Forest Whitaker Not Cool with Where the Wild Things Are Reshoots, Loves Spike Jonze’s Vision

March 26th, 2008 | 12 Comments

There was an instance where I was arrested at a student protest and it would have been great if Forest Whitaker had suddenly appeared to passionately articulate and argue my case to the police rather than the guy who yelled, “Dude! (…)

Watchman Gets Renamed

February 4th, 2008 | 12 Comments

After months and months of people not in the know asking me “Is Keanu Reeves in Watchmen?”, Fox Searchlight Pictures has finally realized their upcoming film The Night Watchman posed a marketing challenge which was sure to create confusion in consumers, especially with buzz growing for the Warner Bros/Zack Snyder adaptation of Alan Moore’s epic superhero tale Watchmen. (…)

Jennifer Hudson Finds Her Next Oscar Nominated Role

March 28th, 2007 | No Comments

I thought Jennifer said she was talking time off to concentrate on her music? Well apparently not. (…)

2007 Academy Awards Winners

February 25th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Let’s look at the results from the 79th Academy Awards ceremony:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:
The Departed

Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Achievement in Directing:
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu for Babel
Paul Greengrass for United 93

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Helen Mirren for The Queen

Pen�lope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine

Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Happy Feet (George Miller)

Cars
Monster House

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - Germany (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

After the Wedding - Denmark (Susanne Bier)
Days of Glory (Indig�nes) - Algeria (Rachid Bouchareb)
Pan’s Labyrinth - Spain/Mexico (Guillermo del Toro)
Water - Canada (Deepa Mehta)

Best Documentary Film of the Year:
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)

Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best Adapted Screenplay:
William Monahan for The Departed

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Best Original Screenplay:
Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine

Guillermo Arriaga for Babel
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis for Letters from Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro for Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Morgan for The Queen

Best Cinematography:
Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth

Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia
Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Dick Pope for The Illusionist
Wally Pfister for The Prestige

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score:
Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel

Thomas Newman for The Good German
Philip Glass for Notes on a Scandal
Javier Navarrete for Pan’s Labyrinth
Alexandre Desplat for The Queen

Best Original Song
An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge (”I Need To Wake Up”)

Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven (”Listen”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett (”Love You I Do”)
Cars: Randy Newman (”Our Town”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Willie Reale (”Patience”)

Other Awards
Best Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta)
Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (John Knoll, Hal T. (…)

Around The Web: Ghost Rider’s PG-13, Evan Almighty reviews, The Ruins, Marley & Me, Star Wars, Zooey Deschanel, Winged Creatures, One Missed Call and more

February 16th, 2007 | No Comments

Mark Steven Johnson explains why Ghost Rider sucks so bad: “It was a hard R and bleak in my opinion, Johnson says of David Goyer’s early script. (…)

Academy Awards Vegas Odds: Little Miss Sunshine to win Best Picture

February 15th, 2007 | No Comments

Yesterday we reported that movie critic Roger Ebert was spreading a rumor that Little Miss Sunshine would cause a major upset at the 2007 Academy Awards. (…)

Homer Simpson’s Academy Award Predictions

February 7th, 2007 | 3 Comments

In what appears to be an savvy marketing gimmick to promote The Simpsons Movie, Fox has released Homer Simpson’s Academy Award picks. (…)

2007 Golden Globe Winners

January 15th, 2007 | No Comments

Here are the winners from the 2007 Golden Globes:
SUPPORTING ACTRESS (FILM)
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

ORIGINAL SONG
“The Song of the Heart” - Happy Feet - Music & Lyrics by: Prince Rogers Nelson
SUPPORTING ACTOR (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Jeremy Irons - Elizabeth I
ACTRESS (TV DRAMA)
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer
ACTOR (TV DRAMA)
Hugh Laurie - House
SUPPORTING ACTRESS (TV MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Emily Blunt - Gideon’s Daughter
ANIMATED FILM
Cars - Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studio
ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
SUPPORTING ACTOR (FILM)
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Elizabeth I - Company Pictures, Channel 4, HBO Films
ACTOR (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Bill Nighy - Gideon’s Daughter
ACTRESS (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Helen Mirren - Elizabeth I
SCREENPLAY
Peter Morgan - The Queen
ACTOR (TV COMEDY OR MUSICAL)
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock

COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Ugly Betty (ABC)
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan) - Warner Bros. (…)