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James Bond is director-proof

2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Sam Mendes's Bond 23 will probably not depict the superspy having a mid-life crisis in suburbia. Instead, expect the usual formula

If you've ever wondered what Moonraker might have looked like had it been directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, or what Robert Bresson would have made of Diamonds Are Forever, then a roundabout answer may just be in the offing. Sam Mendes, the classy, respectable Oscar-winner behind the likes of American Beauty and Revolutionary Road, is reportedly "in negotiations" to direct Bond 23, the latest instalment in the 007 franchise.

A swift review of the Mendes back catalogue raises some tantalising prospects. Will Bond suffer a tragicomic mid-life crisis in suburbia, or perhaps steer his Aston Martin off on a harum-scarum road trip in search of the perfect place to raise a family? Or will he simply throw punches, defuse nuclear devices and run amok in a tuxedo, the same as it ever was? »

- Xan Brooks

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Online Film Critics Honor 'Hurt Locker'

2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Steve Pond

The remarkable run of "The Hurt Locker" in critics awards continued on Wednesday when the Online Film Critics Society named the Iraq-themed film the best picture of 2009, and saluted Kathryn Bigelow with its best director award, star Jeremy Renner with its best actor prize, and Chris Ennis and Bob Murawski with its top editing honor.

Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" also won four awards: best actress (Melanie Laurent), best supporting actor (Christoph Waltz), best original screenplay (Tarantino) and best cinematography (Robert Richardson).   </ »

- Steve Pond

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‘District 9′ director Neill Blomkamp explains his love for sci-fi and his next project

2 hours ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Director Neill Blomkamp has announced that he is busy working on a script for his follow-up to 2009’s sci-fi hit District 9.

“It is science fiction and it has many sociopolitical ideas that interest me,” says Blomkamp. “Those ideas are wrapped up inside something that is like a Hollywood action film.”

Still keeping the “less is more” approach, the South African filmmaker’s movie will be like District 9 in that it stay in the sci-fi genre and will cost less than traditional “blockbuster” films. “This next movie will cost more than District 9 but it will cost much, much less than the big summer films,” he says. “You can do a lot for less now.”

Blomkamp has been the toast of H-town since his feature film debut and has reportedly turned down multiple offers to direct costly productions. Why? He wants to keep creative control. <high-five>

“I’ve been offered films – a lot of films, »

- Reel Loop News Staff

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“Locker,” “Basterds” Lead Online Film Critic Winners

3 hours ago | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »

Like nearly every critics group out there, the Online Film Critics Society has named Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” best film of the year, and additionally gave the film honors for best director, best actor and best editing honors.  Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” also took four awards, including two acting wins for Melanie Laurent and Christoph Waltz, a screenwriting honor for Tarantino, and best cinematography. Other major winners included Michael Haneke’s … »

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Online Film Critics Put 'Hurt Locker' Back In Front

3 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Despite receiving a leading eight nominations from the Online Film Critics Society, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds ended up losing their top prize to Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker. The acclaimed Iraq war thriller took top honors for Picture, Bigelow for Director and, again, Jeremy Renner for Actor, matching the recently announced choices from the National Society of Film Critics. Basterds hardly walked away empty-handed, tying Hurt Locker's four victories from the 143-member group with awards for Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz), Original Screenplay for Tarantino, Cinematography for Robert Richardson and Mélanie Laurent for Best Lead Actress. Laurent also won the award from the Austin Film Critics but was relegated into the Supporting category by Detroit and St. Louis where she was only nominated.

The statistics for the Ofcs are not going to figure as much in the long run as some other groups might. The numbers that do stand »

- Erik Childress

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Palm Springs Film Festival Brings Out Big Award Show Names!

5 hours ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »

Anna Kendrick, Mariah Carey and Marion Cotillard may become especially familiar faces this award season thanks to their acclaimed films, and the three lovely ladies were among the red carpet attendees at last night's Palm Springs International Film Festival gala. Anna joked on the red carpet about learning how not to fuss with herself when she's all done up, saying, "I'm trying to get used to the dresses and the heels and trying not to play with my hair when it's been so perfectly coiffed." Meanwhile, Mariah just gushed about how lucky she is to have landed a part in the movie since the book on which Precious is based means so much to her. The gala kicked off the festival that runs until Jan. 17, which is the night of the Golden Globes and right before Sundance. Anna took the stage during the evening and also landed a new part »

- Molly

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Anna Kendrick receives 'Rising Star' award at Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala

5 hours ago | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »

Though she knew she'd be receiving the award for months (having semi-accepted the honor back in October), Anna Kendrick was as lovely as she could be at this year's Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, California yesterday. Kendrick received the "Rising Star Award" at the festival for her work in Up In The Air. Other film celebrities in attendance of the gala were Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Helen Mirren, Diablo Cody (writer, Juno, Jennifer's Body), Marion Cotillard (Nine), Rob Marshall (director, Chicago, Nine), Jeff Bridges (The Men Who Stare At Goats), Mariah Carey, Ivan Reitman (producer, Up In The Air), and Quentin Tarantino (writer, Inglourious Basterds). Photos of »

- thetwilightexaminer

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Zombieland Writers Confirmed For Deadpool

6 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

A month ago we discussed the Deadpool film and Ryan Reynolds’ ideal director choice for the flick in Quentin Tarantino. We know that is not likely to happen but in our posting we also talked about a scoop from Chud that Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick could be the chosen pair to write Deadpool for Fox Studios.

