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Watch AMC's Script-To-Screen Crew Run Down The Best Films Of The Decade
30 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Another year has come and gone, and with it the first decade of the 2000's (whatever happened to Y2K anyway?). With the decade drawing to a close, we here at Script-To-Screen thought we'd put together a list of what we found to be the very best films over the last 10 years.
Each of us (Myself, Kellvin and Christina) assembled a list of the 10 films we thought were the cream of the crop.
So take a look at the video below and then hop in the comments section to let us know what you think.
So to recap:
John's List (In no particular order)
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Ratatouille
Wall-e
Up
The Departed
The 40 Year Old Virgin
There Will Be Blood
Moulin Rouge
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Kellvin's List (In no particular order)
City of God
Casino Royale
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Memento
Moulin Rouge!
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Discuss: Can 'The Hurt Locker' Win Best Picture?
25 December 2009 6:03 PM, PST
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When it was announced earlier this year that the Academy would expand the Best Picture category to ten nominees, my first thought was that the year's best film, The Hurt Locker, actually has a chance to get nominated. Now it has been winning critics' awards and turning up on nearly every top ten list, very often at #1. It seems to be the movie of choice for both highbrow and mainstream film critics, which is part of its charm. Lately I started thinking that even if the category were only five, The Hurt Locker might have a chance to get a nomination, and now it seems like it might even have a chance to win.
But then I think back to 2001. At the end of the year, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was the clear critics' favorite, just as The Hurt Locker is this year. And, indeed, Mulholland Drive has gone
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Crowe Gets The Shaft In "Robin Hood"
25 December 2009 10:27 AM, PST
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Pinewood Studios UK recently wrapped up sequences on director Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott's "Robin Hood", starring Oscar-winning actors Russell "Gladiator" Crowe and Cate "Elizabeth" Blanchett.
"Robin Hood" reunites Crowe and Scott in their fifth collaboration together.
Producers are Brian "A Beautiful Mind" Grazer, Scott and Crowe.
The new feature chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously conerned only with his own self-preservation, starting with his service in the army of 'King Richard' against the French. Upon Richard’s death, 'Robin' travels to 'Nottingham', a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for spirited widow 'Lady Marion' (Blanchett), "...a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest..."
Hoping to earn the hand of Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by their appetite for life.
Together,
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- Michael Stevens
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Official “Creation” Trailer
21 December 2009 10:10 AM, PST
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Today we have the trailer for “Creation” a biopic movie telling the life of Charles Darwin.
From director Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective, Entrapment) and writer John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) comes “Creation”. A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) as Charles Darwin, the film is based on “Annie’s Box,” a biography penned by Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family. We take a unique and inside look at Darwin, his family and his love for his deeply religious wife, played by Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream), as, torn between faith and science, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book “On the Origin of Species,” which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
The film co-stars Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon,
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- Allan Ford
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When Variety Gives Critics A Bad Name
18 December 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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It's a shame that with all the year-end awards being dished out by critics, awards where groups of individuals do their best to do the cinema world proud by honoring greatness, that one can't be devised to recognize articles that make us all look bad. Case in point: Iain Blair's Wednesday article in Variety about the disconnect between audiences and film critics, particularly where Oscar is concerned. His next article on tap is supposedly entitled "Water's Wet, Sky's Blue, Women Have Secrets." Every now and then some film journalist decides to write such an article, which is basically the same as the last one only with changed titles and tries to remind us how we occasionally don't approve of a film we deem poorly made to be smattered with an embarrassment of riches. Nothing we haven't heard before. Rarely though does one of the first sentences smack of the
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- Erik Childress
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16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations
17 December 2009 7:11 AM, PST
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Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) for both film and television categories were announced this morning. Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell announced the nominees at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.
The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct, and 6 p.m. Mt from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.Com live pre-show webcasts.
If you want to predict the acting categories for the Oscars, look no further than the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Voted by actors' peers, the SAG award has closely resembled the winners of the Oscars in the past few years.
For example, the SAG
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- Manny
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Poll: Who'll win the Golden Globe for best drama actor? George Clooney? Jeff Bridges?
16 December 2009 2:44 PM, PST
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The reason that "Up in the Air" soared off with the most Golden Globe nominations is obvious: Everybody's gone Clooney-crazy this year. So doesn't that mean that George will automatically win best drama actor?
