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13 July 2008 10:09 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

The Twitch website (yes, this one) got its highest spike in traffic last year when word got out that we were hosting the trailer for Noboru Iguchi’s “Kataude Mashin Gâru” (The Machine Girl). And very much rightly so because it was one of the most outrageous trailers in ages.

And as a good trailer should, it sure whetted the appetite for the main course…

I finally caught up with the movie itself this weekend at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, and it was a definite audience-pleaser. While it didn’t dislodge “[°Rec]” from first place it scored a very respectable 8.1 out of ten.

That should answer the question whether or not this movie delivers on the promises made in that yucky trailer: it does.

So what is it about?

Well, it’s an exploitation revenge flick of the highest (or rather lowest) order, with gore flying around by the bucket loads.

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15 May 2008 9:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks to replace fellow 2008 Oscar-winner Javier Bardem in a new movie version of Broadway musical Nine.

Best Supporting Actor-winner Bardem pulled out of the Rob Marshall-directed movie earlier this month, complaining he is exhausted after a busy 2007.

Producers have now set their sights on Day-Lewis - who recently won the Best Actor Academy Award for a spectacular performance in There Will Be Blood.

If he accepts, the Englishman will play Guido Contini, a director struggling to juggle the many women in his life - who will be played by Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench.

Convincing the intensely private star to act again so soon after last year's There Will Be Blood would be a major coup; he famously leaves long gaps between projects, and has only made three pictures in the last ten years.

A spokesperson for the movie has dampened speculation by telling Variety, "Any of the names being thrown around is pure conjecture, and when we're ready to make an announcement, we'll let you know."

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1 May 2008 9:30 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By R. Emmet Sweeney

Mixed martial arts (Mma) have come a bloody long way since John McCain legendarily dubbed the sport "human cockfighting" in 1996. Its flagship organization, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (Ufc), aired eight of the top 15 pay-per-view programs in 2007 (boxing had four), while two smaller outfits (Strikeforce and EliteXC) have recently inked deals to air events on NBC and CBS. With major media outlets slowly offering more coverage and the sport's popularity continuing to crest, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood got its opportunistic hands on those tantalizing cauliflower ears... right?

Uncharacteristic of the movie business, producers are showing restraint in capitalizing on the fad, perhaps still haunted by McCain's "cock" slam. David Mamet encountered fierce resistance to his new Mma influenced film, "Redbelt," as he tells Sam Alipour of Espn.com: "Everybody in Hollywood passed on it. One of the things I talked about (in

17 April 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The number of DVDs that have remained at the top of the DVD sales charts for two consecutive weeks have been few and far between this year, but Alvin and the Chipmunks managed to stay there last week, despite competition from last year's award-winning sensation There Will Be Blood. In fact, Blood managed only to take third place on the Nielsen VideoScan chart behind The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. At the rental stores, Blood took the top spot with $8.5 million in rentals, according to Home Media Magazine. Alvin, which led on both charts last week, slipped to No. 2 on the rental chart with $7.2 million. The top-selling high-definition disc was I Am Legend.

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8 April 2008 4:32 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Ewan McGregor has revealed that Daniel Day-Lewis has inspired him to become a better actor.

McGregor said he admired the two-time Oscar winner for the depth he brings to his roles.

The Daily Express quotes him as saying: "Daniel Day-Lewis has got under my skin in thinking about the job I do. There's a depth to his work that means I've got a long way to go. I want to make films like his recent movie There Will Be Blood' - epic, great films."

McGregor admitted . . .

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7 April 2008 12:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Ewan McGregor has vowed to become more like fellow actor Daniel Day-lewis, because he wants a "greater depth" to his on-screen persona.

The Trainspotting star is overwhelmed by the two-time Oscar winner's acting technique, and admits he wants to emulate the 50-year-old's career.

He says, "Daniel Day-Lewis has got under my skin in thinking about the job I do.

"There's a depth to his work that means I've got a long way to go. I want to make films like his recent movie, There Will Be Blood, epic, great films."

But McGregor admits he may be forced to change his script-choosing process as a result of his new acting idol, who is famously selective of the roles he takes on.

He adds, "He (Day-Lewis) works rarely and they're always interesting choices that he makes. I'm quite easy to please. There are scripts that come my way where other people will go 'eeew, no', but I'll say, 'I think it's quite good'".

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25 March 2008 8:55 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Short movie Daichi O Tataku Onna (The Woman Who Struck The Earth) has been awarded the top prize at Japan's Yubari Fantastic Film Festival.

Director Toki Inoue's 21-minute movie took home the event's Off-Theater Competition, a category which aims to recognise the brightest young independent filmmakers in the industry.

The award was presented to Inoue on Sunday as the festival came to a close. As part of her prize, Inoue was handed a $20,000 (GBP10,000) cheque to help fund her next film project.

The five-day Yubari Fantastic Film Festival saw the world premiere of Korean movie Cyborg She by director Kwak Jae-young, while other films screened at the event in its Special Invitation section included The Spiderwick Chronicles, There Will Be Blood, The Bucket List and the Oscar-winning Juno.

