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2010 Scream Award Nominations

Ross Miller — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:18:13 +0000

We’re now into awards season once more (time flies, doesn’t it?), with the Emmys having come and gone already. Now we have the annual 2010 Scream Awards which celebrates the more fan-friendly type of movies and TV shows that the Oscars and the Emmys might not honor. And the great thing is YOU get to vote for the winners!

Last year they honored such fan-favorites as Star Trek, Watchmen and Fringe with nominations, which I’m sure pleased many of you. Even if they still nominate some questionable movies, there’s no doubting that for the most part, the Scream Awards are a lot more in line with the majority of the movie going audience who pay to see movies purely to be entertained.

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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: May 25, 2010

Mike Eisenberg — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:27:13 +0000

I’m not too sure what to make of this week in DVD and Blu-ray releases. It looks weak, yet some cherished films are a part of the release schedule. One thing is for sure, the number of worthy rentals or purchases is small.

Vampires, romance and westerns find their way to home video this week. Unfortunately for Twilight fans, those genres are sold separately.

The good news is next week may be one of the most epic home video release dates in recent memory. For now, let’s make do with what we’ve got. The following releases can be found on DVD and Blu-ray.

NEW RELEASES:

True Blood: The Complete Second Season - The HBO series has capitalized on the entertainment ...

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2010 Oscar Race Update: Producers Guild & SAG Award Winners

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:06:41 +0000

This past weekend the race for 2010 Oscar got just a bit more debatable, with some surprise winners walking away from both the Producers Guild Awards (PGA) and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG).

James Cameron walked away happy from The 2010 Golden Globe Awards,with Avatar taking the top trophies for Best Director and Best Dramatic Picture, leading everybody to think that the Oscars would follow suit. With the Best Picture category now open to ten nominees, variety and uncertainty were suppossed to be this year’s theme.

However, in the months leading up to the biggest award in Hollywood, only a handful of films seem to be popping up as the top contenders.

The names we keep hearing again and again are as follows (listed by name with the director in parenthesis).

Avatar (James Cameron)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin ...

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Poster Friday Pt.1: Avatar, The Road & Tons More!

Rob Keyes — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:59:10 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! For our first Friday of of the last month of 2009, and our biggest Poster Friday collection ever (separated into two parts), we’ve again gathered the latest posters to come out for this week’s poster round-up.

I took a holiday last weekend (a rare event) so that means Screen Rant’s wall this week now includes two weeks worth of new one-sheets separated among two posts. This set (part one) includes Star Trek, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Cash, Main St., The Electric Slide, The Devil’s Double, The Horseman, Nine, A Single Man, District 13: Ultimatum, The Road, The Lovely Bones, The Wolfman, Avatar, Greenberg and 44 ...

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The Road Review

Kofi Outlaw — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:35:46 +0000

Short Version: The Road taps the power, beauty and horror of Cormac McCarthy’s novel and gives us a movie that is both gorgeous and gut-wrenching.

Screen Rant Reviews The Road

For those biting their nails in anticipation (I know you’re out there), I’ll skip the usual opening fanfare and get right to it: In my opinion, director John Hillcoat has successfully taken the power, beauty and horror of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road and translated it, intact, to the big screen. I think that those moviegoers who don’t already read McCarthy now have another good example of why they should (The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men being the other); I think that those who DO read McCarthy will at least be happy that the movie version ...

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The Road Behind The Scenes Featurette

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:38:37 +0000

My favorite book of last year has become my favorite film of this year. I’m talking of course about the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and if you haven’t checked out my review yet go HERE and see why I truly believe this film is currently the most deserving contender for a Best Picture Oscar.

The Road will be released in theaters this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, and if you want to know why that is such an appropriate release date (the time to be thankful) then we have a behind-the-scenes featurette that will help you understand the power of this story and how it translated into such a powerful film.

Starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road tells the ...

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Poster Friday: Youth in Revolt, Invictus, Heavy Metal & More!

Rob Keyes — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:37:19 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! For the last Friday of October before Halloween weekend, we’ve again gathered the latest posters to come out for this week’s poster round-up.

Screen Rant’s wall this week now includes new one-sheets for Nowhere Man, Séraphine, Cabin Fever 2, Invictus, Collapse, House of the Devil, Late Fee, Jennifer’s Body, Zombieland, Everybody’s Fine, The Fouth Kind, The Road, Kniga Masterov (Book of Masters), The Bleeding, Gentlemen Broncos and Youth in Revolt.

