AHHHHHHH!

September 23rd cannot come fast enough!
I want to work on this show!

Tintin

I was expecting WAY crazyier...

Smart Marvel

Bonne idee out of Camp Marvel! Now included in their DVD or mini featurettes on other B-List and C-List Marvel characters.

Good idea on their part, this way they can garner up interest about their secondary characters without having to sink a bunch of money into them. Maybe even bump them up into another franchise. The first ones star S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson!

Marvel makes shorts now!

In other great news Marvel announced that the Thor 2 is definitely on saying:

Disney and Marvel have confirmed they are going ahead with a sequel, with Chris Hemsworth definitely returning in the starring role. Unfortunately, Kenneth Branagh will not be back to direct, although his departure is described as "mutual and amicable" and that he might end up working on the film in a producing capacity. The studios have set a release date of July 26, 2013.

*Happy Dance*

Full article @ i09

Meh...

I guess... if I have nothing better to do....

Also...

Insert heavy breathing noises

Woop woop!

My girls back in town!



I'm really happy the girls are back on Criminal minds. Lets face is poor Rachel Nichols is always stuck with big shoes to fill (Alias anyone?) and she just never seems to get it right. I think the shit storm the fans kicked up might have also helped them back, and Im sure they both wanted their jobs back! the show does really well, I never understood why they shook it up so much. The good thing is now, getting them back, especially Emily/Lauren is going to be GOOD!

TVline article under the cut

Cannes, Day 7

Today is day 7 and I feel like i've hit a bit of a plateau. Work has become a bit frustrating ( people not showing up for shifts shitty clots etc.) but it's not too bad really. Most of my co workers are doing a great job and alot of the clients I talk to are nothing by nice. I've gotta a few business cards so far and have made some decent contacts. Just found out 2 of the guys I've been talking to all week are the producers of black swan, and another just sold his film to paramOunt for obscene amounts of money. There is soMuch going on around pavilion, we are rolling on all clyinders all the time.

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to shoot my super 8 project ( thank you kodak for the free film!) with my friend Chris. We attempted to do a little stop motioning, but only time will tell if it worked out. I will be developing said project tonight from 8 till 3am in one of the mentors rooms. A couple of us have decided to just brig some wine and a case of beer and make a night it of it. Should be interesting.

Two nights ago I had a blast. I watched two movies in a row on the market and then headed down to the beach for one of the outdoor screenings and was lucky enough to catch, " Bollywood, the greatest love story of all time", so it was basically a Montage of all of the best scenes from Bollywood films over the years mixed in with interviews with famous Bollywood actors and actresses and directors. It was VERY cool! Also the festival did a really good job at setting the whole thing up. The set up hundreds of beech chairs all over the beach and handed out blankets to all of the participants to keeep everyone warm throughout the screening.



Tomorrow I work a day shift, the I'm going to run over to my mentors apartment because ymentire mentor group is having dinner together and hopefully doing a bit of partying...

Festival day 4 ( first week in Cannes)

So today marks my first week in Cannes and the 4th official day of the festivals. I woke up this morning feeling a tad bit fuzzy. Last night was the pavilions annual queer part. What a night! Drag queens, famous guests, free drinks, free fries... EPIC! Unfortunately tomorrow I have an early shift so tonight I've decided to take it easy. I saw my second movie today



" Attack the Block" a great British invasion comedy, and two days before I was lucky enough to attend a screening of Bertolucci's "The Conformist" which was so amazing, especially because he was on hand to person the newly restored version of the film. I'm glad to be getting such diverse films in, so far i've seen a classic and one market film.
One thing about he festival is that it is way more complex then most people know. It techincally is a festival, a film market, and it is accompanied by 2 other films festivals that go on at the exact same times as the film festival (Critcs week and the directors fortnight). All of this makes for hundreds or movies being shown a day ( the market alone screens 400 films a day) millions of dollars being thrown around and over 10,000 participants (buyers, sellers, producers). Cannes is an industry only festival ( I.e only industry professional can attend) but sociteties like the Cannes Cinephiles are also given films to show after they have premiere at the official festival, for their members to watch.
Like I said there is alot going on.
Today in particular was a busy day at the pavilion as we had many panels and round tables going, the production team, cast and Bethany hamilton from soul surfer came in to give a panel as well as many industry professionals, came in for round table discussions with SAGindie and the Ampav students.
Tomorrow starts with an early shift, hopefully and hora competition film, and maybe some practicing for my super 8 film.

