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“Maleficent” Has Found Its Prince
31 May 2012 1:35 PM, PDT | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Brenton Thwaites, a young Australian actor, has been cast as the prince in Robert Stromberg’s upcoming reimagination of Sleeping Beauty told from the villain’s perspective, according to Deadline. The Disney film has quite a fun collection of cast members, including Angelina Jolie (Wanted) as Maleficent, Elle Fanning (Super as the princess Brenton will have to woo, Sharlto Copley (District 9) as the princess’ father, and Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter), Lesley Manville and Juno Temple as fairies.
Apparently, Brenton Thwaites cut his teeth on Australian soap Home And Away, which has such luminaries as Heath Ledger, Chris Hemsworth, Guy Pearce and Naomi Watts in the show’s past (Slashfilm). That seems to bode well of the hiring, and due to the cast and decent concept, I’m onboard. It’ll be Stromberg’s directorial debut, but he’s cut his teeth on special effects in Hollywood since the 1980s, »
- Andy Greene
James Cameron Retires to Pandora to Make ‘Avatar’ Sequels
7 May 2012 12:57 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
“I’m in the Avatar business. Period. That’s it. I’m making Avatar 2, Avatar 3, maybe Avatar 4, and I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them. I’m not interested in taking scripts.” James Cameron said this at the Beijing International Film Festival in April and in Saturday’s New York Times. Even worse for fans of his 30-year film career, he meant it.
The writer-director-producer continued. “That all sounds I suppose a little bit restricted, but the point is I think within the Avatar landscape I can say everything I need to say that I think needs to be said, in terms of the state of the world and what I think we need to be doing about it. And doing it in an entertaining way.”
Cameron declaring himself wholly committed to Avatar isn’t particularly new. It was implicitly understood in early 2010 when Cameron, »
- Jeff Leins
Good News For 'Avatar' Fans
7 May 2012 5:38 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Great news for "Avatar" fans, but not for those hoping to see director James Cameron's take on romantic comedies. The Oscar-winning King of the World told the New York Times that he's only in "the 'Avatar' business" now.
"I’m making 'Avatar 2,' 'Avatar 3,' maybe 'Avatar 4,'" Cameron revealed during an interview about the Chinese film industry. "I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them. I’m not interested in taking scripts."
While Cameron admitted that the all-"Avatar," all-the-time career arc might seem a "bit restricted," he says the films allow him to say "everything" he needs to say about "the state of the world." He'll also continue to produce documentaries.
While the comments might seem surprising, looking at Cameron's resume tells you they aren't. The director has released just two feature films since 1997 ("Titanic" and »
- The Huffington Post
Clara Bow, Andrei Tarkovsky, Audrey Hepburn Movies
20 April 2012 7:23 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Clara Bow, Mantrap What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They'll all be featured in some form or other at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, in May. [Packard Campus screening schedule.] Andrei Tarkovsky will be represented by the classic sci-fier Solaris (1971), billed as the Soviet Union's answer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and by the classic period drama Andrei Rublev (1969), a meditation on art, religion, spirituality, and human brutality and stupidity. A technicality: Solaris will actually be screened on April 27. Edward G. Robinson stars in The Little Giant (1933), a pre-Code crime comedy featuring Mary Astor. The (at the time) energetic Roy Del Ruth (The Maltese Falcon, Taxi!, Employees' Entrance) directed. Clara Bow is the star of Mantrap (1926), a fluffy romantic comedy of interest chiefly because of Bow and because neither of her two leading »
- Andre Soares
The top 50 sci-fi movie protagonists
19 April 2012 8:55 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Whether they’re male or female, old or young, they’ve illuminated some classic movies. Here’s our top 50 list of sci-fi heroes and heroines…
On the face of it, compiling a list of truly great sci-fi protagonists should be easy. Pick a load of familiar names from a hat, write some breathlessly adoring drivel beneath them, and head off to the pub to reward a job well done.
Except it was never going to be as simple as that – and compiling lists seldom is. For every character making an appearance in the list below, there were at least two other possible candidates who didn't quite make the cut. Some sci-fi heroes were removed, then quickly reinstated. The order was jiggled around, then reordered again.
At one point, your humble writer realised there were more than 50 entries, and then had the unenviable task of hunting back through to decide which poor soul to eliminate. »
Sculpting in Time: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
4 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
On what would be his 80th birthday, we take a look back at Andrei Tarkovsky and his profound mark on cinema.
“The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky
As a young man, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky visited a gypsy to have his fortune told, specifically, about his cinematic future. She bluntly told him he would only live to make seven films, but that each one would be an important and cherished work. The details surrounding this urban legend »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
King Of The World: The Films Of James Cameron
4 April 2012 8:35 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
James Cameron is, in case it has escaped your attention, the most successful filmmaker in history. The Canadian director hadn't exactly been starved for box-office smashes early in his career, but his last two films, "Titanic" and "Avatar," have hauled in nearly $5 billion between them, and are currently the number one and number two hits of all time. He's also the man behind the "Terminator" franchise, helmed one of the best-liked of the "Alien" series, has become a deep-sea explorer, and, uh, gave the world flying piranhas.
