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2009 | 2008
15 articles from 2009
Are Women Better Writers Than Men?
13 November 2009 2:23 PM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
George Eliot. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte). It has been more than a century since the likes of Mary Ann Evans and the Bronte sisters have had to disguise their gender in order to be considered worthy of a place in the literary firmament. But are they worthy? Apparently not.
A little more than a decade ago, an unknown author decided with her publisher that in order for her novel about a young wizard to sell to middle-school boys, she’d go by the more ambiguous J.K. Rowling. Just this week, the debate reached a boiling point when Publisher’s Weekly (Pw) announced their top 100 picks for 2009 -- and not one of the top 10 was penned by a woman.
The list unleashed a flurry of posts and comments across the blogosphere, most notably a press release entitled Why Weren’t Any Women Invited To Publishers »
- Lydia Dishman
tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally gets an Oscar nom?
16 October 2009 3:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
James McAvoy was quite exceptional in The Last King of Scotland and it was his character who actually provided the perspective for the story and the movie itself. However, no Oscar nomination - not even for Best Supporting Actor. As Robbie Turner in Atonement, McAvoy "shows a sheer emotional range that's completely new to his career." says Derek Elley @Variety, "And McAvoy is a dynamo, nailing every nuance in a complex role." adds Peter Travers @Rolling Stone, and yet, still no Oscar - not even a nomination.
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- - - Even before McAvoy appeared in these movies, he was already an exceptional actor - Inside I'm Dancing, Starter for Ten, Bright Young Things. He was also the recipient of the first Orange Rising Star award, an addition to the established awards at the BAFTA.
Fast forward to the 2010 Oscar race, when Sony Pictures Classics announced it has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally get an Oscar nom?
16 October 2009 3:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
James McAvoy was quite exceptional in The Last King of Scotland and it was his character who actually provided the perspective for the story and the movie itself. However, no Oscar nomination - not even for Best Supporting Actor. As Robbie Turner in Atonement, McAvoy "shows a sheer emotional range that's completely new to his career." says Derek Elley @Variety, "And McAvoy is a dynamo, nailing every nuance in a complex role." adds Peter Travers @Rolling Stone, and yet, still no Oscar - not even a nomination.
- - -
- - - Even before McAvoy appeared in these movies, he was already an accomplished actor - Inside I'm Dancing, Starter for Ten, Bright Young Things. He was also the recipient of the first Orange Rising Star award, an addition to the established awards at the BAFTA.
Fast forward to the 2010 Oscar race, when Sony Pictures Classics announced it has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally get an Oscar nom?
16 October 2009 3:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
James McAvoy was quite exceptional in The Last King of Scotland and it was his character who actually provided the perspective for the story and the movie itself. However, no Oscar nomination - not even for Best Supporting Actor. As Robbie Turner in Atonement, McAvoy "shows a sheer emotional range that's completely new to his career." says Derek Elley @Variety, "And McAvoy is a dynamo, nailing every nuance in a complex role." adds Peter Travers @Rolling Stone, and yet, still no Oscar - not even a nomination.
- - -
- - - Even before McAvoy appeared in these movies, he was already an accomplished actor - Inside I'm Dancing, Starter for Ten, Bright Young Things. He was also the recipient of the first Orange Rising Star award, an addition to the established awards at the BAFTA.
Fast forward to the 2010 Oscar race, when Sony Pictures Classics announced it has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally get an Oscar nom?
16 October 2009 3:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
James McAvoy was quite exceptional in The Last King of Scotland and it was his character who actually provided the perspective for the story and the movie itself. However, no Oscar nomination - not even for Best Supporting Actor. As Robbie Turner in Atonement, McAvoy "shows a sheer emotional range that's completely new to his career." says Derek Elley @Variety, "And McAvoy is a dynamo, nailing every nuance in a complex role." adds Peter Travers @Rolling Stone, and yet, still no Oscar - not even a nomination.
- - -
- - - Even before McAvoy appeared in these movies, he was already an accomplished actor - Inside I'm Dancing, Starter for Ten, Bright Young Things. He was also the recipient of the first Orange Rising Star award, an addition to the established awards at the BAFTA.