Long hot day

Long day out in the sun, got the worlds weirdest burn, tired, trying to stay up until a decent hour. I'm so glad I arrived early and was able to overcome the jet lag before the festival started. Lots of people are jet lagged and have been partying and look and feel like shit.

One thing that I'm finding is that we have a lot less informational material available to us then i think some of us would have hoped. For example we don't get official programs ( we have to scavenge for them, some peoples whole job here revolves around getting us programs, goodie bags and tickets) and alot of stuff is decided last minute. So basically you need to check the Internet alot ( which unless you are at the pavilion is hard To come by) and keep checking the notice boards for panel announcements, round tables and workshops.

Tomorrow i work late so I'm gonna go the pavillion print out some extra info about all of the Canadien production companies at the market so I can visit them in the early afternoon.I also need to decide which red carpet screening i want to attend because i need to
Sign up in order to be in the raffle for tickets. I think at least 1 red carpet walk is mandatory at Cannes!

Also fun fact, kodak is one of our sponsors again this year and the are providing us with 40(!) rolls of their new super 8mm film (100asa) to shoot with, develop on our own, manually splice and screen on a projector on our last night at the festival! So freakin' excited for that!

Second day of orentation

So today is the second day of orentation, we got our job placements (working at the cyber cafe, helping people with the wi-fi) and luckily my first shift is a 4pm which means I will miss the red carpet screening for midnight in paris, but at least I have the whole day to sleep in, look around, visit the market and the booths and get a good feel for the place before I really get into it. I also wanna get and early start on coordinating my work schedule with films and I want to see and hopefully helping out a bit and the Quebec and Canadien pavilion. Later on we are doing our official tour of the palais and doing workshops with officials from the festival and then we're getting our official greeting from the pavilion owners and the main staff. Big day!

Nervous/excited

I swear I didn't sleep all night. My heart was in my throat and and my stomach was in my knees. I feel all first day of school-ish. Gonna get up, shower and head to the airport, hoping the cool kids don't steal my lunch money and that there is a spot for me on the bus.
  

My New Reel

Reel 2011 from Rachelle Hamilton on Vimeo.

Tell your friends

Well it looks better than the poster!

I want to see all of these! But more specifically check out the last bit for scenes from Torchwoods "Miracle Day".
Gwen + Sierra= GOLD!

I need one of these!

Check out oopsmarks Etsy for this delish BICYCLE WINE RACK! Obviously this dude is from Montreal!




I'll take 2!

AWESOME!

QuilterGeek!

is going to turn the original star wars poster into a quilt. I am both in awe and completely jealous!

And now for something completely different...

The new X-men traileris also up on io9. I am less than impressed.

UPDATE:

It's not as shiteous as the posters they released (which I actually thought were a joke!) but I'm still not super impressed. I think this franchise really needs to get past it's "humans hate us" phase and just start kicking some evil villain ass!

Shaking and crying

New Harry Potter 7.5 trailer up on i09

Coming Soon!

Live blogging from the Cannes Film Festival by yours truley

Blech.

Really. This is the best they could come up with? I feel like this doesn't say a thing about the story line or the show in general.

LAME!!

Mr Rodgers would be proud

I find this fascinating! Th designer in me was riveted to this!


How Ink Is Made

The Black Hole short

NEAT!

YES! YES! YES!

CLICK HERE!

Head on over to i09 to see a 1 min preview of Captain America!

UPDATE!

Complete trailer!

Alan Tudyk!

Another one of my favorite male stars books a gig.
Wash will be playing Stephen A. Douglas in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
Full article over @ Variety

Test Pattern

Stolen from SWISS MISS Who got it from a bunch of other people. I think it originated on Tumblr

It's Propaganda time!

Everyone does it at sometime or another! Check out posters put out by the Chinese from the 50's to the 90's in this online gallery. Some pretty interesting stuff! Socially as well as artistically.





True story, during my film history class in CEGEP, we were watching Triumph of the Will (most elaborate piece of nazi propaganda EVER!) as well as some Canadian war time films (also arguably propaganda) ones of my friends leaned over to me and whispered 'Whats propaganda?" Needless to say we weren't really friends after that


Courtosey of Maopost.com

Still Laughing

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Captainy Goodness

Loves me some Ellen Page and Nathan Fillion!

Nerd Alert

Anyone who knows my knows I have a thing for fonts.

Finally a game I can get behind!



basically you just guess what font it is. the more you get right the more fonts are unlocked and the harder it gets!


