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« December 2007 | Main | February 2008 »
Director Matt Reeves is in negotiations to sequelize the rampaging adventures of Cloverfield’s colossal, coffee-table-shaped monster. The suddenly scorching-hot scary-movie helmer has also signed up to direct his own script for The Invisible Woman, a Hitchcock-style thriller about an ex-beauty queen who turns to a life of crime. More at Variety
The show must go on! So say Academy officials. Should the WGA strike continue and dampen the annual star-studded Oscars show scheduled for February 24, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will likely roll out some historical footage and announce the winners anyway.
The Associated Press reports that if the red-carpet affair must be canceled, viewers should expect "history, film clips, and out-of-the-ordinary concepts."
Should be interesting to see how "out-of-the-ordinary concepts" are realized in a show without writer involvement. Best motion picture nominees reimagined through interpretive dance? More at Yahoo! News
Just when you weren’t missing him, the razor-fingered bogeyman is being hauled out of movie deep-freeze and defrosted for a new bout of teen-slashing bedlam. Never one to let a sleeping serial killer lie, Michael Bay, who also spearheaded The Texas Chainsaw Massacre overhaul and a new relaunch for Friday The 13th, is behind the Krueger reboot with his producing partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. More at Variety
Just last week, we had quotes from actress Emily Blunt confirming her involvement in the upcoming remake of The Wolf Man alongside Benicio Del Toro for director Mark Romanek. The actress seemed thrilled to be joining the crew, and expressed real excitement about working with Romanek.
Today, however, the internet is abuzz with word that Romanek has quit.
Julianne Moore is putting her name above the title of the supernatural horror thriller Shelter. Plot details are also being sheltered for now, although the script is by Identity scribe Michael Cooney and Swedish twosome Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein will direct. More at Variety
Continue reading "01.29.08: Julianne Moore Seeks 'Shelter', Nolan Pays Tribute to Ledger" »
No Country For Old Men picked up a head of steam on the march to Oscar night. First, the Coen brothers snagged top prize at the Director’s Guild of America ceremony on Saturday night. Then at the Screen Actors Guild awards bash last night, the film's burly cast celebrated victory for the Best Ensemble while Javier Bardem also landed Best Supporting Actor. Also SAG-anointed were Daniel Day-Lewis as Best Actor for There Will Be Blood and Julie Christie as Best Actress for Away From Her. Accepting his SAG trophy, Day-Lewis served up a somber tribute to Heath Ledger. “In Monster’s Ball, that character he created almost seemed to be an unformed being,” said the Brit actor. “He was unique. And in Brokeback Mountain, he was perfect.” More at the DGA and Screen Actor's Guild
Heath Ledger's death has forced production on The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus to be halted indefinitely. The Aussie actor had shot part of his role as the mysterious new member of a travelling circus run by Christopher Plummer and the shoot was due to pick up this week in Vancouver, but director Terry Gilliam and his producers are now huddled together to decide whether to recast or desert their Faustian fantasy-adventure altogether. If they do, it will be Gilliam's second abandoned film: he also had to pull the plug on his Johnny Depp-starrer The Man Who Killed Don Quixote after French legend Jean Rochefort injured his back. More at IGN
Premiere caught up with the Blue Velvet star at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where he was promoting his latest film Sleepwalking. We'll have more on the film from Hopper and his costars Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, and AnnaSophia Robb, but thought we'd share a few words the veteran actor had on the ongoing writers strike.
Hopper explained that he and Stahl don't have projects in the works because of the strike and gave a brief state-of-the-industry update from his perspective:
Continue reading "School of Hopper: Actor Describes Strike 'Tragedy'" »
And it’s Quantum Of Solace. Only kidding! Oh, no they’re not. That is the official title of Bond 22. Haven’t got a clue what it means apart from the fact that it’s the title of an Ian Fleming short story in the For Your Eyes Only collection, in which Bond – attending a dull dinner at Government House in Nassau, the Bahamas – mostly listens as the elderly Governor of the Bahamas regales him with the story of a tragic relationship between a former civil servant and an air hostess. Not a brilliant starting point for an action-packed blockbuster, you’d think, but it doesn’t seem story and film have much to do with each other, with the producers also unveiling that Solace will pick up right where Casino Royale finished… More at BBC News and Empire
What are your thoughts on Bond's new title? Love it? Loathe it? Feel like you're going to need a masters degree to gain entry to the film?
Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson have joined Julia Robert and Clive Owen on Duplicity, Tony Gilroy’s follow-up to his Best Picture nominee Michael Clayton. Thornton and Wilkinson (also Oscar feted for Clayton) will play pharmaceutical-giant CEOs duelling for the same profit-spinning innovation, while Roberts and Owen are longtime lovers and rival corporate spies who team up to pull off a big, fat con. More at Variety
Family, Australia Mourn Heath Ledger
As they, his fellow Australians and the rest of us mourn the hideously premature passing of a talented young actor, Heath Ledger’s family issued a statement rejecting speculation that the 28-year-old committed suicide. It’s sad that, in the midst of their grieving, his family will also have to cope with the prurient, insinuating pryings of global media vultures. More at Associated Press and Reuters
Continue reading "01.23.08: Heath Ledger Mourned, Sundance Buying Spree Kicks Off" »
Actor Heath Ledger, soon to be seen in a much-anticipated turn as iconic character The Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, has been found dead in his Manhattan apartment according to various sources.
Now that the dust has settled and the Academy Award nominees have had a chance to catch their breath, they are expressing their most heartfelt sentiments...through a publicist. (We kid)
Want to know what was running through Juno director Jason Reitman's head? Or There Will Be Blood's Daniel Day-Lewis? Follow us...
Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones, In The Valley Of Elah
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into The Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best animated feature film of the year
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up
Achievement in art direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood
Achievement in cinematography
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Achievement in costume design
Across The Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Achievement in directing
The Diving Bell And TheButterfly – Julian Schnabel
Juno – Jason Reitman
Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
No Country For Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson
Achievement in film editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Into The Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best foreign language film of the year
Beaufort (Israel)
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Katy (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)
Achievement in makeup
La Vie En Rose
Norbit
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Atonement (Dario Marianelli)
The Kite Runner (Alberto Iglesias)
Michael Clayton (James Newton Howard)
Ratatouille (Michael Giacchino)
3:10 To Yuma (Marco Beltrami)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Falling Slowly” – Once
“Happy Working Song” – Enchanted
“Raise It Up” – August Rush
“So Close” – Enchanted
“That’s How You Know” – Enchanted
Best motion picture of the year
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Adapted screenplay
Atonement (Christopher Hampton)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Ronald Harwood)
No Country For Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Original screenplay
Juno (Diablo Cody)
Lars And The Real Girl (Nancy Oliver)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird; story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Achievement in sound editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Achievement in sound mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 To Yuma
Transformers
Achievement in visual effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers
Best documentary feature
No End In Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi To The Dark Side
War/Dance
Best documentary short subject
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
Best animated short film
I Met The Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même Les Pigeons Vont Au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & The Wolf
Best live action short film
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart Des Pickpockets (The Mozart Of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
Gosling & Dunst See All Good Things
Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst are pairing up for the period murder mystery All Good Things, written and directed by Capturing The Friedmans doc-maker Andrew Jarecki. It’s an ’80s set tale in which Gosling’s the rich offspring of a Manhattan real-estate dynasty and Dunst the girl from the other side of the tracks he falls for – who then vanishes. More at Variety
Sundance: Less Lust, More Caution
Sundance’s opening weekend was kind of a damp squib, with no headline-grabbing bank-buster deals to ridicule. So far it's the documentaries bagging the contracts: HBO locked up North American rights (and The Weinstein Company took overseas) to Marina Zenovich's doc Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which lifts the lid on events surrounding Roman Polanski's 1977 conviction for sex with a minor, having already snapped up The Black List: Volume One, a profile of big-name African-Americans like Sean Combs and Chris Rock. Barry Levinson’s What Just Happened?, starring Robert De Niro, played to muted reaction over the weekend, although Christine Jeffs' sister-act dramedy Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, is on buyers' hot list. More at Variety and The New York Times
Sundance: Less Lust, More Caution
Sundance’s opening weekend was kind of a damp squib, with no headline-grabbing bank-buster deals to ridicule. So far it's the documentaries bagging the contracts: HBO locked up North American rights (and The Weinstein Company took overseas) to Marina Zenovich's doc Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which lifts the lid on events surrounding Roman Polanski's 1977 conviction for sex with a minor, having already snapped up The Black List: Volume One, a profile of big-name African-Americans like Sean Combs and Chris Rock. Barry Levinson’s What Just Happened?, starring Robert De Niro, played to muted reaction over the weekend, although Christine Jeffs' sister-act dramedy Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, is on buyers' hot list. More at Variety and The New York Times
CTU crankpot Chloe O'Brian, also known as actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, was in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival so, naturally, we had to grill her about the possible cinematic adventures of Jack Bauer.
Want to know what she said? You have ten seconds to continue on...
Continue reading "PREMIERE EXCLUSIVE: Mary Lynn Rajskub talks "24" Movie" »
We were able to corner Emily Blunt at the Sundance Film Festival, and the actress confirms that things between her and actor Benicio Del Toro are about to get very hairy.
Continue reading "Premiere Exclusive: Emily Blunt Confirms "The Wolf Man"" »
Writer John Clark supplies Premiere with some of his observations on the business end of film-festing.
