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"The Black Swan" writer-director Darren Aronofsky discusses his filmmaking choices with MakingOf
16 December 2009 6:16 AM, PST
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Today, MakingOf premieres it's third interview with writer-director Darren Aronofsky. The focus is on the collaborative nature of filmmaking, which in his opinion is all about "bringing different experts together to express themselves as a group." He further explains that his first three films ("Pi," "Requiem for a Dream," and "The Fountain") were shot using an identical crew but for "The Wrestler" he chose to shake things up and worked with an almost entirely different group. The key to success, he shares, is "surrounding yourself with people you respect and admire."
Aronofsky is currently working with his latest crew on the production of his fifth film "The Black Swan." The supernatural thriller is set in the world of New York ballet and the cast includes Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder and Vincent Cassel
In this interview, he also highlights that
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A Single Man Review
11 December 2009 1:30 AM, PST
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A Single Man is unmistakably an art house film but in the best sense of the term. It’s intimate, outside the mainstream, relies more on cinematography, music, and editing rather than dialogue to tell the story, and highlights actors, or in this case, an actor, who can completely embody a character and keep you mesmerized with a small, subtle performance. It may be an art house film but A Single Man is an experience that will completely entrance you no matter the venue.
Set in 1962 Los Angeles, director Tom Ford’s A Single Man centers on a day in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gay man working as an English professor whose world is cold and empty ever since boyfriend Joe (Matthew Goode) died in a car accident eight months ago. George isn’t sleepwalking through life as much as life has become lifeless without love.
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John’s Top Eleven Films of the Decade
6 December 2009 3:47 PM, PST
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I was just under 11 years old as we entered the 2000s, and in the last decade I have made it my mission to fill the space in my mind that should be reserved for academics to remembering the details of far too many films. In looking back upon this decade, it seems that we’ve had quite a good chunk of time for movies — there are only two years absent on my top ten list: 2000 and 2005, while 2006 is represented by three films. I still cheated, though, by extending my list to eleven entries. Some were just too good to decide between.
I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. And before you start — don’t cry. The Dark Knight isn’t on here.
11. The Royal Tenenbaums – 2001
Spoiler: you’re going to find that comedy is slightly underrepresented on this list, with Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
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Agora Coming to North America in 2010!
18 November 2009 6:36 AM, PST
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We are big fans of Alejandro Amenabar's sword and sandal epic Agora, in these parts. In the Canadian and American press it was met with middling reviews after its festival run and it languished without any sort of distribution despite a plethora of reasons why this should have been a shoe-in for a wide release: It is made in English, directed by Amenabar who a proven track quality and box-office track record (The Sea Inside, The Others) and features incredible (Hollywood style) production design. Perhaps the mixture of interesting science, religion and philosophy scared folks off taking a chance on this film (or Rachel Weisz in another thinking art-blockbuster after the failure of The Fountain). However, the Spanish Box Office has spoken loudly as Agora has been breaking records since its release several weeks ago. According to Screen International, Newmarket Films just picked up the Us rights to the
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More Afm Promo Photos and Synopses For 7 More Movies Including Hellraiser, The Tournament, Earthbound
12 November 2009 8:18 PM, PST
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The hits from this year’s American Film Market (Afm)* keep on coming. The yearly festival where buyers and sellers do business to bring us all the movies we’ll see in the (hopefully) near future offers plenty of photos and full synopses. You may not have the fat cash to purchase these movies but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy their first images and plot details. We’ve got the goods for Hellraiser, Earthbound (Starring Kate Hudson and Gael Garcia Bernal), Nowhere Boy, The Concert, The Tournament, and the animated films Escape from Planet Earth, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil. Check it all out (plus the digital version of the promo poster for Scream 4) after the jump. Please note that I have copied down all synopsis exactly as they were originally written.
And if you missed our previous coverage, click here, here and here. You can
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More Cast For Black Swan
9 November 2009 11:20 PM, PST
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Darren Aronofsky's ballet drama The Black Swan begins shooting imminently, and is on the verge of securing co-financing and distribution by Fox's indie sub-label Searchlight, according to The Hollywood Reporter. No real surprise there, since it was Searchlight that picked up The Wrestler. Which did okayish...Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis have been undergoing intensive ballet training for the story of a life-or-death, slightly spooky rivalry between two New York ballerinas as a big performance approaches.It's now revealed that joining them in the cast will be Barbara Hershey and Vincent Cassel, plus Winona Ryder as "an older dancer". Not quite as old as Spock's mom, we hope, but this still makes us feel our age. Winona has moved up a generation! She's now playing mothers and mentors!Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin, Mark Heyman and Aronofsky himself have all had a hand in The Black Swan's script at one time or another.
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Moon: Blu-ray review and details of all the DVD and Blu-ray features
9 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST
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Amid a summer of explosive spectacle - there can barely be a stick of dynamite left unlit in Hollywood - David Bowie's son Duncan Jones surprised everyone with his directorial debut: An old-school sci-fi film called Moon.