PLAY TYPEWAR!

Star Wars Prints by Andy Helms

Stuff like this never gets old for me. It's amazing how decades later these films are still influential enough to inspire artists.

Speaking of! you kids heard about Lucases 3D plans?!?!? Not a fan of this idea in general but would love to see them in theaters!
Courtesy of GeekIz

Know your Avengers!

The Lovely people over at IGN just posted this Avengers primer. It includes recaps and photos f the characters that will be featured in the film.

I am starting to get really anxious for this to come out.


Full Article at IGN

I'll take this one please

Is it just me, or does this look way cooler than the live action version they are putting out. Cooler cast too.

News out of Cannes

Film director Michel Gondry is to head up the short film and Cinéfondation jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes, following in the footsteps of Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Martin Scorsese and John Boorman.

Full article over at Deadline

5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck

Interesting article over at ONTD about why cinema is in such an abysmal state

Full article

More Norse Goodness

X-Men First Class

I can see your tummy!

It's Morphin' Time!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Courtesy of College Humor

The best thing about Super Bowl Sunday

TRAILERS! And the new VW commercial with that kid dressed as Vader. CLASSIC!


Super 8


Cowboys & Aliens


Thor


Captaine America

Career Planning

This has actually been more helpful then any of my academic advisers. Apparently I`m meant to be a bounty hunter



Totally stolen from Nerdbastards.com

Hello Tiger

New poster and images of First Avenger up on Marvel.com

Man do i wanna work for Marvel studios. DREAM JOB
Everything thats coming out of this studio recently is awesome (mostly)

Day 5 without a real computer

So I`ve been slumming it on a PC for the last couple days (thank the lord for my ipod or I would have gone postal) as my baby is at the doctors getting a new fan and DVD drive. As a result my blogging has, and will, suck.

in other news here are some delayed and incomplete posts


Marvel has announced Furys new mystery woman slah side kick. Apparently Colbie Smulders is in talks to play maria hill. My fingers are still crossed for Morena Baccarin to show up somewhere



Maria Hill Bio @ Marvel.com

Full Article

More teasing about that greatest project ever.

I swear every other montht there is a different rumor about this book.



According to the good people over at Screen Rant screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe, Transformers, 5-0) have gotten thier hands on Enders Game and are shoppping around a script. These boys as just gonna reboot everything! Honestly, I'm usually a fan of what they do and I love the book. I09 also made a comment about how the movie might be difficult to market, and I agree, the whole thing may not transfer well to the screen at all. Apparently they've got Gavin hood on board (X-men Origins) and they're making the rounds. I wonder of OSC is going to feel about this?


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Battlestar: Blood and Chrome casting news!

I'll admit I never got into Caprica. The subject matter didn't appeal to me. As much as I love writer Jane Espenson (I want her career) I just couldn't motivate myself to watch it. Blood and Chrome however sounds right up my alley!

Casting news has emerged, they have cast Adama and his CO.



It's nobody I know or care about but I am excited to see this play out

More info and character descriptions @ EW.com

At times I almost dream

I too have spent a life the Sages way

And tread once more familiar paths

Perchance I've perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago

And in that act of prayer for one more chance went up so earnest

So...

Instinct with better light let in by death

That life was blotted out not so completely

But scattered wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories

As now one seems

Once more the goal in sight again.

Firefly Friday

Good News from TV land. Not only did fringe survive it's move to Friday nights, it won it's night AND it had a raised viewership!

By some miracle of magic or science, Fox’s Fringe moved to Friday night and did not go down in the ratings.

The episode — titled “The Firefly” (nicely ironic considering the show’s move to Fox’s infamous Death Slot) — actually improved upon its most recent Thursday performance.


GIFSoup

Fringe, which featured Christopher Lloyd as a guest star, delivered 4.9 million viewers and a 1.9 preliminary adults 18-49 rating last night. That’s right in line with its Thursday season average. Remember, Fox’s Kevin Reilly said if the show maintains its Thursday numbers on Friday, he’d renew it, so let’s hope the drama can keep this up.

ew.com

Fringe has to survive... or I will be utterly lost.

GIFSoup


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New favorite movie poster

Best posters to come out since Black swan (those were Amazing!). There are such horrible previews and posters for films these days (have you seen the twilight ones!) I'm glad to see a film, especially one that leans towards the sci fi is so lovely.

