| Awards season is getting seriously under way now with the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild awards already public and now the Golden Globe nominees revealed. And it's looking like a good year for the front-runners, including Les Miserables, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln. There were few surprises in the big film categories, though Richard Gere has snagged a nomination for Arbitrage and The Master is in the race here after being mysteriously ignored by SAG. Plus Django Unchained is shown a little love, too. It's nice to see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel getting more attention, though we're surprised to see Salmon Fishing In The Yemen rubbing shoulders with the likes of Les Mis. TV-wise, a lot of repeats here, though apparently the HFPA believes that Mad Men was not among the best dramas of the year. Hhhm… The Golden Globes will be handed out on January 13 at a ceremony hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, so it should at least be good for a few chuckles. Here's the full list: BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
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BEST ACTOR, DRAMA BEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEST SCREENPLAY BEST ANIMATED FEATURE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM BEST ORIGINAL SCORE BEST ORIGINAL SONG BEST TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA
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12/13/12
2013 Golden Globes Nominations Arrive!
The Hobbit UK Premiere Report
| They've travelled from the gilded halls of Khazad-dûm to the bucolic surrounds of the Shire's hobbit-holes and onto the goblin-crept caverns of the Misty Mountains. Last night, finally, Bilbo and the company of dwarves arrived in the Bustling Square of Leicester to sip from the chalice of soft drink and delve into the pick 'n' mix of merriment for the UK royal premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Prince William was there to meet elf royalty, Queen Galadriel, aka Cate Blanchett, and the nearest thing the dwarves have to a monarch in the buffed shape of Richard Armitage and Thorin Oakenshield. That's Thorin son of Thráin, son of Thrór meeting William, son of Charles, son of Elizabeth. There's some lineage for you. As you can see, Peter Jackson, Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis were all present and correct on a night not even a wyrm's breath could warm. The Lord Of The Rings' hobbity duo Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd also popped up to take the trip up the green carpet. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out now. For lots more on the return to Middle-earth, head over to our bumper Hobbit coverage. |
The Girl
| Poor Toby Jones. Every time he gets a plum part, something comes along to overshadow it. First there was Dobby the House Elf in the Harry Potter films, a computer-generated homunculus forever destined to be Gollum’s poor relation. His Truman Capote turn in Infamous was accomplished but struggled for attention in the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar-grabbing interpretation. And now it happens again, his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in this BBC/HBO co-production having the misfortune to arrive just as an Anthony Hopkins-led biopic hits the big screen. You could say the same of Sienna Miller, a star whose private life always seems to lure attention away from her achievements as an actress. In that respect the pair are ideally matched in Ju lian Jarrold’s film, a behind-the-scenes melodrama that explores the complex relationship Hitch had with Tippi Hedren over the course of making what were arguably the former’s last two decent movies. The first, of course, was 1963’s The Birds, a masterpiece of unsettling avian horror that catapulted former model Tippi to international stardom. According to Gwyneth Hughes’ screenplay, however (based on Donald Spoto’s 2008 tome Spellbound By Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock And His Leading Ladies) her success did not come easily, Hitch responding to an early rebuff of his advances by making the shoot as physically arduous and psychologically tortuous as possible. Tensions reached their apogee during the filming of the attic scene, a gruelling ordeal that saw Hedren fending off real birds for seven exhausting days. This is recreated effectively and harrowingly in Jarrold’s drama, as is another unpleasant mome nt when Hitch sends a fake crow smashing into Hedren’s phone box set with no prior warning. The way Hughes tells it, it’s a wonder she made it out alive. But what’s really astounding is that she chose to go through it all again by shooting another picture with Hitchcock straight afterwards – a mystery left unanswered in a film whose portrait of the director as a creepy, lascivious ogre amounts to nothing less than a wholesale character assassination. The Marnie section is the weaker here, Jarrold spurning the opportunity to give Sean Connery a role in what, Imelda Staunton’s cameo as Alfred’s wife notwithstanding, is pretty much a two-hander. It’s good then that the leads click so well together, a subtly prostheticised Jones proving memorably reptilian and a predictably glamorous Miller nailing both Hedren’s glacial exterior and the terrified naïf within. The Girl News and Features 
