It was bound to happen. According to RopeofSilicon The Weinstein Company has officially pushed Nine from November 25 to a limited release on December 18 in New York and LA. The film goes into wide release on Christmas Day. Earlier rumors that the film would get pushed to next year were obviously off, but the move isn't surprising.
I don't think the move helps Nine's chances. It would originally have had to deal with The Road (another Weinstein Oscar hopeful), The Princess and the Frog (limited release), Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Me and Orson Welles. New Moon, which is a guaranteed hit is set to open on November 20, so perhaps Nine is being moved to be saved from that.
Now Nine has to contend with A Single Man, which has now been set to open wide on Christmas Day, Avatar (December 18), Sherlock Holmes, The Young Victoria, It's Complicated, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I haven't even mentioned the opening of Invictus or The Lovely Bones which open a week before Nine's new limited release. On paper this looks like a terrible idea, but I'm not really great at predicting box office and its effect on awards season.
Along with this news Nine - the Movie (via ONTD!) points us to the November cover of Vogue with the women of Nine.
I thought I would be taking a break from discussing this movie since I've been doing a lot of it lately. But, I couldn't pass up on sharing five minutes of the film. The billboards from ComingSoon are just a bonus.
The opening five minutes of The Princess and the Frog were unveiled late yesterday and you get a feel for where the movie is headed. The first few minutes are the completed 2D animation in gorgeous color, but after that some of it is the pencil drawn stuff that isn't finished. I wish we could have gotten a completed five minutes, but I suppose it's interesting to get a look at the different stages the animation goes through before it's totally finished.
In this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (via MTV), reporters were on the set of 36 movies and TV shows, including the set of Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways. Kristen Stewart is pictured with director Floria Sigismondi above in a photo from the EW issue.
Joan Jett is reportedly always on the set scaring the heck out of Stewart:
...watching Kristen and her fellow "New Moon" costar Dakota Fanning channel her and her '70s girl group was an unusual experience for the music legend. "It's really hard to put exact words on it beyond saying it’s surreal,” Joan explained.
To help Kristen with her portrayal, Joan gave her tapes of herself talking and singing at the age of 14, which Kristen spent weeks listening to.
“I’m sure it was a strange pressure [on Kristen],” Joan said of her constant presence on set. “She was kind of intimidated by it, but by the same token she wanted me there.”
There are also some kick ass photos of Kristen Stewart from Interview magazine. Some are posted below, but you can check out the rest courtesy of ONTD!
This particular set of photos from David O. Russell's The Fighter have been online for a while, but nobody really noticed until /Film pointed them out. More than likely all the film festivals had our attention. There are also some video blogs as well.
The Fighter, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Melissa Leo looks at the early years of real-life boxer "Irish" Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his brother (Bale) who helped train him before going pro in the mid '80s.
There are way more photos at IAmRogue for you to get a look at. The Fighter opens in theaters in 2010.
Carla Gugino plays adult entertainer, Elektra Luxx in Women in Trouble: "A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble." Written and directed by Gugino's boyfriend, Sebastian Gutierrez (Snakes on a Plane), the film is the first in a trilogy that will include Elektra Luxx and Women in Ecstasy.
Women in Trouble has a pretty impressive cast (Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Simon Baker), but, it's the women who get the best roles in the film (Marley Shelton, Adrianne Palicki, Cameron Richardson, Connie Britton, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, and Emmanuelle Chriqui):
"Women in Trouble is a fun addition to the current trend of revisiting and reworking exploitation-film themes in a lighthearted way...There's a certain pleasure in seeing a movie where the men are relegated to the Supportive Spouse and Lust Interest roles, after I've seen so many films where those are the only roles for women." [Cinematical]
Posters courtesy Get The Big Picture. Women in Trouble hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 13.
We've heard every bit of bad news about Spike Jonze's upcoming Where the Wild Things Are: the skepticism about making a story made up of no more than 10 sentences into a feature film, delays, terrified children in test audiences, etc. Still, most of us are excited. Maybe it's the gorgeous photos or the footage. It's probably Jonze himself.
There will reportedly be advance screenings of Where the Wild Things Are open to the public in New York and Los Angeles. Most of us will have to wait until October 16 to catch it, but enjoy the five new photos from the NY Times.
