Monthly Archives: June 2008
WALL‚Ä¢E comes from a distinguished acting family. The similarity was noted by many others, months ago, but it’s cool to see the Robot Barrymores side by side. Not to detract from WALL‚Ä¢E in the least. He’s his own man. In fact I think it’s a really sweet nod to his forefather. hey, if Marion Cotillard can win her Academy Award channeling Edith...
Someone gave me the tip-off to this a while back but I kind of disregarded it. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe it, it was more that it was too early to be talking about it. And now it is big news. Why? Because it’s a Drudge Page One. Drudge links to this blog post by Sam Rubin (who does the red carpet at Oscar time and was all over Juno last year –...
Kottke.org points us to the Vulture’s top eight best Pixar movies and I have to agree with Kottke that this list is so wrong – but especially their number one choice. Seriously. They count it down it like this: 1. Monster’s Inc 2. Finding Nemo 3. Toy Story 2 4. Ratatouille 5. Toy Story 6. A Bug’s Life 7. The Incredibles 8. Cars Uh…Okay,...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtIN1tycGgY[/youtube] If this isn’t Viggo Mortensen’s year then I don’t know whose year it is, well, unless it’s Wall-E’s. Thanks to reader Jo for giving me the heads up to this Oscartastic trailer of the divine Mr. Mortensen in Good. Pic is adapted from a famous play by C.P. Taylor that: …examines...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-sXBkQ13EQ[/youtube] Kris Tapley at In Contention posts this impromptu promo Letterman gave The Dark Knight two nights ago (gratis and sans guest, no less). Kris helpfully extracts the money quote for us: Heath Ledger…oh my God is he great in this one…I’m telling you, this is a tremendous performance. That’s...
Filmmakers hanging their highest hopes on winning an Academy Award know it’s the dream scenario guaranteed to boost box-office with a post-Oscar bump worth millions, right?¬† …um, not always. Not when the distributor is caught up short and unprepared to capitalize on this chance of a lifetime opportunity. The New York Times has the disheartening story of...
