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Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 11:50AM The Wrap Emily Blunt is joining Charlize Theron to double the evil sorceress perfection that terrorizes Chris Hemsworth in The Huntsman. Now I suddenly want to see it.
MNPP Whatever happened to Sean Maher (Firefly). Jason has the answer
Vulture John Travolta without his hairpiece. Ditch it permanently, John. Bald is beautiful. Or at least more beautiful than pretending you have hair (you did have a great head of it) when you no longer do.
THR Michael Keaton in talks to star in a "gritty" drama from John Lee Hancock (who, tbh, we don't associate with "gritty" since he made The Rookie and The Blind Side*) called The Founder about the rise of McDonalds and behind the scenes shady business. It sounds like there are three good male roles so I wonder who will join Keaton? Can I put in a request for Edward Norton. I want them to become a new movie duo - so great together!
THR Good idea, Tom Cruise. Reuniting with your Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. That was your best movie in ages
The Stake on the 10 most profitable movies of 2014: horror, comedy, YA and even two heavily CG movies
Oscar Oscar
Wired fact-checking Oscar morning outrage tweets
The Dissolve the "Critics Choice" Awards righting Oscar wrongs. (But, in fairness, true fact: we voted before the nominations so these achievements are entirely accidental)
Cinesnark is angry about the Selma snubbings -- a feeling which is going around and which will definitely in the future, no fuck that, RIGHT NOW make the Academy look bad -- though I would actually disagree on one point: I don't actually think the Screenplay deserved a nomination in that, I think there were five better. The movies power is in its direction, staging, cast, and feelings of immediacy despite being from the past. I think the screenplay actually has a few clunky bits.
Interview Jennifer Lawrence interviews Eddie Redmayne. I love this bit:
REDMAYNE: Do you ever watch dailies?
LAWRENCE: No. Unless I keep getting the same note and I'm obviously not getting it, then I'll watch it again on the monitor. But, oh my God, did you watch rushes of this?
REDMAYNE: We sort of had to, because we were jumping in and out of all these different time periods and trying to track the illness and the physical decline. I had an iPad with all the documentary footage of Stephen and then we had the dailies. I kept hoping that the two things were going to meet, but obviously they never did. [laughs]
It's fun to remember occasionally that big stars are actually directed and get 'ur doing it wrong' notes, isn't it?
Old But Not Stale!
Slate details how a bad Jennifer Aniston movie turned into an Oscar Cinderella story. Really interesting piece except for that this Cinderella got stuck living with the stepmother Prince Oscar never found her with that one shoe.
Nick's Flick Picks I never read Nick's annual liveblog until I've fully moved on from my Globe coverage because it's just too intimidatingly funny. It's my dessert that I have to force myself to wait to devour. This is my favorite part at the moment:
8:56: I feel like it's brutal to transition immediately from the Affair producer's advocacy for "how important our marriages are" to Catherine Zeta-Jones's entrance. But CZJ does brutal plenty well herself. "They're having a well-deserved party" is unmistakably a Welsh phrase meaning, "These bitches need to get out of my light!"
*This is not meant as snark. I liked The Rookie a lot. It's just meant as "he's not a gritty director"
Reader Comments (20)
I always wondered if Theory was shot chronologically or not. This raises my appreciation of both Redmayne's and Jones' performances significantly, especially Jones. Eddie at least had photo evidence to give him guidance, but Jones had no help to tell her about the emotional toll she should be feeling and those feelings do not suddenly explode, they show themselves slowly. It is brilliant work.
CJZ'S Supporting Oscar didn't do that much for her beyond a cpl of yrs.
chris hemsworth's movie bombed at the box office this weekend, but I guess he's worth those 10 million paychecks... oh hollywood.
CJZ'S Supporting Oscar didn't do that much for her beyond a cpl of yrs.
It should come as a surprise to no one. Her appeal is camp, coupled with a nasty reputation. And she photographs older.
mark: I think the Oscar led to her being taken seriously enough to headline a Broadway revival and win a Tony.
Mike -- this. if she swings over to TV she could even triple crown.
This is a little mean but outside of gutsy razzle dazzle (in the perfect role) is CZJ really that gifted? Like, at all?
I like her as a person, her Oscar was so well-deserved, and she is an important movie star in the glamour game. But I don't even know if she's capable of winning an Emmy now that TV is so competitive. I mean, Julia Roberts couldn't win a SUPPORTING statue this year and no matter what you think of her, I don't think CZJ can match her by a number of metrics.
If that's photographing older, I wouldn't mind photographing older!
Hayden, it's gonna depend on the role, the show, the year, the performance, of course...and the "narrative." Anything's possible. Look at Jessica Lange and what Grey Gardens did for her. It suddenly became hard for her not to get nominated, let alone lose.
Nat,
Have you seen the new Queen of the Desert pics floating around? And its heading to Berlin!!
I'm kind of sad for Aniston's snub and annoyed by Steve Carrell's nomination. If there had to be a former TV sitcom star nominated, I would have preferred Aniston.
Actually, Jo, the frontrunners are a former sitcom star (Keaton), a former soap opera star (Moore), and two not-so-former primetime drama stars (Arquette and Simmons).
Jo: I think Norton is the only nominee who doesn't have a significant "made for TV" past. Even Streep did TV projects early on (Holocaust-mini-series being most notable).
Paul, one difference: Lange is an actress; CZJ is not. Lol
I'll always love CZJ in Entrapment. Minority opinion, I know! Ha!
Harsh, brookesboy, harsh.
I think she has difficult rep and we know what happens to those types Dunaway 70's,Winger 80's,Stone 90's & Ryan 00's.
Travolta was cruzing that guy, correct? And at a cheap-looking Planet Fitness looking gym at 3 in the morning? Does he not have access to private facilities with his millions and millions of dollars? Gurl exit that damn closet already!
I <3 Nick's Golden Globes liveblog. It's how I watched this year! And I felt like I didn't miss a thing.
And isn't it ironic that the Critic's Choice award winners probably will be the inevitable Oscar winners.