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Ugly Betty Gets Tragic
11 November 2008 1:58 AM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
America Ferrera, star of ABC’s Ugly Betty, has signed on to star in and executive produce the drama American Tragic. Ryan Piers Williams wrote the film and will make his feature directing debut with it. American Tragic centers on a young war vet, played by newcomer Ryan O'Nan, who sets off across the country with a buddy to find redemption. Ferrera will play his wife. Melissa Leo (Righteous Kill, Mr. Woodcock) has also signed on to the film and will play the war vet’s mother. Latino mini-studio Maya Entertainment will produce and distribute the film, with Heather Rae (Frozen River) serving as producer. Sergio Aguero (Y tu mama tambien) will executive produce alongside Ferrera. Ferrera's previously collaborated with Maya Entertainment on How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, which opened in limited release last May. Production on American Tragic starts in February in New Mexico for a projected fall 2009 release.
James Cook
Nominees Announced for Gotham Independent Film Awards
24 October 2008 7:12 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Getting a jump on everybody else, the Gotham Independent Film Awards have already released their nominations for 2008 honors, and I assume, based on the name, that Batman is charged with keeping the names of the winners safe and secure until the envelopes are opened.
If you only go to the movies five or six times a year and just to check out the blockbusters, these titles won't mean anything to you. If you follow independent film, you'll probably say to yourself, "Damn it! When can I see that?"
These awards don't predict much when it comes to the Oscars, but there are usually a couple of smaller films to keep an eye on later in the year, and the Gotham Awards highlight quite a few of those possibilities. There aren't individual acting awards, other than a breakthrough award, but Gotham, like virtually every award not named the Academy Awards, has an ensemble honor.
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Colin Boyd
Gotham 'Ballast' Heavy
21 October 2008 12:23 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
'Ballast," a minimalist drama about a Mississippi family in crisis, led the nominations yesterday for the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the first movie honors of the season.
The low-budget film, self-distributed by first-time director Lance Hammer, received four nominations: best feature, breakthrough director, best ensemble and breakthrough actor (for Micheal J. Smith).
Sponsored by the New York-based Ifp, an organization of independent filmmakers, Gotham surprisingly snubbed Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married" for best feature.
The nuptial dramedy was one
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By LOU LUMENICK
Full Nominees List of 2008 Gotham Independent Film Awards Announced
20 October 2008 8:18 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
On Monday, October 20, Ifp has announced the contenders for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and Lance Hammer-directed drama "Ballast" has dominated the nomination list, taking in 4 separate nods. The movie, which has won the 2008 Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Directing Award for Hammer, is nominated for Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance.
In the category of Best Feature, "Ballast" will be up against Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River", Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York", Thomas McCarthy's "The Visitor" and Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler". Meanwhile, for the Best Ensemble Performance category, the film's cast that include Micheal J. Smith Sr. will be competing with "Rachel Getting Married" ensemble led by Anne Hathaway, "Synecdoche" cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" ensemble, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, and "Visitor" cast led by Richard Jenkins.
Though garnering the most gongs for the 2008 Gotham Awards,
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AceShowbiz.com
'Ballast' Leads in the Gotham Indie Awards Nominations
20 October 2008 4:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
It's getting to be that magical time of year known as Awards Season, when we pause from our daily lives and tell famous people how awesome they are. As usual, the first shot across the bow comes from the Gotham Independent Film Awards, which announced its nominees today and will hand out the trophies on Dec. 2.
Ballast, a much-honored drama about life and death on the Mississippi delta, scored four nominations -- more than anything else -- in the categories of Best Feature, Breakthrough Director (Lance Hammer), Breakthrough Actor (Michael J. Smith Sr.), and Best Ensemble Performance. It's a notable indie film because it's being distributed independently, too, with Hammer having backed out of a deal with IFC Films to release it himself.
