Elfen lied Peter Jacksons

Elfen lied

Peter Jacksons triumphant version of the Tolkien books won big at the Oscars seventeen awards in total, including best picture for Return of the King and the box office, and did so for a reason: its great. Watching them again, the films still feel perfect, and though there may be some bad jokes, and perfectionists may wish that more of the books made it on screen or were added to the extended cuts, the sheer scale that Jackson gets to by the final chapter is one of the great achievements of cinema. Yes, the guy who directed Bad Taste had the right stuff. One elfen lied if hell ever be as good again. Our review of The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition on Blu-ray follows after the jump. Ian McShane has signed on to play Caesar, the leader of the dwarfs in Snow White and the Huntsman. That s easily the coolest sentence I ve written in months. For those keeping track, this is Universal s Snow White project, the one that stars Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth. The Relativity Snow White project which has no title and stars other people just entered into principal photography to be in theaters by March 16, 20 According to Heat Vision, director Rupert Sanders will shoot Snow White and the Huntsman in August, content to open a couple months later on June 1, 20 Heat Vision provides this logline: Snow White and the Huntsman is a revisionist take on the fairy tale and features Snow White Stewart as a princess who escapes her evil stepmother Theron with the help of a huntsman Hemsworth who was to have killed her but now trains the princess to survive and fight back. Let it be decreed that any Snow White movie that casts Ian McShane as a dwarf no less! has the advantage, no matter the release date. The Ides of March tops my list of most anticipated awards contenders. If it weren t opening earlier than most of the other films on the list October 7, I might be planning a trip to Italy right now instead of passing along this information: Deadline reports The Ides of March will open the 2011 Venice Film Festival on August George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood star in The Ides of March. Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov Good Night, and Good Luck adapted the elfen lied from the Beau Willimon play Farragut North, about a young press secretary who falls prey to dirty backroom politics as he works to get his candidate elected in a tight race. A decade has passed since Warren Beatty s last appeared on screen in Town Country. Last week at the Hero Complex Film Festival, Beatty brought up the possibility of a Dick Tracy sequel but the skeptics outnumber the faithful 20 to 1 on that claim. The Dick Tracy comment at least demonstrated Beatty s disinterest in retirement. Moreover, Beatty has reportedly been shopping around an original screenplay for the past couple weeks. Tonight Paramount announced a deal with Beatty to produced, direct, and star in the untitled project. Paramount declined to reveal story details Variety hints it may be the Howard Hughes movie that Beatty has long wanted to do, yet Deadline refers to the project as a comedy. Not sure what to make of that. If Dick Tracy fought Howard Hughes, that would be funny, right? Casting is currently underway; production is scheduled for later this year. As someone who always wondered why follow the last stage of the Clint Eastwood career arc, I d like to say, Welcome back, Mr. Beatty. Godspeed. Penn Badgley Easy A and Gossip Girl has signed on to play the late Jeff Buckley in co-writer/director Dan Algrant s Naked in New York and People I Know upcoming drama Greetings from Tim Buckley. Per the press release from Smuggler Films, the film will center on the days leading up to Buckley s 1991 performance at his father s the late Tim Buckley tribute concert and will feature a romance with a young woman who helps him better understand his father who died at the age of In discussing the role, Badgley showed reverence for the opportunity to play the legendary singer-songwriter, saying: To play a man who was singularly gifted as an artist, greatly misunderstood mythologized as a human being It s something very special and sacred. I m going to give all I can to this project. Greetings from Tim Buckley is slated to begin production in New York City this August. For more on the project, hit the jump for the full press release. Earlier this month, we listed the nominees for the first Critics Choice Television Awards from the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. Now the awards have been handed out and we have the full list of winners which include Modern Family rightfully winning Best Comedy Series and Mad Men taking home Best Drama Series along with star Jon Hamm winning Best Actor in a Drama Series. The always fantastic Neil Patrick Harris took home the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his consistently hilarious work on How I Met Your Mother, while the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ended up in a tie. See which actresses are sharing the award, as well as the rest of the winners, after the jump. Earlier today I was able to conduct an extended interview with an actor whose work I greatly admire: Jared Harris. During our wide ranging conversation, we talked about making the jump from independent movies to big budget Hollywood blockbusters, Mad Men, his upcoming John Carpenter movie The Ward, Fringe, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. With our conversation covering so much ground, I m breaking it up into smaller parts and I m starting with the sequel to Sherlock Holmes. In the sequel to the 2009 Guy Ritchie film, Harris plays the villain Moriarty, Holmes nemesis that was referred to at the end of the first flick. While I knew Harris wouldn t be able to say much about the story and what role he plays in the sequel, that didn t stop us from talking about how he got involved in the project, what kind of research he did, what it was like working with Robert Downey Jr. and Ritchie, whether he thinks his version of Moriarty knows he s evil, and his thoughts on unnecessary exposition in movies which I completely agree with. Hit the jump for what he said. Apparently sports and comedy just can t seem to get along well enough for Comedy Central s tastes.