis’s Cat Trainer on the Three Tabbies Who Play Ulysses
12 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Despite having more screen time than many of the human actors in Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers.’ much-heralded film about the Greenwich Village folk scene in the sixties, the cat who becomes the title character’s accidental companion doesn’t receive an acknowledgement in the credits. Maybe that’s because the red Mackerel, which goes nameless for much of the movie, is actually portrayed by three tabbies, making onscreen crediting cumbersome. But the pesky feline — whose name the flailing folkie played by Oscar Isaac ultimately learns is Ulysses — figures prominently in the story. As Joel Coen explained at the Cannes Film Festival last May, “The film doesn’t really have a plot. That concerned us at one point; that’s why we threw the cat in.” Maybe the Cannes jury members were cat lovers; they awarded the film the festival’s 2013 Grand Prix prize.The person responsible for helping »
- Lisa Liebman
Inspiring Teenager Uses His Disability for Hilarious Zombie Pranks
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Marilyn Monroe once said that "this life is what you make it," an idea that unfortunately most people fail to grasp. We all have our own personal hardships and troubles in life, and only through rising above those things and never giving up do we ever truly live.
This is something that teenager Nick Santonastasso understands all too well. Nick was born in 1996 without legs and only one arm, but he's never let that stop him from being an inspiration, and living life to its fullest.
Through his Vine account, Nick recently started a series of prank videos that are some of the best we've quite frankly ever seen, using his disability to make people think, for a split-second, that he's actually a zombie. Nick applies a bit of zombie makeup to his face and then lunges towards unsuspecting shoppers, mimicking the deathly sounds of the undead along the way. »
- John Squires
China’s Hippo Munches up Pair of Australian Animation Deals
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Hong Kong – Shanghai Hippo Animation, a leading Chinese cartoon producer, has struck two feature film production deals with Australian firms. It will also launch a $50 million production fund.
The deals with Vue Group and with Zac Films were announced by the West Australia Culture and Arts Minister John Day and by the state’s industry support agency ScreenWest.
“An elite team of 25 Australian creative animators will be employed, trained and developed at the Vue Group offices, which is located in Bunbury [near Perth, West Australia]. At full capacity this group will grow to 50 people making Bunbury a creative center for animation able to compete on an international level,” said Day in a statement.
The deal with Vue will see Vue and Hippo co-produce a slate of films including “The Adventures of Marco Polo,” “The Rabbit 2,” and “Farm House 81: Perfect Friends.” All three productions will be in English and then sub titled in Chinese »
- Patrick Frater
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
2 hours ago | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
First, the good news: this is a vast improvement over the first installment in the latest Peter Jackson trilogy. It’s still a vast collection of climaxes, but the pace is much livelier and the action set-pieces are truly impressive. I suppose most moviegoers already know that the film ends with a cliffhanger in lieu of a resolution. It seems a shame to build to such a crescendo and then cut to a black screen, but that’s the nature of this three-film odyssey. Jackson and his collaborators (Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro, who was originally set to direct The Hobbit) intend for us to wait two years to see how things are going to turn out. Having established Martin...
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- Leonard Maltin
Saving Mr. Banks
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You can see all kinds of movies this holiday season, from a gargantuan fantasy tale to a gripping war drama, but I daresay there’s only one that offers charm, delight, and a finale that will bring tears to your eyes. That’s Saving Mr. Banks. That such a lovely, heartfelt film could be made at a time when irony and darkness dominate mainstream moviemaking is a minor miracle. Yet with delicacy and taste, Saving Mr. Banks spins a fascinating story about the people whose rocky collaboration resulted in a beloved movie, Mary Poppins. Having grown up watching Walt Disney on television, I doubted that anyone could imitate him to my satisfaction, but I was wrong: Tom Hanks embodies the look...
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- Leonard Maltin
American Hustle
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Unlike many of my colleagues, I wasn’t swept away by American Hustle. I appreciate the 1970s period flavor, the propulsive nature of the screenplay by director David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer, and the showcase it provides for a cadre of talented actors. However, about halfway through the movie I came to the realization that I didn’t care about any of these people. Like a concert where each member of the band takes a series of flashy solos, American Hustle is a movie in which the parts are greater than the whole. Even the snarky opening legend, “Some of this stuff actually happened,” makes it difficult to invest in the duplicitous goings-on. We know the film was inspired by...
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- Leonard Maltin
Studio Ghibli sets ‘Marnie’ as First Post-Miyazaki Movie
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Tokyo – “When Marnie Was There,” directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi has been set as the first feature to emerge from Japan’s powerhouse animation studio Studio Ghibli in the new post Hayao Miyazaki era.
Details of the film were unveiled by distributor Toho on Thursday.
Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio and has been responsible for most of its hit movies, announced his retirement in September.
