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Jane Campion to Receive Directors Prize at Cannes Festival
5 April 2013 4:56 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Jane Campion will be presented with the Carrosse d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival May 16.
The kudos is awarded annually by Film Directors Guild and sponsored by Canal+ Cinéma. It is a tribute paid by the directors to honor one of their own, chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, the courage and independent mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this award has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Ousmane Sembene, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch, Naomi Kawase, Agnès Varda, Jafar Panahi and Nuri Bilge Ceylan in 2012.
There will be an afternoon conversation with Campion, followed by a screening at Cannes’ Théâtre Croisette.
The prize will be presented that evening during the Directors’ Fortnight opening ceremony. »
- Variety Staff
See The Two Veronica Mars Limited Edition T-Shirt Designs For Kickstarter Backers
5 April 2013 4:37 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Those Veronica Mars fans who pledged $25 or more to the film's Kickstarter campaign will be treated to a limited edition t-shirt. As much as we're all anticipating the actual film, there's nothing quite like a great t-shirt. Backers will get their pick of two great t-shirts, in appreciation of their financial support of the movie, and today Rob Thomas has given us a look at the designs. Following up on some updates on the campaign, which include a $1 pledge option, which will hopefully help get the movie's Kickstarter campaign to over 87,142 backers, breaking the record for most backers for a Kickstarter campagn, Rob Thomas posted another update, giving us a look at the two shirts that backers ($25 or more) will have to choose from when the campaign ends later this month. The first one is called "California Noir" and shows the familiar image of Veronica seated in her car with »
Australia's Biggest Genre Film Fests Merge, Become Megatron of Festivals
5 April 2013 4:30 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Australia has two major genre film festivals of note: A Night of Horror, dedicated to horror flicks (duh); and Fantastic Planet, the sci-fi/superheroes/fantasy domain. This year, both festivals have "joined forces" to form a mega-fest the likes of which Australia has never seen. (Or maybe they have. I've never been to Australia.) The festivals are not merging into one; they are simply running in tandem so you can get all your weird cinema in one, concentrated heap.
Fantastic Planet will be debuting their Launch Pad program at this year's fest. Developed to "provide a solid starting point for genre feature films just commencing their festival run," three films have been chosen for the inaugural run: A Dark Matter, directed by James Naylor (Twisting cerebral sci-fi thriller);
The Taking, directed by The BAPartists (Deep and disturbing art-house horror); and Wet and Reckless, directed by Jason Trost (Hilarious buddy caper-cum reality TV parody).
In addition, »
- Alyse Wax
Ryan Gosling filmed 'Pines' bank robbery in front of real customers
5 April 2013 4:24 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Ryan Gosling has revealed that bank heist scenes from his new film The Place Beyond the Pines were filmed in front of real customers and not extras.
Gosling - who plays a stuntman-turned-bank robber in the Derek Cianfrance crime drama - admitted that the film's crew decided to use real staff and members of the public to make the shoot-out seem more realistic.
The actor told The Daily Telegraph that scenes were filmed in one take and designed to capture genuine reactions, but people still seemed to recognise him.
"I'm there with a gun and I look down and people are just smiling," said Gosling.
"They were just enjoying the show and I think I spotted someone filming me on their camera phone as I robbed the place."
The 32-year-old also said that his role as Luke Glanton allowed him to indulge his passion for motorbikes as well as act out bad guy fantasies. »
Roger Ebert obituary
5 April 2013 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Chicago film critic with a worldwide appeal
For 46 years Roger Ebert, who has died aged 70 after suffering from cancer, wrote on films for the Chicago Sun-Times, and did not want to stop. The one thing he welcomed when announcing a "leave of presence" earlier this week was the realisation of a fantasy: "reviewing only the movies I want to review".
His following in the English-speaking world was unrivalled. He and Gene Siskel, his co-host on At the Movies on television, had a street named after them – Siskel and Ebert Way – near the CBS Studios in Chicago where they worked together. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer prize for criticism.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and received honorary degrees from various institutions of learning. In 2007, Forbes magazine named Ebert "the most powerful pundit in America".
