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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:13:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Tom Hardy/Bane Pic: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Villain</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hardy-bane-pic-the-dark-knight-rises-villain/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hardy-bane-pic-the-dark-knight-rises-villain/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:16:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37136</guid> <description><![CDATA[This Tom Hardy Bane photo has been around online for some time, and we've finally gotten around to posting it here. Hardy's Bane, of course, is the chief villain in Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Dark Knight Rises. Tom Hardy as Bane: The Dark Knight Rises' villain In addition to Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises features Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Oscar winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) as Miranda Tate, two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules) as Alfred, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) as Lucius Fox, and Oscar nominee Tom Conti (Reuben Reuben). Gary Oldman was the latest addition to The Dark Knight Rises' Oscar roster: this year, Oldman is in the running for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Among the other The Dark Knight Rises cast members are Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who supported Leonardo DiCaprio in Nolan's 2010 mind-bending sci-fier Inception), veteran Matthew Modine (Alan Parker's Birdy, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket), Juno Temple, Battleship's Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata, Nestor Carbonell, Joey King, Brett Cullen, Chris Ellis, Josh Stewart, Christopher Judge, Adam Rodriguez, and Rob Brown. The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20. The Dark Knight Rises predecessors were Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008), both directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Bale as Batman. The first movie also featured Liam Neeson (who'll also be seen in the upcoming Battleship) and Tom Cruise's wife, Katie Holmes. The second co-starred eventual Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Heath Ledger as The Joker, in addition to Aaron Eckhart and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Tom Hardy/The Dark Knight Rises image: Warner Bros.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hardy-bane-pic-the-dark-knight-rises-villain/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RIO, THE MUPPETS Songs Not to Be Performed: Oscar Ceremony 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rio-the-muppets-songs-oscar-ceremony-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rio-the-muppets-songs-oscar-ceremony-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:49:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37134</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even though there are only two Best Original Song nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards, according to Deadline.com, Rio's &#34;Real in Rio&#34; (music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, lyric by Siedah Garrett) and The Muppets' &#34;Man or Muppet&#34; (music and lyric by Bret McKenzie) will not be performed at the upcoming Oscar ceremony. Time constraints would seem to be the reason for the decision &#8212; which hasn't been set in stone. Rio carnival in Carlos Saldanha's Rio Deadline posted bits from an email from an &#34;authoritative source,&#34; explaining that “The show is not locked yet. Decisions about this and other things continue to be evaluated by the team trying to produce the most entertaining 3 hours possible. Someone ‘leaking’ this possibility to you is just another way for people to try and influence the creative direction of the show. And there have been Oscar shows that did not have the nom songs performed.” (At the 2010 ceremony, for instance, the nominated songs were shown in clips.) Brian Grazer, who replaced Brett Ratner following the gay slur/Lindsay Lohan brouhaha, and Don Mischer are the 2012 Oscar ceremony producers. Rio image: 20th Century Fox]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rio-the-muppets-songs-oscar-ceremony-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Madonna Super Bowl Show 2012: Best W.E. Promo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/madonna-super-bowl-show-2012-w-e/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/madonna-super-bowl-show-2012-w-e/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37129</guid> <description><![CDATA[Madonna's Super Bowl Show 2012: Memories of Mylène Farmer Madonna, movie trailers (The Avengers, Battleship, John Carter), and car commercials were some of the hits at the 2012 Super Bowl broadcast yesterday. Below (please scroll down) is the spectacular (or spectacularly tacky, if you wish) Madonna Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show in HD. (Madonna's Super Bowl show, I should add, was a total &#8212; if much less daring &#8212; rip-off of Mylène Farmer's shows throughout Europe.) According to reports, the 2012 Super Bowl was watched by a record-breaking 111.3 million people in the United States. (Overseas, about 111.3 people watched it.) Now, I don't know if those (domestic) figures truly reflect the number of people in front of TV sets across the country; either way, what remains totally unclear is how many of those purported 111.3 million Super Bowl watchers were a) actually paying any attention to the game b) at least half-way sober so they'd have an idea of which teams were playing c) noticed M.I.A. extending her middle finger while Madonna sang &#34;Give Me All Your Luvin.'&#34; A lot of people with way too much free time in their hands have been bitching about that M.I.A.'s finger-pointing. A few years ago, those same people wreathed in agony at the time of the Justin Timberlake-Janet Jackson &#34;wardrobe malfunction.&#34; Perhaps they're afraid M.I.A.'s middle finger will lead to war with Iran &#8212; much like Janet Jackson's bare breasts led to death and mayhem in Iraq &#8212; or at the very least, increase the rate of global warming. Of note: Madonna's appearance at the Super Bowl wasn't exactly a trailer, but the showwoman-actress-singer-director-etc. has a new movie out. That's W.E., a widely panned love story featuring Andrea Riseborough as Wallis Simpson, James Darcy as King Edward VIII, in addition to Abbie Cornish and Oscar Isaac. Following a couple of Oscar-qualifying runs late in 2011, W.E. opened last Friday; Madonna's song for the movie, &#34;Masterpiece,&#34; won a Golden Globe a few weeks ago.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/madonna-super-bowl-show-2012-w-e/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BATTLESHIP Trailer = TRANSFORMERS 4 Minus Michael Bay/Shia LaBeouf</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/battleship-trailer-transformers-4-michael-bay/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/battleship-trailer-transformers-4-michael-bay/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:35:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37117</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter Berg's Battleship Nothing is as cool and hip and glorious as war, if trailers for The Avengers, John Carter, and Battleship (please scroll down) are to be perceived as reflections of reality &#8212; or at least of our cultural landscape. In The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston's Loki is the enemy (well, at least one of them); in John Carter, the enemies are mean, ugly sons-of-bitches Martians (I think); in the board-game-inspired Battleship, the enemies are robot-aliens suspiciously similar to the metallic creatures found in the Transformers movies. In fact, the Battleship trailer shown during the Super Bowl has a building collapsing much like what takes place in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. But in case you're too trailered out to get the similarities between the new Peter Berg movie and the old Michael Bay franchise, Universal tells you in big, bold letters that Battleship comes courtesy of &#34;Hasbro the company that brought you TRANSFORMERS.&#34; Or perhaps it could be that Universal felt the need to hammer that message in because the studio was afraid prospective patrons might think that Battleship is a talkie remake of Sergei Eisenstein's political drama Battleship Potemkin. (Personally, The Artist or no, I don't believe they should have been too concerned about that, but that's just me.) Taylor Kitsch, the heir apparent to Shia LaBeouf, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Mel Gibson, will be busy this year, fighting Martians in John Carter and alien robots from who-the-hell-knows-where in Battleship. In addition to Kitsch, the latest bombastic spring/summer blockbuster-to-be hopeful features Liam Neeson, Brooklyn Dekker, Rihanna, Peter MacNicol, and Josh Pence. Battleship opens May 18.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/battleship-trailer-transformers-4-michael-bay/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JOHN CARTER Trailer: MAD MAX Meets CONAN THE BARBARIAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-carter-trailer-taylor-kitsch/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-carter-trailer-taylor-kitsch/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:28:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37114</guid> <description><![CDATA[Taylor Kitsch, John Carter The John Carter trailer (please scroll down) was another Super Bowl event earlier this evening, more important for some than the game itself. Perhaps even more important than appearances by Clint Eastwood and Madonna, not to mention all the car commercials. Now, Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars isn't exactly a very well-known novel nor is John Carter a major pop action figure. Though he'd better become one, considering that Walt Disney Studios has invested a reported $250 million on this actioner/sci-fier, the first live-action feature directed by Pixar's Andrew Stanton of WALL-E fame. One thing Disney surely can't afford is another Mars Needs Moms box-office cataclysm. In the title role, Taylor Kitsch is an earthling who happens to land on Mars, where he must battle huge monsters, fight huge armies, and display huge biceps. By the looks of the John Carter trailer, the movie seems like Dune meets Mad Max meets Conan the Barbarian meets Lawrence of Arabia meets Spartacus meets David and Bathsheba. Perhaps with a touch of Samson and Delilah? Also in the John Carter cast: Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Bryan Cranston, Samantha Morton, Thomas Haden Church, Dominic West, Polly Walker, and James Purefoy.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-carter-trailer-taylor-kitsch/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE AVENGERS Trailer: Loud, Silly; Jeremy Renner Good-Looking Hawkeye</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-avengers-trailer-jeremy-renner-hawkeye/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-avengers-trailer-jeremy-renner-hawkeye/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:39:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37112</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, The Avengers The Avengers are here. Have no fear. Scroll down for the extended Super Bowl Avengers trailer, and feel free to start laughing. For to call the Avengers trailer silly would be quite an understatement. Robert Downey Jr's deadpan delivery is supposed to be funny, but what had me cracking up instead were Scarlett Johansson as a dead serious Black Widow and Samuel L. Jackson telling us he still believes in heroes. Fans of video games and Marvel comics and cartoons will surely not be disappointed with The Avengers. Tom Hiddleston fans likely won't be disappointed, either. In their brief scene together, Hiddleston makes Downey Jr look like an amateur. Now, why is it that villains are always so much more interesting than heroes in mainstream American movies? But having said that, I gotta admit that Jeremy Renner looks good as Hawkeye. Directed by Joss Whedon, The Avengers features Chris Evans as Captain America, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Stellan Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, and veteran Jenny Agutter (Walkabout, Logan's Run). The Avengers opens on May 4. Get ready. This is gonna be a long, silly summer. And quite possibly a profitable one for the Hollywood studios as well.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-avengers-trailer-jeremy-renner-hawkeye/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Scarlett Johansson, Mario Adorf, Morgan Freeman: Golden Camera Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/scarlett-johansson-mario-adorf-morgan-freeman-golden-camera/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/scarlett-johansson-mario-adorf-morgan-freeman-golden-camera/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:18:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37110</guid> <description><![CDATA[Denzel Washington, Dionne Warwick, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Dietmar Bär: Golden Camera Awards Initially a television award, the German weekly Hörzu's Golden Camera Award now covers a variety of categories, including movies, music, sports, pop culture, and even activism. Unlike the German Film Academy's prestigious Lola Awards &#8212; Germany's equivalent of the Oscars &#8212; the Golden Camera is basically a pop award. At a ceremony held Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Berlin headquarters of Hörzu's publishing house Axel Springer, this year's winners in the international movie categories were Scarlett Johansson and Denzel Washington, while Morgan Freeman received a Lifetime Achievement trophy. A couple of weeks ago, Freeman received a similar honor &#8212; the Cecil B. DeMille Award &#8212; from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Additionally, Dionne Warwick received her own Lifetime Achievement Golden Camera in the music category. Now, not that the U.S. media would know or care about this little detail, but, gasp, there were non-American Golden Camera winners as well. One of those, another Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, was the Swiss-born veteran Mario Adorf, 81, whose film career spans more than five decades. Actress Hannelore Elsner introduced Adorf, her co-star in several motion pictures and in the recent TV movie The Last Patriarch (2010), as &#34;a dear friend for many years,&#34; calling him &#34;the grandmaster of German actors.&#34; Among Adorf's more than 130 film credits are Robert Siodmak's Oscar nominated The Devil Strikes at Night (1957), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975), Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978), Volker Schlöndorff's Oscar winner and Cannes co-winner The Tin Drum (1979), and Bille August's Smilla's Sense of Snow (1987). Liv Lisa Fries, 21, was the recipient of the Lilli Palmer and Curd Jürgens Award &#8212; which comes with 20,000 euros &#8212; given to newcomers. Among Fries' credits are the television movie Father Mother Murder, and the big-screen features Closer Than Blood and Romeos. An estimated 5.23 million people watched this year's Golden Camera Awards ceremony, which also featured Til Schweiger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Miss Piggy. That represented about 800,000 more viewers than last year, but 400,000 less than the audience for the competition show &#34;Germany Looks for a Superstar.