In addition to that, we have a little somethin’ somethin’ for Disney’s A Christmas Carol and Heavy Metal.

Let’s get to it.

To start, here’s a poster for the John Lennon biopic, titled Nowhere Boy which stars Aaron Johnson as legendary Beatle.

Nowhere Man opens ...

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Weinstein Employees Not Immune To Job Loss

Paul Young — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:27:55 +0000

I’m sure the Weinstein Brothers have told their employees which ones are being let go, because finding out via a movie blog that you need to register for unemployment is really uncool.

It would seem that even Hollywood can fall succumb to the ills of a recession-filled economy. Even as Hollywood boasts of record profits (due mostly to a handful of films and the extra boost from 3D sales), major studios like Universal and The Weinstein Company are either cutting back expenses or letting people go.

Such is the sad case today as TWC announced the trimming of their roster from around 125 to about 90 for the next round of cuts coming next month.

On top of that, TWC will also limit the number of films released to 10 per year. That breaks down to four ...

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Viggo Mortensen To NOT Quit Acting

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:55:27 +0000

Collider recently caught up with acclaimed actor Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence) during the premiere of his upcoming film The Road at the Toronto International Film Festival, and took the exclusive opportunity to ask the Mortensen what was up with his declaration to step away from acting, which shocked Viggo-lovers across the Net earlier this past Spring.

To our shared semi-surprise (sarcasm alert), Mortensen pulled a Brett Favre-style about-face and shot down the rumore, stating that he’ll be sticking around to mess with this whole being-an-actor thing for the time being.

Ok, so maybe he didn’t say it quite like that – maybe it was more along the lines of “Eh, I’m good for now,” but… Oh heck, just watch this exclusive video scoop from Collider:

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TIFF 2009 Must See Films: ‘Get Low’, ‘Precious’ & ‘The Road’

John Foote — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:32:29 +0000

The madness continues at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

The talk of the festival right now is the performance of Oscar-winner Robert Duvall in his new film, Get Low, in which he portrays a hermit with a dark secret who comes out of hiding to confront the rumors about him in a small southern town in the 30s. Directed by Aaron Schneider, the film is very much like a Horton Foote story, with those flawed yet all-too-human characters standing front and center.

Duvall, who adored Foote, loved the role and gives one of the best performances of his career. In fact if you recall, it was in 1997 that the veteran actor was poised for similar acclaim with The Apostle, which knocked critics and the film world on their collective butts. Duvall went on to earn ...

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Screen Rant’s 2009 Fall Movie Preview

Mike Wilkerson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:01:23 +0000

As the days become shorter, and the nights become cooler, there is one thing on the horizon that all of us are quickly becoming aware of – the arrival of a slew of exciting 2009 Fall Movies. What’s always been great about this time of year is that it’s not just about “horror films” or movies that are made to touch the holiday hearts that burgeon each year as turkey, Santa and New Year’s Eve stretch into the new year and beyond.

The menu is varied, wide open and we hope – satisfying. While we couldn’t list them all, please join us as we quickly chronicle what lies ahead in Screen Rant’s 2009 Fall Movie Preview!

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SEPTEMBER – 2009

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September 11th, 2009

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‘The Road’ Delayed…Yet Again

Kofi Outlaw — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:03:55 +0000

I swear, if this film isn't in theaters soon...

(Sigh) Slash Film has learned from sources at Dimension Films that the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road will be delayed, yet again – knocked back from its current mid-October release date to a late November debut in theaters. If you didn’t already know, The Road has already been delayed a year: it was supposed to be in theaters in late November of 2008.

There’s no explanation as to why the move is being made – I’m pretty sure mid-October is still fair ground for Oscar hopefuls and the term “late November” (the start of the Holiday Season) is a practically synonymous with “crowded movie market” in this country.

So what’s the deal?

At this point I’m willing to ...

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New Posters: The Road, 2012, Where The Wild Things Are & More!

Rob Keyes — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:42:30 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! Today we have gathered the latest biggest and best posters for this week’s poster round-up.

Screen Rant’s wall this week now includes new one-sheets for Where the Wild Things Are, Fantastic Mr.Fox, 2012, The Road, Gamer, Bad Lieutenant and a pair of comedies: The Invention of Lying and Couples Retreat.

For the horror fans out there, we also have some fan-made posters for the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and as a little bonus, the first official photo for Saw VI.

Let’s get to it…

To start this week’s set, here’s the brand new poster for the heart-filled fantasy, Where the Wild things Are.