Shameless Reblog

Interview between EW and the Produce of SMG new TV show Ringer

The networks have been on a pilot-greenlighting tear lately. But which possible show has the potential to be a gem of the 2011-12 season? We’ll go out on a limb here: CBS’ in-the-works thriller Ringer, which—should the pilot get the pickup to series during May’s network upfronts—would mark the much-anticipated return of Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar to regular series television. Granted, Gellar acolytes have been titillated by her possible return before with HBO’s The Wonderful Maladys, only to have the pilot never make it to series. But alas, the potential seems to be there with Ringer. Until now, the show has only been described as drama about “a troubled young woman on the run who hides out by living the life of her wealthy twin sister, until she learns her sibling’s life has a bounty on it as well.” Rather vague. Are you dying for more details? Us, too, so we tracked down Peter Traugott, the pilot’s producer and head of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, the production company behind Ringer, and grilled him about the pilot. Here, Traugott spills more about Ringer’s plot, its enviable star Sarah Michelle Gellar and getting her to come back to network television (she wanted to do cable!), and why the show is indeed a good fit for CBS.

WHAT IS RINGER EXACTLY? “It’s a thriller, for sure,” Traugott explains. “It’s an edgy thriller about redemption and about revenge. There’s a point of view of two twin sisters who grew apart over a tragedy in their past. And one now seeks redemption and the other one seeks revenge. The sister who is seeking redemption has had a much more troubled life. When her fancy pants sister disappears, she takes over her life. She’s living the life of her more successful sister only to come to find out that her life is equally as fraught with danger and complication. Her sister dies in a boating accident. The other sister takes on her persona, only to come to find out that they have a hit out on her.”

WHY CAST SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR? HOW’D YOU GET HER TO COME BACK TO NETWORK TV? “Sarah had started thinking about coming back to TV a couple of years ago and she really wanted it to be something in cable,” Traugott explains. “In part just because of the subject matter you’re able to do in cable. But network television now has cracked that door a little bit and they’ve obviously been doing great stuff in network—and great stuff in cable. Both places are great. And this was a spec script that we had found and my colleague, Rachel Kaplan, had found by these young writers [Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder of The CW's Supernatural] and we flipped for it. Sarah’s manager got it to her, and she fell in love with the piece, too. We had been talking about this group for over a year trying to figure this out. For Sarah, she wasn’t really sure about network just because she wasn’t sure she would get what she wanted. When CBS read this thing and flipped for it and loved Sarah for it, that kind of started her thinking about being more open-minded to doing network because of the subject matter and this piece that she was so excited about.”

DOES GELLAR PLAY BOTH SISTERS ROLES? Yes! “She plays two characters: One is Bridget, the sister who takes over Siobhan’s life—Siobhan’s the other sister. The sisters reunite after having been estranged for a long time, and when they reunite, Siobhan dies. She falls…you know, in a boating accident.” So it’s like Hayley Mills of Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap and its more modern remake? “Yeah,” Traugott admit, with a laugh. “That’s kind of a comedic reference, and a reference old old Westerns—yeah, Sarah’s playing both roles.”

IF SIOBHAN DIES EARLY, DO WE SEE HER IN FLASHBACKS—OR WHAT? Yes, exactly. “You’ll see her that way. Not necessarily tonally nor stylistically, but the show comparable to Damages. I love Damages—by the way, it’s my favorite show—but in the same way that Damages tells part of the story in the present, through the past. Not just flashbacks but through actual stories in the past. That’s what’s happening here. Hopefully if we go to series, the audience will come to understand what the fall out was between Siobhan and Bridget. Why Siobhan would never want to see her sister again, why Bridget was in a kind of dark place in her life—all that stuff will be told as we move forward in Bridget’s stories through flashbacks with Siobhan.

WILL BUFFY FANS BE PLEASED WITH THIS ROLE FOR GELLAR? Duh: yes! “For the Buffy fans, she wanted part of what she initiated. As a matter of fact, her and her manager know this, but I know one thing she wanted to guard against was making sure that she whatever she does in TV, she does something that her fans who had grown up loving Buffy will also be excited about. And we think this show has that quality to it.

HOW WILL THIS PLEASE BUFFY FANS EXACTLY? “It’s a very different show. I mean, Buffy is so specific and a great, cool genre piece,” Traugott says. “But in the same way with Sarah, I think what’s remarkable about her as an actor—and very few people have this ability—she can play both sides well. If you remember Cruel Intentions, she was the villain, but you found yourself kind of rooting for her anyway. That’s what we’re looking for. How do we find something where her character has some edge, there’s some darkness to her, she doesn’t always do the right thing, but at the end of the day, you’re also rooting for her? And that’s what we were looking for in this. Obviously, Buffy was a hero, a kick-ass hero, and we wanted to be true to that with Sarah.”