The other Best Feature nominees are Frozen River, The Visitor, The Wrestler, and Synecdoche, New York. Synecdoche will have just barely been released when the awards are presented,
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Eric D. Snider
Gotham Nominees Announced - Ballast Out in Front
20 October 2008 7:58 AM, PDT | From AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news
Lance Hammer’s Ballast Receives Four Nominations including Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance Six titles receive two nominations each including Afterschool; Frozen River; Rachel Getting Married; Synecdoche, New York; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; and The Visitor The 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film AwardTM nominees are: Best Feature Ballast Frozen River Synecdoche, New York The Visitor The Wrestler Best Documentary: Chris & Don: A Love [...]
Sasha Stone
Anne Hathaway Will Be Nominated For An Oscar … But She Doesn’t Deserve It
13 October 2008 12:30 PM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news
In a crowded year for Best Actress contention, Anne Hathaway could be the only first-timer to receive an Oscar nomination in the lead category, possibly going up against mainstays such as her Devil Wears Prada costar Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet, as well as the less-nominated vets Nicole Kidman and Kristen Scott Thomas. Her main competition for the outsider, dark horse position is Frozen River’s Melissa Leo (who may benefit from her film’s initiatory screener campaign even though River's theatrical release was early and hardly noticed), and Happy-Go-Lucky’s Sally Hawkins, whose film just debuted to favorable reviews citing her brilliant (as in talented and bright) performance. But Hathaway ...
Christopher Campbell
Is Anne Hathaway Guaranteed an Oscar Nom?
7 October 2008 5:51 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Anne Hathaway as Kym in Rachel Getting Married
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics So, I saw Rachel Getting Married yesterday and while the film received plenty of praise during the festival circuit I won't be as quick to jump on the bandwagon. The film is well made by director Jonathan Demme and well acted by everyone, but on a whole it just isn't all that pleasing to watch. However, I will save my opinion of the film itself for my review. The discussion here is Anne Hathaway, whom we just learned has signed on to star as the White Queen in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, but it is her portrayal of Kym in Rachel Getting Married that is the buzz today. After the Rachel screening I was sitting around with a pair of fellow Seattle critics discussing the film in which they both said Hathaway would be getting a
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Brad Brevet
Indie Winners: 'Rachel Getting Married,' 'Duchess,' and Sex Still Sells
6 October 2008 4:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Sony Classics, Box Office, Cinematical Indie, Paramount Vantage, Samuel Goldwyn Films
Winners
Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Duchess (Paramount Vantage)
Fireproof (Samuel Goldwyn)
Riding a wave of positive buzz and the rising stardom of Anne Hathaway, Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married crushed all comers, earning $33,667 per screen at nine theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. Hathaway appeared everywhere to promote it, even gamely spoofing herself as host on Saturday Night Live. (Loved her as Mary Poppins!)
Too much attention may be paid to Keira Knightley's ribs, but she was undoubtedly the reason that The Duchess made $7,047 per screen as it expanded to 127 locations in its third week. Keira and costume dramas seem to be the right fit; I wouldn't be surprised if this one drew an older audience that consistently attends British historical flicks.
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Peter Martin
Oscar Update: Best Picture Predictions, New Reviews and More
3 October 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
I haven't been moved at all to do an Oscar Update because nothing has happened that warrants any kind of real attention. Either predictions are being made on films that haven't been seen or much ado is being made about nothing. However, I can't make it seem like I have abandoned "The Contenders" section so I was able to pull a Ton of little tidbits together and bring you what I believe to be a rather impressive update if I may say so myself. We can start with a few of the Oscar contenders I saw recently. I reviewed Blindness (D), Appaloosa (B), The Duchess (C-) and Miracle at St. Anna (D+). Obviously I wasn't all that impressed with three of them and those three are going to struggle for an Oscar nom outside of costume and art noms for The Duchess. As far as any topline awards go, all four are out of contention.