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Wolverine Motion Poster Lands
| We'll hand it to director James Mangold and the 20th Century Fox marketing team – they're treating us all to some stylish imagery to promote The Wolverine. We got an arty teaser poster for the film in October and now a motion poster is online and can be seen below. The Wolverine finds Hugh Jackman's Logan headed to present-day Tokyo, where he where he falls for the mysterious Mariko and becomes embroiled in a brutal gang war. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before. You know, the usual for him. And this latest poster is certainly nifty, making full use of the motion aspect for pouring rain (he's lucky adamantium doesn't rust!), raging storm and flickering lights of the city. And no title, either! Wolverine sells himself. Hopefully a trailer will be headed our way soon. And the film itself arrives in 3D on July 26. You can see Mangold and Jackman discussing the film below. |
12/12/12
Del Toro Opens Book Of Life
| While his biggest current project – that would be a certain action epic named Pacific Rim – has just put a trailer online today, there is also news about a much more tangential Guillermo del Toro project. The animated movie formerly known as Day Of The Dead is now called Book Of Life and is set to arrive in cinemas (in the US at least) on October 10 2014. The movie itself, backed by Fox Animation, is still shrouded in some secrecy, though when it was first talked up back in February, there was mention of a musical, Romeo and Juliet-style romance set against the famous Mexican celebration. Del Toro is still simply producing the film, leaving the actual filmmaking to handpicked director Jorge Gutierrez. He'll bring his experience on shorts and TV 'toons to play making the new movie and has written the script with Doug Langdale. The October release date seems fitting given the subject matter, but we do wonder whether it'll end up competing with Lee Unkrich's still untitled Dia de los Muertos project bubbling away over at Pixar. That said, the Pixar film doesn't have a confirmed release date yet, and the company already has The Good Dinosaur set for 2014. |
Warm Bodies Posters Online
| From the looks of everything we've seen so far (including the latest trailer you can watch again at the bottom of the page), the adaptation of Isaac Marion's apocalyptic zom-rom-com novel Warm Bodies is set to give the romantic comedy genre a good tweak and breathe some life into zombie movies. Summit has put some new posters up for the film, which you can see in the gallery below. Warm Bodies, directed by 50/50's Jonathan Levine finds R (Nicholas Hoult) a zombie existing in a world where the undead outnumber the living. He and his rotting contemporaries regularly raid the pockets of human survivors, lured by the warm, fleshy delights and focused on eating brains. But on one of the scouting missions, R meets and engages with Julie (Teresa Palmer) and something unusual happens: R starts to feel something. Could it be that his lingering humanity is starting to return as he tentatively tries to woo this woman? And what will the rest of his zombie brethren think, including best "friend" M (Rob Corddry)? As R and Julie bond, the threats mount both from the freakish "Boney" zombies and from her father, General Grigio (John Malkovich), commander of the local human camp and a fervent believer in slaughtering any zombies that come near his compound. Blending humour with horror, Warm Bodies promises plenty. We'll see if it delivers on February 8. |
Peter Jackson Wants Tintin 2 For 2015
| Though the majority of his time at the moment is being spent either promoting the first part of The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey or working on the other two parts of the trilogy, Peter Jackson has not completely forgotten about animated boy reporter Tintin. Now comes word from the man himself that he has plans for making the second part of the trilogy he's planning alongside Steven Spielberg. In October last year, Spielberg talked up the fact that the sequel – currently titled Prisoners Of The Sun and once more based on Herge's writings, had been in development for a while. "Sony and Paramount were willing to do one movie with us and then give us the financial wherewithal to develop a script, do all the visual storyboards and get it really in launch position. So we can launch pretty quickly on a second movie. The script is already written," he explained. Of course, there's no solid word on whether the studios have indeed officially agreed to the shoot, but Jackson seems fairly confident, revealing to Belgian journalists that the plan is for him to carve out some time next year while he fine tunes the other Hobbit films to squeeze in the relatively brief performance capture shoot for the new Tintin adventure, which is then handed to the CG teams to work on. The aim is to have the film ready for 2015. It remains to be seen if this comes to pass, especially since Jackson also has to shoot additional Hobbit material to fill out the trilogy. But let's face it – if any duo thinks they can get it done and deserve our faith, it's Jackson and Spielberg. |
