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The movies set for Oscar glory in 2010
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Hollywood's red carpet gets wider next year, with twice as many best picture nominees. From Harlem to Iraq, Disney fantasy to star-studded musical, we look at the main contenders and anticipate a year of true diversity
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the best picture category at the 2010 Oscars would be widened from five to 10 nominees, a leading American producer, here for the recent London film festival, told me bullishly: "You'd have to really screw up to not get nominated this time."
He shall remain nameless, mainly because, as awards season got under way last week with the announcement of the Golden Globe nominees, his film appears to be one of the most overlooked. Somewhere along the line, he just might have screwed up. But has the return to the pre-1944 era (when 10 or 12 films were often included) really sparked a race for films not
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- Jason Solomons
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Choirboy Daniel Day-Lewis
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Daniel Day-Lewis used his choirboy past to help him prepare for 'Nine'. The British actor - who plays womanising director Guido Contini in the musical movie - struggled to get his head around portraying a character which sang and danced because he hadn't performed since he went to church as a youngster. He said: ''I sang as a choirboy in local church when I was a schoolboy, but other than that, I hadn't done any singing to speak of. Rob Marshall, the director, convinced me, really against my better judgment, that I would be able to pull it off.'' At first, the 52-year-old actor ..
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Box Office: “Nine” Just Fine In Busy Pre-Xmas Weekend
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More than a dozen specialty films - most of them basking in the glow of varying amounts of Golden Globe, SAG and critics notices - competed in the shadow of east coast snowstorms and James Cameron’s “Avatar” this weekend (just a quick non-indie fyi: “Avatar” grossed a massive $232 million worldwide - the 8th best of all time). According to estimates provided by Rentrak, it was Rob Marshall’s “Nine” that led …
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Nine Thoughts I Had On... Nine
19 December 2009 7:24 PM, PST
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In lieu of a traditional review of Rob Marshall's Nine, which opens Friday in limited release and then expands a week later for the Christmas box office rush, I've opted for random thoughts, nine of them, strung together. This is a survival tactic. I've spent so long obsessing on the movie prior to its release (prior to even its casting given my enthusiasm for the mid-Aughts Broadway revival) that a review proper couldn't contain me. It would kill me. I got no choreography, I'll just have to spit out my words however they come out. Picture them flying from the blog like sand from Fergie's fingers
Beeeeeeeeee Italian. Beee Italian....
Story. The plot of Nine, as you may know, is about a film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) suffering an artistic crisis: His production team is ready to shoot, his costume designer (Judi Dench) is ready to stitch, his
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- NATHANIEL R
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Nine | Film review
19 December 2009 4:07 PM, PST
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With La dolce vita in 1960, Federico Fellini created a new kind of personal fantastical movie to deal with the corrupt, newly affluent Italy. It replaced the neorealism that had dominated Italian cinema for 15 years. Three years later, in the even more phantasmagoric, semi-autobiographical Otto e mezzo (aka 8½), Marcello Mastroianni, who'd become Fellini's alter ego in La dolce vita, played Guido Anselmi, a director at the end of his tether while in pre-production on his latest expensive movie at Rome's Cinecittà.He has magnificent sets and costumes, but no script, and as he's badgered by producers, wives, mistresses, journalists and assorted hangers-on, he fantasises about his life and loves and revisits his past.
It is a dazzling film, funny, moving and deeply serious. One of the most influential pictures ever made, it contributed to the myth of the film director as supreme auteur, encouraged a movie critic to publish a
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- Philip French
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Sophia Loren proud of new movie role Nine and being Italian
19 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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Sophia Loren has revealed that she is proud to be the only Italian actress starring in Nine, the smash-hit musical film that stars Daniel Day-Lewis and a bevy of Hollywood’s leading ladies. The movie, which is based on Italian director Federico Fellini’s famous film 8½, is directed by Rob Marshall and has already been nominated for a Golden Globe for best musical or comedy. The all-star cast includes Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Dame Judi Dench, Kate Hudson and Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie. Loren, 75, who stars as Mamma in the film, said: 'When Rob Marshall called me up and said, 'We are going to do this film about the story of Fellini and I
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- Philippa Bourke
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Corset complications
19 December 2009 6:17 AM, PST
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Black Eyed Peas star Fergie accidentally flashed the cast and crew of movie musical Nine — she kept ‘flying out’ of her corset during a saucy dance number. The singer plays prostitute in Rob Marshall’s musical, and performs a vigorous all-singing, all-dancing routine in the film.
