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ASC Awards Announces Nominees

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The American Society of Cinematographers has revealed its nominees for the 34th annual ASC Awards.

Among the nominees include cinematographer Lawrence Sher, who received his first nominations for Warner Bros’ “Joker”.

Also in contention are Rodrigo Prieto for The Irishman, the epic crime film from veteran director Martin Scorsese, as well as Phedon Papamichael for the James Mangold directed sports action drama Ford v Ferrari. This is Prieto and Papamichael’s third time as nominees.

Robert Richardson received nomination for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” This is Richardson’s 11th nomination.

Four time winner Roger Deakins received his 16th nomination for the Sam Mendes directed epic war film “1917”. Deakins previously won for “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” “Skyfall,” and “Blade Runner 2049”

Last November, nominees for TV and documentary categories were announced, with FX’s “Legion” leading the list with two noms for TV, while “Honeyland,” “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch” and “Obscuro Barroco” in the documentary category.

ASC awards is set to take place on Jan. 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, where winners for all categories will be announced.

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Intense First Trailer For ‘A Quiet Place’ Sequel Released

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It was just two years ago when John Krasinski completely transformed his career; when his modestly-budgeted horror directorial debut, “A Quiet Place” became a massive commercial and critical hit.

Now he’s back behind the camera for the highly-anticipated sequel, “A Quiet Place Part II.” On New Year’s Day, Paramount Pictures released the film’s stunning first full-length trailer.

The trailer shows us a few flash backs of how it all started, showing Emily Blunt’s character Evelyn, driving her kids amidst the street chaos and glimpses of monsters on the loose.

The family runs away, searches for a safe haven as well as the father Lee (John Krasinski), who didn’t appear in the trailer. We know now that they survived that ordeal based on what transpired on the first film.

The trailer then picks up shortly after the events of the original. We see the The Abbotts leaving their home as their farm burns. They journey by foot into an unknown ghost town, baby in tow. Later we see another survivor, Cillian Murphy’s character, who seem determined to cut contact with other humans.

“The people that are left are not the kind of people worth saving,” Murphy’s character warned Evelyn, suggesting there might be more to the terrifying monsters than what we have seen so far. There is also Djimon Hounsou, but details of his character is unclear.

It remains to be seen how much of the film takes place in the past. But its an intense and slick trailer, and looks to be a much bigger undertaking for Krasinski. This certainly looks like another winner for the actor-director, who is also working for his own script.

Paramount Pictures is set to release “A Quiet Place: Part II” on March 20, 2020.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis, for those who can’t resist:

“Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.”

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“Parasite” Black and White Version To Be Released

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“Parasite”, one of the awards seasons major contenders, is set to be released in a black and white version at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Film Stage reports.

Winner of Cannes’ coveted Palme d’Or, director Bong Joon-ho’s comedy thriller film has so far grossed $127 million worldwide, including more than $20 million in the US, an impressive haul for a foreign-language film.

Attention to the film has intensified over the last few weeks as film the award seasons come into full swing. Up next is this weekend’s 77th Golden Globe Awards, where it is nominated for three awards including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language
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The decision to convert the film in black and white follows previously acclaimed films that received the same treatment. In early 2016, it director George Miller announced the release of the black and white version of his acclaimed action epic “Mad Max: Fury Road”. A year later, James Mangold did the same with “Logan Noir,” the black-and-white version of Logan, the final installment in the Wolverine trilogy.

Bong himself released a black-and-white version of his acclaimed drama drama “Mother” at the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival.

There’s no word yet on whether the version will be available on the film’s Blu-Ray release, which is set on January 28th.

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New Trailer: Guy Ritchie Returns To His Roots In “The Gentlemen”

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The past couple of years saw the director tackle fantasy films including this summer’s Disney’s live-action version of Aladdin, and 2017’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

The upcoming star-studded action crime “The Gentlemen” is a return to familiar territory for Guy Ritchie, who wrote and directed the film starring Matthew McConaughey.

The action-packed trailer has that look and feel that recall the director’s earlier works such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.

Also co-starring in the the film are Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant.

The Gentlemen is set to be released by STXfilms on January 24, 2020

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

THE GENTLEMEN follows American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) who built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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Thrilling “Tenet” Trailer Released

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Director Christopher Nolan returns to his time-traveling roots, this time within the world international espionage in “Tenet,” with the film’s first trailer released today.

Like many of Nolan’s film, there is not a lot of details about the plot of the upcoming action thriller, which Nolan also wrote, as well as produced with Emma Thomas.

Here we see John David Washington as a mysterious agent of a top-secret group who may (or may not) be trying to prevent World War III. There’s plenty of cryptic dialogue, a car chase and a few things going in reverse that recall Nolan’s other mind-bender, 2010’s blockbuster Inception.

The film is stacked with big-name talents including Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh and Elizabeth Debicki.

