Archive for January, 2008
Directors Guild awards Coen brothers
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 Will Be Blood) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).
No Country for Old [...]
SAG Awards – the winners
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 winners:
FILM
Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Performance by a [...]
U.S. weekend box office, January 25-27
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% fresh
5. Untraceable – $11,354,069 – 13% rotten
6. The Bucket List – $10,532,406 – 41% rotten
7. Juno – $10,151,100 [...]
Sundance Film Festival 2008 – the winners
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 Canada.
The Wackness, a comedy about a young drug dealer, directed by Jonathan Levine, was the [...]
Heath Ledger, RIP
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 of a mystery. “I felt like I would be taking too many liberties,” he said.
This [...]
Oscar nominees announced
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 Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen – [...]
Razzies 2007 – the nominees
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, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Next
Jim Carrey – The Number 23
Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Daddy [...]
U.S. weekend box office, January 18-20
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 million – 93% fresh
5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets – $8,1 million – 32% rotten
6. First Sunday [...]
The 4400 fans plan a mail-in campaign to save the show
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 mail-in campaign and begin shipping sunflower seeds to USA Network on a daily basis for [...]
BAFTA nominees announced
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 FOR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR, WRITER OR PRODUCER FOR THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILM
Chris [...]
