"The Dark Knight," "Milk," and the gritty drama "The Wrestler" were among the films that landed on the American Film Institute's list of the year's 10 best movies. Also on AFI's list were the animated "Wall-E," Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino," "Iron Man," the indie dramas "Frozen River" and "Wendy and Lucy," the adapted play "Frost/Nixon," and the epic "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Many of the films on the list picked up Golden Globe nominations last week and are expected to compete for Academy Awards. Oscar nominations are to be announced Jan. 22.Despite a cast of big-name voices, the cartoon movie "Delgo" made the record books over the weekend by being a historic failure. The movie features voices of Val Kilmer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Chris Kattan, Eric Idle, Burt Reynolds and even the late Anne Bancroft. Despite playing on over 2,100 screens (by comparison "Slumdog Millionaire" is on 169), it made less than any other movie before it that has done the same. According to Box Office Mojo, "Delgo" had by far the worst opening ever for a movie playing at over 2,000 theaters. The computer-animated fantasy scrounged up $511,920 at 2,160 sites, far less than the already record low $916,000 the movie's distributor estimated on Sunday. It averaged only $237 per screen.
Stephen Soderbergh's highly anticipated "Che" played in a crowded field at Cannes. The two-part marathon format, period selections, and the convenient omission of Guevara's darkest years sparked heated debate. Glenn Kenny of IndieWire was amidst the fray, and delivers a detailed review and glimpse at the local reaction.
Cinematical: It's been awhile since we heard anything regarding Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, and after the release date was pushed back a year, folks started to spew rumors that Warner Bros. didn't like Jonze's version of the flick, how it was "too adult", how test screenings were making kids cry, how there were reshoots ... and all that nonsense. Cut to today, and AICN has up a lengthy interview with Jonze and his editor Eric Zumbrunnen from their offices, as well as two brand new images from the flick (one of which you can see above). The interview itself is mega long, but fans of Jonze and of Wild Things should definitely read it in its entirety, if only to feel better about where this project is heading. Here are a few interview highlights:
Jonze on where the film is at now: "We just locked picture about three weeks ago, and we'll probably finish all the effects by, like, May or so. Then we mix in May and we have our dates in October, so..."
Jonze on who's scoring the flick: "Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She did some of the score and is doing some of the score. Her and Carter Burwell are sort of doing it together."
Jonze on problems with the studio: "And I think that's what freaked the studio out about the movie too. It wasn't a studio film for kids, or it wasn't a traditional film about kids. We didn't have like a Movie Kid in our movie, or a Movie Performance in a Movie Kid world. We had a real kid and a real world, and I think that's sort of where our problem was. In the end they realized the movie is what it is, and there's no real way to... it's sort of like they were expecting a boy and I gave birth to a girl. So they just needed their time to sort that out and figure out how they were going to learn to love their new daughter."
North American stand-alone Blu-ray Disc player revenue during the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday more than tripled from a week earlier after Sony and Samsung dropped prices of their entry-level machines below $200 to generate holiday demand, NPD Group unit DisplaySearch said today. Consumers paid more than $30 million for 147,000 Blu-ray players during a week in which the average price was slightly more than $200, down from about $240 the previous week, DisplaySearch said. About one in four video-disc players purchased for the week ended Nov. 29 were Blu-ray machines.
Migrating Forms grew out of the world-renowned New York Underground Film Festival (1993-2008), and seeks to showcase the most innovative films and videos across genres, including work that may not find other screening opportunities because of its content, length or hybrid nature. All genres will be highlighted, and the Festival will be held at Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's foremost venues for experimental film and film culture. Highlights from last year's Festival include HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD, and WE ARE WIZARDS, both of which secured distribution. Other notable Underground selections include THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND; HALF COCKED; HORNS AND HALOS; and RADIATION. Migrating Forms recently hosted the World Premiere of DELIVER by Jennifer Montgomery.
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Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move. The eye he's considering replacing is not a working one -- it's a prosthetic eye he's worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian filmmaker, is not content with having one blind eye. He wants a wireless video camera inside his prosthetic, giving him the ability to make movies wherever he is, all the time, just by looking around. "If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?" he asks. WIRED magazine outlines his personal experiment.
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