- Meryl Streep to receive Kennedy Center honors this Christmas
- ‘Cassadaga’ gets into Screamfest, Eduardo Sanchez’s latest gets Toronto buzz
- Is ‘Dragon Tattoo’ trying viral marketing?
- Reese Witherspoon taken to hospital after being struck by a car
- Malkovich has an eye out for zombies in ‘Warm Bodies’
- Movie preview: The Big Year
- Paltrow’s next one — ‘Thanks for Sharing’
- Blog issues today, apologies
- Summer 2011 was a record breaker at the box office
- Movie Review: Apollo 18
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Meryl Streep to receive Kennedy Center honors this Christmas Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:30 AM PDT Jazz composer Sonny Rollins, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond and the one and only Meryl Streep are slated to receive this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, and will be feted at the Center for a ceremony to be telecast on CBS Dec. 27. So even if her Oscar buzzed turn in “The Ion Lady,” opening earlier in December, doesn’t put her on stage at the Oscars, this prestigious award should make up the difference. For all the talk of “She’s gotten too many nominations” or “she’s always nominated,” Streep has a surprisingly thin Oscar trophy case. Being acknowledged the finest screen actress of your (and a few other) generations makes that almost an annual no brainer. Did she act in something? Was she brilliant in it? Of course? Nominate her! The Kennedy Center honor is an overdue one. And the timing? That could build momentum for an Oscar run. |
‘Cassadaga’ gets into Screamfest, Eduardo Sanchez’s latest gets Toronto buzz Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:18 AM PDT The world’s biggest horror film festival, Screamfest (Oct. 14-23 in LA) has accepted the locally shot film “Cassadaga” as an entry. That’s a coup for this film, which doesn’t have a lot to do with the spooky spiritualist village north of here. Louise Fletcher is among the stars. And “Blair Witch Project” veteran Eduardo Sanchez got a “hot titles to watch” for film buyers) shout out in The Hollywood Reporter for his latest film, “Lovely Molly,” which screens at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. |
Is ‘Dragon Tattoo’ trying viral marketing? Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:11 AM PDT Slashfilm (/film) is reporting/speculating that this website, mouth-taped-shut.com, is actually not the fansite it appears to be, but a secret David Fincher production blog for the movie. Stellan Skarsgard told me he is headed back to the studio for re-shoots on this holiday picture, so it still is in production at this point. Intriguing way of reaching out to people for what is sure to be a noisy release. |
Reese Witherspoon taken to hospital after being struck by a car Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:57 AM PDT It happens, even to Oscar winners. Reese Witherspoon was hospitalized Wednesday after being struck by a car while jogging in Santa Monica. Shockingly, TMZ has no further details. “Nothing life threatening,” was the upshot. Good news. After the bad news. |
Malkovich has an eye out for zombies in ‘Warm Bodies’ Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT Nicholas Hoult of “X-Men: Fist Class” and “Clash of the Titans” plays a zombie who grows a soul by falling in love (with Teresa Palmer) and John Malkovich plays her — let’s just assume this bit — disapproving father, a general. Summit is releasing this Jonathan Levine film, according to Deadline.com. |
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:24 PM PDT Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson, with Brian Dennehy, Kevin Pollack, many others. A trailer that tries to hide the fact that these guys are out there bird watching through their birder’s “Bucket List.” If I’ve been reading the promotional materials for this October film, “The Big Year,” correctly. |
Paltrow’s next one — ‘Thanks for Sharing’ Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:50 PM PDT G. Paltrow haters will have to content themselves with with watching her die, horribly, in “Contagion.” Because the real Gwyneth is working working working. She’s got “Glee.” She’s Pepper Potts in all the “Iron Man/Avenger” movies that call for her to be. And Paltrow and Joely Richardson, Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins all will star in Stuart Blumberg’s directorial debut “Thanks for Sharing,” a co-production between Class 5 Films (“Leaves of Grass”) and Olympus Pictures (“Beginners”), Variety reports. “Blumberg, who’s coming off an Oscar nod for co-writing “The Kids Are All Right,” is directing from a script he co-wrote with Matt Winston.” It’s a sex addiction dramedy. |
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:10 PM PDT If you’ve been trying to comment, and failing. Sorry. If you’ve had to take a circuitous route to find the reviews, etc., posted here today, mea culpa. Or to be more precise, Wordpress/Tribune culpa. Dead links, embarrassing “What you’re looking for is no longer there” messages, eating up links to five years worth of posts. And the one person who supposedly knows what is wrong is out at a Cubs game or something. Anyway, “They’re working on it” and sorry for the inconvenience and interruption in the conversation. |
Summer 2011 was a record breaker at the box office Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT Admissions were up slightly, say the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO). Some 5460,000,000 tickets were sold. That 1% better than 2010. And since prices were up, IMAX screens were visited and so much of the product was 3ED, box office set a new record for the summer season — $4.4 billion. |
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:35 AM PDT Note to any future filmmakers planning on using that played and played-out horror subgenre, the “found footage” film. Pay attention, please. It’s kind of important if your thriller is built on “found footage” that there be some way humanly possible for that footage to be “found.” Thus, saying “84 hours” of secret NASA film from a secret final mission to the moon was uploaded to a website — go here, save yourself the ticket price – is laughable if what you’re claiming is that there were cosmonauts and astronauts killed by, um, something on the moon. And the video and FILM footage you claim to have uploaded was left up there with them. Thus, every scene in the silly and short “Apollo 18″ is simply beyond the reach of that absurd claim. Not every moment feels like a lie. But plainly, somebody needed to put a little more thought into this notion that we see and hear film cameras used by the astronauts, see color film footage mixed in with grainy black and white (and transmittable) video. The footage itself is convincing enough. We get an eye full of convincing, shadowy moonscapes. And we get more than an eye full of what comes out of the shadows after the two astronauts, their Lunar Rover and Lunar Module. Gonzalo López-Gallego shot this, Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins play the astronauts (one’s in orbit, waiting for the other two to return from their secret Department of Defense lunar landing in 1974). But screenwriters Brian Miller and Cory Goodman? Didn’t anybody give you a note that said “Duh”? Because they should have. Whatever merits the production values have, the cheap frights don’t deliver, the performers bring no pathos and the gimmick behind “Apollo 18″ flat out does not work. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Cast: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins Credits: Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, written by Brian Miller (screenplay) and Cory Goodman. A Weinstein Co. release. Running time: 1:18 |
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