&#34; Scarlett Johansson, Denzel Washington, Dionne Warwick, Morgan Freeman Golden Camera Award photo via Lausitzer Rundschau (Maurizio Gambarini). Check out the site, which offers about a dozen images from the ceremony.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/scarlett-johansson-mario-adorf-morgan-freeman-golden-camera/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RANGO, Bill Nighy, Jennifer Yuh Nelson: Annie Awards Animated Feature Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rango-bill-nighy-annie-awards-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rango-bill-nighy-annie-awards-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:08:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37098</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gore Verbinski's Rango, voiced by Johnny Depp PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris Arrugas (Wrinkles) Arthur Christmas Cars 2 Chico &#38; Rita Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots * Rango Rio The Adventures of Tintin Best Animated Special Production Adventure Time: Thank You Batman: Year One Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas * Kung Fu Panda: Secret of the Masters Prey 2 Star Tours Best Animated Short Subject * Adam and Dog I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat La Luna (Notes on) Biology Paths of Hate Sunday The Ballad of Nessie The Girl and the Fox Wild Life and Studio GDS &#160; INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES Animated Effects in an Animated Production Can Yuksel, Puss In Boots Chase Cooper, Rango Dan Lund, Winnie The Pooh Dave Tidgewell, Kung Fu Panda 2 Eric Froemling, Cars 2 Jason Mayer, Kung Fu Panda 2 Joel Aron, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Jon Reisch, Cars 2 * Kevin Romond, The Adventures of Tintin Willi Geiger, Rango Animated Effects in a Live Action Production Branko Grujcic, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides * Florent Andarra, Transformers: Dark of the Moon Gary Wu, Cowboys &#38; Aliens Lee Uren, Cowboys &#38; Aliens Character Animation in a Feature Production Andreas Deja, Winnie The Pooh Dan Wagner, Kung Fu Panda 2 * Jeff Gabor, Rio Mark Henn, Winnie The Pooh Olivier Staphylas, Puss In Boots Patrik Puhala, Rio Pierre Perifel, Kung Fu Panda 2 Character Animation in a Live Action Production Andy Arnett, HOP David Lowry, Paul * Eric Reynolds, Rise of the Planet of the Apes Mike Hull, Paul Character Design in a Feature Production Jay Shuster, Cars 2 * Mark &#34;Crash&#34; McCreery, Rango Patrick Mate, Puss in Boots Peter de Seve, Arthur Christmas Sergio Pablos, Rio Directing in a Feature Production Carlos Saldanha, Rio Chris Miller, Puss in Boots Don Hall &#38; Stephen Anderson, Winnie The Pooh Gore Verbinski, Rango * Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Kung Fu Panda 2 Kelly Asbury, Gnomeo &#38; Juliet Music in a Feature Production Henry Jackman, Puss In Boots * John Williams, The Adventures of Tintin Mikael Mutti, Siedah Garrett, Carlinhos Brown, Sergio Mendes, John Powell, Rio Zooey Deschannel, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Henry Jackman, Robert Lopez, Winnie The Pooh Production Design in a Feature Production Harley Jessup, Cars 2 Paul Felix, Winnie The Pooh * Raymond Zilbach, Kung Fu Panda 2 Tom Cardone, Kyle MacNaughton &#38; Peter Chan, Rio Storyboarding in a Feature Production Bob Logan, Puss in Boots David Gosman, Rango Gary Graham, Kung Fu Panda 2 * Jeremy Spears, Winnie The Pooh Josh Hayes, Rango Kris Pearn, Arthur Christmas Nelson Yokota, Gnomeo and Juliet Philip Craven, Kung Fu Panda 2 Scott Morse, Cars 2 Voice Acting in a Feature Production Ashley Jensen as Bryony, Arthur Christmas * Bill Nighy as Grandsanta, Arthur Christmas Gary Oldman as Shen, Kung Fu Panda 2 James Hong as Mr. Ping, Kung Fu Panda 2 Jemaine Clement as Nigel, Rio Jim Cummings as Featherstone, Gnomeo and Juliet Zach Galifianakis as Humpty Alexander Dumpty, Puss in Boots Writing in a Feature Production Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Mark Burton, Kathy Greenburg, Emily Cook, Rob Sprackling, John R. Smith, Kelly Asbury, Steve Hamilton, Gnomeo &#38; Juliet Brian Kesinger, Kendelle Hoyer, Don Dougherty, Clio Chang, Don Hall, Stephen Anderson, Winnie The Pooh * John Logan, Gore Verbinski and James Byrkit, Rango Sarah Smith, Peter Baynham, Arthur Christmas Steve Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cronish, The Adventures of Tintin Editing in a Feature Production Clare Knight, A.C.E., Kung Fu Panda 2 * Craig Wood, A.C.E., Rango Eric Dapkewicz, Puss in Boots Michael Kahn, The Adventures of Tintin Stephen Schaffer, A.C.E., Cars 2 &#160; JURIED AWARDS Winsor McCay Award —Walt Peregoy, Borge Ring, Ronald Searle June Foray — Art Leonardi Special Achievement — Depth Analysis Rango still: Paramount Pictures.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rango-bill-nighy-annie-awards-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, HUGO, DEATHLY HALLOWS 2, MILDRED PIERCE: Art Directors Guild Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mildred-pierce-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-art-directors-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mildred-pierce-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-art-directors-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:23:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37095</guid> <description><![CDATA[Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dante Ferretti, Tony Walton, Stuart Craig, Alfred Junge: Art Directors Guild Awards FEATURE FILMS Period Film THE ARTIST Production Designer: Laurence Bennett  * HUGO Production Designer: Dante Ferretti THE HELP Production Designer: Mark Ricker ANONYMOUS Production Designer: Sebastian Krawinkel TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY Production Designer: Maria Djurkovic &#160; Fantasy Film * HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Production Designer: Stuart Craig CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET UNICORN Production Designer: TBD PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Production Designer: John Myhre COWBOYS &#38; ALIENS Production Designer: Scott Chambliss &#160; Contemporary Film * THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt THE DESCENDANTS Production Designer: Jane Anne Stewart EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE Production Designer: K. K. Barrett DRIVE Production Designer: Beth Mickle BRIDESMAIDS Production Designer: Jefferson Sage &#160; TELEVISION One-Hour Single Camera Television Series * BOARDWALK EMPIRE Episode: 21 Production Designer: Bill Groom GAME OF THRONES Episode: A Golden Crown Production Designer: Gemma Jackson AMERICAN HORROR STORY Episode: Murder House Production Designer: Mark Worthington  THE PLAYBOY CLUB Episode: The Scarlet Bunny Production Designer: Scott P. Murphy PAN AM Episode: Pilot Production Designer: Bob Shaw &#160; Television Movie or Mini-Series * MILDRED PIERCE Production Designer: Mark Friedberg CINEMA VERITE Production Designer: Patti Podesta  TOO BIG TO FAIL Production Designer: Bob Shaw THE HOUR Production Designer: Eve Stewart BLING RING Production Designer: Robb Wilson King &#160; Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series * MODERN FAMILY Episode: Express Christmas Production Designer: Richard Berg 30 ROCK Episode: Double-Edged Sword Production Designer: Keith Ian Raywood, Teresa Mastropierro WEEDS Episode: Game-Played Production Designer: Joseph P. Lucky CALIFORNICATION Episode: Monkey Business Production Designer: Michael Wylie NEW GIRL Episode: Pilot Production Designer: Jefferson D. Sage &#160; Episode of a Multi-Camera, Variety, or Unscripted Series SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE * Episode: Host Justin Timberlake and Musical Guest – Lady Gaga, Production Designer: Keith Ian Raywood, Eugene Lee, Leo Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Episode: Ducky Tie Production Designer: Stephan Olson 2 BROKE GIRLS Episode: And the Rich Peoples Problems Production Designer: Glenda Rovello AMERICAN IDOL Episode: Top 12 Boys Perform Production Designer: James Yarnell DANCING WITH THE STARS Episode: Round One Production Designer: James Yarnell &#160; Awards, Music, or Game Shows * 83rd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Production Designer: Steve Bass 68th ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES Production Designer: Brian Stonestreet 2011 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS Production Designer: Florian Wieder 63rd ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS Production Designer: Steve Bass IT’S WORTH WHAT?  Production Designer: John Ivo Gilles Daniel Craig/Rooney Mara/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo picture: Merrick Morton / Columbia TriStar]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mildred-pierce-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-art-directors-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2, HUGO: Art Directors Guild Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-hugo-art-directors-guild-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-hugo-art-directors-guild-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37093</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese's Hugo (period film), David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (fantasy film), and David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (contemporary film) were the feature-film winners at the Art Directors Guild's 16th Excellence in Production Design Awards, held this evening at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The respective production design winners were Dante Ferretti (photo), Stuart Craig, and Donald Graham Burt. [Full list of 2012 Art Directors Guild winners and nominees.] Both Ferretti (with frequent collaborator/set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo) and Craig (with set decorator Stephenie McMillan ) are in the running for the Best Art Direction Academy Award. Their competitors are Laurence Bennett and set decorator Robert Gould for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, Anne Seibel and set decorator Hélène Dubreuil for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, and Rick Carter and set decorator Lee Sandales for Steven Spielberg's War Horse. Among the evening's other award winners were Mark Friedberg for Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce, Richard Bird for Modern Family, Bill Groom for Boardwalk Empire, and Steve Bass for the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony. Veteran production designer, former husband of Julie Andrews, and frequent Sidney Lumet collaborator Tony Walton (The Boy Friend, Murder on the Orient Express, Prince of the City) received the ADG's Lifetime Achievement Award. Additionally, the already-deceased trio of Robert F. Boyle (North by Northwest, Fiddler on the Roof, Private Benjamin), William S. Darling (In Old Chicago, The Song of Bernadette, Anna and the King of Siam), and Alfred Junge (Piccadilly, Black Narcissus, King Solomon's Mines) were this year's Hall of Fame inductees. And finally, an award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery was given to the behind-the-scenes team from the Harry Potter movies, including executive producer David Heyman, producer David Barron; directors Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell, and David Yates; author J.K. Rowling; screenwriters Steve Kloves and Michael Goldenberg; production designer Stuart Craig; art director Neil Lamont; and set decorator Stephenie McMillan. Art Directors Guild president Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony, while Paula Poundstone served as host for the third consecutive year and Ben Vereen performed as a &#34;special musical guest.&#34; Presenters included veteran Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Alexandra Breckenridge (American Horror Story), Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly), James Cromwell (Babe, The Artist), Melanie Lynskey (Up In The Air), Penelope Ann Miller (Chaplin, The Artist), Kevin McHale (Glee), Gary Oldman (Prick Up Your Ears, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma), and Max Greenfield (New Girl). At the start of the awards ceremony, two short films by Cindy Peters had their public premiere. As per the ADG's press release, the first film &#34;provided a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 16th annual awards show.&#34; The second short, &#34;75 Years of Inspirational Design: A Personal Reflection in Eight Chapters,&#34;&#160;featured production designers Rick Carter, Albert Brenner, Terry Marsh, James D. Bissell, Jeannine Oppewall, Rick Heinrichs, Roy Christopher, and Guy Hendrix Dyas. The ADG release adds that &#34;ADG awards recognition always goes to the Production Designer, Art Director, Assistant Art Director and their team of each nominated and winning project.&#34; Dante Ferretti photo: Art Directors Guild]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-hugo-art-directors-guild-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>James Cameron Collaborator Andrew Wight, Cinematographer Mike deGruy Die in Helicopter Crash</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-andrew-wight-sanctum-mike-degruy-obit/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-andrew-wight-sanctum-mike-degruy-obit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:49:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37091</guid> <description><![CDATA[Producer Andrew Wight (right), best known for his collaboration with James Cameron on Sanctum, and cinematographer Mike deGruy, among whose credits is the documentary Deep Blue, have died earlier today as their helicopter crashed while taking off from an airstrip south of Berry in New South Wales, Australia. Wight, from the Australian state of Victoria, was 51; deGruy, from Santa Barbara, California, was 60. According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, they were scouting locations for a a documentary at Jervis Bay, NSW. Avatar and Titanic's James Cameron was reportedly involved in the project as well. In addition to various Adventures of the Quest programs for Australian television and other TV fare (e.g., Last Mysteries of the Titanic), Andrew Wight produced a couple of features: the aforementioned Sanctum, for which James Cameron received credit as co-producer, and Aliens of the Deep, a 2005 documentary co-directed by Cameron and Steven Quale. Purportedly based on Wight's near-death experience in an underwater cave, Sanctum was a box-office disappointment in North America, grossing a mere $23.2 million. However, the adventure drama found a much wider audience overseas; its worldwide gross was $108.6 million. As per the Herald Sun, Wight was recently named the head of Cameron Pace, James Cameron's &#34;first international 3D production office,&#34; based in Australia. Mike deGruy (right) won both an Emmy and a BAFTA Television Award for his work (along with about a dozen others) on the 2001 television documentary Blue Planet. His only feature film credits as a cinematographer were two underwater documentaries: Incredible Suckers (1995), which he also wrote, about octopuses, and Deep Blue (2003), directed by Andy Byatt and Alastair Fothergill, written by David Attenborough, and narrated by Michael Gambon. (At TED.com, check out deGruy talking about the Earth's oceans.)]