Fergie’s skimpy outfit could barely contain her assets. The movie’s costume designer Colleen Atwood tells Wwd.com, “Fergie’s dance was all about keeping Fergie in the corset. It was a really tiny corset and (it) didn’t have straps. We had to add them in the end because, with all that dancing, she was just flying out
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Christmas and new year cinema releases
18 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Out This Week
Avatar (12A)
(James Cameron, 2009, Us) Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver. 163 mins
The King Of The World returns with an awesomely expensive epic that makes everything else out there look cheap. It really is a visit to a strange new world: part-prog rock album cover, part-Japanese anime come to life. The mix of real action and animation is flawless, the 3D is unobtrusively immersive, and Cameron has lost none of his gift for gripping, purposeful action. It's a shame the story is so un-revolutionary: a formulaic mix of A Man Called Horse, other Cameron movies, The Matrix Sequels, and Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, all washed down with an eco message that's at odds with the technological spectacle served up. But you'd be churlish not to be carried away by the experience. Come on, this is amazing!
Nine (12A)
(Rob Marshall, 2009, Us) Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz.
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- Steve Rose
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Review: Nine? More Like a Six
18 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST
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Review in a Hurry: Director Rob Marshall (Chicago) delivers another Broadway musical to the cineplex—but with Nine already an American remake of the classic Federico Fellini film 8 1/2, something feels lost in translation. On the upside, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and even Fergie have never looked better. That's enough, right?
The Bigger Picture: Daniel Day-Lewis plays Guido Contini, a Fellini-like filmmaker who loves too many women (seven in all). Although his films are always about those gorgeous beauties, he can't seem to find enough inspiration to start his next project, even as production looms in the gorgeous vistas of Rome.
In the great tradition of musicals, the story is
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Review: Nine? More Like a Six
18 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST
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Review in a Hurry: Director Rob Marshall (Chicago) delivers another Broadway musical to the cineplex—but with Nine already an American remake of the classic Federico Fellini film 8 1/2, something feels lost in translation. On the upside, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and even Fergie have never looked better. That's enough, right?
The Bigger Picture: Daniel Day-Lewis plays Guido Contini, a Fellini-like filmmaker who loves too many women (seven in all). Although his films are always about those gorgeous beauties, he can't seem to find enough inspiration to start his next project, even as production looms in the gorgeous vistas of Rome.
In the great tradition of musicals, the story is
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Rob Marshall Talks Pirates of the Caribbean 4
18 December 2009 1:25 PM, PST
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Rob Marshall (Chicago, Nine) has been the director attached to the upcoming 4th installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides. Even though we recently reported that Marshall was a lock for Pirates 4, apparently that lock isn’t as tight as first surmised.
However, Marshall is indeed trying to work out any wrinkles between himself and the job as captain of Disney’s Pirates ship.
Marshall himself spoke exclusively to Coming Soon this week and had this much to offer:
I was so surprised they called me…It was Johnny Depp and Jerry Bruckheimer. Jerry called me, but Johnny was interested in working with me. It’s a wonderful thing when something like that happens, so we sat and met and he could not have been more lovely. He’s the nicest man. I’ve been very lucky to work with some great people and he’s one of them.
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- Kofi Outlaw
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Nine - Movie Review
18 December 2009 10:31 AM, PST
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Although lacking in the sharpness and precision of his previous hit .Chicago. this is the glossiest film with the best cast of the year. A feel good film for the Holiday Season Ace director/choreographer Rob Marshall brings us a music spectacular that makes his previous .Chicago. look low budget by comparison. Borrowing elements of both .Chicago. and Bob Fosse.s semi-autobiographical Oscar sweeper (nine nominations and four wins) .All That Jazz. the show is a rollicking and fantastic ride through the fabled Golden Age of Italian cinema. Daniel Day-Lewis heads up the star-studded cast of this musical romp by summoning the imaginary mistress laden guilt trip of Golden Age director Federico Fellini. In fact, Fellini was happily married and not a
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- Ron Wilkinson
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'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Director Rob Marshall Won't Commit To 3-D, Orlando And Keira Returning
18 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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It's not news that "Nine" director Rob Marshall is set to helm "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." Or that he's got a fresh approach in mind when the cameras start to roll. As Marshall recently admitted to MTV however, there are still a number of decisions to be made.
"'Pirates 4' is in process as we speak. So they're still writing," Marshall explained. "I've heard a couple of exciting ideas, but they're still in process. My hope is that we'll be able to shoot it sometime in 2010."
There's still some question as to which familiar faces will be returning. Depp is obviously a huge component of any "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, but Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley make up a big part of the continuing story. Marshall, for his part, is in the dark right now.
"[The writers are] experimenting with everything I think, so... I'm not sure where they're going to head,
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- Adam Rosenberg
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Nine star Kate Hudson has admitted that she broke down while filming the new movie because of ...
18 December 2009 9:40 AM, PST
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Nine star Kate Hudson has admitted that she broke down while filming the new movie because of its gruelling song and dance numbers. The 30-year-old beauty plays the role of an American journalist in Rob Marshall's new flick and she appears opposite a star-studded cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Fergie, Penelope Cruz and Sophia Loren. She said to Nylon magazine: 'I have an amazing admiration for live performers. It's so difficult. 'And the thing about this movie is, we didn't stop. It was like a play. We'd start in a sound studio in London, and it was like: '5, 6, 7, 8!' And then you go until you're panting. 'It was so fun. But I'll admit
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- Sophie Eager
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A quintet of films inspired by 8 1/2
18 December 2009 9:28 AM, PST
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Federico Fellini's 1963 pap classic has spawned more films than numbers in its title - including Rob Marshall's new musical, Nine. Here's five. Which ones have we left out?
