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Monday, January 5, 2015 at 6:38PM Gurus of Gold a new chart reflects the PGA nominations
Variety talks about the lack of screeners for Selma
NYT great profile of Patricia Arquette. People are laying the tributes on thick now for the Oscar campaign.
THR you know it's Oscar season when people get fired for "smear campaigns"
The Guardian exchanges pleasantries with Sienna Miller (Foxcatcher, American Sniper):
You've made a good movie for once."
The Dissolve on the Razzie shortlists - nominations soon
i09 52 years of Spider-Man's mask a spiffy quick visual
Hollywood Elsewhere Josh Gad may play Roger Ebert in Russ & Roger Go Beyond
i09 Eddie Redmayne shares details of his audition for The Hobbit
Playbill Into the Woods breaks into the Billboard top 20
Film School Rejects on How the Disneyfied Into the Woods loses its allegorical power, especially in regards to the AIDS crisis
Vulture how Looking is reinventing itself for Season 2 (premiering on Golden Globe night, fyi)
Pajiba on an amazing Boogie Nights story involving Burt Reynolds
/Film Matthew Vaughn, promoting Kingsman: The Secret Service thinks people have had enough of Nolanified superhero films and want more fun
Playbill god help us all. Cats is returning to Broadway. There are still so many 1980s musicals on the boards here. Wish we could have more originals and fewer returns. P.S. Cats is the first Broadway show I ever saw so I have a certain affection. But still...
Australia Womens Weekly Russell Crowe saying annoying things again. This time knocking actresses for wanting better roles when they're older
In Contention North Texas critics like Boyhood and the usual supporting players. Gyllenhaal & Pike for leads
List-Mania
Variety on ten big spenders. See the insane amount of money the studios spend on ads for their movies. Godzilla tops the list spending big to make big but The Judge also wasted a small fortune
/Film a grab bag of lists about the film year
Vox Todd Vanderwerff's top ten list
Adam Male 5 gay men share their top ten LGBT movies list (well, there unfortunately isn't much in the way of "L" here). Interesting to see so little overlap. Nobody ever interviews me for this sort of thing but my list would contain a few of these.
Comics Alliance best comic books of the year
How to Pronounced David Oyelowo
There's finally video of Brad Pitt schooling us all on David Oyelowo's name. Here you go!
And while we're on the topic, Interview did a Q&Andy with him. On why he left the UK and came to Hollywood:
I had a very nice career in the U.K., but heroes of mine are Daniel Day Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and when I looked at the zenith of what they do, it came out of Hollywood. So my wife and I took the risk in 2007 of leaving the U.K., coming here, and hoping that I could scale those heights.
Dizzying heights indeed but Selma's a great step up.
And Finally...
For those of you just returning from a long holiday, don't miss...
#20-11 Best of the Year, (now updated with honorable mentions)
#10-01 Best of the Year, Nathaniel's List
Unjust Pride DVD Sony has put the gay heroes in the closet
..and more interviews with:
Costume Designer Michael Wilkinson Before Superhero Glory, Noah
Actor Finn Wittrock A Brief Scene in an Elevator
Actor Oscar Isaac A Most Famous Year... Coming Soon
Cinematography Yves Belanger The Man Who Shot Reese
Reader Comments (12)
I just find it sad that journalists have no interest in actually evaluating Sienna Miller as an actress, but only as a celebrity. She was incredibly good in many movies: Interview (Oscar Worthy), Layer Cake, Alfie, The Edge of Love, Stardust, Factory Girl.
She got in her own way with the messy public BS, but she's very capable.
Matthew Vaughn is RIGHT. Batman v Superman is 1. Going to flop and 2. Even if it manages to succeed (not likely after Man of Steel's down the middle love or hate reception), there's no way it's staying at March 2016 if they want Wonder Woman to debut at July the following year. Why? They're going to want FULL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS on that movie before they bite down commitment on Wonder Woman considering how uncertain they are. July 2017 means they have to start filming somewhere from April to June previous the year, which means they have to commit on numbers of a partial run. Instead, I'm guessing that it's going to wind-up being the 4th Weekend of October because that looks especially open, with the big competition, if it moves there, being a Vin Diesel witch hunting movie, the Jem movie and three interesting movies, Victor Frankenstein, The Walk and Crimson Peak, first two on their fourth weekend, the third on it's second weekend. That gives them 10 months to edit and complete VFX. Unless, of course, this is a $300 million disaster that absolutely needs to release at March at the earliest to have it's VFX completed, in which case they shouldn't have announced pole staking for DC films earlier than November 2017.
I love that "Parting Glances" appears in almost each list. Too bad that Law of Desire doesn't!
Trannies 4, Age of Ex-Stink-tion. LOL
I knew her. Stockbroker by day, dragged out barfly by night. Girl could fart the paint off an Edsel.
Bia-CBS Sunday Morning had a nice 8 minute piece with Sienna Miller. Only 3 minutes devoted to the hacking scandal. I LOVE Stardust.
"Cats" was my first Broadway show, too. I nearly fell asleep.
In my defense, I wanted to see "A Chorus Line" but it was closed that day for the funeral of Michael Bennett. "Phantom" is the only other Broadway show, but at the Muny in St. Louis, i've seen many many many.
"Looking" debuts on Golden Globes night? Does HBO not know it's audience?
Because Hollywood is a patriarchal white supremacy Russell Crowe no matter how obnoxious and commercially past his prime will continue to receive substantial work.
I love Sienna Miller with every fiber of my body; not only is she one of the most beautiful women on the planet, but she's also a wonderful actress, sooo happy her career is blossoming, she fucking deserves it.
The Guardian failed to mention that she's also in Ben Affleck's next directorial effort, and also in James Gray's next movie, and hopefully the project with Whit Stillman is still happening...
+Interesting that Nicole Kidman's Razzie contention is for Before I Sleep, and not for Grace Of Monaco as expected...
Has any other actress been given more chances than Sienna Miller? I feel like she's been "happening" since 2004.
Aaron--- who gives a fuck how many chances Sienna's had? Or that she's been "happening" - nice use of quotation marks; what matters is she's finally in a place where great filmmakers are catching up and are starting to see what she's capable of, that she's so much more than a celebrity party girl or Jude Law's ex girlfriend.
At last she's coming into her own as an actress, and I for one am very excited by that. I predict great things for her, she's got 7 movies coming out in 2015, and no it's not about quantity
but they all sound very interesting, with the possible exception of a Vince Vaughn comedy, Unfinished Business.
Bia-that's the risk of being famous before you're a recognized actor. Abbie Cornish had/s the same issue. Miller can almost certainly command a larger paycheck than what her filmography would usually warrant due to it, but the price is that people consistently are going to underestimate her until she has a role/film that no one can ignore (ie a film that puts her into the path of major awards heat).
Yikes, who let the Sienna Miller stan in? Blandly pretty, heterosexually-pleasing, basic vanilla actresses getting too many chances in Hollywood is right up there on the list of Movies Things That Won't Stop.
She might've gotten a new and more aggressive agent recently but let's be real, she's extremely limited and basically a never-was. Not worth the many Vogue covers she's printed on.