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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")

2 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry

List # 1

By Alex Simon

When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles on it! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.

1. No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more »

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12/06/2009: Alice – “Episode 1 & 2″

18 hours ago | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Quick, when I say the words “SyFy Original Movie,” what images immediately rush to mind? Hokey CGI effects? Laughable character motivation? Bafflingly obtuse plots and stories? Now imagine this heralded brand, responsible for such masterpieces as “Ice Spiders” and “S.S. Doomtrooper,” attempting to interpret one of the most beloved pieces of western fiction ever.

This is the mindset one must enter before attempting to understand Alice, the SyFy mini-series. In a nutshell, the story is essentially a third installment of the Alice in Wonderland saga, if Lewis Carroll were alive and writing today, preferred teleplays to novels, had abandoned Victorian-era satire for dystopic art direction, and was intent on destroying the franchise so badly that no one would ever again be able to continue it. For those who remembered last year’s Tin Man, this is the exact same thing, simply swapping out The Wizard of Oz for Alice’s »

- Jaspers

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Creature Designer Neville Page on Creating Avatar's Banshees

6 December 2009 4:16 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

We're down to the last few weeks before James Cameron's Avatar arrives in theaters everywhere. I'm seeing it later this week and I'm sure early reviews will start hitting around then as well. But before we get into that, I wanted to feature this great interview that Hero Complex did with creature designer Neville Page. You may not recognize him yet, but Page is a engineer / artist / designer who has worked previously on Cloverfield, Watchmen, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, James Cameron's Avatar, and Tron Legacy. He's the guy responsible for designing the creatures, worlds, and vehicles in pretty much all of those films. Read on! Before getting to Avatar, Page explained that he's been inspired the most in his life by Star Wars as well as other films like Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's Legend, and James Cameron's Aliens. And speaking of Aliens, Page actually says »

- Alex Billington

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: December 6, 2009

6 December 2009 8:33 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

It’s Sunday and that means that it’s Wrap Up time.

This week:

The box office is Blind Sided; if you go down to the woods today you might see Tom Cavanagh in Yogi Bear; Leonardo DiCaprio knows Jack Frost in The Guardians; Have you ever heard Gun, With Occasional Music? Beautiful Creatures say P.S I Love You; John Madden will Dolittle directing with My Fair Lady and it’s all in the double barrel name as Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman find religion.

 

Box Office

Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side just keeps doing better and better. The uplifting sports drama has took the top spot with an impressive $20 million after three weeks on the charts. 2009 has been a great year for Bullock and if Warner Bros. gives the actress the expected Oscar push then 2010 shouldn’t be too bad either.

Twilight’s New Moon »

- Niall Browne

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Sir Ridley Boards "Monopoly"...

5 December 2009 9:37 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

Director Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott, producer Frank "There's Something About Mary" Beddor and toys/games manufacturer Hasbro, continue developing their feature film adaptation of the board game "Monopoly".

Screenplay is by Pamela "Corpse Bride" Pettler.

Giannina Facio and Hasbro's Brian Goldner are also on board to produce.

Published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro, the board game is named after the economic concept of a 'monopoly', or the domination of a market by a single entity.

Patented by Charles Darrow in 1935, Monopoly is noted as the most commercially-successful board game in the world, where players compete to bankrupt their opponents by the acquisition of real estate, utilities and cash.

The mascot for the game is a mustachioed man wearing a monocle named 'Mr. Monopoly', formerly known as 'Rich Uncle Pennybags'.

The board consists of forty spaces containing twenty-eight properties, three 'Chance' spaces, three 'Community Chest' spaces, a 'Luxury Tax' space, »

- Michael Stevens

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Killer Imports: Kung Fu Cyborg

4 December 2009 5:54 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Killer Imports [1] is a regular feature on Film Junk where we explore foreign-language films from around the world that haven’t yet had their chance to shine. Kung Fu Cyborg: Metallic Attraction opens with a promising title sequence. On a plain white background befitting a technologically sterile environment, a headless robotic body performs various human movements like training on a Wing Chun dummy and playing an erhu, a Chinese musical instrument. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie was rather disappointing although it does have a certain amount of charm. I had not heard or seen anything about this movie when I noticed its clunky title on the DVD cover. Since the images on the cover were rather indistinct, I imagined either a martial arts Terminator wreaking havoc or an Ultraman-like hero dispatching evil-doers. What I got instead were Transformers in a meandering mess of a plot meant to please everyone. »

- Reed

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Tyrell Corporation: More Human Than Human...

3 December 2009 10:29 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

Ladies and gentlemen... Taffey Lewis presents... Miss Salome and the snake. Watch her take the pleasures from the serpent... that once corrupted man.

From the book that inspired director Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner", comes the Boom! Studios comic book adaptation, based on author Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?".