IS GELLAR’S BRIDGET SUPPOSED TO BE A HEROINE? “It’s not like that, no,” Traugott clarifies. “I wouldn’t say that. It’s not that kind of a show. It’s more of a thriller. But we think it shows a lot of different layers to Sarah, and her character is so interesting and compelling. Very different from the Buffy character, but there’s a lot there for the audience to grab onto.

WHAT’S THE FORMAT? PROCEDURAL? SERIALIZED? “There’s an overriding arc that the writers have kind of figured out for the first several seasons, if we get so lucky,” Traugott says. “But there’s an overriding arc in part of Bridget’s drive of trying to figure out who is trying to kill Siobhan and now her, in Siobhan’s shoes. And week in and week out we will be telling episodic stories, relationship stories, hopefully wish-fulfilling kind of stories, because she is living this kind of fantastical life all the while trying to figure out who’s after her. She’ll be with Siobhan’s husband, which is obviously new to her because she’s in a relationship with a man she doesn’t know but he thinks he knows her. She’ll be dealing with Siobhan’s friends, and they’ll be trying to kind of safe-crack this mystery.”

WHAT OPENED THE DOOR FOR A SHOW LIKE THIS ON CBS? HOW DOES IT FIT THAT BRAND? “You know, to read the script, you would not have thought CBS, but I think when [CBS’ entertainment president] Nina Tassler and her team read it and flipped for it, and we came in and talked about it, they had passion for this. They talk a lot about The Good Wife and how, a couple of years ago, you wouldn’t have thought that the The Good Wife was a CBS show. But you go from a CSI kind of a show—a pure procedural—to The Good Wife, which has a procedural element but it’s obviously very character-driven and has a lot of great story and characters on it. Hopefully, if we do it right, Ringer can be the next evolution of that. That is, on paper it’s not necessarily a CBS show but worked exceedingly well in that Good Wife way.”

WHAT’S THE PILOT’S PRODUCTION SCHEDULE LIKE? “We’re just ramping up now where we’re getting into casting, we’re getting into pre-production stuff, we’re getting into director,” Traugott says. “All of our stuff is starting now. The goal would be to shoot—you know, like all the other pilots—sometime in early to mid March.”

WHY IS GELLAR PERFECT FOR THIS ROLE? “I’m just a fan of Sarah’s,” Traugott says. “I’m excited that there’s a piece of material she’s excited about and obviously as a producer, I wanna get this show on the air, and as a big fan of Sarah’s, I just want to watch her on TV again. It seems like America wants to, and it seems like CBS was a fan from what I saw. Hopefully if we do our jobs right we’ll have an opportunity. We’re excited. She’s iconic.”

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New Edgar Allen Poe pilot gets pick up!

Amidst a flurry of new pilots I found this nugges of info via EW

There’s been a flurry of pilot pickups over the last 24 hours and I’ve been waiting for a truly intriguing one to kick off a rundown post and — hello — we have a winner: ABC has ordered a crime drama where Edger Allen Poe solves mysteries.

I know. It sounds like some kind of dream within a dream. But here’s the official description for Poe: “Crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe as the world’s very first detective, using unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston.”

Thus quoth the raven: “What the f–k?”

Literary figures are actually in vogue this pilot season with a couple Sherlock Holmes projects in the works too. And thing is, I’m making fun of this idea, but I would watch Poe in a heartbeat over most other more conventional shows that make it to this stage.

Also getting picked up are

-ABC’s Pan Am project is moving to pilot. Another intriguing period drama, this one is described as “a sexy soap set against the Jet-Age, focusing on the stewardesses and pilots and their glamorous world full of exciting adventures.”

– ABC’s Lost and Found is a multi-camera comedy about “a narcissistic New York City bartender and party girl has her life turned upside down when the conservative 18 year old son she gave up for adoption shows up on her doorstep.”

– ABC’s Work It, another multi-cam comedy, is about “two out of work car salesmen realize that it is now a woman’s world and decide that in order to find work again and succeed they are going to have to dress as women to get jobs as pharmaceuticals reps. Doing this inadvertently makes them better men, husbands and fathers but also makes them appreciate the sanctuary of their guy’s nights at the local bar where they can really be themselves.”

