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When you're a highly-respected, Oscar-winning filmmaker like Ang Lee, a lot of scrutiny is paid to every decision you make, particularly which projects you choose to direct. Lee is an especially interesting case since every movie he has made has been different from the one before, and he's proven himself to be a filmmaker ready to take on new challenges, including ones that may scare any other filmmaker.
Hollywood may have thought Lee had finally gone over the edge when he took on the task of bringing Yann Martel's bestselling 2001 novel Life of Pi to the screen. Fortunately, the results are another gorgeous masterpiece from the filmmaking visionary, one we've already given a 9.5 out of 10 review, and a few weeks back, ComingSoon.net got on the phone with Lee for the following interview.
Tommy Lee Jones is an actor who really needs no introduction, and 2012 has been such a great year for him, as he reunited with Will Smith for Men in Black 3, teamed with Meryl Streep and Steve Carell in Hope Springs, and he now can be seen in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, playing Thaddeus Stevens, the radical Republican who played a large part in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. ComingSoon.net got on the phone with the notoriously press-shy Tommy Lee Jones last week and tried to talk to him about his role in the latter, and this is what we were able to get out of him. Enjoy!
After two big weekends at the box office, we get another big sequel, this one being the finale to one of the bigger franchises of the past five years. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (Summit) is once again directed by Bill (Dreamgirls) Condon as it reunites Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner for the fifth and final time to bring Stephenie Meyer's supernatural drama to a close, this one promising to have a lot more action then the last four movies.
This week's "Chosen One(s)" are David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company), starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Chris Tucker and Alex Gibney's doc Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO Films).
Back in 1964, director Michael Apted was commissioned by Granada Television for a program that looked at roughly a dozen 7-year-old schoolkids, interviewing them to get their thoughts on life and marriage, an interesting look at Britain's class system. Seven years later, the program revisited the kids and again seven years after that, and so began a tradition that has continued to this day.
"The Up Series," as it became called, could be seen as the very early precursor to reality television and while Apted's career as a Hollywood filmmaker (and president of the DGA) kept him fairly busy, every seven years he would return to those original 7-year-olds for a status update.
We're back to trying to do these "Chosen One(s)" as separate articles, and while in fact this week's Chosen One would normally be David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, that's only because it cheated into a limited release five days before its original wide release date. It would also be a shame to not give special attention to Alex Gibney's latest documentary, which is another one of his unforgettable and jaw-dropping efforts.
Mea Culpa Maxima is a surprising turn for him since it veers further away from his previous work, and while it may not seem overly political, it actually still deals with politics, only this time it's dealing with the politics within the Catholic Church and how they've hidden hundreds of cases of pedophilia and abuse.
It's been a few weeks since I wrote my first Oscar Warrior piece of the year, looking at some of the movies that will be discussed during awards season--if you missed it, you can read that here. One of the questions that came up, rather quickly, was why I hadn't even mentioned Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
At the time, it probably seemed like a huge oversight and I'll freely admit that I hadn't even thought about its chances. The odd thing was that I was asked this very question by Matt Patches at Hollywood.com back in July and you can read an extended never-before-seen version of what I told him after the jump, as well as my current thoughts.
This week, we only have one new movie in wide release but it's a doozy, being the first James Bond movie in four years, the 23rd official movie in the franchise and the one that marks the 50th Anniversary of Ian Fleming's super-spy 007 in film. Skyfall (MGM/Sony) is directed by Sam Mendes, who first gained recognition Stateside with his feature film debut American Beauty and also had success with the follow-up Road to Perdition, starring Tom Hanks, and the war movie Jarhead, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
We've been slightly waylaid by travels, hurricanes and power outtages, but we want to look ahead to December and what is likely to be the last big blockbuster of 2012. Of course, we're talking about Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, his long-awaited return to Middle-earth, following the three blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" movies released between 2001 and 2003.
It's been nine years since those movies but the fanbase has remained alive thanks to sites like OneRing.net who have kept the hope alive that one day Jackson would direct a movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's first Middle-earth novel. As it happens, they're not just going to get one movie now, but three! The first of them opens on Friday, December 14 in roughly the same general period of the year as those movies and one can certainly expect that the fans who stuck through the long wait will be there at midnight or sometime soon thereafter.
The start of November officially kicks off the holiday season of 2012 and while not everything released this month and next will be a hit, there's a much better chance they will make more money in the long-term as studios release tentpoles that can bring in audiences over Thanksgiving and Christmas. At least let's hope so, because last week was so embarrassingly bad things really couldn't get much worse at the box office. At least the World Series is over and hopefully people on the East Coast will be ready to go out to theaters after being kept in most of the week by Hurricane Sandy.
