I went to a screening of ‘The Artist’ last night, and it’s the first movie I’ve felt compelled to recommend in a loooooong time. I know what you’re thinking. It’s a silent film – how can it really be that good? It’s exactly what I was thinking. Can’t be that good, right?
But it was better than I could have hoped for. I loved every single minute of the movie. I seriously couldn’t wipe the smile off my face the whole time! It was such an enjoyable movie – from beginning to end. You MUST go see it. I command you!
Don’t want to take my word for it?
“The Artist,” which opens Friday in Chicago, has won best film honors from the New York Film Critics Circle (and several other critics’ groups), leads this year’s Golden Globes race with six nominations and looks to be an odds-on favorite for the Oscars.
I really feel like this is the one movie that will sweep the awards season. You really owe it to yourself to see it!
This news makes me CRAZY. Why would they go and ruin a perfectly good movie by making it 3D? What the planes are going to fly out at us? We’re going to feel like we’re in the middle of the iconic volleyball game?
We should start a petition.
Tony Scott’s 1986 classic Top Gun starring Tom Cruise is being converted to 3D for a theatrical release.
A four-minute ‘world premiere’ preview of the converted film–featuring the ‘Danger Zone’ aerial flight sequence–was screened Monday at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.
The 2D to 3D conversion is being accomplished at Legend3D, whose CEO Rob Hummel introduced the clip as well as its unique business model during an IBC panel.
“We think there is great potential for catalog titles in 3D, but studios have had trouble justifying the expense,” Hummel said, explaining that Legend 3D is funding and doing the conversion for Paramount.
“As I understand it, they are planning to release it in 3D in early 2012, though I known they want to get Tony Scott’s approval before they go forward,” he said, explaining that Legend 3D effectively has a revenue sharing deal with Paramount.
“I think Top Gun lends itself to 3D due to the aerial flight,” he said of the project. “You can have fun with 3D by bringing things off the screen if they are not attached to the edge of the screen.”
Alyssa Milano and Hilary Swank bundle up as they walk to the set of “New Year’s Eve” in Queens, New York on March 7, 2011. Alyssa Milano managed to hide her growing baby bump in a pair of hospital scrubs and a jacket.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are teaming up again, this time in the the big-screen remake of the 1960′s gothic vampire TV soap opera Dark Shadows. This will mark the eighth time Burton and Depp have worked together. Previously they worked together in the films Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, and Alice In Wonderland.
Depp will portray Barnabas Collins, a self-loathing vampire living in a Maine manor who is searching for his lost love.
Michelle Pfeiffer is in talks to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family which runs the Maine town. The character has not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade earlier.
Michelle and Tim have worked together before. She played Catwoman in Burton’s Batman Returns in 1992.
I don’t know why – but I’m surprised it was Toy Story 3!
Toy Story 3′s profits soared to infinity and beyond this year – it’s been named the highest-grossing film of 2010.
In a list dominated by family-friendly movies, the latest installment in the computer-animated franchise – with characters voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen – raked in over $1.06 billion at the worldwide box office following its release in the summer.
Tim Burton’s fantasy film Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, came second in the list after taking $1.02 billion and the first of the two-part Harry Potter swansong movie - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - is third with $861 million.
The fourth highest-grossing picture of the year is sci-fi movie Inception, with earnings of $825 million, and Shrek Forever After is fifth with $740 million.
The top 10 is rounded out by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Iron Man 2, Despicable Me, Clash of the Titans, and How To Train Your Dragon.
The Weinstein Company and Miramax – the studio the Weinstein brothers founded and then sold — announced a gigantic partnership deal on Thursday (via The Hollywood Reporter), agreeing to create sequels of the smash hit films that the Weinsteins produced for the studio before starting their new production company.
A number of big films are set to see second installments added to their canon: ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ ‘Bad Santa,’ ‘Swingers,’ ‘Rounders,’ ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary,’ are some of the most famous names to be in line for the part two treatment.
“We are very close to these films and the new management of Miramax also feels that we are in the best position to create sequels that are at once worthy and compelling in their own right,” the Weinsteins said in a statement.
WOOHOO!! I love all those movies! I would love another Bridget Jones movie!!
