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tMF Talkback: Should younger actors win more awards?

3 July 2009 4:48 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Oscar talk is already all-year round (as if you don't know yet!), but it seems to me, the focus remains on the established performers - most notably the filmmakers and the lead actors and actresses (Streep, Dench, Day-Lewis, Eastwood, Scorsese). Some tMF readers remarked that perhaps it's great to talk about awards where the recipients are the younger performers. Of course, it has happened before when young talents (which means not older than 30) get the recognition they deserved.

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tMF takes a look at some of these winners - from the Oscars to the BAFTA to the Indie Spirit, the European Film Awards and more and asks should younger actors win more awards and why?

Young Oscar Winners and Nominees: The following either won or got nominated and are still not over 30 today: [correction made on Anna Paquin's award]

Jennifer Hudson won the Best Supporting for Dream Girls at 25, while Anna Paquin

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tMF Talkback: Should younger actors win more awards?

3 July 2009 4:48 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Oscar talk is already all-year round (as if you don't know yet!), but it seems to me, the focus remains on the established performers - most notably the filmmakers and the lead actors and actresses (Streep, Dench, Day-Lewis, Eastwood, Scorsese). Some tMF readers remarked that perhaps it's great to talk about awards where the recipients are the younger performers. Of course, it has happened before when young talents (which means not older than 30) get the recognition they deserved.

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tMF takes a look at some of these winners - from the Oscars to the BAFTA to the Indie Spirit, the European Film Awards and more and asks should younger actors win more awards and why?

Young Oscar Winners and Nominees: The following either won or got nominated and are still not over 30 today: [correction made on Anna Paquin's award]

Jennifer Hudson won the Best Supporting for Dream Girls at 25, while Anna Paquin

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tMF Talkback: Should younger actors win more awards?

3 July 2009 4:48 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Oscar talk is already all-year round (as if you don't know yet!), but it seems to me, the focus remains on the established performers - most notably the filmmakers and the lead actors and actresses (Streep, Dench, Day-Lewis, Eastwood, Scorsese). Some tMF readers remarked that perhaps it's great to talk about awards where the recipients are the younger performers. Of course, it has happened before when young talents (which means not older than 30) get the recognition they deserved.

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tMF takes a look at some of these winners - from the Oscars to the BAFTA to the Indie Spirit, the European Film Awards and more and asks should younger actors win more awards and why?

Young Oscar Winners and Nominees: The following either won or got nominated and are still not over 30 today: [correction made on Anna Paquin's award]

Jennifer Hudson won the Best Supporting for Dream Girls at 25, while Anna Paquin

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 40

1 July 2009 7:52 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 40 list! You'll definitely notice the international flavor!

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 40

1 July 2009 7:52 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 40 list! You'll definitely notice the international flavor!

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 40

1 July 2009 7:52 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 40 list! You'll definitely notice the international flavor!

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News Flash: Channing Tatum's 'Eagle of the Ninth' Will Be Based at Glasgow's Film City

28 June 2009 7:28 PM, PDT | From Channing Tatum Unwrapped | See recent Channing Tatum Unwrapped news

Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, and Kevin MacDonald from 'The Eagle of the Ninth'

Channing Tatum fan Suuded from Germany sent me a quick news byte on Chan's upcoming Roman epic, 'The Eagle of the Ninth'.

As I already reported, the movie will be directed by Kevin MacDonald, will also star Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland, and is going to be based in Glasgow, Scotland.

More specifically, Suuded confirmed that this August the production (which held an extras casting call earlier this month) will be based at Film City Glasgow. In addition to providing production office space, the facililty boasts the country's first Dolby theatre, a new filming studio, rehearsal space, and state of the art sound and picture editing suites. It's Scotland's new campus for the independent film and media industry and is located within Glasgow's historic Govan Town Hall.

'The Eagle of the Ninth' is based on the best-selling,

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Daniel Craig in talks for haunted house thriller

24 June 2009 1:14 AM, PDT | From The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news

James Bond star Daniel Craig is in talks to star in psychological thriller Dream House, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jim Sheridan is in line to direct the project for American film studio Morgan Creek. Sheridan's previous credits include In the Name of the Father (1993), The Boxer (1997), In America (2002) and Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005).

In the screenplay by David Loucka (who penned the 1996 Whoopi Goldberg comedy Eddie and 2002's thriller Borderline), Craig would play a man who moves his family to an idyllic small town, only to find his house haunted by its former inhabitants who were murdered there.

