2014 Tuorhoth Awards Winners

You can find the BAFTA winners here and the Oscar announcements aren’t too far away but here the only ceremony that matters is the Tuorhoth Awards. The nominations were announced last week but last night’s winners can be found below. Remember our aim is to blend the awards favourites with the best blockbusters around for an honest awards.

Best Movie:

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Cloud Atlas

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Kings of Summer

Much Ado About Nothing

Rush

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Thor: The Dark World

Best Leading Actress:

Carey Mulligan – The Great Gatsby

Amy Acker – Much Ado About Nothing

Rinko Kikuchi – Pacific Rim

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Best Leading Actor:

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Martin Freeman – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Zachary Quinto – Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Director:

Justin Chadwick – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Ron Howard – Rush

Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Baz Luhrmann – The Great Gatsby

Best Supporting Actress:

Doona Bae – Cloud Atlas

Naomi Harris – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actor:

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Moises Arias – The Kings of Summer

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hiddleston – Thor: The Dark World

Best Comedy:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

The Kings of Summer

Much Ado About Nothing

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Sci-Fi:

Cloud Atlas

Ender’s Game

Man of Steel

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Fantasy:

47 Ronin

Cloud Atlas

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Thor: The Dark World

The Wolverine

Best Animated Film:

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Drama:

12 Years a Slave

The Great Gatsby

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Rush

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Thriller:

Captain Phillps

Gravity

The Lone Ranger

Now You See Me

World War Z

Kermode Award for Best Newcomer:

Barkhad Abdi

Moises Arias

Doona Bae

Luke Evans

Lupita Nyong’o

Best Original Song:

Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby

I See Fire – Ed Sheeran – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2

Best Musical Score:

Oz: The Great and Powerful – Danny Elfman

Gravity – Steven Price

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Howard Shore

Cloud Atlas – Tom Tykwer

Man of Steel – Hans Zimmer

Harreyhausen Award for Best Special Effects:

Ender’s Game

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Pacific RIm

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Original Screenplay:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – Armando Iancucci, Steve Coogan

American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell

Gravity – Jonas Cuaron, Alfonso Cuaron

The Kings of Summer – Chris Galletta

Wreck-It Ralph – Jennifer Lee

Best Adapted Screenplay:

12 Years a Slave – John Ridley

Captain Phillips – Billy Ray

Cloud Atlas – Andy Wachowksi, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer

The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Steve Conrad

Captain Phillips comes away with a six-win sweep, The Hobbit and Gravity won three and Alpha Papa tails the leaders with two triumphs. Well, that was our Tuorhoth Awards but we want to here which releases from the last year you loved the most. Please tell us in the comments.

The 2014 Tuorhoth Awards Nominations

If you’ve been following some of our recent posts, you’ll have picked up that The 2014 Tuorhoth Awards are on their way and today we’re going to announce the nominees. The nominees have been selected by a group of four elite judges. Our aim is to provide a mix of mainstream and arthouse for a honest awards ceremony to celebrate the best in film. The winners will be announced next week.

Best Movie:

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Cloud Atlas

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Kings of Summer

Much Ado About Nothing

Rush

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Thor: The Dark World

Best Leading Actress:

Carey Mulligan – The Great Gatsby

Amy Acker – Much Ado About Nothing

Rinko Kikuchi – Pacific Rim

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Best Leading Actor:

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Martin Freeman – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Zachary Quinto – Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Director:

Justin Chadwick – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Ron Howard – Rush

Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Baz Luhrmann – The Great Gatsby

Best Supporting Actor:

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Moises Arias – The Kings of Summer

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hiddleston – Thor: The Dark World

Best Supporting Actress:

Doona Bae – Cloud Atlas

Naomi Harris – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Best Comedy:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

The Kings of Summer

Much Ado About Nothing

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Sci-Fi:

Cloud Atlas

Ender’s Game

Man of Steel

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Fantasy:

47 Ronin

Cloud Atlas

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Thor: The Dark World

The Wolverine

Best Animated Film:

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Drama:

12 Years a Slave

The Great Gatsby

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Rush

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Thriller:

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Lone Ranger

Now You See Me

World War Z

Kermode Award for Best Newcomer:

Barkhad Abdi

Moises Arias

Doona Bae

Luke Evans

Lupita Nyong’o

Best Original Song:

Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby

I See Fire – Ed Sheeran – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Happy – Pharrel Williams – Despicable Me 2

Best Musical Score:

Oz: The Great and Powerful – Danny Elfman

Gravity – Steven Price

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Howard Shore

Cloud Atlas – Tom Tykwer

Man of Steel – Hans Zimmer

Best Special Effects:

Ender’s Game

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Original Screenplay:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – Armando Ianucci, Steve Coogan

American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell

Gravity – Jonas Cuaron, Alfonso Cuaron

The Kings of Summer – Chris Galletta

Wreck-It Ralph – Jennifer Lee

Best Adapted Screenplay:

12 Years a Slave – John Ridley

Captain Phillips – Billy Ray

Cloud Atlas – Lana Wachowksi, Andy Wachowski, Tom Tykwer

The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Steve Conrad

Are We Crazy? Did we miss out a classic? Tell us your favourite movies from the last year in the comments and get unsung heroic in the soptlight!

12 Years triumphs at People’s Choice Awards and new Amazing Spider-Man 2 posters

After director Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender were snubbed for both Hunger and Shame, they’re finally getting award recognition for 12 Years a Slave, which won Best Film at the Golden Globes and People’s Choice and shone out at the Academy Award nominations. Here’s the full list

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr Banks

Best Actor

Matthew MacConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Robert Redford – All is Lost

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Judi Dench – Philomena

Brie Larson – Short Term 12

Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks

Best Supporting Actor

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Philllips

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Bradley Cooper – American Hustle

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Scarlett Johansson – Her

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Julia Roberts – August: Osage County

June Squibb – Blue Jasmine

Oprah Winfrey – The Butler

Best Young Actor/Actress

Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Colour

Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game

Liam James – The Way Way Back

Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief

Tye Sheridan – Mud

Best Acting Ensemble

American Hustle

August: Osage County

The Butler

Nebraska

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Spike Jonze – Her

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O’Russell – American Hustle

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay

Spike Jonze – Her

Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell – American Hustle

Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine

Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis

Bob Nelson – Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

Tracy Letts – August: Osage County

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight

Billy Ray – Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena

Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Cinematography

Emmannuel Lubezki – Gravity

Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis

Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska

Roger Deakins – Prisoners

Sean Bobbit – 12 Years a Slave

Best Art Direction

The Great Gatsby

Gravity

Her

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

12 Years a Slave

Best Editing

Gravity

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Rush

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Costume Design

The Great Gatsby

American Hustle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Saving Mr Banks

12 Years a Slave

Best Hair and Make-up

American Hustle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Butler

Rush

12 Years a Slave

Best Visual Effects

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Animated Feature

Frozen

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

The Wind Rises

Best Action Movie

Lone Survivor

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Iron Man 3

Rush

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Actor in an Action Movie

Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor

Henry Cavill – Man of Steel

Robert Downey Jr – Iron Man 3

Brad Pitt – World War Z

Best Comedy

American Hustle

Enough Said

The Heat

This is the End

The Way Way Back

The World’s End

Best Actor in a Comedy

Leonardo Di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Christian Bale – American Hustle

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Simon Pegg – The World’s End

Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back

Best Actress in a Comedy

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Sandra Bullock – The Heat

Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha

Julia Louis Dreyfus – Enough Said

Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

Best Sci-fi Horror Movie

Gravity

The Conjuring

Star Trek Into Darkness

Iron Man 3

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue is the Warmest Colour

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Past

Best Documentary Feature

20 Feet From Stardom

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

Stories We Tell

Tim’s Vermeer

Best Song

Let it Go – Frozen

Atlas – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Happy – Despicable Me 2

Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Please Mr Kennedy – Inside Llewyn Davis

Young and Beautiful – The Great Gatsby

Best Score

Stephen Price – Gravity

William Butler, Owen Pallett – Her

Thomas Newman – Saving Mr Banks

Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave

Gravity has won the most awards with an impressive six wins but it’s 12 Years a Slave’s day as it picked up Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. American Hustle gained four wins while Frozen, The Great Gatsby, Blue is the Warmest Colour and Lone Survivor got two. I’m not going to do in depth analysis but I’m stilled surprised Her is being praised as an “original” and “fresh” premise as it has exactly the same plot as a Big Bang Theory episode where a lonely Raj (Kunal Nayyar) falls in love with his I-Phone’s Siri. I’m probably not the first to say it but I haven’t heard anyone else pick up on it.