The 2008 festival was the first in two years - 2006's event was cancelled after the city's government, its main sponsor, went bankrupt. The Yubari Fantastic Film Festival is now run by a non-profit organisation.

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10 March 2008 8:02 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Javier Bardem's menacing No Country For Old Men line "Call it, friendo" has topped an annual survey by terminology trend organisation Global Language Monitor (Glm).

Bardem's memorable coin-tossing catchphrase beat out competition from Daniel Day-Lewis' "I drink your milkshake" from There Will Be Blood, which landed at two in Glm's annual HollyWORD survey.

Bardem's No Country For Old Men performance won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar last month, while Day-Lewis' turn in There Will Be Blood earned him his second Academy Award for Best Actor.

At three in the survey are numerous phrases from teen pregnancy film Juno, for which writer Diablo Cody won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

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29 February 2008 12:25 PM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

DreamWorks announced Thursday that it will end its support for the Hd DVD high-definition format and will not release Bee Movie in the format on March 11 as originally scheduled. Meanwhile, a Paramount spokesman has told the website High-Def Disc News that next week's releases of Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire will be the studio's final ones in the format. It canceled its April 1 release of Sweeney Todd and its April 15 release of There Will Be Blood, but it did not indicate when those titles will be issued in the Blu-ray format.

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25 February 2008 10:26 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Say what you will about Vantage Point -- and critics last week unloaded on it -- the film delivered at the box office, producing an estimated $24 million in ticket sales. That's a lot more than could be said about the other new releases, several of which drew far milder responses from critics. Be Kind, Rewind opened with a so-so $4.1 million at 808 theaters. But Witless Protection was nearly devoid of witnesses, earning just $2.2 million, and Charlie Bartlett attracted just $1.8 million in sales. And the U2 concert flick U2 3D was no match for Hannah Montana, earning less than $1 million. Holdovers generally performed Ok, with last week's top film Jumper falling 54 percent to about $12.7 million and placing second to edge out The Spiderwick Chronicles with $12.6 million. Step Up 2 the Streets finished fourth with $9.8 million. Among the Oscar nominees, best-picture winner No Country for Old Men performed the best as it added theaters and rose 21 percent to about $2.3 million. Juno continued its long run on the box-office charts, taking in another $4.1 million to bring its total to $130.4 million. There Will Be Blood returned to the top ten (in tenth place) with $2.6 million. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. Vantage Point, $24 million; 2. Jumper, $12.7 million; 3. Spiderwick Chronicles, $12.6 million; 4. Step Up 2 the Streets, $9.8 million; 5. Fool's Gold, $6.3 million; 6. Definitely, Maybe, $5.2 million; 7. Juno, $4.1 million; 7. Be Kind Rewind, $4.1 million; 9. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, $4 million; 10. There Will Be Blood, $2.6 million.

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25 February 2008 10:26 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men made a stronger-than-expected showing at Sunday night's Academy Awards presentation. Although it was favored to win the best picture Oscar, it was not expected to take three major awards -- for best director (the Coens), best adapted screenplay (also the Coens), and best supporting actor (Javier Bardem). In another surprise, the best actress went to French actress Marion Cotillard for her portrayal of legendary singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. (Cotillard is only the second woman in Oscar history to win the best-actress Oscar in a foreign-language film; the other was Sophia Loren for 1961's Two Women.) Equally surprising was the supporting-actress award to Tilda Swinton for her role in Michael Clayton. Daniel Day-Lewis, on the other hand, had been a clear-cut favorite to win the best actor award -- and he did so -- for There Will Be Blood. But that film had also been favored to win several other top awards, and didn't, save in the cinematography category. Other winners had been widely predicted. Diablo Cody took the best original screenplay award for Juno. Pixar's Brad Bird picked up the animation Oscar for Ratatouille. The Austrian-produced The Counterfeiters, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, won for best foreign-language film, the Iraq-war related Taxi to the Dark Side won the feature documentary Oscar, while the gay-rights-themed Freeheld won the Oscar for documentary shorts.

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28 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Daniel Day-Lewis received the top award for male movie actors at the Screen Actors Guild awards ceremony Sunday night for There Will Be Blood -- and dedicated the award to the late Heath Ledger. "For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal," Day-Lewis said in accepting the award, "has always been the work of other actors. Heath Ledger gave that to me." Julie Christie won the best actress award for Away From Her, while the best ensemble award went to the stars of the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. On Saturday, No Country received the top award from the Directors Guild of America. The following day the DGA's board of directors voted unanimously to recommend that members ratify its negotiators' deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers.

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28 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The low-budget Meet the Spartans, a spoof of last year's 300 from Warner Bros., earned as much as it cost to produce at the domestic box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $18.7 million and edging out Rambo, from Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co., which finished in second place with about $18.2 million, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers. The two films knocked last week's winner, Cloverfield to fourth place. After grossing $44.3 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Day holiday, Cloverfield garnered just $12.7 million in its second weekend, a 72-percent drop. It was beaten by the film it trounced a week ago, 20th Century Fox's 27 Dresses. Debuting in fifth place was Sony's Untraceable, which took in a better-than-expected $11.2 million. Continuing to amaze was Fox Searchlight's Juno, which passed the $100-million mark an upped its gross from last week despite losing some 100 theaters. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. Meet the Spartans, $18.7 million; 2. Rambo, $18.2 million; 3. 27 Dresses, $13.6 million; 4. Cloverfield, $12.7 million; 5. Untraceable, $11.2 million; 6. Juno, $10.3 million; 7. The Bucket List, $10.2 million; 8. There Will be Blood, $4.9 million; 9. National Treasure:Book of Secrets, $4.7 million; 10. Mad Money, $4.6 million.

