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GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser (www.moviemuser.co.uk)

Find Out Who’s Got An Oscar Nomination – We’ve Got The Full List!

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Today’s the day we find out who’s been nominated for an Oscar. At 1.35pm GMT Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone took to the stage to announce who got the nod from AMPAS and is in the running for a little golden man on February 24th.

Lincoln has led the way with a very impressive 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones) and Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field).

Also doing unusually well for a foreign language movie is Michael Haneke’s Amour, which has nom including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director, among others. Amour’s Emmanuelle Riva gets a Best Actress nom, becoming the oldest Best Actress nominee ever at 85. The same category also has its youngest ever nominee, nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, who’s nominated for her role in Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

Take a look below for the full list of nominees in all categories:

Best Picture
Amour – Nominees to be determined
Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
Django Unchained – Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
Les Misérables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook – Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty

Actor
in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight

Actress
in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible

Actor
in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin – Argo
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

Actress
in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams – The Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

Animated Feature Film
Brave Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie Tim Burton
ParaNorman Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph Rich Moore

Cinematography
Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained – Robert Richardson
Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall – Roger Deakins

Costume Design
Anna Karenina Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables Paco Delgado
Lincoln Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman Colleen Atwood

Directing
Amour Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi Ang Lee
Lincoln Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell

Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers – Nominees to be determined
How to Survive a Plague – Nominees to be determined
The Invisible War – Nominees to be determined
Searching for Sugar Man – Nominees to be determined

Documentary Short
Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

Film Editing
Argo – William Goldenberg
Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
Lincoln – Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Foreign Language Film
Amour Austria
Kon-Tiki Norway
No Chile
A Royal Affair Denmark
War Witch Canada

Makeup and Hairstyling
Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Original Score
Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams
Skyfall – Thomas Newman

Original Song
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from Ted Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
“Skyfall” from Skyfall Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Suddenly” from Les Misérables Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Production Design
Anna Karenina Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration)
Les Misérables Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration)
Life of Pi David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Lincoln Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration)

Short Film
Animated
Adam and Dog Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole PES
Head over Heels Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare” David Silverman
Paperman – John Kahrs

Short Film
Live Action
Asad – Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Curfew – Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry – Yan England

Sound Editing
Argo – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained – Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Skyfall – Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty – Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing
Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Misérables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall – Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Marvel’s The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

Adapted Screenplay
Argo Written by Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi Written by David Magee
Lincoln Written by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook Written by David O. Russell

Original Screenplay
Amour Written by Michael Haneke
Django Unchained Written by Quentin Tarantino
Flight Written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty Written by Mark Boal

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First Pic Of Michael Fassbender Wearing A Papier Mache Head In Frank

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fassbender-frank-sidebottomNormally when we post the first pic of a major actor in a movie, you can see their face, but Frank is not your usual film. Many will recognise the figure in the middle as Chris Sievey’s comedy creation, Frank Sidebottom, but it’s Fassbender in the giant head.

Based on a script by Jon Ronson (The Man Who Stare At Goats), the Frank character is based on the man behind Sidebottom, the late comedian and musician Chris Sievey, as well as cult musical heroes Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.

What’s not clear though is whether the movie will have Fassbender wearing the Sidebottom head all the time or not. We’ll have to wait and see. Perhaps after showing so much of himself in Shame, he’s now afraid to reveal any skin at all!

As you can see from the image, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domnhall Gleeson co-star.

Oh, and if you’re wondering what a Frank Sidebottom is, check out the Wikipedia article on Chris Sievey.

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Trance Trailer – First look at James McAvoy in Danny Boyle’s film

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We’ve previously written about Trance’s interesting production process, where Danny Boyle shot the movie in late 2011, then went off to put the Olympic Opening Ceremony together, before going back to do post-production on the movie. Now it’s March 27th release is approaching and the first rather stylish and fast-paced trailer had arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Academy Award® winning director Danny Boyle returns to the big screen with this psychological thriller about a fine art auctioneer, mixed up with a criminal gang, who join forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. TRANCE stars James McAvoy (Atonement, X-Men First Class), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Mesrine) and Rosario Dawson (Seven Pounds, Sin City).’

