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19 items from 2012
Off Screen: Jill Tarter, the Inspiration for Jodie Foster's Character in 'Contact,' Has Retired From Seti
24 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Off Screen, our corner that keeps track of big-screen characters and properties in other media, be they comics, books, TV shows or video games. Jill Tarter may not be a known name in many households, but her life-long pursuits have had a big influence on a number of the sci-fi films sitting on your DVD shelf, the most immediate being Robert Zemeckis' Contact. Fellow astronomer Carl Sagan wrote the character of Eleanor Anne Arroway based on Tarter, and Contact star Jodie Foster had extensive meetings with the scientist in order to understand what drives her to dedicate her life to Seti, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, prior to filming. Sadly that pursuit is becoming harder and harder as Seti, which is not only central to the plot of Contact but is name checked...
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- Peter Hall
Film Review: Despite Rihanna, Peter Berg’s ‘Battleship’ Lands as One of the Best Popcorn Flicks Ever
17 May 2012 11:01 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “Battleship” certainly could simplistically be reduced to a 131-minute propaganda piece of why you might want to enlist in the U.S. Navy – that is, if Earth had to ward off lizard-like creatures from a deep-space solar system we can only reach by slingshotting a highly amplified “What’s up, aliens?” broadcast to them.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
And “Battleship,” which is rock-concert loud and lacks in strategically placed comedy, definitely will regret going down in history as being the first to offer the already rich, famous and slutty singer Rihanna a wasted, feature-film launching pad when she – like many other musicians before her (read: Britney, Mariah, etc.) – should simply stick to singing and (pole) dancing.
Thanks to “Battleship,” Rihanna has already been cast in 2013’s “The End of the World” with Seth Rogen and may even appear in 2013’s “The Fast and the Furious 6”. (We seriously need as many “Fast and Furious »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Casting Call: Logan Marshall Green Cast as Tennessee Williams in Lonely Hunter, Gina Gershon and Peter Stormare Take Over the Mall
9 May 2012 6:57 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Some casting notes today. Here they are in brief: Logan Marshall Green (Devil) will play Tennessee Williams in the upcoming pic, Lonely Hunter, the feature film based on the life story of Southern gothic writer, Carson McCullers. Gina Gershon (Face/Off) and Peter Stormare (Fargo) will join the indie, Mall, replacing Chelsea Handler and Eric Bogosian due to scheduling difficulties. Hit the jump for more. First up is the announcement that Marshall Green will play the famed playwright, Tennessee Williams, opposite Jena Malone's (Contact) McCullers, the novelist behind "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Williams was McCuller’s best friend and longtime confidant and described Carson’s major theme in her writing as “the huge importance and nearly insoluble problems of human love.” Written by Deborah Kampmeier (Hounddog) and Sarah Schulman (Mommy Is Coming), Lonely Hunter is slated to shoot later this year as additional casting is underway. Director »
- Dave Trumbore
‘Killer Joe’ Trailer: Matthew McConaughey is a Texan Psycho Killer
8 May 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
It’s funny to think that back to when Matthew McConaughey’s acting career really start to take off in the ’90s: he was aspiring to be a serious character actor with roles in films like Lone Star, A Time to Kill, Contact, and Amistad; that was before he made a string of forgettable rom-coms (The Wedding Planner, Failure to Launch, etc.) and duds like Sahara and Fool’s Good, prompting endless jokes about him being little more than male eye candy.
That’s all to say: McConaughey has recently gotten back in the habit of tackling more challenging roles in films like The Lincoln Lawyer, Precious director Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy – and Killer Joe, a darkly comical, neo-Noir flick directed by Oscar-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist), which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Killer Joe is based on the play by Pulitzer ...