This week sees "Titanic" back on screens in post-converted 3D form, and given that we're still at least two years away from seeing the filmmaker's next work ("Avatar 2" and "Avatar 3" are currently targeted for around 2014/2015), it seemed like a good opportunity to look back on his career and see how he went from a visual effects whiz on "Escape From New York »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Joe Dante on Voyage To The End Of The Universe
18 March 2012 11:31 PM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Jindrich Polak’s 1963 Czechslovakian space odyssey was originally titled Ikaria Xb-1, the name of the spaceship on a mission to search for life in the stars of Alpha Centuri. Adapted from Stanislaw Lem’s novel The Magellenic Cloud, this austere and beautifully designed pic anticipates Tarkovsky’s Solaris and remains one of the best of the Eastern Bloc science fiction films– all of which were released in the West in reworked adaptations. The full film can be seen here.
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- Danny
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
3 March 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Contagion; Immortals; The Rum Diary
One of the most likable things about the prolific Steven Soderbergh is just how eager he is to embrace (and subvert) the traditions of genre cinema. While other Cannes-favourite "auteur" directors may claim flatulently that their work is too personal for conventional labels (ha!), Soderbergh flits nimbly from big-budget crime caper to hand-held docudrama (the Oceans franchise, Full Frontal), from head-cracking action to arty angst (sex, lies, and videotape), from conspiracy thriller to political biopic (Michael Clayton, Che) and from sci-fi to sexposé (Solaris, The Girlfriend Experience) with ease.
His current cinema release, Haywire, casts mixed martial arts star Gina Carano as a high-kicking secret agent, lending a big-screen sheen to the straight-to-video genre of which Cynthia Rothrock was once queen bee. Meanwhile his viral outbreak movie Contagion (2011, Warner, 12) hits the DVD shelves, taking its lead from such time-honoured disaster epics as Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, »
- Mark Kermode
Academy Mistakes: ‘The Piano’ for Best Original Score
17 February 2012 6:27 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards.
Ask any film score buff and he or she will attest that the Academy has always had a contentious history with film composers. Over the last few years, the AMPAS has made a few publicly egregious snubs: Johnny Greenwood for There Will be Blood and Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard for The Dark Knight come to mind. Barring their questionable nominating practice, the Academy has developed patterns of complacent and downright unimaginative selections. Whether it is nominating John Williams for everything (this year saw him nab nods for both War Horse and The Adventures of Tin Tin), or snubbing great scores to difficult films without the benefit of a more prestigious composer (Cliff Martinez this year for Drive), or overindulging international composers (Gustavo Santaolalla winning a second time for Babel, »
- Shane Ramirez
Nominated for Nothing: How was 'Contagion' not Oscar bait?
13 February 2012 12:05 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Persona, Breathless, Hoop Dreams, King Kong, Caddyshack — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, a globe-trotting chronicle of an apocalyptic epidemic featuring a ridiculously star-packed A-List cast, including Oscar winners (Gwyneth Paltrow, »
- Darren Franich
Zona by Geoff Dyer – review
4 February 2012 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Geoff Dyer's irreverent commentary on one of cinema's most 'difficult' offerings is a free-wheeling delight
The films of Andrei Tarkovsky, and in particular his 1979 classic Stalker, have a reputation for being among the most difficult in cinema. Difficult, not just in the sense of intellectually demanding, but difficult as in hard to sit through, long and slow-moving and potentially very boring. Perhaps only the work of the Hungarian director Béla Tarr is viewed (or not, in most cases) with greater trepidation. Cinema buffs wear their familiarity with films such as Stalker and Tarr's seven-hour Sátántangó like a badge of honour and speak of them in reverential tones. Most other people regard them like non-mountaineers regard Everest: "I'm sure it's a great mountain, but damned if I'm climbing it."
In his new book, Geoff Dyer sets out to address this problem by articulating what he loves so much about Stalker »
- Killian Fox
Viola Davis Lands Roles in 'Ender's Game' and 'Beautiful Creatures'
3 February 2012 9:21 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Hot on the heels of Octavia Spencer landing a role in Snow Piercer, another acclaimed talent from The Help is filling up her future schedule as well. Variety has word that Viola Davis has signed for two supporting roles in two different adaptations: Ender's Game at Summit Entertainment. and Beautiful Creatures from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Considering all the awards love Davis has been getting for her lead role in The Help, including another Oscar nomination (she was previously nominated for Doubt), it's no surprise to have her lining up two high profile project, both of which are fantastical in their own unique way. With Ender's Game, directed by Gavin Hood, Davis returns to sci-fi for the first time since Solaris in 2002. The story, set in the distant future, follows a genius strategist recruited by the government to help destroy an insect-like alien race. Davis will be playing a »
- Ethan Anderton
Viola Davis Books 'Ender's Game' and 'Beautiful Creatures'
2 February 2012 5:58 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Being the Oscar-nominated star of "The Help" definitely has its privileges.
Viola Davis, who's up for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Aibileen Clark in "The Help," has scored supporting roles in the film adaptations of two fantasy novels: "Ender's Game" and "Beautiful Creatures," according to Variety.