The only other major piece of news is the stunning new poster for Marvel and Sony’s superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Marc Webb directs and Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, Dane DeHaan and Chris Cooper star but today’s focus is the hopefully terrifying new villain Electro, played by Ray, Collateral and Django Unchained’s Jamie Foxx.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – April 18th

Weekend box-office – 4th to 11th of November 2013 – can Thor fly to the top and can it defy Gravity?

There’s been two huge openings both sides of the Atlantic this week and they’ve both risen to the top of their respective charts, as I predicted last week. Let’s take a look at how I did in a week that looks like places 2 – 5 were decided by the flip of a coin in the US.

US

1. Thor: The Dark World – Director: Alan Taylor – $86.1 million
2. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Jeff Tremaine – $11.3 million
3. Free Birds – Jimmy Hayward – $11.2 million
4. Last Vegas – Jon Turteltaub – $11.1 million
5. Ender’s Game – Gavin Hood – £10.2 million

UK

1. Gravity – Alfonso Cauron – £6.2 milliom
2. Thor: The Dark World – Alan Taylor – £2.9 million
3. Philomena – Stephen Frears – £1.4 million
4. Captain Phillips – Paul Greengrass – £1 million
5. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – Kodi Cameron, Kris Pearn – £0.9 million

Well, it seems I was a bit two optimistic about the more indie releases of About Time, The Book Thief and Parkland, none of which scratched either top 5. Only $1.2 million separated places 2 – 5 in the US. Ender’s Game has dropped dramatically while Free Birds has gone up a place, likely because we’re getting closer to Thanksgiving which is Free Birds’ theme. Philomena is holding much stronger than I thought it would. I had incorrectly predicted Last Vegas in it’s place last week as the latter has been pushed back to January next year. I scored a dismal 1/5 in the US and a non overwhelming 2/3 in the UK taking my total to a disappointing 3/10 but I’m new at this! Here’s what I feebly foresee for next week:

US

1. Thor: The Dark World – Alan Taylor
2. The Best Man Holiday – Malcom D. Lee
3. Free Birds – Jimmy Hayward
4. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Jeff Tremaine
5. Nebraska – Alexander Payne

UK

1. Gravity – Alfonso Cauron
2. The Butler – Lee Daniels
3. Thor: The Dark World – Alan Taylor
4. The Counsellor – Ridley Scott
5. Don Jon – Joseph Gordon Levitt

I’m hoping for more pleasing results next week. My current total is 9/20 so let’s see if I can take it up to over 50%. Find out next week, here on Tuorhoth Movies. There’s a whole quartet of major but not quite mainstream releases in the UK next week. They are The Butler, The Counsellor, Don Jon and Dom Hemmingway. I think that they’ll rank commercially as I just listed them.

Chris Hemsworth and Jaimie Alexander in Thor: The Dark World, the US number one.

Sandra Bullock in Gravity, the UK number one.

Weekend box-office results – 28th October to 3rd of November 2013 – will Thor 2 consumes Meatballs and Ender’s Game challenge Bad Grandpa?

We’re back with box office results on a Saturday for our 2nd week. Our predictions last week weren’t to far off this week. We’ve done excellently for the UK box office but we’re far off for America’s results.

US:

1. Ender’s Game – $28 million – Director: Gavin Hood
2. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $20.5 million – Jeff Tremaine
3. Last Vegas – $16.5 million – Jon Turteltaub
4. Free Birds – $16.2 million – Jimmy Hayward
5. Gravity – $13.1 million – Alfonso Cauron

UK

1. Thor: The Dark World – £8.8 million – Alan Taylor
2. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – £2.0 million – Kody Cameron, Kris Pearn
3. Captain Phillips – £1.6 million – Paul Greengrass
4. Philomena – £1.5 million – Stephen Frears
5. Turbo – £1.6 million – David Soren

So I managed an impressive 4/5 for the UK. Bad Grandpa seems to have fallen quicker than I expected while Turbo has made a surprise re entry. Thor, as expected, and Philomena, perhaps not as expected, have opened extremely strong while Cloudy 2 and Captain Phillips have held there own, only slipping one place in the week of a huge release.