Hold your horses, Derbyites! Golden Globe voters like to spread their gold around. As things stand now, most pundits predict that "Up in the Air" will win best drama picture. Sometimes voters give out a best-actor bookend with the Globe prize (Leo DiCaprio won for best picture champ "The Aviator," Russell Crowe won for best pic "A Beautiful Mind"), but often they don't (Crowe didn't win for best pic "Gladiator").
Globe voters like big, hambone performances, the showier the better, like the last two previous winners: Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler") and Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood"). If that same pattern repeats, then Jeff Bridges has the edge for stumbling around drunk, flashing lots of ham
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Did a blogger help destroy Tobey Maguire's Oscar chances?
16 December 2009 1:45 AM, PST
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If Christmas is right around the corner it must be time for a rival awards consultant to try and scuttle a competing campaign through rumor, innuendo or even false accusations. From "A Beautiful Mind" to "Dreamgirls" to "The Hurricane" these whispers are nothing new and have genuinely been blamed for ruining the Oscar hopes of many potential nominees or winners. On the other hand, for such accusations to reveal themselves only hours after the Golden Globe nominations were announced today is something else entirely. This year's possible victim: Best Actor candidate Tobey Maguire. The "Spider-Man" star was a surprise nominee this
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The Oscar Badmouthing Has Begun!
15 December 2009 2:20 PM, PST
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2Nd Update: I love awards season because my email and voicemail get filled wiith negative campaigning about all the Academy Awards hopefuls. (Such holiday cheer is out here!) Over the years, I've reported on the studio badmouthing of heavyweight Saving Private Ryan to better the Oscar chances of lightweight Shakespeare In Love. And the planting of "He's an anti-Semite and adulterer" allegations against the schizophrenic Princeton professor who was the sympathetic subject of biopic A Beautiful Mind. And more recently, the efforts to scuttle Blood Diamond and Slumdog Millionaire's chances because of unfounded charges the filmmakers callously exploited locals.
So it shouldn't surprise anyone that this race is already turning [...]
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- Nikki Finke
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Expansion of Oscar's best-picture race to 10: Is it all Harvey's fault?
14 December 2009 8:26 PM, PST
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"Personally, I think it's a bad idea," Harvey Weinstein said yesterday when we chatted about the widening of Oscar's best-picture race to 10 nominees. "When the category was smaller, it felt like more of an achievement getting in. Now, with 10, it's not going to feel so special." Maybe so, but the expansion may actually be Harvey's fault — that is, if a theory posed by a past Oscar champ (Ron Howard, "A Beautiful Mind") is true. Yesterday Harvey hosted a small, elite lunch in New York with his cast members of "Nine" (Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Judi Dench) plus media wags and reigning Oscar royalty like Ron Howard at Per Se restaurant
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Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Samoa': episode #13
10 December 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Man, I gotta say… another awesome episode. Yeah I know I’m biased, but come on, that was a great show!
And now there is absolutely no debate. Foa Foa has done it. They have come back from an eight to four deficit and now are in charge of the game. Think of the odds Vegas would have given you on that not happening. Well, Vegas wouldn’t actually give you any odds, since they know the show has already been taped and they know that I would have emptied my bank account to take that bet and would now be retired living in Palau.
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Promo Videos for 'Parenthood'
9 December 2009 7:59 AM, PST
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March may seem like a long ways off, but its closer than you think, and it's when NBC will finally roll out their new dramedy Parenthood which stars Craig T Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, and funnyman Dax Shepherd, just to name a few. Below is an overview of Parenthood as well as some new promotional clips of the show.
"Parenthood" is a one-hour drama inspired by the box-office comedy hit of the same name. This re-imagined and updated NBC Universal Media Studios/Imagine Television production introduces audiences to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
The dynamic star-studded cast includes Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen.
Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham, "Gilmore Girls"), a financially strapped single mother, brings us into the fold of her parents and siblings who will make us laugh and cry, and on occasion,
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Inside track on the Oscars' supporting actor race
18 November 2009 11:22 AM, PST
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At this point on the derby track, with many films like "Invictus" and "The Lovely Bones" still unseen, it appears that there are three Oscar front-runners for best supporting actor: Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds"), Christopher Plummer ("The Last Station") and Alec Baldwin ("It's Complicated"). Waltz has been ahead for the last few months and may remain there, but remember this category is notoriously known as the veteran's achievement award (Alan Arkin in "Little Miss Sunshine," James Coburn in "Affliction"). Two notable veterans stand out. Plummer starred in Oscar best pictures "The Sound of Music" and "A Beautiful Mind" and won many industry honors (three Emmys plus several film critics' awards), but he's never been nominated
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Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
17 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST
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What follows is my original top ten list of 2001. We'll discuss each year of the decade over the next month or two (we already did 2000). I do this because I am curious about which films "stick" and which fade and why and maybe you are too? Best year of the decade I think. The top five films would all be valid #1 film choices in some years. New comments are in red.