Why all the accolades? As a race, »
- Ronald Bergan
Gerard Depardieu fails to show up to Paris court case
5 April 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor is charged with drink driving but failed to appear – for the second time – because he is filming in New York
Gerard Depardieu has failed to show up in a French court to face charges of drink-driving because he was filming a movie in New York. It was the second time Depardieu had not appeared for the case, after failing to answer a previous summons in January.
The Paris criminal court scheduled a new hearing for 24 May, according to Depardieu's lawyer, Eric de Caumont. The court agreed to the delay on Friday because investigators turned up new evidence about the incident in November, when Depardieu toppled over on his scooter in Paris and was charged with drink-driving, De Caumont said.
If convicted Depardieu could face up to two years in prison and a €4,500 ($3,800) fine, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
The 64-year-old actor, who is in the Us to make »
Hannah Betts: Why Eva Mendes and Rosario Dawson resist their own loveliness
5 April 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Boasters of beauty feel obliged to disown its voodoo in order to reap its benefits
Another day, another resistant beauty quoted in the Guardian. Eva Mendes opined: "I actually really love coming from a very raw place. Any opportunity I get to not wear makeup on set, I take. I really don't care about looking beautiful in a film unless I have to for the character." This statement feels more than slightly disingenuous from a woman who has earned millions as a model selling her face, hair and body.
Last week, Rosario Dawson similarly demurred: "I've tried to fight against it [her beauty]. Looks are fleeting, you know? Your face can change, or something could happen to me. And I don't want to feel like that's all I have to give, because that would be very fragile."
What do we infer from these statements? That beauty is a hostage to fortune that must be fought against. »
- Hannah Betts
Ben Mendelsohn: from soap star to Hollywood
5 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He started in Neighbours, made his name in Oz crime flick Animal Kingdom, turned up in Batman and now, as Hollywood's go-to sleazeball, is pulling heists with Ryan Gosling
"No, no, no – there's absolutely no problem. It's just one of those things, mate. I'd be very inclined to do exactly the same thing, and I know the subsequent fuckin' dread and all the other shit, so please, not at all."
Ben Mendelsohn had me at hello. An unexpectedly chilled-out hello, considering I'd phoned him an hour-and-a-half later than planned, slightly panicky, profusely sorry. Due to bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived email-reading, I'd got the time wrong, I'd got the day wrong, and would have been none the wiser had his publicist not contacted me to ask how the interview had gone. It's 8.30am in La and, luckily for me, not only is Mendelsohn at home in West Hollywood doing not a lot, he's »
- Alex Godfrey
Godzilla Cast Adds Sally Hawkins; Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Joins Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii Starring Kit Harington
5 April 2013 4:04 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Check out the latest casting news below: Sally Hawkins (Submarine) has joined the cast of Gareth Edwards' Godzilla reboot, featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen. Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje (The Bourne Identity) has boarded Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii, starring Kit Harington, Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland. Hit the jump for more on each casting announcement. First up from Deadline comes word that Hawkins is the latest addition to Edwards' Godzilla. Hawkins takes the last lead role as a scientist in the monster-sized reboot that began shooting in Vancouver recently. The eclectic cast also features Ken Watanabe, David Strathairn and Juliette Binoche. Godzilla is slated to open May 16, 2014 in 3D. Hawkins' upcoming films include Phil Morrison's Almost Christmas with Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti, and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. Variety reports that Akkinuoye-Agbaje will join Anderson's Pompeii as an enslaved gladiator who befriends the protagonist played by Harington. »
- Dave Trumbore
'Godzilla' reboot casts Sally Hawkins
5 April 2013 4:04 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Sally Hawkins has been cast as a scientist in Godzilla.
The Happy-Go-Lucky actress has been given the movie's final lead role, Deadline reports.
Other cast members include Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Juliette Binoche.
The reboot of the classic 1954 monster movie will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters).
Frank Darabont, who is co-writing the remake alongside Max Borenstein and Drew Pearce (Pacific Rim), recently said that the film will focus on the iconic monster as an allegory for the "terrifying force of nature".
Godzilla is scheduled to arrive in cinemas on May 16, 2014.
