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Five Ways to Put the I in I.T.
18 December 2009 2:01 PM, PST
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So, here we are, in our home office. And we like it, we really do. We like the fact that we can pretty much do what we want, whenever we want to. We like the fact that there's no boss breathing down our necks (good oral hygiene or not). That we can stroll into the kitchen and make ourselves cups and cups of tea. What we wear on the job--or what we don't wear, naturism fans. When we work. But what we don't like--and I think I can speak for all of us here, is when tech goes bad, when all your base are belong to the nasty little gizmo gremlin and it seems that nothing can fix it. And these moments make me long for the days when I.T. support was just a four-digit extension away.
A long, long time ago, when I was a rookie feature writer,
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- Addy Dugdale
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DeNiro to present Scorsese with Globes honour
17 December 2009 9:15 PM, PST
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Director Martin Scorsese will be recognised for a lifetime of achievement in films at next month's Golden Globe Awards. One of his oldest colleagues is preparing to hand over the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 67th annual Globes on January 17 - Robert De Niro. Leonardo DiCaprio will also be on hand. Veteran movie director Steven Spielberg was last year's recipient, while Warren Beatty, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Douglas have all received DeMilles. The Globes, seen as a bellwether to the Oscars, will be telecast from the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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- Philippa Bourke
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Las Vegas: where celluloid dreams meet the Mirage
10 December 2009 7:14 AM, PST
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Traditionally, the desert city has been synonymous - both on screen and off - with sin, tragedy and despair. But as this year's smash comedy The Hangover, now out on DVD, highlighted, it's increasingly an arena for a new, Disneyfied version of vice. Paul MacInnes reports
There are lots of tigers in Las Vegas. But, try as you might, it's hard to coax one back to your hotel room. Mainly, they live in zoos; zoos like the one in the Mirage Hotel that's named after Siegfried & Roy, the German-born magicians who became inextricably linked to the beasts after a seven-year-old called Montecore bit Roy on the neck. Sometimes the tigers live in private homes. But, either way, they're not for hire. And you try lifting one out of its cage.
The sight of a roaring tiger in a bathroom at Caesar's Palace is one of the most memorable moments in The Hangover,
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The Naughts: The Romantic Pair of the '00s
9 December 2009 2:59 PM, PST
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I knew what she looked like by heart this time.
That scrap of newspaper she was on should
have been worn ragged by now, the number of
times I'd pulled it out and looked at it when I
was alone in the place.
-- Cornell Woolrich, "The Black Angel"
It's the fear as much as the tenderness. It's the desperation in the way they clutch hands in a darkened theater, and the sensuousness in the way they caress each other in bed. It's the contradiction of having found yourself by stepping into a mystery, and the cruelty of discovering that the heaven of love is a gossamer skein stretched over a black hole. "And the mysteries of love come clear," is the way David Lynch put the paradox in the song he wrote for "Blue Velvet." Those mysteries have never been as heartrending in Lynch's work as they are in
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- Charles Taylor
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Full Press Kit for The Gate 3D
8 December 2009
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Alex Winter's The Gate 3D is coming along and H20 Motion Pictures has opened the floodgate dropping a ton of information on our laps. Below you'll find the full press kit with plot details, news about H.R. Giger's involvement (?!) and a sampling of a storyboard, which you can find more of here !
The Gate - Twenty years later in 3D
The classic 1987 children's fantasy, The Gate, reopens after twenty years and this time in 3D format.
On its opening weekend, in August 1987, The Gate outperformed Ishtar (starring box-office giants Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty), and earned North American revenues approximately ten times its production budget. The Gate became the most profitable Canadian movie of 1988, and as such, was awarded the Golden Reel for the highest grossing
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Early Concept Art: The Gate 3D
7 December 2009 11:00 PM, PST
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One remake we're looking forward to that has a really good chance of being good is Alex Winter's redux of The Gate in 3D. If Winter can capture just a fraction of the original film's charm then we're pretty damned golden. Some concept art snuck online today along with a boat load of details about the film.
Winter will be working from a script penned by himself and Kerric Macdonald. Charlotte Huggins (Journey to the Center of the Earth) and Andras Hamori are producing. The legendary H.R. Giger will be designing the creatures
Synopsis
When best friends Miles and Terry discover a mysterious crystalline rock in Miles's back yard, they quickly dig up the lawn in search of more. Instead, they unearth the Gate—the opening to an underground chamber containing terrifying evil.
The teenagers soon realize the horror they have unleashed, as one dire event follows another. With supernatural fiends invading suburbia,
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'The Gate 3D' Concept Art, H.R. Giger Designing Creature!!
7 December 2009 10:28 PM, PST
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Monster news regarding Alex Winter's The Gate 3D remake as we got our hands on some early concept art, along with pages, upon pages of details regarding the pic.
One of the most interesting tid-bits is that the creatures for the remake were designed by three-time Academy Award winning FX guru Randall William Cook (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong), and new creature design will be done by H.R. Giger (Alien)!