For the US, I got a disappointing 2/5, taking my total to 6/10 but this is my first time so that may be my batting average for the future. Ender’s Game has opened well but it’s not sequel worthy stuff, this amongst it’s disastrous 5th place debut in the UK last week. Bad Grandpa seems to be on it’s way to $100 million total with it’s very US edgy sense of comedy. Free Birds was the turkey, get it, I predicting and Gravity is falling, get it again, at a rapid rate at the moment but it opened with an astonishing word of mouth so everybody must of seen it by now. Here’s my predictions for next week; find out how I did next week!

UK

1. Gravity – Alfonso Cauron
2. Thor: The Dark World – Alan Taylor
3. Last Vegas – Jon Turteltaub
4. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs – Kody Cameron, Kris Pearn
5. Parkland – Peter Landesman

US

1. Thor: The Dark World – Alan Taylor
2. Ender’s Game – Gavin Hood
3. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Jeff Tremaine
4. The Book Thief – Brian Percival
5. About Time – Richard Curtis

Come back tomorrow for our review of Alfonso Cauron’s space set thriller Gravity and, if your after the latest box-office news, next week for the UK and US top 5s for 4th of November to the 11th.

Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman in Thor: The Dark World, the UK number one.

Asa Butterfield and  Harrison Ford in Ender’s Game, the US number one.

Sunday’s Blockbusters – 20th to 27th of October 2013 – will Gravity come down and can Captain Phillips see through Cloudy 2?

This is a brand new feature on Tuorhoth Movies which’ll tell you the box-office status from both sides of the Atlantic. It’s the top 5 for the UK and the US according to the BBC News reports. Remember that not all of these films were released at the same time so while Gravity is sitting near the top in America it’s absence in the UK is because it’s yet to be released, not because of it failing in Britain.

UK:

1. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – £3.65 million – Director(s): Kody Cameron, Kris Pearn
2. Captain Phillips – £2.44 million – Paul Greengrass
3. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – £1.94 million – Jeff Tremaine
4. Turbo – £1.32 million – David Soren
5. Ender’s Game – £1.15 million – Gavin Hood

US:

1. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $32 million – Jeff Tremaine
2. Gravity – $20 million – Alfonso Cauron
3. Captain Phillips – $11.8 million – Paul Greengrass
4. The Counsellor – $8 million – Ridley Scott
5. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – $6.1 million – Kody Cameron, Kris Pearn

I must say that it’s a shock to see Ender’s Game at the bottom of the pile in the UK but it’s likely to have a better reception in the US next month. Cloudy 2 was received coldly by critics compared to the original but despite this it’s soared to a staggering $150 million worldwide gross. Gravity has only just been brought to Earth by Bad Grandpa as it’s been on top of the chart for the three weeks prior. It’s disappointing to see how quickly Carrie and Escape Plan have fallen out of the US’ top 5.

My predictions for next week are as follows:

US

1. Ender’s Game – Gavin Hood
2. Last Vegas – Jon Turteltaub
3. Gravity – Alfonso Cauron
4. Free Birds – Jimmy Hayward
5. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Jeff Tremaine

UK

1. Thor: The Dark World – Alan Taylor
2. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – Kody Cameron, Chris Pern
3. Captain Phillips – Paul Greengrass
4. Philomena – Steven Frears
5. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Jeff Tremaine

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UK’s number one Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2

US’ number one Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Marvel double bill: trailers for X-Men: Days of Future Past and Captain America: The Winter Soldier

We promised the Captain America trailer yesterday but another Marvel project has snuck up on us by surprise. They’re both only published in the last three hours but we’re going to start with Captain America. Here’s the trailer before we give you a bit of food for thought.

The first 20 seconds tells us that directors Anthony and Joe Russo are fitting in humour to the fairly serious thriller plot. However, SHIELD’s, and particularly Nick Fury’s, morals will be tested as SHIELD’s phase two (developing Tesseract technology, that of Cap’s sworn enemy known as HYDRA) goes forward. We get a first look at three awesome new characters. Robert Redford plays sinister SHIELD head Alexander Pierce, who could be pretty awesome as long as they don’t make him too sinister (so it’s a shock when he’s the villain) or make him Marvel’s Professor Snape (so it’s a shock when he’s the hero). Anthony Mackie’s an entertaining screen presence so we can rely on him to give a convincing Sam Wilson. While Wilson’s alter-ego The Falcon looks cool physically he’s not visually striking. They could do something similar to the first Iron Man film where they start of with the colourless prototype suit before giving it the ever distinctive red and gold. The Winter Soldier himself looks awesome (the knives and the hand to hand combat making him more like TDKR’s Bane, which is preferable to the shady background string pullers like The Mandarin. His portrayer, Sebastian Stan, needs to make sure that he gets some of Bucky Barnes across otherwise The Winter Soldier is just a mindless robot and the whole thing about him being Cap’s best friend is meaningless.

