Interview with Johan Hill and Channing Tatum
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Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill talked in an interview about working together in the comedy thriller "21 Jump Street," in which they, as police officers enter the school under the guise of high school students to expose a gang of drug traffickers based in the school.
- What were you in high school?
Jonah Hill: I have bleached hair. I always wanted to look like Eminem!
Channing Tatum: I played football and wore a sports jacket, and waited when I finish school. On the day of school graduation I was so happy that couldn’t find the place. Not that everything was so bad, just school was not that place that I liked.
- What would you change if you could go back to school now?
Jonah Hill: I would organize a drama group. Perhaps I would find like-minded people, and although all of my present friends - school, while I'm embarrassed that they will laugh at me if I'll make theater. And probably I would have met a really good girl because she would have liked that I'm so sensitive.
Channing Tatum: I think I would have done some things differently, but only on condition that all turned out to exactly how it happened. I am satisfied with the current state of affairs. And really regret not having listened to what I was told in school. I always sat in the head by one thought: "I do not understand why I do this or that. I do not know how I will use this knowledge in my future life."
- Anything from what you learned about today's school life, shocked you?
Jonah Hill: I think I'll like the 150-year old man, but it's - technical literacy of young people. They live through Facebook and the like, and I do not use these things. I prefer to talk.
- How much time had you need both to get on the site?
Channing Tatum: I would say that we agreed immediately. John - very funny, funny guy, and I really enjoyed talking with him. If we were friends at school, we certainly would bulling nights on the phone, and then be late for the first lesson, because slept it (laughs).
Jonah Hill: We are asking all the time, we were friends at school, because our screen heroes do not play well. I think we would have been best friends. We are from different places, but have a very similar perception of the laws of friendship. I rarely like to talk with someone so closely as to this guy. We are constantly hangover together. Last night I caught myself thinking: "I missed Channing. We have not seen for several hours." We live in the same hotel, and I wanted to know what he was doing at the moment!
- How does the school, "title" you would have awarded each other?
Jonah Hill: I think "best athlete" or anything else related to sports.
Channing Tatum: Do you know how to be "The best around"? Ask John.
- John, how did nomination for the award "Oscar" for the film "Moneyball" affect your career?
Jonah Hill: I finally got the glory of my family! I noticed that I began to offer roles in different genres, not just in the comedy. And I have this insanely rad. I'm really looking forward to when we start working on the project of Brad Pitt "True Story", in which we, with James Franco will play the main roles. And I plan to play in a movie with all my old school pals - Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, and Danny McBride and Craig Robinson, James Franco and over again. It's called "Apocalypse."
- What do you both enjoy doing on weekends?
Channing Tatum: I love to sleep. On Sundays I generally do not do anything but just sit and play with my dog. Our house has a small patio, so we're sitting, lying, sleep there.
Jonah Hill: Watch movies, lying in bed - that's my dream!
The triumph of tradition. Results of “Oscar 2012″
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Culminating ceremony of the 84th "Oscar" in general, has not brought any significant surprises. Some sort of surprise caused except that the distribution of a number of awards in technical categories. And this terry stability, absence of live energy - is the main problem and the main Message Boards around the world.
All the winners in the major categories are worthy of their golden statuettes. Well, how can the success of the protest to call Meryl Streep, claimed the "Oscar" for the 17th! time? Does anyone turns to challenge to dispute the victory of Octavia Spencer, created on the screen such colorful image? If anyone dares to question the acting skills of Christopher Plummer, who for 60 years of his career, won Academy Awards for the first time? In the end, hardly anyone would be against the triumph of Jean Dujardin, perhaps, is not endowed with the talent level, Gary Oldman, but very bright flashed in black and white design.
Actually, this very project, which was quite a bold experiment with form in a very straightforward content, of course, worthy of the highest ratings, as well as its creator, Michel Hazanavichus. In short, all five "Oscars" of "Artist" is well deserved.
Much the same can be said about awards of "Hugo", maybe only a small degree of doubt when it comes to the category "Best Special Effects" and "Best Sound". But in the end, the film academy had every right to dispose of their Gold statuettes that way, and no really weighty argument against it is impossible to find.
