Hello ladies and gentlemen, here is some movie news with some of my thoughts and opinions (which will be in BOLD print). So without further ado...
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
Warning: Potential spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron below.
Despite the fact that just this week, Jeremy Renner mentioned there were "rumblings" he could appear in the upcoming Captain America 3, it has long been a fan theory that his character might kick the bucket in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, in an interview with Larry King, Renner says that's not the case.
"No, no," Renner said when asked outright if he dies in the sequel. "No, I don't die. I think they want to keep me around for a while."
Opening in theaters on May 1, 2015, the highly-anticipated sequel also stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Cobie Smulders, Thomas Kretschmann and Paul Bettany.
This is interesting to hear. Usually big films like The Avengers: Age of Ultron tell their actors to keep quiet and not reveal anything big. Now granted Marvel could have told Renner that he could say something like this. But it's cool to hear from Renner that Hawkeye won't die in the next film and I really hope that he has a bigger role in the upcoming films.
Sony Pictures Classics has released today, via IMBb, a new trailer for director Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller and Anthony Michael Hall. Check it out in the video below and take a look at the recently-released Steve Carell poster in the gallery viewer at the bottom of this page.
Opening in limited theaters on November 14, Foxcatcher tells the gripping, true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Carell), heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune that led to murder.
This trailer was really good. It wasn't as creepy as the previous trailers but it was still very dark. Look as I've I said before with this film it is an Oscar bait film and it will get a lot of attention come awards season. I'm gonna go ahead and guarantee that it gets at least 6 nominations for the Oscars and that's without even watching the film. I'm honestly really excited to see this film and see actors such as Channing Tatum and Steve Carell in this type of film.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 26) to present Honorary Awards to Jean-Claude Carriere, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Harry Belafonte. All four awards will be presented at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 8, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. "The Governors Awards allow us to reflect upon not the year in film, but the achievements of a lifetime," said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "We're absolutely thrilled to honor these outstanding members of our global filmmaking community and look forward to celebrating with them in November."
Carriere, who began his career as a novelist, was introduced to screenwriting by French comedian and filmmaker Pierre Étaix, with whom he shared an Oscar® for the live action short subject "Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)" in 1962. He received two more nominations during his nearly two-decade collaboration with director Luis Bunuel, for the screenplays for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire. Carriere also has collaborated notably with such directors as Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum), Jean-Luc Godard (Every Man for Himself) and Andrzej Wajda (Danton). He earned a fourth Oscar nomination for The Unbearable Lightness of Being with director Philip Kaufman.
Miyazaki is an artist, writer, director, producer and three-time Oscar nominee in the Animated Feature Film category, winning in 2002 for Spirited Away. His other nominations were for Howl's Moving Castle in 2005 and The Wind Rises last year. Miyazaki gained an enormous following in his native Japan for such features as Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service before breaking out internationally in the late 1990s with Princess Mononoke. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation studio based in Tokyo.
O'Hara, a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to Hollywood in 1939 to star opposite Charles Laughton in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She went on to appear in a wide range of feature films, including the swashbucklers The Black Swan and Sinbad the Sailor, the dramas This Land Is Mine and A Woman's Secret, the family classics Miracle on 34th Street and The Parent Trap, the spy comedy Our Man in Havana and numerous Westerns. She was a favorite of director John Ford, who cast her in five of his films, including How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande and The Quiet Man.
An actor, producer, singer and lifelong activist, Belafonte began performing in theaters and nightclubs in and around Harlem, where he was born. From the beginning of his film career, he chose projects that shed needed light on racism and inequality, including Carmen Jones, Odds Against Tomorrow and The World, the Flesh and the Devil. He was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, marching and organizing alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. and often funding initiatives with his entertainment income. Belafonte was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1987 and currently serves on the boards of the Advancement Project and the Institute for Policy Studies. His work on behalf of children, education, famine relief, AIDS awareness and civil rights has taken him all over the world.