The returning Avengers are Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) and the titular Captain America (Chris Evans). I love the new darker looks of Cap and Black Widow but Nick Fury is in the same gear as all the other Marvels movies. There’s nothing from Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Agent 13 (Emily Van Camp) or Crossbones (Frank Grillo) but a bad trailer is one exposing every inch of the film, looking at you, James Mangold’s The Wolverine! Some ups and downs on the character’s visuals but this should be a fun but engaging reunion with Cap, Fury and the rest of SHIELD.

Only seven seconds of footage are given to us in the new X-Men trailer but director Bryan Singer’s packing a lot in, even if it isn’t remotely anything to do with the plot. Here’s a breakdown of everything we spotted in the first trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

There’s a close up shot of an eye before a cut to protestors waving Vietnam flags at a man getting out of a car (I’m guessing at President Nixon). A lying down Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) screams as a pair of blue hands clasp the sides of his face. Again, I’m guessing but this could be Charles Xavier using his powers to send Wolverine back in time (if that sounds like a real stab in the dark to you it’s because time travel is the centre of the plot of DOFP’s comic-book run). He’s sent from 2014 to the time of President Richard Nixon whose Oval Office is revealed to have a secret circular exit in it’s floor.

Singer then shows off the new awesome suits donned by the tense team up of Professor X, Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Wolverine. Meanwhile, Storm (Halle Berry) is brewing up a storm, the younger Magneto (Michael Fassbender) is flying outside an important looking building and we get a close up of the young Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence – the older Mystique’s portrayer Rebecca Romjin isn’t in this one).

Young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) yells in agony as he uses Cerebro, the X-Men’s mutant locating device. Shards of ice falls onto a uniformed chap that I can’t quite make out, Wolverine’s punching someone I can’t make out, gangsters are shooting, Mystique is kicking somebody in White House (an assassination attempt on the President?), Beast (Nicholas Hoult – the older Beast, Kelsey Grammer, isn’t in this one) is yelling, another character that I can’t make out is submerged, Mystique is sliding along ground towards angry young Magneto (not happy with her rash decision to try and assassinate the President?) and, finally, old Xavier shielding his face with his left arm.

What’s your thoughts? The most action packed 7 seconds ever? Why give us this, just give us a full trailer? Where’s Kitty (Ellen Page), Rogue (Anna Paquin), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), Colossus (Danield Cudmore), Quicksilver (Evan Peters), Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), Havok (Lucas Till) and everyone else Singer promised would be in the movie and, on the subject of Cap America 2, Cap and Black Widow are waiting outside a hospital but who for? Questions will be answered next May (or March for Cap) but, until then, please tell us what you think in the comments.

Thanks for going through the third post of a marathon day. Remember that we’re not posting anything tomorrow but will return on Saturday with our review of Ender’s Game.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier – March 28th

X-Men: Days of Future Past – May 22nd 2014

Tuorhoth’s first predictions for the 2014 Academy Awards

October and November are seeing the releases of some of the huge contenders for the Oscars next year well before award season has begun. We’ve no idea how well any of these films are going to do critically seeing as none of them have actually been released to mainstream audiences. This isn’t an award by award breakdown but we’re giving you a brief guide as to what could be nominated in “the big six” awards at world’s biggest annual movie event. I’m also ranking the potential nominees by their likelihood of winning by colour: red means most likely to win, blue means second most likely and green means I’ve ranked them third.

