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Preview: Brothers
16 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
About ten years ago, three promising young actors were working to secure a place amongst the Hollywood A-list. Natalie Portman had finished her first major acting role, as Mathilda in Luc Bessons Leon. She would go on to make her major breakthrough in the Star Wars prequels. Tobey Maguire had small roles in respected films like The Cider House Rules and Wonder Boys, then also got his major break in a high budget franchise, winning the role of Spiderman. Jake Gyllenhaal came to public attention through his role in sleeper Indie hit Donnie Darko, then hit the big time through a combination of big budget popcorn in The Day After Tomorrow, and critically acclaimed drama in Brokeback Mountain. Next week in the Us, these three actors, firmly A-List, come together for Jim Sheridan’s brothers.
Brothers is a remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish film Brodre. Tobey Maguire plays Captain Sam Cahill, »
- Barry Steele
James McTeigue Interview, Ninja Assassin
26 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
We sat down recently with director James McTeigue to talk about his new film, “Ninja Assassin,” based on a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, and starring Korean pop star Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune and legendary martial arts performer Sho Kosugi.
As a boy in Sydney, McTeigue was exposed to a variety of world cinema and television and was heavily influenced by ninja television shows like "Shintaro" and "Phantom Agents," and by films such as "Shinobi No Mono." He graduated from Sydney University, where he studied art and film.
McTeigue made his directorial debut helming the iconoclastic screen adaptation of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." He came to the project through his relationship with the Wachowski brothers, for whom he served as the assistant director on all three "Matrix" films. His other previous film credits as an assistant director include "Speed Racer" and "Dark City. »
'Avatar,' Woody Allen And A Tweet From Prison In Today's Twitter-Wood
24 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
If you read Twitter-Wood for the pictures, you picked a good day to stop by, because I've got a veritable Twitter slideshow set up for you today, starting with a Woody Allen jazz performance and including but not limited to Emmy Rossum in a turkey hat and Shakira hobnobbing with Larry King.
You may or may not have known that "Pulp Fiction" writer Roger Avary was currently serving time at Ventura County Jail in California. His tweets from inside recently came to my attention, such today's where he introduces a new neighbor. Check those posts out after the jump along with Richard Kelly's question about "Avatar," Dane Cook's problem with Adam Lambert and Michael Showalter's feelings about "Bad Lieutenant." It's all in the Twitter Report for November 24, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@gregmottola just a monday night in nyc (or bourbon street) http://yfrog.com/1dg2pj
-Greg Mottola, »
- Brian Warmoth
Nocturnal Admissions: 2012 versus The Box
23 November 2009 2:47 AM, PST | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »
Roland Emmerich is the Irwin Allen de nos jours, and his new film, 2012, is an anthology of disaster films past. It’s got a bit of Volcano, of Earthquake, of all the Airports, and even When Time Ran Out, not to mention The Bible, at least the part about Noah. But unlike those earlier films, 2012 is primarily a comedy. Sure, serious things happen, such as the near demise of the earth and the deaths of billions of people, but the story is told with a certain measure of wit, a wink to the audience that says this is all for fun. When you see elephants being hauled by helicopters to a modern ark, or when someone says, “I’m not going to let anything come between us,” immediately before a fissure opens up on the floor before him, you have to realize that the director and his fellow credited writer »
- dkholm
The Sunday Movie Quiz – The Answers
22 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Here are the answers to yesterday’s weekly Sunday Movie Quiz. If you missed the quiz yesterday, go here and give it a try before you look at the answers. Hope you had fun, and will come back for another quiz next Sunday.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll probably piss blood tonight – The Usual Suspects
2 Dodson! Dodson! We got Dodson here! Nobody cares. – Jurassic Park
3 You get the series 4 de-atomizer and I get the midget cricket? – Men in Black
4 They sucked out his brain – Starship Troopers
5 You have twenty seconds to comply – Robocop
6 Could you please repeat the destination? – Total Recall
7 Put me back in, put me back in! – Look Who’s Talking
8 I’m your worst nightmare, an eight year old with a badge – Cop and a Half
9 Ohh, you would’nt be interested in that – Batman Begins
10 I have a bad feeling about this – Star Wars. »
- Barry Steele
The Sunday Movie Quiz
21 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Welcome to this week’s movie quiz. If you missed last week’s, you can find it here, with the answers here. As usual, there are several sections. Same rules as before, no prize, just for fun. Answers will be posted tomorrow. Feel free to shout answers in the comments if you want, and if it’s too hard or too easy let us know.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll probably piss blood tonight
2 Dodson! Dodson! We got Dodson here! Nobody cares
3 You get the series 4 de-atomizer and I get the midget cricket?
4 They sucked out his brain
5 You have twenty seconds to comply
6 Could you please repeat the destination?
7 Put me back in, put me back in!
8 I’m your worst nightmare, an eight year old with a badge
9 Ohh, you would’nt be interested in that…
10 I have a bad feeling about this
Working Titles – Some »
- Barry Steele
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
20 November 2009 12:35 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
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Ja from Mnpp here, doing the 2001 thing, briefly noting a flick from the year that left a bit of an impression on lil' ol' me. Yes, Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. I can and have - seriously I have, click here to see - list a bunch of reasons why I believe this movie's too cool for school, but it really, the essence, it all boils down you see to that delightful line uttered there above. Sometimes Beth Grant doubts our commitment to Sparkle Motion. Sometimes I doubt our collective commitment to Sparkle Motion.
