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Decade in Review: 2003 Top Ten
8 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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As you may have noticed, I will not be done with my Decade in Review until sometime into the new year. Hopefully we'll wrap up shortly after the Oscars; You know how distractingly all-consuming the Oscars can be! I hope you'll stay with it even though the rest of the media will move on any second now. They're always in such a rush. No stopping and smelling of the flowers. I've still got to update that "Actors of the Aughts" project for final compilation/statement. For now, let's move on to 2003. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2003. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Special Mentions: The Cremaster Cycle and Angels in America
Most Underappreciated: Hulk (Ang Lee), In the Cut (Jane Campion), Anything Else (Woody Allen), Charlies Angels: Full Throttle (McG) and
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- NATHANIEL R
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Deneen Melody ('Master's Devils', 'Dark Hallways')
7 December 2009 8:42 PM, PST
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The saying goes "Don't mess with Texas!" and although she may be based out of Chicago now, you'd still be well advised not to mess with native Texan Deneen Melody! She's played everything from an assassin to one of the devil's daughters. This former ballerina-turned-horror actress is not just an actress; she's also a model who's learning to do her own stunt work! Now Deneen is taking a break from learning how to fight on screen to talk with Pretty Scary about her new projects, why she gave up ballet, and why some people may call her a nerd (but not to her face, remember she's learning to fight!)...
Deneen, how did you get your start as an actress?
Well, before I got into film, I was actually a ballet dancer. Unfortunately, when I was 16, I broke my left foot during a performance. It was
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Twice the glitz and glamour?
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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The Academy has decided to extend the shortlist for next year's best picture Oscar from five to 10 films. Is that a good idea? We can't quite decide…
It has to be a bad idea, doesn't it?
Ten best picture nominations in the Oscars instead of five? It's a cynical move by the Academy to boost viewing figures by opening the field to crowd-pleasers such as The Dark Knight, the exclusion of which last year caused fanboy outrage. The Oscars aren't exactly the gold standard where quality is concerned, but they remain the most important fixture in the movie calendar and the nomination process is not to be treated lightly. Now the list will be swamped with button-pressing blockbusters such as Avatar and Star Trek, which may deserve their box-office receipts but absolutely should not be honoured alongside the all-time greats: All About Eve! Lawrence of Arabia! The Godfather!
True, but
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Birthday Suits, Well Directed
30 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST
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Lights. Cameras. Birthday Action (for this, the 30th of November). Only one month left to go and it's 2010. How crazy is that?
Ridley, Terrence (in the 70s) and Marc
1835 Mark Twain's books have been adapted into movies ever since the movies began. Most notably The Prince and the Pauper and any tale of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer
1920 Virginia Mayo 40s and 50s star, frequent Danny Kaye foil
1926 Richard Crenna, character actor
1927 Robert Guillaume, "Benson"
1929 Dick Clark, seemingly immortal creature who may finally be destroyed by the rise of his spiritual offspring Ryan Seacrest. It's all very Cronos vs. Zeus, only without the thunderbolts
1937 Ridley Scott, manly director whose movies are usually way better when they're shot through with a strong female presence. Consider the three classics: Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Alien. The rest of the filmography surely has its moments but that's the trinity right there.
1943 Terence Malick,
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Johnny 5s are still alive in Smartparts
13 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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Smartparts is an intriguing little scifi project that's currently in development. It is written by visual FX master, Mark Benard ("Finding Neverland", "What the bleep do we know?"). It's about a con man who stumbles across an underground arehouse and becomes caught between a bizarre, high-noon standoff between a bunch of forgotten old military robots: a massive centipede-like war machine and three small "Johnny 5" tyoes.
Synopsis:
A small-time conman hiding out after a successful score faces a desperate struggle for survival when he discovers the storage warehouse chosen as a temporary hideout is also the secret home for a group of abandoned and forgotten military robots... ...one of which seems to have gone insane.