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-andrew-wight-sanctum-mike-degruy-obit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mia Farrow Must-See Photo Tweet: Rick Santorum Bores Kids</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mia-farrow-photo-rick-santorum-boring-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mia-farrow-photo-rick-santorum-boring-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:48:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37087</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum puts kids to sleep Mia Farrow is a frequent Twitter tweeter. Earlier today, for instance, Farrow expressed her disgust at the Chinese and Russian governments' decision to veto United Nations sanctions against Syria, where the Bashar al-Assad regime reportedly massacred hundreds of people in the city of Homs. On the homefront, Farrow posted a picture she called &#34;a gem&#34; (via the website Think Progress). Regarding the picture (see above), Farrow's tweet reads: &#34;See children's choir literally passing out from boredom during [Republican presidential candidate Rick] Santorum [Florida] speech.&#34; Despite a movie career that includes almost fifty films during the course of nearly five decades, Mia Farrow not only has never won an Oscar, she has never been even nominated for one. that's quite surprising, considering her movie credits. Among those are Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), with John Cassavetes; Peter Yates' John and Mary (1969), with Dustin Hoffman; Jack Clayton's The Great Gatsby (1974), with Robert Redford; and Robert Altman's A Wedding (1978), with Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Dennis Christopher, and others. Farrow's personal and professional association with Woody Allen resulted in 13 movie collaborations. All but five (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, September, Another Woman, and Alice) also featuring Allen, those were the following: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), with Jose Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, and Mary Steenburgen; Zelig (1983); Broadway Danny Rose (1984); The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), with Jeff Daniels; Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), with Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, Barbara Hershey, and Max von Sydow; Radio Days (1987), with Dianne Wiest and Julie Kavner; September (1987), with Elaine Stritch, Denholm Elliott, Sam Waterston, and Dianne Wiest; Another Woman (1988), with Gene Hackman and Gena Rowlands; the omnibus feature New York Stories (1989); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), with Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, and Joanna Gleason; Alice (1990), with Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, and William Hurt; Shadows and Fog (1991), with Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin, Madonna, Jodie Foster, and John Malkovich; Husbands and Wives (1992), with Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis. The last one came out around the time Farrow and Allen had an acrimonious and highly publicized split. Farrow's post-Woody Allen movies include John Irvin's Widow's Peak (1994), with Joan Plowright and Natasha Richardson; Norman René's Reckless (1995), with Tony Goldwyn; John Moore's The Omen (2006), with Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles; and Todd Solondz's Dark Horse (2011), with Justin Bartha and Selma Blair. Some years ago, Farrow said she admired several of the movies she made for Allen. Yet, she called Reckless, a coming-of-awareness comedy about a woman who discovers her husband is plotting to kill her, one of her personal favorite films. Also today on Twitter, Farrow sent &#34;my very best wishes&#34; to Marsha Hunt, who appeared with Farrow's mother, Maureen O'Sullivan, in Robert Z. Leonard's 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice. Hunt will turn 95 next October 17.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mia-farrow-photo-rick-santorum-boring-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cornel Wilde/THE BIG COMBO, Dick Powell/Lizabeth Scott/PITFALL: Million Dollar Theater Film Noir Double Bill</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cornel-wilde-the-big-combo-dick-powell-lizabeth-scott-pitfall/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cornel-wilde-the-big-combo-dick-powell-lizabeth-scott-pitfall/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:34:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37085</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955) and André De Toth's Pitfall (1948, right, with Dick Powell) will be screened as a film noir double bill at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at downtown Los Angeles' historic Million Dollar Theater. I haven't watched either movie, but the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan's warns: The Big Combo's &#34;big, dark shadows &#8230; will eat you alive.&#34; Sounds like a must-see. Cornel Wilde stars as a cop in pursuit of crime boss Richard Conte; all the while, both cop and criminal vie for the attention of curvaceous blonde Jean Wallace, Wilde's then real-life wife. (The couple were married 1951-1981.) Also in the Big Combo cast: Robert Middleton, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Helen Walker, and Earl Holliman. Screenplay by Philip Yordan (House of Strangers, Detective Story, Johnny Guitar). In Pitfall, former Warner Bros. crooner Dick Powell plays an insurance salesman who falls for sultry Lizabeth Scott, whose criminal boyfriend is behind bars. The problems are: a) private detective Raymond Burr wants Scott for himself b) Lost Horizon and Father Knows Best's Jane Wyatt is the insurance man's wife. I remember once chatting with André De Toth at a party. He didn't say anything about Pitfall, but he did in no way uncertain terms express his disdain for Alfred Hitchcock. In the video below, he does talk about Powell's character in the film: a cheating weakling who destroys the lives of those around him. De Toth's take on the character: &#34;The majority of people are like that. So, I just depicted it as I saw it in the life happening.&#34; (De Toth was Hungarian.) This film series is presented in collaboration with the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archive and is partly supported by funds from the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program. Here's wondering when Hefner will get an Honorary Oscar for his contributions to film preservation.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/cornel-wilde-the-big-combo-dick-powell-lizabeth-scott-pitfall/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Stewart Beautiful Closeup: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-beautiful-closeup-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-photo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-beautiful-closeup-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-photo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:45:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37083</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart, Snow White and the Huntsman Above is a stunning closeup of Kristen Stewart as a warrior Snow White in Rupert Sanders' upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman. Some have remarked that Charlize Theron's Evil Queen would never have been jealous of a little girl like the Bella Swan of the Twilight movies &#8212; but this picture proves them dead wrong. In fact, it's easy to see why the Evil Queen's mirror, mirror would find Snow White the most beautiful of them all. [Watch the Snow White and the Huntsman trailer.] Snow White and the Huntsman, which also stars Thor and The Avengers' Chris Hemsworth as the second half of the title, opens (via Universal) on June 1. Others in the cast are Sam Claflin as Prince William, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Lily Cole, Vincent Regan,Noah Huntley, and Nick Frost. Relativity Media's &#34;rival&#34; version, Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror, opens March 30. It stars Lucy Collins as Snow White, Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, and Armie Hammer as Prince Charming. I have &#34;rival&#34; between quotes because anyone who has seen the trailers for both Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman know that those movies are as different as, say, Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Also in 2012, Kristen Stewart will likely be seen in Walter Salles' eagerly awaited On the Road, co-starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen; and in the final installment of the Twilight Saga movies, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, with Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and dozens of other vampires and werewolves &#8212; plus a scattered few humans. Universal Pictures.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-beautiful-closeup-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-photo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Chris Evans Shirtless Photo Shoot</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/chris-evans-shirtless-photo-tattoo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/chris-evans-shirtless-photo-tattoo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:07:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37081</guid> <description><![CDATA[Chris Evans shirtless The tattooed Chris Evans shirtless photo shoot for Details magazine will likely serve as a sexy promo for the upcoming The Avengers, which opens May 4. In Joss Whedon's movie, Evans (either with his shirt on or with his tattoos covered up, one assumes) will reprise his role as Captain America, which he initially played in last year's blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston. Just Jared offers about 20 pictures from the Chris Evans Details shoot, which took place on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Vasquez Rocks Park in Santa Clarita, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. (The tattoo on his arm looks like something out of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting.) Two other upcoming Chris Evans movies, both to be released in 2013, are Ariel Vromen's The Iceman, co-starring James Franco, Winona Ryder, Michael Shannon, Erin Cummings, David Schwimmer, and Ray Liotta; and Bong Joon-ho's similarly-titled Snowpiercer, with John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, and The Help's Octavia Spencer. Previous Chris Evans films include Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, with Michael Cera; Jodie Markell's The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, with Bryce Dallas Howard; and the Fantastic Four movies featuring Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba. In addition to Chris Evans, The Avengers features Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Stellan Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, and veteran Jenny Agutter (Walkabout, Logan's Run).]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/chris-evans-shirtless-photo-tattoo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Catherine Hardwicke, Evan Rachel Wood: Erotic Thriller PLUSH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/catharine-hardwicke-evan-rachel-wood-erotic-thriller-plush/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/catharine-hardwicke-evan-rachel-wood-erotic-thriller-plush/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:47:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37079</guid> <description><![CDATA[Production designer-turned-director Catherine Hardwicke, who hit the big time following the worldwide success of the first Twilight movie, may be reteaming with her Thirteen star Evan Rachel Wood in the erotic thriller Plush, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Set in the L.A. music world, Plush was written by Hardwicke and Artie Nelson. Both Hardwicke and Wood are officially attached to project, which will be hawked to prospective foreign buyers at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival's European Film Market beginning next week. Thirteen created quite a buzz when it came out in 2003, but Hardwicke's first &#8212; and to date only &#8212; major commercial hit has been Twilight, which turned Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson into movie stars. Starring Amanda Seyfried, last year's Red Riding Hood was a critical and box-office disappointment. Hardwicke is currently working on Knock-Out, the story of Swedish boxer Bosse Högberg and his relationship with cabaret singer Anita Lindblom. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' Noomi Rapace and her husband, Ola Rapace (to be seen in Sam Mendes' James Bond movie Skyfall), are set to star. Last year, Hardwicke was reportedly going to work on an adaptation of Martha O'Connor's psychological novel The Bitch Posse, but that seems to be on hold for the time being. Hardwicke's credits as a production designer include Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz; David O. Russell's Three Kings, with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg; and Costa-Gavras' Mad City, with Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta. Evan Rachel Wood was recently seen in the George Clooney political drama The Ides of March, co-starring Clooney and Ryan Gosling, and, on television, as Kate Winslet's selfish daughter in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce remake.