Boom! Studios is presenting the complete novel 'transplanted' into the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with actual text from the novel in a 24-issue maxi-series experiment, illustrated by Steven Dupre.

"...San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet.

Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep... even humans.

'Rick Deckard' is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids, »

- SneakPeek.Ca

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Cool Stuff: Tim Doyle’s Blade Runner-Inspired Art Print “The White Dragon”

1 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Nakatomi has released "The White Dragon", a new print inspired by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. This print is a collaboration by artist Tim Doyle and colorist Nick Derington, the lead animator on Richard Linklater's adaptation of another Philip K. Dick adaptation, A Scanner, Darkly. “He Say you a Brade Runnah!” Measuring 12x24, this 4 color print is printed with color overlays and silver metallic rain in an edition of 120. Each print is hand numbered and signed by both artists. Hand printed by Doyle at the Nakatomi Print Labs for $30. The art print is also available in a glow-in-the-dark variant. Measuring 12x24, this 5 color print is printed with color overlays and silver metallic rain in an edition of 30. All the white areas glow, as well as faintly on the blue. Each print is hand numbered and signed by both artists, available for $50. The reason why I love this print is »

- Peter Sciretta

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Poster Alert! Blade Runner tributes

1 December 2009 2:53 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

While I've never called myself a big fan of Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi noir Blade Runner I can appreciate what it did in terms of look and design. I find the film itself rather boring and dragging which is strange because I usually am a sucker for a slow burner and meticulous pacing like Terence Malick does so wonderfully.But thousands upon thousands of movie fans would call me an idiot and praise the film to high heavens and would probably love these two items Nakatomi Inc has put up for sale.

First up is a beautiful print by Tim Doyle and Nick Derington called "White Dragon" which depicts a certain scene in the film but focuses more on the chaotic surroundings in Scott's world. The piece measures 12x24", is in four colors and has this sweet looking rain layer that's done in metallic ink. The print comes in two editions, »

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Birthday Suits, Well Directed

30 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

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, »

- NATHANIEL R

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'Red Cliff' Just the Latest Film Re-Edited for American Consumption

26 November 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Last Friday marked the arrival of Red Cliff (read our review here) the new war epic by Chinese action-meister John Woo. But this wasn’t the same version that graced Asian theaters prior to its international release: In its home country, Red Cliff was released as two films, the first in mid-2008; the second in early 2009.

Rather than unleash a nearly six-hour magnum opus on audiences worldwide, Woo pared both films down into a single two-and-a-half hour cut. In interviews, he said the deleted scenes mostly placed the film’s events in historical context, which might not have appealed to Westerners unfamiliar with Chinese history. Woo’s movie depicts the famous Battle of Red Cliffs, which was fought around early 200 A.D. between warlords from the northern and southern regions of China.

It’s too early to tell how successful Red Cliff will be with North American viewers (In mainland China, »

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Gm Volt's Alert System: It Won't Sound Like Blade Runner

25 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Electric vehicles may be efficient, but they can be dangerous, too. Without a conventional gasoline-powered engine, EVs run almost silently--and that's bad news for the blind and anyone else who happens to be distracted when a car comes barreling at them. Nissan decided to solve the problem by giving its upcoming Leaf Ev a Blade Runner-like sound, and now Gm and Chevrolet are teaming up with the National Federation for the Blind (Nfb) to identify appropriate noises for EVs.

Most recently, members of the Nfb were given a demonstration of the pre-production Chevy Volt's pedestrian alert system. It's not too annoying and seems to do the job, but it's no Blade Runner buzzing noise, either. Even if the Volt's beeping noise becomes standard for a while, car owners might one day have the chance to choose their own Ev alert noises.

We should be careful, though--if cars use too many different noises, »

- Ariel Schwartz

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Exclusive: Director James McTeigue on the Wachowskis, Superman, Edgar Allen Poe, Ninja Assassin, Magneto, and a Lot More!

24 November 2009 9:56 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

A few days ago I attended the Los Angeles press junket for director James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin.  While I already posted my four minute video interview with McTeigue and Rain (the lead in Ninja Assassin), I was able to get some extra time with McTeigue the following day.  Since I’m a huge fan of V for Vendetta and his work with the Wachowskis on Speed Racer, I decided to use my extended interview to ask about his other projects and home video questions.