But then I pop in a cassette tape of "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears and I contemplate how exactly one does suck a fuck or what the sex lives of Smurfs are all about or if "feces" means "baby mice" or whether "cellar door" might just be the most beautiful phrase in all of »
- JA
Film oracle CinemaScore spells doom for The Box
19 November 2009 4:21 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
CinemaScore is the audience-reaction research tool of choice for the film industry - because of its uncanny accuracy. Not good news for Richard Kelly, whose latest film The Box has just been awarded a rare-as-Ed-Wood's-teeth F-grade
There can be no doubt that Cameron Diaz's new film has flopped. The Box, a horror thriller adapted from a short story by Richard Matheson by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, took just $7.5m (£4.5m) in its first weekend of release in the Us. The critics, too, were far from convinced.
But that's not the worst of it. Many films are panned far more viciously. Many films fail to make back their budget (The Box's is said to be about $30m). But few suffer the ignominious fate of being awarded an F grade by CinemaScore, the market research company which tots up opening-night audience reaction to major new releases.
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The Fall or Rise of Richard Kelly?
19 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
In 2001, Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko opened in theatres. With only a limited release, just 58 screens across the Us it wasn’t able to set the box office alight, with a domestic gross of around $520,000, and $4.1M worldwide. When it came to DVD, however, it found a new lease of life. With some interesting extras on the disc, and the release of The Donnie Darko book which included pages from ‘The Philosophy of Time Travel’, we could delve deeper into the mythos of the movie.
Word spread, DVD’s began to fly off the shelves, and people found a place in their hearts for Kelly’s masterpiece. It provoked discussion, it divided opinions. Most of all, it made people think. Donnie Darko became a cult classic, it made a star of lead actor Jake Gyllenhall, and it catapulted it’s talented director into the public consciousness. Donnie Darko was Kelly’s first feature. »
- Barry Steele
David Thomson on Frank Langella
19 November 2009 3:55 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature'
Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't ready. Something in his lofty mien suggested that he scorned movies, or simply didn't know how to behave in them. But now … well, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes on changing its own rules the way they seem inclined, Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature.
The Box is opening, as they say, »
- David Thomson
Box, The | Review
19 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Richard Kelly Writer(s): (short story "Button, Button") Richard Matheson, (screenplay) Richard Kelly Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella The Box begins with a CIA internal memo being typed out onscreen concerning a man named Arlington Steward who has suffered severe burn wounds. Next thing we know, it is 1976 and we find ourselves in Richmond, Virginia as Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) are awoken (at 5:45 am) by their doorbell. Norma notices a mysterious black sedan pulling away and she discovers a non-descript box wrapped in brown paper on their front step. Norma and Arthur open the box, it contains: a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, a key, and a note reading something along the lines of “Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.” Later in the morning, their son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) leaves for school. Arthur drives »
- Don Simpson
'New Moon,' 'Himym' And Lady GaGa In Today's Twitter-Wood
18 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It comes as no surprise that supporting cast members in "New Moon" would try to splinter off their own factions in the endless "Team Edward vs. Team Jacob" debate, but it looks like BooBoo Stewart's got at least one backer for Team Seth, judging from his TwitPic upload today. Tinsel Korey, meanwhile, remains firmly behind Team Jacob.
In non-"Twilight" posting today, Danny DeVito had a nice showing for his birthday last night, even if his picture wasn't high enough quality to make Twitter Pic of the Day. Neil Patrick Harris posted a new shot from the "How I Met Your Mother Set" and David Wain contributed a courtside view from the Lakers game. Check out all of those after the jump where you'll also find out which actress enjoys dancing to Lady Gaga and which actor claims he's the only one who didn't audition for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. »
- Brian Warmoth
Boos! & Whoop-doos!: An Evil Bunny Trash Town Called Liquor!
18 November 2009 9:26 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
True cult status? Whoop-doo!