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/catharine-hardwicke-evan-rachel-wood-erotic-thriller-plush/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Daniel Radcliffe/THE WOMAN IN BLACK Way Overperforms, CHRONICLE Solid, BIG MIRACLE Weak: Box Office</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/daniel-radcliffe-the-woman-in-black-chronicle-big-miracle/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/daniel-radcliffe-the-woman-in-black-chronicle-big-miracle/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:49:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37076</guid> <description><![CDATA[Daniel Radcliffe, The Woman in Black In The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe may not have a megablockbuster on the scale of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (or even the more modest Deathly Hallows: Part 1); even so, the period horror thriller starring Radcliffe in his very first post-Harry Potter role may well top the North American box office this Superbowl weekend. According to early, rough estimates found at Deadline.com, CBS Films' The Woman in Black may reach close to $20 million by Sunday evening after grosses of approximately $8.1 million at 2,855 theaters on Friday. The Woman in Black has a 68% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics, with a 5.9 average. Those are hardly &#34;wide acclaim&#34; figures. Even so, the combination of the Radcliffe and a mysterious ghost have been luring the curious into movie theaters. Directed by James Watkins, The Woman in Black also features Janet McTeer (a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for Albert Nobbs), Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dooley, David Burke, and Liz White. Right on The Woman in Black's heels is Chronicle, which is expected to earn $8 million at 2,907 locations on Friday &#8212; and may still be the weekend's no. 1 film, also with close to $20 million. As per Deadline, both films are overperforming &#8212; though The Woman in Black, if early estimates are correct, is way, way overperforming, as some pundits had been expecting its weekend gross to be close to $10 million. (For instance, at Box Office Mojo, Ray Subers predicted that Chronicle would collect $17.5 million; The Woman in Black $10.5 million.) Directed by Josh Trank, the sci-fi/fantasy/horror Chronicle features Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw, and Bo Petersen. Chronicle has a surprisingly high Rotten Tomatoes' score: 85% among RT's top critics. Its average is a perfectly acceptable 7.2. Down about 52% at no. 3, the Liam Neeson adventure movie The Grey is expected to collect $9.4 million over the weekend after pulling in $3 million on Friday. The Grey was followed by new entry Big Miracle, which, despite generally good reviews (79% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics) and the presence of The Office's John Krasinski and He's Just Not That into You's Drew Barrymore, opened weakly with only $2.2 million at 2,129 sites on Friday. Big Miracle, aimed at children and those who feel obligated to take them to movies (i.e., &#34;families&#34;), is expected to earn only $8 million for the weekend. The presence of marine mammals notwithstanding, Big Miracle will be no Free Willy. In Big Miracle, Ken Kwapis (He's Just Not That into You, several The Office episodes) directed an extensive cast that also includes Ted Danson, Tim Blake Nelson, Kathy Baker, Vinessa Shaw, Stephen Root, Dermot Mulroney, and, in a sort of cameo, the kiss of the death at the box office, Sarah Palin. So far, the fifth spot is up in the air. It'll go to either Kate Beckinsale's Underworld Awakening or Katherine Heigl's One for the Money. Each grossed an estimated $1.7-1.8 million on Friday. Their ranking will depend on how well they perform on the weekend proper. Deadline's estimates has Underworld Awakening ahead by more than $1 million by Sunday evening. The international box office, by the way, will not be affected by the Superbowl, as the vast majority of people outside North America couldn't care less about the Big Game &#8212; that is, if they've ever even heard of it. Daniel Radcliffe/The Woman in Black photo: CBS Films.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/daniel-radcliffe-the-woman-in-black-chronicle-big-miracle/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HUSBANDS Review Pt.2: Too Much Testosterone in Place of Intelligence</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-cassavetes-husbands-review/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-cassavetes-husbands-review/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:34:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25344</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Husbands HUSBANDS Review Pt.1 John Cassavetes does a terrific acting job with his portrayal of disillusioned diffidence. Peter Falk’s best moment is not in an early famous scene wherein Archie takes off his clothes trying to persuade an American woman to sing better at a bar; instead, Falk shines in Husbands' penultimate scene, after Archie and Gus have left Harry behind to a life in England, and Archie asks Gus about what Harry will do without them. It is a poignant moment because the viewer knows Harry really doesn’t give a damn what his buddies think. Also, Archie is clueless to this fact, since we’ve seen him and Gus spend the whole film basically freezing Harry out of their friendship. It’s a moment that shows the best of &#34;realistic&#34; character development &#8212; something Husbands sorely lacks elsewhere. Compounding matters, the camaraderie shown between the three characters, which is the basis of their friendship and their missing of Stu, is lost in the bulk of the film. The viewer, of course, sees that these guys are close, but never feels it. There are no moments of real intimacy between the men; it's all about bravado and dickwaving. Adolescent banter passes for male bonding. Also, the men are portrayed as parts of a larger trio, rather than three individuals worth watching in their own right. On Sony's DVD, Husbands is presented on a single disc, 1.85:1 aspect ratio, in a quite pristine transfer. Additionally, the DVD offers a making-of featurette that is brief but informative, and an audio commentary by film critic Marshall Fine. Fine's is an excellent commentary. Why? Well, aside from being informative on the film’s making and meaning, he levies scene-specific information that illuminates more often than it obfuscates. As a plus, he’s not overly stiff and prepared. At one point, for instance, Fine discourses on a number of effective ellipses that Cassavetes deploys in Husbands &#8212; most notably the glossing over of the specifics of a phone conversation we see Harry engaging in before he destroys a telephone booth. Fine correctly posits that Cassavetes realizes that most people, by Harry's reaction, can guess what he is calling about and how his call is received. Another interesting comment relates to Cassavetes’ use of dialogue, and how, when writing it, he would dictate to his secretary what came to his mind &#8212; doing so with his own voice for his character, while imitating the voices of Falk and Ben Gazzara when writing for their characters. Such observations make Fine's commentary a valuable addition to the DVD package, besides serving the purpose of making Husbands more enjoyable on rewatch. As a matter of fact, whether with commentary on or off, Husbands works better when rewatched. That's because there is so much stuffed into it that another viewing is required to let it all sink in. Having said that, no amount of rewatching can exorcize the screenplay’s flaws, which make Husbands merely an interesting effort &#8212; rather than a masterpiece. Cassavetes offers far too much testosterone in place of intelligence, while a facile reliance on melodrama over real drama turns Husbands into something that a great film never is: a soap opera. And once again: a more concise editing job would have allowed Husbands to have been shaped into a coherent whole, rather than an often formless mess. The old maxim about films being made or broken in the editing room seems to have been uttered for movies like Husbands. Overall, Husbands is one of those films that makes one wish for what could have been. Yet, it's good enough that what is seen on screen can satisfy up to a point. Beyond that point, however, the sky is how you make it. Photos: Sony Pictures. &#169; Dan Schneider Note: The views expressed in this article are those of Mr. Schneider, and they may not reflect the views of Alt Film Guide.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-cassavetes-husbands-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HUSBANDS Review: John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/husbands-john-cassavetes-ben-gazzara-peter-falk/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/husbands-john-cassavetes-ben-gazzara-peter-falk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:32:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25343</guid> <description><![CDATA[HUSBANDS (1970) Direction &#38; Screenplay: John Cassavetes Cast: John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, Jenny Runacre, Jenny Lee Wright Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara in John Cassavetes' Husbands John Cassavetes was a filmmaker who made his independent films in two primary modes: brilliant character-driven masterpieces like Faces, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night, or character-driven mediocrities with &#34;moments,&#34; like Shadows, A Woman Under the Influence, and Gloria. Husbands (1970) falls somewhere in between. Husbands is nowhere near a great film, for most of the time it is poorly edited and, surprisingly, poorly scripted. But in the scenes that are not overly long and utterly pointless lie the seeds for what could have been a truly brilliant work. As it is, Sony Pictures' 142-minute DVD version of Husbands plays out more like the opening scene of the Cassavetes effort that came before it, Faces, which began with a depiction of drunken revelry and misery of the sort never before committed to celluloid. The difference between the two films is that, for all its greatness and minor flaws, that sequence ran only about 20 minutes into Faces. Now, extend it and try to sustain a narrative about seven times its length, and the problems with Husbands become obvious. It simply needed the touch of a good editor. Proof of this claim comes, in fact, from the &#8212; brief &#8212; final scene where Gus, the character played by Cassavetes himself, returns home with two other buddies mourning the loss of a fourth pal after a drunken weekend in London. At that point, Gus has to confront his crying daughter and mischievous son, as they call on their (never-seen) mom to tell her that daddy is home to take his lumps. The scene is poetic, spare, and filled with realism. By contrast, far too many sequences in Husbands are bloated and, in the worst sense, prosaic. Husbands opens with still photos of four fortyish male friends, then cuts to the funeral of one of them, Stu (in the photos portrayed by David Rowlands, the brother of Cassavetes’ wife, Gena Rowlands). Interestingly, the putative main character makes his exit from the film at this point. Another good touch is that, save for the wife of Harry (Ben Gazzara), seen in a brief scene of domestic violence, no other wife makes an appearance. The two other surviving members of the male quartet are the aforementioned Gus, a dentist, and Archie (Peter Falk), profession unknown. The two indulge in almost every cliché of male bonding excess, beginning with what seems to be a nonstop weekend bender in grief over their dead pal, in addition to harassing women, brawling, dickwaving, remarking about each others' flaws and virtues, etc. Unfortunately, in the vast majority of scenes very little comes of all this. Even so, there are moments &#8212; e.g., when Cassavetes flops over a bed with a British gal he’s trying to have sex with, when Harry calls himself a &#34;fairy,&#34; and when Archie tries to pick up one British gal at a pub and ends up in bed with a non-English speaking Oriental girl &#8212; that are classics in the Cassavetes canon. Victor J. Kemper's cinematography is hit-and-miss, but given the way the actors range freely in front of it, this is really not a bad thing (the way it would have been in a Yasujiro Ozu film). Kemper's work doesn't always enhance the scenes, but it doesn't necessarily diminish them, either. And the fact that Husbands lacks a score is a boon, for it enhances the cinéma vérité feel of it all. On the downside, as mentioned above, Husbands' pacing leaves much to be desired. For comparison's sake, even though The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is also long, it feels much more crisply paced. The digressions in Chinese Bookie enhance the characters, whereas the digressions in Husbands often are detrimental to the characters. For instance, in the digression showing the men in London after picking up women, only the scenes with Gus and his female companion have any real heft. This is most true after a night in the sack, when his &#34;bird&#34; pleads with Gus for some conversation afterward. [Continues on next page. See link below.]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/husbands-john-cassavetes-ben-gazzara-peter-falk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ben Gazzara: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE STRANGE ONE, THEY ALL LAUGHED</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-the-strange-one-they-all-laughed/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-the-strange-one-they-all-laughed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:40:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37069</guid> <description><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, They All Laughed Ben Gazzara Dead Pt.1: ANATOMY OF A MURDER, HUSBANDS, AN EARLY FROST Long before An Early Frost, Ben Gazzara had already appeared in two (however veiled) gay-themed productions. On Broadway, he was the virile ex-football player pining for his &#34;best friend&#34; while ignoring wife Barbara Bel Geddes in the 1955 original staging of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor played those two roles in the bowdlerized 1958 movie version directed by Richard Brooks.) And in 1957, Gazzara made his film debut as a sexually troubled military man who gets off by viciously abusing (or watching others viciously abuse) his fellow cadets in Jack Garfein's The Strange One. Among Gazzara's other 75 or so feature films &#8212; many of which were made in Italy &#8212; are Steve Carver's Capone (1975), in the title role; Stuart Rosenberg's Voyage of the Damned (1976), a poorly received all-star drama about Jews (Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, Wendy Hiller, Oskar Werner, Maria Schell, Julie Harris, etc.) aboard an ocean liner as they attempt to seek refuge from Nazi persecution; Terence Young's critical and box-office disaster Inchon (1981), with Laurence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset (Gazzara was nominated for a Razzie for this one); and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski (1998), featuring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, and Julianne Moore. As for Gazzara's two features films for Peter Bogdanovich, those were hardly fortuitous. Both Saint Jack (1979) and They All Laughed (1981), the latter co-starring Audrey Hepburn, were critical and box-office flops. (As per the Times obit, Gazzara and Hepburn &#8212; both married at the time &#8212; had a brief fling after they were featured together in another Terence Young flop, the 1979 thriller Bloodline.) Gazzara was married three times. One of his wives was actress Janice Rule (1961-1982), who had supporting roles and second-leads in about two dozen movies in the '50s and '60s (e.g., Welcome to Hard Times, Alvarez Kelly, The Swimmer). She died in 2003. Apparently, Gazzara's film career never developed as many would have expected because of the actor's own poor choices. (Whether those choices were a result of his chronic depression is unclear). “When I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of offers,” he said in a 1998 interview on the talk show Charlie Rose. “I won’t tell you the pictures I turned down because you would say, ‘You are a fool.’ And I was a fool.” Curiously, as Roger Ebert pointed out on Twitter, Ben Gazzara died exactly 23 years after John Cassavetes, who died of cirrhosis of the liver on Feb. 3, 1989.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-the-strange-one-they-all-laughed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ben Gazzara Dead at 81: ANATOMY OF A MURDER, HUSBANDS, AN EARLY FROST</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-anatomy-of-a-murder-husbands-an-early-frost/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-anatomy-of-a-murder-husbands-an-early-frost/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:40:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37068</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ben Gazzara, who was featured on Broadway in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in movies by the likes of John Cassavetes, Otto Preminger, and Peter Bogdanovich, died earlier today at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center as per the New York Times. Gazzara, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer, was 81. Although Gazzara (the son of Italian immigrants, born Aug. 28, 1930, in New York City) is probably best remembered for his films directed by Cassavetes &#8212; Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), and Opening Night (1978) &#8212; he was remarkably effective elsewhere. Arguably, much more effective elsewhere. Gazzara delivered a first-rate performance in Otto Preminger's cynical look at the American justice system, Anatomy of a Murder (1959), in which he played a military man on trial for killing a man &#8212; he claims &#8212; was attempting to rape his wife (Lee Remick, replacing Lana Turner). James Stewart is his somewhat shady defense attorney, who has to discuss with the judge and prosecutor George C. Scott until-then taboo issues such as rape, intercourse, orgasm, and female undergarments. Partly because of censorship issues &#8212; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley decided no one in his city should be allowed to watch the film &#8212; Anatomy of a Murder became one of the biggest box-office hits of the year. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including nods for Stewart, Scott, Arthur O'Connell (as Stewart's assistant), and screenwriter Wendell Mayes (adapting John D. Voelker's novel); yet, Gazzara, Remick, and director Preminger were bypassed. Gazzara was a good foil for Totò and an exuberant Anna Magnani in Mario Monicelli hilarious comedy Risate di gioia / The Passionate Thief (1960), in which Gazzara is a pickpocket and Magnani a struggling actress. He was also fine as an alcoholic in Marco Ferreri’s Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), a visually striking but dramatically flat adaptation of a Charles Bukowski novel. Ornella Mutti was his leading lady. Additionally, Gazzara was a strong presence in the television movie An Early Frost (1985), playing the caring but (at first) bigoted father of gay son Aidan Quinn in the first American TV drama to tackle head-on the AIDS pandemic. Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes' real-life wife and the star of Opening Night, played Gazzara's wife in the TV movie. As the grandmother, veteran Sylvia Sidney (whose son would die of AIDS), won a Golden Globe for her performance. All four leads and the movie itself were nominated for Emmys. [Continues on next page. See link below.]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ben-gazzara-anatomy-of-a-murder-husbands-an-early-frost/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Zalman King: Sex Thrillers TWO MOON JUNCTION, WILD ORCHID</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-sex-thrillers-two-moon-junction-wild-orchid/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-sex-thrillers-two-moon-junction-wild-orchid/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:09:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37065</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Two Moon Junction Zalman King Dies Pt.1: Mickey Rourke-Kim Basinger Sex Drama NINE 1/2 WEEKS Though much of the media coverage on the film focused on the Sherilyn Fenn-Richard Tyson sex scenes and a full-frontal nude shot of Fenn, the most interesting aspect of Two Moon Junction was its highly eclectic cast, which included Oscar winners Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and Burl Ives (The Big Country), Oscar nominee Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life), plus Little Darlings' Kristy McNichol, The Diary of Anne Frank's Millie Perkins, Fantasy Island's Hervé Villechaize, Endless Love's Martin Hewitt, TV star Don Galloway, and Milla Jovovich of the future Resident Alien movies. But despite the cast and the sex, Two Moon Junction bombed domestically, earning a paltry $1.54 million. Compared to Two Moon Junction, the $7 million-budgeted Wild Orchid (1990) was a megahit. Directed and co-written by King, and starring Nine 1/2 Weeks' Mickey Rourke opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Carré Otis, the widely panned erotic drama pulled in $11 million (approx. $21 million today) in North America, perhaps because people were interested in seeing for themselves if Rourke and Otis really went all out during their sex scenes &#8212; at least one of which was cut to appease the MPAA censors. Set in Rio de Janeiro, Wild Orchid depicted the erotic awakening of a naive young woman at the hands of kinky millionaire. Based on Anaïs Nin's novel, Delta of Venus (1995) was another erotic drama that failed to find much favor with either critics or the public. Audie England and Costas Mandylor starred as two Americans who fall in both love and lust in France on the eve of World War II. The movie grossed a minuscule $63,174 in the United States. As per the IMDb, King's last feature film as director (and screenwriter) was Kamikaze Love, which is listed as being in &#34;post-production.&#34; The film's brief IMDb synopsis reads: &#34;A wealthy real estate developer takes a young woman from an everyday mundane life and shows her a world of decadence and debauchery that pushes her sexual limits to the brink.&#34; Malena Morgan and Christos Vasilopoulos star. Last month, Vasilopoulos told the Greek Reporter that “Kamikaze Love is expected to be ready in four months, and it will be released on international DVD, as well as in theatres in Greece.” Vasilopoulos added that working with King, “‘the Maestro of erotic cinema,’ was a tremendous experience for me, considering the fact that I auditioned for a small part, and Zalman gave me the lead role in his film. &#8230; We worked for a little bit more than a month in Malibu, and I can assure you that this erotic thriller will look great!” Box office figures: Box Office Mojo.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-sex-thrillers-two-moon-junction-wild-orchid/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Zalman King Dies: Mickey Rourke-Kim Basinger Sex Drama NINE 1/2 WEEKS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-nine-1-2-weeks-mickey-rourke-sex-drama/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-nine-1-2-weeks-mickey-rourke-sex-drama/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:07:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37063</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actor-director-producer-screenwriter Zalman King, among whose credits are &#34;scandalous&#34; sex dramas such as Nine 1/2 Weeks, Two Moon Junction, and Wild Orchid, died of cancer earlier today. King reportedly was 69 years old. Born Zalman Lefkovitz in Trenton, New Jersey, King began his show business career as an actor, appearing in small roles and bit parts in about 20 television shows during the 1960s, including Gunsmoke, The Man from the U.N.C.L.E., Bonanza, and The Munsters. In the '70s and early '80s, he had supporting roles and a handful of leads in about a dozen movies, among them James B. Harris' provocative variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme, Some Call It Loving (1973), with Carol White; Jeff Lieberman's horror thriller Blue Sunshine (1975), as an innocent man accused of murdering several women; and Lee Grant's family drama Tell Me a Riddle (1980), starring Melvyn Douglas and Lila Kedrova. In the early '80s, King kickstarted his career as film producer. Starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, Adrian Lyne's Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) was King's first feature as a full-fledged producer. The erotic drama became a cause de scandale at the time because of S&#38;M sex scenes considered much too daring (or what passes for &#34;daring&#34; in American movies). Roger Ebert, for one, prefaced his review of Nine 1/2 Weeks by remarking that the movie &#34;arrives in a shroud of mystery and scandal, already notorious as the most explicitly sexual big-budget film since Last Tango in Paris.&#34; But &#34;mystery and scandal&#34; or no, Nine 1/2 Weeks, made for a reported $17 million (I couldn't find confirmation for this figure), was received coolly by critics and bombed at the domestic box office, taking in a mere $6.7 million (approx. $14 million today). More sex and scandalized buzz followed with the 1988 release of King's Two Moon Junction, his directorial debut. Set in the American South, the film starred Sherilyn Fenn as a bourgeois young woman who ventures into a sexually charged relationship with a carnival drifter (Richard Tyson). [Continues on next page. See link below.] Zalman King photo via zalmanking.com.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-nine-1-2-weeks-mickey-rourke-sex-drama/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jessica Chastain Photo: SAG Award 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-chastain-photo-sag-award-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-chastain-photo-sag-award-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:17:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37056</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain, a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Tate Taylor's The Help, attends the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Chastain was US critics' favorite supporting actress in 2011, following appearances in The Help, The Debt, Coriolanus, The Tree of Life, Texas Killing Fields, and Take Shelter. She won numerous critics awards for several of those roles, chiefly The Help and Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner The Tree of Life. (Photo by Christopher Polk/WireImage.) Chastain's competitors were The Help's Octavia Spencer, The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy, and Albert Nobbs' Janet McTeer. As widely expected, Spencer was the evening's winner. Both Chastain and Spencer are also in the running for this year's Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. In addition to Spencer's and Best Actress Viola Davis' wins, The Help won the SAG Award for Best Cast for Davis, Spencer, Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Ahna O'Reilly, Mike Vogel, Chris Lowell, Emma Stone, Allison Janney, and Bryce Dallas Howard.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-chastain-photo-sag-award-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Betty White Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/betty-white-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/betty-white-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37054</guid> <description><![CDATA[Betty White Betty White, Best Actress SAG Award winner for the television comedy series Hot in Cleveland, speaks onstage during the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. White's fellow nominees were Tina Fey for 30 Rock, Edie Falco for Nurse Jackie, and Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen for Modern Family. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Betty White, who turned 90 last January 17, also won for Hot in Cleveland last year. Additionally, she was nominated as part of the Hot in Cleveland cast (Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli). This year, she was also a nominee for Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series, along with Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult, Diane Lane for Cinema Verite, Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey, and Kate Winslet for Mildred Pierce. Winslet, who has already won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the old Joan Crawford role (in Michael Curtiz's 1945 Best Picture nominee), was absent from the SAG Awards ceremony. But in attendance was Mary Tyler Moore, the star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which White had a recurring supporting role. Moore received the SAG Life Achievement Award from the hands of Dick Van Dyke. White had been handed that same trophy (from the hands of Sandra Bullock) in 2010.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/betty-white-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alec Baldwin Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alec-baldwin-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alec-baldwin-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:39:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37051</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alec Baldwin Alec Baldwin speaks onstage while accepting his Best Actor in a Comedy Series SAG Award for 30 Rock at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. This was Baldwin's sixth consecutive Best Actor win for 30 Rock. This year's losers were Modern Family's Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet, The Office's Steve Carell, and Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Additionally, Baldwin has been nominated for ten other SAG Awards, including five nods as a 30 Rock cast member (the cast won in 2009). He was also included as a cast member of two motion pictures, both directed by Martin Scorsese: The Aviator (2004), along with Alan Alda, Kate Beckinsale, Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Jude Law, John C. Reilly, and Gwen Stefani; and The Departed (2006), along with Leonardo DiCaprio, Anthony Anderson, Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, and Ray Winstone. Individually, Baldwin was singled out for two television efforts &#8212; A Streetcar Named Desire (1995) and Nuremberg (2000) &#8212; and for the feature film The Cooler, which also earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alec-baldwin-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-chastain-cicely-tyson-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-chastain-cicely-tyson-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:24:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37049</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson The Help's Jessica Chastain and Cicely Tyson attend the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. Chastain was a Best Supporting Actress SAG Award nominee. Her competitors were The Help's Octavia Spencer, The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy, and Albert Nobbs' Janet McTeer. Spencer was the evening's winner. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.)  In addition to Spencer's and Best Actress Viola Davis' wins, Tate Taylor's The Help won the SAG Award for Best Cast for Davis, Spencer, Chastain, Tyson, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Ahna O'Reilly, Mike Vogel, Chris Lowell, Emma Stone, Allison Janney, and Bryce Dallas Howard. Cicely Tyson had been previously nominated for three SAG Awards: Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series for Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994), Best Actress in a Drama Series for Sweet Justice (1994), and Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series for The Road to Galveston. Additionally, Tyson received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Martin Ritt's rural drama Sounder (1972), co-starring Paul Winfield.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-chastain-cicely-tyson-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Octavia Spencer Photo, Speech: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/octavia-spencer-photo-speech-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/octavia-spencer-photo-speech-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:09:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37046</guid> <description><![CDATA[Octavia Spencer Best Supporting Actress SAG Award winner Octavia Spencer speaks onstage during the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The show was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Spencer's competitors were The Help's Jessica Chastain, The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy, and Albert Nobbs' Janet McTeer. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) As it has been remarked elsewhere on this site (and others as well), speeches are as important during awards season as the performances on screen. They can be an immense help (or a hindrance) to early winners &#8212; usually actors &#8212; on their way to Oscar gold. Who wants boring, vapid speeches at the Oscars? In her acceptance speech, Octavia Spencer remarked &#34;it was really a privilege to work on a film that gave a voice to so many women who made it possible for me to be standing here tonight. These women represented our mothers, our grandmothers, and it was their courage and them facing the challenges that they faced every day, and living their life [with] dignity and grace. &#8230; By honoring me, you honor them. I also want to thank an unsung hero of The Help, [civil rights activist] Medgar Evers and his family. And finally, I want to thank all the people out there to went to support this movie, and after watching it, felt something. You felt compelled to make a change in your lives, so I’m going to dedicate this &#8230; to the downtrodden, the underserved, the underprivileged, overtaxed, whether emotionally, physically or financially.&#34; In addition to Spencer's and Best Actress Viola Davis' victories, Tate Taylor's The Help won the SAG Award for Best Cast for Davis, Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Ahna O'Reilly, Mike Vogel, Cicely Tyson, Chris Lowell, Emma Stone, Allison Janney, and Bryce Dallas Howard. Octavia Spencer's speech via thedailyactor.com.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/octavia-spencer-photo-speech-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brad Pitt Wassup Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brad-pitt-photo-2012-sag-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brad-pitt-photo-2012-sag-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:51:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37043</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt Brad Pitt goes "wassup??" while arriving at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Brad Pitt was in the running for Best Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball, opposite Jonah Hill and Robin Wright. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/WireImage.) Pitt lost to Jean Dujardin, who plays a John Gilbert-like silent-film star whose career goes downhill with the advent of talking pictures. Pitt and Dujardin's fellow SAG Award nominees were George Clooney for Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants, featuring Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer; Demián Bichir as an undocumented Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles in Chris Weitz's A Better Life; and Leonardo DiCaprio as the all-powerful FBI honcho J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's poorly received J. Edgar, featuring Judi Dench and Best Supporting Actor SAG Award nominee Armie Hammer. (Hammer lost to Beginners' veteran Christopher Plummer.) Accompanying Brad Pitt at the SAG Awards 2012 ceremony was Angelina Jolie, who wasn't in the running for anything. Yet, Jolie did get a Golden Globe nomination (in the Best Foreign Language Film category) for her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, set during the Bosnian War. The film also won the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brad-pitt-photo-2012-sag-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christopher Plummer Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christopher-plummer-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christopher-plummer-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:30:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37041</guid> <description><![CDATA[Christopher Plummer Christopher Plummer &#8212; SAG Award winner for Male Actor in a Supporting Role &#8212; poses in the press room during the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage.) After expressing his pride in being a member of the world's &#34;second oldest profession,&#34; Christopher Plummer went on to say that actors may be &#34;wacky&#34; and the like, but winning an award from them is like to be &#34;lit by the Holy Grail.&#34; Plummer also thanked his Beginners co-star Ewan McGregor, who &#34;makes acting look so easy,&#34; and the film's writer-director Mike Mills for creating &#34;such a human story.&#34; Inspired by Mills' relationship with his own father, Beginners is the tale of a son (McGregor) who learns that his elderly father (Plummer) is gay. Plummer's competition consisted of Kenneth Branagh for playing Laurence Olivier in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, Armie Hammer for playing Leonardo DiCaprio/J. Edgar Hoover's alleged lover in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, Nick Nolte for his irascible former boxer in Gavin O'Connor's Warrior, and Jonah Hill for supporting Brad Pitt in Bennett Miller's Moneyball. The 82-year-old Plummer's show business career goes back about six decades. His film career began in Sidney Lumet's Stage Struck (1958), opposite Susan Strasberg in Katharine Hepburn's old Oscar-winning role (in Morning Glory). Among Plummer's dozens of other movies are Anthony Mann's The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), with Stephen Boyd and Sophia Loren; Robert Wise's The Sound of Music (1965), with Julie Andrews; John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975), with Sean Connery and Michael Caine; and Michael Mann's The Insider (1999), with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/christopher-plummer-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE MUPPETS Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy Ridicule Fox News: Video</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37038</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London's May Fair Hotel this past January 26. Please scroll down to check out the video. A little while ago, Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling said the following: &#34;The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as 'evil,' that's not new. I'll put it out there: Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?&#34; Kermit the Frog doesn't quite think so. &#34;Oh yeah, it's sooo dangerous,&#34; Kermit responded when a journalist asked him about Bolling's accusation. &#34;It's a funny thing, they were concerned with us having some prejudice against oil companies and I can tell you that's categorically not true. And besides, if we had a problem with oil companies, why would we have spent the entire film driving around in a gas-guzzling Rolls Royce?&#34; The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: &#34;It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being &#8230; news.&#34; Directed by James Bobin, from a screenplay by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets was released in the United States last November. The film stars Segel, Amy Adams, Rashida Jones, Chris Cooper, and features a whole array of star cameos, including those by Alan Arkin, Zach Galifianakis, Emily Blunt, Ken Leong, Jim Parsons, John Krasinski, and Mickey Rooney. In the film, the Academy Award-winning Cooper (Adaptation) plays the villainous oil executive Tex Richman, who knows there's oil under the Muppets' studio &#8212; and is out to get it no matter how. As for Bolling's claim that &#34;Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as 'evil,' that's not new&#34; &#8230; Well, he is certainly right on that account. Subversive Mary Pickford, surely a revolutionary Communist out to overthrow the U.S. government, starred in numerous films in the 1910s in which she was a member of the disenfranchised &#8212; or at least had to spend time as one of them so as to learn about generosity, compassion, and selflessness. Sidney Franklin's delightful The Hoodlum (1919) is a case in point, as the New York elite (to which Pickford belongs) is portrayed as self-absorbed and uncaring until Pickford's spoiled brat spends time in a poor ghetto and discovers that there's much more to life than Park Avenue. Now, see below Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy topple Fox News. Camera and YouTube post by Russell Nelson. Quotes via TheCelebrityCafe.com]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viola-davis-octavia-spencer-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viola-davis-octavia-spencer-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:22:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37036</guid> <description><![CDATA[Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis &#8212; SAG Award winner Female Actor in a Supporting Role and Winner Female Actor in a Leading Role for Tate Taylor's The Help &#8212; pose in the press room during the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The 2012 SAG Awards was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage.) Viola Davis' Best Actress competitors were Meryl Streep as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Glenn Close as a 19th-century Irishwoman passing for a man in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton as the mother of a young mass murderer in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn. Coincidentally, along with Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Davis was featured opposite Streep in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008) &#8212; for which Streep won her first (and so far only) SAG Award for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture. Octavia Spencer's Best Supporting Actress competitors were The Help's Jessica Chastain, The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy, and Albert Nobbs' Janet McTeer. In addition to Davis' and Spencer's victories, The Help also won the SAG Award for Best Cast for Davis, Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Ahna O'Reilly, Mike Vogel, Cicely Tyson, Chris Lowell, Emma Stone, Allison Janney, and Bryce Dallas Howard.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viola-davis-octavia-spencer-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dick-van-dyke-mary-tyler-moore-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dick-van-dyke-mary-tyler-moore-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:07:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37034</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore onstage at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, which was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Moore herself chose Van Dyke, her co-star in The Dick Van Dyke Show back in the early '60s, to present her with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Moore, who has suffered from a series of health ailments including diabetes and brain surgery to remove a benign tumor last year, looked quite frail while accepting her trophy. She received the longest standing ovation of the evening &#8212; twice, in fact, as people stood up to applaud her even though all they got to see the first time around were a series of samples of her long film and television career, in addition to clips showing her longtime dedication to animal welfare and to find a cure for diabetes. Among the clips, were bits showing her dancing with Julie Andrews in Francis Ford Coppola's Thoroughly Modern Millie and, as a lovestruck nun, declaring her feelings for Elvis Presley in Change of Habit. Needless to say, The Mary Tyler Moore Show was also part of the compilation, along with her Academy Award-nominated tour de force in Robert Redford's Best Picture Oscar winner Ordinary People. For the second standing ovation &#8212; after the clips were over &#8212; Moore was already onstage. (TV audiences never saw how show got there.) At the end of her speech, the camera remained on Moore, who seemed unsure of what to do next. In a quite moving display of tenderness and support, Van Dyke came over to her and gave her kiss. Then it was time to cut to commercials. Previous SAG Life Achievement Award winners include Julie Andrews, Robert Redford, Stan Laurel, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Martha Raye, Danny Kaye, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Ricardo Montalban, James Garner, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Eddie Cantor, James Earl Jones, James Cagney, James Stewart, Sidney Poitier, Shirley Temple, and last year's recipient Ernest Borgnine. Besides the aforementioned names, two Mary Tyler Moore Show alumni have already been given the award: Edward Asner in 2001 and Betty White in 2009. [Full list of SAG Awards Life Achievement Award recipients.]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dick-van-dyke-mary-tyler-moore-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sofia Vergara Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sofia-vergara-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sofia-vergara-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:06:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37032</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sofia Vergara Sofia Vergara arrives at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. For her performance as Modern Family's Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Vergara was nominated for a SAG Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Her fellow nominees were Tina Fey for 30 Rock, Edie Falco for Nurse Jackie, fellow Modern Family actress Julie Bowen, and the eventual winner, Betty White for Hot in Cleveland. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.) Sofia Vergara has also been making movies, having appeared in Tyler Perry's domestic box-office hit Madea Goes to Jail; the international box-office hit The Smurfs, with Neil Patrick Harris; Rob Marshall's all-star omnibus comedy-drama New Year's Eve, featuring among others Michelle Pfeiffer and Zac Efron; and the upcoming The Three Stooges, with Glee's Jane Lynch, Sean Hayes, Larry David, Craig Bierko, and others.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sofia-vergara-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Clooney, Stacy Keibler, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-clooney-stacy-keibler-mary-steenburgen-ted-danson-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-clooney-stacy-keibler-mary-steenburgen-ted-danson-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:05:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37003</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stacy Keibler, George Clooney, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson Stacy Keibler, George Clooney, Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson pose for the camera at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the historic Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) Oscar winner George Clooney (Stephen Gaghan's Syriana) was a SAG Award nominee for his performance in Alexander Payne's The Descendants. Fellow Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen (Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard), for her part, was one of the nominees for Best Cast for Tate Taylor's The Help. Steenburgen's fellow nominees were Ahna O'Reilly, Chris Lowell, Allison Janney, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, and Octavia Spencer. The Help's win for Best Cast was a surprise, as many had been expecting Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist to come out on top. Ted Danson wasn't up for anything this year. However, he did get a SAG Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series for his performance in Knights of the South Bronx (2005). Clooney was also a presenter at the 2012 SAG Awards. Other presenters included Jayne Mansfield's Car/X-Men: First Class' Kevin Bacon, Midnight in Paris/Misery/Harry's Law's Kathy Bates, The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, My Week with Marilyn/Henry V's Kenneth Branagh, Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler, The Help/The Debt/Coriolanus/The Tree of Life's Jessica Chastain, Hotel Rwanda/Crash/Flight's Don Cheadle, 30 Rock/Date Night's Tina Fey, and Albert Nobbs/Damages/Dangerous Liaisons' Glenn Close. Also, Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston, The Good Wife's Matt Czuchry, Doubt/The Help's Viola Davis, Dallas' Patrick Duffy, The Artist/OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies/Little White Lies' Jean Dujardin, Hidden Moon/Dallas' Linda Gray, Love and Other Drugs/Playing the Field's Judy Greer, I Dream of Jeannie/Dallas' Larry Hagman, J. Edgar/Mirror Mirror/The Social Network's Armie Hammer, and The Hangover Part II's Ed Helms.