Craig, the new 007 in Casino Royale and last year's Quantum of Solace, had previously been in Layer Cake and Munich and was more recently in The Golden Compass and Defiance. He is set to return for the as-yet-untitled Bond 23.

He recently signed for the Broadway drama A Steady Rain

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Blu-ray Review: Defiance

18 June 2009 3:59 PM, PDT | From The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news

/ 5

The Feature:

Defiance is a good example of movie that has an inherent and unfortunate problem before it even gets started: It’s yet another World War 2 film. Most people would know that before buying or renting it, and there is now a certain perception that all of the best WW2 movies have already been made, which in fairness is probably partly true. But Defiance isn’t big on Nazis (they feature in maybe 4 or 5 scenes, and only one or two with dialogue) and it’s not very interested in the War dynamic in general, which is both a positive and a negative. The positive is that it presents a very interesting and engaging picture of life for a make-shift ‘community’ of Jewish people in Belorussia/Poland who flee into the vast woodland and forests in order to escape persecution from invading Nazi forces. The film finds an acceptable balance

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Paul Larn

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Defiance - DVD Review

15 June 2009 6:50 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

The Bielski brothers in some ways reminded me of Oskar Schindler. Both of their stories were largely forgotten until a feature film was made and both saved about the same number of Jews from being killed by the Nazis. They were both reluctant heroes, but ending up affecting many people with their heroism. In 1941 Poland, the Nazis have invaded the country and are rounding up all of the Jews. If they.re not killed the Jews are taken to ghettos to be under the thumb of the Nazis. The Bielski brothers, Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Li ev Schreiber), Asael (Jamie Bell), and Aron (George MacKay), find that their parents have been killed by the local police. The

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"Defiance" Blu-ray review. A powerful story.

15 June 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

4/5 by Peter Dimako The not-to-be-missed and superbly acted as well as helmed “Defiance” comes to Blu-ray. Edward Zwick, director of the powerful “The Last Samurai” starring Tom Cruise, returns to the helm of this exciting, critically-acclaimed war drama which tells the heroic story of the Bielski partisans. The Bielski brothers were mere farmers in Stankiewicze, an area which, prior to being seized by the Soviet Union, was part of the Second Polish Republic. Bond man Daniel Craig takes the lead as Tuvia Bielski, brother to Zus (Liev Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell). After the occupation of Poland by the German war machine and the death of family members, the brothers fled to a nearby forest and gradually started taking in more and more people under their wing. Although there were four brothers, the other being Aron, the three are the main focus on the film.

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Tony Awards Round Up: Harden, Lansbury, Hathaway, Langella, Neil Patrick Harris

8 June 2009 2:37 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

And now a pre-show moment with Martha Plimpton...

That's right. I was conceived because of the musical Hair. I wouldn't exist without it. That's Plimpton sandwiched inbetween Broadway's Hair boys: my fellow Byu alum Will Swenson, who we've been drooling on for awhile and Gavin Creel (Love the... tie? scarf? tarf?). Plimpton was actually speaking the truth to the reporter. Her parents Keith Carradine (yes, the star and composer of one of the greatest song scenes in all of cinematic history, "I'm Easy" from Robert Altman's Nashville) and Sheila Plimpton met while performing Hair on stage in the late 60s.

I bring up this pre-show red carpet moment because Martha Plimpton is a handy human symbol of how much the mainstream media, and by extension the public, misses out on because they ignore theater and great actors who work in it. To the general public Ms. Plimpton isn't recognizable or,

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[DVD Review] Defiance

7 June 2009 7:20 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

World War II seems to be a bottomless well of inspiration for Hollywood, which isn’t without justification. When an international event touches the lives of so many, there are countless stories to be told. Unfortunately, there may be infinite stories of human determination and the indomitable human spirit, but thematically the sources aren’t quite so endless. Director Edward Zwick certainly found a compelling story in the Bielski brothers, but Defiance offers nothing that hasn’t already been found in stories like Lord of the Flies, Schindler’s List or even The Diary of Anne Frank. Defiance isn’t without creative merit; it just brings nothing new to the table.

