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- Oscars 2016: What Is Going on With the Best Director Race?
- 'Brooklyn' Becoming a TV Series, Without Saoirse Ronan
- Check Out the Awesome New 'Ghostbusters' LEGO Set
- 11 Things We Know About Netflix's 'Gilmore Girls' Revival
- 'Orange Is the New Black' Renewed Through Season 7
- The Youngest Oscar Winners and Nominees in Academy Awards History
- The Original 'Game of Thrones' Pilot Was a 'Painful' 'Piece of S--t'
- The 11 Goriest Zombie Movies You Need to See
- The Lonely Island Guys Are Getting a Saturday Sketch Comedy Show
- 'Taxi Driver': 25 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Martin Scorsese's Classic
- George Clooney Says His Proposal to Wife Amal Was 'Horrible'
- 'Star Wars': Everything We Know About the Han Solo Movie
| Oscars 2016: What Is Going on With the Best Director Race? Posted: In the Oscar race, we had two important guild votes this week, from the actors and the editors, and the results made the Academy's contest a bit more clear. Will the DGA's vote this weekend help make sense of things? Maybe, depending on who wins. The Screen Actors Guild awards last Saturday did help confirm some of the acting races. SAG winner Leonardo DiCaprio still has a lock on a Best Actor Oscar for "The Revenant," and Brie Larson is still far and away the Best Actress frontrunner for "Room." Alicia Vikander's SAG win for Supporting Actress for "The Danish Girl" puts her ahead of the pack; at this point, her only real competition is Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet ("Steve Jobs"), as the other nominees have shown little to know momentum. But for Best Picture, the SAGs (with their Best Ensemble award) did pick "Spotlight." This win helped the journalism drama bubble back up as a frontrunner, despite having lost momentum in recent weeks to "The Revenant," "The Big Short," "The Martian," and "Mad Max: Fury Road" -- the latter of which one Best Movie at the ACE Eddie Awards. The American Cinema Editors' Eddie awards could have clarified the race -- after all, it's nearly impossible to win Best Picture without strong support from the editors. But last weekend's ACE Eddies resulted in a tie between "The Big Short" and "Mad Max." So we have to look to this weekend's Directors Guild of America prizes. We'll know a lot more about what to expect from the Academy based on who wins the DGA. Here are the five ways it could play out: 1. Adam McKay 2. Tom McCarthy 3. Alejandro González Iñárritu But that could work against him; no one has won back-to-back directing Oscars since Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1950 and 1951. (John Ford, in 1941 and 1942, is the only other director to pull off the feat.) And no one has ever won the DGA prize two years running. So if the Directors Guild does honor Iñárritu -- and given the epic scope and technical difficulty of his snowbound period drama, it might -- that could indicate such broad industry support for his film that we could expect a "Revenant" sweep on Oscar night. 4. George Miller 5. Ridley Scott "The Martian" has already won the top Golden Globe, and it's the biggest crowd-pleasing box office hit among the Best Picture nominees. But if Scott wins at the DGA, the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars will still go to the Stallones of those categories. And those are...? Right now, "Big Short" remains on top, and "Martian" (with six Academy nominations, same as "Spotlight") remains a long shot. "Revenant" and "Mad Max" still have sheer numbers of nominations on their side, if not much momentum from recent victories. So a lot is riding on the Directors Guild. After that ceremony, we're left with the subtler, good-behavior contests. Next week begins with the annual nominees luncheon in Hollywood and ends with the BAFTAs (the British Academy Awards) in London. The first isn't a competitive event, and the second has nearly zero influence over Academy voters. But both are important because they're the last big events where the nominees rub shoulders with each other (and the press) and show that they're gracious enough not to disgrace the Academy if they win. That's another good lesson from Iowa. Rude and cranky may generate colorful stories out on the campaign trail, but it also can scare off the voters. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Brooklyn' Becoming a TV Series, Without Saoirse Ronan Posted: Variety reports that the BBC is adapting the movie for television, and that the series will revolve around Julie Walters' character, landlady Ma Kehoe, and a mix of Irish, British, and American young women living at her boarding house. In the film, Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey (Ronan) is living at the house when she meets and falls in love with Tony (Emory Cohen). But a family emergency takes her back to Ireland, and Eilis becomes torn between home she grew up in and the home she's made for herself in New York. For her performance as the strict, sharp-tongued Ma, Walters was nominated as a supporting actress for a BAFTA award. "Brooklyn" received much critical acclaim, and with "Downton Abbey" finished, perhaps this might be BBC's next great period drama. Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Check Out the Awesome New 'Ghostbusters' LEGO Set Posted: Yes, everyone's favorite toy bricks are releasing a "Ghostbusters"-themed set of minifigs and vehicles in honor of the new flick, and the company previewed the pieces on Friday. The models include titular heroines Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), and Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), along with their bespectacled receptionist Kevin (Chris Hemsworth). The Ecto-1 car and a motorbike dubbed Ecto-2 are also included in the set. (Check out more photos of the set here.) The entire thing will retail for $59.99, and will go on sale on July 1. "Ghostbusters" hits theaters on July 15. [via: Yahoo! Movies] Photo credit: LEGO via Yahoo! Movies This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 11 Things We Know About Netflix's 'Gilmore Girls' Revival Posted: Following months of rumors, Netflix finally confirmed news that "Gilmore Girls" fans have waited years to hear: The show is officially coming back for a short run of new episodes, set to debut later this year. We still have tons of questions about our titular heroines (do Luke and Lorelai end up together? Did Rory become a famous journalist?), but we already have some answers about what to expect from this revival. Here's everything we know so far. Copper boom! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Orange Is the New Black' Renewed Through Season 7 Posted: Netflix made the news official on Friday, and also said that series creator and showrunner Jenji Kohan would remain on board throughout the next three seasons. "Three more years! Not quite a political term, but still plenty of time to do some interesting things," said Kohan in a statement. "In some cultures, 'May you lead an interesting life' is a curse, but I don't live in those cultures. Here's to keeping it interesting." "Orange" has certainly done just that in its first three seasons, earning multiple Emmy nominations -- in both the drama and comedy categories, one of the few shows in television history to do so -- and taking home numerous prizes since it first hit Netflix back in 2013. Star Uzo Aduba has been the most decorated member of the cast, with two Emmys and two individual Screen Actors Guild Awards to her name; the entire cast also took home the Best TV Comedy Ensemble SAG Award two years in a row, collecting its most recent trophy last month. The fourth season of "Orange Is the New Black" debuts on Netflix on June 17. [via: TV by the Numbers] This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Youngest Oscar Winners and Nominees in Academy Awards History Posted: In 2013, a then-9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis received the Best Actress Oscar nomination for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," making her the youngest nominee in the category's history. This year, the Best Actress nominees are a little bit older. But that doesn't mean we can't look back in wonder at the remarkable achievements of Hollywood's most powerful pint-sized talents. From Shirley Temple, the youngest Oscar honoree ever at six years old, to 10-year-old winner Tatum O'Neal, the youngest winner ever, sometimes Hollywood's next generation of stars do get recognized for their early achievements. In honor of this year's Oscars, let's take a look back at some of the youngest Oscar winners and nominees in Academy Awards history. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Original 'Game of Thrones' Pilot Was a 'Painful' 'Piece of S--t' Posted: That assessment came courtesy of screenwriter Craig Mazin (the "Hangover" sequels, "Identity Thief"), who together with fellow writer John August ("Big Fish") runs the podcast Scriptnotes. The pair hosted "Thrones" showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff on a recent episode for a frank discussion about the fantasy drama's pilot, which Mazin saw at a screening for friends organized by Weiss and Benioff back in 2010. It didn't go well. "Watching them watch that original pilot was one of the most painful experiences of my life," Weiss recalled. "As soon as it finished, Craig said, 'You guys have a massive problem.'" Turns out Weiss and Benioff agreed. "I was taking notes," Benioff said of the screening, "and I had this yellow legal pad, and I just remembered writing in all caps, 'MASSIVE PROBLEM,' and it's all I could think about the rest of the night. Craig didn't really have any great ideas except that he said, 'Change everything.'" It turns out that that was great advice, though, since that's pretty much exactly what Weiss and Benioff did. Director Tom McCarthy (now an Oscar nominee for "Spotlight") was replaced by Timothy Van Patten, who re-shot about 90 percent of the pilot. That much reworking is usually a sign of major problems to come with most series; thankfully, with "Thrones," it was all for the better, as Mazin soon discovered. He said on Scriptnotes: Multiple Emmys later, it looks like things have worked out okay for the "GOT" crew. [via: Scriptnotes, h/t Vanity Fair] Photo credit: HBO This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The 11 Goriest Zombie Movies You Need to See Posted: Zombie movies love to gross us out with new and inventive and sticky ways to next-level their depictions of the walking dead. From "Evil Dead 2" to the "Dawn of the Dead" remake, audiences have feasted (pun so intended) on a variety of gnarly kills caused by, and inflicted upon, those that snack on brains. As "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" aims to ratchet up the genre's gore factor, here are 11 of the goriest zombie movies you need to see before seeing "PPZ." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Lonely Island Guys Are Getting a Saturday Sketch Comedy Show Posted: The show, "Party Over Here," will air on Saturday nights at 11 p.m., and be produced by the Lonely Island trio -- Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone -- and Scheer. The four comedians won't star on the program, but Scheer (who currently stars on ABC sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat") will direct. Instead, "Party Over Here" is led by an all-female cast, including Nicole Byer ("Girl Code"), Jessica McKenna (an alum of comedy troupes the Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade), and Alison Rich (a former "Saturday Night Live" writer). It's Fox's first foray into late-night sketch comedy since "MadTV" went off the air in 2009, after a 14-season run. "When we first conceived this idea, we thought of it as a spinoff of 'Empire,'" said Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone in a statement. "We failed miserably ... now it's much more of a sketch comedy show." "In an age where most millennials don't even know what a TV is, we are really excited to be getting into the TV business," Scheer said in another statement. Though "Party Over Here" is airing on Saturday nights, it's not expected to compete directly with that other famous weekend sketch show, "Saturday Night Live." Fox's series is a 30-minute affair, which will wrap by the time "SNL" starts at 11:30. "Party Over Here" debuts on March 12. [via: The Hollywood Reporter] Photo credit: Getty Images This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Taxi Driver': 25 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Martin Scorsese's Classic Posted: It's the 40th anniversary of "Taxi Driver" (released on February 8, 1976), the movie that gave Robert De Niro his most famous line, put Martin Scorsese on the map, proved that the pre-teen Jodie Foster was an Oscar-worthy thespian, and (most notoriously) was cited by John Hinckley as an inspiration for his assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. In honor of the film's anniversary, here are 25 things you need to know about how Travis Bickle came to be. 2. Martin Scorsese saw the script as early as 1972, but didn't yet have the clout to make it, much less cast the then-unknown Robert De Niro in the lead. It would be another couple of years -- after Scorsese and De Niro earned critical acclaim for "Mean Streets," and De Niro won an Oscar for "The Godfather Part II" -- that Columbia finally made a deal with Scorsese and De Niro. 4. When "Taxi Driver" was greenlit, De Niro was in Italy, filming Bernardo Bertolucci's "1900." He'd fly back from Italy to Manhattan and drive a cab on weekends to prepare for his role, then fly back to Italy for another week of filming there. 6. De Niro picked up Travis' Midwestern accent from American GIs he met at a military base in Italy. He taped their conversations and listened to them to develop Travis' voice. 8. Scorsese wanted De Niro's "Mean Streets" co-star Harvey Keitel to play the role of campaign worker Tom, but Keitel wanted the smaller role of Sport, the pimp. Turns out Keitel knew a pimp in his own Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Keitel took the man to the Actors Studio, and together, they beefed up Sport's scenes by improvising dialogue for the character. 10. Jodie Foster was only 12 years old when she was cast as Iris, the child prostitute. and the role was considered so risqué that she had to have a social worker on the set with her. She also had to spend several hours with a therapist to prove that she wouldn't be psychologically scarred by the role. She also had to have a stand-in perform some of Iris' more provocative actions. The stand-in was Foster's sister, Connie, eight years older but no taller. 12. Albert Brooks was primarily known as a stand-up comedian when Scorsese gave the future film director his first movie role as Tom, Betsy's wary colleague. Like many of the other actors, Brooks made up much of his own dialogue in improvisations during rehearsals. 14. Leonard Harris, who played candidate Charles Palantine, wasn't an actor, but he was familiar to New York audiences as a drama and book critic on local TV. 16. Steven Prince, who played gun dealer Easy Andy, was such a character that Scorsese later made a documentary about him, 1978's "American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince." In that film, Prince talks about his career as Neil Diamond's road manager and about his own history of heroin addiction. One of his stories -- about jabbing an overdosing woman in the heart with an adrenaline syringe -- was supposedly the inspiration for the famous similar incident in "Pulp Fiction." 