–NBC’s Special Investigations L.A., a drama in the style of Traffic, set in the world of crime, law enforcement, and politics in modern-day Los Angeles.

While none of these other float my boat, TV is in desperate need of new blood. I've been supremely unmotivated TV wise recently and I choose to blame it on TV.

Full article @EW.com

How come the are still calling it the Ausiello Files? He jumped ship months ago!

The real nominees are in

Glad to see that these nominations haven't been bought, unlike the globes. Solid group of nominees, especially in the female driven roles. The best actors categories were a joke at the Globes, glad to see that this list makes a bit more sense! This list also intensifies my need to see Winter's Bone. I LOVE John Hawkes and I just realized he's in it. Must see! Other then that the only Oscar contenders that I haven't seen that I would like to are The King's Speech, The Kids are Alright and 127 Hours. Usually I do much worse.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)
- The Fighter (Paramount)
- Inception (Warner Bros.)
- The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight)
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing)
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney)
- True Grit (Paramount)
- Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions)

Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Javier Bardem in "Biutiful" (Roadside Attractions)
- Jeff Bridges in "True Grit" (Paramount)
- Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
- Colin Firth in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)
- James Franco in "127 Hours" (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Christian Bale in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
- John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
- Jeremy Renner in "The Town" (Warner Bros.)
- Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
- Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
- Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate)
- Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
- Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight)
- Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Amy Adams in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
- Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)
- Melissa Leo in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
- Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit" (Paramount)
- Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best animated feature film of the year
- How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
- The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics) Sylvain Chomet
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Lee Unkrich

Art Direction
- Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O'Hara (Set Decoration)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
- Inception (Warner Bros.), Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
- The King's Speech (Paramount), Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
- True Grit (Paramount), Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)

Achievement in Cinematography
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth
- True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design
- Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Colleen Atwood
- I Am Love (Magnolia Pictures) Antonella Cannarozzi
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Jenny Beavan
- The Tempest (Miramax) Sandy Powell
- True Grit (Paramount) Mary Zophres

Achievement in directing
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight), Darren Aronofsky
- The Fighter (Paramount), David O. Russell
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Tom Hooper
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), David Fincher
- True Grit (Paramount), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best Documentary Feature
- Exit through the Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency)
- Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment)
- Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley (Arthouse Films)

Best documentary short subject
- Killing in the Name Nominees to be determined A Moxie Firecracker Films Production
- Poster Girl Nominees to be determined A Portrayal Films Production
- Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
- Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger A Sun Come Up Production
- The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon A Thomas Lennon Films Production

Achievement in film editing
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum
- The Fighter Paramount Pamela Martin
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Best foreign language film of the year
- Biutiful Mexico
- Dogtooth Greece
- In a Better World Denmark
- Incendies Canada
- Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria

Achievement in makeup
- Achievement in makeup (Sony Pictures Classics) Adrien Morot
- The Way Back (Newmarket Films in association with Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Image Entertainment) Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
- The Wolfman (Universal) Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- Coming Home from Country Strong (Sony Pictures Releasing (Screen Gems)) Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
- I See the Light from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
- If I Rise from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
- We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Best animated short film
- Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton
- The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
- Let's Pollute A Geefwee Boedoe Production Geefwee Boedoe
- The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment) A Passion Pictures Australia Production Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
- Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) A Sacrebleu Production Bastien Dubois

Best live action short film
- The Confession (National Film and Television School) A National Film and Television School Production Tanel Toom
- The Crush (Network Ireland Television) A Purdy Pictures Production Michael Creagh
- God of Love A Luke Matheny Production Luke Matheny
- Na Wewe (Premium Films) A CUT! Production Ivan Goldschmidt
- Wish 143 A Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures Production Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Achievement in sound editing
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Richard King
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
- Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
- True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
- Unstoppable (20th Century Fox) Mark P. Stoeckinger

Achievement in sound mixing
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
- Salt (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
- True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Achievement in visual effects
- Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
- Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
- Iron Man 2 (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment, Distributed by Paramount) Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

Adapted screenplay
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
- True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Original screenplay
- Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Mike Leigh
- The Fighter (Paramount), Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
- Inception (Warner Bros.), Written by Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler

And the nominees are in!

They really hit the nail on the head with this year worst picture nominees!

Vampires Suck
Eclipse
Sex & the City 2
The Last Airbender
The Bounty Hunter


While I have no seen Vampires Suck or Bounty Hunter, I am assured they both suck(although I feel like in the case of Vampires Suck, it was more like done on purpose) I can definitely vouch for the crappiness of the other films.