Fast forward to the 2010 Oscar race, when Sony Pictures Classics announced it has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally get an Oscar nom?
16 October 2009 3:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
James McAvoy was quite exceptional in The Last King of Scotland and it was his character who actually provided the perspective for the story and the movie itself. However, no Oscar nomination - not even for Best Supporting Actor. As Robbie Turner in Atonement, McAvoy "shows a sheer emotional range that's completely new to his career." says Derek Elley @Variety, "And McAvoy is a dynamo, nailing every nuance in a complex role." adds Peter Travers @Rolling Stone, and yet, still no Oscar - not even a nomination.
- - -
- - - Even before McAvoy appeared in these movies, he was already an accomplished actor - Inside I'm Dancing, Starter for Ten, Bright Young Things. He was also the recipient of the first Orange Rising Star award, an addition to the established awards at the BAFTA.
Fast forward to the 2010 Oscar race, when Sony Pictures Classics announced it has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Watching the Emmys
21 September 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
So another year has passed and its time for another round of awards for the people who make the television shows we like to watch.
Television is interesting these days. Never before have we seen such great, creative output. Never before have we been subjected to such drivel. It all gets paraded before us tonight, as we watch the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (handed out, it should be noted, by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) on CBS, CTV in Canada.
8:00
Interesting that the Emmys chose to introduce the 2009 edition of the Primetime awards by harkening back to the early days of television. Especially as the business of television has never been closer to a complete collapse. Oh, announcer who is trying so hard to sound like a TV host from the '50s. You don't sound at all like you're a three pack-a-day smoker.
8:01
Okay, here comes Neil Patrick Harris, »
Does Sam Mendes’ New Film Deal Mean ‘Preacher’ Delay?
21 June 2009 6:19 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
American Beauty director Sam Mendes, along with company partners Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, recently signed a two-year first-look deal with Focus Features. The deal with Focus (who were the distributors on Mendes’ recent flick Away We Go) includes the acquisition of two projects that could end up being directed by Mendes. But what’s most interesting is the lack of a mention of the graphic novel adaptation Preacher, which Mendes has already been signed on to direct.
One of the projects included in the Mendes/Focus deal is Butcher’s Crossing, which will be co-produced by Mendes and his Neal Street Productions partners Harris and Newling. It is described as, “an epic adventure based on the 1960 revisionist Western novel by John Williams.” The other project is called Middlemarch, which is to be adapted from a George Eliot novel set in the 1830s. A script for it has been written »
- Ross Miller
Reel Talk Mixtape: Friday, June 19th
19 June 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | ReelTalkTV.com | See recent ReelTalkTV.com news »
Focus Features has Sam Mendes for two years. Variety reports the studio has made a first-look deal with Mendes, which includes “Butcher’s Crossing” and “Middlemarch.” Mendes is already set to produce “Butcher’s Crossing,” an epic about a man who decides to move to a small town in Kansas to hunt Buffalo herds over pursuing a Harvard education, but may take on directorial duties as well. “Middlemarch” is based on George Eliot’s novel about a provincial English community in the 1830s.
