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Frost/Nixon (2008) More at IMDbPro »
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Sheen Boosted Popularity With Family Lie
24 November 2009 12:16 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Michael Sheen was so desperate to be liked at school, he pretended he was related to a famous motorcycle racer to improve his popularity.
The Frost/Nixon star told school pals that British world champion Barry Sheene was his uncle, and would even fake his autograph for fellow students.
But he was almost caught out when a paper delivery boy asked his dad if the story was true.
He says, "The most famous Sheen when I was growing up was Barry Sheene, the motorbike racer and a handsome devil he was... A lot of people would say, 'Are you related to Barry Sheene?' And I just couldn't resist and I said, 'Yes I am. I am, he is my uncle'. So it's a little white lie really which kind of spiralled, until eventually people were asking me for his autograph. I used to fake his autograph, bring it in to school.
"I wanted to be liked and so eventually it got to the point when people would say, 'Can you bring some memorabilia back?' and all that and it got way out of control. So one day I was in my living room, there was knock on the door, and my dad opened the door and it was the paper boy coming to collect his money for the round that week and it was a boy from school. I heard him say, 'Is it true that your brother is Barry Sheene?' And I just thought... 'This is it, my life is going to come to an end. Not only will I be in trouble with my father for lying but also my secret will be out in school and that would be terrible'. And my dad went, 'Yes that's right.'" »
Howard To Receive Top Filmmaking Honour
15 July 2009 1:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran director Ron Howard will be honoured for his long-running filmmaking career at this year's Austin Film Festival.
Howard will receive the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award annual event in October.
In a career spanning 50 years, the star has become one of the most successful moviemakers of all time, creating mega-hits such as Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and Frost/Nixon and seeing his work pull in nine Oscars.
Howard will be on hand throughout the festival to host a series of panels for other filmmakers.
Previous recipients of the award include Oliver Stone, Sydney Pollack and Danny Boyle. »
Moore Pulls Out Of Clinton Role
9 July 2009 5:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Special Relationship has seen its second dropout - Julianne Moore has been forced to quit her role as former U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton due to scheduling conflicts.
Moore was set to star alongside Dennis Quaid, who will portray ex U.S. President Bill Clinton in the new movie, about the professional relationship between the charismatic leader and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
However, Moore has had to step down from the role due to other work commitments, just weeks after original director Peter Morgan also pulled out of the project.
Actress Hope Davis will now step into Moore's shoes, while British filmmaker Richard Loncraine has signed up to take over from Morgan.
Frost/Nixon star Michael Sheen will once again reprise the role of Blair, after he received high acclaim for his portrayal of the former British leader in Oscar-winning movie The Queen. »
Sheen Calls For Drama Funding For U.K. Youth
20 May 2009 5:15 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Michael Sheen is encouraging the U.K. government to help fund schemes for children who dream of acting - because he owes his movie career to a drama school in his native Wales.
The Frost/Nixon star began acting as a teen with The West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, but is heartbroken that the institution can now barely afford to run the drama programme.
And the star insists there is no lack of young talent in Britain - but more money is needed to help budding actors flourish.
He says, "It is not being funded as it once was and there's no drama at my old school any more.
"I am very saddened that the way I came up and the reason I got into acting has now gone. If I were the age now that I was when I first got into theatre I simply would not be an actor because the route I took does not exist any more. There is one reason for that: funding." »
Sheen Signs Up For New Moon
12 April 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Frost/Nixon star Michael Sheen is to star as a bloodsucking vampire in the highly anticipated Twilight sequel.
Sheen has agreed to take on a prominent role alongside fellow Brit Robert Pattinson in New Moon, director Chris Weitz has revealed.
He will play the character Aro - the leader of an Italian vampire clan called the Volturi.
Weitz says, "Michael’s role is so important because he’s the head of all vampires. Aro is, on the surface, a very gracious and friendly vampire, but beneath that he is a tremendous threat."
Sheen will reportedly receive $7.3 million (£5 million) for taking on the role.
Filming on New Moon is scheduled to begin in Italy this spring. »
Frost Portrayal Sent Sheen To The Dentist
24 March 2009 3:05 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Playing TV personality David Frost on stage and screen in Frost/Nixon sent actor Michael Sheen to the dentist.
Trying to perfect Frost's famous underbite cost the Welsh star jaw problems that he had to get fixed when filming on the Oscar-nominated movie wrapped.
He explains, "For two years, I had to spend most of the time with my jaw sticking out, and I started to have a problem. I had to have dental work.
