Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl will star as rival Formula 1 race car drivers in Ron Howard’s new film, Rush. Based on a real life rivalry from the 70s, Hemsworth (The Avengers) stars as British driver James Hunt while Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) plays Austrian driver Niki Lauda. Olivia Wilde also stars in Rush, which will go wide on September 13. Have a look at the trailer after the jump.
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Attempting to catch up on news, the 11 Live Action Short Finalists have been announced! Check them out after the jump with the press release:
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 It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Or in the case of Canon, eight pictures can create an incredible film. This past year, Cannon and Ron Howard teamed up for a contest, asking photographers to send in pictures that would inspire a short film. After receiving over 91,000 images, Canon and Ron chose just 8 to be the basis for the short film when you find me, which was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. Though they’ve been showing the film around the country, Canon put together a special panel to talk about the experience of making a film from pictures and new advances in digital film making. Moderated by Tim Smith, a Canon Film &TV advisor, the panel included Kevin Chinoy (Producer), Andre Lascaris (Director of Photography) and Evan Pesses (Chief Lighting Technician). Check out the interview and short film after the jump!
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 (1995)
Directed by Ron Howard
When the Academy Award nominations were announced the movie excellence in 1995, I was stunned that Ron Howard was not nominated for Best Director for his stunning work in Apollo 13 (1995) which had been nominated for nine Oscars in all, including Best Picture. The critically acclaimed work would earn Howard the Directors Guild of America Award as Best Director, which made the exclusion from the Academy Awards all the more stinging and frankly, ridiculous. Mel Gibson and Braveheart (1995) would win the Oscars for film and director, shocking more a few of the members of the audience on Oscar night because it was so clearly not the years best film.
Six years later when Howard finally won his Best Director Oscar for A Beautiful Mind (2001) it was clear that the award was for his previous work, because A Beaufitul Mind (2001) is one of those bizarre choices for Best Film and Best Director. HOward’s work as a director is almost always studio friendly, an easy fit within the mainstream, though from time to time he has stepped away from what must now come easy to him and really challenged himself and his audiences. Certainly Apollo 13 (1995) was the first time he attempted to do this and found enormous success. The second time, with The Missing (2003) he directed a masterful film with powerhouse performances from Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones, but nobody went to see the work. Most recently he gave audiences Frost-Nixon (2008), a brilliant adaptation of the play earning another Best Director nomination as well as a Best Picture nod, both richly deserved.
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