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Brad Brevet
Melissa Leo boards ‘Welcome to the Rileys’
2 October 2008 5:13 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news
Actress Melissa Leo has joined James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart in Jake Scott’s indie drama “Welcome to the Rileys,” according to Variety.
The trade says the story revolves around a couple (Gandolfini, Leo) driven apart by the death of their daughter but brought back together when they meet a troubled young woman (Stewart).
Scott is directing a script by Ken Hixon, writer of “City by the Sea.” “Rileys” heads into production this month.
Leo most recently starred in “Frozen River” and “Righteous Kill.” She’s currently filming Jake Goldberger’s “Don McKay,” about a man (Thomas Haden Church) who returns to his hometown only to find his long-lost love on the verge of death.
Stewart will next be seen in Catherine Hardwicke’s anticipated vampire romance “Twilight.” As for Gandolfini, watch out for him in Tony Scott’s remake of “The Taking of Pelham 123.”
Franck Tabouring
Indie Weekend Box Office: Controversial 'Towelhead' Leads
15 September 2008 2:35 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Was it the controversy over the title? Or the controversy over the bloody tampon scene? Either way, Alan Ball's Towelhead finished the weekend with the best per-screen average of all films, earning $13,250 at four engagements in New York and Los Angeles, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. Neither this flick, first unveiled at Toronto last year, nor Ball's recent return to HBO, Southern Gothic vampire drama True Blood, have drawn unanimous critical praise, but specialty audiences still seem interested in whatever the American Beauty scribe / Six Feet Under creator is doing.
Speaking of directors with a strong following, Takeshi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django expanded to Los Angeles and maintained a healthy $4,200 per-screen average in its third week of release. Also in its third week, comedy I Served the King of England expanded into 37 locations but hasn't picked up much steam ($2,262 per screen), while steady earners Tell No
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Peter Martin
Dances With The Arthouse: Never Say 'Forever' and Three More Reasons to Think Twice About Arthouse Films in September
12 September 2008 8:54 AM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news
Typical American moviegoers are almost nowhere to be seen in these slump-ridden first days of September, as clearly shown by the inglorious victory of Bangkok Dangerous at the box-office, and by the strong holds of such arthouse films as Frozen River and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Those two films have displayed better PTA than any of the new wide films from the last few weeks. If you are looking for the next indie flicks ready to flex the PTA potency of Frozen River, or break out at the box office like Woody Allen's latest (one of his biggest success ever), then you have come to the right place.
Indie Jones
Indie Weekend Box Office: 'Sukiyaki' Remains No. 1
8 September 2008 3:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Thrillers, Box Office, Cinematical Indie
Is everyone in Toronto for the festival? Has everyone caught up with everything they want to see? Are arthouse movie lovers football fans too? I'm not sure how else to explain the downturn in the indie box office this weekend, in which Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django continued its stay at the top, per estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. Sukiyaki made $5,100 at its single Gotham engagement; now let's see what happens when it expands beyond New York City.
Also holding up decently in its second weekend was I Served the King of England, which increased to 17 theaters and earned $4,241 per location. Everyone Wants to Be Italian was the only debuting indie to crack the Top 10, but its tepid $2,224 per-screen average at 98 locations indicates that not everyone wants be Italian. No word on what happened with The
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Peter Martin
Indie Weekend Box Office: Snipped 'Sukiyaki Western Django' Draws First
2 September 2008 9:32 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Take one renegade Japanese director, set him to work on a Spaghetti Western, add a cameo by a talkative American filmmaker, and what do you get? First place in the indie four-day weekend box office race. Sukiyaki Western Django, directed by the prolific and extremely versatile Takashi Miike and featuring Quentin Tarantino in a small role, tore it up at the single Manhattan theatre where it opened, grossing $13,100, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. The version released in the Us does not represent Miike's original vision, however. Distributor First Look edited 20 or so minutes for the bastardized edition currently playing, so this is a muted triumph. *
The light-hearted I Served the King of England had the right stuff to average $8,487 per screen at eight locations. Directed by Jirí Menzel, the film stars Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and the always wonderful Julia Jentsch. Naked Penélope Cruz outdrew mostly-clothed Penélope Cruz,
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Peter Martin
Indie Weekend Box Office: Penelope Cruz Powers 1-2 Punch for 'Elegy,' 'Vcb'
25 August 2008 4:33 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Independent, Romance, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Box Office, Cinematical Indie
The dog days of summer hit the indie box office this weekend, as the top earner was a film in its third week of release. Elegy, directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz, expanded from six to 92 theaters and grossed $5,546 per screen, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. The adaptation of a novel by Philip Roth has not been universally praised, but maintains a strong 74% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes. I can't help but conclude that Penélope Cruz is the art house crowd's answer to Megan Fox, because . . .