"You know the thing that attaches your gum to your lip... I f**ked it up from doing that. I had to have work done on my jaw." »
DVD Release Dates Set For Best Film Nominees
19 March 2009 2:36 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , second only to Slumdog Millionaire among 2008 award winners, will be released on DVD on May 5, Paramount Home Video announced today (Thursday). Clearly Paramount is keeping a window open wide between the film's theatrical run and its availability on home video, something that makes the much earlier DVD release of Slumdog appear all the more curious. Slumdog, which finished in sixth place at the box office last weekend with $5 million and has moved up to fifth place in mid-week business, is being released by Fox on March 31. Universal has already released Milk, another film nominated for best picture (but it did little business theatrically). It has also scheduled Frost/Nixon for release on April 21. »
Langella Plans Memoirs
17 March 2009 12:10 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Frost/Nixon Oscar-nominee Frank Langella is forging ahead with plans for an autobiography - 18 months after scrapping it for fear of embarrassing his kids.
Speaking back in November 2007, the 71-year-old insisted he would wait until he was 80 before putting pen to paper, claiming the explosive details of his eventful life would be too much for his two children.
He said, "My biography has been cooking for years. It won't come out until I'm 80 because there's too much in it that would be very revealing and racy. I feel if you're gonna write an autobiography you have to write the truth and I want to be a very old person. I want my kids to be very settled and mature when they read what a dog their dad was."
But in a new interview with film journalist Liz Smith, Langella reveals he "will be writing his memoirs" soon. »
"Slumdog Millionaire" sweeps the Oscars. Penn, Ledger, Winslet and Cruz shine.
23 February 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Slumdog Millionaire" has almost completely swept the Oscars® with awards including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture and both original song and score music categories. Other notable wins included: - Sean Penn who took home the Best Actor award, his second after 2004's "Mystic River."- Heath Ledger for his astounding performance in Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Dark Knight"- Kate Winslet - Once again for her work in "The Reader" after a two Golden Globe's earned for "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader"- Penelope Cruz - In Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" comedy As announced, here are the winners (noted in bold) of the 2009 Academy Awards which were announced on Sunday, February 22nd. Performance by an actor in a leading role Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films) Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features) Brad Pitt in »
Slumdog Takings Rocket In Wake Of Oscars
23 February 2009 4:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Oscars success of Slumdog Millionaire has already affected its performance at the box office - takings have more than doubled since it was nominated for ten Academy Awards last month.
The hit movie, which scooped eight honours including Best Picture and Best Director for Danny Boyle at the ceremony on Sunday, netted an extra $54 million (£37 million) in the four week run-up to the event.
Access Hollywood reports the huge surge in takings was more than the other four Best Picture nominees combined, according to monitoring company Media By Numbers.
Other Oscars nominees also cashed in on the kudos of a potential award - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button scooped a further $20.6 million (£14 million), The Reader took an extra $15.3 million (£10 million), Frost/Nixon nearly doubled its post-nomination gross by $8.6 million (£5.8 million), and Milk netted a further $7.6 million (£5.2 million). »
Oscars: 'Slumdog Millionaire' Wins Best Picture
22 February 2009 8:55 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
We said it earlier in our Oscar night rundown: It was the best picture of 2008. And isn't this really what it's all about? The Academy gets it wrong a lot, but this year, they were dead-on. Incidentally, our own prediction that this would sweep in its nine categories fell just one short, losing Best Sound Editing. But as Meat Loaf kind of said once, eight out of nine ain't bad. »
- Colin Boyd
Oscars: Best Actor Sean Penn
22 February 2009 8:47 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Best Actor:
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Winner: Sean Penn
Surprising primarily because of the Academy's history of rewarding the comeback, Sean Penn was truly great in a demanding high-wire act, and the industry truly loves his abilities. This race came down to Penn and Rourke, of course, and while there was more mainstream support for Rourke's storyline, there's clearly something quite powerful in Penn's Harvey Milk. »
- Colin Boyd
Oscars: Best Director Danny Boyle
22 February 2009 8:23 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Best Director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - Benjamin Button
Winner: Danny Boyle
It's very hard to argue with this pick, even though my own vote would've gone to David Fincher. However, Slumdog has a chance to be one of those epochal moments in cinema, one that truly opens the door to a greater appreciation of the world's cultures and how they are represented on screen. And, listen, it's the best movie of the year, so you can't ever go wrong rewarding the man who made it happen.
Nice Tigger jump, too. »
- Colin Boyd
Live coverage: 81st Annual Academy Awards
22 February 2009 7:36 PM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Here are the results from the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Winners are marked in red.
Best Picture
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
'Milk'
Best Director
Danny Boyle for 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Stephen Daldry for 'The Reader'
David Fincher for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Ron Howard for 'Frost/Nixon'
Gus Van Sant for 'Milk'
Best Actor
Richard Jenkins for 'The Visitor'
Frank Langella for 'Frost/Nixon'
Brad Pitt for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Mickey Rourke for 'The Wrestler'
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway for 'Rachel Getting Married'
Angelina Jolie for 'Changeling'
Melissa Leo for 'Frozen River'
Meryl Streep for 'Doubt'
Kate Winslet for »
- Franck Tabouring
Oscars: 'Milk,' 'Slumdog' Win Screenplay Awards
22 February 2009 6:03 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Best Original Screenplay:
Winner: Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Probably not a real surprise if you've been following the awards season, and as it became more clear that the number of probable Oscars for Milk diminshed, Dustin Lance Black's script became the one award the film could most likely count on.