In a situation where the list of winners was so boring predictable, and the complete absence among participants of the battle for top honors this blockbuster has not caused increased interest in the ceremony, the only hope for its recovery was associated with the return of almost legendary Billy Crystal. After all, his name is associated with the best, in terms of ratings, during the ceremonies of "Oscar".
But alas. His enchanting solo numbers, and full of subtle humor monologues, apparently, in the past. Either the Crystal older and has lost his former ease, whether the writers wrote their texts based on Eddie Murphy and did not alter them for a new leader, but the show did not happen. That is, like there were impromptu and good jokes, but the overall impression was reduced to an unworthy talent of Crystal definition of "nothing."
Of course, record the number of ceremonies performed on the stage looked much better than last year's youth and organically, and that it could lead to name just a joke. But still ... "No way". And even the famous circus troupe, which presented, as stated, the biggest number only emphasized his dullness of what is happening on the stage of cinema Kodak.
Experts have yet to calculate the rankings, analyze and explain the numbers of individual failures. But it is absolutely clear that we need serious reform of the Academy Awards. It's time to dilute the old man with the young blood that will more clearly understand the ossified brains to a new audience expectations and demands of modern times. Indeed, according to statistics, the vast majority of cinema academics - are men from 50 to 60 years and older. And in this age group tend to greatly mistaken about the value of their life experiences to similar events.
Before the screen is sitting a long time since the generation that sees the world through fiber-optic networks, legacy of Steve Jobs and extremely compressed space of Twitter. Just do not call Chris Rock, James Franco and others like them. Try to return Hugh Jackman, for example. And turn to the list of nominees the next "Fast and the Furious."
Oscar will not move
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When the end of January there was talk about the transition to the American Academy electronic voting system, immediately intensified rumors about moving the awards ceremony, "Oscar" at the earliest possible time. Unfortunately, the "Oscars" are still in February, and in 2014, can generally be awarded in March.
Back in the fall of 2011 Film Academy was thinking about the transfer ceremony in 2013 to 27 January. "Oscars" for some time wanted to move to earlier dates in order to keep the intrigue. Now, when the guild is almost completely decided the fate of the main Message Boards, the audience is less and less interested in direct translation.
However, by the end of November insiders talk about the impossibility of translation. The fact that in the event of early "Oscars" ceremony, like the rest of awarding the "Golden Globe», BAFTA, and all of the same variety of rewards and guild will have to endure. As one anonymous insider: "I do not understand why they need it? "Oscar" - a Super Cinema! What does it feel? We all compared to the Academy Award playoffs. "
Film Academy then decided to switch to electronic voting system. Despite the fact that hacking "Oscars" will be a blue dream hackers moviegoers, this week it was reported that due to Internet voting on nominees 'Oscar' in 2013 will be announced a few days earlier, on 15 January 2013th. For comparison, this year's nominees are known to January 24.
Since Sunday, February 3, 2013-th, is already in Super Bowl, which airs on channel ABC, as well as "Oscar," Feb. 10 awards ceremony will take place on the British Academy (BAFTA), and "Grammy", then the earliest date for the "Oscars" Next year - 17 February. However, as it became known today, the American Film Academy has decided to hold their next awards ceremony on February 24, 2013.
As of 2014, here in the course of the measured Oscar intervenes Sports - Olympic Games in Sochi will be held from 7 to 23 February. When the "Oscar" is near the Olympic Winter Games, Film Academy usually moves it away for a week. So the 86th awards ceremony "Oscar" can be held on March 2, 2014-th.
Transfer "Oscars" at the earliest possible time - the dream of moviegoers, but it's not a dream of film academics. They already not enough time have watched all the pictures, so that bridge the gap between the nominations and the ceremony until they are.
Oscar ceremony is closed for Sasha Baron Cohen
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Just yesterday, the actor asked if he could come to the Oscar ceremony in the form of General Aladin from the movie "The Dictator", as Film Academy got angry and responded just as able to: Sasha Baron Cohen is banned to appear at the ceremony at all.
The American Film Academy withdrew Cohen ticket to the event. Despite the fact that Sasha is not only a star of Martin Scorsese's band "Hugo", which received 11 nominations, as well as a member of the Academy, the entrance to the ceremony is closed for him. However, Cohen still has a chance.