We've got a copy of the promo-reel after the break. It takes a while to get to the hook but it's worth waiting for things to kick in. Hard to say whether this idea could translate
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Director Marc Forster on the Importance of Failure in Filmmaking
12 November 2009 1:09 PM, PST
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I've been waiting and waiting to feature a video interview from Making Of for a long time. If you haven't ever heard of Making Of, it's an incredible new website that focuses on the filmmaking process. They post new interviews daily with some of the most talented and brilliant filmmakers out there talking about their own process and some techniques and tips. I finally found a video today that I wanted to feature and it has Marc Forster in it talking about how important failure is in filmmaking. That may sound odd at first (how can failure help?), but if that title gets you to watch this video, then all the better. Anyway, check this out.
Marc Forster previously directed Quantum of Solace as well as The Kite Runner, Stranger Than Fiction, Stay, Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, and Everything Put Together. He's attached to a number of upcoming projects, including
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Director Marc Forster Discusses the Importance of Failure
12 November 2009 6:31 AM, PST
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Today MakingOf releases part three in a series of interviews with Marc Forster, the talented director of films including "Finding Neverland," "Quantum of Solace" and "The Kite Runner." Forster shares his insight on why failure is important -- "only through failure can you find new creativity." He also talks about how he is drawn to projects that challenge him, the importance of communication on-set, and the unpredictable nature of filmmaking.
click here to watch his exclusive interview on MakingOf.
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Kate Winslet Is Worth £60 Million To Britain, According To Statistical Research
9 November 2009 8:14 AM, PST
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The ‘Reader’ actress was the first celebrity to be “audited” by the UK Film Council, which looked to put a specific value on the country’s creative industries and chose the English star as the first example for her success abroad and public profile.
David Steele, the head of research and statistics at the UK Film Council, explained: "When an actor achieves international prominence, they have a general effect of boosting their country of origin that works its way through television appearances, advertising and celebrity news."
A friend said Kate - who won the Best Actress Oscar for ‘The Reader’ this year - found it “both flattering and very funny”.
The audit assessed salaries, profile and “box-office effect” on tourism and entertainment sales to find the figure, which has been nicknamed ‘the Winslet algorithm’ and may now be used to work out the value of other famous faces, including ‘The Dark Knight
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Kate Winslet 'worth £60m' to UK economy
9 November 2009 4:12 AM, PST
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UK Film Council estimates actor's value based on factors including her salary as well as her films' effect on British tourism and UK-based film production
She has been appraised and audited and metaphorically slapped with a price tag. It's official: Kate Winslet, the Oscar-winning star of The Reader, is worth a grand total of £60m to the British economy.
Winslet, 34, is the first actor to be audited in a bold new venture by the UK Film Council, designed to calculate the exact value of the industry's stars. Jokingly referred to as the "Winslet algorithm", it bases its findings on a number of factors, from Winslet's basic salary through to the "general promotional effect" that her films have on British tourism.
The formula calculated that the actor had earned £20m from her acting roles since starring in Sense and Sensibility back in 1995. However, it also credits her stardom as a key
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Johnny Depp Gets Involved in an Intrigue With Angelina Jolie
5 November 2009 1:03 AM, PST
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Johnny Depp, playing Sir James Matthew Barrie in "Finding Neverland", will collaborate with Angelina Jolie in the upcoming movie, "The Tourist", which production is scheduled to start early next year. Reportedly, Depp is still in talks to star with Jolie concerning his role as Jolie's fellow lead.
If the negotiation goes through, Depp will play as an American tourist. Depp's character gets mixed up by an interpol agent, played by Jolie, who's in her way to track down a criminal that happens to be her ex-lover.
There have been some vicissitudes of role. Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington were the leading actress and actor in the first place for "The Tourist". Jolie and Depp's names then came up to fill the vacancies of Theron's and Worthington's role.
"The Tourist", a remake of a 2005 French thriller, will be produced by Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, and Jonathan Glickman. Christopher McQuarrie, Julian Fellowes,
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Stana Katic: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST
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Actress Stana Katic looking tailored as Detective Kate Beckett in Castle.