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett – The Monuments Men

Cameron Diaz – The Counsellor

Julianne Moore – Carrie

Michelle Pfeiffer – The Family

Kristen Wiig – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Benedict Cumberbatch – 12 Years A Slave

Jean Dujardin – The Monuments Men

Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tommy Lee Jones – The Family

Best Leading Actress

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Nicole Kidman – Grace of Monaco

Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Chloe Grace Moretz – Carrie

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Leading Actor

George Clooney – Gravity

Steve Coogan – Philomena

Leonardo di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips or Saving Mr. Banks (undecided)

Ben Stiller – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Director

Alfonso Cauron – Gravity

George Clooney – The Monuments Men

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Ben Stiller – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Picture

12 Years A Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

The Counsellor

Gravity

The Monuments Men

Out of the Furnace

Saving Mr. Banks

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Wolf of Wall Street

So, these are my beginning of season suggestions for who will be nominated at this prestigious event. We’re now going to talk through those films and actors that I haven’t included but could be major contenders. There’s a huge cast for The Monuments Men which I haven’t fully gone over. I’ve put George Clooney, who I’ve already selected for Best Director for this film, in for Best Leading Actor for Gravity not The MM but he could easily win for both. Stars of The Monuments Men like Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban could squeeze into the supporting actor position that I placed Dujardin in. Dujardin is already popular with the academy after his Lead Actor win in 2012 for The Artist and as likely could get a nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street instead of The Monuments Men.

Wolf of Wall Street could do very well. Jonah Hill may seem like a surprise nominee but remember that he got similar recognition at the 2012 Oscars for Moneyball. I’ve only put Nicole Kidman forward for this film but Grace of Monaco is a noteworthy contender for a Best Pic nomination. American Hustle is only in one award on my list but the stellar cast of Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence (whose already in for Hunger Games 2), Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale. I think it will win Best Original Screenplay however.

Other potential nominees are the aforementioned Bale for Out of the Furnace, for which Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana could also be in contention. Dame Judi Dench could get into the actress categories for Philomena. Robert De Niro stars in both American Hustle and The Family and could crack into the shortlists. Colin Farrel and Paul Giamatti came close to my lists for Saving Mr. Banks. 12 Years A Slave could through in Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Dano and Quvenzhane Wallis back into the award scene while The Counsellor could do the same for Fassbender, Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem as well as it’s director Sir Ridley Scott. We can’t rule out other entries like All is Lost with Robert Redford, The Book Thief with Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson or Inside Llewyn Davis (the Coen brothers’ folk tale with Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan). Spike Lee’s mysterious action remake Oldboy could creep in with it’s stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Hannah Simone and Sharlto Copley.

It’s not too late to remove this year’s earlier hits like The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann directing Leonardo di Caprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton), Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen directing Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin), Prisoners (Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard and Jake Gyllenhaal in the directing of Denis Villeneuve) and Rush (Ron Howard’s biopic with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl). Blockbuster action films like the upcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Ender’s Game or 47 Ronin have been known to do well as the Oscars (see The Dark Knight, Inception and a few others) and there’s usually a surprise foreign language film in the mix (like Amour). There’s a whole variety of films that could be next year’s nominees but I think the leaders are: Gravity, Captain Phillips, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Monuments Men and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Find out more about these films at our Future Films pages for 2013 and 2014.

The 86th Academy Awards will be hosted by Ellen De Generes and will be on ABC on March 2nd 2014

Tell us in the comments who YOU think will win big at the 2014 Oscars.

New Hobbit 2 posters and trailer, Disney plans Cruella De Vil film and the must-sees of October 2013

October 2013 through to January 2014 is bringing us some big releases. This feature will be guiding you along and giving you the opportunity t start filling in your film diary.

October:

The Fifth Estate – Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, the last two Twilight films) directs the true recent story of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The British actor of the moment Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hobbit, Sherlock, Star Trek: Into Darkness) takes the lead role while Spanish star Daniel Bruhl (Rush, The Bourne Ultimatum) plays tech-obsessed activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg as they set out extracting secrets from whistleblowers across the world and publishing them online. Carice van Houten (Repo Men, Valkyrie) and Peter Capaldi (World War Z and the new Doctor Who) also star. OCT 11th

Emperor – Tommy Lee Jones (Men In Black, Lincoln, No Country for Old Men) and Matthew Fox star in Peter Webber’s (Girl With A Pearl Earring) WW2 drama about the two leads character’s deciding the fate of surrendered Japanese Emperor’s daughter Hirohito (Eriko Hatsune). OCT 4th

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn are the directors of the animated sequel to the 2009 oddball family comedy. James Caan, Bill Hader, Anna Faris and Adam Sandberg are the stars of a plot that sees all the animals in the safe-haven of Swallow Falls turn into bizarre food-animal hybrids. OCT 25th