As soon as it became known yesterday, the desire of the actor to appear in the image of the dictator, Muammar Gaddafi to write-off, strained Film Academy and behaved according to his status. However, the hype in the press immediately gave "Oscar" negative light, and managing director of membership in the Academy Award Kimberly Rauch called the studio Paramount and said that the ticket Cohen recalled, but if the actor would be able to convincingly promise not to come to the Academy Awards red carpet in a suit of "Dictator "and do not advertise the movie, then he can come.
Publication Deadline rightly recalls how in 2000 the creators of "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone have appeared on the red carpet in dresses, or rather a parody of Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow. Purists of the "Oscars" believe that the ceremony - it is not the place for jokes and parodies. This is a serious event that can not be promoted with their films and mock respectable audience.
But in this case as being, in particular, with James Franco, who led the ceremony a year ago and went to the scene in the image of Marilyn Monroe? And what about the huge amount of boring jokes and overextended monologues that are sure to occur at each "Oscar"? On the other hand, let Cohen play the fool - and the ceremony will turn into analogue MTV Movie Awards, so the fear of cinema academics are somewhat understandable.
Although, knowing Sasha Baron Cohen, it may be that this whole story with the "Oscars" - is not nothing but a publicity stunt.
Paramount judges with writer of “Godfather”
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Paramount Pictures has filed a lawsuit against the heirs of the writer Mario Puzo. Studio says that the family's "Godfather" is not authorized to write any continuations of the famous novel.
This week in District Court in Manhattan entered a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures. Its essence is this: in 2006, relatives of the Mario Puzo have published a novel of Mike Winegardner "Revenge of the Godfather," and gave the go-ahead to publish the book by Edward Falco, "Corleone family", which should be on the shelves of American stores on May 8, 2012, all of which was allegedly done without the consent of the studio, which owns all rights to the book of Puzo.
Paramount believes that the heirs of the writer thus disgracing an existing brand and introduce customers to confusion with respect to original works of Mario Puzo.
"The agreement signed in 1969 between Paramount and Puzo, transfers all rights to the original novel" The Godfather "(except for the publishing rights) studio Paramount, - said in the lawsuit. - Puzo is not left behind him no rights to publish the sequel to "The Godfather." Thus, Puzo's relatives do not have the right to publish any novels associated with the "Godfather", in addition to reprints of the original books. "
It is worth noting that in 2002 Paramount and relatives of the writer failed to agree on the publication of "Revenge of the Godfather," released in 2004. However, the studio believes that Mario Puzo's son, Anthony Puzo, managing his late father deals, didn’t understand that he had to negotiate with Paramount Publishing any other novels about the family Corleone.
"The Godfather" from director Francis Ford Coppola has been released in 1972 and was awarded three "Oscar" awards: for Best Actor (Marlon Brando), for Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. Painting with a budget of 6 million earned in the U.S. box about 133 million dollars. "Godfather 2", released in 1974, received six "Oscars", while the third part has limited just with nominations.
Interview with Oscar nominees
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Viola Davis (Best Actress, "The Help")
"This second nomination for "Oscar" will affect my life more than the first one. Believe me, I can not wait to once again be able to do what I love: playing. February 27, when all will be left behind, I'll get back to my old life. I love the rewards that are earned, I am so proud of them, but I do not take them with me when I go to bed. What I'm staying and at the end of the day, it's an actress. I'm incredibly happy to be "prohibitively loud and terrible to close" was nominated in the category "Best Film". It was the last, which is announced, and I just shook with fear, I really was ... We salute movies often technically perfect, but not necessarily coming from the heart. I've always liked underdogs and dark horses that appear out of nowhere. It proves that you can not predict what will hurt people. "
Glenn Close (Best Actress in "Albert Nobbs")
"Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice once again. My role was stunning and technically and emotionally. Image of Alberta is a contemplative nature, you need time to feel like this character come to life. And then comes the crucial moment when you are no longer you are. I am happy that Marshall Kornevil, Lynn Johnson and Matthew B. Mangla are nominated for best makeup and will compete for the award with their colleagues, working on the "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" and "Iron Lady." In their work they were minimalists. Their work - the very grace and beauty. Without them, my Albert would not have turned out. "
Rooney Mara (Best Actress, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo")
"I was asleep, and suddenly my phone began to rip off the hooks. I know that I have a small chance, but, honestly, though it was unexpected. I do not know what the principles of the nomination of the nominees, but I think our film later came into the game, and that many films that have won awards, were released much earlier. I feel incredibly flattered and embarrassed, being on the list. I wouldn’t coupe without David Fincher and he should be aware of the contribution and responsibility for the nomination. "
Gary Oldman (Best Actor, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy")
"I'm in Berlin, we've got premiere of the movie "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". I gave an interview to German newspaper, when it became clear that I was nominated for an award. My manager came up to me with tears in his eyes. Personally, I did not expect anything. It was an ordinary working day, and a final interview to the press about the "Spy." The irony, is not it? "
Christopher Plummer (Best Supporting Actor, "Beginners")
"Our film is a charming, warm and touching. Story is so beautifully built and so beautifully designed. I am also very pleased that my colleague in the film" The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo "Rooney Mara was nominated in the category "Best Actress".