Stana Katic:
Storms The Walls Of Castle
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Alex Simon
Actress Stana Katic is on a roll. After scoring supporting roles in two of last year’s highest-profile films, Quantum of Solace and The Spirit, the statuesque Canadian stunner landed the female lead in ABC’s new police drama/romantic comedy Castle, playing Detective Kate Beckett, a tough-as-nails NYPD officer who finds herself with the regrettable assignment of allowing cocky, best-selling crime novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) to shadow her for research on his next book. Not only does she find that Castle’s creative instincts for the criminal mind help her solve some of the city’s most challenging murders, she finds her tough exterior melting under Castle’s considerable charms. The show airs Monday nights on ABC.
Stana Katic sat down with us at a local
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Carey Mulligan is ‘Beautiful Fantastic’
29 October 2009 6:47 PM, PDT
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By now, you've probably heard more than a few words uttered on the blogosphere about Carey Mulligan. There's talk that she's likely to be sitting among Oscar nominees in March for her Audrey Hepburn-esque role in Lone Scherfig's An Education and she's racking up projects in development as fast as any other leading lady in Hollywood's hills. She was recently cast in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps alongside Shia LeBouf and Michael Douglas. And now she's prepped and ready for another leading role.
According to Screen Daily, Muliigan has been cast in The Beautiful Fantastic, a fairy tale-like drama from director Terry Loane (Mickybo & Me) and screenwriter Simon Aboud. It is a whimsical tale said to be in the vein of Amelie and Finding Neverland, that will also star Tom Wilkinson, Christopher Eccleston, Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Joanna Lumley. The story focuses on frustrated children's author Bella Brown, who
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Bond director opens the files on Quantum of Solace
29 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT
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Bond star Daniel Craig recently revealed that filming on the next James Bond movie will start at the end of 2010.
In the meantime, director Marc Forster has been spilling the beans on Craig's previous 007 adventure, Quantum of Solace.
Forster who has already said he doesn't want to do the next Bond flick, had his breakthrough with Monster's Ball, for which Halle Berry won a best actress Oscar.
His next film, Finding Neverland, was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and seven Academy Awards.
The filmmaker, who had left Switzerland for the USA at the age of 20 to pursue his dream, continued his directorial success with films including Stranger than Fiction, The Kite Runner, and then last year's Quantum of Solace.
In an interview with MakingOf, Forster explains that the Bond flick was, for him, "a very different experience."
He had a budget five times the amount he normally worked with plus,
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An Education’s Carey Mulligan Joins This Beautiful Fantastic, a 2009 Brit List Entry
29 October 2009 2:16 PM, PDT
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The actress 'It Girl' this year is definitely Carey Mulligan, who has been drawing raves for her performance in An Education since the film premiered at Sundance. She's already working on Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, and now she's been cast in This Beautiful Fantastic, which will be based on a script that made the Brit List a couple months ago.
Screen Daily reports on the film, and lists the tremendous cast with which Mulligan will appear: Tom Wilkinson, Christopher Eccleston, Mackenzie Crook and Joanna Lumley. The film will shoot in early 2010 in Scotland and Germany with Terry Loane directing from Simon Aboud's script, said to be "a modern fairy tale in the vein of Amelie and Finding Neverland."
The film follows "frustrated children’s author Bella Brown, who only leaves her obsessively ordered flat for work at the library. Chronically shy, she has no friends, no family
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Carey Mulligan Cast in Fairy Tale Film This Beautiful Fantastic
29 October 2009 12:03 PM, PDT
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I hope that by March 8th, Carey Mulligan has an Oscar on her mantle, because she certainly deserves to have one. As we wait to find out her destiny, though, Mulligan has been busy being cast in other projects, as the industry has already seen her in An Education and knows how great she is. She was cast in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps already as the lead female love interest opposite Shia Labeouf and has just joined another project today. ScreenDaily reports that Mulligan has been cast in This Beautiful Fantastic, a fairy tale-like drama being directed by Terry Loane (Mickybo & Me) from a script written by Simon Aboud.