One wonders whether Federico Fellini knew in 1963 that in solving his own director's block by making 8 1/2 he would also provide fertile ground within which so many other film-makers might sew the seeds of their own creativity.
The film in many ways opened the door for a new kind of self-reflexive cinema by insisting that the doubts, dreams and travails of film-makers might be just as interesting as the movies themselves.
Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) sees the director himself as Sandy Bates, a film-maker plagued by fans who prefer his "earlier, funnier movies", echoing the struggles of Fellini's Guido Anselmi to produce his next big hit in the midst of intense public scrutiny.
The film bows with this homage
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- Ben Child
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B.O. of the ‘00s: The Top Grossing Palme d’Or Winners
18 December 2009 6:50 AM, PST
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The 2010s are fast approaching - 13 days and counting - and indieWIRE is continuing this weekly Friday chart devoted to glancing back at the past ten years. With a current film as a starting point, iW is charting various sub-categories of 2000s film, focusing on their box office performance. Though this week’s most notable debut is Rob Marshall’s “Nine” - musicals were covered quite substantially in a recent column, so …
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New To Theatres This Weekend: Avatar, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Crazy Heart
18 December 2009 6:33 AM, PST
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I think we all know what this weekend's biggest theatrical release is. James Cameron's Avatar has finally arrived! Will it live up to the hype, and more importantly... will it make its money back? There isn't much competition. The only other major release this weekend is counter programming for the women out there who can't stand fantasy and sci-fi: the Sarah Jessica Parker / Hugh Grant rom-com Did You Hear About The Morgans? Crazy Heart opens to critical acclaim on just a few screens, and the Rob Marshall musical Nine is in limited release this weekend before expanding on Christmas. Will you be seeing Avatar this weekend, or is there something else that strikes your fancy?
Avatar [1]
Did You Hear About The Morgans? [2]
Crazy Heart [3] (limited)
Nine [4] (limited)
A Town Called Panic [5] (limited)
The Young Victoria [6] (limited)
Ricky [7] (limited)
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314228/
[3] http://www.
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Movie Review: Nine Misses the Mark
18 December 2009 4:47 AM, PST
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Forget the provenance of Nine for a moment and consider it solely as a movie unto itself.
Rob Marshall's musical is a dreamy, sometimes nightmarish journey by a single man - movie director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) - whose muse has deserted him, though its female embodiment (or the plural thereof) is grabbing at him from all sides.
Indeed, the women in Guido's life, who have served as his inspiration in the past, now seem to be draining him without even realizing it. Even as he struggles to figure out what his next movie is going to be about (it's supposed to start shooting in a week), the women are pawing at him for attention, for favors, for time.
Nine is a tour of Guido's imagination and memory, writ large as a musical. Not a musical comedy; there aren't many laughs in the
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- Marshall Fine
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Film Weekly on Nowhere Boy, Avatar and the Golden Globes
18 December 2009 4:34 AM, PST
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This edition of the podcast looks forward to Sam Taylor-Wood's John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy with actor Anne-Marie Duff, reviews James Cameron's 3D spectacular Avatar, and looks back over the Golden Globe nominations announced this week.
First up, Anne-Marie Duff tells Jason Solomons about Nowhere Boy, which is out on Boxing Day. The actor, already a critical favourite for her work on TV and stage, shares what it was like to be directed by an artist making her first feature, how she got under the skin of Lennon's wayward but little-known mother, and how she had to learn to play the banjo (and do a George Formby impression) for the film.
Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review the week's key releases: the much-hyped James Cameron's Avatar, the most expensive film ever made; Daniel Day-Lewis and a bevy of beautiful women in Rob Marshall's musical Nine; and Lynn Shelton's Humpday,
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- Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps
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Movie Review: Nine (2009)
18 December 2009 3:44 AM, PST
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Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine
Photo: The Weinstein Co.
As anyone that reads me regularly already knows, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is one of my all-time favorite films. As a result, my anticipation for Rob Marshall's Nine, an adaptation of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, which itself was an adaptation of Fellini's 1963 classic, was through the roof. Particularly because I viewed this as a cinematic re-imagining and not an attempt to remake a classic as much as it is influenced by it. This gives Nine something of a different meaning for me as I see it as a colorful (and musical) companion piece to Fellini's film. The B-side to Fellini's A. Where it falls short is the missing personal touch that caused Fellini to make his film about an agonizing film director in the first place, but at times Nine satisfies and the finale is worth the wait.
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- Brad Brevet
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