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Kamis, 27 Januari 2011

The List of Cities and Details for Kevin Smith’s “Red State USA Tour”

Kevin Smith is going to make back the money his own way for his newest film Red State. Part of that involves taking the film out on the road and making that profit off of willing audiences, city by city. Smith will be there for post-film Q&As at each location, and he’ll be bringing lead actor Michael Parks along with him. Sounds good, right? The price, however, may be higher than you’ll be willing to pay.

For all the details of Smith’s “Red State USA Tour,” including which cities it will visit, just hit the jump.

The Red State USA Tour sounds like a fun time, but it’ll cost a pretty penny. According to Smith, you are probably going to pay “probably 6, 7, maybe 10 times” what you normally pay to see a film at a multiplex. Smith also promises that “we’re going to give you some cool shit,” although it’s not clear if this is separate from the Q&A with Parks and Smith himself (my guess is no). It’s worth noting that while this price initially sounds outrageous, it isn’t too much more than a regular Smith Q&A and, to my knowledge, he usually doesn’t even screen movies at those things.

Here is the full list of dates and locations:

March 5th – Radio City Music Hall

March 6th – Wilbur Theater in Boston

March 8th – Harris Theater in Chicago

March 9th – State Theater in Minneapolis

March 10th – Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor

March 11th – Indianapolis, IN

March 12th - Midland Theater, Kansas City

March 14th – Springfield, OH

March 22nd – Paramount Theater, Denver

March 26th - McCalister theater, New Orleans

March 28th – Paramount Theater, Austin

March 29th – Cobb Energy Center, Atlanta

April 4th – McCaw Hall in Seattle

If the tour does well, Smith will reopen the tour later on. But either way, he hopes to pay back the entire $4 million budget of the film by the time it opens in October 2011. See all the details here.

Discuss: What do you guys think? Would you pay $50-100 to see Red State early and the ensuing Kevin Smith Q&A?

Oscar nominations 2011: the full list

The full list of nominees in each category for the 83rd Academy awards

Best motion picture of the year

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Achievement in directing

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David O Russell (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

Adapted screenplay

127 Hours - Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story)
True Grit - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone - Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Original screenplay

Another Year - Mike Leigh
The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
Inception - Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech - David Seidler

Best animated feature film of the year

How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Best foreign language film of the year

Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Algeria)

Art direction

Alice in Wonderland - Robert Stromberg (production design), Karen O'Hara (set decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Stuart Craig (production design), Stephenie McMillan (set decoration)
Inception - Guy Hendrix Dyas (production design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (set decoration)
The King's Speech - Eve Stewart (production design), Judy Farr (set decoration)
True Grit - Jess Gonchor (production design), Nancy Haigh (set decoration)

Achievement in cinematography

Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
Wally Pfister (Inception)
Danny Cohen (The King's Speech)
Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network)
Roger Deakins (True Grit)

Achievement in costume design

Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
Antonella Cannarozzi (I Am Love)
Jenny Beavan (The King's Speech)
Sandy Powell (The Tempest)
Mary Zophres (True Grit)

Best documentary feature

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz)
Gasland (Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley)

Best documentary short subject

Killing in the Name (Nominees to be determined)
Poster Girl (Nominees to be determined)
Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Sun Come Up (Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
The Warriors of Qiugang (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)

Achievement in film editing

Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
Tariq Anwar (The King's Speech)
Jon Harris (127 Hours)
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)

Achievement in makeup

Adrien Morot (Barney's Version)
Edouard F Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng (The Way Back)
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (The Wolfman)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)

John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech)
AR Rahman (127 Hours)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)

Coming Home (from Country Strong, music and lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
I See the Light (from Tangled, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater)
If I Rise (from 127 Hours, music by AR Rahman, lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong)
We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman)

Best animated short film

Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let's Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) (Bastien Dubois)

Best live action short film

The Confession (Tanel Toom)
The Crush (Michael Creagh)
God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)

Achievement in sound editing

Inception (Richard King)
Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Tron: Legacy (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey)
Unstoppable (Mark P Stoeckinger)

Achievement in sound mixing

Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo and Ed Novick)
The King's Speech (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley)
Salt (Jeffrey J Haboush, Greg P Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin)
The Social Network (Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F Kurland)

Achievement in visual effects

Alice in Wonderland (Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi)
Hereafter (Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell)
Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick)

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All the major nominees and winners for the 2010 film awards season

The King's Speech swept away with 12 Oscar nominations today, but who are the other winners and nominees of the 2010 film season?
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The Oscar nominations have been announced and The King's Speech looks set to reign as the favourite of the film season.

Nominated for 12 awards,The King's Speech looks to dominate at the 83rd Academy Awards. In an echo of last week's Bafta nominations Colin Firth has been nominated for best actor.

Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush along with director Tom Hooper have also received nominations today. It seems America has truly been enamoured with the British tale of King George VI.

Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right and The Social Network once again make an appearance in the list as they also have done recently in the upcoming Bafta, Screen Actors Guild and London Film Critic Awards.

Here at the Datablog we've tracked film award nominations and winners in all the main categories, including best actor and actress, director, film and screenplay (see last years results). Those categories that have been left out such as newcomer, short film and editing have been ignored because they aren't presented in sufficient award ceremonies to warrant a comparison.

The Oscars data comes from the Academy Awards official site - full links are on our spreadsheet.

Last week we suggested that the nominations so far in the film awards would provide an idea of those up for the Oscar nominations and from the names cropping up it would seem they have been a good indicator

Other recurring winners such as Melissa Leo, The Social Network director David Fincher and Toy Story 3 are set for more possible success with further nominations in upcoming awards.

Check the tables below to see this season's big winners in some of the top categories, or download the spreadsheet for the full list of nominees and winners.What do you think? Can you do anything with the data?

