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Five Minutes of Heaven (review)
12 November 2009 1:51 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
After a disastrous foray into Hollywood with the tepid sci-fi potboiler The Invasion German director Oliver Hirschbiegel returns to the realms of uneasy morality he explored in his portrait of Bunker Hitler in Downfall... and this difficult, uncomfortable film, which similarly deconstructs the notion of what “evil” is, hits even closer to home for today’s mess of a culturally fractured world. Back in 1975, a teenaged Protestant hitman (Mark Davison) killed a Catholic man, because that’s what “good” Protestant men did in Northern Ireland back then, in front of the man’s 11-year-old brother. Now, today, the two men are brought together by a television show seeking a sort of Irish version of the South African truth-and-reconciliation plan: Liam Neeson (Taken) is the former hitman who has put his life, since he got out of prison for that murder, to better use; James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday) is the grownup »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt And More Overnight Sex Symbols
29 September 2009 2:52 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'Twilight' has catapulted RPattz into the stratosphere where he joins some other beefcake breakout stars.
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
Every now and then, a movie comes out that transforms a male actor into someone to be desired, adored and often watched for decades to come. We're experiencing such a phenomenon now with Robert Pattinson, who has essentially starred in one wide-release movie and had "Twilight" transform him from "Who's that?" to "Hottest Man Alive" overnight.
But where does RPattz go from here? Will he launch a decades-long career? Work with directors like Spielberg and Scorsese? Or will he become another Hollywood cautionary tale? Below are a handful of beefcake breakouts transformed by one major role, whose careers could perhaps give guidance to the Sparkly One.
Arguably the greatest male cinematic sex symbol of all time, actors like Pattinson and James Franco continue to »
Ninja Assassin - New poster from the film starring Rain!
23 September 2009 12:41 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"Ninja Assassin" has a new poster. The Warner Bros. Pictures actioner stars Rain, Naomie Harris, Rick Yune, Randall Duk Kim, Kang Sung, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi and Togo Igawa. James McTiegue ("V for Vendetta," "The Invasion") directs from the writing by Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski based on the story by Matthew Sand. "Ninja Assassin" follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan... »
Morgan Creek Signs Daniel Craig for Dream House
27 August 2009 10:42 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Almost two months to the day after negotiations first began between Morgan Creek and Daniel Craig for the latter to topline the production house's first new project in three years, the deal is done. Craig has signed on the dotted line and will appear in six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan's Dream House.
Variety reports that in the film, which starts shooting January 25, 2010, Craig will portray a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.
Morgan Creek fully finances its films, which are distributed through Universal. Dream House was written by David Loucka. It will be produced by James G. Robinson along with David Robinson, Daniel Bobker, and Ehren Krueger.
Here's hoping Craig fares better in Sheridan and Morgan Creek's Dream House than he did during The Invasion (review here), his last genre flick. »
- Uncle Creepy
Life In The Belfast Lane
20 August 2009 10:42 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
It's hard to come up with a new take on the violence that wracked Northern Ireland in the '70s and '80s, but "Five Minutes of Heaven" does it very effectively, in no small part thanks to terrific performances by Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt.
The second English-language film by German director Oliver Hirschbegel (the endlessly YouTubed Hitler flick "Downfall" and the disastrous "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman) opens with a prologue featuring the actors' characters as teenagers.
It's 1975 and Neeson's 17-year-old self, a Protestant terrorist, »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Exclusive: 'Five Minutes of Heaven' Poster Premiere
19 August 2009 1:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Do not be confused by the title of the film Five Minutes of Heaven, as it does not refer to the game you played as a middle-schooler where a boy and girl were chosen at random and locked in a closet together. (I believe that was "Seven Minutes in Heaven.") Five Minutes of Heaven is, rather, a thriller from the U.K. in which a man confronts the guy who killed his brother many years ago. James Nesbitt plays the bereaved, and Liam Neeson plays the killer.
The film debuted at Sundance this year, where it won awards for its director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and screenwriter, Guy Hibbert. Cinematical's Scott Weinberg gave it a rave review, saying it's "bolstered by a smart, insightful screenplay, directed with low-key style and restraint, and supported by two fantastic performances." Hirschbiegel's last film was the Nicole Kidman flop The Invasion, but before that he made the Oscar-nominated Downfall, »
- Eric D. Snider
Basterds, the Ira and the real Mad Men
17 August 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Another monster release slate this week finds, amongst other things, interpretations of the Irish troubles, both real and imagined. Also, we meet the real life Mad Men, Qt's Basterds and the godfather of African-American indie film as a bearded ten-year-old boy.
