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Braveheart – Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau – d: Mel Gibson
28 November 2009 12:25 AM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Braveheart (1995) Direction: Mel Gibson Screenplay: Randall Wallace Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, James Robinson, Brendan Gleeson, Peter Hanly, Ian Bannen, James Cosmo, Catherine McCormack, David O’Hara, Brian Cox Mel Gibson in Braveheart Synopsis: In the 13th century, William Wallace (Mel Gibson), aka Braveheart (in this film), leads the Scottish against English forces in order to attain freedom for his people. The Pros: Production values that an estimated $50-70+ million could buy in the mid-1990s. (Much of this paean to Scottish nationalism was actually filmed in Ireland, thanks to tax concessions granted by the Irish government.) It ends. The Cons: After watching Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, I thought no other best picture Oscar winner could possibly be more mind-numbingly bad. I was wrong. Randall Wallace’s conventional [...] »
- Andre Soares
10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years
23 November 2009 1:12 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
One of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers. Here he takes a nostalgic look at the past two decades, offering his take on the most competitive derbies. Words below are Tariq's. Thanks, m'friend!
We’ve often discussed those Oscar races that seem just too close to call . . . where it’s clear (or at least seems clear) that the eventual winner will nab the Oscar with only a few more votes than his or her nearest competitor. While we can never really know for sure (unless we get one of those top jobs at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers,) we do have some idea of what may have been the closest races in Oscar history. Allow me to present what I believe were the 10 closest acting races over the course of the past 20 years. »
- tomoneil
'47 Ronin' Lands a Director
18 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
47 Ronin’s no prequel to Alien, but it doesn’t sound so bad, either.
Apparently, Hollywood is gearing up for a samurai picture that stars Keanu Reeves and is written by Chris Morgan, whose other writing credits include Fast & Furious and Wanted. For the director’s chair, the production has already zeroed in on Carl Rinsch, an established commercial director who was once attached to the 'Alien' franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Rinsch’s spots for Mercedes and Heineken frequently had futuristic themes, and he was hand-picked by Ridley Scott, who was set to produce the next 'Alien' film, to make his feature directorial debut. Those plans were waylaid, however, when Fox informed Scott they would prefer he helm it.
Now it looks like Rinsch’s first feature will be 47 Ronin instead. Universal is setting up the film with Scott Stuber and Pamela Abdy producing, »
Carl Rinsch Circling 47 Ronin
18 November 2009 12:41 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
The latest samurai project to hit Hollywood, 47 Ronin, finally has a director in Carl Rinsch. We first heard about this film last year and that Keanu Reeves was attached. Rinsch, who shoots commercials for Rsa, has been on Hollywood’s radar for awhile. Rsa owners Ridley and Tony Scott has even previously had discussions with Rinsch to direct the prequel to Aliens, until Ridley Scott decided to return to the franchise he launched.
The film is based on famous fact-based story of a band of samurai swordsmen who avenge the death of their master in 18th century Japan. The script is being written by Chris Morgan who is even going to address Keanu Reeves’ half Asian, half American nationality.
In 47 Ronin, Reeves will play one of the swordsmen; the group and their master are revered in Japan for their revenge attack on Dec. 14, 1702. The film will tell a stylized version of the story, »
- Kevin Coll
Carl Rinsch Is Directing '47 Ronin' Instead Of The 'Alien' Prequel
18 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Filmmaker Carl Rinsch isn't the last samurai, but the once rumored "Alien 5" director could well be one of many ronin.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rinsch will assume the role of lord and master — and, of course, director — over "47 Ronin," Universal's samurai film that Keanu Reeves has been attached to star in for some time. Chris Morgan, who previously described the film as borrowing elements of "Gladiator" and "300," wrote the most recent draft of "47 Ronin."
The movie is based on a Japanese legend of 47 samurai who are left leaderless after the death of their master, who is forced to commit seppuku after a disgraceful incident. The masterless samurai warriors embark upon a year-long vengeance quest against the man most responsible for their lord's death. Reeves would play one of the ronin, with the actor's half-Asian heritage a reported focal point of the movie.
Rinsch's name was most recently thrown around »
- Josh Wigler
Birthday Suits and a Ballsy Actress
18 November 2009 8:47 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Today's stars! Well not literally today's but November 18th. Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you.
Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante
1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy, drop everything right now and do so.
1908 Imogene Coca beloved comic actress, mostly known for TV roles
1917 Pedro Infante Mexico's biggest movie star ever. Here he is singing. Pedro Almodóvar fans will recognize this one immediately
1939 Margaret Atwood, best-selling much-awarded author. Strangely Hollywood doesn't seem to have taken to her in a big way. The Handmaid's Tale (1990) starring Natasha Richardson is one of the few adaptations
1939 Brenda Vaccaro, Midnight Cowgirl and she of one of the oddest Oscar nominations of all time... seriously, have you seen Once Is Not Enough? Here's StinkyLulu's look at that Oscar year.