18. Travis' notorious Mohawk haircut came from his Vietnam veteran background. Schrader had learned from other vets that soldiers would sometimes shave their heads that way when they were about to go on commando missions, and that everyone knew it was wise to avoid Mohawked soldiers because they were psyching themselves up for the slaughter. De Niro couldn't actually shave his head that way because the film was shot out of sequence, so he had to wear a bald cap with a strip of hair on it, pasted over his crew cut. 20. The sequence was so bloody that it almost earned the film an "X" rating just for violence. To earn the film an R-rating, the filmmakers desaturated the colors in the sequence, so that the blood wasn't so red. 22. The unforgettable instrumental score to "Taxi Driver" was the final work in the celebrated career of composer Bernard Herrmann, who'd scored such landmark movies as "Citizen Kane" and "Psycho." He recorded the music in just two days and died hours after finishing the sessions. 24. In the months after its release, "Taxi Driver" won the Palme D'Or, the top prize at the Cannes film festival. In 1977, it was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (for Foster), and Best Score. (No nominations for Scorsese or Schrader.) On Oscar night, the film was shut out. 25. There's been much speculation as to whether the film's finale, in which Travis is lionized and enjoys a brief reunion with Betsy, is to be interpreted as actual events or just the fantasy of the dying Travis. Scorsese and Schrader have said that Travis does live at the end, but that he's still as lonely and alienated as ever -- and is still a ticking time bomb. Said Schrader: "I think the syndrome is just going to start all over again." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| George Clooney Says His Proposal to Wife Amal Was 'Horrible' Posted: The Oscar winner chatted with Ellen DeGeneres about the night he got down on one knee, revealing that the pair had been dating for about six months when he knew that he'd found the one. But when it came time to pop the question, the actor said things didn't go exactly as planned. "It was one of those horrible moments [because] we didn't talk about it," Clooney confessed. "It wasn't like 'Oh, maybe we should get married' or anything. I plotted the whole thing out." That plot included cooking his beloved a fancy dinner and playing a song by his aunt, Rosemary Clooney, called "Why Shouldn't I." The actor had hidden the ring in a box behind Alamuddin. "I've got it all set up, timed out, and the song is coming, and she gets up to go wash the dishes, which she's never done," Clooney told DeGeneres. The actor said he redirected Alamuddin, telling her he blew out the candle and asking her to get the lighter box. "And she reaches around and she pulls out the box and I've got just the ring sitting in there," he said, "and she pulls it out and she looks at it and she's like, 'It's a ring' -- like as if somebody had left it there some other time." Clooney said he was making some pained facial expressions in an effort to get Alamuddin to take the hint, but to no avail. Finally, he finally got down on one knee. "[I] said, 'I couldn't imagine spending the rest of my life without you,'" Clooney said. "And she kept looking at the ring and she was looking at me and she was like 'Oh my God.' ... Finally, I said, 'Look, I hope the answer is yes, but I need an answer, 'cause I'm 52 and I could throw out my hip pretty soon.' And then she said, 'Oh, yes!' So basically it worked out. The actor said that, based on the music playlist, they now know that the whole ordeal took about 25 long, painful minutes. Thankfully, they were able to move past the awkwardness, and were married in September 2014. "It was one of those funny things," Clooney said of his relationship with Alamuddin, which began in late 2013. "From the minute we met, we just hit it off and from the minute we met we sort of felt like we were gonna be together." [via: The Ellen DeGeneres Show] Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Star Wars': Everything We Know About the Han Solo Movie Posted: It's a glorious time to be a Star Wars nerd. We have multiple new movies to look forward to in the years ahead, including more sequels to "The Force Awakens" and a new lineup of "Star Wars Anthology" spinoffs. One of those spinoffs is an untitled 2018 film featuring the coolest smuggler in the galaxy, Han Solo. That's right, even as fans mourn Han's fate in "The Force Awakens," the hero will be getting a second lease on life as a new actor straps on Harrison Ford's blaster. Check out our list of five important things to know about this highly anticipated new movie. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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