Pulp Fiction was featured at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills as part of the Academy’s newest 17-week “Great To Be Nominated” series.
It was revealed that Miramax kingpin Harvey Weinstein had plans to open a chain of Jack Rabbit Slims restaurants after Pulp Fiction became such a huge success. Apparently Quentin Tarantino had to talk him down, explaining that the restaurant in the film was actually goofing on the trend of popular theme restaurants of the early ’90s. But Tarantino acknowledged that the five-dollar milkshake is no longer just a joke, but a reality in most diners and restaurants.
The Jack Rabbit Slim [...]

The good, and potentially great, news? This is just crazy, let me catch my breath. One of the best actors working today, Daniel Day-Lewis, is in talks to follow-up his Oscar-winning role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood with yet another award-caliber epic. So, what’s the sort of off-putting (but not necessarily bad) news? If it pans out, Day-Lewis’s next film will belong to Hollywood’s current remake pantheon, though this one sounds more like a bold and careful “re-envisioning.”
Director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Last Wave) and Warner Bros. are fast-tracking an $80 million remake of Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog’s classic and quite deranged 1982 film about an [...]

The following review contains spoilers and touches on topics and themes from the film, There Will Be Blood, which may prove unsettling for some readers. This review is long as hell because TWBB is long as hell, but it is also one of the best films ever made and the best film this decade.
The fact that Paul Thomas Anderson’s American epic, There Will Be Blood, did not win an Oscar for Best Picture or Best Director says nothing about the film’s quality and inarguable stature as a masterpiece, but much about how we deal with an artist who swims out to the mark of greatness and madness, leaving the rest [...]

David Spade impersonates Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in this hilarious There Will Be Blood parody video titled “There Will Be Oscars” over at FunnyorDie.com. Spade’s Plainview wants the Oscar gold. He’s worked long and hard for this moment. This is probably the funniest thing Spade has done in years. Watch the video now below.

Thanks to FirstShowing for discovering this.

Daniel Plainview’s “I drink your milkshake…I drink it up! [slurp]” is chugging along to become pop culture’s new “…with fava beans and a nice chianti [slurp],” and nothing says “crossover art house hit” like a precocious YouTube mash-up. Kevin Kunze, presumably of the University of San Francisco, has set up DDL on a blind date with underrated pop-rap chanteuse Kelis, lacing imagery from There Will Be Blood with her space-age booty anthem “Milkshake.” The resulting video is called, ahem, “There Will Be [Milkshakes].” If anyone wants to make a quick Internet buck, get to making some TWBMS t-shirts pronto. Here’s hoping that Hollertronix or Weird Al puts out a [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis did an extensive 56-minute interview with Charlie Rose about There Will Be Blood. Watch it below.

Paramount Vantage has provided us with video interviews with the stars of one of the best films of 2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Watch below as Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano talk about this new film classic. It’s amazing how much different Daniel is from the characters he creates.
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Most major city regions have a society or association of film critics, who each year join together to vote on the best films and performances of the year. This weekend the winners have been announced for the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC), and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA). Here is a round up of the results:
Here is the quick briefing:
The Cohen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men took the Best Film of the year award in three out of the five. Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood [...]

You watched the trailer, you read the review, and now you have another chance to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.
Live in Los Angeles? Paramount Vantage, Back Stage West, and The Hollywood Reporter are sponsoring a small screening in La La Land on Thursday, November 15th at 7:00pm (Leonard H. Goldenson Theater, 5220 Lankershim Blvd.). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Anderson and star Daniel Day-Lewis. Admission is free but you must RSVP, call (323) 956-1006. Seating is VERY limited, so if you get on the RSVP list, arrive extremely early.
This is a movie you don’t want to miss. I saw it earlier this week, [...]

I flew back from the junket-filled weekend in Los Angeles to attend a super special screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood at the famous Castro Theater in San Francisco. There were no advance ticket sales, only cash at the door, with the proceeds going to charity. One fan waited in line from 7:30am to see the film, and when I arrived at 5:30pm for the 7:30pm screening, the line was down the street, and around the block, into a parking lot behind the theater.
This event wasn’t open to traditional press, so it was interesting to see all the die hard San Francisco movie press in line with [...]

Last month an early trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood hit the internets, although not many people saw it (probably because it was on and off MySpace within minutes). Paramount Vantage has released a new theatrical trailer for the film, which can be viewed after the jump.
But before you check that out, read some of these glowing quotes from a few early reviews which hit the web this week.

Variety’s Todd McCarthy: “an obsessive, almost microscopically observed study of an extreme sociopath who determinedly destroys his ties to other human beings.”
Icontention.com: “There Will Be Blood might be one of the most fascinating films ever crafted. It is operatic [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood premiered as a super secret film at Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas this week, and most people are calling it the best movie of both the year and Anderson’s career. We weren’t there to see the film itself (you can check out a trailer at this link), so we bring you a gathering of some of the journalists and bloggers who were in attendance.
Harry at Aintitcool: “It is a legendary performance. Iconic and powerful. It is his absolute best work, which is saying something as he has never ever been anything other than great.”
Marjorie Baumgarten at Variety: “Certain to be rewarded with year-end [...]

Have you ever seen the movie How Green Was My Valley? Me neither.
Have you even heard of the movie? Didn’t think so.
Yet John Ford’s film somehow won 5 Oscars including Best Picture. But what’s more shocking: It beat out such classic films as Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon for the top honor. (Note: I’m not saying that Ford’s film is a bad movie. I’m just saying that in terms of reviews, user ratings, and all time-top 10 lists, it’s not to the level of Kane and Falcon)
How can that be? As it turns out there are a lot of movies that should have won Best Picture but somehow [...]