You can pretty much jot this one down as one of my most anticipated films this year. The trailer for Neil Blomkamp’s sophomore effort, Elysium, has dropped, and it looks terrific. Is it just me or does it have kind of a District 9 meets The Matrix vibe going on? Either way, sign me up. We saw the poster earlier today, after the jump have a look at the trailer. Elysium stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Sharlto Copley, and is due out August 9.
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Neill Blomkamp turned a lot of heads with his first feature film, District 9, which went on to receive a surprise Best Picture nomination. Since then, many have been looking forward to his next effort. We now have a poster for his second film, Elysium, starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Sharlto Copley, which opens August 9. After the jump, have a look at the official synopsis and the full poster.
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Does it every cross your mind what persuaded someone to pick a certain outfit to wear on the red carpet? Over the years I’ve grown to love fashion, and if I had the money to dress better I would, but alas I do not. Although, it’s free to judge our many famous celebrities on what they choose to wear. Sunday at the Golden Globes, the stars sported many different trends. Take a look at my list of the Best Dressed women at the Golden Globes.
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The stars didn’t just align tonight — they congregated! The celebrity-filled awards show ended with a huge victory for a film we all thought had been out of the running for the Best Picture Oscar. Check out the entire list of winners below, and a huge thanks to everyone who watched the telecast with us via LIVE blog.
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 Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster will be honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with their prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award. Announced today by Simon Baker and Kristen Stewart, Foster is the first woman to be awarded with the organization’s highest honor since Barbara Streisand in 2000. Not only is she being rewarded in a year where women are making their marks, she is the youngest recipient since Charlton Heston in 1967. Read more on Jodie Foster to Receive Cecil B. Demille Award from HFPA…
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With the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of Sarah Polley’s second directorial feature, Take This Waltz, the Canadian-born writer/director builds upon the promising foundation of her filmmaking career.
Polley follows up her acclaimed and Oscar-nominated debut, Away from Her (2006), with a simply honest portrayal of a woman’s struggle to fill the gaps in her seemingly happy marriage. Boasting crisp cinematography, good writing, and believable character depictions, the effort mostly succeeds in coming across as composed and genuine. While Michelle Williams predictably delivers a solid performance, it’s difficult at times to understand or empathize with her predicament and decisions, due to their impulsive and somewhat erratic nature. Seth Rogen as the naively loving, slightly disconnected husband and Sarah Silverman as the strangely wise alcoholic sister-in-law both fill their supporting roles effectively. It’s worth a look if you’re curious.
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 Perhaps the most anticipated panel on Friday, Sony previewed footage from their three scifi films, Total Recall, Looper and Elysium before a packed Hall H. Total Recall was first up and with the main cast in attendance, director Len Wiseman previewed a 7 minute reel with a ton of action sequences. The cast and creative team spoke about how the movie is different from the original in that it’s much more dramatic and darker in tone. Wiseman remarked that though this is a big action movie, he was intrigued by the central mystery of the film.
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 It’s arguable that only a handful of directors have exploded onto the scene the way that Neill Blomkamp did. With ‘District 9′, Blomkamp established himself as a director to watch, and now his sophomore feature ‘Elysium’ is getting some juicy new details. The film stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, among others, and doesn’t come out until next March, but Collider is reporting here that preview/test screenings are beginning and include a detailed plot synopsis. It’s a bit spoiler-y, so you can see that after the jump, but it seems like it could be a very cool flick. Read on below for the synopsis…
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 Yes, you read that right…Jodie Foster is sending out copies of ‘The Beaver’ (one of my favorite films of 2011, by the by) to every member of the Academy, despite it not being up for any Oscars. An odd move, to say the least. Here’s the story from Deadline:
In an unprecedented move this late in the Oscar season, two-time Academy Award winning actress and director Jodie Foster, with the help of her film’s distributor Summit Entertainment, is sending DVD screeners of The Beaver (the Mel Gibson film she directed and co-starred in) to the entire membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Summit tells me they expect to start shipping on Monday so the Academy members should have this in their mailboxes by Wednesday.
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 A violent act on a playground between two middle school boys is all that’s needed to launch into Carnage, the cinematic adaptation of a Tony Award winning play about two sets of parents who are brought together to work through a situation their children have forced them into.
