Monday, January 27, 2014

Helen Mirren to Get Top BAFTA Honor

The actress, who won an Oscar and a BAFTA film award for her role in "The Queen" in 2007, gets a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Helen Mirren will next month be presented with a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the organization's highest honor.

The Oscar and BAFTA winning actress will receive the British Academy fellowship in recognition of her "exceptional contribution" to film, BAFTA said. She will get the honor during this year's British Academy film awards on Feb. 16.
The presentation will see Mirren join the star-studded roster of BAFTA fellows that already includes the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Martin Scorsese.

Weekend Box Office: RIDE ALONG Claims Second Win; I, FRANKENSTEIN Struggles

As expected, Ride Along easily claimed a second frame on top of the domestic box office.  The Universal comedy took in an estimated $21.1 million this weekend, or more than twice the amount credited to the week’s sole new release: I, Frankenstein.  The Lionsgate release pulled in an estimated $8.2 million in its first three days – falling below the very low bar set by the studio’s last feature, The Legend of Hercules, just two weeks ago.
   



Title     Weekend     Total
1.      Ride Along     $21,162,000     $75.4
2.      Lone Survivor     $12,601,000     $93.6
3.      The Nut Job     $12,316,000     $40.2
4.      Frozen     $9,035,000     $347.8
5.      Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit     $8,800,000     $30.1
6.      I, Frankenstein     $8,275,000     $8.2
7.      American Hustle     $7,100,000     $127
8.      August: Osage County     $5,041,000     $26.5
9.      The Wolf of Wall Street     $5,000,000     $98
10.      Devil’s Due     $2,750,000     $12.8

Maleficent Debuts a 90-Second Sneak Peek!

A new, 90-second sneak peek at Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming Maleficent just debuted during the 56th Annual Grammy Awards and features a never-before-heard Lana Del Rey rendition of "Once Upon a Dream." Check it out in the player below!

Del Rey recorded the unique reimagining of the renowned fairy-tale tune from Disney’s classic animated film Sleeping Beauty and it will be featured in full during the end credits of the May 30 release. The song is, meanwhile, available for free for a limited time, only on Google Play.
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Inside the DGA Awards: Alfonso Cuaron Wins, Steven Soderbergh Gets a Surprise

The "Gravity" director topped the 66th annual event, which featured appearances by Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks and Bradley Cooper.
The 66th annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards unfolded in four-and-a-half hours on Saturday, Jan. 25, with a few surprises, several standing ovations and the top honor going to Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron.

Cuaron was announced as the final winner of the night, but each of the five nominated film directors -- Cuaron, Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), David O. Russell (American Hustle), Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) and Martin Scorsese (Wolf of Wall Street) -- was honored with a presentation and a medallion at different points throughout the night.

Kevin Smith And SModCo Are Now Making A Holiday Horror Anthology

The farther he gets from his indie roots, the closer Kevin Smith seems to be inching back towards that filmmaking methodology, only without the worry of having to max out credit cards to bring the projects to light. Since announcing at the end of 2012 that Clerks III was going to be his last film, Smith has almost completed a feature that wasn’t even fully conceived of at the time, with another more bizarre project lined up after that. Add another off-center concept to that pile, as Smith announced he recently finished teaming up with comedy writer and podcaster Andy McElfresh in co-writing a Christmas horror anthology called Comes the Krampus! which will be directed by several members of the SModCo crew.

Instead of using Santa Claus as their jumping off point, they decided to use the "Scandinavian/German Kid-Eating Christmas creature known as The Krampus," which Smith himself announced on his blog Silent Bob Speaks. The brainstorming session that spawned the idea occurred during the Christmas episode of McElfresh’s Edumacation podcast (which you can listen to here), and Smith is calling it their version of George A. Romero and Stephen King’s Creepshow.

Dreamworks Producing Live-Action ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Adaptation

Years have passed (literally) since anyone’s talked about re-adapting Masamune Shirow’s landmark manga-cum-anime Ghost in the Shell. First conceived on the page by Shirow in 1989, brought to the big screen in 1995, and sequelized in 2004 (by legendary Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii), the Ghost in the Shell franchise has largely survived as a television property in the intervening decade, as seen in early aughts TV show Standalone Complex and, much more recently, OVA series Arise.

This makes recent developments over a new Ghost in the Shell film potentially very exciting. It turns out that there’s been movement on bringing Shirow’s creation back to theaters with a new update on his original work; Dreamworks, the studio that initially released the truly excellent movie sequel Ghost in the Shell: Innocence ten years ago still owns the rights, and they’re intent on pushing ahead with another interpretation of Shirow’s manga, this time through a live-action rather than animated lens.

Hugh Jackman Set as Blackbeard in ‘Peter Pan’; Garrett Hedlund Cast as Hook

Hearing any new details about the upcoming Peter Pan movie can be a little confusing, because there are actually multiple Peter Pan movies currently at various stages of development. It’s one of the perils of well-loved stories that are in the public domain. The Peter Pan movie that seems to be winning the race, however, is Warner Bros’ version, with director Joe Wright (The Soloist) at the helm.

Casting on the film has been ongoing for the past few months, with various names thrown into the mix including Ryan Gosling and Javier Bardem, and Warner Bros has already set a release date for summer 2015.
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