If you missed the TV spots that made their way online a few days ago, here they are:
I almost never talk about poster art. I usually just toss them out for people to look at but I can't help myself with this one. ComingSoon (via FirstShowing) points us to this God awful poster from Takers, starring Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, Idris Elba, and Matt Dillon. Oh and that douche Chris Brown is in this as well. The movie has something to do with bank robbers on their last job (gee, I've never heard this plot before). The photos of the actors in the foreground has got to be the worst Photoshop job I have ever seen. The film opens on February 19, 2010.
It’s so great. I am just really honored and grateful to be working for Mr. Nolan. He has such integrity and what’s really cool about Inception is that he’s getting to make this enormous movie that’s just his own brainchild, just his own idea that he wrote out of his head. I’ve looked up to Leonardo DiCaprio ever since I was very little. He was an actor at a young age, always doing it with such integrity and sincerity. So much of what happens in Hollywood is for all the wrong reasons. That guy does it because he loves it and believes in the art and the craft of it, which shows in his work and his choices. It’s something I have always aspired to and to get to work with him and be in scenes with him is really special. [The Press Association via Nolan Fans]
Inception is currently shooting in Los Angeles after shoots in Japan, England, France, and Morocco. According to Nolan Fans the crew will be filming in LA on Thursday, September 3rd, Friday, September 4th, and Wednesday through Friday, September 9th through the 11th. Address: 1745 E 7th St, Los Angeles. There might also be filming around N. Spring St from College St- Baker St.
The 3-minute long, epic trailer has absolutely no dialogue (none of that horrid voice over stuff, thank God), but the score is amazing - it kind of distracts from how disjointed the trailer actually is. The biopic, starring Chow Yun-Fat as the famed Chinese scholar and philosopher is backed by the Chinese government and cost $22 million (150 million Chinese yuan). The biopic will screen this year to commemorate the People's Republic of China's 60th anniversary and Confucius' 2,560th birthday.
A Single Man is the story of George Falconer (Firth), a 52-year old British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim (Goode). George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters, ultimately leads him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim. George is consoled by his closest friend Charley (Moore) a 48-year old beauty who is wrestling with her own questions about the future. A young student of George’s, Kenny, (Nicholas Hoult) who is coming to terms with his true nature, stalks his professor as he feels in him a kindred spirit. [IONCINEMA.com via ONTD!]
A Single Man is in the TIFF and Venice lineup, so we'll have word on it after it premiers in Venice next Friday on September 11.
The entire universe has uploaded the trailers and the new glossy photos, so I'll join in starting with Avatar. Some are inevitably disappointed (gee, could it be because folks hyped the shit out of this based on scant concept art photos and the presence of an overrated James Cameron?), but I'm not. People expected realistic looking aliens because the film's special effects are ten years in the making. But we have some photographic evidence that shows the thing looks like an animated film created by Pixar. Images from the first Toy Story looked more real than previously released photos and the images from the new trailer. This is not to bash Pixar - they're great at what they do, but their animated kid-stuff looks better than the footage from a film that's supposed to completely revolutionize cinema.
I'm not disappointed mainly because I have not been excited about this film at all. I hate most of James Cameron's films, and I'm wary of hype. But, while I'm not excited by the trailer, I don't want to see the film any less than I previously did. That's kind of a big deal. Avatar day is tomorrow so I expect more unfettered hype or disappointment.
Finding a decent embed of the trailer has been hard, but the good people at FirstShowing are cool enough to provide us with one. Be sure to head on over to Apple to watch the HD trailer.
Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine on the planet Pandora who, as an Avatar - a human mind in an alien body - finds himself in a desperate fight for his survival and that of the indigenous beings called Na'vi.
Avatar is both written and directed by Oscar winning visionary filmmaker James Cameron, of Piranha II, The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, and Titanic previously. He has been developing the technology to make this movie for the last 10 years. 20th Century Fox is bringing James Cameron's Avatar to both IMAX and regular theaters in 3D around the world on December 18th.
The other big trailer unveil was for The Wolfman, which I've been pretty excited about. The trailer (via Awards Daily) does not disappoint and it's hard not to be impressed by the cast Joe Johnston managed to get. Some of my favorite actors are in this thing: Hugo Weaving, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, and of course, BenicioDelToro. It looks like it will actually be scary, especially when you consider that Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker co-wrote The Wolfman script. I should probably tone down the excitement because this could turn out to suck, but BeniciodelToro has that affect on me.
It was bound to happen. According to RopeofSilicon The Weinstein Company has officially pushed Nine from November 25 to a limited release on December 18 in New York and LA. The film goes into wide release on Christmas Day. Earlier rumors that the film would get pushed to next year were obviously off, but the move isn't surprising.
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