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Visual Effects Oscar Shortlist

Marcella Papandrea — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:37:15 +0000

Well the Academy (of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) have announced the shortlist of contenders for the Visual Effects Oscar category. A total of seven films have made the shortlist, this list will then go down to five after further voting on January 20th.

I am not entirely surprised by the films which have made the shortlist, and I know which of those I will be pulling for to make the final five which will be in contention for the Oscar.

Here is the press release:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 83rd Academy Awards®.
The films are listed below in alphabetical order:
“Alice in Wonderland”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
“Hereafter”
“Inception”
“Iron Man 2”
“Scott Pilgrim vs the World”
“Tron: Legacy”

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Thursday, January 20. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Source: Collider

DVD/Bluray details for Eastwood’s Hereafter

Marcella Papandrea — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:37:14 +0000

Clint Eastwood’s latest film Hereafter is set to hit DVD and Bluray on March 15th. Some details on the release have been announced.

The artwork for the package is to the left, the extras and pricing are as follows:

DVD $28.98

Extras Include -

“Tsunami! Recreating a Disaster”
“Hereafter’s Locations – Casting the Silent Characters”
“The Eastwood Experience”

Bluray/DVD Combo $35.99

Bonus Extras Include -

“Is There Life After Death?”
“Clint on Casting”
“Delving into the Hereafter”
“Twin Bonding”
“French Speaking French”
“Why The White Light?”
“The Eastwood Factor” (90min Clint Eastwood Documentary)

George (Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (de France), a French journalist, has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might-or must-exist in the hereafter.

Source: DVDActive

Paranormal Activity 2 scares up big box-office numbers

Matt Keith — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:43:53 +0000

Tod Willaims’ Paranormal Activity 2 brought horror back to the box-office. Both Matt Reeves’ Let Me In and Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take both tanked at the box-office, but Paranormal Activity 2 brought the genre back earning $41,500,000 over the weekend. The other film that opened was Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter debuting in 4th.

Here’s the top ten from Box-office Mojo:

1. Paranormal Activity 2 ($41.5 mil)

2. Jackass 3D ($21.6 mil)

3. Red ($15 mil)

4. Hearafter ($12 mil)

5. The Social Network ($7.3)

6. Secretariat ($6.9)

7. Life As We Know It ($6.1 mil)

8. Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole ($3.1 mil)

9. The Town ($2.7 mil)

10. Easy A ($1.7 mil)

Opening next weekend will be Saw 3D (October 29), The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (Limited), Inspector Bellamy (Limited), Monsters (Limited), and Wild Target (Limited).

Eastwood takes on Hoover

Melissa Molina — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:40:58 +0000

Clint Eastwood is ready to tackle his next directorial project, this time it’s in the form of a biopic on J. Edgar Hoover. This particular biopic is rich in story, ripe enough for Eastwood to take on with Brian Grazer producing under Imagine Entertainment along with Robert Lorenz under Clint’s Malpaso banner. Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black is already penning the script.

Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 and turned it into an efficient crimefighting organization. He remained its director until his death in 1972, but his sculpted persona was already coming apart at the seams; he employed the FBI to harass political activists and used illegal methods to make secret files on leaders. Many biographies also assert the man was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser (THR).

Eastwood just finished wrapping up principal photography on the supernatural thriller Hereafter, poised to be released sometime this December under Warner Bros. Pictures.

Howard on Hereafter

Melissa Molina — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:25 +0000

No, we are not talking about Ron Howard, rather we are talking about Bryce Dallas Howard. The actress is set to co-star with Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s latest film Hereafter. The Warner Bros picture centers around three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways (Variety).

The picture is penned up by Frost/Nixon writer Peter Morgan and is produced by Eastwood along with Robert Lorenz and Kathleen Kennedy. The DreamWorks SKG distributed picture is due out in theaters sometime of December of 2010. Bryce Dallas Howard can be seen in theaters soon starring in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond and can be seen in the recently Blu-Ray and DVD released film Terminator: Salvation.

De France looking for Hereafter

Melissa Molina — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:15:40 +0000

Variety reports that High Tension star Cecile De France will be on board to be in Hereafter. The film is directed by Clint Eastwood and penned by Peter Morgan who’s previous writing credits include Frost/Nixon and The Damned United. The thriller centers on three individuals who all encountered different experiences with death and how it affected each one of them. De France will co-star alongside Matt Damon in the Warner Bros Pictures feature.

Filming is currently underway for the project which is prepared to be released in theaters sometime in 2010. Matt Damon is in several other projects, his most recent big screen release will be yet another Clint Eastwood film called Invictus. Damon is expected to come out with Paul Greengrass in their newest collaborative project entitled Green Zone with the talented actor already casted to be in the remake of True Grit.