Big 6: SCAREFACE reunion, UP house, more
Pacino, Scarface cast celebrate film’s legacy Part of the charm of the film, Pacino said, is that it wasn’t initially a hit. “It’s one of my favorites because of its whole evolution,” he said. “It (was) sort of eviscerated after it opened by the press. … Nobody was fond of it, except it had good audience participation.” Read the full AP article Disney Allows Reproduction of ‘Up’ House in Utah This is a company that once forced a Florida day care center to remove an unauthorized Minnie Mouse mural. More recently, Disney told a stonemason that carving Winnie the Pooh into a child’s gravestone would violate its copyright. So how is a homebuilder in this Salt Lake City suburb getting away with selling a near-identical copy of the floating house in the Disney-Pixar film Up? Read the full NY Times article...
Read MoreRecreating Pixar’s UP house in real life… HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
Are you one of those cynics who dismissed Up because a house can’t fly with balloons alone? Well I have some news for you… Last weekend, cluster balloonist Jonathan Trappe piloted a house, Carl-style, for National Geographic Channel’s upcoming series How Hard Can It Be? So how hard can making a house fly be? From EAA News: Lift needed to raise the prefabricated 16-foot by 16-foot structure required assembly of the world’s largest balloon cluster to date (which Trappe said he verified). There were 283 8-foot cells (balloons), each requiring an entire tank of helium (291 cubic feet each) to fill, for a grand total of 82,353 cubic feet (2,300 cubic meters) of the lighter-than-air gas. If you can’t wait for the fall to watch the full episode, here’s a video from NGC. Skip to the 2 minute mark to see the...
Read More2010 Oscar winners – THE HURT LOCKER takes 6 including Best Picture
Best Picture The Hurt Locker Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Best Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Best Supporting Actress Mo’Nique, Precious Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Best Screenplay, Original The Hurt Locker Best Screenplay, Adapted Precious!!!!!!!!!! Best Animated Feature Up Best Art Direction Avatar Best Cinematography Avatar Best Costume Design The Young Victoria Best Documentary Feature The Cove Best Documentary Short Music by Prudence Best Film Editing The Hurt Locker Best Foreign Language Film The Secret in Their Eyes Best Makeup Star Trek Best Music, Original Score Up Best Music, Original Song “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”, Crazy Heart Best Short, Animated Logorama Best Short, Live Action The New Tenants Best Sound Editing The Hurt Locker! Best Sound Mixing The Hurt Locker Best Visual Effects...
Read More12 Hours of Oscar: UP’s flying high #oscar #oscars
12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts. Sure it took expanding the category to 10 nominees to make it happen, but Pixar finally got a Best Picture nomination this year. Up is the first CG-animated feature to score a Best Picture nod and only the second animated movie to ever do so. (Beauty and the Beast was the first.) Just as important, Up is one of the most widely nominated animated films with five nominations in five categories, a tie with Ratatouille and just behind WALL-E, which scored six nominations in six categories. Full list of Oscar Predictions...
Read More2010 Best Picture nominee box office totals
With 10 Best Picture nominees, four of which are already on DVD, that old reliable, the post-nomination box office bump, may not be as noticeable as it once was. The Hurt Locker is still moving up the DVD sales chart at Amazon.com. Up, Inglourious Basterds, and District 9 will likely move too. For the film’s still in theaters, including Avatar (the newly crowned highest-grossing domestic release of all-time), things tend to look up, post-nomination. Avatar will likely win the weekend again this week, with Fandango reporting a 45 percent increase in ticket sales for Cameron’s epic after the nomination. What about the others? A Serious Man? An Education? Those are the types of movies that used to gain the most from a Best Picture nomination. Now that they have to compete with more pictures, who knows if that boost...
Read More2010 Oscar nominees – 9 for THE HURT LOCKER & AVATAR
Best Picture Avatar The Blind Side An Education District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Best Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz, Nine Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Mo’Nique, Precious Best Supporting Actor Matt Damon, Invictus Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Christopher Plummer, The Last Station Stanley Tucci, The Lovely...
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