The classic 1987 children's fantasy, The Gate, reopens after twenty years and this time in 3D format.
On its opening weekend, in August 1987, The Gate outperformed Ishtar (starring box-office giants Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty), and earned North American revenues approximately ten times its production budget. The Gate became the most profitable Canadian movie of 1988, and as such, was awarded the Golden Reel for the highest grossing movie of the year at the 1988 Canadian Academy Awards.
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Is Warren Beatty Working on a 'Dick Tracy' Documentary?
3 December 2009 1:32 PM, PST
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Actor/director Warren Beatty's long legal battle with Tribune Company over the rights to the character Dick Tracy revealed an interesting kernel of information on what might be Beatty's next film project -- a documentary on the comic strip detective. Tribune Co. tried to claim the Dick Tracy rights as an asset in a recent bankruptcy hearing, but Beatty holds the rights to the character as long as he makes "productive use" of the property. It's a sweet deal for Beatty and an absolute nightmare for Tribune Co., as the wording of the agreement doesn't seem to put any time table on when the agreement expires.
This isn't the first time Tribune has tried to wrest control of their character from Beatty. in 2005, Beatty announced that he was interested in pursuing a Dick Tracy sequel/reboot/remake/cash grab with the apparent intention of getting Tribune off his back over the rights.
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Birthday Suits, Well Directed
30 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST
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Lights. Cameras. Birthday Action (for this, the 30th of November). Only one month left to go and it's 2010. How crazy is that?
Ridley, Terrence (in the 70s) and Marc
1835 Mark Twain's books have been adapted into movies ever since the movies began. Most notably The Prince and the Pauper and any tale of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer
1920 Virginia Mayo 40s and 50s star, frequent Danny Kaye foil
1926 Richard Crenna, character actor
1927 Robert Guillaume, "Benson"
1929 Dick Clark, seemingly immortal creature who may finally be destroyed by the rise of his spiritual offspring Ryan Seacrest. It's all very Cronos vs. Zeus, only without the thunderbolts
1937 Ridley Scott, manly director whose movies are usually way better when they're shot through with a strong female presence. Consider the three classics: Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Alien. The rest of the filmography surely has its moments but that's the trinity right there.
1943 Terence Malick,
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- NATHANIEL R
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Top 10 flops of the 00's
30 November 2009
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With the decade coming to a close at the end of the year, it's time to take stock. Here is a list of the biggest financial flops of 2000's first decade.
#10: 2008's "The Spirit". With a price tag of $60 million, graphic novelist Frank Miller's movie took in barely a third of that, despite a fabulous cast that included Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Spain's Paz Vega.
#9: The ambitious but too-pointed 1970¹s B-movie homage "Grindhouse". The movie made only $25 million but cost $67 million, which tainted maker Quentin Tarantino a loser in 2007. Meanwhile, America's enfant terrible has redeemed himself with "Inglourious Basterds".
#9: The remake of the 1970's classic, "Rollerball", released in 2002. $70 million price tag, $19 million in sales. The failure seems to have tanked the career of formerly success director John McTiernan, who later got 4 months for lying to the FBI in the Anthony Pellicano affair.
#7: "The Invasion
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Eddie Murphy's "Pluto Nash" Tops the List of Movie Flops of the Decade! See Complete Top 10 and Weep!
28 November 2009 8:27 AM, PST
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Eddie Murphy's "The Adventure of Pluto Nash" is the No. 1 flop of the decade according to The Hollywood Reporter. Big budgets, big stars with big egos, all clash to give us the biggest flops of the past ten years.
"Pluto Nash" was made for $100 million and only grossed $4.4 million, even out-flopping John Travolta's Scientology-homage "Battlefield Earth."
But Murphy and Travolta are not the only ones on the list. Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Halle Berry also made the cut. Even Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were not safe!
What other films made it to the Top 10? Here's the complete list of the Top 10 Flops of the Decade, The Biggest Turkeys:
1. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash
* Release date: August 6, 2002
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $4.4 million
2. Battlefield Earth
* Release date: May 12, 2000
* Estimated cost: $75 million
* Domestic gross: $21 million
3. Land Of The Lost
* Release
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Spread - Blu-ray Review
23 November 2009 7:59 AM, PST
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One of the most obnoxious films I.ve seen in a while, .Spread. can.t be seen as anything more than a vanity project for Ashton Kutcher - who is clearly trying for Richard Gere in .American Gigolo. but ends up more Rob Schneider in .Deuce Bigalow.. I can understand the possible intentions of trying to modernize something like .American Gigolo. or Warren Beatty.s .Shampoo. but the no-frills script by Jason Dean Hall, Kutcher.s lifeless performance and the slick but perfunctory direction from David Mackenzie make the film as vacuous as its protagonist. Kutcher stars as Nikki, a hustling La playboy who preys for wealthy middle-aged women at various clubs who he can sexually pleasure while being provided a
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- Frankie Dees
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Birthday Suit (With Bright Yellow Trench)
20 November 2009 7:08 AM, PST
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Today is the 109th anniversary of one Chester Gould the creator of Dick Tracy. Every time Dick Tracy (1990) comes up, I think "you should watch that movie again!" but I never do. I think I'm still mad that Warren Beatty kept cutting away from Madonna's "More" performance... which should've easily been one of the best movie musical numbers of the 90s (sigh). Otherwise I quite like the movie
Trivia Alert! Dick Tracy is one of Oscar's two favorite comic book movies along with The Dark Knight (2008). Their Oscar track was very similar. Dick Tracy had 7 nominations and 3 wins. The Dark Knight had 8 nominations and 2 wins and in mostly the same categories, too.