Sex in the City 2 was the most Americentric crap I have seen in ages. It's trite, it's insensitive, it's offensive and IT'S NOT FUNNY. I'm not even a fan of the franchise and I really enjoyed the first movie. The second seems to be like the worst episode they ever made with the bigger budget and less graphic sex scenes.

The Last Airbender is so bad there are only 3 things that happen. Some one has a big explanatory speech, some one says "We have to go ___" and that is followed by a big fight scene. They then do the same thing over and over again until the film ends.
The problem with this film is they thought they were so cool, no one would notice how bad the story was. Well guess what, when you treat audiences like they are stupid they figure it out and get pissed! Also the cast should have been a mix of many races (as they are in the comics) instead of the white guys = good guys, non white guys = bad guys, like in this film. Critics accusing this film of "whitewashing" are not wrong. I wonder what Shyamalan was thinking, letting this casting go through. And for someone who usually has a nack for complex scripts this one seems to have been written by a monkey who signed Shyamalans name.

As for Eclipse lets just say the only way I was able to sit through this movie was by playing a drinking game against Taylor Lautners abs (ie everything he was shirtless I would drink). Needless to say I lost horribly and was so drunk I had to be helped out of the theater. My condolences got to the people who are working on the film who actually have talent (ie Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter), I hope the paycheck was worth it.
I also love that they have a category solely for sequels, prequels and remakes as well as a new category for worse use of 3D.

Any other films you think should have been nominated? Think any of this actors will pull Sandra's or Halle's and actually show up to accept their awards?


FULL LIST OF NOMINEES

Worst Picture

The Bounty Hunter (Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media)
The Last Airbender (Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies)
Sex and the City 2 (Warner Bros/New Line/HBO Pictures)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Vampires Suck (20th Century-Fox/Regency Enterprises)

Worst Actor

Jack Black in Gulliver's Travels
Gerald Butler in The Bounty Hunter
Ashton Kutcher in Killers and Valentine's Day
Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Valentine's Day
Robert Pattinson in Remember Me and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Actress

Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter and The Switch
Miley Cyrus in The Last Song
The Four "Gal Pals" (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon) in Sex and the City 2
Megan Fox in Jonah Hex
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Supporting Actor

Billy Ray Cyrus in The Spy Next Door
George Lopez in Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine's Day
Dev Patel in The Last Airbender
Jackson Rathbone in The Last Airbender and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Rob Schneider in Grown Ups

Worst Supporting Actress

Jessica Alba in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and Valentine's Day
Cher in Burlesque
Liza Minnelli in Sex and the City 2
Nicola Peltz in The Last Airbender
Barbra Streisand in Little Fockers

Worst Screen Couple / Screen Ensemble

Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler in The Bounty Hunter
Josh Brolin's Face and Megan Fox's Accent in Jonah Hex
The Entire Cast of The Last Airbender
The Entire Cast of Sex and the City 2
The Entire Cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel

Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck

Worst Director

Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer for Vampires Suck
Michael Patrick King for Sex and the City 2
M. Night Shyamalan for The Last Airbender
David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Sylvester Stallone for The Expendables

Worst Screenplay

The Last Airbender (written by M. Night Shyamalan, based on the TV series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko)
Little Fockers (written by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey, based on characters created by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke)
Sex and the City 2 (written by Michael Patrick King, based on the TV series created by Darren Star)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer)
Vampires Suck (written by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer)

Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
The Nutcracker in 3D
Saw 3D
Full list of nominees http://razzies.com/history/2010-worst-picture.asp

Sci Fi Serenity Prayers

These photos combine my two loves, crating and Sci Fi. I need to find a way to do this in my own work.






SOURCE

Happythankyoumoreplease

I actually want to see this.
I like the line about how he's middle class and that he has good parents, and therefore not a great artist. I can totally relate.

BTVS comes crawling back to TV

Titled Ringer, the prospective new series revolves around a young woman on the run from the mob, Deadline reports. Hoping to elude her pursuers, she adopts the identity of her wealthy twin sister — but wouldn’t you know it, there’s a steep bounty on her sib’s life as well!

Lets be honest she just should have never left. Lets be honest again. I'm totally going to watch this just to see her in it. The plot sounds dumb but who knows! I need some more good television. And I miss SMG.

Full article @ TVLINE

I want this womans brain!