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23 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Daniel Day-Lewis is thrilled with his Oscar nomination for There Will Be Blood, and paid tribute to the movie's director Paul Thomas Anderson. Day-Lewis picked up his fourth Best Actor nomination for his role in the movie - and is hopeful he can add to the statuette he won for his role in 1990 film My Left Foot. But the British star has dedicated the honor to Anderson, who has two nominations, for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and helped the movie also pick up a nod in the Best Picture category. Day-Lewis says, "You put me shoulder to shoulder with a group of fine actors. I'm proud to be in their company and to have the broader recognition for the film is a lovely thing. I couldn't be happier for Paul Thomas Anderson to whom we owe everything."

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23 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Radiohead rocker Jonny Greenwood and Eddie Vedder both missed out on a Best Score Oscar nomination for There Will Be Blood and Into The Wild, because both soundtracks were ruled ineligible. Many Oscar watchers were left stunned when the rock stars' movie score efforts were seemingly ignored by voters, but Oscar rules left both stars compositions out of the running. Greenwood's music for There Will Be Blood missed out because officials at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences decided that a large part of it was not written specifically for the film, which picked up eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday . A proportion of the soundtrack was taken from Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver composition, which was commissioned by the BBC, and won him a British Composer Award in 2007. And Pearl Jam singer Vedder's soundtrack for Sean Penn Into The Wild was also deemed ineligible for an Academy Award nomination - because the score is too "song-based."

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22 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood received eight Oscar nominations each, the most of any films that will be competing in this year's Academy Awards. Atonement and Michael Clayton each earned seven nominations. All four films were nominated for best film, along with the comedy Juno. The nominations were announced early today (Tuesday) in Beverly Hills, hours before an informal meeting was scheduled to take place between representatives of the Writers Guild of America and media executives that could determine whether the awards ceremonies would take place as usual next month. The nominations also included two for Cate Blanchett -- one for best actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the other for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the young Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Also nominated for best actress were Julie Christie for Away from Her, Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose, Laura Linney for The Savages and Ellen Page for Juno. In the best actor category, Daniel Day-Lewis was regarded as a shoo-in for his performance in There Will Be Blood. Also competing for the honor will be George Clooney for Michael Clayton, Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah, and Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises. In the director's category, the contest appeared to be a two-way affair between Paul Thomas Anderson, who helmed There Will Be Blood and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, who directed No Country for Old Men. Also competing are Jason Reitman for Juno, Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton and Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

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16 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The British film Atonement, which received the Golden Globe award for best film Sunday, received a whopping 14 nominations for the BAFTAs, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television. The movie received nominations for best film, best British film, best actress (Keira Knightley), best actor (James McAvoy), best director (Joe Wright) and best supporting actress (Saoirse Ronan). Two films received nine nominations, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. All three films were nominated for best film, along with The Lives of Others and American Gangster.Several British critics expressed surprise at the poor showing for Sweeney Todd, which received nominations only for make-up, hair and costume design. Winners are due to be announced on February 10.

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15 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Producers Guild of America, whose choice of best film often is mirrored at the Oscars, announced its nominees Monday. They include: No Country for Old Men, Juno, There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Michael Clayton. Conspicuously absent from the list is Atonement which was named best film at Sunday's Golden Globe announcements. Three films were nominated in the animation category: Bee Movie, Ratatouille, and The Simpsons Movie. The winners will be announced on February 2.

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14 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hot on the heels of the Golden Globe awards, the Producers Guild of America has announed its five contenders for its Best Picture award: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood. Four of the five films also previously received Directors Guild nominations (Juno was passed over for Into the Wild by the DGA), and all films received multiple Golden Globe nods. The last of the major guild awards, the PGA honors effectively put the kibosh on such hopeful Oscar contenders as Atonement, Charlie Wilson's War and Sweeney Todd, which received no love from the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild or the Writers Guild. While the nominations from the guild aren't exact precursors for the Academy Awards, a majority of guild members are also Academy voters. Bee Movie, Ratatouille, and The Simpsons Movie were nominated for the PGA's animated film award, while Body of War, Hear and Now, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Sicko, and White Light/Black Rain are in competition for the documentary award.

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10 January 2008 11:08 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Juno, Michael Clayton and Knocked Up are among the movies going head to head at the 2007 Writers Guild Of America Awards.

The Savages and Lars And The Real Girl are also up in the same category of Best Original Screenplay at next month's event.

Best Adapted Screenplay nominees include the Coen brothers award-stealing No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Into The Wild and Zodiac.

The Wga Award winners will be announced on 9 February in Los Angeles and New York.

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