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-clooney-stacy-keibler-mary-steenburgen-ted-danson-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Josh Brolin, Diane Lane Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/patrick-duffy-linda-gray-josh-brolin-diane-lane-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/patrick-duffy-linda-gray-josh-brolin-diane-lane-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:02:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37011</guid> <description><![CDATA[Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Josh Brolin, Diane Lane Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Josh Brolin and Diane Lane arrive at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) Diane Lane was a nominee this year in the Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series for Cinema Verite. She lost to Kate Winslet in Mildred Pierce. The other nominees in that category were Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult, Betty White for The Lost Valentine (that evening, White won a SAG Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her participation in Hot in Cleveland), and two-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, California Suite) for Downton Abbey. Kate Winslet, who has already won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the old Joan Crawford role (in Michael Curtiz's 1945 Oscar-nominated movie), was absent from the ceremony. Lane has a previous SAG Award nomination, as Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as a married woman (to Richard Gere) having an affair with a younger man (Olivier Martinez) in Adrian Lyne's crime melodrama Unfaithful (2002). That role also earned Lane her sole Academy Award nomination to date. (She lost to Nicole Kidman in Stephen Daldry's The Hours.) Dallas' Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray, for their part, were presenters at the SAG Awards ceremony, along with fellow Dallas alumnus Larry Hagman.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/patrick-duffy-linda-gray-josh-brolin-diane-lane-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Melissa McCarthy Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/melissa-mccarthy-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/melissa-mccarthy-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:01:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37010</guid> <description><![CDATA[Melissa McCarthy and guest Melissa McCarthy, a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Paul Feig's sleeper hit comedy Bridesmaids, arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Mcarthy's competitors were The Help's Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, and Albert Nobbs' Janet McTeer. Spencer was the winner. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.) Melissa McCarthy was also one of the Bridesmaids cast members nominated for best ensemble. The others were Jill Clayburgh, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Matt Lucas, Chris O'Dowd, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper. The mostly female Bridesmaids cast lost to the mostly female cast of Tate Taylor's The Help, which, in addition to Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain, SAG Award Best Actress winner Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mike Vogel, Cicely Tyson, and others. Melissa McCarthy's movie credits include Life As We Know It, the Jennifer Lopez vehicle The Back-up Plan, Pretty Ugly People, and Just Add Water. McCarthy's next movie release will be Judd Apatow's This Is 40, featuring Paul Rudd, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen's Megan Fox, Jason Segel, Drive's Albert Brooks, Leslie Mann, John Lithgow, and Bridesmaids' Chris O'Dowd. Seth Gordon's Identity Theft, in which McCarthy is to play opposite Jason Bateman, is currently in pre-production.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/melissa-mccarthy-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meryl Streep Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37012</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep Meryl Streep, nominated as Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as the controversial former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, attends the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/WireImage.) Meryl Streep lost the SAG Award to Viola Davis for her performance in Tate Taylor's The Help. Coincidentally, Davis was featured opposite Streep in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008) &#8212; for which Streep won her first (and so far only) SAG Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture. Streep and Davis' competitors this year were Glenn Close as a 19th-century Irishwoman passing for a man in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton as the mother of a young mass murderer in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn. Meryl Streep has been nominated for a total of 13 SAG Awards. She won for the aforementioned Doubt and for Mike Nichols' television mini-series Angels in America (2003). Streep's other nominations were for the following feature films: Curtis Hanson's The River Wild (1994), opposite Kevin Bacon and David Strathairn; Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County (1995), co-starring Eastwood himself; and Jerry Zaks' Marvin's Room (1996), as part of the film's cast that included Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon, Hal Scardino, and Dan Hedaya. Also: Carl Franklin's One True Thing (1998), with Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, and Tom Everett Scott; Wes Craven's Music of the Heart, with Angela Bassett, Aidan Quinn, and Gloria Estefan; and as a cast member of two 2002 releases: Stephen Daldry's The Hours, with Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, and Miranda Richardson; and Spike Jonze's Adaptation, featuring Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Cara Seymour, and Tilda Swinton. And finally: as Best Actress for David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada (2006), with Anne Hathaway; as a Doubt cast member, along with Viola Davis, Amy Adams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman; and for Nora Ephron's Julie &#38; Julia (2009). Meryl Streep has been nominated for a record 17 Academy Awards. She's in the running this year for The Iron Lady. Previous nominations include those for Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983), with Kurt Russell and Cher; Hector Babenco's Ironweed (1987), with Jack Nicholson; and Nichols' Postcards from the Edge (1990), in which she plays a fictionalized version of Star Wars' Carrie Fisher, with Shirley MacLaine as a fictionalized version of Singin' in the Rain's Debbie Reynolds. Streep has won two Oscars: as Best Supporting Actress for Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), opposite Dustin Hoffman, and as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), opposite Kevin Kline.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Stewart/Bella Point of View: Bill Condon Discusses BREAKING DAWN Wedding Scene Video</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-bella-wedding-bill-condon/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-bella-wedding-bill-condon/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37030</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bella's Wedding: Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke, Breaking Dawn Part 1 The The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 video below (please scroll down) shows a couple of brief behind-the-scenes moments from the Bella Swan-Edward Cullen &#8212; Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson &#8212; wedding bit. Also in the video, from the Breaking Dawn Part 1 DVD Special Wedding Feature, director Bill Condon explains that he shot the scene through Bella's emotional viewpoint &#8212; even while using the camera objectively, i.e., when we see Bella walking down the aisle instead of seeing the aisle and everything else through Bella's eyes as she approaches Edward. Adapted by Melissa Rosenberg from Stephenie Meyer's bestselling novel, Breaking Dawn 2 also features Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Dakota Fanning, Anna Kendrick, Michael Sheen, Maggie Grace, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Christopher Heyerdahl. Facinelli, Reaser, Lutz, and a few others can also be spotted in the wedding scene. The Breaking Dawn Part 1 DVD, by the way, comes out on February 11. In addition to the aforementioned actors, Breaking Dawn 2 features numerous new characters, mostly vampires from various parts of the globe. The extensive cast list also includes the following, among oldtimers and newcomers: Billy Burke, Mackenzie Foy, Lee Pace, MyAnna Buring, Angela Sarafyan, Booboo Stewart, Cameron Bright, Rami Malek, Joel Anderson, Noel Fisher, and Alex Meraz. Also: Christian Camargo, Mia Maestro, Julia Jones, Ty Olsson, Charlie Bewley, Daniel Cudmore, Kiowa Gordon, Omar Metwally, Casey LaBow, Bronson Pelletier, Erik Odom, Guri Weinberg, Lisa Howard. Breaking Dawn 2 opens Nov. 16. Kristen Stewart/Billy Burke/Breaking Dawn Part 1 pic: Summit Entertainment]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-bella-wedding-bill-condon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-george-clooney-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-george-clooney-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:15:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37007</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler's upper back are seen at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.) George Clooney was a Best Actor SAG Award nominee for his performance in Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants, featuring Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer. Brad Pitt was also in the running for Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball, opposite Jonah Hill and Robin Wright. Angelina Jolie wasn't in the running for anything, though a couple of weeks ago she did get a Golden Globe nomination (in the Best Foreign Language Film category) for her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, set during the Bosnian War. Stacy Keibler, for her part, was a Teen Choice Award nominee in 2006 for her appearance in Dancing with the Stars. As it happened, Clooney surprisingly lost the Best Actor SAG Award to The Artist's out-of-towner Jean Dujardin. In addition to Clooney, Dujardin, and Pitt, the other nominees in that category were Demián Bichir as an undocumented Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles in Chris Weitz's A Better Life and Leonardo DiCaprio as the all-powerful FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, featuring Judi Dench and Best Supporting Actor SAG Award nominee Armie Hammer. Also worth noting is that The Descendants lost the Best Cast SAG Award to Tate Taylor's The Help, which included two of the evening's SAG Award winners: Best Actress Viola Davis and Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer. The other Best Cast contenders were Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, and Paul Feig's Bridesmaids.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-george-clooney-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Wiig, Michelle Williams, Busy Philipps Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-wiig-michelle-williams-busy-philipps-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-wiig-michelle-williams-busy-philipps-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:09:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37001</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Wiig, Busy Philipps, Michelle Williams Kristen Wiig, Busy Philipps, and Michelle Williams (Albert Nobb' SAG Award nominee Janet McTeer can be spotted in the background) arrive at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS directly from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) Kristen Wiig was a 2012 SAG Award nominee as a cast member of Paul Feig's sleeper hit Bridesmaids, along with veteran Jill Clayburgh (La Luna, Starting Over, It's My Turn, An Unmarried Woman), plus Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Matt Lucas, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, Maya Rudolph, and Ellie Kemper. Michelle Williams, for her part, was nominated as Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, co-starring BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominee Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier, who directed and co-starred opposite Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl. My Week with Marilyn also features Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Mamma Mia!/An Education/The History Boys' Dominic Cooper, plus Pip Torrens, Dougray Scott, Geraldine Somerville, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's Emma Watson. Williams 2012 SAG Awards competition consisted of Meryl Streep in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Glenn Close in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and the eventual winner, Viola Davis in Tate Taylor's The Help. Williams has been nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Ang Lee's gay romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, opposite Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, Best Actress for Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, co-starring Ryan Gosling, and once again as Best Actress for My Week with Marilyn.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-wiig-michelle-williams-busy-philipps-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Emily Blunt, John Krasinski Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:05:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37002</guid> <description><![CDATA[Emily Blunt, John Krasinski Emily Blunt and John Krasinski arrive at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was presented on TNT/TBS from the historic Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) This year, John Krasinski received his sixth SAG Award nomination for being one of the cast members of the popular television comedy series The Office. Krasinski and his fellow cast members have won two SAG Awards (2007, 2008). This year's nominees included Steve Carell, Ellie Kemper, Rainn Wilson, Phyllis Smith, James Spader, Ed Helms, Craig Robinson, Zach Woods, Kate Flannery, Paul Liberstein, B.J. Novak, and Jenna Fischer. Among Krasinki's film appearances are those in George Clooney's Leatherheads, co-starring Clooney and Renée Zellweger, and Nancy Meyers' It's Complicated, with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin. Emily Blunt has never been nominated for a SAG Award. Among Blunt's screen credits are David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada (2006), with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway; Jean-Marc Vallée's The Young Victoria (2009), with Rupert Friend; and George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau (2011), with Matt Damon.