This Beautiful Fantastic is described as a "modern fairy tale in the vein of Amelie and Finding Neverland." Perfect - two of my favorite fairy tale films. The cast also includes Tom Wilkinson (Duplicity), Christopher Eccleston (G.I. Joe
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Zombieland Movie Review
1 October 2009 7:28 AM, PDT
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Shaun of the Dead has been my favorite zombie movie since its release in 2004. It even made my Top 10 movies of 2004 list alongside Million Dollar Baby, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost take refuge in their favorite pub because of course that's the safest place to be when the undead rule the streets, right? No matter how many times I watch it, it never fails to make me crack up. But sorry Shaun, Zombieland has now replaced you at the top of my zombie movie list.
Zombieland is gross, wickedly sick, and just an all-around bloody good time. Plus, it's got one of the best cameos ever and great chemistry between the four surviving humans played by Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin. Read On...
In Related Zombieland News:
Interview with Jesse Eisenberg
Interview with Emma Stone
Interview with
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Ron Howard Discovers Comic Books
24 September 2009 10:44 AM, PDT
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Sometimes the lives of the men behind the stories are just as interesting as the fictitious concoctions they create, as such is the case with the 2004 film “Finding Neverland”. Or, to put it another way, the monster has to come from somewhere; it doesn’t just spring into existence fully formed. On the cover of the comic “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft”, which you can see below, the monster is coming out of the typewriter, but it might as well be coming out of H.P. Lovecraft’s mind.
The comic is a story about H.P. Lovecraft’s life and work, and back when the movie rights were bought in March, it was a story that interested Ron Howard, who speaks with the La Times about his thoughts on the material. Ron Howard’s own work is the kind that has a wide range, and as such he tends
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Kaczmarek back with another Us score
4 September 2009 3:56 AM, PDT
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Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won the Oscar for his Finding Neverland score in 2005, hs composed the original score for Get Low, a drama from director Aaron Schneider (Two Soldiers) which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Produced by Zanuck Independent and co-produced by Polish company Tvn, the film tells the story about a man in a small town who is trying to solve an old murder
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'Astro Boy' trailer: Even in animated film, Nic Cage's hair a bit of an issue
12 August 2009 10:20 AM, PDT
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The new trailer for Astro Boy — the story of a robot (voiced by Freddie Highmore), programmed with the memories of a brilliant scientist's lost son, plus some serious superpowers — is pretty sweet. You get that moment of pause when you realize that Dr. Tenma, pictured, is voiced by Nicolas Cage. That jolt of excitement when you see Cora (Kristen Bell) come to the rescue. That giggle that confirms you're still an eight-year-old when Astro Boy discovers his backside is packin' ("I got some machine guns... in my butt?"). And the anticipation that, at some point, there will be a tender scene in which Highmore, who reduced you to tears on that bench with Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, will do it again. Also, why isn't Donald Sutherland in every animated film?
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Jackman to Play P.T. Barnum
3 August 2009 9:10 PM, PDT
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Hugh Jackman has appeared on-stage in a number of musicals, and recently sang-and-danced his way to one of the more memorable Oscar telecasts in history. Not surprisingly, he’s now attached to an original contemporary musical titled The Greatest Showman on Earth, in which he’ll play American showman P.T. Barnum, Variety reports.
Sex and the City scribe Jenny Bicks is working on the screenplay for Twentieth Century Fox. The film would have an original music score, and the studio is reportedly in talks with Mika, the London-based singer/songwriter, to do the musical honors.
Laurence Mark, who produced Dreamgirls, is on-board to produce The Greatest Showman on Earth with Jackman and John Palermo. The movie will revolve around Barnum as he creates his famous three-ring circus, showing his penchant for dazzling a gullible public.
There will also be romance between the showman and Jenny Lind — the singer and
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