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"Art & Copy"
Filmmaker Doug Pray ("Surfwise") goes inside the advertising industry to uncover the creative minds behind such iconic slogans as "Got Milk?" and "Just Do It," encountering a multitude of contrasting viewpoints, from those who feel they have whored themselves out in the name of commerce to those hopelessly addicted to the rush of satisfying the constantly changing needs of the modern world. Don Draper, eat your heart out.
Opens in New York.
This year's German nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar, Uli Edel's adaptation of »
- Neil Pedley
Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up - August 5,
6 August 2009 8:21 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
This week:
Maggie Grace takes part in The Experiment with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker; get ready to Stare At Goats and George Clooney in November; Leonardo DiCaprio goes down to the woods with Little Red Riding Hood; Liam Neeson is an Unknown White Male, Josh Duhamel ruins Life As We Know it alongside Katherine Heigl; Sony Pictures Classics buy Blood Simple and find out which Silent Hill star has joined Twilight.
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1. Lost star Maggie Grace will join Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker in The Experiment. The plot (according to IMDb) is as follows:
“26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.”
The Experiment is a remake of Das Experiment directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Invasion).
Source: Bloody Disgusting
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2. George Clooney’s forthcoming The Men Who Stare At Goats will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. »
- Niall Browne
'V for Vendetta' Director Takes on Edgar Allan Poe Investigation
4 August 2009 7:31 PM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
James McTeigue, director of The Invasion, V for Vendetta and the forthcoming Ninja Assassin, has been tapped to helm The Raven for FilmNation Entertainment and Endgame, reports /Film. Its like the poem, 'The Raven', itself, crossed with 'Se7en'," he tells the site. "It should be pretty cool. The script is really good and everyone responds to it really well. Im in the middle of casting. Written by Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston, the film is a thriller set in the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, when he gets wrapped up in a serial killer investigation. Machinist/Session 9 director Brad Anderson had been previously developing the project. »
"Five Minutes of Heaven" - First poster in.
1 July 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
We have the first poster in from "Five Minutes of Heaven," the winner of the Directing Award World Cinema as well as the Screenwiring Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Oliver Hirschbiegel ("The Invasion," "Das Experiment," "Downfall") helms from the writing by Guy Hibbert ("Saigon Baby," "The Russian Bride"). The film sees theatres on August 21st and stars Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Juliet Crawford, Conor MacNeill, Jonathan Harden, Mathew McElhinney, Diarmuid Noyes, Mark Davison and Katy Gleadhill. »
Reel Talk Mixtape: Wednesday, June 24th
24 June 2009 1:15 PM, PDT | ReelTalkTV.com | See recent ReelTalkTV.com news »
Could this be the end of Oscar snubbing? Well, probably not. There will always be films people think didn’t get the recognition they deserved, but at least now there will be less of them. Academy Motion Picture Arts and Science President Sid Ganis said “After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year. The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.” I see no harm in including more films in the running. While it will make voting more difficult for the Academy, more films will get proper recognition rather than being pushed into other categories. Nominees will be announced on February 10th, 2010 and the Oscars will be presented on March 7th. »
Popular Picks at This Year's Sydney Film Festival
23 June 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »
Louie Psihoyos' stirring documentary The Cove has won the Showtime Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival. The Cove follows a group of activists determined to expose the horrors behind the capturing of dolphins in the world's biggest supplier of dolphins, the town of Taijii in Japan. The Cove will open in cinemas on general release from August 20. Festival jury member and director Oliver Hirschbiegel's study of the cyclical nature of violence in Belfast with Five Minutes of Heaven won the audience award for Best Fiction at the State Theatre, marking a great return for Hirschbiegel (Downfall) after the disaster that was The Invasion. »
Kidman Runs from Woody Allen
12 May 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Nicole Kidman has departed from her role starring in the next, presently untitled, Woody Allen project.
She was set to star alongside Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto, with shooting reportedly due to commence in the summer in Allen’s most frequent new city muse, London.
Variety says nothing has yet been announced as to who will replace Kidman in the role, and merely cites a "scheduling issue" with her other film, Rabbit Hole (co-starring Aaron Eckhart).
It seems like an interesting move for an actress who seems to be struggling somewhat to maintain any kind of box-office power. Australia was a complete flop and, prior to this, she was in the debacle that is The Golden Compass, the mean-spirited and somewhat irritating Margot at the Wedding, and the truly terrible The Invasion.