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Wrong Trailer – Jack Plotnick stars in Quentin Dupieux’s very strange film

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Quentin Dupieux’s last film, Rubber, about a killer tyre, was very strange, so it’s no surprise that the trailer for his new movie, Wrong, is very odd as well.

Out actor Jack Plotnick stars as Dolph Springer, who awakens one morning to find he has lost the sole love of his life-his dog, Paul. Desperate to reunite with his best friend and to set things right, Dolph embarks on a journey which spirals into the realm of the absurd. On his quest, he drastically alters the lives of several severely bizarro characters, including a promiscuous pizza delivery girl (Alexis Dziena), a mentally unstable, jogging-addicted neighbor, an opportunistic French-Mexican gardener, an eccentric pet detective (Steve Little) and most mysterious of all, an enigmatic pony-tailed guru, Master Chang (William Fichtner) who imparts his teachings to Dolph on how to metaphysically reconnect with his pet.

There’s no UK release set yet, but it hits VOD formats February 1st before arriving in cinema on March 29th.

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Christopher Nolan Plans To Go Interstellar With A New Sci-fi Flick

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Christopher-NolanMany directors like to have loads of projects on the go in various stages of development, but Christopher Nolan prefers to have one at a time that he can devote all his energies to. Since The Dark Knight Rises was released last summer, we haven’t known what Nolan would helm next, but now THR reveals that Chris is taking on Interstellar, based on a script by his brother, Jonathan.

The movie swirls around the ideas of theoretical physicist, gravitational physicist and astrophysicist Kip Thorne, with the story involving time travel and alternate dimensions, and sees a group of explorers travelling through a wormhole. That certainly gives plenty of scope for some Inception style visual inventiveness as well as offering plenty of ideas.

I would say we should expect more plot details soon, but known Nolan’s love of secrecy, we probably won’t know much until shortly before it’s released. However if you do want an idea of what we’re dealing with, it’s been suggested you read Kip Thorne’s book, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy.

Spielberg was previously attached to direct, but it’s not clear if he remains involved in any way, although he probably is as it’s said he hatched the original idea for the film. Paramount and Warner Bros will co-produce, but there’s no news on when it might shoot.

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Don Scardino Will Get Old Guys Robbing Banks In Going In Style Remake

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don-scardinoDon Scardino’s feature directorial debut, the Steve Carrell starrer The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, doesn’t arrive in cinemas until March, but the 30 Rock producer is already planning his follow-up, with THR reporting that he’s signed up for a remake of Going In Syle.

The 1979 original starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as a group of old guys who are sick of just sitting around waiting around to die. They decide to spice up their lives in rather extreme fashion by planning to rob a bank.

There seems to be a bit of a theme developing in Hollywood for movies about funny older people, probably due to the fact they’ve suddenly realised there are an awful lot of pensioners who’ve been lacking movie entertainment, and also that many of film’s biggest stars are now getting on a bit. We’ve had the likes of Red, and this year we get Stand Up Guys (with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Al Arkin) and Last Vegas (with Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Kevin Kline and Michael Douglas).

If they do well, expect to see many more, including Going In Style.

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Comedy Website Funny Or Die Plans Push Into Movies

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funny-or-die-logoOnce Upon A Time National Lampoon was like a badge of quality for a movie, but over the years it’s currency has been seriously devalued, largely due to the fact it was prepared to sell the name to any movie, no matter how dreadful.

Now it looks like the website Funny Or Die, which was launched by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy, is hoping to become the new National Lampoon by pushing further into producing movies.

They had a test run last year with Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, although that didn’t specifically add the Funny Or Die name to the title, and they’ve also come up with the TV series Funny Or Die Presents. Now THR reports that the comedy website has teamed with producer Scott Steindorff and his Scott Pictures, with the aim of producing two or three movies per year.