Both Internet pundits and blog critics alike are quick to bitch about the cliched nature of our current cinematic landscape. While they scream in bold words of disgust, they can't help but fall into a similar trap themselves. They're just as guilty of sipping from this dried well as the rest of our so-called "film community". How often do you read a review that screams, "Instant classic!" Or, "Modern day masterpiece!" How about, "A Triumph!" Then there's, "A true crowd pleaser!" "A thrill ride!" "The funniest comedy of the summer!" And, "Does for (insert blank) what Jaws did for swimming!" The list goes on and on. When it comes right down to it, there's not much new you can say in terms of film theory and structure. When all of our movies are repeats, reboots, and sequels, you have to guess that most critical movements in »
2012 achieves world domination
16 November 2009 6:25 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Roland Emmerich's disaster blockbuster rode Sony's simultaneous roll-out to the top of box-office charts everywhere, but the Twilight sequel is set to put it in the shade next week
The winner
Roland Emmerich and Sony know how to put on a show and the pair wreaked (controlled) havoc as the disaster movie 2012 opened top of the class on an estimated $65m (£39m). Sony holds worldwide rights and unleashed the movie on the same day and date everywhere (well, give or take a day or two here and there, but let's let that pass). Factoring in the massive $160m combined gross from overseas markets, 2012 took $225m worldwide, which Sony is claiming as the biggest ever global launch for an original (ie non-sequel) movie and one not based on a toy, videogame, book, antiperspirant or whatever else serves as inspiration these days. The fact that Hollywood still releases original movies is »
- Jeremy Kay
Film fans give 'The Box' the thumbs down
15 November 2009 10:18 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
The film The Box, starring Cameron Diaz, has reportedly received some of the worst feedback ever from movie fans. CinemaScore, a company that compiles ratings for new releases, explained that an A means a picture is likely to be a big hit, while a C is "pretty much a death sentence". The Box, written and directed by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly, was awarded an F. Ed Mintz from CinemaScore told the Los Angeles Times: "People really thought this (more) »
- By Rebecca Routledge
Review: The Box
14 November 2009 6:42 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Richard Kelly is unable to make a dull film, and the merits of his latest, The Box, point to a director whose commitment is always to his own personal view of the story – not the narrative flow, nor the performances of the actors, and certainly not to giving the audience a coherent and straightforward plot.
The Box is Kelly’s third film and follows the glorious angst-ridden time twister of Donnie Darko and the visually stunning Southland Tales, a post apocalyptic mess of identity and ideas. The Box deals with the slow burning personal apocalypse of two suburbanites, Norma and Arthur (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden), who suffer a sudden loss of fortune and are perplexed when a small package arrives early one morning anonymously which, when opened, contains the titular box. Later that day the ominous figure of Arlington Steward, the owner of the box, appears to offer the »
- Jon Lyus
The view: Richard Kelly enters The Twilight Zone with The Box
13 November 2009 6:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Rod Serling's ghostly shadow looms large over the latest film from the director of Donnie Darko – but what's the problem? It's a hell of a show to take cues from
In certain eyes, the impending release of The Box, the third film from the still more-or-less boyish Richard Kelly, will be notable mostly as a trial by public opinion for its creator. This is, after all, quite the crossroads for a director whose deservedly beloved debut Donnie Darko proposed him as the emo David Lynch before its follow-up Southland Tales instantly made a lot of us stick a large and hasty question mark beside that judgment. Much therefore rides on his latest project. But, for me, the mixed response to the movie so far – out in the Us last week, released here next month – has been interesting not just for its implications about Kelly's future, but because almost every »
- Danny Leigh
The view: Richard Kelly enters The Twilight Zone with The Box
13 November 2009 6:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Rod Serling's ghostly shadow looms large over the latest film from the director of Donnie Darko – but what's the problem? It's a hell of a show to take cues from
In certain eyes, the impending release of The Box, the third film from the still more-or-less boyish Richard Kelly, will be notable mostly as a trial by public opinion for its creator. This is, after all, quite the crossroads for a director whose deservedly beloved debut Donnie Darko proposed him as the emo David Lynch before its follow-up Southland Tales instantly made a lot of us stick a large and hasty question mark beside that judgment. Much therefore rides on his latest project. But, for me, the mixed response to the movie so far – out in the Us last week, released here next month – has been interesting not just for its implications about Kelly's future, but because almost every »
- Danny Leigh
The Box Movie Review
12 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Richard Kelly has once again made a film that confuses me. It's not the head-spinning, I need a chart to figure out the plot sort of confusion that Donnie Darko was. It isn't the "why did they need to expand more" confusion created by the director's cut of Darko. Nor is it that frustrating form of confusion caused by Southland Tales, where you wonder how this movie even got made when even the director doesn't seem to know what the movie's about. This is a different kind of confusing, as The Box is more than competently made, has a story that's easy to follow, and features terrific turns from all three leads, and yet it left me cold and not sure how I feel about it.
The Box is a typical Twilight Zone-movie, where an unnatural situation is thrown at a seemingly normal person, or peoples, who are then »
Why Richard Kelly's The Box could be the best film of the year
12 November 2009 10:36 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: Richard Kelly
Writers: Richard Kelly
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 9 out of 10
Richard Kelly channels no less than the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to turn Richard Matheson's blip of a Twilight Zone idea into one of the most astounding pieces of cerebral science fiction cinema I have ever seen. Yes, The Box is that good. It dares to scale the same intellectual heights as 2001: A Space Odyssey and it revels in the potent, restrained formalism of The Shining without ever leaving its two main characters or plot too far behind. In fact, Kelly is so self assured in executing this delicious layer-cake of a movie that The Box is now a front runner for my choice of best film of the year (yep, move over Moon) and I absolutely can't wait to see it again so I can dig even deeper into its box of mysteries. »
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