One movie that's expected to do decent business not only this weekend but over the next couple months is Disney Animation's latest offering Wreck-It Ralph (Disney), directed by Rich Moore, a "Simpsons" and "Futurama" vet who has assembled a comey cast that includes John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling and others to explore the world of video game characters. Denzel Washington returns for the second time this year after his hit action-thriller Safe House with Ryan Reynolds, to star in Robert Zemeckis' Flight (Paramount), a very different movie, more of a character drama in which he plays alcoholic commercial airline pilot "Whip" Whitaker.
This week's "CHOSEN ONE" is Caf de Flore (Adopt Films), the new movie from Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Valle (The Young Victoria).
There was a point when the last weekend of October was looking like a tight race for #1 between two new movies and a returning one but yeah, that's probably not going to happen, and that's because the studio releasing the movie with the biggest buzz decided to give it a fairly moderate release into less than 2,000 theaters so things are looking very different than we expected.
It's looking very likely that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (Open Road Entertainment), the sequel to the 2006 Konami video game-inspired horror movie by the producers of "Resident Evil" will win the weekend with less than $15 million. Also, "The Matrix" creators Andy and Lana Wachowski are back, collaborating with German filmmaker Thomas Tykwer (Run Lola Run) for their ambitious adaptation of David Mitchell's complex fiction novel Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.), which mixes science fiction with historical bits and may be helped by getting big name stars like Tom Hanks and Halle Berry to headline an ensemble cast that includes Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw and others.
This week's THE CHOSEN ONE is The Zen of Bennett (Abramorama), the new doc about legendary singer Tony Bennett, conceived and produced by his son Danny Bennett and directed by Unjoo Moon.
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Oscar-Worthy: Life of Pi Director Ang Lee
Posted on Thursday, November 15 by Ed
When you're a highly-respected, Oscar-winning filmmaker like Ang Lee, a lot of scrutiny is paid to every decision you make, particularly which projects you choose to direct. Lee is an especially interesting case since every movie he has made has been different from the one before, and he's proven himself to be a filmmaker ready to take on new challenges, including ones that may scare any other filmmaker.
Hollywood may have thought Lee had finally gone over the edge when he took on the task of bringing Yann Martel's bestselling 2001 novel Life of Pi to the screen. Fortunately, the results are another gorgeous masterpiece from the filmmaking visionary, one we've already given a 9.5 out of 10 review, and a few weeks back, ComingSoon.net got on the phone with Lee for the following interview.
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Oscar-Worthy: Talking Lincoln with Tommy Lee Jones
Posted on Wednesday, November 14 by Ed
Tommy Lee Jones is an actor who really needs no introduction, and 2012 has been such a great year for him, as he reunited with Will Smith for Men in Black 3, teamed with Meryl Streep and Steve Carell in Hope Springs, and he now can be seen in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, playing Thaddeus Stevens, the radical Republican who played a large part in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. ComingSoon.net got on the phone with the notoriously press-shy Tommy Lee Jones last week and tried to talk to him about his role in the latter, and this is what we were able to get out of him. Enjoy!Read More »
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Box Office Preview: The Last Twilight Saga Column Ever!
Posted on Tuesday, November 13 by Ed
After two big weekends at the box office, we get another big sequel, this one being the finale to one of the bigger franchises of the past five years. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (Summit) is once again directed by Bill (Dreamgirls) Condon as it reunites Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner for the fifth and final time to bring Stephenie Meyer's supernatural drama to a close, this one promising to have a lot more action then the last four movies.
This week's "Chosen One(s)" are David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company), starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Chris Tucker and Alex Gibney's doc Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO Films).
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DOC-NYC Review: 56 Up
Posted on Monday, November 12 by Ed
Back in 1964, director Michael Apted was commissioned by Granada Television for a program that looked at roughly a dozen 7-year-old schoolkids, interviewing them to get their thoughts on life and marriage, an interesting look at Britain's class system. Seven years later, the program revisited the kids and again seven years after that, and so began a tradition that has continued to this day.
"The Up Series," as it became called, could be seen as the very early precursor to reality television and while Apted's career as a Hollywood filmmaker (and president of the DGA) kept him fairly busy, every seven years he would return to those original 7-year-olds for a status update.
Read More »
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The Chosen One for 11/16/12: Mea Maxima Culpa
Posted on Monday, November 12 by Ed
We're back to trying to do these "Chosen One(s)" as separate articles, and while in fact this week's Chosen One would normally be David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, that's only because it cheated into a limited release five days before its original wide release date. It would also be a shame to not give special attention to Alex Gibney's latest documentary, which is another one of his unforgettable and jaw-dropping efforts.