She's just amazing.. an amazing, crazy genius. A true artist

Quote of the day

For one thing, I think that escapism is good and healthy and that there's more to man than reality

Jean-Christophe Valtat

Women in Refridgerators

Women in Refrigerators (or WiR[1]) is a website that was created in 1999 by a group of comic book fans. The "Women in Refrigerators Syndrome" describes the use of the death or injury of a female comic book character as a plot device in a story starring a male comic book character. The website features a list of female comic book characters that had been injured, killed, or depowered as a plot device within various superhero comic books. Also, the site seeks to analyze why these plot devices are used disproportionately on female characters.
The term "Women in Refrigerators" was coined by writer Gail Simone as a name for the website in early 1999 during on-line discussions about comic books with friends. It refers to an incident in Green Lantern #54 (1994), written by Ron Marz, in which Kyle Rayner, the title hero, comes home to his apartment to find that his girlfriend, Alex DeWitt, had been killed by the villain Major Force and stuffed in a refrigerator.[2]

Simone and her friends then developed a list of fictional characters, superheroines who had been "killed, maimed or depowered."[3] The list was then circulated via the Internet over Bulletin Board System, e-mail and electronic mailing lists. Simone also e-mailed many comic book creators directly for their responses to the list.

The list is considered “infamous” in certain comic book fan circles.[4] Respondents often found different meanings to the list itself, though Simone maintained that her, "... simple point (had) always been: if you demolish most of the characters girls like, then girls won't read comics. That's it!"

Where was I in the 90's when this was happening? Oh yes, I was a closet feminist with Dial-up.

Some great points in this article. While some of these assumptions may seem unfair, I defiantly agree that if you kill off all of the good relateable female characters, females wont wanna read these. Times have changed, especially with the success of female centric comics, like Buffy etc, but this for sure still happens.

Full wikipedia entry

This just reeks of mass coverup!

"The birds died from blunt force trauma. After their deaths, they were gathered up and sent to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Employees there found bruises on their bodies and not much else. The lab was not impressed with the timing of the event, since its researchers analyze as many as 500 mass die-offs per year. The fact that the birds showed bruises, that they were the only species that was part of the die-off, and the timing determined the death.

Scott Wright, the chief of disease investigations explains, that firecrackers would have set the birds out at night, flying blind."

"It's believed that the noise startled them-they are poor night fliers-and they were in close proximity to neighborhoods, and they flew into homes and cars. They died of impact force to their bodies."

article stolen from i09

I'm totally call their bullshit on this one
You just watch, this is totally the apocalypse, with this and all the dead fish, all we need next is a river of blood and a plague of locust. It'll be all out chaos by the end of July.

All I can think of is WWMD (What would Mulder do) and all I can come up with is... ask Scully

First big news out of Cannes

Man my luck with this just keeps coming! De Niro has officially been announced as the head of the jury at Cannes this year. Hopefully I will be running into him... or at least serving him coffee. It would be so amazing if he ended up being one of the speakers I get to see this year at the pavilion. I still can't believe how lucky I am to be going on this trip. Now all I have to do is learn how to schmooze and I am all set... That or I will start having to use sex to climb the corporate ladder... maybe not.



Full article @ Ew.com

How have I not heard of this!

A. I love Ed Helms
2. What a great concept
D. This has got to be good if even Anne Heche looks funny

A summary of the movies of 2010

Jacked from someone on tumblr

New Being Human Trailer

Wicked trailers like this just make me resent remakes even more. Why are they remaking this show in the Us when the original is still on the air. Apparently people I know who have auditioned for the show seem to indicate that everything will be pretty similar. *Sigh* My new life goal is to create some original content.

Mind you I still haven't finished series 2... I should get on that

Also can we talk about Cat Stevens being the sound track for this!?!? Random

And on the first day...

Residents of Beebe woke up New Years day to find hundreds of dead blackbirds littering the streets of their town. Last year there were floods and this year dead black birds. Authorizes think it's high altitude weather conditions (have I been watching too much X-Files or does that just reek of cover up?) io9 thinks it's Romulan War birds. Personally I'm going to stick with the classics; all out apocalypse.


via CNN and The Occultist

New Years Resolutions

1. Loose some weight... (generic I know)
2. Get in and out of my Cannes vacation relativity debt free, or at least with manageable debt.
3. Get a real job, preferably one Cannes related or that does not get in the way of me going to Cannes.
4. Get some scripts written.
5. Complain less (at work and in my life)
6. Buy less new things, vintage is in.
7. Tease people less.
8. Take some French, business and painting classes