Variety has now confirmed that the duo have been picked up by Fox to pen the script for the solo film about the “Merc with a Mouth.” A perfect match in my opinion.

 

Zombieland was well-written, very funny and full of action which all meshes nicley with what a Deadpool film should be and for how the character’s antihero action/comedy roots need to be portrayed. This is also not Reese’s and Wernick’s first venture into the comic book movie genre as they were the pair brought on »

- Rob Keyes

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Hurt Locker, Basterds win Online Film Critics Awards

10 hours ago | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »

The Online Film Critics Society has named The Hurt Locker best film of the year, while bestowing acting, writing and cinematography awards on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.  The Iraq »

- ladylurks

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The Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner, Melanie Laurent: Online Film Critics Winners

10 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker has just won another best picture award, this one from the Online Film Critics Society. The other nominees in that category were Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man, Pete Docter’s Up, and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. Additionally, The Hurt Locker won for Best Director (Bigelow), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), and Best Editing (Chris Innis and Bob Murawski). The Iraq War drama about a bomb-squad team is one of the favorites for the 2010 Academy Awards. Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds also won four Ofcs awards: Best Actress [...] »

- Steve Montgomery

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Producer's Guild Nominations Are Here

11 hours ago | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

The Producer's Guild of America has announced their award nominations this year, and the group - which has a long history as an Oscar predictor - has made some surprising choices, nominating sci-fi films including Star Trek, Avatar and District 9 as well as the animated Up.In the slightly-more-predictable group we get The Hurt Locker, Up In The Air and Invictus, along with Quentin Tarantino's surprisingly award-friendly Inglourious Basterds (guess that's the closest they could find to a Holocaust drama this year). Filling out the list are smaller releases An Education and Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire.In an Oscar season light on the usual Holocaust dramas and historical epics, the field's been left wide open for films that people actually, y'know, went to see this year, which we're guessing is why several superior sci-fi films sneaked their way onto the list. That, and the fact that the PGA, »

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Nominees List of 2010 PGA Awards Unveiled

12 hours ago | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar" will compete against Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and award season favourites "The Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air" for the Producers Guild of America's top movie prize.

Clint Eastwood's "Invictus", "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" and animated film "Up" were also among the 10 movies - instead of the usual five - included on the PGA shortlist for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. "Up" is also nominated in the best animated film category, alongside "Coraline", "The Princess and the Frog", "9" and "The Fantastic Mr. Fox".

Meanwhile, Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange's Grey Gardens scored a mention for best TV movie - it will battle with "Prayers for Bobby", "The Prisoner", "Taking Chance", "Georgia O'Keeffe" and "Little Dorrit" for the accolade.

The nominations were announced on Tuesday (05Jan10) and the winners »

- AceShowbiz.com

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‘Hurt Locker’ wins 2009 Best Picture from Online Film Critics Society

13 hours ago | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »

The Online Film Critics Society -- of which I’m a member and serve on the Governing Committee -- has announced the winners of its 2009 Awards. The Hurt Locker won Best Picture, Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), and Best Editing (Chris Innis and Bob Murawski). Also winning four awards was Inglourious Basterds: Best Actress (Melanie Laurent), Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz), Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino), and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson). See the Ofcs’s news blog for the complete list of winners. »

- MaryAnn Johanson

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Confirmed: Zombieland Writers to Pen Deadpool

14 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Last month is was rumored that Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were writing the script for the big screen comic book adaptation of Deadpool. The Hollywood Trades tonight confirm Chud's report, adding that Ryan Reynolds will indeed reprise his role as the wisecracking mercenary he portrayed in last year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. 20th Century Fox has no idea when the film would or could go into production. Reynolds is busy filming the DC Comics adaptation of Green Lantern, and won't be available for another film until this Summer. If a script is complete, production could begin then. No director has yet been attached, and it's very doubtful that Quentin Tarantino would consider the project, as much as Reynolds might want that to happen. I'm a big fan of Reese and Wernick's work on Zombieland. I don't think people give enough credit to the clever and hilarious screenplay when »

- Peter Sciretta

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Alamo programmers’ Top 10 of ‘09…plus Top 20 of the Decade!

19 hours ago | OriginalAlamo.com | See recent AlamoDrafthouseCinema news »

The picture to the left has nothing to do with anything released in the last ten years, but it is from a movie.