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‘Another Earth’ Is A Sci-Fi Indie Version of ‘Bounce’ [Sundance Movie Review]

I’m always excited to see independently-produced science fiction films at the Sundance Film Festival because it usually means I’m in for a treat. Notable mentions include Shane Carruth’s 2004 time travel movie Primer, and Duncan Jones’ 2009 psychological space thriller Moon. This year’s line-up is almost completely devoid of sci-fimovies. As far as I can tell, the only two films are: the Midnight movie selection Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same and a film in the dramatic competition called Another Earth.

Another Earth is described as follows: “On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.” Sounds like a cool concept for a sci-fi movie, right?

Unfortunately, the Twilight Zone-like premise is only used as a backdrop, a not-so-great metaphor that only really comes to affect the story in the third act. We see news and radio reports about the other Earth, we see the planet in the sky during the outdoor scenes, and there is a highly publicized contest to pick a civilian to come aboard the shuttle to the other planet.

There is so much more potential in this concept, but the movie wants to be something else entirely — an indie slightly-scifi drama version of the Ben Affleck/Gwyneth Paltrow romantic drama Bounce (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing). If you’re willing to accept the sci-fi conceit, the film works as a compelling drama. But the sci-fi elements just feel out of place (as cool as they might be). The bottom line is — this isn’t the droid you’re looking for.

The screenplay was co-written by the lead actress Brit Marling and is pretty well crafted. William Mapother’s performance borders on over melodramatic at moments. Marling, who also wrote and stars in another Sundance film this year, Sound of My Voice, shows a lot of promise — I look forward to seeing more from her.

/Film Rating: 7 out of 10

True Grit - Special preview screenings

Be one of the first to see this much anticipated movie from the Coen brothers at cinemas nationwide on 8 February

Based on the novel by Charles Portis, True Grit, tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), whose father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him – over his objections – to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian Territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBouef (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.

True Grit is released on February 11
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VOTD: Pixar’s ‘Up’ Live-Action 1965 Movie Trailer

What if Walt Disney Pictures produced Pixar’s Up in the 1960s as a live-action feature film? YouTube user whoiseyevan has created an amazing faux “premakes” trailer which imagines this exact possibility. Watch the video now, embedded after the jump.

Here is a note from the video editor:

Ah, the swinging 60s. It was a time when films were dominated by flying automobiles and flying nannies. It was also a time when live-action Disney films flourished and spawned such hits as “The Love Bug”, “The Absent-Minded Professor”, and “The Monkey’s Uncle”. In an alternate reality, this era also saw the production of the high-flying adventure-comedy, “Up!”. Starring Spencer Tracy and Kirk Douglas, “Up!” followed the oddball escapades of the elderly widower, Carl Fredricksen, and his earnest band of misfits as they traveled through the wilds of South America. Produced two decades after “Saludos Amigos” and “The Three Caballeros”, the film continued the Disney tradition of telling stories set against Latin American backdrops.

Editor’s Note: I have always enjoyed old Disney movies from the 60s and 70s. They managed to tap into such an imaginatively odd combination of situations and characters (like dinosaur bones and Chinese spies in “One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing”, or flying cars and basketball players in The Absent-Minded Professor”). In many ways, Pixar’s “Up” continues this charming tradition with its flying houses, talking dogs and gigantic flightless birds. It’s a brilliantly written and beautifully imagined film. Oh, and stay tuned for the frame-by-frame breakdown and cheat sheet… there are a couple of Easter eggs hidden in this one.

Movie clips used in the video include: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, *batteries not included, The Red Balloon, Superman, The Wizard of Oz, The Muppet Movie, Follow Me Boys, Mackenna’s Gold, Benji, A Boy and His Dog, Mysterious Island, The Doberman Gang, The Alvin Show, Posse, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, The Island at the Top of the World, Zeppellin, Stephen King’s It, Hollywood Hotel, Jonny Quest, Peter Pan’s Flight, Habanera from Carmen, Always.

Sam Raimi set to resurrect The Evil Dead for modern remake

Director of trailblazing lo-fi horror wants it back in cinemas and 'remade for a proper theatrical experience'

Like many of its 'Deadite' (read zombie) antagonists, it's the movie series that never seems quite ready to rest in peace. According to a US report, Sam Raimi is planning a remake of his notorious 1981 horror, The Evil Dead.

The new film would presumably mark the launch of a new series of films – The Evil Dead was followed by Evil Dead II in 1987 and Army of Darkness in 1992. Bruce Campbell starred in all three films.

Rob Tapert, Raimi's longtime producing partner, told the Detroit Free Press the film-maker wanted to see The Evil Dead 'remade for a proper theatrical experience'.

'It's possible; we're looking at a script this month,' he said. 'What's interesting about Evil Dead is very few people saw it in the format we made it for, which is for the theatre. I think Sam wants to embrace the ultimate experience in gruelling terror.'

The low-budget, distinctly lo-fi first Evil Dead film was branded a 'video nasty' upon its initial UK debut. Best known for an excruciating 'tree rape' scene, it failed to secure an uncut release here until 2001. The 1987 followup, Evil Dead II, was effectively itself a remake and added a healthy dose of Three Stooges-style slapstick to the mix, resulting in one of the first horror-comedy films. The second film remains the most-celebrated and most-watched film in the series, while Army of Darkness moved matters firmly into the swords and sorcery domain, which Raimi was to exploit in his later TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.

Talk in recent years has edged towards a continuation of the series in the form of an Evil Dead 4, but with Campbell now in his 50s it looks an increasingly unlikely prospect. Raimi will probably produce the new film rather than direct.

Ben Child

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