Ant-Man will possibly be one of the biggest hits of next year but one of the potential problems of it would be it getting swamped by the other, more well known, superhero releases of 2015, e.g Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Fantastic Four and Batman vs. Superman. B vs S flicked Ant-Man from June to August but you’ve probably picked up that the former project was delayed into 2016. With producers comfortable that director Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead) and stars Paul Rudd (Anchorman’s Brian Fantana) and Michael Douglas (Wall Street’s Gordon Gecko) are ready to go ahead, Marvel’s Ant-Man has scurried in for the June release.
Above is one of the the stills from Grace of Monaco, a film that’s now been confirmed to be opening the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, following in the footsteps of Up, The Great Gatsby and The Da Vinci Code. The biopic of Oscar winning, 1950s Hollywood star Grace Kelly stars Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth and is directed by Oliver Dahan (La Vie en Rose, a film that won Marion Cottilard an Oscar). We can expect the rest of the line up to be announced soon.
Finally, the results of the Directors Guild Awards have been announced and are as follows:
Best Directorial Effort in a Motion Picture:
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
David O’Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Directorial Effort in a Documentary:
Jehanne Noujaim – The Square
Zachary Heinzerling – Cutie and the Boxer
Joshua Oppenheimer – The Act of Killing
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell
Lucy Walker – The Crash Reel
In TV, Breaking Bad, Behind the Candelabra, 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live all won one award each.
Grace of Monaco – May 14th at Cannes Film Festival, France
Outstanding Debut For a British Writer, Director or Producer
Colin Carberry (Writer), Glenn Patterson (Writer) Good Vibrations
Kelly Marcel (Writer) Saving Mr. Banks
Kieran Evans (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor
Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer) For Those in Peril
Scott Graham (Director/Writer) Shell
Best Director
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
David O’Russell – American Hustle
Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Original Screenplay
Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron – Gravity
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Bob Nelson – Nebraska
Best Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Richard LaGravense – Behind the Candelabra
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Leading Actor
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Leonardo Di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Best Leading Actress
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks
Judi Dench – Philomena
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Matt Damon – Behind the Candelabra
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Oprah Winfrey – The Butler
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Best Foreign Language Film
The Act of Killing
Blue is the Warmest Colour
The Great Beauty
Metro Manila
Wadjda
Best Documentry
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Tim’s Vermeer
We Steal Secret: The Story of WikiLeaks
Best Animated Film
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
Best Original Music
12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief – John Williams
Captain Phillips – Henry Jackman
Gravity – Stephen Price
Saving Mr Banks – Thomas Newman
Best Cinematography
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Saving Mr Banks
Best Editing
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Production Design
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Best Costume Design
American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
Saving Mr Banks
Best Make-up and Hair
American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
The Butler
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Sound
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Rush
Best Special Visual Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
Best British Short Animation
Everything I Can See From Here
I am Tom Moody
Sleeping with the Fishes
Best British Short Film
Island Queen
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Orbit Ever After
Room 8
Sea View
The EE Rising Star Award
Dane DeHaan
George MacKay
Lupita Nyong’o
Will Poulter
Lea Seydoux
12 Years a Slave has an impressive haul with 9 nominations, as did American Hustle, but Gravity leads the way with 11. Captain Phillips scored 6 and Philomena, Saving Mr Banks, Behind the Candelabra, The Wolf of Wall Street, Blue Jasmine, Nebraska and Inside Llewyn Davis all made a great impression. Rush, The Great Gatsby, Gravity and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug all dominated the technical awards. Something I’m not convinced by is the nominees of the Best British Film award. Mandela, Philomena and The Selfish Giant are fair enough but is having a Brit on the producing credits really justifying Gravity (directed by a Mexican), Rush (directed by a Oklahoman) and Saving Mr Banks (directed by a Texan).
As for who will win, Best Film I’d narrow it down to 12 Years, American Hustle and Captain Phillips. Sandra Bullock (Gravity) may just pip Emma Thompson (Saving Mr Banks) to Best Leading Actress while I reckon Tom Hanks has Best Actor in the bag. Oprah Winfrey and Daniel Bruhl seem like the most likely to respectively win Best Supporting Actress and Actor.
Alfonso Cuaron is my favourite for Best Director and I also predict American Hustle to win Best Original Screenplay and either The Wolf of Wall Street or Philomena for Best Adapted. I’d bet on Frozen for Best Animated Film but Gravity would probably win the most awards on the night but it’ll miss out on the main award of Best Film.
The event itself is on February 16th and here, on Tuorhoth Movies, we hope to be bringing live as-it-happens news updates so stay tuned. By for now!