Steindorff himself makes the National Lampoon comparison, saying “The hope is that in one of the two or three movies, we find the next Animal House or breakaway comedy.” Lampoon started out as a satirical magazine before it went into films.

The hope is to get two movies into production this summer, and then continue that model for several years. Budgets will vary from micro-budget pictures to $25 million-plus projects. As yet no specific movies have been announced.

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Director Dan Trachtenberg Takes On Y: The Last Man

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dan-trachtenbergAn adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s comic book series, Y: The Last Man, has been in the works for years, but hit various roadblocks such as directors like D.J. Caruso and Louis Leterrier coming and going from the movie, as well as issues with the script. However last autumn New Line Cinema made the project a priority after receiving a screenplay they liked from Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia.

Now Variety reports has brought on Dan Trachtenberg to direct the Y: The Last Man adaptation. Trachtenberg is best known for directing the short Portal: No Escape, based on the popular Portal video game, and since that short ignited Hollywood interest, he’s been flirting with various projects.

Y: The Last Man follows Yorick Brown, a young man who, along with his pet monkey, become the only two male mammals on Earth, after a bizarre, cataclysmic event wipes out every other male on the planet, both human and animal. Yorick teams with a government operative known only as 355, to try and get to the bottom of this world-changing event.

It isn’t known when the movie might shoot.

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Ang Lee Flirting With Angelina Jolie’s Cleopatra

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ang-leeThe idea of directing a movie about Cleopatra, with Angelina Jolie starring, has certainly fired up the interest of some top directors, with the likes of Paul Greengrass, James Cameron and more recently David Fincher all flirting with the project. However after Fincher dropped out last summer, the film has been waiting for someone to pick it up again.

Now THR reports that Ang Lee is showing interest, with the director himself stating that, “I’m about to read the script. It just feels right to me after all the other types of films I’ve done. What does it have in common with any of them? They’re all totally different! That’s what makes this perfect.”

Of course if he hasn’t read the script, he’s a long way from actually signing on, but I’m sure there are a lot of people who’d like to see what an Ang Lee directed Cleopatra would look like. Brian Helgeland wrote the first draft of that screenplay, before Eric Roth stepped in to do a rewrite in late 2011, working from Stacy Schiff‘s biography Cleopatra: A Life.

Producer Scott Rudin has previously described the film as, “It is a completely revisionist Cleopatra, a much more grown-up sophisticated version… She’s not a sex kitten, she’s a politician, strategist, warrior. In the Joseph Mankiewicz movie, Elizabeth Taylor is a seductress, but the histories of Cleopatra have been written by men. This is the first to be written by a woman. It felt like such a blow-the-doors-off-the-hinges idea of how to tell it, impossible to resist.”

Even if Lee signs on, it may be tough to get the greenlight on the film, as it’s bound to be expensive and historical epic tend to be financially risky endeavours.

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Steven Spielberg Puts Robopocalypse On Hold As It’s Too Expensive & Not Ready

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Steven-SpielbergWhen Steven Spielberg added Chris Hemsworth, Ben Whishaw and Anne Hathaway to the cast of Robopocalypse last autumn, the stated plan was to start shooting the movie this March, with a release date set of April 25th, 2014. However THR reveals that the director has now put the entire movie on indefinite hold.

Spielberg’s spokesperson, Marvin Levy, says, “(It is) too important and the script is not ready, and it’s too expensive to produce. It’s back to the drawing board to see what is possible.”

The screenplay adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s sci-fi novel was written by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods). It isn’t known if Dreamworks is seeking new writers. The film is set during the aftermath of a robotic uprising, focusing on how humanity has adapted after the machines took over.

We’ll have to wait and see if this means Spielberg will take on a different project instead of Robopocalyse while he waits for the huge sci-fi project to be ready.

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