Captain Phillips – Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan) is the title character in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and his ordeal at the hands of Somali pirates. Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone) is the director of the hostage thriller that could see him and Hanks in  contention for Oscars. OCT 18th

Machete Kills – Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) directs this action sequel. Danny Trejo (Breaking Bad) returns in a plot that sees his character, Machete, thrown back into action when the US Government appoints him with the task of charging into Mexico and taking down on of the US’s most wanted drug lords. Pop-star Lady Gaga stars in a revamped cast featuring Amber Heard (Drive Angry, Zombieland), Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar, Fast and Furious) and Carlos Estevez (AKA Charlie Sheen) as the US President. OCT 11th

Ender’s Game – Scott Orson Card’s sci-fi novel is finally adapted into a big-budget action film. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield – Hugo) is a seemingly ordinary teen whose chosen to go to outer space and begin training as one of the first of a new breed of war commanders who must fight back against the impending alien threat. Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones), Sir Ben Kingsley (Iron Man 3, Gandhi, Hugo), Viola Davis (The Help), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) also star in Gavin Hood’s (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) space set thriller.

Romeo and Juliet – The aforementioned Steinfeld also has a lead role in this Shakespeare adaptation. If you don’t know the plot 1) HOW??? 2) Romeo Montague (Douglas Booth) falls for Juliet Capulet (Steinfeld) but their protective head of one of the rivalling famlies Lord Capulet (Damian Lewis) prevents them from meeting so Romeo’s friend Friar Laurence (Paul Giamatti) concocts a dangerous plan to get the romantic pair together. Ed Westwick and Kodi Smit-McPhee also star in the period drama that has a Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey, The Young Victoria) script to it’s name. OCT 11th

You’ll have heard plenty about Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World in recent months. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Jaimie Alexander, Natalie Portman, Christopher Eccleston, Anthony Hopkins, Kat Dennings, Idris Elba and Stellan Skarsgard all play roles in a plot that sees Norse god brothers heroic Thor and sinister Loki forced to team-up to end the potential destruction caused by revived evil race the Dark Elves and their diabolical leader Malekith (30th). October also brings the release of horror sequel V/H/S/2 (14th). There’s also Dexter Fletcher’s Proclaimers based, Scottish, comedy musical Sunshine on Leith (4th). Ken Jeong, Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph, Michelle Rodriguez, Bill Hader, Michael Pena, Samuel L Jackson, Luis Guzman and Snoop Dogg are all voicing characters in the story of a snail who dreams of becoming the fastest thing in the world titled Turbo (18th). James Corden and Julie Walters star in the true story of Paul Potts as he aspires to become a world renowned opera singer. His dreams are crushed over and over again until he auditions for the little known, in 2007 that is, talent show Britain’s Got Talent in One Chance (25th). Finally, we’ve got stupid, crass daredevil sequel Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (23rd). Our coverage of each month’s must-sees continues at the beginning of November with the November must-sees featuring Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Counsellor, Grace of Monaco, Last Vegas, The Family, Kill Your Darlings, Escape Plan, Philomena, Dom Hemingway and many more.

Cruella De Vil was the iconic villain of 101 Dalmations. She’s now set to have her own spin-off film. This seems to be part of Disney’s apparent plan to turn a lot of their animated classics into more grown-up live-action films. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland was the first and it’s been followed by Rupert Sander’s Snow White and the Huntsman and the upcoming Maleficent (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty directed by Robert Stromberg and starring  Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning) and Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh directing with Lily James, Richard Madden, Helena Bonham Carter and Cate Blanchett building up the cast). Aline Brosh McKenna (writer of The Devil Wears Prada and We Bought a Zoo) has been hired to script the film as well as Branagh’s Cinderella.

Moving on, we’ve got fresh new The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug posters for you to admire.

Director Peter Jackson’s imagery is as stunning as ever in these character teasing banners. At the bottom, we’ve got returning company members Kili (Aidan Turner), Fili (Dean O’Gorman), Dwalin (Graham McTavish), Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman). Above them is the ever menacing presence of the Elven King Trandruil (Lee Pace). At the top we find a more cryptic poster. We know that it’s the legendary Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) with the bow in the foreground. Behind him we find the Master of Laketown (Stephen Fry) accompanied by a more sinister, knife wielding figure. Much internet searching in my behalf as to who this actor or his character is has been fruitless so I challenge YOU to wildly guess his true identity in the comments.