Allen, on the other hand, seems to be in an upward swing. »
IFC Spares 'Five Minutes' for Hirschbiegel
8 May 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- IFC Films have nabbed Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes Of Heaven and are adding it to their IFC In Theatres VOD day-and-date platform this coming month of August. Previously Hirschbiegel had directed the breakout international mind-f**k hit called Das Experiment, quickly followed that up with Hitler's demise in Downfall and his first Hollywood project (The Invasion) for Warner Bros. met an unfortunate tsunami of harsh criticism and zero interest from the movie-going public. This smaller in scale drama features Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt and Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and was shown at Sundance where it picked up the World Cinema Director Award but failed to light a fire for domestic distribution rights. Based on Guy Hibbert’s screenplay about two men from the same town in Northern Ireland who find themselves on different sides of the Irish political divide. The film traces the lives of two men one a murderer, »
Stephen King's It Adaptation to be Rated R
6 April 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
It was recently announced that Warner Bros has started work on a big screen adaptation of Stephen King's popular novel "It," about a group of kids who encounter a creature dressed as a clown that preys on children. DreadCentral now caught up with writer David Kajganich (The Invasion), who is tasked with putting together the script for the new film, which might end up being R-rated. "The remake will be set in the mid-1980s and in the present almost equally -- mirroring the twenty-odd-year gap King uses in the book -- and with a *great* deal of care and attention paid to the backstories of all the characters," said Kajganich. "I think the real twist here is that my pitch to WB -- which they've assured me they're on board for -- is that this will not be PG-13. This will be R. Which means we can really »
Instant Fame: Megan Fox and Malin Ackerman
21 March 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Much like Transformers turned Megan Fox into an instant star, Watchmen has created yet another, Malin Akerman. Aside from the obvious fact that they are both beautiful women, who are they and what makes them so special? How did they make their way to Hollywood stardom? PopStar takes a look at the career paths of these two extraordinary women... Malin Ackerman Malin, who turns 31 next month, hails from Stockholm, Sweden. She made her debut in Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict in an episode called "Truth" as the Avatar. This was during its first season, which would go on to produce a total of four. It would be three years before we would see her again, this time playing a small role in the movie, The Skulls. She was Caleb's roommate, played by Paul Walker. That same year, she played in the pilot episode of a television show called The Others, »
- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
Instant Fame: Megan Fox and Malin Ackerman
21 March 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Much like Transformers turned Megan Fox into an instant star, Watchmen has created yet another, Malin Akerman. Aside from the obvious fact that they are both beautiful women, who are they and what makes them so special? How did they make their way to Hollywood stardom? PopStar takes a look at the career paths of these two extraordinary women... Malin Ackerman Malin, who turns 31 next month, hails from Stockholm, Sweden. She made her debut in Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict in an episode called "Truth" as the Avatar. This was during its first season, which would go on to produce a total of four. It would be three years before we would see her again, this time playing a small role in the movie, The Skulls. She was Caleb's roommate, played by Paul Walker. That same year, she played in the pilot episode of a television show called The Others, »
- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
Instant Fame: Megan Fox and Malin Ackerman
21 March 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
Much like Transformers turned Megan Fox into an instant star, Watchmen has created yet another, Malin Akerman. Aside from the obvious fact that they are both beautiful women, who are they and what makes them so special? How did they make their way to Hollywood stardom? PopStar takes a look at the career paths of these two extraordinary women... Malin Ackerman Malin, who turns 31 next month, hails from Stockholm, Sweden. She made her debut in Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict in an episode called "Truth" as the Avatar. This was during its first season, which would go on to produce a total of four. It would be three years before we would see her again, this time playing a small role in the movie, The Skulls. She was Caleb's roommate, played by Paul Walker. That same year, she played in the pilot episode of a television show called The Others, »
- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
'The Box' Moves Up from Thanksgiving to Halloween
19 March 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Tempted though I may be to do so, I won't take credit for Warners' moving up the release of Richard Kelly's hopefully good The Box after I blathered on about it for too long and then some last month. According to Bom, the thriller is now scheduled to open on October 30th and just opposite Saw VI -- and between us, if it was between either the fifth Saw sequel or a title with both Richard Kelly and Richard Matheson's names on it, my moviegoing dollar would surely find its way to the latter.
Going instead into the newly vacated 11/25 slot is the Wachowski-produced Ninja Assassin, helmed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, the third act of The Invasion) and starring that guy Stephen Colbert hates so much. Not much has come of that film beyond a "we're making it!" press conference -- no trailer, no poster, no »
- William Goss
Warner Bros is Re-Adapting ‘It’ for the Big Screen
13 March 2009 3:28 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Warner Bros is about to ruin clowns for a whole new generation. Stephen King’s horror novel It is receiving a new adaptation and this time it will show in theaters.
Dave Kajganich (The Invasion) will take a shot at condensing the 1,100+ page novel into the typical 90-minute horror movie. It was the best-selling book of 1986.
The 3-hour miniseries in 1990 starred Tim Curry as Pennywise (the creepy clown seen left) and the late John Ritter. It followed a group of kids called the Losers Club encounter a creature called “It,” which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown. When the creature resurfaces, the kids are called upon to regroup again, this time as adults, even though they have no memory of the first battle.
Watching it recently, I noticed it is quite dated, but so is the Godfather at times and no one says, »
- Jeff Leins
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