Made for just $5million by Liberty Films and released by Sony Pictures Classics, Moon lands on DVD and Blu-ray next Monday, November 16. The new website for the film has now gone live (and you can see it here).
This psychological drama - which was on a limited theatrical release - stars Sam Rockwell (Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Frost/Nixon) and features the voice of Kevin Spacey as a computer called Gerty.
Rockwell is Sam Bell, a Lunar Industries worker supervising the mechanical extraction of the clean fuel helium-3 from rocks on the surface of the moon.
Bell is nearing the end of a solitary three-year contract during which he has been
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- David Bentley
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Cassel, Ryder and Hershey Join Aronofsky's Black Swan
9 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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Though it would seem that he has yet to receive the mainstream attention he deserves (his highest grossing film garnered only $26 million at the box office), Darren Aronofsky is one of the most talented directors working today. With the exception of The Fountain, which, to be fair wasn't his original vision, the director has produced three fantastic films in his career. Requiem for a Dream still haunts me, Pi is a fantastic low-budget thriller, and what can be said about The Wrestler that hasn't already been said? His next project, The Black Swan, a supernatural drama about the New York City ballet, has had very few details revealed, though we have been informed that there will be "ecstasy-induced hungry aggressive angry sex" between Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. While that alone could get asses in the seats, /Film has revealed three new actors joining the cast that make the project
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Directors of the Decade: Darren Aronofsky
5 November 2009 7:19 PM, PST
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Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years. Last week I wrote about a “love him” or “hate him” director that turned out to be mostly loved. So having promised such a man I feel like I let you down. I think I can do better with this week’s subject: Darren Aronofsky
Number of Films: Three.
Modern Masterpieces: Two. Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (this is called baiting the hook.)
Total Disasters: None.
Better than you remember: Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain if applicable.
Awards: Requiem and The Wrestler receive Oscar Nominations for acting. The Wrestler gets the Spirit Award for Best Picture. The Fountain goes mostly overlooked (because The Academy has no idea what a good movie score sounds like).
Box Office: The Wrestler is tops with over 23 mil. The Fountain tops 10 mil. Requiem in very limited release (thank
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The Tournament - Trailer
18 October 2009 4:03 AM, PDT
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The Tournament is a high octane, blood-bathed, British action thriller starring Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Sommerhalder, Liam Cunningham, Scott Adkins and Sebastien Foucan.
Scott Mann directs a screeplay by Jonathan Frank, Nick Rowntree and Gary Young.
Every 7 years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1 (which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag). The Tournament is set up by a group of sick high stake billionaires who watch the mayhem unfold via CCTV and bet on its outcome.
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Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT
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Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were
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- David Frank
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Hugh Jackman Has 'Real Steel'
1 October 2009 8:45 AM, PDT
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I would love to see Hugh Jackman in a boxing movie. It seems like he's long past due for one given his physical prowess, and he'd be a good fit for a Cinderella Man sort of tale. Unfortunately, he's decided to pursue the sport through robots and Shawn Levy, as Variety reports that he's in line for Real Steel.
Based on a story by Richard Matheson, Real Steel is probably best described as Rocky meets Wall-e and The Iron Giant. Jackman plays a professional boxer who has to hang up the gloves, and rearranges his life when human boxers are replaced by 2000 pound robots. Our obsolete fighter tries to go with the flow, and becomes a Robot Boxing promoter, but success constantly eludes him because all he can afford are crappy robot parts. Then one day, he discovers a discarded robot who has a distinct gift for winning. Wouldn't you know it,
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Robert Carlyle is a Dead Man in The Tournament Clip
29 September 2009 3:16 PM, PDT
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In “The Tournament”, Robert Carlyle plays a small-town priest who gets unwittingly dragged into a bloody tournament taking place covertly in his town. Okay, it’s not all that covert, there are guys running around with sniper rifles and bazookas trying to off each other. Actually, it’s pretty obvious, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but there you have it. Here’s a clip from Scott Mann’s actioner “The Tournament”, featuring Carlyle’s character as he finds himself in the crosshairs of some killer types.
Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.
Starring Ian Somerhalder, Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Scott Adkins, Liam Cunningham, John Lynch,
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Aronofsky Stages a Heist
22 September 2009 5:38 AM, PDT
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Darren Aronofsky, the talented director behind Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, and The Wrestler, may be looking toward the real life story of the Securitas Depot robbery in Tonbridge, a massive heist thought to be the brainchild of former Ufc star “Lightning” Lee Murray.
The details of the heist, which occurred in February of 2006, are being adapted into a screenplay by writer Kerry Williamson, who’s currently adapting Fork in the Road for Alexander Payne.