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- Sandy Schaefer
2012 Los Angeles Film Festival Line-up & Closing Night Premiere
1 May 2012 11:21 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
HollywoodNews.com: Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. Live, announced the Closing Night film and official Us and international selections for the 2012 Festival. Guest Director, Artists in Residence and Conversations with special guests will be announced later this month. The 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen a diverse slate of nearly 200 feature films, short films, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, along with signature programs such as the Filmmaker Retreat, Poolside Chats, Coffee Talks, music events and more. As previously announced, Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love will be Opening Night, sponsored by Virgin America, and Lorene Scafaria’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild were selected for the Galas section.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles and headquartered at L. »
- Josh Abraham
Get Ready to Get Savaged: First Concept Poster
23 April 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Raven Banner Entertainment, Green Dog Films and Reigning Entertainment will triple team on film production of Savaged. This title is in the early production stages with shooting expected to begin later this week. To be lensed is Zoe, played by Amanda Adrienne, a vulnerable woman abducted by "a murderous gang" (Raven). She survives the ordeal only to be used by Native American Shaman in a demonic ritual. This tale of brutality and the supernatural will then turn to one of revenge as Zoe channels an ancient Apache warrior on those who have wronged her.
Enjoy the first concept poster for Savaged right here. With more casting details to come.
Director/writer: Michael S. Ojeda.
Producers: Jason Gurvitz, Lezlie Wheeler and Michael S. Ojeda.
Executive Producers: Michael Paszt, James Fler and Andrew Hunt Jorden Fox, Jake Gelyana and Levi Fox.
Cast: Amanda Adrienne.
*shooting will take place in an abandoned gold mine near Los Angeles. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
Nazis at the Center of the Earth and Laughing in Disbelief: A Movie Review
23 April 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
*here be major spoilers. Honestly, see this film before reading this review. A lot of great surprises are ruined below.
Director: Joseph J. Lawson.
Writers: Paul Bales.
Cast: Dominique Swain, Jake Busey, Christopher Karl Johnson, and Lilan Bowden.
The Asylum is launching their latest film in Nazis at the Center of the Earth on DVD April 24th. This film production comapany loves to knock-off large blockbusters such as Transformers, The Terminator and disaster films in general. Their latest copy is the film found here. Writer Paul Bales and director Joseph J. Lawson are borrowing some plot points from Timo Vuorensola's Iron Sky.
In both films, the Third Reich is still threatening the modern world. And in this film, Joseph Mengele (Christopher Karl Johnson) is the architect of the German invasion. Hmmm strange, Mengele died in 1979. The inconsistencies continue, but Nazis at the Center of the Earth is an enjoyable »
- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
Take Three: John Hurt
17 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Craig here with the third season of Take Three. Today: John Hurt
Take One: Brighton Rock (2010)
Hurt has alternated starring roles with supporting performances since he began acting in films with The Wild and the Willing in 1962. The amount of quality supporting turns he’s delivered over the years is vast: 10 Rillington Place, Midnight Express, The Shout, The Hit, Scandal, The Field, Contact, The Proposition, Melancholia, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are a mere few. His fine turn as accountant Phil Corkery in the Brighton Rock remake (backing up Helen Mirren, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and Andy Serkis) is a recent solid addition to the list and deserves due credit. Phil’s a gaunt shambles, but loyal to Mirren’s Ida, his long-time crush. He’s one of the old guard. A proud man accustomed to propping up bars whilst waxing forth about the state of the world. He’s the »
- Craig Bloomfield
Few Will Make it Over Devil's Bridge: A Movie Review
24 March 2012 11:19 AM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Director/writer: Chris Crow.
Devil's Bridge is an indie horror film from the United Kingdom. This is director and writer Chris Crow's first major release and Devil's Bridge deals with three blokes on holiday. They leave Essex for Wales, but they might have wanted to avoid one stop in a backwoods country town. Here, a hunter reminds the men who is boss in the Welsh wilderness with threats, stares, gunfire and even stabbings. The guys get the message a little too late. And thus, we have another urban versus rural encroachment theme with elements of Welsh history and territory aggression tied into a fairly predictable thriller.