The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given "to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy."
I'm absolutely thrilled to hear this. I'm a fan of the Academy doing this simply because it gives people who have had illustrious careers but have never received Oscars before. Me and few others in the blogging business think this is a more special than an academy Awards given out for one performance when these are given out for career achievement. I'm really glad to hear that these people are receiving honorary awards.
Open Road Films has debuted, via iTunes Movie Trailers, the trailer for Jon Stewart's directorial debut, Rosewater, which will be released in limited theaters on November 7.
Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival," written by Maziar Bahari. The film marks the directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, and stars Gael Garcia Bernal.
Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavi's supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad's victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as "Rosewater," who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days. With Bahari's wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.
This was a really great trailer. It's really surprising to see a comedian like Jon Stewart to write a script for drama and to direct the film as well. But anyway this film looks really interesting and this could get some Oscar attention as well.
The animated poster for Kill Me Three Times has been released ahead of the film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month. Directed by Kriv Stenders, the dark comedic thriller stars Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Callan Mulvey and Luke Hemsworth.
Simon Pegg plays the mercurial assassin, Charlie Wofle, who discovers he isn't the only person trying to kill the siren of a sun drenched surfing town (Alice Braga). Charlie quickly finds himself at the center of three tales of murder, mayhem, blackmail and revenge. With an original screenplay by James McFarland, the film also stars Sullivan Stapleton (as a gambling addict that attempts to pay off his debts through a risky life insurance scam), Teresa Palmer (as a small town Lady Macbeth), Callan Mulvey (as a wealthy beach club owner simmering with jealousy), Luke Hemsworth (as a local surfer fighting for the woman he loves) and Bryan Brown (as a corrupt cop who demands the juiciest cut).
This is a really cool poster. It really gives us a feel of what the characters personality as given by the description above. I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and he does a great job in comedies and hopefully this one can be one of his better ones.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, which of these stories peaked your interest or was there another story that interested you? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
(NOTE: All of these stories come from comingsoon.net)
Warning: Potential spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron below.
Despite the fact that just this week, Jeremy Renner mentioned there were "rumblings" he could appear in the upcoming Captain America 3, it has long been a fan theory that his character might kick the bucket in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, in an interview with Larry King, Renner says that's not the case.
"No, no," Renner said when asked outright if he dies in the sequel. "No, I don't die. I think they want to keep me around for a while."
Opening in theaters on May 1, 2015, the highly-anticipated sequel also stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Cobie Smulders, Thomas Kretschmann and Paul Bettany.
This is interesting to hear. Usually big films like The Avengers: Age of Ultron tell their actors to keep quiet and not reveal anything big. Now granted Marvel could have told Renner that he could say something like this. But it's cool to hear from Renner that Hawkeye won't die in the next film and I really hope that he has a bigger role in the upcoming films.
Sony Pictures Classics has released today, via IMBb, a new trailer for director Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller and Anthony Michael Hall. Check it out in the video below and take a look at the recently-released Steve Carell poster in the gallery viewer at the bottom of this page.
Opening in limited theaters on November 14, Foxcatcher tells the gripping, true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Carell), heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune that led to murder.
This trailer was really good. It wasn't as creepy as the previous trailers but it was still very dark. Look as I've I said before with this film it is an Oscar bait film and it will get a lot of attention come awards season. I'm gonna go ahead and guarantee that it gets at least 6 nominations for the Oscars and that's without even watching the film. I'm honestly really excited to see this film and see actors such as Channing Tatum and Steve Carell in this type of film.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 26) to present Honorary Awards to Jean-Claude Carriere, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O'Hara, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Harry Belafonte. All four awards will be presented at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 8, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. "The Governors Awards allow us to reflect upon not the year in film, but the achievements of a lifetime," said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "We're absolutely thrilled to honor these outstanding members of our global filmmaking community and look forward to celebrating with them in November."