1941 David Hemmings, »
- NATHANIEL R
47 Ronin Finds Director
18 November 2009 3:57 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Commercial director Carl Erik Rinsch is in advanced talks with Universal to direct 47 Ronin, a samurai saga starring Keanu Reeves set in pre-industrial Japan. Variety stated that the film is a "priority...large budget" project for Universal. It's an unusual move for them considering that they are entrusting the film to a first time feature director who's commercials tend to be on the technically intricate, technology themed side.
Wanted screenwriter Chris Morgan is scripting the project. He elucidated in blockbuster terminology saying "it's a great, Gladiator-esque, 300-like big action movie with samurai and ninja."
Morgan elaborated with MTV saying "It's a time in Japanese culture when it was all about [the] bushido [code] and honor, and putting internal things over external things . swords that were made to be functional instead of ornamental, that kind of stuff," Morgan had previously told MTV. "this turning point in the culture when that started to shift. »
Monopoly Movie Plot Details Revealed
15 November 2009 9:32 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
In a recent interview with The L.A. Times, producer and author Frank Beddor (There’s Something about Mary), the man behind the concept of a movie based on the board game “Monopoly,” revealed the basic story of the film.
Here is his full explanation of the plot.
“I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they’re playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card, »
- Allan Ford
Monopoly Movie Is a "Metaphor for Life"
13 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
When first announced way back in February 2008 that Universal had signed a six-year deal with Hasbro to produce film adaptations of many of the company's classic board games, more than a few people began scratching their heads and rolling their eyes. Even more surprising was the news that Academy Award-nominted filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott, currently at work on his update of Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe, was attached to direct the Monopoly adaptation.
If you're wondering what attracted the acclaimed director of Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and Body of Lies to a movie about "Uncle Pennybags" and his quest to control the real estate market, just ask Frank Beddor, the man whose plot concept for Monopoly was what won Scott over. Beddor said that after his pitch, Scott shook his hand and said, "What do I have [to do] to be part of this movie?" So, what was the pitch? »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Plot Revealed! We Now Know What "Monopoly" the Movie is Going to be About!
12 November 2009 7:45 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Last year, we laughed out loud at the news that Universal Pictures was set to make a movie version of the famous board game "Monopoly!"
And yes, director Ridley Scott, the guy who gave us "Gladiator," "Alien," and "Blade Runner" among others, was interested to helm!
Another lol right? Well, back in March, Scott said, .I have to direct it. We.re in progress right now. We.re having it written. We have identified a pretty good story and it is fundamentally a movie, not a game, probably describing in a way the characters in the film, the passion of the game, and how the game came about..
Now, the Los Angeles Times cornered producer Frank Beddor, and he revealed the majority of the plot! It'll be like "Jumanji" of some kind, where the board game becomes reality! Ooooh...Uncle Pennybags will haunt our dreams!
Beddor said:
"I created a comedic, »
- Manny
Oh Father.
12 November 2009 11:54 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here. Last night after watching Two Lovers (my review here) there was one plea I kept repeating in my mind: please Joaquin Phoenix don't stop acting.
A lot was said earlier during the year about his retirement from acting and foray into rapping (I'm still trying to erase from my mind that unfunny, awkward Ben Stiller stint from the Oscars in February). And while he's been one of the most consistently fine actors in recent years (despite of some of the film choices he's made) and has received two Academy Award nominations this decade, he's truly remained underrated in a way.
People are used to his affecting Method acting and his superb impersonating skills (I still think his Johnny Cash from Walk the Line was robbed of the Best Actor Oscar), but when it comes to the one performance of his I think is pure genius, it's none other »
- Jose
The Monopoly Movie is Worse Than We Thought
12 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Can we get one thing out of the way? Monopoly is boring. The entire game is rolling the dice, passing money around the table and occasionally, when the excitement is at its riveting peak, drawing a card.
It’s an educational game for kids learning to count money or a welcome diversion when a severe thunderstorm sends you back to the stone age, but in this modern, fast-paced world of instant entertainment, sitting down for a 12-hour traditional board game just becomes tedious.
Sure, everyone has played it before, but how recently and how many times have you truly finished a game? Monopoly games usually end when everyone gets bored and surrenders, or a player flips the board in a fit of rage, sending tiny green houses flying.
Universal purchased the movie rights to Monopoly from Hasbro in early 2008 as part of a six-year partnership to bring more toy properties to the big screen. »
- Jeff Leins
Ridley Scott’s ‘Monopoly’ Gets A Plot
12 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
There have been plenty of optioned films over the past few months that don’t make a lot of sense. Peter Berg will be directing a film based on Battleship, Michael Bay is producing Ouija, and Kevin Lima (Enchanted) is directing Candy Land. One other that has struck a “huh?” chord more than others is Ridley Scott’s directing of a movie based on the game Monopoly.
Scott, who is best known for directing such epic (and not family-oriented) films as Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, was supposedly sold on the film during a pitch meeting with Universal and producer Frank Beddor (There’s Something About Mary). In an interview with the La Times, Beddor goes into detail on the pitch that got Ridley Scott so interested.
“I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good »
- Matt Raub
Monopoly Movie Goes Straight To Go... And Collects A Concept!