“Marnie” is an adaptation of a children’s book by British author Joan G. Robinson and is scheduled for release in summer 2014.
Yonebayashi previously directed 2010 hit “The Secret World of Arrietty” which grossed $89 million and is Ghibli’s top non-Miyazaki title.
Miyazaki will not serve as scriptwriter or supervisor on the film, in contrast to “Arrietty” and other previous Ghibli pics that benefitted from his name on the credits in non-directing capacities.
Instead, Keiko Niwa, who was co-scripter with Miyazaki on “Arrietty,” and Masashi Ando, who »
- Mark Schilling
Saving Mr. Banks Director John Lee Hancock Searches For The Factual And Emotional Truth
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It.s around this time of year nearly every year that critics begin to try and uncover the real history behind Oscar contender films that are based on true stories. In recent years filmgoers have noted inaccuracies in titles like David Fincher.s The Social Network, Tom Hooper.s The King.s Speech, and even Bennett Miller.s Moneyball, and each time it brings back the debate of what the truth really means in adaptations and reenactments. Is it more important to nail the cold hard facts, or is it more about creating a story and discovering an emotional reality that may look at everything from a new angle? As the director of many "based on a true story" films, including the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, John Lee Hancock is very familiar with this conversation. As part of a press day for the film late last month in Los »
Murder On The Orient Express Remake In The Works From Producer Ridley Scott
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In adapting Agatha Christie's great mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express back in 1974, director Sidney Lumet brought together one of the best casts you could imagine. The credits were filled with great actors, the most notable including Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins and Vanessa Redgrave. Their combined talents came together to create a memorable, fun thriller, but now Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg and Mark Gordon have revealed that they believe they have what it takes to stand in that film's shadow. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the three men are now teaming up to produce a brand new adaptation of Christie's classic story. 20th Century Fox is behind the project and is currently searching for writers to adapt the book. In the text, the legendary Detective Hercule Poirot finds himself on a train leaving Istanbul and getting caught up in a »
Fox to Remake Murder On The Orient Express with Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, and Mark Gordon
3 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
20th Century Fox has acquired the feature rights to the Agatha Christie classic Murder on the Orient Express. The book takes place on the luxurious train, stuck in a snowdrift in Yugoslavia. That night a man is murdered, but fortunately cunning detective Hercule Poirot is aboard to solve the case. THR reports Ridley Scott (Prometheus) will produce alongside Mark Gordon (Source Code) and Simon Kinberg (Elysium). Scott is currently shooting the Biblical epic Exodus and recently stated his next two projects are already set, so he is likely too busy to direct the Christie adaptation. Albert Finney played Poirot in the 1974 adaptation that earned six Oscar nominations. Alfred Molina took on the role in 2001 TV movie that was not received quite so well. Fox is still looking for a writer, so no word on who might play the Belgian detective this time around. But I expect a thorough casting search »
- Brendan Bettinger
Film Review: ‘White Reindeer’
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A subgenre one might call the counter-Christmas movie — generally the preserve of black-hearted satire in the “Bad Santa” vein — gains a suitably sharp-edged but unusually humane new entry in “White Reindeer,” the third and most lucidly realized feature yet from the ever-fascinating Zach Clark. Warmed by Anna Margaret Hollyman’s generous performance as a peppy Virginia estate agent whose elaborate yuletide plans are more than a little spoiled when her husband is shot dead, this complex, compassionate film finds both wicked humor and, less expectedly, transcendent hope in America’s gaudy fixation with Christmas spirit. Trimmed with tinsel and lavish dustings of cocaine, it’s not exactly shooting for holiday-standard status, but will be treasured annually by those who have acquired its curdled-eggnog taste.
Clark’s first two features, “Modern Love Is Automatic” and “Vacation!,” were raggedly punkish but perceptive explorations of sexuality and community among female twentysomethings; knowingly or otherwise, »
- Guy Lodge
Dubai Film Market enjoys growth spurt
4 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The Dubai Film Market (Dfm) enjoyed one of its buzziest editions to date this year, with a big increase in screenings, deals and meetings.
Some 1,400 participants benefitted from a new set-up which put 30 exhibition booths in close proximity with the producers and filmmakers at Dfm’s co-financing events – the Dubai Film Connection (Dfc) and Interchange. New national attendees included Algeria, Thailand and France.
“The general feeling was that the new set-up really worked. It was a lot easier for people to bump into one another – it was really buzzy,” said Dfm’s international business manager Pascal Diot.
The Dfm’s digital video library, the Cinetech also registered at increase in screenings. There were some 1,151 screenings by films professionals as opposed to 1,042 in 2012.