Sam (Michael Jibson), Danny (Gary Mavers), and Sean (Joseph Millson) are the three men "on the piss." Sean is searching for a family friend who can get him out of his financial troubles. On the way to find this mystery man, they almost »
- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
Mumbai Mantra launches Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab 2012
14 March 2012 1:01 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Mumbai Mantra, the media and entertainment division of the Mahindra Group, is collaborating with Sundance Institute for the inaugural Mumbai Mantra Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab 2012. Eight feature film projects have been selected through a rigorous evaluation process of submissions from Indian screenwriters from around the world . These Screenwriting Fellows will have the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film scripts with the support of Creative Advisors (established Screenwriters and Directors) in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. Through one-on-one story sessions with the Creative Advisors, the Screenwriting Fellows will engage in an artistically demanding process that offers indispensable lessons in craft, a fresh perspective on their work and a platform to fully realize their material.This year.s Screenwriting Fellows who will go through an immersive five day workshop (March 11-16) at a Club Mahindra Resort are: . Charudutt Acharya (Sonali Cable Centre). Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar (Margarita, »
Exclusive: Weta's Wayne Stables Talks The Adventures of Tintin Blu-ray
12 March 2012 9:15 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables discusses The Adventures of Tintin, which debuts on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD March 13
Visual effects guru Wayne Stables has been working in the effects industry for over 15 years, after making his debut on Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. He went onto work on Contact, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and Avatar. Wayne Stables most recently served as the visual effects supervisor for the New Zealand effects house Weta on Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, which debuts on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD March 13. I recently had the chance to speak with Wayne Stables over the phone about his experiences working on The Adventures of Tintin. Here's what he had to say below.
First off, I'm curious about how early you come onto a huge endeavor like this. Were you brought on before they were shooting the motion-capture stuff? »
- MovieWeb
Anusha Rizvi, Shonali Bose among 8 selected for Mahindra Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab 2012
11 March 2012 10:31 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Mumbai Mantra | Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab 2012 announced eight feature-film projects for its inaugural edition. Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui’s Opium and Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar’s Margarita, With a Straw are two of them.
The selected 8 Screenwriting Fellows will get an opportunity to develop their works under the guidance of Creative Advisors at a workshop for 5 days from March 11-16, at Club Mahindra Resort in Lonavala.
The selected 8 projects are:
• Charudutt Acharya (Sonali Cable Centre)
• Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar (Margarita, With a Straw)
• Vikas Chandra (Toothache)
• Rajnesh Domalpalli (Avani)
• Prashant Nair (Umrica)
• Anusha Rizvi & Mahmood Farooqui (Opium)
• Ajitpal Singh (Manjhi)
• Kartik Singh (Public School).
The group of Creative Advisors include Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), Marcos Bernstein (Central Station, Foreign Land), Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact),Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Senna), Shekhar Kapur (Bandit Queen, Elizabeth), Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me, Eve’s Bayou), Anjum Rajabali (Rajneeti, »
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SyFy's Black Forest Delivers More than Just One Fairy Tale: A Movie Review
7 March 2012 4:00 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
*spoiler alert.
Director: Patrick Dinhut.
Writer: Frank H. Woodward.
Cast: Velizar Binev, Sarah Brown and Andy Clemence.
Very rarely will one of SyFy’s Saturday night products truly entertain. The tale developed in Black Forest is an ominous one. Also, this film stitches in a bit of Guillermo del Toro’s style as well. Both films like to have most of the action take place at night and include that doubtful deunouemont.
Also, writer Frank Woodward certainly knows his lore about faeries (not fairies) and expands on it. The difference is not just in the spelling, but also in what they represent. While most people associate the Fae with Celtic tradition, namely in the UK, they are also known far and wide to include the Germanic world. After Woodward’s work in the extras found in the “Masters of Horror” DVD releases, he demonstrates how much he has learned.
Even »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
Nazis at the Center of the Earth Lure a Team of Scientists Below in this Trailer
6 March 2012 8:00 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Nazis at the Center of the Earth is the latest film to be completed by The Asylum and now a trailer has arrived for this b-movie feature. In the reel, the Fifth Reich awaits a team of researchers in an underground military lair where Josef Mengele's (Christopher Karl Johnson) bloody research continues. Some of that gory research can be seen in the trailer below with one unwitting character not enjoying a face peel. View at your own risk!
Release Date: April 24th (DVD, VOD).
Directed by: Joseph Lawson.
Writer: Paul Bales.
Cinematographer: Alex Yellen.
Producers: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, and Paul Bales.
Cast: Dominique Swain, Josh Allen, Christopher Karl Johnson, and Jake Busey.
The trailer for Nazis at the Center of the Earth is here (mature rated, gore):
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- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
Trailer for Nazis at the Center of the Earth is Unearthed
5 March 2012 6:06 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
For my money the most shocking aspect of the trailer for The Asylum’s Nazis at the Center of the Earth is finding out that star Jake Busey is not actually playing a subterranean Nazi zombie.