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/emily-blunt-john-krasinski-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dianna Agron, Emma Stone Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dianna-agron-emma-stone-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dianna-agron-emma-stone-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37004</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dianna Agron, Emma Stone Glee's Dianna Agron and The Help's Emma Stone arrive at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was presented on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) This year, Dianna Agron was a SAG Award nominee for her participation in the television comedy/musical series Glee. The long list of Agron's fellow Glee nominees consisted of Jayma Mays, Amber Riley, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz, Heather Morris, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Chris Colfer, Ashley Fink, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Chord Overstreet, Lea Michele, Mike O'Malley, Kevin McHale, Cory Monteith, Dot Jones, Lauren Potter, Darren Criss, and Iqbal Theba. Emma Stone was also a SAG Award nominee for her work in an ensemble &#8212; but in the motion picture categories. Her fellow players in Tate Taylor's The Help were Ahna O'Reilly, Chris Lowell, Allison Janney, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, and Octavia Spencer. The Help was a somewhat surprising winner; many had been expecting Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist to take home the Actor statuette, especially after the film's star, Jean Dujardin, won the Best Actor SAG Award instead of Hollywood fave George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants. Besides The Help and The Artist, the other movies nominated for Best Cast were Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Paul Feig's Bridesmaids, and The Descendants. Emma Stone will next be seen co-starring opposite Andrew Garfield in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man. Kirsten Dunst played Stone's role in the previous Spider-Man movies. (Tobey Maguire was Spidey; Sam Raimi the director.)]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dianna-agron-emma-stone-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kyra Sedgwick Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kyra-sedgwick-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kyra-sedgwick-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:55:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37000</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kyra Sedgwick Actress Kyra Sedgwick, a Best Actress nominee in a Television Drama Series for The Closer, arrives at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. Sedgwick lost to Jessica Lange in American Horror Story. Sedgwick's competitors were Kathy Bates for Harry's Law, Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife, Glenn Close for Damages, and the eventual winner, Jessica Lange for American Horror Story. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) Both Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange are Oscar winners: Bates as Best Actress for Rob Reiner's Misery (1990), opposite James Caan; Lange as Best Supporting Actress for Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982), opposite Dustin Hoffman, and as Best Actress for Tony Richardson's Blue Sky (1994), opposite Tommy Lee Jones. Glenn Close has been nominated for six Oscars, but to date she has never won. Though not exactly likely, that could change this year, as she's in the running for Albert Nobbs. In the past six years, Kyra Sedgwick has been nominated for 12 SAG Awards for The Closer: seven times as Best Actress and five times as a member of the Closer ensemble. She has never won. Among Sedgwick's big-screen movies are Man on a Ledge, starring Sam Worthington; The Game Plan, with Dwayne Johnson; and The Loverboy and The Woodsman, with Kevin Bacon &#8212; who happens to be Sedgwick's husband.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kyra-sedgwick-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Glenn Close Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/glenn-close-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/glenn-close-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:48:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36998</guid> <description><![CDATA[Glenn Close Glenn Close, a double 2012 SAG Award nominee for the television series Damages and Rodrigo García's indie movie Albert Nobbs, arrives at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS held from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Close's competition for the Best Actress SAG Award consisted of Meryl Streep for Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Viola Davis for Tate Taylor's The Help, Tilda Swinton for Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Michelle Williams (as Marilyn Monroe) for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn. Viola Davis was the winner. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.) Close's television comepetitors were Kathy Bates for Harry's Law, Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife, Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer, and the eventual winner, Jessica Lange for American Horror Story. Both Close and Lange have each received six Oscar nominations: Close has never won; Lange won twice, as Best Supporting Actress for Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982), opposite Dustin Hoffman, and as Best Actress for Tony Richardson's Blue Sky (1994), opposite Tommy Lee Jones. Glenn Close has been nominated for a total of eight SAG Awards. She won for the television movie The Lion in Winter (2003), in which she plays Eleanor of Aquitaine &#8212; the role that earned Katharine Hepburn her third Best Actress Oscar back in early 1969. (Hepburn tied with Barbra Streisand for her performance as Fanny Brice in William Wyler's Funny Girl.) In the television categories, Close has a total of four nominations for Damages, in addition to nods for her lesbian military officer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) and for Christopher Reeve's In the Gloaming (1997), as the mother of a young man (Robert Sean Leonard) dying of AIDS. Albert Nobbs, in which Close plays a woman passing for a man in 19th-century Ireland, is Close's sole nomination in the motion picture categories.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/glenn-close-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Amber Heard Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amber-heard-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amber-heard-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:46:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37008</guid> <description><![CDATA[Amber Heard Amber Heard, among whose credits are Patrick Lussier's Nicolas Cage action flick Drive Angry, Zombieland, and the Johnny Depp box-office disappointment The Rum Diary, arrives at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS directly from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) Among Amber Heard's other screen credits are Pineapple Express, The Joneses, The Stepfather, John Carpenter's The Ward, And Soon the Darkness, and The River Why. Aram Rappaport's Syrup, in which Heard is featured opposite The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2's Kellan Lutz, Prom Night's Brittany Snow, and Red Riding Hood's Shiloh Fernandez, is expected to open later this year.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/amber-heard-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SAG Award Winner Jessica Lange Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-lange-photo-sag-award-winner-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-lange-photo-sag-award-winner-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:44:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37006</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jessica Lange Jessica Lange, winner Female Actor in a Drama Series for American Horror Story, poses in the press room during the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Lange's competitors were Kathy Bates for Harry's Law, Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife, Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer, and Glenn Close for Damages. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage.) Jessica Lange had previously been nominated for two SAG Awards: for Tony Richardson's feature drama Blue Sky (1994), opposite Tommy Lee Jones, and for Michael Sucsy's television drama Grey Gardens (2009), opposite eventual SAG Award winner Drew Barrymore. Lange also has six Oscar nominations under her belt. She won twice, as Best Supporting Actress for Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982), opposite Dustin Hoffman, and for Blue Sky. (Nell's Jodie Foster was that year's SAG Award winner.) Also featured in American Horror Story are Dylan McDermott, Frances Conroy, Kate Mara, Denis O'Hare, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga, and Lily Rabe. Among the series' directors are Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jessica-lange-photo-sag-award-winner-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SAG Award Life Achievement Recipient Mary Tyler Moore Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mary-tyler-moore-photo-sag-award-life-achievement-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mary-tyler-moore-photo-sag-award-life-achievement-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:41:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37005</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mary Tyler Moore Mary Tyler Moore, the 2012 recipient of the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award, attends the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Dick Van Dyke, with whom Moore had co-starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s, handed her the award. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) The 75-year-old Moore's acceptance speech was about how there were many Mary Moores already registered with the Screen Actors Guild back in the '50s. That's when Moore decided to use her father's middle name, Tyler, as part of her own show business name. Curiously, Moore &#8212; whose television heyday was in the '60s and '70s, and whose most important film roles were in the '60s and early '80s &#8212; has never been nominated for a SAG Award. Previous SAG Life Achievement Award winners include Stan Laurel, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Martha Raye, Danny Kaye, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Ricardo Montalban, James Garner, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Eddie Cantor, Julie Andrews, Robert Redford, James Earl Jones, James Cagney, James Stewart, Sidney Poitier, Shirley Temple, and last year's recipient Ernest Borgnine. In addition, two Mary Tyler Moore Show alumni have already taken home the award: Edward Asner in 2001 and Betty White in 2009. [Full list of SAG Awards Life Achievement Award recipients.] White was in contention this year in two categories: Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series for The Lost Valentine (she lost to Kate Winslet in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce, and Best Actress in a Television Comedy Series for Hot in Cleveland. She won for the latter.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mary-tyler-moore-photo-sag-award-life-achievement-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Michelle Williams Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:26:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37013</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michelle Williams Actress Michelle Williams arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Michelle Williams was nominated for the SAG Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, co-starring BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominee Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier. My Week with Marilyn is set during the making of Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). The cast also includes Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Dominic Cooper, Pip Torrens, Dougray Scott, Geraldine Somerville, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's Emma Watson. Williams SAG Awards competition consisted of Meryl Streep in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Glenn Close in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and the eventual winner, Viola Davis in Tate Taylor's The Help. Williams has been previously nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Ang Lee's gay romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, opposite Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Best Actress for Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, co-starring Ryan Gosling. A critics' favorite this past year, Williams received her third Oscar nomination for My Week with Marilyn.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Clooney, Shailene Woodley Photo: SAG Awards 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-clooney-shailene-woodley-photo-sag-awards-2012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-clooney-shailene-woodley-photo-sag-awards-2012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:23:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37009</guid> <description><![CDATA[Shailene Woodley, George Clooney Shailene Woodley and George Clooney speak onstage during the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. Clooney and Woodley introduced their film, Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants, up for the SAG Award for Best Cast. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) The nominated The Descendants' cast consisted of: Robert Forster, George Clooney, Matthew Lillard, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, and veteran Beau Bridges, who starred opposite Melina Mercouri in Norman Jewison's Gaily, Gaily back in 1969. Additionally, Clooney was a Best Actor nominee. As it happened, Clooney lost to The Artist's Jean Dujardin. His other competitors were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Leonardo DiCaprio for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. As for the Descendants cast, they lost to the cast of Tate Taylor's The Help, which included two of the evening's SAG Award winners: Best Actress Viola Davis and Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer. The other Best Cast contenders were Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, etc.), Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist (Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Penelope Ann Miller, etc.), and Paul Feig's Bridesmaids (Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Jill Clayburgh, etc.).]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-clooney-shailene-woodley-photo-sag-awards-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