Last month, Warner Bros. also announced that a longer prologue for Tenet will be shown before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in some IMAX screenings, something the studio also did with Nolan’s other films including “The Dark Knight,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “Dunkirk.”

Tenet is set for release on July 17th, 2020.
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Thom Yorke, Beyonce Make Oscars 2020 Best Original Song Shortlist

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The shortlists of potential nominees for Academy Awards 2020 in the Best Original Song category has been announced, narrowing down potential contenders.

The list include Thom Yorke’s “Daily Battles” from Motherless Brooklyn, Beyoncé’s “Spirit” from The Lion King, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo’s “Letter to My Godfather,” from The Black Godfather, Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Never Too Late” from The Lion King, Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from the Elton John biopic Rocketman, Randy Newman’s “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from Toy Story 4 among others.

Surprisingly missing is the Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaboration “Beautiful Ghosts” from this weekend’s upcoming film “Cats” which many predicted to be a shoo-in for a nomination.

Also announced is the shortlist for Best Original Score, a list which includes Michael Giacchino for Jojo Rabbit, Hildur Guðnadóttir for Joker, Alexandre Desplat for Little Women, John Williams for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Michael Abels for Us, and Randy Newman for Marriage Story.

The official nominees for the 92nd Academy Awayrs is set to be announced Monday, January 13, with winners to be handed out on Sunday, February 9 and will air live on ABC.

To see the full list, to go Oscar.com.

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Tom Cruise Takes Flight In Stunning New “Top Gun: Maverick” Trailer

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Maverick is set to return to theaters and to the cockpit in next summer’s Top Gun: Maverick, and today Paramount Picture has unveiled a new trailer that fully embraces original’s thrills and nostalgia.

Cruise looks very much in his element, understandably given the role and the 1986 original literally put him on top of Hollywood. This sequel picks up decades after that film.

The new trailer didn’t completely reveal the film’s plot, but we do know now that this time around Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is back to the naval school as a captain teaching aviation and the tricks of the trade.

Miles Teller is also in the film as pilot trainee Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, Maverick’s late friend.

“His exploits are legendary. What he has to teach you may very well mean the difference between life and death,” we hear in the new clip.

The new trailer is also heavy on action, featuring some heart-pounding and hyper realistic air combat, and shots of fighter jets leaving trails of smoke as they spinning through the skies, a factor that made the original a classic and inspired a generation of aviators.

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Fans of the original should recognize a version of “Top Gun Anthem” playing the background. The iconic instrumental theme for the 1986 film, which was in the original film’s best-selling soundtrack, was composed by Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens. It eventually won Best Pop Instrumental Performance at 1987 Grammy Awards.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film co-stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer who will reprise his role as Vice Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.

The film co-stars Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer reprising his role as Iceman.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion), “Top Gun: Maverick” is set to hit theaters on June 26, 2020.

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Official Trailer for “Promising Young Woman” Released

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The first trailer for “Promising Young Woman” was released on Wednesday, and is causing quite a stir almost immediately, racking up a million views on YouTube by Friday.

The drama thriller features Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a woman who seeks revenge on predators in local bars by pretending to be drunk to see if a “nice guy” would rescue her. But once the men take her home, she becomes sober, and things get very interesting.

“Every week, I go to a club,” Mulligan says in the trailer. “I act like I’m too drunk to stand. And every week a nice guy comes over to see if I’m okay.”

Written and directed by Killing Eve’s season-two showrunner and The Crown’s Young Camilla Emerald Fennell in her directorial debut, “Promising Young Woman” is billed by Focus Features as “a delicious new take on revenge.”

Promising Young Woman is set for release in theaters this April. Watch the trailer below.

Here’s what Focus Features says about the film:
Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman… until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.

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“Do The Right Thing” Veteran Actor Danny Aiello Dies At 86

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Danny Aiello in the “Papa Don’t Preach” video

Character actor Danny Aiello, an Oscar nominated veteran actor who made his mark in classic 80s films including “Moonstruck” and “Do the Right Thing,” has died at the age of 86, his publicist confirmed on Friday morning.

Aiello (pronounced eye-YEL-o), is known as the blue-collar character actor and has appeared in “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” “The Godfather, Part II,” “Once Upon a Time in America”. In 1990, he was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as a pizza man in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.”

But it was his role in Norman Jewison’s hit comedy “Moonstruck” that gained him widespread recognition to film audiences. In the film, he played Cher’s befuddled fiancé.

Some would also remember him as Madonna’s father in “Papa Don’t Preach” video, which was shot on Staten Island. Aiello himself is a musician, having released his first single in March of 2004, “All of Me”, and a few albums such as I Just Wanted to Hear The Words (2004), Live from Atlantic City (2008), and My Christmas Song for You (2010).

Danny was born June 20, 1933 to Italian parents. Aiello and his wife Sandy, lived in Ramsey, New Jersey. He is survived by three children and ten grandchildren.

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