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Steven Neish – 2010 – A Year in Highlights
31 December 2010 2:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Joining HeyUGuys back in June of this year, I was eager to put my personal popcorn addiction to good use. A Psychology student by day and an usher by night, I had built up an encyclopaedic knowledge of film over three years of part time work, ever broadening my horizons with a determination to watch anything and everything I could. Finally blessed with an outlet for my burgeoning opinions and limitless enthusiasm, HeyUGuys has offered me opportunity after opportunity resulting in an inordinate number of cinematic highlights this 2010.
With Hollywood finally dropping the tiresome “darker is better” mantra to provide two of the very best comic-book adaptations to date – Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, in case it needed pointing out – and DreamWorks raising the bar with a series of above studio-par animated releases, it has been a year of many memorable moments. Inception was mind-bending, Four Lions was »
- Steven Neish
50 Reasons Why Ghostbusters Just Might Be The Greatest Film Of All Time
29 December 2010 4:48 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
…and One Reason Why Maybe It Isn’t!
(Article re-posted for your enjoyment)…
Owf’s Tom Fallows runs down 50 reasons why the 1984 classic horror comedy Ghostbusters is The Greatest Film of All Time.
Also check out the three sequels to this list Gremlins, Back to the Future and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho!
1. Bill Murray
This is the movie that made the Saturday Night Live comedian a bonified movie star and would pave the way for such later delights as Groundhog Day (1993), Lost in Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005). Without Bill Murray, would Ghostbusters be the classic it is today?
2. The Dialogue
Just transcribing the movie would enough reason why Ghostbusters achieves greatness. This list contains as many classic quotes as we could fit. i.e.
“You forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea unexplained sponge migration,” – Ray.
3. Ray Parker Jr’s Theme Song
All together now, “Who ya gonna call? »
- Tom Fallows
The Notable Films of 2011: Part Four
27 December 2010 9:58 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2011
Cast: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Ryan Metcalf
Director: Whit Stillman
Summary: The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Analysis: The first film in a decade from arthouse darling Whit Stillman, a filmmaker's filmmaker whose three Manhattan-based, yuppie-themed mannerist comedies - "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco" - were a big influence on the likes of auteurs such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Stillman says this film varies somewhat from his previous trilogy of sorts, telling First Things that "This film is different, Completely different. Okay, not completely different, but it’s different".
Independently financed by Castle Rock CEO Martin Shafer, the project recently wrapped filming in Manhattan where Stillman returned to last year after having spent much »
- Garth Franklin
The Notable Films of 2011: Part Four
27 December 2010 9:58 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2011
Cast: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Ryan Metcalf
Director: Whit Stillman
Summary: The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Analysis: The first film in a decade from arthouse darling Whit Stillman, a filmmaker's filmmaker whose three Manhattan-based, yuppie-themed mannerist comedies - "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco" - were a big influence on the likes of auteurs such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Stillman says this film varies somewhat from his previous trilogy of sorts, telling First Things that "This film is different, Completely different. Okay, not completely different, but it’s different".
Independently financed by Castle Rock CEO Martin Shafer, the project recently wrapped filming in Manhattan where Stillman returned to last year after having spent much »
- Garth Franklin
Natalie Portman is Engaged and Pregnant
27 December 2010 4:17 PM, PST | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
It's a sad day for many Natalie Portman fans, since the actress has just announced that she is engaged to her "Black Swan" choreographer Benjamin Millepied and is pregnant with her/their first child. Portman's pregnancy will likely take her out of competition for certain film roles, including Ridley Scott's "Alien" prequel and Wachowskis' "Cloud Atlas." She next can be seen in "No Strings Attached" alongside Ashton Kutcher. Many believe that the new romantic comedy may hurt her chances of winning the Best Actress Oscar for "Black Swan." A similar thing happened to Eddie Murphy back in 2007. He was nominated for an Oscar for "Dreamgirls," but then starred in "Norbit," which may have cost him the award. »
Portman Pregnant and Engaged to 'Black Swan' Co-Star
27 December 2010 9:49 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This is a totally gossipy post, but I just couldn't resist as it is somehow fascinating news to me as Natalie Portman's representatives have confirmed with People that the 29-year-old actress is pregnant and engaged to Benjamin Millepied who served as choreographer on Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and was Portman's dance partner in the film.