Martin Scorsese (Best Director, "Hugo")
"Hugo" received 11 nominations - for crying out loud, but we can not allow hopes to increase for this. I'm trying to control myself. "
Natalie Portman will act in both films of Terrence Malick
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Laureate of "Oscar" award for the movie "Black Swan" Natalie Portman has appeared in the cast of two paintings by the great director Terrence Malick.
The star will play at his "Outlaw" and "Knight of Cups." The director will be engaged in projects at once, and in both films are also involved Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett.
Shooting of "Outlaw" will start in the autumn, but in 2011 the director and the actor was spotted at the festival Austin City Limits, which were engaged in preliminary preparation for the coming production. Rather, the subject pictures will be linked with the music, but plot details are not yet known.
A similar situation from the boot in the summer, "Knight of Cups," which clearly is that the name is taken from tapes of the future tarot cards and clairvoyance means the culmination of feelings. In addition, Malik has already finished filming his painting "The Burial".
Originality of such news about the director that the author of "The Wasteland" from 1973 to 2005 took only four paintings, famous for his reticence, and sluggishness. Moreover, since the late 1970th to the second half of the 1990th, he had not engaged in staging activities.
In 2011 he published his fifth work "The Tree of Life," received the "Golden Palm" at the Cannes review. And now just over two years Malik started three projects, one of which is on the way to completion, while others - the preparatory phase. However, given that the mounting tape "Harvest Days" once took a year and a half of the master, it is unclear how much can take modification of the new pictures.
Shortlist of foreign movies from Academy Awards
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Year after year, repeated the same thing: among the candidates for the winners "Oscar" in nomination "Best foreign film" is bound to be missing some decent pictures. This year, the Finnish cheated "Le Havre" and Hungarian "Turin Horse," but included the Iranian "Divorce Nader and Simin," and the German documentary "Pina". In total, the short list includes nine paintings.
Long-list consisted of 63 films. They are all members of the Academy Awards show up in mid-October to 13 January. Chose six pictures, then a special committee, elected recently added three more films.
The shortlist is as follows:
"Rundskop" - Belgium, directed by Michael R. Roskam;
"Mr. Lazar" - Canada, directed by Philip Falardo;
"Omar killed me" - Morocco, directed by Roshdy Zem;
"Pina" - Germany, directed by Wim Wenders;
"Note" - Israel, directed by Joseph Cedar;
"Divorce of Nader and Simin" - Iran, Asghar Farhadi, director;
"SuperClasico" - Denmark, directed by Ole Christian Madsen;
"The tragedy of Sediq" - Taiwan, Wei Te-director Shen;
"Shelter" - Poland, directed by Agnieszka Holland.
The shortlist will be reduced to five candidates, which will be nominated for "Oscar".
Four years ago the Film Academy changed the rules of selection of foreign films in the "Oscar". Criticism intensified Americans every year: more and more cinema academics missed the pictures, marked by big European prizes and include unknown claimants.
The system have been tried to upgrade a few years, but eventually the issues still cannot avoid. Memorable event in 2007, when the Romanian film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" flew past nine, formed by a committee of 30 cinema academics. One would think that 30 is easier to reach an agreement, rather than hundreds, of which not all watching foreign movies, and vote for the only known picture.
As a result, now we have a system, adopted in 2008.