Michael Keaton, Jason Ritter and Macy Gray were among guests who were spotted warming up at the after hours event at Greenhouse on Main Street on January 18th. Constructed as a respite from the snow and chilly 10 degree weather in Park City, Utah, the club was revamped to resemble a tropical hotspot, replete with paper chandeliers, faux jungle plants and a DJ pumping Latin and Reggaeton.
Wahlberg to Play Drug Kingpin
Mark Wahlberg has committed to play drug lord Jon Roberts, whose rise and fall was recently chronicled in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. The Vietnam vet inveigled himself into the notorious Medellin drug cartel in late '70s Miami and funnelled billions of dollars worth of coke up American noses before the law nabbed him. Peter Berg is attached to direct the biopic. More at Variety
Hayden Panettiere Grabs Her Pom-Poms
Who knew cheerleader typecasting was achievable? Hayden Panettiere, who plays Heroes’ death-defying pom-pom wielder, is mulling over another bouncy cheerleader who shows a young nerdling the night of his life in I Love You, Beth Cooper. Chris Columbus is in talks to direct. More at The Hollywood Reporter
Atonement Rules British Oscars
Big surprise, this: Atonement has snatched 14 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (the BAFTAs), trumping No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood with nine nominations apiece. The trio will rub shoulders with American Gangster and The Lives Of Others in the Best Film category, with the films’ helmers all competing for Best Director bar Gangster’s Ridley Scott, who loses his slot to Paul Greengrass for The Bourne Ultimatum. In BAFTA’s acting sweepstakes, it’s George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), James McAvoy (Atonement), Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) and Ulrich Muehe (The Lives Of Others) for the boys and Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Keira Knightley (Atonement) and Ellen Page (Juno) for the girls. For the full list of nominations, click HERE
Continue reading "01.16.08: 'Atonement' Leads British Oscar Charge, Brad Renfro Dies at 25" »
Charlize and Viggo Hit The Road
Charlize Theron has committed to play Viggo Mortensen’s wife in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s chilling, post-apocalyptic novel The Road. Theron gets the flashback role as Mortensen treks across a devastated American wasteland (post-nuclear according to Variety, although McCarthy’s brilliant book never specifies the cause) with their son, fending off marauding bands of cannibals along the way. John Hillcoat, who directed the loopy but outstanding Outback Western The Proposition, is calling the shots. More at Variety.
Global Meltdown
At last night’s strike-derailed Golden Globes presentation, Daniel Day-Lewis continued his seemingly unstoppable march to a second Oscar, snagging Best Actor in a drama for There Will Be Blood while Johnny Depp walked off with the Best Actor in a musical or comedy for Sweeney Todd. The pomp-free event, which hastily doled out prizes in a morgue-like atmosphere, handed its two-toned Best Film awards to Atonement, which beat No Country For Old Men for Best Drama, and Sweeney Todd, brushing aside Juno as the Best Musical or Comedy. (Amongst awards watchers, both counted as minor upsets.) Best Director went to Julian Schnabel for the French-language The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Javier Bardem took Best Supporting Actor for his creepy pageboy killer in No Country and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose) and Julie Christie (Away From Her) split the Best Actress honours, highlighting Globe voters’ global sensibilities (it is the Hollywood Foreign Press, after all). This year’s awards were all about spreading the Globe love thinly but there were still contenders with egg on their face. Big shut-outs were American Gangster, Michael Clayton and Best Actress frontrunner Ellen Page (Juno), all hoping Oscar voters were paying even less attention than the rest of us. For the full list of winners, click here.
Paramount Pictures has given Premiere.com two brand new Cloverfield TV spots as online exclusives. As the J.J. Abrams-produced thriller ramps up for its January 18th release, we're getting more and more glimpses of just what the terrified denizens of New York City are in for.
Call your loved ones and click below...
Continue reading "PREMIERE EXCLUSIVE: Two New "Cloverfield" TV Spots" »
Bales Plays Manhunter With Depp
Christian Bale is eyeing up the role of Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who led the manhunt for Depression-era bankrobber John Dillinger, in Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Johnny Depp has already signed up as Dillinger and the prospect of the Dark Knight facing off with Sweeney Todd certainly has us salivating. More at Variety
Continue reading "01.11.08: Bale is Depp's 'Public Enemy' and Hanks Says Oscars Must Go On" »
What looks to be the official trailer for J.J. Abrams' relaunch of Star Trek has hit the webs (although this could also be a very well done fake). Either way, it's kind of cool and, if it is genuine, it establishes that the tone of the movie will be VERY reverential.
Care to check it out?
