AND THE NOMINEES ARE…

Posted Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 8:43 am | 6 Comments »
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Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Reynolds and Quentin Tarantino were all on hand today (at the crack of dawn, no less) to announce nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards, which will take place on January 13, 2008. Atonement leads the pack, with seven nominations.

Best Picture: Drama
Atonement, The Great Debaters, American Gangster, No Country for Old Men, Eastern Promises, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton

Best Picture: Comedy or Musical
Across the Universe, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, Juno, Charlie Wilson’s War

Director:
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd; Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men; Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Ridley Scott, American Gangster; Joe Wright, Atonement.

Best Television Drama
Big Love, Damages, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Mad Men and The Tudors

Best Television Comedy
30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Kalifornication, Extras, Entourage

Best Actor: Drama
George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, James McAvoy, Viggo Mortensen, Denzel Washington

Best Actress: Drama
Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Jodie Foster, Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley

CLICK HERE to check out the entire list of honourable nominees.

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‘DEATH PROOF’ TAKES OVER CANNES

Posted Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm | 13 Comments »
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When ‘Grindhouse’ was released in the U.S., it was a complete flop at the box office. Now Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Planet Terror’ and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Death Proof’ are being released as stand-alone films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The entire cast and seemingly much of the crew were in Southern France today to yap (and yap and yap) to the international press about just why American audiences didn’t get the Grindhouse-style of filmmaking.

Most everyone has already seen ‘Death Proof,’ but they haven’t seen the lapdance. Tarantino being Tarantino, he wrote a 125-page screenplay for what was supposed to be a film short enough to fit in the double feature ‘Grindhouse.’ He cut it down to 90 minutes for the U.S. release, but added a little more than 20 minutes back to it for the stand-alone film screened at Cannes.

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