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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
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Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Teaser Trailer for ‘The Runaways’
17 December 2009 6:54 PM, PST
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Premiering worldwide at the Sundance Film Festival next month, The Runaways promises to change the way we think of Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. Typically sugary sweet, innocent teens, the co-stars of New Moon are seen here with a razor sharp edge of rock-n-roll angst and sex appeal that only Roman Polanski dreams about.
Apparition announced their acquisition of the film last week and wasted no time in releasing a teaser trailer, which you can watch below. Chairs are thrown, songs are belted out, and Stewart even does her signature lip lick/bite. This is going to make a lot of young girls and Twilight fans suddenly interested in 70’s rock.
Here’s the teaser, courtesy of MTV. I guess that answers the question of “What will they do when Twilight news is scarce?”
The cast includes Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Cherie Churrie, Scout Taylor-Compton as Lita Ford,
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- Jeff Leins
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Swiss to decide Polanski`s fate in January
16 December 2009 9:15 PM, PST
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Swiss authorities will decide on a Us extradition request for Roman Polanski in January. Federal officials in Switzerland, where Polanski is under house arrest, made the announcement this week - bringing clarity to a hazy situation surrounding the fugitive director's future. He remains on electronic surveillance and home monitoring in the resort village of Gstaad, where he owns a luxury chalet. A cash bail of $4.5 million secured his release from a Zurich jail. A spokesman for the Federal Justice Ministry in Switzerland said:'a decision on the extradition of Roman Polanski will be rendered at the beginning of next year.' Polanski is wanted in the Us on 30-year-old charges of unlawful sex
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- Philippa Bourke
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Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio at Berlin 2010
16 December 2009 2:17 PM, PST
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Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island
The 60th Berlin Film Festival has announced the first seven titles for its Golden Bear Competition line-up. As per the film festival’s press release, this initial group is "characterized by up-and-coming young directors, stars and masters of filmmaking like Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski."
Scorsese’s out-of-competition entry, Shutter Island, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Jackie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow, and Elias Koteas. Adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Dennis Lehane’s novel, the thriller chronicles the pursuit of a murderess who has supposedly fled to Shutter Island after escaping from a mental asylum. Shutter Island is Scorsese’s first narrative feature since winning the Oscar for The Departed nearly three [...]
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- Edwige Andersson
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Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer to Premiere at Berlin 2010
16 December 2009 1:20 PM, PST
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According to The Guardian, Roman Polanski’s latest effort, The Ghost Writer, will have its premiere in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place February 11-21.
Based on the International Thriller Writers’ Award-winning novel The Ghost by Robert Harris (who also penned the screenplay), The Ghost Writer was shot at Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin and was finished by Polanski while in prison in Switzerland. The film stars Ewan McGregor as a professional ghostwriter hired to put on paper the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan) living on an island off the Eastern seaboard of the United States.
Not long after starting work, the writer is drawn into a series [...]
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- Edwige Andersson
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Swiss Won't Decide on Polanski Extradition Until 2010
16 December 2009 10:05 AM, PST
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By Reuters
Switzerland will decide next year whether to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the United States for sentencing over a 1977 case of unlawful sex with a minor, the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday.
"There will be nothing more this year. At the earliest we'll make an announcement early next year as to whether the criteria for extradition have been met," said Folco Galli, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry.
Read more at Reuters.
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- Brent Lang
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Polanski's Ghost Writer to premiere in Berlin
16 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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The latest film from the Oscar-winning director, currently under house arrest in Switzerland, will be unveiled alongside Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
The big star of next year's Berlin international film festival may yet prove to be noticeable by his absence – the new picture by Roman Polanski has been selected to premiere at the event, but the director remains in detention in Switzerland.
Polanski's drama, now called The Ghost Writer, is based on a novel by Robert Harris. It tells the tale of a writer recruited to help a disgraced British prime minister produce his memoirs against the backdrop of a possible indictment at the international criminal court. The film stars Pierce Brosnan as the statesman and Ewan McGregor as his hired author. Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams take supporting roles.
