by Armando
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8. Her
7. The Heat
6. Man of Steel
5. 12 Years a Slave
4. The Conjuring
3. Mud
2. Captain Phillips
1. Gravity
Category Archives: Movies
Guardians of the Galaxy: First Look
A first look at one of the most highly anticipated, star-studded movie of 2014.
By Armando
This week, Marvel rang the new year with the first official picture from upcoming superhero film based on the Marvel Comics of the same name.
Directed by James Gunn, the promo image recalls the iconic Usual Suspects poster with the cast of characters standing on a lineup that suggests a strong comedic tone the movie will have.
From left: Zoe Saldana as the Gamora, standing next to Chris Pratt, who plays Peter Quill/Star-Lord, the leader of the Guardians. And then there’s Rocket Roccoon (character voiced by Bradley Cooper), followed by Drax The Destroyer (played by WWE’s Dave Bautista alongside Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel).
Guardians of Galaxy opens Aug. 1. Here’s the movie synopsis that went out with the press release:
“An action-packed epic space adventure, Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.”
Paul Walker’s “Fast and Furious 4″ car for sale at $1.4 million
By Armando
Paul Walker’s “Fast and Furious 4″ Nissan GT-R for sale at $1.4 million
A few years ago Steve McQueen’s GT40 fetched for $11 million on a Pebble Beach Auction block, becoming the most expensive American car ever sold. Following the unexpected death of Paul Walker, the tradition of collecting celebrity vehicles is back in business.
Check out the car here: http://suchen.mobile.de
The car in the ad is allegedly the same one used by Paul Walker’s character in Fast and the Furious franchise, a Nissan Skyline GT-R of the R34 which appeared in the fourth film. Apparently, the car was seized by the US government a few months ago, along with many other cars, due to auto safety and emission rules non-compliance.
So how did it end up being in Germany?
A few months ago, a German car magazine posted a review of the car, wherein the owner also reveals its in his possession and has on sale for 300,00 euros (around $400k). Within the last few days, another ad for the car has come up, only this time with a new price: 1 million euros (approximately $1,373,000).
It is kind of creepy when someone cashes in on a former celebrity ownership. But in this day and age, we all know it won’t be the last.
71st Golden Globe Nominations
Best Picture, Drama
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush
Best Picture, Comedy
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr Banks
Kate Winslet, Labor Day
Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba, Mandela
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaghey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All Is Lost
Hot Trailer of the Week: Jupiter Ascending
New York Film Critics Circle award American Hustle for Picture
By Armando
Once again, New York Film critics is first to come out of the awards season in awarding a front-runner. Last year, Zero Dark Thirty came out of the gate with a best picture win before it was officially reviewed by critics. That movie went on to receive 5 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and a win for Sound Editing… and nothing else. So this may or may not be a good precedent for American Hustle, depending on how you look at it.
Here’s a complete list of winners follows:
Best Picture: American Hustle
Best Actor: Robert Redford, All Is Lost
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Director: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay: Eric Singer & David O. Russell, American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises
Best Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Best First Film: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station
Best Foreign Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Best Nonfiction Film (Documentary): Stories We Tell
Special Award: Frederick Wiseman
How video games are transforming the film industry
Posted by Steve Boxer
At one time it was the game industry that wanted to emulate films. But now the movie industry is adopting the technology of video games
Amid the debate about television stealing the film industry’s thunder, another entertainment form has crept up unnoticed, further threatening Hollywood’s creative hegemony: video games. With a new, much more powerful generation of games consoles poised to arrive – Microsoft’s Xbox One goes on sale on Friday, with Sony’s PlayStation 4 due a week later – the games companies reckon they finally have the ammunition to shake off the perception that their digital epics are inferior to movies.
I’m in a place that could not reinforce that impression more emphatically: the historic Ealing studios, where classics such as The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers were filmed. But I’m here to experience the process of making a video game called Ryse: Son of Rome, an epic tale charting the Roman conquest of Britain, which will be a launch title for the Xbox One. And the studio is nowadays home to The Imaginarium, an outfit co-founded by Andy Serkis, who – as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings – is perhaps the world’s leading exponent of performance-capture, in which every nuance of an actor’s performance (specifically movement, voice and facial expressions) is recorded and mapped on to a video game character.
Hot Trailer of the Week: Noah
By: Armando
The trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s highly anticipated biblical tale Noah has finally arrived. The film stars Russell Crowe, last seen in this summer’s blockbuster Man of Steel, in the titular role of Noah. Also in the film are Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, and Jennifer Connelly who won an Academy Award for her supporting role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard’s 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind which also starred Crowe.
The movie has a reported budget of $130m, a departure for Aronofsky who is best known for more intimate, modestly budgeted tales of tragic figures.
NOAH opens on March 28, 2014 in the US.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly
Release: 28 March 2014 (USA)
Blockbuster closing all its U.S. stores
The video-rental company, now owned by Dish Network, is closing its last 300 stores by early January.
By Nick Turner
Blockbuster, the video-rental company now owned by Dish Network, will close its remaining 300 U.S. stores, ending an era for a retail chain that was once a hallmark of shopping centers nationwide.
Blockbuster will shut the outlets by early January and discontinue its DVD-by-mail service by the middle of next month, Englewood, Colo.-based Dish said Wednesday in a statement. The company will keep the licensing rights to the Blockbuster brand and use it with Dish services. It also has a video-streaming product called Blockbuster On Demand.
While the chain had more than 20 stores in Jacksonville less than three years ago, it’s now down to two: one at Atlantic and Hodges boulevards and another on Old St. Augustine Road in Mandarin.
‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Tracking for Massive $185M Box-Office Opening
By Todd Cunningham
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is tracking for an opening weekend that could go as high as $185 million when it debuts on Nov. 22, based on box-office marketing data released Thursday.
The higher pre-release tracking goes, the less reliable it becomes, and we’re still three weeks away from the opening. But the Jennifer Lawrence sci-fi sequel looks like it will be a box-office monster for distributor Lionsgate Entertainment.
If it does hit that mark, “Catching Fire” would be the year’s biggest opening, ahead of the $174 million May debut of “Iron Man 3.” And it’s within striking distance of the all-time record for a weekend debut of $207 million, established by “The Avengers” in May of 2012. The record for a November opening, the $142 million rung up by “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” in 2009, is well within reach.
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