The PGoA, or Producers Guild of America, aren’t the most mainstream of Award Ceremonies but they often give us a sneak peek at what’s going to make it big at the Oscars and BAFTAs. The nominated entries were:
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:
American Hustle – Producers: Megan Ellison, Jon Gordon, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle – Director:David O’Russell
Blue Jasmine – Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum – Woody Allen
Captain Phillips – Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin – Paul Greengrass
Dallas Buyers Club – Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter – Jean Marc Vallee
Gravity – Alfonso Cuaron, David Heyman – Alfonso Cauron
Her – Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay – Spike Jonze
Nebraska – Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa – Alexander Payne
Saving Mr Banks – Ian Collie, Alison Owen, Philip Steuer – John Lee Hancock
12 Years a Slave – Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner – Steve McQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street – Riza Aziz, Emma Koskoff, Joey McFarland – Martin Scorsese
Outstanding Producer of an Animated Theatrical Motion Picture:
The Croods – Kristine Belson, Jane Hartwell – Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
Despicable Me 2 – Janet Healy, Chris Meledandri – Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Epic – Jerry Davis, Lori Forte – Chris Wedge
Frozen – Peter Del Vecho – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Monsters University – Kori Rae – Dan Scanlon
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:
A Place at the Table – Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush – Kristi Jacobsen, Lori Silverbush
Far Out Isn’t Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story – Brad Bernstein, Rick Cikowski – Brad Bernstein
Life According to Sam – Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, Miriam Weintraub – Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks – Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger – Alex Gibney
Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington – James Brabazon, Nick Quested – Sebastian Junger
If you really want the TV results than I’ll skip over them quickly. In the mini-series and TV movies category, the nominees were American Horror Story: Asylum, Behind the Candelabra, Killing Kennedy, Phil Spector and Top of the Lake. The Norman Felton Award for episodic drama was spearheaded by Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Homeland and House of Cards while the Danny Thomas Award for episodic comedy nominations of 2014 featured 30 Rock, Arrested Development, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and Veep.
The only other scrap of news from today would be the confirmation of BAFTA’s Rising Star nominees. The award, now sponsored by EE, has had previous winners such as James McAvoy, Shia LaBeouf, Eva Green, Kristen Stewart and Tom Hardy while unlucky nominees have included Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Chris O’Dowd, Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Williams, Emily Blunt, Naomie Harris, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Rebecca Hall, Gemma Arteton, Adnrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan, Suraj Sharma, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Andrea Riseborough so we can expect big things from this year’s lot.
Lupita Nyong’o is one of the breakout stars of harrowing Oscar favourite 12 Years a Slave who’s picked up a Rising Star nom but I’m afraid that this means she won’t be in consideration for Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs. Lea Seydoux is a French actress who took the lead role in Palme D’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour which’ll certainly pick up Best Foreign Language Film. George MacKay is one of the busiest young British actors of the moment after bringing out lead roles in Sunshine on Leith, For Those in Peril and How I Live Now all on the same day, October 4th. Will Poulter has moved on from Son of Rambo and being the best thing in the third Narnia film to producing hits with successful comedies Wild Bill and We’re the Millers. Dane DeHaan is ready-made box office material after proving himself as one to watch with Chronicle, Lincoln, Kill Your Darlings, Lawless and The Place Beyond the Pines as well as landing the huge role of Harry Osborn in this year’s superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
The rest of this year’s BAFTA nominees will be announced this Wednesday so expect full coverage from Tuorhoth Movies. By for now!
The 2013 Emmys brought some expected and some surprising wins as they celebrated the last year of US TV and Downton Abbey. Vince Gilligan’s hit show Breaking Bad was the big winner of the night as iticked up the Emmy’s Oscar Best Picture equivalent: Outstanding Drama Series. Claire Danes beat actresses like Robin Wright (House of Cards), Kerry Washington (Scandal) and Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel) for her award win with Homeland while Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom) defeated the likes of Brian Cranston (Breaking Bad), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Damien Lewis (Homeland) and Kevin Spacey (House of Cards) to win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Bobby Cannavale (Broadwalk Empire) and Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) got the Supporting Actor/Actress awards while Henry Bromell (Homeland) and David Fincher (House of Cards) won the writing and directing awards respectively.
Onto comedy now. The brilliant Jim Parsons won Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for the third time (and fifth total nomination – pretty impressive for a show that’s had six seasons) for the even better The Big Bang Theory against film stars like Jason Bateman (Arrested Development), Matt LeBlanc (Episodes), Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Don Cheadle (House of Lies) and Louis CK (Louie). Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale also picked up acting awards for Veep, as did Merritt Weaver (Nurse Jackie). Modern Family won both Outstanding Comedy Series and Best Directing for a comedy series while 30 Rock picked up Best Writing. Behind the Candelabra won big with Leading Actor in a Mini-Series or Movie for Michael Douglas as well as Best Director (the now retired Steven Soderbergh) and Best Mini-Series or Movie.
Moving on, Duncan Jones (director of sci-fi hits like Moon with Sam Rockwell and Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal and son of David Bowie) will be directing the adaptation of the massively successful MMORPG World of Warcraft. He’s know hinted at possible castings. Paula Patton was part of Tom Cruise’s team of rogue agents in box-office hit Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell was the star of thrillers like Phone Booth and Total Recall as well as the comedy In Bruges. They’re now both linked to star in Warcraft. It’s early days but Jones confirmed via Twitter that Patton is in negotiations to star while Farrell has been offered the role. The film will start shooting next January.
The brilliant Norwegian slightly comedic found-footage horror Troll Hunter was bound to spawn a Hollywood remake since it’s successful opening in 2011. The plot sees a group of students investigating a series of mysterious animal killing in the Norwegian mountains and forests for a university project. They join a grizzled man who claims to have the answer to their questions: Trolls. It’s a greatly original film that I do recommend. The real life Norwegian Prime Minister turns up at one point so it’s definitely worth a watch.
Neil Marshall is the man directing the new remake. The Newcastle born writer/editor/director has plenty of experience with films like chilling horror The Descent and Roman set Michael Fassbender action Centurion as well as two episodes of HBO’s epic fantasy Game of Thrones and the upcoming TV adventure drama Black Sails. He’ll have an fairly inflated $25 million budget for on-set production they will begin early next year.
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