Polanski, the director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist, is currently under house arrest at his Swiss home
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- Ben Child
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Roman Polanski Extradition Ruling in Early 2010
16 December 2009 8:25 AM, PST
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Swiss authorities announced today that the country's Justice Ministry would make a decision regarding Roman Polanski's pending extradition some time early next year. The filmmaker, currently under house arrest at his Gstaad chalet, will continue to appeal against his return to the Us. Meanwhile the percentage of a chance that Polanski might resolve this in time to make February's recently confirmed Berlinale premiere of The Ghost Writer remain fixed right around zero. [AP]
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Roman Polanski Could Be Back in U.S. by January
16 December 2009 5:47 AM, PST
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Fugitive director Roman Polanski could be back in the United States by January to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl more than 32 years ago. There is no guarantee, however, that he will serve time in jail. Polanski’s lawyers in Los Angeles are said to be working furiously to prevent jail time for the aging director. Polanski directed and wrote the screenplay for the 1968 horror movie “Rosemary’s Baby,” starring Mia Farrow. Before winning the Oscar for “The Pianist,” he was nominated for best director twice for 1974’s “Chinatown,” starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston and 1979’s “Tess,” which ironically is about an older man’s lust for an underage girl.
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Polanski Extradition Ruling Set For New Year
16 December 2009 4:06 AM, PST
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Roman Polanski will have to wait until January to find out whether he will be extradited to the U.S., according to Swiss officials.
The Rosemary's Baby director is facing sentencing for sexually assaulting a minor and is currently under house arrest in Switzerland following his detention in September.
Polanski has lived in exile in Europe ever since he fled America in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Swiss government officials revealed on Wednesday that an announcement over whether they have agreed to the extradition request will be made in early 2010.
Spokesman for the Federal Justice Ministry, Folco Galli, says, "A decision on the extradition of Roman Polanski will be rendered at the beginning of next year."
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"Ghost Writer" Premieres At Berlinale
16 December 2009 2:06 AM, PST
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Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" will premiere in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in mid-February reports the trades.
Ewan McGregor plays an author hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan) who discovers a dark secret that puts his life in danger.
Shot in Studio Babelsberg last year, the $35 million film was well into post-production until the director's arrest in Switzerland. Aside from some visual effects, Polanski finished and locked the film whilst incarcerated.
Polanski was released from prison earlier this month but remains under house arrest in Switzerland as he fights extradition to the United States.
Summit Entertainment picked up North American rights to the film last week and plans to release the film in the first half of 2010.
Martin Scorsese’s "Shutter Island" will also premiere in competition at Berlinale following on from its Buttnumbathon premiere in Austin the other day.
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- Garth Franklin
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Roman Polanski`s movie to premiere at Berlin
16 December 2009 1:35 AM, PST
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Roman Polanski's latest movie, The Ghost, will premiere at the Berlin film festival in February 2010. The fugitive film director is under house arrest in Switzerland pending the decision of Swiss authorities on whether to extradite him to the Us, where he is wanted on 30-year-old charges. California prosecutors last week called for Polanski to face court in the Us to argue his case for having the charges of unlawful sex with a minor dropped. Polanski, 76, took flight from the Us in 1978 after admitting he had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl at the house of actor Jack Nicholson, who was away at the time. The Ghost stars Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan
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Scorsese's 'Shutter Island' and Polanski's 'Ghost Writer' will debut at Berlin in February
15 December 2009 10:09 PM, PST
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Roman Polanski's latest movie, "The Ghost Writer," will have its world premiere at the Berlin film festival in February, organizers said Tuesday. Polanski's movie was among a first batch of entries in the festival's main program that was announced Tuesday — among them a premiere of Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island." The event is the first of the year's major European film festivals and runs from Feb. 11-21. "The Ghost Writer" stars Pierce Brosnan as a former British prime minister who is writing his memoirs with the help of a ghostwriter, played by Ewan McGregor. It is Polanski's
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Berlinale announces first titles
15 December 2009 10:33 AM, PST
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Berlinale has unleashed the first few titles from its 2010 line-up. The recently announced titles aren’t anything to write home about but I’m sure we’ll be seeing a few more announcements (including some titles we can get excited about) over the next few weeks.
