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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Daniel Radcliffe: People’s Choice Awards
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Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.) (top); Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in Twilight (Summit Entertainment) (bottom) This year’s People’s Choice Award winners will likely not get Academy Award nominations next February, but their public probably doesn’t care. Nominees include a whole array of teen and young-adult deities, among them Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, Sandra Bullock, Kristen Stewart, and Vin Diesel. Queen Latifah will be hosting the show later this evening, while scheduled presenters include Taylor Lautner, Kellan Lutz, Ryan Reynolds, Carrie Underwood and Mary J. Blige. All five best picture nominees are box-office blockbusters: Twilight, Star Trek, The Hangover, The Proposal, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Avatar [...] »
- Steve Montgomery
People’s Choice Awards 2010
10 hours ago
2010 People’s Choice Awards 2010 People’s Choice Award Winners: Jan. 6, 2010 ("*" denotes the winner in each category) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in Twilight Film Favorite Movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Star Trek The Hangover The Proposal Twilight Best Movie Actor Brad Pitt Hugh Jackman Johnny Depp Robert Pattinson Ryan Reynolds Best Movie Actress Anna Hathaway Drew Barrymore Jennifer Aniston Kristen Stewart Sandra Bullock Best Action Star Christian Bale Gerard Butler Hugh Jackman Shia Labeouf Vin Diesel Best Comedic Star Adam Sandler Ben Stiller Jim Carrey Ryan Reynolds Vince Vaughn Best Breakout Movie Actress Anna Kendrick Emily Osment Ginnifer Goodwin Miley Cyrus Zoe Saldana Best Breakout Movie Actor [...] »
- Anna Robinson
The Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner, Melanie Laurent: Online Film Critics Winners
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Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker has just won another best picture award, this one from the Online Film Critics Society. The other nominees in that category were Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man, Pete Docter’s Up, and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. Additionally, The Hurt Locker won for Best Director (Bigelow), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), and Best Editing (Chris Innis and Bob Murawski). The Iraq War drama about a bomb-squad team is one of the favorites for the 2010 Academy Awards. Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds also won four Ofcs awards: Best Actress [...] »
- Steve Montgomery
District 9, Up In The Air, Precious: Scripter Award Nominations
10 hours ago
Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) (bottom) Crazy Heart, District 9, An Education, Precious, and Up in the Air are this year’s five USC Libraries Scripter Award nominees, as reported by Steve Pond in The Wrap. For the last 22 years, the Scripter Award has gone to the best adaptation of a literary work as determined by a committee of writers, film industry figures, and members of the University of Southern California faculty. Past winners of the Scripter Award include Slumdog Millionaire, No Country for Old Men, Children of Men, Capote, Million Dollar Baby, The Hours, A Beautiful Mind, [...] »
- Steve Montgomery
Frank Lloyd IV: The Divine Lady, Berkeley Square
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Frank Lloyd (below the camera), Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Einar Hanson in Children of Divorce Frank Lloyd III: Silent Films Any movies Frank Lloyd wanted to make, but that he wasn’t able to? What were his biggest financial and/or critical hits? His biggest flops? I am not aware of any films that Lloyd wanted desperately to make but could not. Certainly, he would have liked to have made a sequel to Mutiny on the Bounty, and even had plans to shoot the scenes with Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in England as the actor was unable to travel to the U.S. at that time. He did try and purchase the rights to The Hurricane, which Goldwyn acquired and which [...] »
- Andre Soares
Frank Lloyd III: Silent Films
11 hours ago
Jackie Coogan in Oliver Twist Frank Lloyd II: Cavalcade, Mutiny On The Bounty In your book, you discuss a number of early Frank Lloyd efforts, including many rarities from the 1910s. I’m assuming you got to watch many of those films. The questions are: Are there many extant Frank Lloyd silents? How do they compare with the work of other major silent filmmakers who tackled melodramas of one form or another, say, D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, or Rex Ingram? Some of Lloyd’s Universal one- and two-reelers survive at various archives. They are not "masterpieces," but they are on a par with films from other secondary directors of the period. In other words, they are not comparable to those directed [...] »
- Andre Soares
Frank Lloyd II: Cavalcade, Mutiny On The Bounty
11 hours ago
Pauline Frederick in Madame X Frank Lloyd: Q&A with Anthony Slide – Part I Frank Lloyd’s greatest strengths as a filmmaker? His greatest weaknesses? I have partly answered this question above. And I suppose, in a way, one might argue that his greatest strength — as a studio director — is also his greatest weakness. He put the studio first. He seldom went over-budget. He brought his films in on schedule. He worked well with actors and actresses, some of whom were known to be temperamental. Frank Lloyd directed numerous melodramas of various subgenres, but do his films — or at least a majority of them — share any sort of directorial or thematic element(s), e.g., the way male or female [...] »
- Andre Soares
Frank Lloyd: Q&A with Anthony Slide
