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13 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Things to do with your family this week
At home
We've become compulsive badge makers. It only takes a minute to create one, but one is never enough and our packet of safety pins was consumed quickly in a burst of creativity. We crafted a "Harry is six today" badge for a friend, moving on to emblems for our favourite causes before graduating to a clutch of fashion accessories. First get an image: draw one, cut out a photo from a magazine or print something from the internet. The more colourful the better. Then glue it to some card, tape a safety pin on the back and the job is done. For a deluxe version, laminate the front with clear tape or clingfilm.
We have created insignia that make us self-styled members of International Rescue (Thunderbirds are go!), name badges for fireman/doctor/nurse role-play, and emblems for our own dolphin lovers' club. »
Principal Photography Starts on Untitled Gus Van Sant Film
13 November 2009 7:12 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Filming has begun on location in Portland, Oregon on an untitled project from two-time Academy Award-nominated director Gus Van Sant, starring Mia Wasikowska (upcoming Alice in Wonderland) and Henry Hopper. The film's screenplay was written by first-timer Jason Lew, based upon his original stage play "Of Winter and Water Birds." The film is produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, and Bryce Dallas Howard and Gus Van Sant. The supporting cast includes Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, and Jane Adams.
In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Van Sant will present a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring. The screenplay is by Jason Lew.
Bryce Dallas Howard, a producer of the film, said, "This film is a quietly epic coming of age story. It »
15 Hilarious Japanese Commercials Starring Hollywood Actors
13 November 2009 6:32 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
The announcement that Quentin Tarantino recently starred in a Japanese Softbank commercial has been making headlines [1] around the web this week, and I am still not quite sure why people are making such a big deal out of it. It's no surprise that Qt is somewhat well-versed in Japanese culture and no surprise that he enjoys hamming it up for the camera either. More to the point, I don't think these goofy commercials are quite as detrimental to a celebrity's reputation as it once was believed. After YouTube and websites like Japander [2] spread them across the internet for the whole world to see, and Bill Murray poked fun at the practice in Lost in Translation, it's easy to see why the Hollywood elite shied away for a while. However, lately Japanese commercials seem to be back in vogue, and we are even starting to see domestic ads becoming more acceptable as well. »
- Sean
Focus Features Passes $1 Billion Mark, Announces 2010 Slate -- and it's Exciting!
12 November 2009 6:40 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Focus Features, the little engine that could, has passed $1 billion mark in domestic box-office!
Focus Features CEO James Schamus said, .Next year.s Focus slate follows one of the company.s best years ever . our eighth profitable year in a row since our inception, and the year in which we passed the $1 billion mark in cumulative domestic box office alone.
.Our 2010 lineup is as audacious as any in our history, ranging from American indies like Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck.s It.s Kind of a Funny Story to big international productions like Anton Corbijn.s The American..
I love Focus Features and its stance on quality filmmaking! This year, the studio delighted us with "Away We Go," "Coraline," "Taking Woodstock," "9," "A Serious Man," and "Pirate Radio."
Next year, the studio is set to delight us more! Check out their upcoming releases:
Opening in select cities on Friday, March 12th will be "Greenberg, »
- Manny
Focus Features Announces Their 2010 Release Slate
12 November 2009 4:50 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Focus Features CEO James Schamus today announced the company's domestic theatrical release slate for 2010, with six confirmed movies to date.
Schamus said, "Next year's Focus slate follows one of the company's best years ever - our eighth profitable year in a row since our inception, and the year in which we passed the $1 billion mark in cumulative domestic box office alone.
"Our 2010 lineup is as audacious as any in our history, ranging from American indies like Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck's It's Kind of a Funny Story to big international productions like Anton Corbijn's The American.
Focus president Andrew Karpen noted, "This month's tremendous showing at the American Film Market once again proves the resiliency and flexibility of Focus' global approach to the business. The breadth, depth, and nuance we bring to the international release of each film on our slate - and our ability domestically to manage every kind of release, »
Focus Features Sets 2010 Release Dates for Six Films
12 November 2009 4:04 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The other day we premiered the first images and official synopses from Focus Features Greenberg, The Eagle of the Ninth, and Somewhere. Now, thanks to Focus sending out a press release, we have an idea when some of them are getting released.
On March 12th, director Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg will hit theaters for a limited release. The film stars Ben Stiller. After that we’re getting Thomas Balmes Babies on April 16th and director Anton Corbijn’s The American on September. 1st. That’s the George Clooney assassin film. Sometime in the third quarter will be Kevin Macdonald’s Roman adventure The Eagle of the Ninth, and in November It’s Kind of a Funny Story gets released. The big question mark is Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, which still doesn’t have a release date.
The thing to remember is release dates change all the time, so before you »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Top 10 Annoyingly Ambiguous Movie Endings
11 November 2009 8:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Yesterday, we posted a very funny video from College Humor that resolved some classic ambiguous endings in film: The Graduate, Lost in Translation, and so forth. But it reminded me that sometimes these vague endings can be truly irritating and frustrating. I hate sitting through what is shaping up into a good movie experience, then the end negates the whole film, makes no sense, or just plain ends without warning or closure.
