For a complete list of 2009 Academy Award nominees, click here. The bias against superheroes and animated films continues, despite “The Dark Knight” and “Wall-E” reaping major awards this season. “The Dark Knight” was robbed of a Best Picture and Best Director nomination!! It was stolen by “The Reader,” not even “Wall-E,” which some people […]
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Millimeter and Digital Content Producer magazines have provided me with the opportunity to interview prominent directors and profile 10 short films that are appearing this week at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Just in case you missed it, here are all five podcast interviews from the BlogLive@Sundance Film Festival ’09 that I conducted: My […]
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2/12 UPDATE post with more video here— Phoenix on Letterman, rap performance OK, I don’t know if the little amount of text I’m actually going to write for this blog justifies its own entry, but this is just too bizarre. You read the headline correctly. Casey Affleck is directing a documentary that follows Joaquin Phoenix‘s self-imposed […]
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From the NY Times Carbetbagger blog: The legal sniping between 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers over the upcoming “Watchmen” has come to an end, allowing Warner Brothers to release the big-budget comic-book movie about dark and damaged superheroes as planned on March 6. Under the deal between the studios, Fox (which has tried to […]
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This weekend, I’ll be blogging for Digital Content Producer’s Sundance 2009 BlogLive. I’ll have audio podcast interviews with directors who have movies premiering at this year’s festival, and I’ll be posting profiles/reviews of films appearing in the festival’s Short Film Program. This year features a record 96 short films from 5,632 submissions, from U.S. and […]
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“Let the Right One In” will not be competeing for an Academy Award this year. This happened a while ago, but with the shortlist being announced yesterday, it’s new news to me. Each country is allowed one submission and Sweden chose “Everlasting Moments” instead. Turns out, though, that it may be the Academy’s difficult and […]
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She’s been nominated for five Oscars and five Golden Globes and never won, until tonight. Kate Winslet swept the dramtic film actress categories, winning for “Revolutionary Road” and “The Reader.” “Slumdog Millionaire” is far and away the frontrunner for Best Picture in February at the Academy Awards now, with its Picture/Director/Writer/Score sweep Thursday at the […]
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Since 1981, every day before the Oscar ceremony is held, the Golden Raspberry Awards are handed out. Not surprisingly, the winners themselves are usually not present to pick up their shameful plastic trophies. Notable exceptions: “Showgirls” director Paul Verhoeven, “Freddy Got Fingered” writer/star/director Tom Green (who accepted five awards for the movie, which I think […]
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The most adventurous script of the year comes from–and this is no big surprise–the man who brought us “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Adaptation.” Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, however, “Synecdoche, New York,” has been met with even more love it/hate it fervor than those previous two works. Now, with the publication of an […]
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the seven films that have been shortlisted and still have a shot for the Oscar for best visual effects. “Australia” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Dark Knight” “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” “Iron Man” “Journey to the Center of the Earth” “The Mummy: […]
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On January 4th, 2009, the Kansas City Film Critic’s Circle chose the winners of the 42nd Annual Loutzenhiser Awards, and “The Wrestler” nabbed the most wins with three, for director Darren Aronofsky, actor Mickey Rourke, and screenwriter Robert Siegel. The KCFCC is the first major critic’s organization to award Aronofsky. “Slumdog Millionaire” won the top […]
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The 2008 Screen Actor’s Guild Award nominations were announced this morning. There were some really nice surprises her for people who’s Oscar chances were waning. Melissa Leo (“Frozen River”) and Richard Jenkins (“The Visitor”) got nods for low-budget indie films that have scored pretty well in various critic’s polls (all aggregated here), but the biggest […]
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As you may have heard we are undergoing a pretty radical transformation here at Scene-Stealers.com. In order to make this a website where movie freaks can express their opinions freely about new and old movies alike, we need to have a badass movie database. And that is a LOT of work. What we want to […]
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Just got this in my inbox about 10 minutes ago. I hope he does something different with it this time because his “Halloween” remake was about half good. NEW YORK, NEW YORK (December 16, 2008) — Dimension Films – the successful genre and specialty arm of The Weinstein Company – is pleased to announce that […]
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