Supporting Actor (both, and the only two comic book performances ever nominated*: Al Pacino and Heath Ledger, winner)
Cinematography (both)
Art Direction (both)
Costume Design (Dick Tracy only)
Sound (both)Sound Editing (The Dark Knight only,
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People Briefs: Lauren Bacall, Gordon Willis get honorary Oscar
16 November 2009 9:45 AM, PST
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<#> Los Angeles - Screen legend Lauren Bacall has nabbed the elusive Oscar that evaded her throughout her distinguished career. The actress, 85, was presented with a a lifetime achievement Oscar by Angelica Huston at a star-studded ceremony attended by the likes of Jack Nicolson, Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. 'I can't believe it - a man at last,' Bacall joked at the Saturday night event that marked the first time the Academy has presented an award away from the main ceremony in February. It was not televised. Bacall paid tribute to her husband and fellow actor Humphrey Bogart, who died in 1957. 'He gave me a life and he changed my life,'
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Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 6:15 PM, PST
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Honorary Award recipients Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, and Gordon Willis at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
“It’s so much better … that nobody’s worrying whether 36.5 million people are watching us or 29.2,” remarked Warren Beatty, a former Irving G. Thalberg Award recipient who paid homage to this year’s Thalberg Award honoree John Calley, who, reportedly suffering from serious health issues, was unable to attend the ceremony.
After Kirk Douglas declared he once unsuccessfully tried to seduce her, and Anjelica Huston praised her “steadfastness,” 85-year-old Lauren Bacall waved away an escort trying to help her get to the podium, remembered her “great love” Humphrey Bogart, her myriad leading [...]
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The Governors Awards: On the scene at Oscar's special honors
15 November 2009 5:20 PM, PST
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It was the first big experiment of a quite experimental Oscar season, and by all accounts, it was a resounding success. Last night, for the first time in Academy Award history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out their honorary awards at a separate event from their annual Academy Award ceremony. At a three-hour gala dinner in the ballroom above the Kodak Theatre, B-movie king Roger Corman (pictured, left), groundbreaking cinematographer Gordon Willis (right), and legendary screen siren Lauren Bacall (center) received honorary Oscars, and producer and studio chief John Calley was recognized with the rarely bestowed Irving G.
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Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da Vinci Code), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Norman Jewison, whose socially conscious cop drama In the Heat of the Night won the best picture Oscar in 1968
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Board of Governors posed for a group photo following the 2009 Governors Awards
Front Row (left to right): Sid [...]
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Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 4:33 PM, PST
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Steven Spielberg, who also won two best directors Oscars, for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Dino de Laurentiis, the producer of classics such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Great War, The Stranger, and Serpico
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Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg: Governors Awards 2009
15 November 2009 3:59 PM, PST
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Past Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg presenting this year’s Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of numerous low-budget films including Attack of the Crab Monsters, Carnival Rock, Bloody Mama, and House of Usher
Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, with Jeff Bridges, one of the stars of Bad Company, a 1972 Western shot by Willis
Richard Harbaugh (Willis/Bridges, group photo), Matt Petit (Corman) / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Calley Too Ill To Receive Honorary Oscar
15 November 2009 3:06 PM, PST
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Movie mogul John Calley missed out on one of the biggest evenings of his life on Saturday - because he was too ill to attend the Governors Awards gala in Los Angeles.
The 79-year-old producer and former studio head was billed to receive the coveted Irving G. Thalberg Oscar, but was too sick to show up.
Steven Spielberg accepted the award from presenter Tom Hanks on his friend's behalf, while fellow moguls George Lucas, Dino De Laurentiis, Saul Zaentz and Warren Beatty paid tribute to Calley.
Honours also went to movie legend Lauren Bacall, director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis.
Presenting Bacall with her honour at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, Anjelica Huston stated the movie star "defines what it means to be an actress," adding, "She is a woman of great charisma and beauty but one not to be trifled with."
Bacall confessed she was "very emotional and grateful" to be honoured at the 2009 Governors Awards.
Honouring B-movie mastermind Roger Corman, Quentin Tarantino called the director "the original maverick," while Ron Howard revealed, "He changed my life."
A thrilled Corman told the audience, "I’m delighted to accept this Oscar," adding that those in Hollywood work in “the only true modern art form.”
Saturday night’s gala and awards ceremony marked the first time the academy has presented its honorary awards anywhere other than during the annual Oscar telecast.
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