Defiance starts with World War II raging around the Belarussian forests where Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber) and Asael Bielski (Jamie Bell) have taken refuge after their parents were slaughtered by men hired to hunt down Jews. The

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Defiance - Blu-ray Review

5 June 2009 6:31 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Although it feels a bit long by the time the credits roll, Defiance manages to keep your attention thanks to strong performances from its main cast, an important and historical plot (or as close to historically accurate as Hollywood can get), and an explosive final action sequence. The film also looks great on Blu-ray with every detail crystal clear. Directed by Edward Zwick (who wrote the screenplay with Clayton Frohman), Defiance is based on the true story of the Bielski brothers and on the book Defiance: the Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec. The film stars Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace), Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Jamie Bell (Jumper), Alexa Davalos, and George MacKay. Described as an .action-packed, epic

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DVD Playhouse--June 2009

3 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

DVD Playhouse—June 2009

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Allen Gardner

The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.

The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which

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DVD Roundup

2 June 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | From ReelTalkTV.com | See recent ReelTalkTV.com news

There’s something for everyone coming to stores today. For a fun loving romantic comedy, you can buy “He’s Just Not That Into You.” It features an all-star cast including Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Connolly, Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Drew Barrymore playing characters having a difficult time managing their love lives. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star in “Revolutionary Road,” a love story with a much more serious tone. The couple thinks that they'll get the chance to live their dream life by moving to the suburbs to raise their two children but the monotony of their daily routines puts a strain on their relationship. Finally, there’s the war drama “Defiance.” Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell play the Bielski brothers, a real life team of siblings responsible for helping over 1,000 Jews survive the Holocaust.

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Blu-Ray Review: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber Shine, But ‘Defiance’ Misses

2 June 2009 9:41 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – There are many things to like about Edward Zwick’s “Defiance,” including Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber’s excellent performances, a lovely score by James Newton Howard, and, of course, the important subject matter, but the overdone screenplay and Zwick’s typically melodramatic direction just barely sink the film, although a nice Blu-Ray release should help make a few of its flaws easier to overlook.

Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0 “Defiance” is a story about an amazing human struggle for survival led by the Bielski brothers - the reluctant Tuvia (Craig) and the powerful Zus (Schreiber). The brothers are joined by their younger brother Asael (Jamie Bell), a young man who follows their every move but often gets stuck in the middle.

Defiance was released on Blu-Ray on June 2nd, 2009.

Photo credit: Paramount

The film opens with the mass execution by Nazi soldiers at Novogrudok that killed a large portion of the Bielski’s family and friends.

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Review: 'Defiance' on DVD

2 June 2009 5:29 AM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

We here at ComicMix write about heroes all the time. They tend to be muscle-bound, wear spandex and appear in the fevered imaginations of writers and artists. In the real world, people are given the title hero when they are bystanders, victims, or their feats are fairly ordinary. As a result, the term has been somewhat watered down and in need of rehabilitation.

The process could have begun last winter when two movies about World War II were released, featuring very different kinds of heroes. Neither Valkyrie nor Defiance made a lot of noise at the box office nor did they ignite a debate over the nature of heroism in times of war. And that’s a shame, really, since in the former, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, was a patriot, a German who saw Hitler for the devil he was and risked everything to take him down, paying for it with his life.

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Inspired Casting: Natalie Portman joins ‘Your Highness’

31 May 2009 1:53 PM, PDT | From The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news

It may be a stretch to label David Gordon Green as “up and coming”, as the 34-year old Director already has a four-pack of highly rated and critically acclaimed independent features and one studio semi-hit to his name, but Green is definitely one to watch. From the transcendent Terrence-Malick-esque “George Washington” to the laugh-out-loud stoner movie with a brain “Pineapple Express”, he has displayed a talent which is capable of excelling in a number of different genres. He will return to comedy again with “Your Highness”, which will star Natalie Portman, James Franco, Ben Best and Danny McBride.

Danny McBride and Ben Best also write the script together. Best plays an arrogant lazy prince who, with his brother (James Franco), must complete a quest to save the kingdom and his brother’s fiancee. Natalie Portman will play a warrior princess that the lazy prince falls in love with. The story

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Date Set For The Adventures Of Tintin Film

31 May 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Paramount and Sony Pictures have announced the release date for the long-awaited 3-D motion capture feature film “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn”, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and produced by Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy. The film will be released by Paramount in the U.S. on December 23rd, 2011. The film stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, a young reporter who constantly gets involved in high-adventure and intrigue in the search of good stories, and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham, the film’s villain. The cast also includes Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Andy Serkis, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more Tintin [...]

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