Archive for February, 2008
New staff, characters revealed for Whedon’s Dollhouse
Joss Whedon’s new television project Dollhouse, starring Eliza Dushku and commissioned by Fox, has some new staff onboard.
Tim Minear, who worked with Whedon on Angel and Firefly, will be joined by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain on the show’s team of writers. (The exact titles have not been agreed on yet.) Craft and Fain [...]
Malick’s Tree of Life caught on camera
Terrence Malick’s first project since the 2005 Colin Farrell starrer The New World, the mysterious Tree of Life, is finally beginning to take shape. Scheduled to start filming in Smithville, Texas in late March, the movie will star Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, who has taken over one of the leading roles from Heath Ledger [...]
U.S. weekend box office, February 22-24
Here are the top ten movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Vantage Point – $22,874,936 – 35%, rotten
2. The Spiderwick Chronicles – $13,100,192 – 81%, fresh
3. Jumper – $12,708,768 – 15%, rotten
4. Step up 2 the Streets – $9,605,703 – 27%, rotten
5. Fool’s Gold – $6,554,284 – 10%, rotten
6. Definitely, Maybe – $5,217,775 – [...]
Independent Spirit Awards presented
The 2008 annual Independent Spirit Awards were presented over the weekend. here are the winners:
Best feature film:
Juno
Best Female Lead:
Ellen Page – Juno
Best Male Lead:
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages
Supporting Female:
Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There
Supporting Male:
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Talk To Me
Best Director:
Julian Schanbel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Screenplay:
Tamara Jenkins – The Savages
Best [...]
The 28th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards – the lucky winners are….
Here is the list of all those honoured by a Razzie this year:
WORST PICTURE
I Know Who Killed Me
WORST ACTOR
Eddie Murphy – Norbit (as Norbit)
WORST ACTRESS – tie
Lindsay Lohan – I Know Who Killed Me (as Aubrey)
Lindsay Lohan – I Know Who Killed Me (as Dakota)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eddie Murphy – Norbit (as Mr. Wong)
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Eddie [...]
Oscar winners
Best Motion Picture of the Year
No Country for Old Men
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel-Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Marion Cotillard – La Môme
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Best Performance by an Actress [...]
Saturn Award nominations are out
The 34th Annual Saturn Award Nominations have been announced. This year, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films has decided to present Tim Lucas, who authored the book Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark, with the Special Achievement Award, while director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army) [...]
U.S. weekend box office, February 15-17
Here are the top ten movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Jumper – $27,225,000 – 15% rotten
2. Step up 2 the Streets – $19,666,000 – 27% rotten
3. The Spiderwick Chronicles – $19,080,000 – 79% fresh
4. Fool’s Gold – $13,080,000 – 9% rotten
5. Definitely, Maybe – $9,685,000 – 70% fresh
6. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins – [...]
Berlin Film Festival – the winners
The 58th annual Berlin Film Festival closed yesterday. Here is the list of all the winners:
Golden Bear for Best Film
Trope de Elite (The Elite Squad), directed by José Padilha
Silver Bear
Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris
Silver Bear for Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Silver Bear – Best Actress
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Silver [...]
U.S. weekend box office, February 8-10
Here are the top ten movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Fool’s Gold – $21,589,295 – 10% rotten
2. Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins – $16,207,730 – 29% rotten
3. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Concert Tour – $10,295,922 – 84% fresh
4. The Eye – $6,528,301 – 20% rotten
5. Juno – $5,601,149 – 93% fresh
6. 27 Dresses – [...]