So after the jump I try and get James McTeigue to tell me what the Wachowskis are working on, his next project on Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven), the Superman and Magneto rumors, what’s on the Ninja Assassin DVD/Blu-ray, could Hugo Weaving be in his Edgar Allen Poe movie, his thoughts on Star Wars (he was second unit director on Episode Two), extended edition DVDs, »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Advert. Subvert. Gonzo (Fake) Commercials within Films

24 November 2009 7:50 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

"Can't get enough, of the Stuff!"  From the mid-1920s whereupon the eventual Oscar winning film Wings featured a Hershey Chocolate Bar prominently in the story right on up to the use of M&Ms in Steven Spielberg's E.T. and beyond to the modern James Bond films or Castaway (FedEx) or The Great Yokai War (Kirin Beer) or perhaps the worst offender ever:  I, Robot, product placement is simply a large part of big expensive movies.  And many filmmakers have either parodied product placement (ahem, sorry:  Brand Integration) or even invented their own fictional consumer goods that only appear in their movies.  Unlike television, which (in large part) relies on advertising to fund the creation of shows, there are rarely full commercials used explicitly in a film (before the screening of the film is another story, unfortunately!).  But filmmakers love to offer ads for fake products or services or »

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Sam Rockwell Remembers His Year Of Space Travel And 'Iron Man 2'

24 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

With Oscar buzz for his performance in 'Moon' and 'Iron Man 2' on the way, Rockwell has a lot to be thankful for.

By Josh Horowitz

Photo: Justin Sullivan/ Getty/ Sony/ MTV News

Was there a more inventive performance in 2009 than Sam Rockwell's in "Moon"? Or, we should say, the performances of the many, many Sam Rockwells who show up in this sci-fi mind-bender about outer space, isolation and technology? The actor took a risk with first-time director Duncan Jones and the gamble paid off big time: The movie was one of the coolest of the year and Rockwell has rightly been mentioned as a potential Oscar candidate.

So MTV News must express our gratitude during this week in which we are giving thanks to the best films and brightest performances of the year. But when it comes to Rockwell, we're also thankful for a movie we haven't seen yet: "Iron Man 2, »

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Exclusive: El Mayimbe Watches Hunter Prey Plus Brand New Pics

23 November 2009 2:05 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »

Remember Sandy Collora? The guy who made that really hot short fan film called Batman: Dead End, where Batman fights the Alien then the Predator that was all the rage during Comicon 2003? The film that even Kevin Smith said was "An amazing piece of work, possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made."If not then check it out the short by clicking Here to refresh your memory. The short was an excellent calling card and made so much noise it that got Sandy signed to Icm and soon he was being set up around town on the meeting circuit to meet with some pretty big folks at studios and production companies to pitch his other ideas. I always run into filmmakers who want to make a short film as a calling card and I always tell them that if their stuff isn't cool, high concept, or the execution isn't »

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Karl Urban Promises Post-Apocalyptic Action Galore, No Sparkly Vampires in Priest

23 November 2009 9:08 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Karl Urban would like you to know that there are no sparkling vampires in his new movie “Priest”, based on the comic book from Tokyo! Pop. In a recent interview, Urban promises that Scott Stewart’s “Priest”, set in a post-apocalyptic world where survivors have fought a war between vampires and humans for generations, will feature some “dark moments” and hard-core action. Or as the actor, who plays the vampire villain Black Hat in the movie puts it, “one-third of the movie is action-based stuff.” So, no dreamy vampires sitting next to you in biology class, then? Sounds great, right? Yes, but then Karl goes and makes an absurd statement: “He shot this scene on the old Warner Brothers lot where they shot Blade Runner, and he really out-Ridleyed Ridley. It looked amazing. Crowd scenes, people speaking different languages: It was literally just jumping off of the screen. Literally, the [assistant director] said, »

- Nix

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Birthday Suit (With Bright Yellow Trench)

20 November 2009 7:08 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

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, »

- NATHANIEL R

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The Most (and Least) Inventive Inventions on Time's '50 Best Inventions' List

17 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

If someone decided to do a list of innovative magazine lists, it probably wouldn't include Time magazine's "50 Best Innovations" list. The new one's out, and we've sub-selected some of the good items for you. But a broad swath of the selections are either too intentionally odd, fumbled, or just wrong. We're just, saying... you know?

Philips Led Light Bulb

This should really have been number one on Time's list, as it has possibly the greatest potential for immediate impact (and we'd already covered it's importance): Philips' Led lamp. The first contender for the Department of Energy's $10 million L-Prize, Philip's unit emits the same light as a standard 60-watt bulb, but does so by gulping less than 10-watts down and it lasts 25 times as long. Instant capacity for global change.

Tank-Born Tuna Fish

The world's booming appetite for sushi is a looming cloud over the wild tuna fish's future, which »

- Kit Eaton

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Ridley Scott Buys Into Monopoly

16 November 2009 6:14 AM, PST | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

Director Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott and producer Frank "There's Something About Mary" Beddor continue developing with toys/games manufacturer Hasbro, a feature adaptation of the board game Monopoly. "I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he.s not very good at his job but he.s great at playing Monopoly," said Beddor about the screenplay. "The world record for playing is 70 straight days, over 1,600 hours, and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he's crazy. They kid him about this girl and they.re playing the game and there.s this big fight. And he.s holding a 'Chance' card and after they.ve left he says, 'Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card' and he throws it down. "He falls asleep and then he wakes up in »

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