The five most popular titles by midday on Thursday were Mohamed Khan’s Factory Girl, Gaza Strip-set short Condom Lead, Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar, Emirati short Don’t Leave Me and Stable Unstable, about »
Docs put in champion performance at Diff
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A strong line-up of documentaries including Mahmoud Kaabour’s Champ Of The Camp and Jehane Noujaim’s The Square, about the Egyptian revolution, were attracting as much critical and public attention as the dramas at this year’s Diff, highlighting the growing strengh of factual filmmaking in the region.
Other stand-out docs included Ahmed Nour’s Waves and Mohamed Amine Boukhris’s War Reporter, which both received world premieres in the Muhr Arab documentary competition, and Jose A Alayon’s docu-drama Slimane, which premiered in Arabian Nights.
The Muhr AsiaAfrica documentary section also contained strong titles such as Sara Rastegar’s My Red Shoes, looking back at the Iranian revolution; Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, With Love and Riann Hendricks’ The Devil’s Lair.
Arab fiction titles such as Mohamed Khan’s Factory Girl; which also had its world premiere at Diff; Laila Marrakchi’s Rock The Casbah; Thierry De Peretti’s Apaches and Caroline Link’s [link »
Middle West Films prepares for Madness At Noon
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Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar is developing a sequel to his documentary, In Search Of Oil And Sand, which captured the lives of Egypt’s elite at the moment of Gamel Abdel Nasser’s coup d’état in 1952, entitled Madness At Noon.
The sequel will follow the fate of the elite after Nasser’s rise to power, through an international incident in which the leader ordered the arrest of France’s entire diplomatic Corp on spying charges alongside members of the Egyptian elite who had remained in the country.
“It captures the moment that the coup d’état transforms into a revolution – and the witch hunt against the vestiges of the old regime really begins,” said Omar, who produces under the Middle West Films (Mwf) banner.
In Search Of Oil And Sand, which premiered in the Abu Dhabi Film Festival last year, is due to air on channels affiliated to Us public broadcaster PBS early next year and »
VoD player icflix targets film production
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The Mena region’s first online streaming media service, icflix, which launched last summer, has already started reading scripts with a view to producing as many as eight Arab-language movies a year intended for theatrical release.
Echoing the original programming push that has re-defined Netflix in the Us, Dubai-based icflix is looking to partner up with Arab production houses in order to supplement its line-up of ‘Jazwood’ titles (the name it coined for Arab-language content). Icflix already has Arabic content supply deals with both the Egyptian Radio & TV Union (Ertu) and Arab Radio and Television Network (Art).
Speaking at the Diff Forum this week, icflix CEO Carlos Tibi said he would also be engaging directly with young actors from the region under an initiative known as the Jazwood Academy designed to cultivate new talent. “We want to ensure that Arab content is of the same entertainment and production quality as our Hollywood and Bollywood films,” he said. The »
'The Legend of Hercules' trailer: Kellan Lutz is destined for ... romance?
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In the upcoming The Legend of Hercules, Kellan Lutz’s Hercules is the son of Zeus, which means he’s an incredibly strong and a respected fighter. However, it doesn’t mean he gets to be with the woman he loves.
In the film’s newest trailer, all Hercules wants to do is be with his one true love, but it seems she’s supposed to marry his brother. So instead, a shirtless Hercules is left to fight, mud wrestle, and fight some more. The trailer states: “Before he was a legend, he was an ordinary man.” Well, if an »
- Samantha Highfill
First Trailer for Sundance Drama White Bird In A Blizzard Starring Shailene Woodley and Eva Green
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Ahead of its debut next month at the Sundance Film Festival, the first trailer for director Gregg Araki’s (Mysterious Skin) new film White Bird in a Blizzard has been released online. Based on the novel by Laura Kasischke, the film tells the story of a young woman (Shailene Woodley) whose life is upended when her beautiful, enigmatic mother (Eva Green) suddenly goes missing. Woodley wowed Sundance audiences last year with her performance in The Spectacular Now, and White Bird in a Blizzard certainly looks like a fascinating follow-up. Hit the jump to watch the trailer, and click here to catch up on all of our Sundance 2014 coverage thus far. The pic also stars Shiloh Fernandez, Christopher Meloni, Gabourey Sidibe, Thomas Jane, and Angela Basset. The Sundance Film Festival runs January 16 – 26th. Look for our review of the film during that time. Via The Film Stage. »
- Adam Chitwood
Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel Wishes You A Happy Holidays With A New Motion Poster
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As this season has proven, with new films debuting from filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuaron, the Coen brothers, and David O. Russell, fall is typically seen as the home for the real cream of the crop directors in Hollywood, but in truth one of America's best is waiting until next March to premiere his latest movie. Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel is separating itself from the madness of this year's awards campaign by coming out on March 7, 2014. But that doesn't mean that it can't still be part of this year's holiday season. As you can see above, Fox Searchlight has debuted a brand new motion poster for the farcical comedy over on the film's official website. It's design is the same as the one-sheet that came out back in October, but the twist is that we get to watch the day and night come and go in the »
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