Movie Awards Round-up

It was a night of celebrations on Sunday, reports Reuters as the vampire movie “Twilight” swept the board at the MTV Movie Awards in LA. It came away with five awards including best movie and best kiss.

The late Heath Ledger was posthumously awarded Best Villian however one of the surprises of the evening was that “Slumdog Millionaire” walked away empty-handed, having been nominated in six categories.

The highlight of the evening was the much-talked about stunt that saw Sasha Baron Cohen’s character “Bruno” landing in Eminem’s lap. It was later revealed that this stunt had been wholly scripted and Eminem was in on the gag from the start.

Check out the full article on Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKN3141592220090601?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

…and you can see the full winners list here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKTRE5500KT20090601

Film Review: Last Chance Harvey

Harvey played by Dustin Hoffman is a song writer who goes to London and meets Kate (Emma Thompson) where they develop a gentle and socially entertaining relationship. Good dating film.

An opportunity to see good acting from Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, in a London setting.

By Londonbill

Film Review: Drag Me to Hell

A horror film in which Christine Brown, a young female loan officer, working in a Los Angeles bank who is hoping to be promoted, played by Alison Lohman, gets hell for refusing to extend a desperate old woman’s home loan.

Take your date as its not completely over the top.

By Londonbill

Film Review: Terminator Salvation

A new Terminator film…
Set in 2018, John Connor (played by Christian Bale) leads us humans against the machines from the future.  Arny is not in it except a short clip from 1984. Connor makes his way deep into Skynet and uncovers a plan to wipe out all of us humans.

Some have said it would have been better if Terminator really was terminated, once and for all. But if you like that type of thing Terminators can go on and on – they don’t age.

By Londonbill

Kevin Spacey to Star in Indie Comedy Father of Invention

Empire reports that Kevin Spacey is set to star in the indie comedy Father of Invention, as a bankrupt ex-billionaire.

The plot sees Spacey play a once humble inventor who turned egomaniac when his creations finally took off. But he loses everything when one of his inventions goes horribly awry, and after eight years in federal prison, he is released, homeless, penniless but determined to rebuild his fortune.

View the full story at http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=24504.

Anne Hathaway to Play Judy Garland in Film and on Stage

Reuters reports that Movie kingpin Harvey Weinstein has signed Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway to play singer Judy Garland in both film and stage adaptations of the biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.

In a statement, Weinstein called Hathaway “brilliantly talented” and said “she will be a true class act in this challenging role.”

Garland, of course, is the legendary movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who portrayed Dorothy in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, starred opposite Mickey Rooney in the “Andy Hardy” films and was twice Oscar-nominated for roles in A Star is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg.

She also enjoyed a long singing career and scored a No. 1 Grammy-winning album with “Judy at Carnegie Hall” from her 1961 concert at the famous Manhattan venue.

Garland was married five times, including to producer Vincente Minelli with whom she had daughter Liza Minelli. She died at age 47 due to an accidental drug overdose after years of battling addiction problems.

Hathaway, 26, is one of Hollywood’s rising stars who got her first big break in 2001 Disney movie The Princess Diaries, and more recently starred in movies like Brokeback Mountain and The Devil Wears Prada.

This past year, she was nominated for a best actress Oscar playing an addict who returns home for her sister’s wedding, in Rachel Getting Married. At the Oscars, she sang part of a song with host Hugh Jackman, wowing the crowd that, for the most part, knew her only for her acting.

Original story – http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE52M70D20090323

New Film and Movie Search Engine

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Please let us know if you have any suggestions about the websites we should add to it, or would like to volunteer to contribute.

We’ve also incorporated the search into a Google Gadget, that has five feeds, three of which are changable, to bring you the latest film news and release information.  You can preview the Gadget and use the search on our Film Search page.

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Final Harry Potter Film to be Released on 15th July 2011

According to Hollywood Reporter, the final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, will be released on 15th July 2011.

There are only seven books in the Harry Potter series, but the seventh has been split into two films because of it’s length.  So far
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have been released.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is due to be released this year.

Go to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3iaeb1c24de37000ac20fef32401fdbe0a for the orginal story.

Written by Tracey, OwnAFilmCompany.com

Great Night for Brits at The Oscars

British film took home a total of 11 Oscars last night, with Slumdog Millionaire winning and incredible 8 awards, and Kate Winslet finally getting that best leading actress oscar.

Slumdog Millionaire won:

• Achievement in cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle)
• Achievement in directing (Danny Boyle)
• Achievement in film editing (Chris Dickens)
• Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) (A.R. Rahman)
• Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) (“Jai Ho” Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar)
• Best motion picture of the year
• Achievement in sound mixing (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty)
• Adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy)

The Duchess took Achievement in costume design (Michael O’Connor) and Man on Wire took Best documentary feature, bringing Britains total to 11.

See www.oscars.org for a full list of results.

Tracey – OwnAFilmCompany.com

Film Review: My Bloody Valentine 3D

My Bloody Vallentine 3D is a remake of the 1981 My Bloody Vellentine, but with added 3D. When a tunnel collapses in, 11 years ago, six miners are trapped.  Only one, Harry Warden (Richard John Walters), survives, but he is left in a coma.  It turns out that he killed the other five, to preserve the air for him.  Exactly a year later, on Valentines day, he wakes from his coma and massacres 22 people.  10 years on, Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), the Miner who caused the accident and has inherited the Mine, returns to sell the Mine and Harry Warden returns to kill again, or does he?

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Well to me the plot was flawed from the start.  Harry Warden killed the miners who he was trapped with, to preserve the air for himself, not because he was a crazed killer.  Okay it’s not a particularly nice thing to do and does make him a horrible person, but it wasn’t motiveless – his motive was survival.  So why would he wake up a year later and go on a killing rampage?  As the film was a remake, I guess you can’t blame the new film makers for plot holes – that’s down to the original film (although they could have chose a better film to remake).  So I’ll skirt over the plot holes for now (there were quite a few) and get on with how enjoyable (or not) the film is and whether or not it’s worth seeing…

I saw it mostly out of curiosity about the 3D and for those of you that are curious, it’s worth investigating.  In fact it’s the 3D that makes the film.  I think it would be a pretty crap film without it. I did enjoy watching the film and it did make me jump, but that was the 3D, not the film being scary.  I was actually nervous about seeing it, because I thought, being 3D, it might have terrified me.  I needn’t have worried.

It’s not the best film I’ve seen and the 3D is a bit of a gimmick, but overall it’s entertaining and worth seeing, if you’re curious.  By “entertaining,” I mean “not boring.”  My idea of a bad film is a boring one and despite the plot holes and lack of scariness,  I wasn’t bored.

Tracey – OwnAFilmCompany.com