In an attempt to make this a bit more newsworthy I was going to attach it to the idea Portman's Oscar chances for her much ballyhooed performance in Black Swan may be marred by her co-starring in the potentially dreadful No Strings Attached (a la the demise suffered by Dreamgirls star Eddie Murphy after Norbit in 2007), but I felt merely mentioning it as an aside in this post would serve the purpose.
Millepied and Portman's involvement isn't new as the two have been dating for some time after meeting on the set of Black Swan. »
- Brad Brevet
2011 Buzz Spotlight on Sigourney Weaver
26 December 2010 11:23 PM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
In 2011, Academy Award winning actor Sigourney Weaver, most known for her role as Ellen Ripley in Alien (and the subsequent sequels Aliens and Alien 3), will be having her strongest year in film since 2008. Weaver will be starring in six films including: Cedar Rapids as Macy Vanderhei, Paul as Tara, The Cold Light of Day, Vamps as Cisserus, Abduction as Dr. Bennett, and Rampart. She is also rumored to return to the Ghostbusters franchise as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters III in 2012.
As far as comedies go, Cedar Rapids will be her top film to look out for, which also stars John C. Reilly (Cyrus, Terri), Ed Helms (The Hangover Part II) and Anne Heche (Hung). The film is about a naive Midwesterner insurance salesman who travels to a big-city convention to save the jobs of his co-workers. Her second comedy Paul, which stars Seth Rogen (The Green Hornet) and Jane Lynch »
- Iris Hogan
The Best Blu-ray Discs of 2010
25 December 2010 7:19 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Best Contemporary Titles
Winner: "Avatar: Extended Edition"
Runner-up: "Inception"
Doesn't matter what you thought of the film, I enjoyed it but didn't particularly love it, James Cameron fully delivers on his promise to make the 'Extended Edition' Blu-ray release worth the double-dip as it has to be one the single deepest and richest releases for a single film on the market.
The transfer is pure reference quality, the inserted new footage in the three alternate cuts available is exactly the same quality as the rest of the cut, and the sound design is awe-inspiring. Extras are disgustingly rich - three near feature-length docos, nearly an hour of cut footage, countless featurettes, artwork and a beautiful looking if a tiny bit awkwardly designed packaged set.
Picking a runner-up wasn't that difficult. Christopher Nolan's puzzle box of a film "Inception" is a trippy but whip smart and bold heist film »
- Garth Franklin
The Best Blu-ray Discs of 2010
25 December 2010 7:19 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Best Contemporary Titles
Winner: "Avatar: Extended Edition"
Runner-up: "Inception"
Doesn't matter what you thought of the film, I enjoyed it but didn't particularly love it, James Cameron fully delivers on his promise to make the 'Extended Edition' Blu-ray release worth the double-dip as it has to be one the single deepest and richest releases for a single film on the market.
The transfer is pure reference quality, the inserted new footage in the three alternate cuts available is exactly the same quality as the rest of the cut, and the sound design is awe-inspiring. Extras are disgustingly rich - three near feature-length docos, nearly an hour of cut footage, countless featurettes, artwork and a beautiful looking if a tiny bit awkwardly designed packaged set.
Picking a runner-up wasn't that difficult. Christopher Nolan's puzzle box of a film "Inception" is a trippy but whip smart and bold heist film »
- Garth Franklin
Choose The 1998 Academy Award Winners!
23 December 2010 6:30 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
I love that a heated discussion over Titanic’s infamous Oscar sweep of 1998 has already begun over at Laurent’s excellent retrospective. I guess it’s just the nature of this particular film. There is something about Titanic that hits a raw nerve in people and they feel a need to defend/criticize it so passionately.