Mea Culpa Maxima is a surprising turn for him since it veers further away from his previous work, and while it may not seem overly political, it actually still deals with politics, only this time it's dealing with the politics within the Catholic Church and how they've hidden hundreds of cases of pedophilia and abuse.
Read More »
Tweet
The Oscar Warrior: Where's Dark Knight At?
Posted on Wednesday, November 7 by Ed
It's been a few weeks since I wrote my first Oscar Warrior piece of the year, looking at some of the movies that will be discussed during awards season--if you missed it, you can read that here. One of the questions that came up, rather quickly, was why I hadn't even mentioned Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
At the time, it probably seemed like a huge oversight and I'll freely admit that I hadn't even thought about its chances. The odd thing was that I was asked this very question by Matt Patches at Hollywood.com back in July and you can read an extended never-before-seen version of what I told him after the jump, as well as my current thoughts.
Read More »
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Box Office Preview: For 007, The Rest of the World is Not Enough
Posted on Tuesday, November 6 by Ed
This week, we only have one new movie in wide release but it's a doozy, being the first James Bond movie in four years, the 23rd official movie in the franchise and the one that marks the 50th Anniversary of Ian Fleming's super-spy 007 in film. Skyfall (MGM/Sony) is directed by Sam Mendes, who first gained recognition Stateside with his feature film debut American Beauty and also had success with the follow-up Road to Perdition, starring Tom Hanks, and the war movie Jarhead, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.Read More »
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Long Distance Box Office: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Posted on Monday, November 5 by Ed
We've been slightly waylaid by travels, hurricanes and power outtages, but we want to look ahead to December and what is likely to be the last big blockbuster of 2012. Of course, we're talking about Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, his long-awaited return to Middle-earth, following the three blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" movies released between 2001 and 2003.
It's been nine years since those movies but the fanbase has remained alive thanks to sites like OneRing.net who have kept the hope alive that one day Jackson would direct a movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's first Middle-earth novel. As it happens, they're not just going to get one movie now, but three! The first of them opens on Friday, December 14 in roughly the same general period of the year as those movies and one can certainly expect that the fans who stuck through the long wait will be there at midnight or sometime soon thereafter.
Read More »
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Box Office Preview: Can Disney's Ralph Wreck the Box Office Slump?
Posted on Tuesday, October 30 by Ed
The start of November officially kicks off the holiday season of 2012 and while not everything released this month and next will be a hit, there's a much better chance they will make more money in the long-term as studios release tentpoles that can bring in audiences over Thanksgiving and Christmas. At least let's hope so, because last week was so embarrassingly bad things really couldn't get much worse at the box office. At least the World Series is over and hopefully people on the East Coast will be ready to go out to theaters after being kept in most of the week by Hurricane Sandy.
One movie that's expected to do decent business not only this weekend but over the next couple months is Disney Animation's latest offering Wreck-It Ralph (Disney), directed by Rich Moore, a "Simpsons" and "Futurama" vet who has assembled a comey cast that includes John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling and others to explore the world of video game characters. Denzel Washington returns for the second time this year after his hit action-thriller Safe House with Ryan Reynolds, to star in Robert Zemeckis' Flight (Paramount), a very different movie, more of a character drama in which he plays alcoholic commercial airline pilot "Whip" Whitaker.
This week's "CHOSEN ONE" is Caf de Flore (Adopt Films), the new movie from Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Valle (The Young Victoria).
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Box Office Preview: Cloudy with a Chance of Silence
Posted on Tuesday, October 23 by Ed
There was a point when the last weekend of October was looking like a tight race for #1 between two new movies and a returning one but yeah, that's probably not going to happen, and that's because the studio releasing the movie with the biggest buzz decided to give it a fairly moderate release into less than 2,000 theaters so things are looking very different than we expected.
It's looking very likely that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (Open Road Entertainment), the sequel to the 2006 Konami video game-inspired horror movie by the producers of "Resident Evil" will win the weekend with less than $15 million. Also, "The Matrix" creators Andy and Lana Wachowski are back, collaborating with German filmmaker Thomas Tykwer (Run Lola Run) for their ambitious adaptation of David Mitchell's complex fiction novel Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.), which mixes science fiction with historical bits and may be helped by getting big name stars like Tom Hanks and Halle Berry to headline an ensemble cast that includes Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw and others.
This week's THE CHOSEN ONE is The Zen of Bennett (Abramorama), the new doc about legendary singer Tony Bennett, conceived and produced by his son Danny Bennett and directed by Unjoo Moon.
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