First titles after the break.
Bal (Honey) Turkey / Germany
by Semih Kaplanoglu (Süt/Milk, Yumurta/Egg, Melegin Düsüsü/Angel’s Fall)
with Bora Altas, Erdal Besikcioglu, Tülin Özen, Alev Ucarer, Ayse Altay
World premiere
Der Räuber (The Robber) Austria / Germany
by Benjamin Heisenberg (Sleeper, Max-Ophuels-Preis 2006)
with Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz
World premiere
My Name Is Khan India
by Karan Johar
with Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol
Out of competition
Na Putu (On the Path) Bosnia and Herzegovina / Austria / Germany / Croatia
by Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, Golden Bear 2006)
with Zrinka Cvitesic (Shooting Star 2010), Leon Lucev, Ermin Bravo, Mirjana Karanovic
World premiere
Shekarchi (The Hunter) Germany / Iran
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Berlinale, "Lola," Omer Fast, "Sherlock Holmes"
15 December 2009 10:19 AM, PST
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A busier Tuesday than usual. Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer are among the first round of seven titles lined up for the Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival (February 11 through 21); the Recyclage de luxe Online Film Festival opens today with Jacques Demy's Lola; Omer Fast is at the Whitney; and the first reviews of Sherlock Holmes are coming in. All this, even as the current lists and awards tracker is being updated throughout the day.
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Polanski Film to Debut at Berlin Festival
15 December 2009 7:03 AM, PST
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By Associated Press
Roman Polanski's latest movie, "The Ghost Writer," will have its world premiere at the Berlin film festival in February, organizers said Tuesday.
Polanski's movie was among a first batch of entries in the festival's main program that was announced Tuesday -- among them a premiere of Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island."
The event is the first of the year's major European film festivals and runs from Feb. 11-21.
Read more from the Associated Press.
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- Dylan Stableford
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Polanski and Scorsese Set For Berlinale
15 December 2009 4:27 AM, PST
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Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” and, in a premiere that is sure to spark considerable interest due to the filmmaker’s recent legal troubles, Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer,” are among the first seven titles for the Competition of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. A total of 26 films are set for the Competition section of the 60th Berlinale. Further Competition title confirmations will be announced in January 2010. “The Competition of …
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Summit Acquires Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer
14 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Roman Polanski's legal troubles didn't put a damper on the enthusiasm over his latest film. Summit Entertainment, the studio best known for the Twilight movies, has picked up The Ghost Writer for distribution in North America.
Polanski directed and produced the film, which is based on the Robert Harris novel and adapted for the screen by Harris and Polanski. According to Summit's official press release, The Ghost Writer stars Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang, a former British Prime Minister. Lang's busy writing his memoirs on a secluded island when his assistant drowns. Read On...
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'Twilight's' Robert Pattinson ends Johnny Depp's five-year reign as top star
14 December 2009 8:07 AM, PST
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The Internet Movie Database has announced the Top Stars of 2009, which are determined by the site's unique visitors.
Johnny Depp may be the "Sexiest Man Alive," but Robert Pattinson is the most sought-after. Hunky "Twilight" franchise vampire Robert Pattinson was at the top of the list, ending the five-year domination by Johnny Depp. R-Patz was joined by on-screen lady love Kristen Stewart at No. 2. Who else made the list?
"Twilight: New Moon" stars dominated the Top 25, representing almost 25% of the list. In fact, "Twilight" stars made-up 40% of the Top 10 with Robert Pattinson (No. 1), Kristen Stewart (No. 2), Taylor Lautner (No. 5) and Dakota Fanning (No. 8). Ashley Greene and Nikki Reed also made the list, at No. 11 and No. 15 respectively.
We're a bit surprised Kellan Lutz isn't on there. He's just as hunky as Pattinson and Lautner. Also, who knew Dakota Fanning would be so high on the list? Notable absences: "Harry Potter" actors.
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