Sometimes these ambiguous endings are great: I felt the ending of The Wrestler was just right, and I also liked the way the recently released A Serious Man concluded. Sometimes these unresolved endings are meant to pave the way for a sequel, which is great if you happen to have the sequel there with you, but when it's a new movie, you just want to throttle the filmmakers. Here are 10 movies with endings that make me want to »
- Jette Kernion
SoftBank sell: should Quentin Tarantino be advertising Japanese cellphones
11 November 2009 8:58 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Tarantino is the latest film star to be showing up on the small screen in Japan. Embarrassing? Or, rather, more embarrassing than Brad Pitt?
In the not-too distant past it was quite possible for Hollywood stars to pocket what we can only imagine are swagbags of cash for starring in some pretty goofy Japanese advertisements, safe in the knowledge that no one they knew well would ever get to see them. Unfortunately (for them, at least) YouTube has changed all that.
That said, Quentin Tarantino's latest foray into acting is unlikely to prove tremendously embarrassing - if only because it shows the director of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction as a good sport. Tarantino is the latest celeb to appear in a long-running series of ads for Japanese mobile phone manufacturer SoftBank, starring the White family, whose members include Me (played by popular singer/actress Aya Ueto), Dad (a »
- Ben Child
Is Avatar One of the Top 100 Movies of the Decade?
11 November 2009 6:23 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
The end of the decade is almost upon us, which means that over the next month or so you can expect to see all kinds of lists counting down the "Best Of" the previous 10 years in just about everything. One of the first publications out of the gate with their Best Movies of the Decade list is London's Telegraph [1], who count down their top 100 movies from 2000 to 2009. There are some interesting choices and some predictable ones, along with a few movies I've never even heard of. One thing that has a few people raising an eyebrow, however, is the fact that they've included James Cameron's Avatar on their list, based solely on the 15-minute IMAX preview! Isn't that a little presumptuous? To be fair, they did tack it on at the end of the list at #100, but it still feels like they're going mainly based on hype rather than anything concrete. »
- Sean
Photos: Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, and The American
10 November 2009 11:16 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Our friends at Collider scored a shitload of early promotional images and posters from the American Film Market. You can head on over to Collider to see all of the images, but I thought I'd profile a few of the projects that I'm more looking forward to. After the jump you will find photos of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, Noah Baumbach's Greenberg starring Ben Stiller and The American starring George Clooney, Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), "a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans. Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self. Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning »
- Peter Sciretta
First Images and Synopses from 2010’s Biggest Films Including The American, Somewhere, Greenberg, and Eagle Of The Ninth
10 November 2009 10:54 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Steve went to the American Film Market (Afm) today. Afm is where film buyers go to pick up some of the biggest movies that are in development or already completed. The film sellers use promo art and synopses to entice buyers. It also enticed Steve to land some the first images and full synopsis for some of the biggest upcoming films of 2010. We’ve got the goods for The American starring George Clooney, Eagle of the Ninth starring Channing Tatum, Greenberg starring Ben Stiller, and Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, and much more.
Looking at the images and reading the synopsis should really get you excited for these films so hit the jump and check it all out.
Be forewarned, that these are full synopsis and may be considered to spoiler-ific for some. Read carefully.
The American, directed by Anton Corbijn (Control)
Jack (George Clooney »
- Matt Goldberg
Finally! All Those Ambiguous Movie Endings Resolved!
10 November 2009 12:40 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Nothing gets the blood boiling like an ambiguous movie ending. You've invested roughly two or more hours of your time on a film only to watch the freakin' thing fade to black right in the middle of a conversation or before the main characters had time to resolve all their issues. The person you're watching the film with almost always goes "That's it!? That's how they're ending it!?" before turning to you and saying something like, "That's the last time I let you pick the movie!"
Well, good news is those maniacs at College Humor managed to dig up the actual endings for a group of movies whose ambiguous finales are pretty memorable. They have Lost in Translation, No Country for Old Men, The Graduate, The Wrestler and even The Sopranos. Always wonder what Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson? Or ponder what happened to Mickey Rourke's character after »
- Erik Davis
Backstreet Boys Get Lost In Translation In New Music Video
3 November 2009 10:54 AM, PST | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
The Killers went to Japan for their "Read My Mind" music video. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson got "Lost in Translation" for Sophia Coppola. And now the Backstreet Boys have headed to the Far East for the video for their new single, "Bigger."
The video is chock full of things that Westerners equate with Japan: Harajuku girls, karaoke, sushi, lots of flashing lights, arcades and boy bands (Japan still loves boy bands, and by definition Bsb is still a boy band). The video is incredibly endearing, showing the guys laughing and goofing around with fans and each other on the streets of Japan, as well as in various restaurants and, of course, karaoke rooms.