12 November 2009 3:30 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Frank Beddor, the producer behind There's Something about Mary, has revealed the concept for Ridley Scott's Monopoly movie. When a loveable loser who works at a real estate company in Manhattan tries to convince his friends to help him break the world record for playing Monopoly - 70 days, fact fans - they get in a fight and end up leaving him alone in the apartment holding up a chance card. Out of frustration, he throws the card down and ends up falling asleep. When he awakes, he's holding the chance card and thinks "That's odd..."
Beddor elaborates "He's all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He's confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, 'That's Ok.' And she gives him change in Monopoly money. »
'Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' Requires The Right Soundtrack
10 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
If you're anything like me, you'll be spending the better part of the next four or five months of your life playing all the different variations available on the new watershed video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2." The sequel to the wildly successful "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" (which pulled the military shooter series from historical skirmishes to the current day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan), "Modern Warfare 2" has not only established itself as the best of a great set of titles but also immediately enters the discussion of the greatest video games of all time, right alongside "Super Mario Bros.," "Halo," "Grand Theft Auto III" and "Madden '95." (For the complete take on "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," check out Multiplayer editor Russ Frushtick's in-depth review.)
The cinematic qualities of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" are overwhelming, including a lush score by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer ("Gladiator, »
- Kyle Anderson
Stana Katic: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Actress Stana Katic looking tailored as Detective Kate Beckett in Castle.
Storms The Walls Of Castle
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Actress Stana Katic is on a roll. After scoring supporting roles in two of last year’s highest-profile films, Quantum of Solace and The Spirit, the statuesque Canadian stunner landed the female lead in ABC’s new police drama/romantic comedy Castle, playing Detective Kate Beckett, a tough-as-nails NYPD officer who finds herself with the regrettable assignment of allowing cocky, best-selling crime novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) to shadow her for research on his next book. Not only does she find that Castle’s creative instincts for the criminal mind help her solve some of the city’s most challenging murders, she finds her tough exterior melting under Castle’s considerable charms. The show airs Monday nights on ABC.
Stana Katic sat down with us at a local »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Gerard Butler Cast in Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare Film Coriolanus
4 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Way back in February it was announced that actor Ralph Fiennes would make his debut as a director on a contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus. THR announces, from the on-going American Film Market this week, that Gerard Butler has been cast in the lead role opposite Fiennes, who will also be acting as well as directing. Butler will play Tullus Aufidius, commander of the Volscian army. He joins a cast that includes William Hurt, Eddie Marsan, Jessica Chastain and Vanessa Redgrave. The script was written by John Logan (Gladiator, The Last Samurai). Shooting starts in March next year in Serbia. Coriolanus is a play that's not often taught in schools and most people probably haven't read. It's set in the early years of the Roman Republic, however it sounds like Fiennes has contemporized it instead. The story follows Roman military leader Caius Martius, who returns home from »
- Alex Billington
Gerard Butler Joins Coriolanus
4 November 2009 3:07 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gerard Butler has signed on to star in Ralph Fiennes directorial debut film, Coriolanus. The film is being described as a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's political and family drama.
Butler will play the role of Tulles Aufidius, a commander of the Volscian Army who has fought with Corialanus, played by Fiennes, on many occasions and considers him his biggest enemy. Butler joins a cast that includes Jessica Chastain, William Hurt, Eddie Marsan and Vanessa Redgrave.
The film, penned by The Last Samurai and Gladiator scribe John Logan, is set to begin shooting in Serbia in March 2010.
>> Real the whole article | on Screenrush - Wednesday 4 November 2009
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7 Directors Who Could Handle ‘Dune’
28 October 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
With the riveting news that Peter Berg is hopping off Dune and with Paramount's search for a new director come the names Neill Blomkamp and Neil Marshall being tossed around. Clearly, Paramount is contractually obligated to hire a director named Neil (which explains why Berg probably left). However, we here at Fsr are never content with the obvious. Instead, we'd like to throw out a few directorial talents we think could turn the new adaptation of Dune and make it something special. Hopefully, a few of the names will surprise, and you should be warned that we haven't consulted the Bene Gesserit with any of these names. So here they are, in no particular order: 7. Martin Campbell The Pitch: Despite not being named Neil, Campbell blew everyone away with Casino Royale. So much so that he nabbed the job directing Green Lantern, and people still don't realize he directed GoldenEye. He's »
- FSR Staff
New Set Photos from Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Movie Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, and Mark Strong
27 October 2009 11:09 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
More Set Photos from Ridley Scott’s still untitled Robin Hood flick (although it looks like it will probably just be called “Robin Hood”) have surfaced online and as you can see from these images it still looks like a “Robin Hood” movie. In a recent interview on Australian television, Crowe said that the 1991 Kevin Costner film, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” was “like watching an extended Jon Bon Jovi video clip.” I find that statement funny because I look at the costumes and locations for this movie and I feel like I’ve saw this upcoming Ridley Scott version back in 1991 when it was called “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”. Hit the jump to see the set photos and why I think Scott’s “Robin Hood” won’t work.
Scott’s film will supposedly be a “realistic” take on the Robin Hood myth and that makes me even more uninterested in the movie. »
- Matt Goldberg
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