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Peter Jackson Knighted
30 December 2009 2:32 PM, PST
The New Year's Honours list should be hitting at any moment, but just like New Zealand welcomes the next year in earlier than most of us, so their gong announcements are also advanced - and Peter Jackson is getting a knighthood. He blagged the award for "services to film", not to mention the massive boost to the country's tourism that Lord Of The Rings has provided in the years since the trilogy's release. Oh, and the huge filmmaking apparatus he's built there. Thanks to the country's status as a member of the commonwealth, his honour will be fully recognised by the Queen. No idea when or even if he'll be stopping by the palace to pick up his honour - will he have time between producing The Hobbit and working on the thousand other projects he has developing? Oh, and talking of film folk up for awards - all the »
The Muppet Movie Archived For Posterity
30 December 2009 2:31 PM, PST
Every year, the Us National Film Registry choose to preserve 25 movies and shorts in the Library of Congress. And this year? The likes of Thriller, Dog Day Afternoon and The Muppet Movie have made the list.The choices are decided by Librarian of Congress James H Billington and, as usual, they're an eclectic bunch. Among the titles are are 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1911 silent release Little Nemo and 1968's Sergio Leone classic Once Upon A Time In The West. But yes, this year, Michael Jackson's Thriller and the cinematic debut of Kermit and co have also been deemed worthy of inclusion. And why not?"Established by Congress in 1989, the National Film Registry spotlights the importance of protecting America's matchless film heritage and cinematic creativity," Billington said in a statement. "By preserving the nation's films, we safeguard a significant element of our cultural patrimony and history." You can find »
First Look At Eagle Of The Ninth
29 December 2009 11:14 PM, PST
Though it's still the largely quiet period between Christmas and New Year, the team behind Kevin Macdonald's Roman action drama The Eagle Of The Ninth has stopped forcing down turkey leftovers long enough to put out the first images from the film.Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland, is adapted from Rosemary Sutcliffe's 1954 novel, which saw a young Roman man named Marcus Aquilla (Tatum) venturing out to discover what happened to the Ninth Legion, commanded by his father, which vanished in the wilds of barbarian-heavy Scotland 15 years previously.With a Celtic slave (Bell) along for company, Aquilla must disguise himself as an occultist to investigate whether any of them are left alive, and to reclaim their titular totem.Macdonald has been shooting Eagle in Hungary and Scotland, with a release date planned for sometime in 2010, where it may face a smack down with Neil Marshall's horror-fuelled Centurion, »
James McAvoy As Ian Fleming?
29 December 2009 10:36 AM, PST
If the producers behind a new planned biopic of Ian Fleming have their way, James McAvoy will be playing the man who created James Bond. His name? Fleming. Ian Fleming.Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films have been busy developing the project, according to Pajiba's sources, based on Andrew Lycett's book Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond.McAvoy is attached, and it's certainly a solid role to tackle - Fleming lived largely in the shadow of his politician father and more notable siblings, living the life of a wayward playboy before World War Two changed his life and gave him the inspiration for Britain's best secret Agent - and the film itself could likely slot into his schedule between the likes of I'm With Cancer and the still nebulous sequel to Wanted. First, however, it'll need a director... »
Night And Fog Picked Up For Screen
29 December 2009 10:26 AM, PST
Sick of chocolate, Christmas and the warm cozy feeling of being with family? Well, good news: there's another horror comic set to be adapted for the screen, in the form of Studio 407's Night and Fog (not to be confused with the 1955 Holocaust documentary of the same name).Producers Shane McCarthy and Gil Adler have optioned the comic, which sees scientists on an island military base off the Canadian coast innocently following in the steps of Nazi research and accidentally unleashing a mysterious mist which transforms people into zombie-like (at first) monsters. The few remaining unaffected have to fight for their life against fog and an increasingly terrifying foe. The mini-series was written by Matthew Bradford and Alex Leung, and illustrated by Roberto Castro.You can read the first section of the first comic over here. Otherwise you'll have to keep eyes peeled in case producer Adler can turn »
New Inception Trailer Is Live
28 December 2009 10:45 AM, PST
It's been online for a while in French, but now you can both see and listen to the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's thriller Inception in glorious high-def-o-rama.Now that we have the benefit of an English language version, it naturally makes the plot points crystal clear, right? Er… not so much. While we get snippets of dialogue from the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page, this is still very much a ploy to keep the story under wraps.So far, all we've (officially) been told is that the thriller takes place in the architecture of the mind and that DiCaprio's businessman will have to undertake some dodgy practices to get his mitts on something new, but now we also get a glimpse of what that might mean. Also on view are some astounding visuals which only fuel our enthusiasm for Nolan's latest - if this is the early finished effects work, »
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