The song is certainly a return to Bsb form. The first single off This Is Us was the band's take on an R&B club banger, complete with a vampire-themed music video. "Bigger" is quite the »
- Jocelyn Vena
Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made it to a Theatre Near You – For Better or Worse
29 October 2009 3:33 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made it to a Theatre Near You – For Better or Worse David S. Cohen, HarperCollins 2008. From the onset, Screen Plays looks like promising reading material for screenwriters and others interested in how screenplays make it from paper to screen. Cohen’s credits are respectable, and the promise of “valuable insider access to the back lots and board rooms” is tantalizing. The book covers some pretty good ground: from blockbusters such as Gladiator, to Indiewood hits such as Lost in Translation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to more controversial films such as Happiness and A Dirty Shame, it picks up a decent selection of interesting films that appeal to a broad demographic. In other words, he knows what he’s doing. Screen Plays is easy to navigate, and offers juicy little tidbits from the mouths of actors, directors, and screenwriters. The writing is simple and concise, »
- Ricky
Johansson to make Broadway debut
27 October 2009 1:12 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut in December in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, reports WENN. The Lost in Translation actress will star opposite Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber in the drama set in 1950s America. Bridge centres on a Brooklyn dockyard worker (Schreiber) obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, to be played (more) »
- By Mike Moody
Elegantly Bubbly
26 October 2009 1:01 AM, PDT | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »
It should not be surprising that a famous Hollywood star is the face of a luxury brand. They seem to have their face on everything these days, from watches to designer clothing and even European cars. But when quintessential champagne house, Möet & Chandon, for the first time in champagne marketing history elects to use a famous actress to be their ambassador, and that celebrity happens to be Scarlett Johansson, it is a beautiful amalgamation befitting the hype. Since her springboard to worldwide fame with Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation, Johansson has been delighting audiences with a range of roles encompassing gritty dramas, period features and mainstream romantic comedies (A Love Song For Bobby Long, The Other Boleyn Girl, He's Just Not That Into You), and in recent times has been the muse of Woody Allen (Match Point, Scoop, Vicky Cristina Barcelona). »
Johansson Sparkles At Champagne Sponsored Film Event In Tokyo
21 October 2009 7:59 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Actress Scarlett Johansson has put her bubbly personality to good use.
The young actress was the guest of honor for champagne producers Moët & Chandon's Monday gala "Tribute to Cinema." Johansson took on the guise of the Moet Muse at the event, sponsored by the winemakers in Tokyo as part of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The "He's Just Not That Into You" star was originally unveiled as the Moët Muse earlier in the year as part of an international advertising campaign shot by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. While on the red carpet for the event, exuberantly lit with a golden hue, Johansson autographed a Moët Methuselah, which was made available for auction through the charity of her choice.
Held in Roppongi Hills, the Tokyo location for "Tribute to Cinema" was chosen on behalf of Johansson, in honor of her breakthrough role in the 2003 Sofia Coppola film "Lost in Translation, »
Murray Wants McG Dead
20 October 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Bill Murray has less than fond memories of working with moviemaker McG on Charlie's Angels - he thinks the director deserves to die a horrible death.
The two men famously fell out on the set of the 2000 action film, starring Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, with McG claiming the surly star had headbutted him during a disagreement.
Murray refutes the headbutt story, but admits he and the filmmaker disliked each other immensely.
In an interview with London newspaper The Times, Murray says, "He deserves to die! He should be pierced with a lance."
The Lost In Translation star refuses to confirm reports he also fell out with Angel Lucy Liu on set, allegedly telling her she couldn't act, but questions about his relationship with the actress prompted Murray to growl about his rules for co-stars.
He adds, "I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me... When our relationship is professional, and you’re not getting that done, forget it." »
The Top 10 Most Influential Scores of the Past Decade: #2
6 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | SCOREcastOnline.com | See recent SCOREcastOnline.com news »
#2 - American Beauty
A second-generation member of Hollywood's preeminent musical dynasty, composer Thomas Newman weighs in on our countdown with the #2 most influential score of the past decade: American Beauty.
American Beauty score was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to John Corigliano's "The Red Violin". Perhaps just what kind of influence Newman's score has bestowed on modern film composing can be summed up by a comment on the Movie Music UK website:
"It's difficult to know what to say about Thomas Newman's score, except that it can probably be summed up by one simple word: unconventional. You only need to look at the list of instruments used in the score's make-up to see what I mean - tablas, kim-kim drums, bird calls, mandolas, Appalachian dulcimers, lap steel guitars, ukuleles, arpeggiated violins, detuned mandolins. And a saz - whatever a saz is."
The fact is »
- noreply@blogger.com (SCOREcast Admin)
Scarlett Johansson: Broadway-Bound?
29 September 2009 11:30 PM, PDT | Celebuzz.com | See recent Celebuzz news »
Is Scarlett Johansson heading for the Great White Way? Broadway.com reports that the Lost in Translation actress may be starring in an upcoming revival of the Neil Simon/Burt Bacharach/Hal David musical Promises, Promises, alongside former Will and Grace star Sean Hayes. Johansson would be playing Fran, a waitress who falls for Consollidated Life Insurance up-and-comer Chuck. It was originally rumored that Anne Hathaway would be filling the role in the play, which has yet to receive an official debut date. Let us know in the comments section: Does ScarJo have the pipes to sing on Broadway? You might want to check out one... »
- Celebuzz
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