Release: 3 August 2012 (USA)
Director: Tony Gilroy
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton
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US Weekend Boxoffice top 10 (Feb. 17-19, 2012)
Safe House won the second round of boxoffice competition this weekend against The Vow, this time coming on top in a very close race over the first three days of Presidents Day Weekend. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance opened at no.3, while Journey 2: The Mysterious Island continues its surprisingly strong run at no.4. Official numbers for the 4-day weekend will be released on Tuesday.
1. Safe House
2. The Vow
3. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
4. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
5. This Means War
6. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
7. Chronicle
8. The Woman in Black
9. The Secret World of Arrietty
10. The Grey
Trailer of the week – Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
2012 BAFTA Winners
The Artist dominates the 2012 BAFTA awards in London, Feb. 12, 2012. Widely considered a precursor to the Oscars, The Artist won six awards including Best Film, Director and Actor.
Here is the full list of winners:
Best Film
The Artist (2011)
Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Best Actor
Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011)
Best Actress
Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady (2011)
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010)
Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)
David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction
Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist (2011)
Best Screenplay (Original)
The Artist (2011): Michel Hazanavicius
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
Best Cinematography
The Artist (2011): Guillaume Schiffman
Best Editing
Senna (2010): Gregers Sall, Chris King
Best Production Design
Hugo (2011/II): Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Best Costume Design
The Artist (2011): Mark Bridges
Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
The Artist (2011): Ludovic Bource
Best Make Up/Hair
The Iron Lady (2011)
Best Sound
Hugo (2011/II)
Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Best Film not in the English Language
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Best Animated Feature Film
Rango (2011)
Best Documentary
Senna (2010)
Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award
Adam Deacon
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Tyrannosaur (2011): Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw
Best Short Animation
A Morning Stroll (2011)
Best Short Film
Pitch Black Heist (2011)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Make Directorial Debut With Sexy Comedy
Scarlett Johansson will co-star with the actor, who also wrote the screenplay.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is turning into a triple threat, venturing into big-screen writing and directing.
Gordon-Levitt will make his feature directorial debut with an untitled comedy based on a script he also wrote. He will star in the movie, with Scarlett Johansson playing one of the two major female roles.
Plotlines are not being revealed other than it centers on “a modern day Don Juan and his journey to become less of a selfish dick,” according to Gordon-Levitt’s publicist.
Financing is coming from Voltage Pictures, which is selling international rights in Berlin. Ram Bergman will produce for Ram Bergman Productions in association with hitRECord Films.
Production is set to start in Los Angeles on April 16.
US Weekend Boxoffice top 10 (Feb. 3-5, 2012)
US Weekend Boxoffice top 10 (Feb. 10-12, 2012)
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum romance vehicle The Vow led the pre-Valentines Day weekend, as Safe House opens strong in second place. Two other debuts, Warner Brothers’ “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” and and George Lucas’ 3-D version of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” also strong.
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1. The Vow (2012) 2. Safe House 3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 4. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 5. Chronicle 6. The Woman in Black 7. The Grey 8. Big Miracle 9. The Descendants 10.Underworld Awakening |
US Weekend Boxoffice top 10 (Jan. 29-27, 2012)
Oscar 2012 – Nominees
Hugo and The Artist leads Oscar Nominations 2012
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| Best Picture | ||
| The Artist The Descendants Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close The Help Hugo |
Midnight in Paris Moneyball The Tree of Life War Horse |
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| Best Actor | Best Actress | |
| Demián Bichir – “A Better Life” George Clooney – “The Descendants” Jean Dujardin – “The Artist” Gary Oldman – “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Brad Pitt – “Moneyball” |
Glenn Close – “Albert Nobbs” Viola Davis – “The Help” Rooney Mara – “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Meryl Streep – “The Iron Lady” Michelle Williams – “My Week with Marilyn” |
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| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | |
| Kenneth Branagh – “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill – “Moneyball” Nick Nolte – “Warrior” |
Bérénice Bejo – “The Artist” Jessica Chastain – “The Help” Melissa McCarthy – “Bridesmaids” Janet McTeer – “Albert Nobbs” Octavia Spencer – “The Help” |
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| Best Director | ||
| Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist Alexander Payne – The Descendants Martin Scorsese – Hugo Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life |
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| Cinematography | Film Editing | |
| “The Artist” Guillaume Schiffman “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Jeff Cronenweth “Hugo” Robert Richardson “The Tree of Life” Emmanuel Lubezki “War Horse” Janusz Kaminski |
“The Artist” – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius “The Descendants” – Kevin Tent “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall “Hugo” – Thelma Schoonmaker “Moneyball” – Christopher Tellefsen |
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| Art Direction | Costume Design | |
| “The Artist” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2“ “Hugo” “Midnight in Paris” “War Horse” |
“Anonymous” Lisy Christl “The Artist” Mark Bridges “Hugo” Sandy Powell “Jane Eyre” Michael O’Connor “W.E.” Arianne Phillips |
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| Writing (Adapted Screenplay) | Writing (Original Screenplay) | |
| “The Descendants” – Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash “Hugo” – John Logan “The Ides of March” – George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon “Moneyball” – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – Stan Chervin “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” – Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan |
“The Artist” – Michel Hazanavicius “Bridesmaids” – Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig “Margin Call” – J.C. Chandor “Midnight in Paris” – Woody Allen “A Separation” – Asghar Farhadi |
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| Documentary (Feature) | Documentary (Short Subject) | |
| “Hell and Back Again” “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” “Pina” “Undefeated” |
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement” “God Is the Bigger Elvis” “Incident in New Baghdad” “Saving Face” “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom” |
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| Sound Editing | Sound Mixing | |
| “Drive” Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Ren Klyce “Hugo” Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl “War Horse” Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom |
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson “Hugo” Tom Fleischman and John Midgley “Moneyball” Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin “War Horse” Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson |
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| Music (Original Score) | Music (Original Song) | |
| “The Adventures of Tintin” – John Williams “The Artist” – Ludovic Bource “Hugo” – Howard Shore “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” – Alberto Iglesias “War Horse” – John Williams |
“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie “Real in Rio” from “Rio” Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett |
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| Short Film (Animated) | Short Film (Live Action) | |
| “Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg “La Luna” Enrico Casarosa “A Morning Stroll” Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe “Wild Life” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby |
“Pentecost” Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane “Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren “The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George “Time Freak” Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey “Tuba Atlantic” Hallvar Witzø |
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| Animated Feature Film | Foreign Language Film | |
| A Cat in Paris Chico & Rita Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots Rango |
“Bullhead” Belgium “Footnote” Israel “In Darkness” Poland “Monsieur Lazhar” Canada “A Separation” Iran |
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| Makeup | Visual Effects | |
| “Albert Nobbs” – Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ – Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng “The Iron Lady” – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland |
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson “Hugo” Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning “Real Steel” Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier |
DGA Nominations
WOODY ALLEN for Midnight in Paris
(Sony Pictures Classics)
DAVID FINCHER for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
(Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS for The Artist
(The Weinstein Company)
ALEXANDER PAYNE for The Descendants
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
MARTIN SCORSESE for Hugo
(Paramount Pictures)