Over at Hollywood-Elsewhere, Jeff Wells reports that both Milk and Frost/Nixon are pretty good, in his estimations. He gives them both about an 8.5 on a scale of one to ten but says he doesn’t understand what the early impressions of Frost/Nixon were about and the so-called bad buzz he heard about Milk was also unfounded. In the comments, Scott Feinberg, wrote: Jeff,...
Monthly Archives: October 2008
As an addendum to Sasha’s terrific post above, I’d like to say in defense of Oscar blogs that so-called professional reporters are guilty of perpetrating their share of clumsy buzz-kills and thick-headed opinyawns. Two recent examples appear in The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times. HR published a totally unfounded rumor that Focus Features was...
Nothing like a $42 million opening to jump start a production. MTV has the news that Paramount plans to have Zac Efron back on the dance floor in a matter of months. They’re hoping to get Efron and director Kenny Ortega (another factor in the success of “HSM 3”) working by spring. They’ve brought in Peter Sollett, director of “Nick and Norah’s...
Focus Features has added a nice set of stills from Milk on the official site. Love the way the Azure blue theme of the marketing campaign (and the Democratic Party) pops in so many of these shots. Seven more beauties after the jump. I’ll go out a blind limb now, and say Milk is Josh Brolin’s best Oscar nom shot this year. Not W. [Update: I see now that Sasha...
Two-time Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix gave Extra the scoop yesterday, and his reps confirm. Phoenix told Extra, “Yeah. I’m working on my music. I’m done. I’ve been through that.” The Guardian UK points out that he won a Grammy for his work on the soundtrack for Walk the Line, but also reminds us that it’s not easy to quit a job that...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elp5rbsNfnI[/youtube] Indiewire posted the nominees for the International Documentary Association Awards. It is starting to look like one of the sure things in this year’s doc race is Man on Wire, as it’s the one that is finding itself on almost every list thus far. Young@Heart is not eligible for the Oscar, neither is...
Howard Rosenman spends some time with Sean Penn, a nude James Franco and Gus Van Sant when he got a small part in Milk, regrets the kugel: James Franco, indeed, plays part of the scene nude. I (David Goodstein) have a grand and luxurious home with an indoor pool. James, who plays Harvey’s boyfriend, jumps into the pool nude and then has an argument with me‚Ķnude....