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Robert Richardson’s 3-D Journey Back to the Future
Noted cinematographer gives the past a cutting-edge look in Martin Scorsese's Hugo
Martin Scorsese's Hugo takes audiences on a 3-D journey inside an underground train station in Paris during the 1930s. The story revolves around a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo, who makes a home for himself behind a wall at the station after his father dies. Hugo interacts with the owner of a small toy booth in the station, an eccentric girl, passengers on the platform and a mechanical man that his father created.
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Mark Friedberg Designs The Tempest
Mark Friedberg has served as production designer on some of the most visually striking films to come out in recent years, among them Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Julie Taymor's Beatles-infused musical Across the Universe. With his recent work on Taymor's The Tempest, Friedberg faced the challenge of rendering the magical island that serves as the locale for Shakespeare's strangest play using natural settings and locations. To celebrate the recent home video release of The Tempest, MM spoke with Friedberg about working with Taymor and creating a magical setting from a barren landscape.
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January Doldrums Hit the Box Office
Since the early 1990s, as the late season award contenders still linger in most cinemas, awaiting a surge in audiences as their prizes accumulate, a mid-winter onslaught of goofy genre fair begins to appear in cinemas the weekend after New Year's Day. The next couple of months generally become a veritable dumping ground for all sorts of sub-par studio projects, from would-be prestige films that just don't fit in the award season paradigm to other assorted misfits within the corporate conglomerates' tight-fisted slates.
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Tintin Leads the Pack in VES Awards Nominations
With all the buzz resulting from the Producers, Directors and Writers Guilds of America announcing the nominees for their respective awards, you might have missed yesterday’s announcement of the nominees for the Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards. Steven Spielberg’s performance capture epic The Adventures of Tintin was the most honored film, receiving six nominations. Among the live-action films to be honored, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon came out on top with five nominations each.
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Directors Guild of America Announces Award Nominees
Scorsese, Hazanavicius and Fincher feel the love; Spielberg and Malick are out in the cold
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has announced its five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, sending Oscar prognosticators into a tizzy as they attempt to determine what effect the DGA nominations will have on the Oscar chances for both the films that received nominations and those that did not.
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The Devil Inside Triumphs at the Box Office
New release The Devil Inside beat out the competition—which consisted of a slate of nearly-a-month-old films and a few new limited releases—to come in number one at the box office, earning a rather impressive opening weekend gross of $34.5 million. Last week's number one film, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, fell to number two, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows came in at number three. David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo held steady at number four with a weekend gross of $11.4 million.
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Writers Guild of America Announces Its 2012 Award Nominees
Tuesday saw the nominations for the 2012 Producers Guild Awards announced, and today, it's the writers' turn; the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East have announced the nominees for its 64th annual Writers Guild Awards, taking place on February 19th, 2012 in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Among the films nominated are Bridesmaids, which continues its impressive (especially for an R-rated comedy) streak of awards nominations, and Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody, who won the Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2008 for Juno.
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Steven Spielberg Leads Producers Guild Award Nominations
Legendary moviemaker receives two nominations, one special achievement award
The Artist, considered by many to be a frontrunner for awards season supremacy come this February's Oscar telecast, is still going strong after being named the year's best film by multiple critics organizations. The silent French film, along with awards season favorites The Descendants and War Horse, is among the films nominated by the Producers Guild of American (PGA) for its 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards, taking place on January 21, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Outpaces the Competition
New Year's weekend proved to be quiet one at the box office, with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol holding onto the number one spot for the second week running. Last week's runner-up, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, stayed in the number two position, while Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked rose one spot to number three.
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