Watch Sally Hawkins discuss her role in the upcoming Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine with Digital Spy below: »
Bagged and Boarded Comic Reviews: The Dark Tower, Locke and Key, and more
5 April 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
New comic book Wednesday has come and gone. The dust at your local comic shop has settled. An eerie silence descends as you finish reading your last superhero book of the week. Now it's time for something a little more sinister. Welcome to Bagged and Boarded: comic reviews of the sick, spooky, twisted and terrifying!
Locke and Key: Omega No. 4
Joe Hill's ongoing comic about a creepy ancestral home full of mysterious doors is nearing it's grand finale. At this point, a demon has possessed the body of the youngest of our family of heroes. While he uses his guile and machinations to try and kill lots of high school students in a cave, our remaining protagonists struggle against the encroaching doom. Shadows take on a life of their own, hunting down everyone they can, vulnerable only to light.
Bag it or board it up? This series is coming to a close, »
- Giaco Furino
'Man of Steel' composer Hans Zimmer: 'It's daunting following Williams'
5 April 2013 3:33 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Man of Steel composer Hans Zimmer has spoken about the "daunting" task of following the iconic score that John Williams created for 1978's Superman.
Zimmer signed up for the Zack Snyder reboot in June 2012, having previously compared taking on the task to "rewriting Beethoven's ninth".
The composer told CNN of following the iconic Williams theme: "Look, that was daunting. Seriously. He's the greatest film composer out there, without a doubt, and it happens to be one of his iconic pieces of music, so I spent three months just procrastinating and not even getting a start on the thing, because I was so intimidated: 'Oh my God, I'm following in John Williams's footsteps'."
Explaining his approach, he said: "I kept thinking of the story as, 'What if you are extraordinary, and your entire ambition is to join humanity? To become human? What does it mean to become human? What does »
'Holy Ghost People' Coming to Us Theaters
5 April 2013 3:30 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
XLrator Media has announced their acquisition of the North American rights to Holy Ghost People, a dark and moody backwoods thriller that riveted audiences at this year's South By Southwest Film Festival. The film is directed by Mitchell Altieri, who co-wrote with Phil Flores (Altieri & Flores are also known as The Butcher Brothers, who created the vampire-themed films The Hamiltons and The Thompsons), with Kevin Artigue & Joe Egender. Holy Ghost People is a southern gothic thriller/drama about a teenager searching for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, where she encounters a snake-handling religious cult and eventually learns the truth about her sister's fate. You can read our review here. Release dates have not yet been finalized, so stay tuned for updates... in the meantime, here's the trailer: SXSW (2013) - Holy Ghost People Trailer #1 - Drama HD »
- Gregory Burkart
Film Reviews: Opening This Week (April 1-5, 2013)
5 April 2013 3:25 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Cindy Kleine pays tribute to her famed theater-director hubby in “Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner,” with thoroughly delightful results. Gregory’s tale-spinning fluency dazzles just as much as it did in Louis Malle’s “My Dinner With Andre,” but this time with a wry familiarity all Kleine’s own. Shot at home or in various improvised rehearsal spaces — with much photographic evidence of Gregory’s sterile, unhappy childhood, as well as occasional clips from “My Dinner With Andre” and the other filmed Gregory/Wallace Shawn collaboration, “Vanya on 42nd Street” — the film juxtaposes work and biography with wondrous open-endedness, and should enchant fans as well as those new to the table.
Read the full review.