Where the Wild ...

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The Road: New Clips & An Early Review

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:25:37 +0000

A whole bunch of new clips from the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country For Old Men) Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road have appeared online, and I thought you fans of McCarthy’s work might like to have a look at a few them so you can get a sense of how the film stacks up to the book.

We’ve also dug up an early review of The Road from Variety‘s Todd McCarthy. Wanna know the early verdict on The Road? Then you better keep reading.First, the clips. I’m only going to post three of them, but there are more if you want to check them out. For now, have a look at these:

[WARNING THEY DO CONTAIN SPOILERS]:

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The Weinstein Company Tampered With ‘The Road’ Trailer

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:15:59 +0000

EXCLUSIVE! A little over a week ago Screen Rant posted the first trailer for The Road, the cinematic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. As a serious McCarthy fan, I was a very disappointed in how the trailer (I felt) misrepresented what The Road is all about; it tried to sell the film as a post-apocalyptic action thriller, instead of the poignant look at the bond between father and son it truly is.

Well my complaints struck pay dirt: A reliable source confirms that the studio producing the film (The Weinstein Company) pulled out some dirty PR tricks to sell The Road to a wide audience – even going so far as to tamper with the first trailer, splicing in stock ...

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First Trailer for ‘The Road’ Misses The Mark

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:06:24 +0000

One of my favorite books of the last few years has to be Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the story of a father and son’s harrowing journey across the ruins of post-apocalyptic America. The novel was a big hit last year, dubbed by many to be an “instant-classic” after it won the Pulitzer Prize. So of course, a feature film adaptation was inevitable.

Well, the first trailer for The Road recently dropped and I have to say, I’m a little bit miffed about how this trailer is (mis)representing what the novel and the movie are really about.

Take a look at the first trailer for The Road:

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Viggo Mortensen To Quit Acting?

Ross Miller — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:06:29 +0000

Now this may seem like another April Fool’s joke, but as the date of this article will tell you, it’s not. It appears that Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen may have been watching what Joaquin Phoenix has been up to, and perhaps following in his footsteps – only taking things a bit more seriously: He might actually give up acting.

According to Africa’s News24, Mortensen has been left exhausted by his acting workload and has decided to take a break described as “indefinite.” Here’s what he had to say:

“In the past week I’ve been from Los Angeles to Japan to Korea to Poland to the UK. It’s ridiculous and it’s not a healthy way to be. But, as it happens, I’m taking measures to change that. No more movies…”

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Charlize Theron Is A Tourist

Niall Browne — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:00:04 +0000

All has been quiet on the Tom Cruise future project front lately, however have no fear! We finally have an update!

Charlize Theron is “in negotiations” to join Tom in The Tourist, an espionage thriller that we told you about way back in August. According to Variety:

“Theron will play a female Interpol agent who uses an American tourist in an attempt to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair.”There’s no word on who little Tom will play yet, but I’d place my money on the American Tourist. However, that’s just me playing it safe – he could be the “elusive criminal”, but because this is a Tom Cruise vehicle I’d say my money is safe. Maybe.

The script was originally penned by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), but Christopher McQuarrie who ...

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New Photos From ‘The Road’

Kofi Outlaw — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:47:21 +0000

Some brand new photos from the upcoming movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road have hit the web and Screen Rant has them here for you.

Check them out:

The Man (Mortensen) embraces The Boy (McPhee)

The Man finds shelter in an abandoned car

The Mom (Charlize Theron) contemplates her fate

Check these cool behind the scenes pics as well:

Mortensen and a cannibal (actor Jeremy Ambler) on set

McPhee and Ambler on ...

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New (Dirty) Pic From The Road

Kofi Outlaw — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:17:44 +0000

There’s a new photo of Viggio Mortensen and young Australian actor Kodi-Smit McPhee from the upcoming film adaptation of author Cormac McCarthy’s already-classic (and stunning) novel, The Road. And believe me when I say: this pic is dirty.

Get your mind out of the gutter!

The pic shows The Man (Mortensen) and his son, The Boy (McPhee), looking as dirty, disheveled, down-trodden and near-death as McCarthy so vividly depicted them in his novel.

For those who are not lovers of top-notch literature, The Road is set in an America that has been plunged back into the Dark Ages by an unmentioned Apocalyptic disaster. In this desolate time, survivors scour the ash-covered countryside looking for shelter, supplies, weapons, and food of any kind… even it means feeding on one another.

As Winter approaches, The Man and The Boy realize they cannot ...

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