As it happens, I fall in the ‘unconditional love’ category and I’m not afraid to admit it. To this day I have a passion for Titanic, a film that so perfectly matches what a glorious, spellbinding, big spectacle romance against an historic backdrop should be, and those films are so rare, especially when they are made with such precise and meticulous detail from James Cameron.
We shouldn’t be embarrassed over how much we loved Titanic in the 90′s. We should embrace it. So as our third ‘Choose The Winners’ article, we are »
- Matt Holmes
19 strangely Christmassy sci-fi and horror movies
23 December 2010 1:55 AM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Christmas has a hell of a PR agent. A good PR maximises the audience for their client, always looking for lateral markets beyond the core appeal of the product. So if Christmas is fundamentally about giving, goodwill and forgiveness, there's no harm - from a PR's point of view - if it can also be made to be about sex, death and loneliness too. We seem to have had our traditional - and always sad - fusillade of pre-Christmas celebrity deaths this year, and if we're lucky, the period between now and new year will bring no new and nasty surprises in that line.
In the meantime our TV screens have filled up customarily with ads for perfume and booze which remind us that Christmas is also a Pagan-style locus for celebrations of the carnal and sensory. And with campaigns targeted at those who have no invite to the celebrations »
Sigourney Weaver talks Avatar, Ghostbusters, Alien sequels
22 December 2010 12:40 PM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
It would be difficult to think of another actress (or actor) that's been involved in more movie franchises than Sigourney Weaver. The actress has the Ghostbusters, Aliens and now Avatar franchises on her resume.
Weaver talked to EW.com about the future of those franchises while promoting the DVD release of her movie Prayers for Bobby.
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Bill Murray | Sigourney Weaver | Ridley Scott | Alien Prequel | Ghostbusters III »
- reelz reelz
“Avatar,” “Ghostbusters” sequel news from Sigourney Weaver
22 December 2010 7:49 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: It’s impressive how many potential sequels on fanboy radars revolve around Sigourney Weaver.
Not that Weaver isn’t a major star. She is, and has been for decades. But several franchises Weaver has been involved in – both recently and through the years – are hoping to move forward with new installments, and the actresses revealed a few choice details on them in a good interview with EW.com.
On her “Avatar” character potentially dying in James Cameron’s first film, Weaver said:
Well, I wouldn’t use that word. I wouldn’t use that word — she was changed. You know, it’s science fiction, so we saw something happen to her, and we don’t quite know what it is. She definitely went into the Tree of Souls, right? It’s science fiction. What looks like death, who knows? I think Jim is just starting to write [the sequels] now. »
- Sean O'Connell
Sigourney Weaver talks 'Prayers for Bobby,' 'Avatar 2,' 'Ghostbusters 3,' and Ridley Scott's 'Alien' prequel
22 December 2010 6:44 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
When you think of Sigourney Weaver, probably the first image that comes to mind is her iconic action heroine Ellen Ripley, big-ass gun in hand, doing battle with acid-belching aliens. But her talent runs far deeper than shouting lines like “Get away from her, you bitch!” Last year, the three-time Oscar nominee appeared not only in James Cameron’s Avatar, but in the Lifetime drama Prayers for Bobby, earning an Emmy nod playing a real-life mother, Mary Griffith, who can’t accept her son Bobby’s homosexuality, but becomes an advocate for gay rights after his tragic suicide. A precursor »
- Christian Blauvelt
News Shorts: December 21st 2010
21 December 2010 9:57 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The first photo of Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston in The Deep Blue Sea, concept art from Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, action figure photos of Megatron's new look in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and posters for Your Highness.
Along with some concept art, Vin Diesel says director David Twohy wants the actor to have three different looks for the upcoming third "Riddick" movie.