Continue reading ""Star Trek" Teaser Trailer (Maybe?) Leaked Online" »
Kinnear and Ryan Join Damon
Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan, who blew us away as the foul-mouthed mother with a missing daughter in Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone, have joined Matt Damon on Paul Greengrass’ untitled Iraq War thriller. Based loosely on Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s true-life best-seller Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, Greengrass’ fictionalised take casts Damon and Kinnear as CIA officials hunting WMDs in Iraq with Ryan as the New York Times reporter investigating US claims. More at Variety.
So Long Nicole, Hello Kate
Kate Winslet is striding into Nicole Kidman’s shoes on Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, fresh off the news that the stork has an impending delivery for Kidman and husband Keith Urban. That’s like replacing a bottle of Krug with Dom Perignon and, in fact, the Brit actress was first choice on The Reader until hubby Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road threw up a speed bump. Daldry’s drama, about a post-war teen who carries on an affair with a mysterious older woman, is already shooting in Germany with Ralph Fiennes still on board. More at Variety.
Writers strike or no, awards season is in full swing. In an effort to help you sort through the nominees as well as the various groups presenting gilded placards and trophies, we have a handy little round-up.
So get out your scorecards, and be ready to write the words "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" A LOT...
The DGA has just released their top picks for outstanding directorial effort in a feature film for 2007. In years past, this list has been a pretty good barometer for Academy Award Best Picture/Director nominations.
So who's on the list...?
Continue reading "Directors Guild of America Nominees Announced" »
Golden Globes Fallout
So it’s writers one, awards shows zero, as the WGA strike fells the Golden Globes, leaving post-ceremony industry shindigs in tatters and exposure-hungry Oscar hopefuls in heaving sobs at the painful withdrawal of the annual Globes publicity fillip, a crucial signpost for favour at the Academy Awards. Globe victors will still be announced in a one-hour live news conference, but it’s just not the same if you can’t greet your Globe with a gushing acceptance speech (word is the winners won’t dare turn up). More at Variety.
Word is starting to trickle down from the last-minute meeting between NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and that word is "canceled."
It seems the Golden Globes ceremony will not be televised...
Golden Globes: Will They, Won’t They?
Despite the kind of shameless begging that’s standard issue in Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild is refusing to budge on its position that SAG members won’t be crossing the WGA picket line to attend the Golden Globes this Sunday, leaving the ceremony without its raison d’etre: A-list stars gushing red-carpet soundbites about their designer cladding and how humbled they feel to be nominated. Watching the Globes without stars would be like eating toast without butter or a hot fudge sundae without the hot fudge and ice cream, but it’s vast money-churning significance still has NBC, Dick Clark Productions and Globe gatekeepers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association scrabbling to find a solution. An announcement is expected at noon today, LA time, so check back with us later. More at Variety.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the seven films being considered for nominations in the category of Achievement in Visual Effects. Otherwise known as the "Eye Candy Oscar."
The envelope before the envelope, please...
Penn fronts 2008 Cannes jury, Hoffman and Mortensen get shipwrecked, Routh out as Superman?, and more
Penn picked for Cannes jury duty
Sean Penn will lead this year’s Cannes Film Festival jury, which gives out awards to the world’s top filmmakers. Penn said in a statement, "It seems there has been a rejuvenation of cinema building worldwide; increasingly thoughtful, provocative, moving, and imaginative films by talented filmmakers: that a new generation of filmmaking may have begun. The Cannes Film Festival has long been the epicenter in the discovery of those new waves of filmmakers from all over the world. I very much look forward to participating in this year's festival as president of the jury.” More at Yahoo.
Continue reading "1.4.08: Penn is a Cannes do kind of guy" »
New Indy info, Radcliffe goes on a Journey, Bond finds a new foe, SXSW hits 21, and more
Indiana Jones and the Vanity Fair pictures
The hottest pictures online at the moment belong to Vanity Fair who scored an exclusive visit to the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Besides the first glimpse of Cate Blanchett as a Russian baddie, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg discuss how they came around to make a fourth chapter with Harrison Ford in the venerable adventure franchise. More at Vanity Fair. And for more on Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, check out our exclusive interview with John Hurt here.
Continue reading "1.3.07: 'Crystal' Clear Indiana Jones Pics and a New Villain for Bond" »
National Treasure has a happy new year with $55.4 million, actors come back to Letterman's Late Show tonight, and more
Treasure keeps filling Book with cash, Juno jumps to fifth place with $15.7M
National Treasure: Book of Secrets continued to rack up a bounty of its own through New Year’s day with an estimated $55.4 million over the five day weekend, putting its total tally at $143.8 million. Alvin and the Chipmunks finished in second place with $42.2 million ($154.5 million overall) while I Am Legend wound up in third with $38 million ($205 million overall). Charlie Wilson’s War continued to look strong in fourth place with $20.5 million ($43.2 million overall) and rounding out the top five was Juno with $15.7 million ($31 million overall). More at Yahoo.
Continue reading "1.2.08: 'National' Holiday Worth $55.4 Million" »
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