Here in the Alamo programming office, movies are a big deal. We each watch approximately 215 movies per day, seven days a week, no holidays.

It’s a tough job…especially when it comes time to narrow down our favorites at the end of each year. It’s even more difficult to figure out what the best 20 films were in the past decade. But we do it all for you.

The lists below represent the most powerful and/or entertaining films of 2009, plus the finest we’ve seen since Y2K destroyed civilization. Take a look, disagree, get furious and attack us on the street.

Warning: We’ve got switchblades.

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Tim League

1) Mother -

I saw Mother at Cannes this year and it blew me out of the water. »

- zack

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Casey Johnson, 'Iron Man 2' And 'Toy Story 3' In Today's Twitter-Wood

20 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

The death of Johnson & Johnson heiress and fiancée to Tila Tequila Casey Johnson had a lot of Twitter-Wood's attention this morning a few of Johnson's close friends tweet their thoughts on her passing, including Paris and Nicky Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

Elsewhere, it was business as usual. Jon Favreau entertained his leading man Robert Downey Jr. at the "Iron Man 2" office, and Lee Unkrich posted that animation is almost done on "Toy Story 3." Check out their tweets after the jump, along with a photo from Simon Pegg, what Diablo Cody's doing hanging around with Quentin Tarantino and which "New Moon" actress has been writing songs. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter-Wood report for January 5, 2009.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

@simonpegg http://tweetphoto.com/8053183 One of these men has won an Oscar ...

-Simon Pegg, Actor ("Shaun of the Dead," "Star Trek")

Casey Johnson pt. 1: @ParisHilton In bed crying, »

- Brian Warmoth

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Flicks on 6 – Best Movies of 2009

20 hours ago | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

No, you won’t find Avatar on this list. Nor will you find The Twilight Saga: New Moon. They fell somewhere in between my top six movies of the year and my worst three. The question becomes, which fan base is more upset by not making the Top 6?.. or my Top 10 actual. It’s clear those two films hit a cord with hard core fans more than any other.

What sits at the top of my list? Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. For the rest of my top flicks of the year, you’ll have to watch this “Keep it Local” segment on Koin Local 6. I also learned something new while doing these live TV segments. When one of the hosts makes the twirling motion to you with one arm, that means, “Wrap it up Immediately. We’re out of time.” Originally I decided it meant we had a minute or so left. »

- Jeff Bayer

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Check Out 'Bitch Slap,' 'Sweetgrass' And 'Mine' In This Week's unLimited

22 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

It's the first full week of 2010, and that means it's the beginning of dumping ground season. New movies out of Hollywood will be looking less and less appealing over the next few months, but that shouldn't stop you from going to the movies, especially if you live in a major metropolitan area. Now is the time especially for foreign films hoping for Oscar contention to start rolling out in America, and of course tons and tons of documentaries will continue to see limited release. This week, there's even a hot new exploitation flick opening, for those of you who like that sort of thing. So if you're not too excited about daybreaking vampires, leap years or youths in revolt, read on to see what other options you might have this weekend.

"Bitch Slap"

What it is: A modern, stylish exploitation action movie in the vein of "Grindhouse" and somewhat like "Sin City, »

- Christopher Campbell

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"Up" and "Up" ...Because You Need Another Top 10 2009 Movie List From Someone Else

22 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Another cinematic year over... another one without Rick Moranis. It sure would be nice if the 1980s powerhouse made a comeback. There was a time we were all living on Planet Moranis, but that time has passed since he hung up his trademark glasses some ten years ago or so. Looking aside from that large void, 2009 was a pretty impressive year in cinema. Cinephiles will remember this as the year in which Pixar reached new emotional heights ("Up"), Clooney proved to be king ("Up in the Air"), tween audiences ruled the world ("New Moon", the latest "Harry Potter"), and Quentin Tarantino returned to form ("Inglourious Basterds"). Sure there were surefire misfires like "Nine," "Transformers 2" (Transformer Gods, really?), "Watchmen," "G.I. Joe," "A Serious Man" (sorry critics), and countless others but overall the multiplexes rocked with enjoyable fare. Even movies »

- Jon Chattman

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2009: A Big Year for Movie Mistakes

5 January 2010 10:35 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

We’ve all seen it before: A soundman’s boom mic dips slightly into frame or an entire camera crew shows up in the reflection of a shiny car window. For as long as there are humans making films, there will inevitably be mistakes in those films. We are, after all, only human (unless of course 10 more years pass and James Cameron figures out a way to change all that).

Personally, I love finding mistakes in movies – and not just the microphone and crew type, either. Mistakes in continuity, timelines and even scenery can sometime run amok in a film. The script supervisor is usually the person responsible for making sure that the character wearing a pink ball cap turned to the left and standing in front of a tall fichus tree in one scene looks exactly the same after the camera cuts away and then back to the actor. »

- Paul Young

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