"H.R. Giger's wife, Carmen Scheifele, has reported the Swiss surrealist painter who designed the creature for the original 1979 "Alien" is back at work designing for Ridley Scott's untitled prequel..." (full details)
"With the equity and debt swapping all done, MGM has scored $500 million "to fund operations, including production of a new slate of films and television series". Some of that will be channeled to "The Hobbit", some to "Bond 23" and some to marketing films sitting on their shelves including "Red Dawn" and »
- Garth Franklin
News Shorts: December 21st 2010
21 December 2010 9:57 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The first photo of Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston in The Deep Blue Sea, concept art from Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, action figure photos of Megatron's new look in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and posters for Your Highness.
Along with some concept art, Vin Diesel says director David Twohy wants the actor to have three different looks for the upcoming third "Riddick" movie.
"H.R. Giger's wife, Carmen Scheifele, has reported the Swiss surrealist painter who designed the creature for the original 1979 "Alien" is back at work designing for Ridley Scott's untitled prequel..." (full details)
"With the equity and debt swapping all done, MGM has scored $500 million "to fund operations, including production of a new slate of films and television series". Some of that will be channeled to "The Hobbit", some to "Bond 23" and some to marketing films sitting on their shelves including "Red Dawn" and »
- Garth Franklin
[Info] - H.R. Giger Returning for "Alien" Prequels?!
21 December 2010 3:22 PM, PST | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »
According to AvP Galaxy, "Alien" creature designer H.R. Giger will be reteaming with director Ridley Scott for Twentieth Century Fox's untitled Alien Prequel(s) -- so says his wife. "Hr Giger, creator of "Alien" figure for the 1979 film by Ridley Scott will be incurred once again work with the director, the site reports translated from German. "This confirmed the wife of the Swiss artist, Carmen Scheifele, in the TV show .Glanz Gloria. on Swiss television. Her husband was 'on board ,' that is it, 'said Scheifele. It would certainly be a 3D movie, but probably two. The plan is a prequel that tells the story before the first Alien movie.'" The iconic creatures you know and love were the brainchild of the Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer whom won an Academy Award »
The Legendary H.R. Giger Is Working On Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel
21 December 2010 10:00 AM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
There’s been a ton of rumors floating through cyberspace about Ridley Scott‘s hotly anticipated, Untitled Alien Prequel for 20th Century Fox. Most of it was complete crap. The only thing’s that we’re sure of, have come from Ridley Scott himself. Over the last few months, the director has talked about Damon Lindelof jumping aboard to rewrite Jon Spaihts‘ draft of the script and he’s talked a bit about the setting and direction for the film – saying,
“The film will be really tough, really nasty,” he notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?
Now, AvPGalaxy reports that H.R. Giger‘s wife, Carmen Scheifele says that the Academy Award winning visual effects artist »
- Jason Moore
H.R. Giger on Board Alien Prequels?
21 December 2010 8:30 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
As AvP Galaxy quite rightly say, if this is true, it is great news indeed. Artist H.R. Giger, who brought such a distinctive industrial-organic look to the creature design for the original Alien film may be back on board for the Ridley Scott-directed prequels.
Ridley Scott seems to still be embroiled in debate with the studio over the certificate he is aiming for, as well as the proposed budget. Scott wants to aim for something reasonably brutal and adult-oriented (presumably an R rating in the Us and a 15/18 certificate in the UK) and a $250m budget across the two planned sequels. 20th Century Fox seem to think the combination of a higher rating and a big budget is a bad combination and therein lies the impasse – Scott’s artistic convictions up against the economic concerns of the bean-counters.
Whether Giger coming on board helps or is neutral in Fox »
- Dave Roper
H.R. Giger Reteaming With Ridley Scott For ‘Alien’ Prequel? Film To Shoot On Red Epic 3D Cameras
21 December 2010 7:16 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Some more news from Ridley Scott's developing but not yet greenlit "Alien" prequel. A lot of casting rumors and other bits of production info have been flying around of late, with most of it turning out to be untrue, but Scott Free appears to be continuing to put pieces for the eventual film in place as it awaits an official thumbs up from 20th Century Fox to move forward. First up, AVPGalaxy has come across a recent interview with Carmen Scheifel, the wife of Swiss surrealist painter and original "Alien" creature designer H.R. Giger, who says that her husband is… »
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