In our discussion on the Emmys selection for drama a few interesting items popped up. One of them is worth taking a deeper look at, I think, and that is whether or not Lost is gone forever. The Jack writes: Lost started out as a show about these characters and how they interact with the island and respond to the mysteries around them – the characters came first....
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Variety reports that Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness will indeed play at Cannes and will, in fact, open it. This should come as good news to the AD readers who kept bugging us to give the film some coverage. What Just Happened stars Robert DeNiro as an aging producer who is trying to get a movie made. It also stars Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro (my...
Last year it was: Boston Legal Grey’s Anatomy Heroes House The Sopranos It’s easy to see why The Sopranos took it. Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes could have probably been dumped. Sure, they’re highly rated and successful but really THAT good? It seems to me that the biggest problem with the Emmys is that they start to look too much like the People’s...
A few years back I was actually dabbling in writing, or adapting, a Che screenplay for a small production company in LA. Back then, though, it was exactly the wrong political climate to make such a film. Now, it’s all the rage. With Soderbergh set to release his Che duo pics at Cannes, all eyes are suddenly on the sexy Commie revolutionary. Cinematical has a review...
The AP reports that the new Coen Bros. joint will open the most romantic festival of the season, the Venice Film Fest at the Lido (truly one of the prettiest places in Italy) on August 27. According to Variety, Working Title released Atonement in Venice and look at how that turned out? No Country launched from Cannes, which is probably why it’s not a great idea to...
There is a trend on American TV, I don’t know if it’s the same in Europe, where people “discuss” the movies before the film screens and during the commercial breaks. When I see this hideous extra pasted on any film it’s an immediate skip for me. So it was with some sadness and perhaps ambivalence that I happened upon Robert Osborne and, of...
We already knew Guillermo Del Toro was directing The Hobbit but now the news is set in stone It’s no secret that we here at Awards Daily pledge our undying love for Guillermo after having given us Pan’s Labyrinth. Who knows what he’ll do with The Hobbit but we do know that his and Peter Jackson’s sensibilities aren’t altogether THAT different....