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Frank Lloyd, Henry King, John Ford, Frank Borzage Among them, these four filmmakers share eight Oscar wins and four additional nominations Frank Lloyd Intro II First of all, why Frank Lloyd? An obvious response might be "why not?" While large, trade publishers are suffering from diminishing sales, it seems that "small" publishers and similar entities, including the "vanity press" and the self-publishing brigade, are expanding their activities and concentrating on many obscure figures from Hollywood history. As a result, a number of prominent "names" have fallen by the wayside. With the relatively recent publication of Michael Sragow’s biography of Victor Fleming, the man responsible for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, it seems only appropriate to devote some space [...] »
- Andre Soares
Frank Lloyd: Master Of Screen Melodrama
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Milton Sills in The Sea Hawk (top); William Farnum in A Tale of Two Cities (bottom) Frank Lloyd Intro I: Two-Time Oscar Winner Unlike George Cukor, Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, William Wyler, or even John Ford, Frank Lloyd specialized in one movie genre: melodrama. From A Tale of Two Cities to Cavalcade, from The Sea Hawk to The Howards of Virginia, from Black Oxen to Blood on the Sun, the vast majority of Lloyd’s movies were supposed to make you leave the theater at least a little shaken up after having suffered for a couple of hours with Pauline Frederick, Norma Talmadge, Milton Sills, Clara Bow, Richard Barthelmess, Ann Harding, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, or James [...] »
- Andre Soares
Frank Lloyd: Two-Time Oscar Winner
11 hours ago
Like many other Hollywood filmmakers of the studio era, Frank Lloyd (1886-1960) is hardly remembered today despite his numerous box-office successes — e.g., The Sea Hawk (1924), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Wells Fargo (1937) — and no less than two Best Director Academy Awards, for The Divine Lady (1929) and Cavalcade (1933). With Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama (BearManor Media, 2009), author and film historian Anthony Slide rectifies that matter. In his book, which focuses on Lloyd’s most important screen efforts, Tony (we’ve been friends for years) makes it clear that by disregarding Frank Lloyd’s body of work film historians are doing a disservice to Hollywood’s past. In addition to his two Best Director wins, Lloyd directed two [...] »
- Andre Soares
Kevin Bacon to Receive Broadcast Critics Award
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Kevin Bacon, who appeared in films as varied as Footloose, Sleepers, and Mystic River, will be honored by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for his philanthropic work. Bacon, 51, will receive the Joel Siegel Award at the 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony next January 15. Bacon is being particularly honored for his website SixDegrees.org, which asks visitors to contribute to their favorite causes. According to reports, since its launch three years ago the site has received nearly $3 million in donations. Its name is derived from the old "Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon" trivia game, in which players had to come up with a movie link between Bacon and someone else. This year, Bacon is up for [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Avatar Box Office: Solid Grosses on Non-Holiday Monday
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Stephen Lang, Sam Worthington in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) James Cameron’s Avatar continues to keep the domestic box office abuzz even if overall figures have dropped dramatically now that the year-end holiday season is over. The sci-fi adventure epic earned an estimated $8.1 million on Monday, a 53.4 percent drop from Sunday according to Box Office Mojo. Avatar’s total domestic take currently stands at $360.2m. Partly thanks to inflation and 3D/IMAX surcharges, Avatar is now the 14th highest grosser of all time, ahead of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993, $357.1m) and edging closer and closer to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004, $370.8m). Avatar, which today received a Producers Guild Award nomination, stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, [...] »
- Michelle Hutton
Biggest Oscar Snubs #10: Gordon Willis, Caleb Deschanel, Michael Nyman
21 hours ago
Diane Keaton, Woody Allen in Manhattan Oscar Nomination Snub #10 Michael Nyman for The Piano (1993), The End of the Affair (1999) Gordon Willis for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), All the President’s Men (1976), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), etc. Caleb Deschanel for The Black Stallion (1979), Being There (1979) Those nominated — or not nominated — in the "technical" categories tend to be ignored by most of the media and Oscarwatchers in general. So, it’s not like there was widespread screaming, eye-rolling, and gnashing of teeth over the fact that Michael Nyman’s haunting scores, and Caleb Deschanel’s and Gordon Willis‘ masterful camerawork failed to receive Academy Award nominations a while back. Even so, many were outraged. "I have [...] »
- Andre Soares
Taken’s Pierre Morel to Direct Dune
23 hours ago
Pierre Morel, whose Taken starring Liam Neeson was one of last year’s sleeper hits, has been set to direct Dune, the latest film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic novel. Paramount will be releasing the new venture. David Lynch directed a much anticipated film version back in 1984, but the superproduction starring Kyle MacLachlan (photo) was deemed too disjointed and confusing by critics and apparently by audiences as well, as the film turned out to be an expensive flop. The special effects, however, were quite good for the time, and the film offered a stellar supporting cast that included Virginia Madsen, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Linda Hunt, Francesca Annis, Silvana Mangano, Sting, and Freddie Jones. According to Variety, in late [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Sophia Loren, Gerard Butler, Mel Gibson: Golden Globes 2010 Presenters