Carriere, who began his career as a novelist, was introduced to screenwriting by French comedian and filmmaker Pierre Étaix, with whom he shared an Oscar® for the live action short subject "Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)" in 1962. He received two more nominations during his nearly two-decade collaboration with director Luis Bunuel, for the screenplays for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire. Carriere also has collaborated notably with such directors as Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum), Jean-Luc Godard (Every Man for Himself) and Andrzej Wajda (Danton). He earned a fourth Oscar nomination for The Unbearable Lightness of Being with director Philip Kaufman.
Miyazaki is an artist, writer, director, producer and three-time Oscar nominee in the Animated Feature Film category, winning in 2002 for Spirited Away. His other nominations were for Howl's Moving Castle in 2005 and The Wind Rises last year. Miyazaki gained an enormous following in his native Japan for such features as Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service before breaking out internationally in the late 1990s with Princess Mononoke. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation studio based in Tokyo.
O'Hara, a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to Hollywood in 1939 to star opposite Charles Laughton in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She went on to appear in a wide range of feature films, including the swashbucklers The Black Swan and Sinbad the Sailor, the dramas This Land Is Mine and A Woman's Secret, the family classics Miracle on 34th Street and The Parent Trap, the spy comedy Our Man in Havana and numerous Westerns. She was a favorite of director John Ford, who cast her in five of his films, including How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande and The Quiet Man.
An actor, producer, singer and lifelong activist, Belafonte began performing in theaters and nightclubs in and around Harlem, where he was born. From the beginning of his film career, he chose projects that shed needed light on racism and inequality, including Carmen Jones, Odds Against Tomorrow and The World, the Flesh and the Devil. He was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, marching and organizing alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. and often funding initiatives with his entertainment income. Belafonte was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1987 and currently serves on the boards of the Advancement Project and the Institute for Policy Studies. His work on behalf of children, education, famine relief, AIDS awareness and civil rights has taken him all over the world.
The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given "to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy."
I'm absolutely thrilled to hear this. I'm a fan of the Academy doing this simply because it gives people who have had illustrious careers but have never received Oscars before. Me and few others in the blogging business think this is a more special than an academy Awards given out for one performance when these are given out for career achievement. I'm really glad to hear that these people are receiving honorary awards.
Open Road Films has debuted, via iTunes Movie Trailers, the trailer for Jon Stewart's directorial debut, Rosewater, which will be released in limited theaters on November 7.
Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival," written by Maziar Bahari. The film marks the directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, and stars Gael Garcia Bernal.
Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavi's supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad's victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as "Rosewater," who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days. With Bahari's wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.
This was a really great trailer. It's really surprising to see a comedian like Jon Stewart to write a script for drama and to direct the film as well. But anyway this film looks really interesting and this could get some Oscar attention as well.
The animated poster for Kill Me Three Times has been released ahead of the film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month. Directed by Kriv Stenders, the dark comedic thriller stars Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Callan Mulvey and Luke Hemsworth.
Simon Pegg plays the mercurial assassin, Charlie Wofle, who discovers he isn't the only person trying to kill the siren of a sun drenched surfing town (Alice Braga). Charlie quickly finds himself at the center of three tales of murder, mayhem, blackmail and revenge. With an original screenplay by James McFarland, the film also stars Sullivan Stapleton (as a gambling addict that attempts to pay off his debts through a risky life insurance scam), Teresa Palmer (as a small town Lady Macbeth), Callan Mulvey (as a wealthy beach club owner simmering with jealousy), Luke Hemsworth (as a local surfer fighting for the woman he loves) and Bryan Brown (as a corrupt cop who demands the juiciest cut).
This is a really cool poster. It really gives us a feel of what the characters personality as given by the description above. I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and he does a great job in comedies and hopefully this one can be one of his better ones.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, which of these stories peaked your interest or was there another story that interested you? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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