. . . Cruz also stars in Vicky Christina Barcelona (pictured), which made $4,339 per screen in its fairly wide (692 theaters) second week. Woody Allen's latest features other pretty people such as Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson, of course, and has very good reviews behind it,
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Peter Martin
Movie Review: Frozen River
22 August 2008 3:24 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Misty Upham as Lila (left) and Melissa Leo as Ray in Frozen River
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics From the outside Frozen River must have been an intensely difficult film to sell to any producer. In a nutshell you have a trailer park mom in desperate need for money. She gets mixed up in the smuggling of illegal immigrants across the Us-Canadian border after a young Mohawk girl steals the car her estranged husband abandoned before taking their family savings on a gambling binge. Yeah, you read that right and as strange as it sounds it actually works. There is a sense of reality to that story. Life is never made up of what we expect to happen and when trapped in a corner any human being will do whatever needs to be done to survive. Too bad Frozen River doesn't have the guts to finish what it started. It may
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Brad Brevet
An Early List of 2008 Oscar Contenders
21 August 2008 12:06 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Most years I wait until the end of December to begin taking a look at Oscar Contenders, but this year I am going to try and keep up with them as the year goes on as the RopeofSilicon Oscar Contenders section is will be getting a drastic overhaul in the coming weeks. Instead of the simple structure you see now it will be customized based on picture and will continue to update as we get closer and closer to the big day. Hopefully this will not only keep the site (and myself) up to date on what films to keep an eye on, but I hope it also gives you another reason to look at films that aren't based on comic books and superheroes. Of course I can't do this all on my own and I don't intend to. Being the scavenger I am I am going to keep a
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Brad Brevet
Opening This Week: A doc on beauty culture and an acclaimed Sundance drama
4 August 2008 7:13 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Neil Pedley
This week's offerings find twilight twenty-somethings longing for love in Los Angeles, "The Mummy" franchise heading East and a gruesome subway slasher trying very hard not to scare people clean out of the theater, at least not before the movie actually starts.
"America the Beautiful"
At 12, Gerren Taylor was a bright young model who strolled the catwalk of Fashion Week in Los Angeles. By 13, she was considered a has-been. Director Darryl Roberts traces Taylor's early entrance and exit from the runway to paint a far larger picture of the inner workings of the fashion industry, examining the class system of models and the advertisers and designers who relentlessly manufacture a feeling of negative self-image among consumers and then prey upon it to get us to dip into our wallets. Through interviews with fashion industry experts, the first-time documentarian learns that beauty isn't skin deep . it's retouched, glossed over and as a business,
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Neil Pedley
Ice Road Suckers
31 July 2008 9:37 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
A low-budget triumph for director Courtney Hunt that won the grand jury prize at Sundance, "Frozen River" is a thriller set in upstate New York anchored by an unforgettable performance by veteran character actress Melissa Leo.
You can practically feel the cold permeating the crumbling trailer that single mother Ray shares with her 15-year-old son, T.J. (Charlie McDermott), and his younger brother, Ricky (James Reilly), a couple of days before Christmas.
Ray's gambler husband has run off with
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By LOU LUMENICK
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