Distributor: First Run Features
Bert Stern would seemingly make for an ideal documentary subject, celebrated for his »
- Variety Staff
Composer Hans Zimmer Focused On The Good In Humanity For His Man Of Steel Score
5 April 2013 3:24 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Zack Snyder had a tough gig ahead of him when it came to making the second reboot of the Superman franchise, since Brian Singer.s Superman Returns didn.t win audiences over quite so much. (Though our resident master Josh Tyler loved it.) But everything Snyder does is given a weary glance when it.s first announced. But when you.re somebody as iconic as composer Hans Zimmer, there.s a much different kind of anticipation involved, especially after his masterful work for Christopher Nolan.s Batman trilogy. Would you be surprised to know that the man himself was even a little nervous about the gig? While, talking with CNN about his score for History Channel.s miniseriesThe Bible, Zimmer offered a few insights as to where the score for Man of Steel would take viewers. ear drums. And it isn.t the doom-laden sounds of The Dark Knight. For »
What is 'Upstream Color' About? Here's My Interpretation
5 April 2013 3:24 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I considered writing a review and then writing a follow-up piece concerning Shane Caruth's sophomore effort Upstream Color, but couldn't quite find a way to do one without doing the other. Therefore, the result is the following, 1300-word stream of consciousness of which I hope makes, at the very least, a modicum of sense. Upstream Color is only the writer-director's second film following 2004's time travel mind-bender Primer and it's sure to confuse audiences on far greater levels than its predecessor and it sounds like he's going even grander, at least in scope, with his next film, The Modern Ocean, which deals with shipping routes, competing corporations and I'm sure multiple metaphorical levels of thinking, or, at the very least, a straight-forward interpretation of today's shrinking world. And so, to Upstream Color, a film I took to be entirely metaphorical, though told as something of a horror, romantic, sci-fi thriller. »
- Brad Brevet
Brewing A Franchise, Fox 2000 Nabs Rights To Sally Green Witch Novel ‘Half Bad’
5 April 2013 3:18 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Fox 2000 has acquired film rights to Sally Green’s debut book Half Bad, a contemporary supernatural thriller. The film will be produced by Karen Rosenfelt, whose recent films include Twilight Saga, Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters, and The Book Thief. Half Bad starts a trilogy taking place in a world inhabited by covert witches; one faction is good and the other evil. They are divided by hatred and united by one thing only — fear of a boy descended from both sides. The Ya title will be published under the Penguin imprint in spring 2014. The book was a hot title at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and since then, Zosia Knopp, Penguin Children’s Rights Director, concluded a six-figure U.S. rights deal at auction, along with Ken Wright, VP and Publisher of Viking, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. Pre-empts have been accepted from Brazilian publisher Intrinseca and Israeli publisher Kinneret. »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Spielberg Double Feature: Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, And Defying Genre
5 April 2013 3:13 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
With Jurassic Park coming back to theaters this week, we're looking back at the years when Steven Spielberg released two films, and how those films reflect on each other. Earlier this week Sean dug into 1993's double feature, Jurassic Park vs. Schindler's List, Kristy tackled 1989's Always and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Katey took on 2005, when Spielberg released Munich and War of the Worlds. In today's final installment, Eric compares Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report. One of the most interesting tonal shifts of Steven Spielberg.s career came in 2002 when he made both Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can. In his double film years, Spielberg has notably always balanced the more fun, adventurous sci-fi/fantasy movies . like Jurassic Park, The Adventures of Tintin and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - with more serious, Oscar-oriented films . like Schindler.s List, War Horse, »
Watch The 'Place Beyond The Pines' Opening Shot
5 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Last week, Derek Cianfrance's "The Place Beyond the Pines" debuted. If you haven't seen it already, it starts with an incredible long take that follows Ryan Gosling into a globe of death, and now you can watch it below.
Also, see what Disney princesses would look like as Sith lords in today's Dailies!
» Read this oral history of "Jurassic Park" now! [EW]
» Crazy stills from Bong Joon-ho's "Snowpiercer" [/Film]
» Watch the full pilot for "Hannibal" [NBC]
» Badass Disney Sith Princesses [io9]
» Watch the incredible opening shot from "The Place Beyond the Pines." [The Playlist]
Welcome to the Dailies, where the MTV Movies team runs down all the film and television news, odds and ends that are fit to print! From awesome fan art to obscure casting news, this is your place to feast on all the movie leftovers you didn't know you were hungry for.
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- Kevin P. Sullivan
Watch the Full ‘Hannibal’ Pilot Online
5 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
2013 has already seen the debut of multiple serial-killer TV series, including Fox’s The Following and A&E’s Bates Motel. Yet by all accounts NBC’s Hannibal is the best of the bunch. The Silence of the Lambs prequel series has drawn raves from critics for Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy‘s performances as Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, [...] »
- Angie Han
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