23 hours ago
Sophia Loren, Gerard Butler, and Mel Gibson have been set as presenters at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 17. They join Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Colin Farrell, Matthew Fox, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Mickey Rourke and Sam Worthington. Additionally, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio will present the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award to Martin Scorsese for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field." Sophia Loren has been nominated for three Golden Globes: It Started in Naples (1960, comedy or musical), Marriage Italian Style (1964, comedy or musical), and Ready to Wear (1994, supporting actress). Also, Loren won a Cecil B. DeMille Award for career achievement [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Sandra Bullock to Present SAG Life Achievement Award to Betty White
5 January 2010 10:27 AM, PST
Betty White, Sandra Bullock in The Proposal (Kerry Hayes / Touchstone) Sandra Bullock, up for a best actress SAG Award for The Blind Side, will present the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award to Betty White at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony. White and Bullock worked together in the 2009 comedy hit The Proposal, in which White plays Ryan Reynolds‘ grandmother. Also last year, White provided the voice for the elderly Yoshie in Oscar-winner Hayao Miyazaki’s animated adventure Ponyo and made her farewell appearance on the daytime soap The Bold & the Beautiful. She also played herself in a cameo on 30 Rock. White will next be seen in the Disney feature [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Avatar In, Oprah Out: PGA Awards 2010
5 January 2010 9:43 AM, PST
Sam Worthington in Avatar (Weta / 20th Century Fox) The Academy is probably hoping that Oscar voters will follow the Producers Guild of America‘ lead, as their top-ten list features one mega-blockbuster, James Cameron’s Avatar (more than $1 billion worldwide), and no less than four blockbusters: J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek, Pete Docter’s Up, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Neill Blomkamp’s District 9. The rationale is that bigger movies are supposed to result in bigger TV ratings. Cameron’s Titanic raked in solid viewership numbers back in 1998, but it’s been mostly downhill from there. Last year, the Oscar ceremony got an audience bump that was credited to the presence of teen heartthrobs Robert Pattinson (fresh off of Twilight) and Zac [...] »
- Steve Montgomery
Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Star Trek: Producers Guild 2010 Nominations
5 January 2010 8:58 AM, PST
Stephen Lang, Sam Worthington in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) (top); Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton in Precious (Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate) (middle); George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) (bottom) James Cameron’s Avatar, J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek, and Neill Blomkamp’s sleeper hit District 9 are three science-fiction films included in the Producers Guild of America’s list of nominees for best narrative feature of 2009. Two other major box-office hits were included in the list as well, Pete Docter’s animated Up and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, in addition to a couple of smaller but successful productions, Lee Daniels‘ Precious and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. Also included were critics’ favorite The Hurt Locker, [...] »
- Steve Montgomery
Up In The Air, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth: Vancouver Film Critics Nominations
4 January 2010 2:48 PM, PST
George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Montreal-born Jason Reitman’s comedy-drama Up in the Air is the top nominee for the 2010 Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards. Starring George Clooney as a corporate-downsizing expert, Up in the Air is in the running for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Reitman and Sheldon Turner) Best Actor (Clooney) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga.) The Hurt Locker and A Serious Man are the other two Best Film nominees. In addition to Clooney, Kendrick, and Farmiga, others in the running in the non-Canadian acting categories are Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Carey Mulligan and Alfred Molina (An Education), [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar, Rachel Weisz for the Goyas?
4 January 2010 2:11 PM, PST
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (middle); Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darin in The Secret of Her Eyes (Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) The Spanish Academy’s 2010 Goya Award nominations — that’s Spain’s Oscars — will be announced on Jan. 9. Among the potential nominees are Broken Embraces, director-screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, actor Lluís Homar, actress Penélope Cruz, and supporting actress Blanca Portillo. In Broken Embraces, which has won a few awards from Us critics’ groups, Penélope Cruz plays a secretary/sex worker who becomes her wealthy boss’ lover only to fall for a film director (Homar). Cruz has been touted as a potential best actress [...] »
- Steve Montgomery
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