Still, "foreign" "Oscar" this year will raise questions. How at the list came almost five-hour tape from Taiwan "Tragedy Sediq" extremely cool accepted in Venice, where it was displayed in the competition? Why ignored "Flowers War" Zhang Yimou? Where did "The Turin Horse," deserved the Grand Prix at Berlinale 2011? Why can not the Turkish drama "Once in Anatolia", received in the past year, the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes?
As always, there are no answers to these questions. Already we can assume that the "Oscar" will get an Iranian drama "Nader and Simin Divorce", which received the "Golden Bear" at Berlin Film Festival. However, a complete list of nominees will be known at ceremony on February 26.
Verdict from Producers Guild of American
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The influence of the Guild of American producers at the awards season the last two years is very large. Suffice it to recall, as leaders in the Oscar race suddenly ripped out, "Hurt Locker" and "The King’s speech", ahead of "Avatar" and "Social network". One of the ten films nominated PGA will receive accurately "Oscar" as the best.
In 2009, the PGA has presented its award to action drama "The Hurt Locker," which critics have noted, but didn’t predict the victory in "Oscars". Will it again the Guild choose the right movies, and most importantly, will we see their favorite winner of "Oscars"? We will get to know about this soon in January 21, when Los Angeles will announce the winners. In the meantime, a list of major nominees is as follows:
Prize. Darryl F. Zanuck for producing feature film
"Artist" (Thomas Langmann)
"War Horse" (Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg)
"Bridesmaids" (Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Scott Rudin, Chan Chaffin)
"The Ides of March" (George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver)
"Midnight in Paris" (Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum)
"Descendants" (Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor)
"The Help" (Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, Brunson Green)
"Hugo" (Graham King, Martin Scorsese)
"Moneyball" (Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt);
Award for producing anime movie
"Puss in Boots"
"Kung Fu Panda 2"
"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn"
"Rango"
"Cars 2"
Award for producing a documentary film
"Bill Cunningham New York"
"Bits, rhymes and life: Travels of A Tribe Called Quest"
"Project "Nim"
"Senna"
"The Union"
Prize of Danny Thomas for comedy TV series
"Modern family"
"Losers"
"Parks and recreation"
"Studio 30"
"The Big Bang Theory"
Prize of Norman Felton for dramatic television series
"Mad Men"
"Game of Thrones"
"The Boardwalk Empire"
"The good wife"
"Dexter Justice"
Prize of David L. Uolpera for TV movie or miniseries
"Downton Abbey"
"Clan Kennedy"
"Mildred Pierce"
"Cinema Verite"
"Too Big to fail"
How among dramatic serials was "Mad Men", which were absent on the air in 2011, and where is the sensational series "Homeland"? Very simply: by the rules of PGA in the television categories are series that have passed on the air June 1, 2010, the May 31, 2011.
Winners of PGA will be announced on January 21
List of the most downloaded movies of 2011
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If in 2010 the top position in the list of most downloaded pictures kept "Avatar", then in 2011, the first place has taken the thriller "Fast and Furious 5." However, the number of downloads compared to last year was substantially reduced.
Like last year, the information has been provided by Torrentreactor resource. "Fast and Furious 5” has been illegally downloaded from torrent sites 9.3 million times. Compared with the "Avatar" is somehow not serious: James Cameron's epic downloaded over 16.5 million times.
Torrentreactor notes that the number of illegal downloads has decreased due to tougher action taken against network piracy. In particular, last week the 49-year-old New Yorker Gilberto Sanchez, placing in net working copy of "Wolverine", received a year in prison.
However, the number of users actively using torrents, not shrinking. Given the figures in the report of Torrentreactor, we can assume that the audience simply prefers variety of films.
Top ten most downloaded movies in 2011 is as follows:
1. "Fast and Furious 5" - 9.26 million downloads;
2. "Hangover 2: From Vegas to Bangkok" - 8.84 million;
3. "Thor" - 8.33 million;
4. "Source code" - 7.91 million;
5. "I - Fourth" - 7.67 million;
6. "Sucker Punch" - 7.2 million;
7. "127 hours" - 6.91 million;
8. "Rango" - 6.48 million;
9. "The King’s speech” - 6.25 million;
10. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" - 6.03 million.
Interestingly, the number of downloads this year did not correlate with the box office. Thus, the profit-making film in the top ten was in last place, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" and "Transformers 3" have not been included, in contrast to the modest nominated for "Oscar", "The King’s speech" and "127 hours" .