For "Ender's Game," which is based on the first book in a popular sci-fi series by Orson Scott Card, Davis joins a cast that includes Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and "Hugo" alums Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley for the story of an elite military academy that trains children to do battle with an invading race of insect-like aliens. It is Ender Wiggin (Butterfield), the gifted young gamer and strategist, who ends up being humanity's greatest hope.
Davis will play a military psychologist who oversees the emotional welfare of young trainees and helps design the games that test their skills and resilience. »
- Bryan Enk
"Dream Big, Dream Fierce" This Oscar Season
30 January 2012 1:35 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
The SAG Awards are receding in the review mirror, but the afterglow remains. How much power can emotional narratives have within our seasonal awards journey? Viola Davis has been a major actress for a long time within the showbiz community -- this very website first handed her two gold medals way back in early 2003 for her gobsmackingly great single scene in Antwone Fisher and her breakthrough year of smart character work in Far From Heaven and Solaris -- but it's only in the past few years that the mainstream has begun to learn her name and key in to her potent gift. There's nothing like a 'who's that?' Oscar nomination (Doubt), A List friendship (Streep) and a big fat juicy hit (The Help) to boost your profile.
So I wasn't surprised but was definitely delighted to see her receive a standing ovation when she walked up to accept Best Actress for The Help. »
- NATHANIEL R
[Sundance Interview] Composer Cliff Martinez Talks ‘Drive,’ ‘Arbitrage’ and ‘Contagion’
28 January 2012 6:00 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
As any good filmmaker will tell you, a good music composers is a vital part to any film success. Cliff Martinez, perhaps best known for his collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh, has had an interesting and diverse career working on many fantastic films. Last year he created the score for Contagion along with Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. This year he has returned to Park City as a juror for the Sundance dramatic competition as well as having composed music for the Richard Gere vehicle Arbitrage. I was lucky enough to sit down with the esteemed composer and discuss his career, how he met Soderbergh and advice for aspiring musicians looking to break into film composing.
The Film Stage: How do you decide what kind of projects you want to work on and what attracts you to a filmmaker, film, or script? What needs the Cliff seal of approval?
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Haywire Review
19 January 2012 5:43 PM, PST | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Haywire Review
If anyone were to be given an award for being a career renaissance man, Steven Soderbergh would certainly be the frontrunner. This versatile filmmaker has spent his career proving there’s no movie genre he’s not willing to take on, whether it’s a movie star-laden heist picture (Ocean’s Eleven), a political biography (Che), a Russian Sci-Fi remake (Solaris), an apocalyptic drama (Contagion), or in the case of his latest big-screen endeavour, Haywire, a Bourne Identity-inspired spy vs. spy action flick that isn’t quite the kick in the head it should be.
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- Kristal Cooper
Liv Tyler Cast in Ti West’s Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller ‘The Side Effect’
18 January 2012 12:00 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Ti West is really moving forward with his next film, the sci-fi tinged thriller The Side Effect. (Which we formerly referred to as The Side Effects, and which I still suspect will get a new title, as Steven Soderbergh is making a movie called Side Effects.) Just days ago we pointed out an interview where West said the film was nearly funded [1] and that he had a lead actor in mind. Now the deal is done for that actor: Liv Tyler, who will play a woman who deals with the psychological effect of months alone in space. Deadline [2] reports the casting and says that Tyler will play "Catherine Rigby, a woman who spends several months alone in space as an experimental subject for a global pharmaceutical company, and finds herself inexplicably pregnant. Paranoia and hysteria reign as the truth behind conception grows more elusive and she remains stranded in space. »
- Russ Fischer
Parker Posey to Host 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony
10 January 2012 1:14 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, the festival is a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The Festival has changed over the decades from a low-profile venue for small-budget, independent creators from outside the Hollywood system to a media extravaganza for Hollywood celebrity actors, paparazzi, and luxury lounges set up by companies that are not affiliated with Sundance.
Now the festival is getting ready for the 2012 edition and today they announced the jury members for this year’s Festival. They include Shari Berman, Scott Burns, Charles Ferguson, Nick Fraser, Mike Judge, Justin Lin, Anthony Mackie, Cliff Martinez, Julia Ormond, Dee Rees and Lynn Shelton.
Here is the official press release:
Park City, Ut — Sundance Institute announced today the 22 members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, »
- Ricky
Why Some Masterful Directors Aren’t Auteurs
9 January 2012 2:22 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Steven Soderbergh has a new film released this month. ‘Haywire’ is incredibly his 7th feature film in just 5 years, and he has another feature currently in production with Magic Mike, due for release in the summer. Working at such a fast pace Soderbergh jumps from one genre to another, tackling plots as wide as heist comedy capers in Ocean’s Thirteen to large scale historical biopics in the form of Che Part 1 & 2. And although he puts out a lot of releases his films are always interesting, individual and best off all, entertaining! What has got me thinking though, is how although Soderbergh has tackled a wide variety of genres and put his own stamp onto much of his work, he doesn’t really fit comfortable into the Autuer column off film directors.
Whilst many directors create a body of work that reflects their own political and social views and opinions, »
- Will Pond
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