In the flick Busey (Contact) and Dominique Swain (Face-Off) lead a team of Antarctic researchers abducted by a team of masked stormtroopers and dragged deep underground to a hidden continent in the center of the earth where Nazi survivors, their bodies a horrifying patchwork of decaying and regenerated flesh, led by Dr. Josef Mengele are preparing to revive the Third Reich.
Longtime Asylum FX supervisor Joe Lawson makes his directorial debut. Asylum stalwart Paul Bales scripted this tale of hollow earth horror.
Nazis at the Center of the Earth will surface on DVD and VOD come April 24th. Here’s the trailer of the underground goose-stepping nightmare The Asylum is preparing to unleash.
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- Foywonder
Vff '12: Midnight Son's Hidden Messages: A Movie Review
10 February 2012 11:30 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Director/writer: Scott Leberecht.
Cast: Tracey Walter, Arlen Escarpeta and Larry Cedar.
Very rarely can the vampire tale of legend ever get twisted around to the Nth degree so that something new can be bled out of it. Midnight Son nicely offers a new interpretation of yore, and viewers should take note: maybe vampirism is a disease. Very few tales takes this angle and it’s not an easy one to cure. Instead, this story details the metamorphosis of becoming the beast.
That transformation not only looks at the life of Jacob (Zak Kilberg) but also explores the feelings of Mary (Maya Parish). They both want a new drug, one of life and a love that they want to share for one another. But when he reveals his condition of why he can’t go out into the sun without being burnt to Mary, a wall between them is being developed. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
A Little Bit Zombie and An Instant Cult Classic: A Movie Review and Preview
2 February 2012 4:00 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Casey Walker.
Director: Casey Walker.
Writers: Trevor Martin and Christopher Bond.
Cast: Kristopher Turner, Kristen Hager, Crystal Lowe, Shawn Roberts, and Stephen McHattie.
First-time director Casey Walker may very well have a cult classic on his hands. With plenty of experience in the television front, and lots of training with his film making friends, he shows that he has the talent to work in the big leagues.
A Little Bit Zombie will make its world debut at the Victoria Film Festival on February 4th. This movie is a smart rom-com. It cleverly adds to the mythos of what the walking dead can represent on screen. And this motion picture can easily rank up there with other Canadian zombie products like Fido and Pontypool.
Viewers may remember Stephen McHattie from the latter product, and he shows that he is no stranger »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes and the Possession Phenomenon: A Movie Review
23 January 2012 7:30 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Director: Jude Gerard Prest.
Cast: Nikki Muller, Gerold Wunstel, Kai Cofer and Christopher Karl Johnson, Nikki Muller.
Nearly every year, an exorcist/possession inspired film is guaranteed. Some productions are loosely based on actual cases of demonic possession and others are fiction.
Set in the 70's, Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (also known as Paranormal Entity 3) is a very period-looking piece about priests from different faiths attempting to exorcise the devil out of a young girl. The real life case of Anneliese Michel is the basis for this product, but after she was exorcised, the cause of her death was heavily scrutinized in the legal system.
Some parts of her exorcism were recorded and if these audio recordings are authentic, no detail is provided as to whom purchased the rights for cinematic exhibition. For reasons unknown, the audio recordings are now in the public domain and they can be found on the Internet (i. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
The Most Highly Anticipated Horror Films of 2012!
1 January 2012 7:00 AM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Sometimes, the movies slated for the 2012 year are only as good as their hype. A few of these flicks only look good as a trailer, but when audiences hit the theatre, either all the best parts have been given away or expectations fall flat. Not every title bears merit, but if any blood money is to be spilt, here’s a list of curios that should really be investigated.
Beneath the Darkness (Release Date: Jan 6)
Dir.: Martin Guigui.
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller and Aimee Teegarden.
When a group of teens witness their best friend murdered by a so-called hero, they have to figure out how to expose him and avoid being killed too. Dennis Quaid plays Ely Vaughn, the pillar of the community, but also the antagonist in this film. Interestingly enough, Vaughn is the town’s local mortician, and there’s a secret that no body knows about him. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
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