Allegedly, Williamson will be working from two original sources: A Sports Illustrated article entitled “Breaking the Bank” and Howard Sounes’ book Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery. /Film has the details on what the book contains:
On Wednesday, 22 February 2006, GBP53 million in bank notes was stolen from a cash warehouse belonging to the Securitas company in Tonbridge, Kent — a sum of money so vast that if the notes were stacked
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Darren Aronofsky Stages A Heist
22 September 2009 12:23 AM, PDT
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Darren Aronofsky's next project may be set in exotic Tonbridge, if the trades are to be believed this morning. According to Variety, the director of The Wrestler and The Fountain is planning to follow The Black Swan with an indie drama based on the Securitas depot robbery, which took place in 2006.Armed robbers in latex masks made off with £53m, in a plan that involved kidnapping the wife and daughter of the depot manager. They were forced to leave behind a further £150m because it wouldn't fit in their van! Depot staff were left locked in cages after the hour long ordeal, and apparently one of the thieves flipped a "thankyou for your cooperation" on his way out. Which reminds us: what's happened to Aronofsky's Robocop? Some of the gang were convicted at the start of last year, and the story was widely covered worldwide. And that's where production
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Darren Aronofsky To Make A Gritty Heist Movie
21 September 2009 6:05 PM, PDT
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It looks like writer/director Darren Aronofsky is going to be following up his brilliant 2008 wrestling pic, The Wrestler, with a film based around, “the daring robbery of the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge… thought to be masterminded by former mixed martial arts fighter and Ufc star ‘Lightning’ Lee Murray.” The indie thriller is being set up for Aronofsky to both direct and produce.
Screenwriter Kerry Williamson (adapter of the upcoming Alexander Payne film, Fork in the Road) is adapting the script from an underlying rights package which includes two separate sources: an article in Sports Illustrated from April 14th 2008 entitled Breaking the Bank (written by John Wertheim), and from a non-fiction book called Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery (by Howard Sounes).
The title of the latter source isn’t for nothing: the real life London heist is valued at around $86 million (or £53 million to use
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Darren Aronofsky to Direct Story of Real-Life Robbery
21 September 2009 1:45 PM, PDT
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Variety reports that director Darren Aronofsky will direct and produce a movie based on the robbery committed at the Securitas Depot in England three years ago. The crime, which was covered extensively by the BBC, ended up representing the largest amount of currency stolen in a single heist in Britain's history.
This represents yet another intriguing addition to Aronofsky's resume, which already includes a wildly eclectic variety of movies. He started off with sensory shock-flicks Pi and Requiem for a Dream, both of which had a hyperactivity reminiscent of graphic novels. Then there was the pseudo-spiritual weepie The Fountain, which had a more restrained style and a more melodramatic core. And last year, of course, he helmed the intimate character drama The Wrestler, which earned Mickey Rourke an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.
Now, it appears Aronofsky is attracted to the idea of doing a heist flick, so
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Preacher Movie Updates
14 September 2009 7:24 PM, PDT
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Perfect timing! I finally finished reading the entire Preacher series last week after having been stuck at the two-thirds mark for months and here we have an update from the director of the film adaptation giving an update on the status of the film.
It sounds like the project is almost there - it’s so close, I can feel it. Preacher has been in development hell for a very long time (a decade now) and you can read my previous posts on the history of Preacher to find out how it was supposed to come at us in the form of an HBO series, which it would do for perfectly during these times.
In talking to Empire, Mendes revealed that he has read a complete draft of the script and he hinted that the movie may not be too far away.
“It’s getting closer… I’ve seen a
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- Rob Keyes
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New 'Manhater' trailer
2 September 2009 2:46 PM, PDT
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Manhater is a new horror film with with a decidedly female agenda starring Emelle, John F. Henry, Ariel X, Alessandra Assaf, Brendan Connor, and Techiera Roberts.
The trailer shows us a really fun-looking low budget horror movie about an abused woman who gets her revenge on evil ex boyfriends by morphing into a demoness who seeks them out and destroys them. Cliche? A bit, and while we can recognize the universal mythology of 'woman-as-soul-destroyer' once she takes control of her sexuality, we get a cool witch who makes postions to help take the edge off. And also, how can you hate something called 'Manhater'? Watch the trailer...
Official Synopsis: Vonda Madding has a history of bad relationships with men. The last man she married abused her and that was the last straw--she swore all men were scum. But what can she do? Eileen Trost has the answer--a witch's
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Prepare for The Tournament trailer...
27 August 2009 6:17 PM, PDT
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This is one of those genre-benders that can skate the lines between Action/Horror/Thriller...
A film popped up on our radar called The Tournament, where every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.
Fango just snagged a look at the trailer for the film which can be viewed below. The British film stars Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Sommerhalder, Liam Cunningham, Scott Adkins and Sebastien Foucan, and was directed by Scott Mann. No word yet on a U.S. or UK release plan, but the film is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray in the Scandinavian countries on December 1st via Scanbox Entertainment (Denmark, Finland, Sweden).
For more, visit the film's Facebook Page or Official Site.
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