Directed by Oscar-winner Roman Polanski, Carnage is essentially a filmed play with four characters engaging in a rollercoaster ride of discussions about their children, their lives, their respective marriages, and a whole treasure trove of other related and unrelated topics. The film retains a feverish, almost manic, pitch and your ability to like this rests with how much vitriol, dialogue, and smarminess you can stomach from these four interesting, but slightly troubled, individuals.
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Polanski handles comedy well in his newest "Carnage"…
Roman Polanski has created some of the most heart-wrenching and prolific films of the past four decades. In his newest film, Carnage, Polanski examines two couples as they discuss an altercation between their two children all in real time. Alan (Christoph Waltz) and Nancy (Kate Winslet), married with their son, have a hard time communicating between Alan’s pharmaceutical business and Nancy’s constant abrupt illnesses. Penelope (Jodie Foster) and Michael (John C. Reilly) are prim and proper and the owner’s of the home where our story takes place, and between Penelope’s badgering about perfection and Michael’s lackadaisical attitude towards life, tensions are building. The film handles the tension with sure-fire wittiness and ease not withstanding the terrific exchangeable words between our principals, Carnage is a delight for all movie-goers.
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With the recent announcements of Keira Knightley from David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method being campaigned in the Lead Actress category and every actor from Roman Polanski’s Carnage being campaigned in the Supporting categories by Sony Pictures Classics, the Awards Circuit’s Oscar Tracker has been updated.
What do these announcement’s mean awards-wise? Knightley is going to have an uphill climb indeed for her category with seven or eight leading ladies already duking it out. The cast of Carnage might have an easier time especially stars Christoph Waltz and Jodie Foster who have received good early buzz for their performances. If Max Von Sydow is not the performance we think he is for Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close or if George Clooney’s The Ides of March buzz dies altogether, Waltz may have a very easy get for himself in the Supporting Actor category. John C. Reilly hasn’t been much of an awards talker thus far and I don’t expect anything to change on that regards.
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 A new trailer for Roman Polanski’s Carnage has hit the web. The reviews that have been shared have been positive but no one really seems to be calling it one of the frontrunners. Relationship dramas have had a hard time getting in with Oscar the past few years (Revolutionary Road, Closer). Acting categories, you never know? If Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly decide to go supporting, maybe they have a fighting chance. Same goes for Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet, probably a better chance for them. Trailer is after the jump. Read more on Trailer: “Carnage”…
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 11 times in the Academy’s history, an actor or actress has been nominated twice in the same year. With the notable exception of Barry Fitzgerald in 1944 getting cited in Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way, it’s always been for two different films (in fact, the rule making sure that never happens went into effect right after this, so that’s a fun bit of trivia for you all). The first time it happened, it was in 1938 when Fay Bainter was nominated for Best Actress for White Banners and Supporting Actress for Jezebel. The most recent instance was Cate Blanchett in 2007 for Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I’m Not There. Other double dippers include Jessica Lange (for Frances and Tootsie), Sigourney Weaver (for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl), Al Pacino (for Scent of a Woman and Gelngarry Glen Ross), Holly Hunter (for The Piano and The Firm), Emma Thompson (for The Remains of the Day and In the Name of the Father), Julianne Moore (for Far From Heaven and The Hours), and Jamie Foxx (for Ray and Collateral). It’s an exclusive club, no doubt about that, and one that can usually coincide with a win in one of the categories (but not always of course). This year, could we see our 12th occurrence of this feat?
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 Regardless of what you think of Mel Gibson and his personal issues, there’s only one thing to be said about his performance in Jodie Foster’s film The Beaver, and that’s simply that it’s the best performance of his career. Foster’s direction is sublime and able to take a premise that for all intents and purposes should result in an absolute disaster of a film and craft a borderline masterpiece. With Gibson giving an Oscar-worthy performance, Foster doing the best direction of her career behind the camera, the supporting cast (including Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin) doing excellent work, and the script by Kyle Killen being the most original and engrossing screenplay this year (though Foster ended up cutting some of the most unique aspects of the script I read and did a Script Review on, but more on that later), I think this is an absolutely brilliant film. The Oscar prospects for this flick are dimmer than they should be due to Mel Gibson’s personal demons, but I’m not interested in those. Strictly looking at the movie, it’s worthy of a multitude of nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor, and Original Screenplay. Read more on The Beaver (****)…
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