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Winner: Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
It's the best screenplay in this category, and the first domino to fall, most likely. »
- Colin Boyd
Oscar Nominees Not Getting "Bump"
17 February 2009 1:38 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Last weekend may have produced more revenue at the box office than any previous weekend in February, but none of the recent Oscar-nominated movies shared in the windfall. While Friday the 13th was earning $45.2 million, Oscar-nominated Frost/Nixon was taking in only $473,000. In 11 weeks it has earned just $16.3 million, 36 percent of what Friday earned in four days. Likewise Milk has earned a total of $26.7 million and The Reader, $19.4 million. (The Reader appears to be the only film to have experienced "the Oscar bump" -- doubling its gross since it was nominated.) Daily Variety commented today (Tuesday) that "the cachet of a nomination isn't a fool-proof guarantee" of more business. And Los Angeles Times media columnist Patrick Goldstein concluded, "It's time for filmmakers to grasp the new reality: The Oscars have become a hollow brass ring."
The top ten films for the four-day Presidents Day weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. Friday the 13th, Warner Bros., $8.7 million; 2. He's Just Not That Into You, Warner Bros., $23.4 million; 3. Taken, 20th Century Fox, $22.2 million; 4. Coraline, Focus, $19.1 million; 5. Confessions of a Shopaholic, Disney, $17.3 million; 6. Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Sony/Columbia, $13.9 million; 7. Pink Panther 2, Sony/MGM, $10.8 million; 8. The International, Sony/Columbia, $10.7 million; 9. Slumdog Millionaire, Fox Searchlight, $8.7 million; 10. Push, Summit Entertainment, $7.9 million. »
En route to Oscars, 'Slumdog Millionaire' sweeps BAFTA awards
8 February 2009 10:02 PM, PST | Bollywoodworld.com | See recent BollywoodWorld news »
London, British filmmaker Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire", Mumbai-based rags-to-riches movie, has won top honours at Britain's most prestigious film awards with a sweeping seven wins, including best film. It beat four other contenders Sunday - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Frost/Nixon", "Milk" and "The Reader" - to win best film at the awards ceremony in London's Royal Opera House. "Slumdog Millionaire" also won the best director award for Danny Boyle, racing ahead of Clint Eastwood for "Changeling", David Fincher for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon" and Stephen Daldry for "The Reader". The film also won awards for adapted screenplay, music (Indian composer A.R. Rahman), editing, cinematography and sound, as it continued its »
Winners List of 2009 BAFTA Awards
8 February 2009 6:16 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Having become one of the awards' season favorites, "Slumdog Millionaire" once again showed its domination at the 2009 Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). On Sunday, February 8, at a gala ceremony held in London, the drama movie about a poor Indian orphan who gets a shot at winning millions in a television game has collected seven trophies, including Best Film.
For the Best Film title, "Slumdog" bested over "Frost/Nixon", "Milk", "The Reader" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". It has also scored Best Director for Danny Boyle, Best Music for A.R. Rahman, Best Cinematography for Anthony Dod Mantle, Best Editing for Chris Dickens and Best Sound.
In addition to all of those prizes, the movie, which has been honored with a Best Adapted Screenplay kudo at 2009 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 7, has secured another Adapted Screenplay throphy for Simon Beaufoy. "I've had a complex relationship with this statue, »
- AceShowbiz.com
Slumdog Millionaire, Milk Have Write Stuff at WGA Awards
7 February 2009 10:57 PM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
If this award season were a quiz show, Slumdog Millionaire would be the final answer. The much-honored indie love story took yet another honor—Best Adapted Screenplay—at tonight's 2009 Writers Guild Awards. Milk scored the Original Screenplay prize. 30 Rock, Mad Men, In Treatment, Breaking Bad, Recount, John Adams, The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live were among the TV winners. Tina Fey's 30 Rock was honored for both best writing on a comedy series and best writing of a single comedy episode ("Succession"). Slumdog's Simon Beaufoy defeated the writers of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, all of whom he'll face at the Oscars, and The Dark Knight, »
BAFTA Awards promise preview of how the Oscars may play out
7 February 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
The Oscars' five best picture nominees line up exactly with the contenders for the top prize at Sunday's BAFTAs. "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" lead the pack at the BAFTA Awards with 11 nominations each while "Frost/Nixon" and "Milk" have six and three bids, respectively. Surprise nominee "The Reader" — which many believe bumped "The Dark Knight" from the top race on both sides of the Atlantic — got five nods in total. (And, as is the case with the Oscars, "The Dark Knight" has eight nominations here.)
Since the BAFTAs were moved up in 2000 to take place while academy members are still voting for the Oscars, these laurels have foreseen only two best picture winners — "Gladiator" (2000) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003). However, the BAFTAs do far better at predicting the acting Oscar winners. Both last year and in 2006, all four BAFTA »
- tomoneil
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