Screening Room: Charlize Theron's 'Young Adult,' Tom Cruise's New Role & 2012 Oscar Predictions
(FlyNetPhotos, PacificCoastNews)Trailer of the WeekExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 12/25/11
The second trailer for Stephen Daldry's inspirational-looking, star-studded film about a boy who loses his father (Tom Hanks) in the World Trade Center on 9/11, debuted this week. The trailer shows us much more of Max Von Sydow, who is generating Oscar buzz for his role, as well as the performances of Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, and Jeffrey Wright. Although the film's protagonist is a nine-year old with a piercing high-pitched voice, the film is expected to be one of the best of the year. Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran-Foer (Everything is Illuminated), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is set for a limited Christmas Day release and will go wide in January.Casting CornerCruise's All You Need is Kill
- Tom Cruise has been cast in Doug Liman's All You Need is Kill. The Bourne Idenity! di rector has been working on the project for a while now and it should get fast-tracked now with Cruise attached. The film is based on the Japanese novel and centers around a soldier fighting an alien war who relives his last day again and again.
- Not casting news, but noteworthy nonetheless, is word that Radiohead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, will score Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film, The Master, as he did with There Will Be Blood. The Master is based on a L. Ron Hubbard-type who starts his own religion after World War II. Anderson favorite, Phillip Seymour-Hoffman will play the title role with Joaquin Phoenix as a drifter who becomes his confidant.
The film that brought Alfred Hitchcock to Hollywood is released on Criterion Blu-ray this week. In 1938, the success of The Lady Vanishes allowed Hitch to travel to the U.S. and accept a deal to direct American films. The industry would never be the same. The Lady Vanishes takes place aboard a train traveling in a fictonal country in Europe. The story is classic Hitchcock as his characters are bound by their environment (on a train) thus heightening the suspense. The film also contains a MacGuffin, the famous Hitchcock phrase for a plot element that drives the characters' attentions and desires.
Directed by: Alfred HitchcockStarring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
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Red Carpet Photo of the WeekThe Royal Couple
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive at the New York premiere of Jolie's directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, a love story set amidst the Serbian War conflict.
As the Oscars draw closer the quality of each weekend's film releases gets better and better. This week the country will get to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Young Adult. We're betting this will be Tinker Tailor's Gary Oldman's (who has incredibly never been nominated) year in the sun. Charlize Theron gives a great performance in Jason Reitman's Young Adult as well. She is one of the best in! the bus iness and proves she can make even the most dispicable character somehow likable. There have been no earth-shaking developments in the Oscar stratosphere recently. Our picks remain much the same from last week. The Artist looks more and more like a lock for Best Picture and Director (probably front-running both races). Another Cannes favorite, The Tree of Life, has quietly been getting the recognition it deserves. Terence Malick's masterpiece was easily the most original film of the year. We hope its ambition and intelligence is validated by the Academy.
Best Picture:HugoThe ArtistThe Tree of LifeThe DescendantsMidnight in ParisMoneyballTinker Tailor Soldier Spy Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseDriveWar Horse
Best Director:Michel Hazanavicius - The ArtistMartin Scorsese - HugoNicholas Winding Refn - DriveTerence Malick - The Tree of LifeBennett Miller - MoneyballBest Actor:Jean Dujardin - The ArtistGeorge Clooney - The DescendantsBrad Pitt - MoneyballWoody Harrelson - RampartGary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Actress:Viola Davis - The HelpMeryl Streep - The Iron LadyCharlize Theron - Young Adult (replaces Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May MarleneTilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor:Christopher Plummer - BeginnersAlbert Brooks - DriveMax Von Sydow - Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseNick Nolte - WarriorJohn Hawkes - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Best Supporting Actress:Octavia Spencer - The HelpBerenice Bejo - The ArtistVanessa Redgrave - AnonymousKeira Knightley - A Dangerous MethodJessica Chastain - The Tree of Life
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