Note: This list references films released in NYC in 2001, not year of production or year in which they first the hit festival circuit or whatnot.
Runners Up (in descending order): Sexy Beast, Ali, Series 7: The Contenders, The Others, Last Resort and Waking Life. I don't remember loving Ali that much... and more than The Others? I don't remember that at all. I mean Nicole Kidman was the shit Twice Over in 2001.
In my round up of the
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Gordon Willis, Ron Howard, Dana Delany: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 5:16 PM, PST
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Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as Klute, The Godfather films, Serpico, All the President’s Men, Annie Hall, Comes a Horseman, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14. Despite his impressive list of credits, Willis has been nominated for only two Academy Awards: Zelig (1982) and The Godfather Part III (1990)
Ron Howard, who won a best director Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind in 2002
Actress Dana Delany of the television series Desperate Housewives
Photos: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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“Creation” Movie Poster and Trailer
3 November 2009 10:37 AM, PST
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Check out the poster for “Creation,” a biopic movie telling the life of Charles Darwin.
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) as Charles Darwin, the film is based on “Annie’s Box,” a biography penned by Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family. We take a unique and inside look at Darwin, his family and his love for his deeply religious wife, played by Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream), as, torn between faith and science, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book “On the Origin of Species,” which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
The film is directed by Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective, Entrapment) and writed by John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).
Co-stars Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon,
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Adam Goldberg: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:22 AM, PST
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Adam Goldberg: Shooting To The Music
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Alex Simon
Adam Goldberg first brought his unique brand of manic intensity to Richard Linklater’s ensemble classic Dazed and Confused in 1993 and has since been featured in such varied films as 2 Days in Paris, A Beautiful Mind, Saving Private Ryan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Hebrew Hammer and I Love Your Work, which he also directed. An actor with a talent for mining the neuroses of his character for both comedic and dramatic effect, Goldberg also played recurring roles in “Friends” and “Entourage.” Goldberg's music CD, "LANDy, Eros And Omissions," hit shelves June 23 of this year from Nine Yards Records.
Goldberg’s latest film, (Untitled), is a satirical comedy that has him playing Adrian Jacobs, a brooding avant-garde composer who falls for the gorgeous owner (Marley Shelton) of a trendy New York art gallery. The quirky worlds
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Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly plans to swap Hollywood for family life (IrishCentral)
30 October 2009 8:14 AM, PDT
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“A Beautiful Mind” star Jennifer Connelly admits she has no projects lined up for when she finishes filming the upcoming movie “What’s Wrong With Virginia?”
The Irish-American Oscar winner, who raises sons Kai, 12, and Stellan, 6, with actor husband Paul Bettany, said: “The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me that’s enough.
“The family is the most important thing to me. I’m very blessed. I have gorgeous, healthy, funny kids and a good husband.
“Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take responsibility for my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.”
While both Connelly and Bettany have carved out successful acting careers, neither Kai – whose father is photographer David Dugan – nor Stellan want to follow in their footsteps.
The actress told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “Stellan was saying
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Jennifer Connelly Says She May Never Work Again
29 October 2009 11:23 PM, PDT
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Jennifer Connelly may never work again. The "A Beautiful Mind" actress - who raises sons Kai, 12, and Stellan, six, with husband Paul Bettany - admits she has no projects lined up for when she finishes filming "What's Wrong With Virginia?"
She said: "The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me that's enough."
"The family is the most important thing to me. I'm very blessed. I have gorgeous, healthy, funny kids and a good husband."
"Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take responsibility for my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything."
While both Jennifer and Paul have carved out successful acting careers, neither Kai - whose father is photographer David Dugan - nor Stellan want to follow in their footsteps.
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Austin Film Festival 2009 Part One
29 October 2009 5:08 AM, PDT
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Ron HowardThe highlight of this year's Austin Film Festival was listening to director Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon, A Beautiful Mind), writer Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List, Gangs of New York) and writer Mitchell Hurwitz ("Arrested Development", "Golden Girls") discuss filmmaking at the historic Paramount Theater. All three were recognized with Aff awards. Howard for Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking, Zaillian for Distinguished Screenwriter and Hurwitz for Outstanding Television Writer.Howard on doing real-life stories: "For a long time I avoided doing something based on real characters. I was fearful that I would lose command of dramatic potential. And I think I was just a
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