Archive for: January 2008

January 29, 2008

Directors Guild awards Coen brothers

Filed under: Film Festivals & Awards, Film Industry News - 29 Jan 2008

Ethan and Joel Coen won this year’s Directors Guild of America award for their Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film No Country for Old Men.

Their competition included Sean Penn (Into the Wild), Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), Paul Thomas Anderson (There …

SAG Awards - the winners

Filed under: Film Festivals & Awards, Film Industry News - 29 Jan 2008

This year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards will be remembered for several things beside the winners. One of them is Daniel Day-Lewis’ acceptance speech (see it if you haven’t) and dedication of his award to Heath Ledger.
Here are the …

U.S. weekend box office, January 25-27

Filed under: Film Industry News - 29 Jan 2008

Here are the top ten films at the box office this weekend and their ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:

1. Meet the Spartans - $18,505,530 - 3% rotten

2. Rambo - $18,203,876 - 37% rotten

3. 27 Dresses - $13,360,535 - 37% rotten

4. Cloverfield - $12,712,134 - 76% …

January 28, 2008

Sundance Film Festival 2008 - the winners

Filed under: Film Festivals & Awards, Film Industry News - 28 Jan 2008

The main prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival went to Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River, a drama starring Melissa Leo about a trailer-home white woman and a young Mohawk Indian who smuggle immigrants across the border between the U.S. and …

January 27, 2008

Heath Ledger, RIP

Filed under: People - 27 Jan 2008

Last fall in Venice, Heath Ledger revealed that he wanted to do a movie about Nick Drake, but that these aspirations had gradually faded because the musician who had taken his life at the age of 25 was too much …

January 22, 2008

Oscar nominees announced

Filed under: Film Festivals & Awards, Film Industry News - 22 Jan 2008

Here they are:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

George Clooney – Michael Clayton
Daniel-Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd: The …

Razzies 2007 - the nominees

Filed under: Film Festivals & Awards, Film Industry News - 22 Jan 2008

The nominees for the 2007 Razzies, awarded for the worst of the worst in American cinema, have been announced. Here they are:

WORST PICTURE

Bratz
Daddy Day Camp
I Know Who Killed Me
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Norbit

WORST ACTOR

Nicolas Cage – Ghost Rider, …

U.S. weekend box office, January 18-20

Filed under: Film Industry News - 22 Jan 2008

Here are the top ten movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:

1. Cloverfield - $41 million – 75% fresh
2. 27 Dresses - $22,4 million – 37% rotten
3. Bucket List - $15,2 million – 41% rotten
4. Juno - $10,3 …

January 17, 2008

The 4400 fans plan a mail-in campaign to save the show

Filed under: Television News - 17 Jan 2008

There may still be hope for the popular science fiction series The 4400, which was cancelled in December after a four season run. Following in the foosteps of Jericho and Roswell fans, The 4400 fanbase has decided to organize a …

January 16, 2008

BAFTA nominees announced

Filed under: Film Festivals & Awards, Film Industry News - 16 Jan 2008

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the nominees for the BAFTA awards earlier today. Here they are:

FILM

American Gangster
Atonement
The Lives of Others
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BRITISH FILM

Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
Control
Eastern Promises
This Is England

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD …

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