Common and Queen Latifah are just right for Fox Searchlight’s “Just Wright.” Latifah will play a sports trainer who falls for a professional basketball player (Common) while helping him recover from a serious injury. According to Variety, shooting will begin mid-July in New York. »
Away We Go Again - Focus Makes Pact with Mendes on a Possible Pair
19 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Despite only being in theaters for the past two weeks and having Away We Go rake in just under a million at the Bo, Focus Features is thinking long term with Sam Mendes (well at least till 2011) and are hoping to get the filmmaker to take on a pair of period piece projects. Mendes and Neal Street Prods have according to Variety, signed a two-year first-look deal that could see Mendes direct. Mendes has gone back in time (Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road), but not this far back. Not "Miller's" but Butcher's Crossing is based on the 1960 revisionist Western novel by John Williams and is set in 1870s America, the pic focuses on a man who forsakes his Harvard education to move to the small Kansas town of Butcher's Crossing. The New York Times Book Review called the novel "harsh and relentless yet muted in tone, Butcher's Crossing »
Sam Mendes Signs a Two-Year Deal With Focus Features
19 June 2009 2:33 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Another exclusive first-look deal for a great indie filmmaker. Oscar winner Sam Mendes has signed a two-year first-look deal with Focus Features, who most recently released his indie Away We Go. This deal includes the acquisition of two projects that could be potential directing vehicles for Mendes. One of them is called Butcher's Crossing, an epic adventure based on the 1960 revisionist Western novel by John Williams. The other is Middlemarch, an adaptation of the George Eliot novel about changing fortunes in a provincial English community in the early 1830s. Both of these sound like great new projects for Mendes. I guess this means that the adaptation of the Preacher graphic novel that Mendes was attached to direct is definitely on the backburner? Or potentially moving on to another director? Variety says that Sam "has not committed to his next film as a director." Although, it sounds like it will probably »
- Alex Billington
Sam Mendes’ Future Comes into Focus
18 June 2009 10:14 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
Academy Award wining writer/director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) has signed a two-year first-look deal with indie distributor Focus Features. The Deal includes the acquisition of two projects that could be potential directing vehicles for the filmmaker. One of the projects Mendes is developing, along with producing partners Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, is Butcher's Crossing, an epic adventure based on the 1960 revisionist Western novel by John Williams. Set in 1870s America, the film focuses on a man who forsakes his Harvard education to move to the small Kansas town of Butcher's Crossing. There, he joins the hunt for one of the last great buffalo herds. Focus will also develop the previous announced Middlemarch, an adaptation of the George Eliot novel about changing fortunes in a provincial English community in the early 1830s. Andrew Davies (Brideshead Revisited, Bridget Jones's Diary) penned the screenplay. Which film goes first is »
- James Cook
Focus Features Inks Deal with Sam Mendes
18 June 2009 7:06 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Focus Features has signed a two-year first-look deal with Sam Mendes and his Neal Street Prods., the company the director partners with Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, according to Variety.
The deal includes the acquisition of two projects that could be potential directing vehicles for Mendes.
Mendes, Harris and Newling are producing Butcher's Crossing, an epic adventure based on the 1960 revisionist Western novel by John Williams.
Set in 1870s America, the pic focuses on a man who forsakes his Harvard education to move to the small Kansas town of Butcher's Crossing. There, he joins the hunt for one of the last great buffalo herds.
Focus will also develop Middlemarch, an adaptation of the George Eliot novel about changing fortunes in a provincial English community in the early 1830s. A script is in by Andrew Davies.
"The range of Sam's interests and skills as a filmmaker is limitless, and he is »
Mendes and Focus Sign Two-Year First-Look Deal
18 June 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Variety reports that Focus Features has made a two-year first-look deal with Sam Mendes and Neal Street Productions, the company the director partners in with Pippa Harris and Caro Newling. The deal includes the acquisition of two projects that could be potential directing vehicles for Mendes. Mendes, Harris and Newling are producing Butcher's Crossing , an epic adventure based on the 1960 revisionist Western novel by John Williams. Set in 1870s America, the film focuses on a man who forsakes his Harvard education to move to the small Kansas town of Butcher's Crossing. There, he joins the hunt for one of the last great buffalo herds. Focus will also develop Middlemarch , an adaptation of the George Eliot novel about changing fortunes in a provincial English community in... »
All by ourselves alone
13 January 2009 11:47 AM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
In Venice there is a small bridge leading over a side canal. Halfway up the steps crossing this bridge there is a landing, and a little cafe has found its perch there. In front of this cafe there is one table with two chairs. If you chose the chair with its back to the cafe, you can overlook the steps you climbed and also the steps leading toward you from the canal path, or rivetta, ahead of you. This is a quiet neighborhood crossroads, a good place to sit with a cup of cappuccino and the newspaper you got from the newsstand behind Piazza San Marco.
Of course you must have a newspaper, a book, a sketchpad--anything that seems to absorb you. If you are simply sitting there, you will appear to be a Lonely Person and people will look away from you. If you seem preoccupied, you can observe them more closely. »
- Roger Ebert
2009 | 2008
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