Following the posters was an epic new trailer for the film which you can find over at The Verge. Anyone trying to avoid any plot details of the film (seeing as it does now differ from original book by JRR Tolkien) may want to skip to the next paragraph. Sauron is in it! The return of Lord of the Rings’ big bad was teased by The Necromancer in the previous film, An Unexpected Journey, but his eye does flash up on the screen. His distinctive orc army also looks like it’ll make an appearance in the dark land of Mordor. We’re also teased more of likely the most terrifying dragon in recent film history in the form of the titular villain Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). The Desolation of Smaug looks like it could be a more open with roaming special effects rather than An Unexpected Journey which was, at time, a little cramped into tight sets and the adventure really got going as soon as we got out of the enclosed areas.

“His name is Bilbo!”

Cruella De Vil – 2016?

Cinderella – March 13th 2015

Maleficent – May 30th 2014

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – December 13th

The November Preview Special – Early November here on Tuorhoth Movies

Great new Ender’s Game poster, Marvel’s Runaways and Batman’s Jim Gordon in FOX/DC spin-off TV series

The role of Commissioner Jim Gordon seemed an unimportant one until Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy which revolutionized the franchise. Oscar nominee Gary Oldman (Leon, Harry Potter, The Fifth Element, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) played Gordon from 2005 to 2012 making it his best known role. FOX have now expressed interest in giving Jim Gordon his own spin-off TV show.

It’s clear that it won’t be part of either the Christopher Nolan Bat-Verse or Zack Snyder’s DC world, seeing as the rights for the universe that Ben Affleck’s Bat and Henry Cavill’s Superman share are over at Warner Bros. So that means that Oldman won’t be a part of the series that seems like a similar project to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (which starts this Friday). It’s the story of the hero who has no superpowers, ramming home the message of “It’s what we do that defines us!”,  Batman (and Rachel’s) quote throughout Batman Begins. It’ll also show his rising through the ranks but they’ve got to through in some of Batman’s many infamous villains (e.g: The Riddler, the Penguin and the many others that haven’t been used for decades) otherwise it’ll just be a generic cop-show that happens to be set in Gotham. Will Bruce Wayne be a supporting player with everyone, par the audience, not knowing who he is? Is Harvey Dent (and later Two-Face going to) going to be a supporting figure? Tell us in the comments what should and shouldn’t be in FOX’s Gotham.

One two occasions (just before Iron Man was released in 2008 and in 2010 when Peter Sollett, director of Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, was appointed), an adaptation of the fairly unknown Marvel comic-book series The Runaways (the story of six unrelated children who discover that they’re respective parents are criminal supervillains, who’s powers are genetically inherited by the children who decide to end their elder’s schemes with them) seemed ready to go. The whole thing seems to have stalled because of 2012’s Avengers Assemble. It became apparent that the classic Marvel heroes (X-Men, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, Hulk) were the box-office, and usually critical, hits while some of the more unknown ones (Daredevil, Elektra, Blade) were all hammered by the critics. The more famous the hero the bigger the cinema market now seemed to be the approach so unheard of stories like The Runaways were shifted over for more Cap, Iron Man and Thor sequels as well as Ant-Man, Black Panther and Dr Strange.

Drew Pearce (writer of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 and comedy show No Heriocs as well as the announced sequels Sherlock Holmes 3 and Mission: Impossible 5) “It’s there. Maybe it’ll be a Phase Three movie. I really hope so. I’m really proud of it and I think it’ll be a brilliant film, but I think it all depends what Kevin Feige’s (Marvel Studios President) master plan is.”

Finally, we have a glorious new Ender’s Game poster. Asa Butterfield (Hugo, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas), Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Blade Runner), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Romeo and Juliet), Viola Davis (The Help, Disturbia), Sir Ben Kingsley (Iron Man 3, Gandhi, Shutter Island) and Abigail Breslin (Signs, Little Ms Sunshine, Zombieland) make up a cast that boasts 9 Oscar nominations, including one win. If director Gavin Hood plays his cards right, it could be the sci-fi hit of the year. Thanks for reading and bye!

Gotham – 2014 on FOX

Ender’s Game – October 25th