“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” earned high marks from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, garnering three nominations for their annual awards honoring achievements in film, television, commercials, and theater. It’s not on the Oscar shortlist of seven , however.
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Eligible for Hair and Makeup Oscars are Guild nominees “Deadpool,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “Hail, Caesar!,” “Star Trek Beyond” and “Suicide Squad.” Not Oscar shortlisted, however, are Guild nominees “La La Land,” “Loving,” and “Nocturnal Animals,” which garnered two nominations apiece. Also ineligible for the Oscar are nominees “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and “Doctor Strange.”
On the television side, “Saturday Night Live” led with four nominations, followed by “Westworld,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Penny Dreadful” with three each. “Transparent,” “Stranger Things,” and “Empire” each received two.
The Guild will...
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Eligible for Hair and Makeup Oscars are Guild nominees “Deadpool,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “Hail, Caesar!,” “Star Trek Beyond” and “Suicide Squad.” Not Oscar shortlisted, however, are Guild nominees “La La Land,” “Loving,” and “Nocturnal Animals,” which garnered two nominations apiece. Also ineligible for the Oscar are nominees “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and “Doctor Strange.”
On the television side, “Saturday Night Live” led with four nominations, followed by “Westworld,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Penny Dreadful” with three each. “Transparent,” “Stranger Things,” and “Empire” each received two.
The Guild will...
- 1/11/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
London – We are here at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, where the Harry Potter films were shot, among other works. Working at the studio today are a number of people who participated in that legendary franchise. There is the production designer for all eight films, Stuart Craig; producer of six of them, David Barron; and the director of four (five if you include the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Craig has also worked on), David Yates. On this September 2014 day, however, Yates and company aren't telling some improbable tale of a boy wizard, no, they're telling the improbable tale of a boy who was raised by animals in the jungle and, as a man, finds himself back in that very same jungle to save the woman he loves. They are at work on The Legend of Tarzan featuring Alexander Skarsgard as the legendary vine-swinger. Also appearing in the movie are Margot Robbie as Jane; Christoph Waltz as the villainous Captain Rom; Djimon Hounsou as Chief Mbonga; and Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, who is working with our hero. This film has been a long time coming. Certainly not the first on board, Skarsgard started to talk to Yates about this project about two years before I met him on set in 2014. 18 months ago he started training, as the film was originally scheduled to shoot in the summer of 2013. "It was really devastating," Skarsgard explains about the delay and the potential the movie wasn't going to ever get made. That sadness though turned back to something more positive when, after going off the grid to ski at the South Pole, Skarsgard finally made it to a place where "they actually had internet there, like really slow dial-up" and received an email from Yates saying that things were looking good for Tarzan. While that may be Skarsgard's origin story for this role, the movie itself is not an origin tale. In fact, it isn't even based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan tale. David Barron informs us, "None of it comes from Burroughs." It is, Barron says, "based on the character" Burroughs created but an original tale. Legend of Tarzan features its hero (John Clayton III, as he is known in England) returning to Africa as a trade emissary, Jane getting kidnapped by Rom, and Tarzan having to save her. Skarsgard promises us flashbacks to the character as a boy, but the bulk of the story is about his adult life and return to Africa, "The emotional journey isn't, you know, the man from the jungle trying to readjustment or adapt to life… in Victorian London. It's quite the opposite. When you first meet him, he's in England… he's Lord Greystoke and he's very civilized and a British lord and then he goes back to his home—his emotional home—the Congo, and it's that kind of dichotomy between man and beast. He's not really happy in England. He's got an amazing wife; a fantastic manor… a really good life on the surface, but he's not happy. He's not really himself there." As the movie progresses, Skarsgard says, there is, "more Tarzan and less John Clayton III." Sadly for those of us on set this day, they are filming a scene relatively early on in Tarzan's return to Africa. There is a train car set up on a stage and Tarzan is having a moderate disagreement with some Belgian soldiers, a disagreement mainly expressed through some violent physical acts. We can't get a good look at what's happening inside the train car—although we do see a soldier wearing a harness get lifted out of the car after being manhandled by Tarzan—but we get to see the movie magic of the car rocking back and forth along with the lights moving so as to simulate the motion of the train. What is impressive is not the fisticuffs on this stage, but the jungle that exists on another. Well, the jungle that exists on two other stages. Rearranging the trees and paths that run through these two stages, seven total looks have been made available to Yates when filming in the trees. Speaking of this jungle, Craig tells us that what we see on the set isn't quite the way it would be in the rain forest – the trees, for example, are grouped too close together. He describes them as "a piece of architectural sculpture." Try to tell the actual mushrooms growing on the set that things aren't real though. Yes, the jungle is in England. No principal photography for the movie is taking place in Africa—six weeks of shooting will take place in Gabon, mainly the aerial unit for visual effects background plates, says Barron—due to the difficulties of shooting there and the cost. Barron explains that it's "not a nice place to work. Fun place to go to, but not a nice place to spend several months shooting." He says that with the help of visual effects, "no one will ever know this is not Africa." One of the things that will add to this verisimilitude is the number of extras who portray the tribes. The film's makeup and hair designer, Fae Hammond, describes getting 160 people ready as "like a factory" with each individual going around to various sections (hair, scars, etc.). It takes as long, Hammond says, as three hours for a team of about 40 to 50 to get the makeup done for the tribes people. Many questions posed to the cast and crew this day are about other Tarzan films as the character does have such a long big screen legacy. How big? Well, this is not Craig's first experience with the character. He was also the production designer on 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. While the two films may not be directed related, that film, he says, is "in a way, the kind of prequel to this." As Craig explains things, the former movie takes Tarzan from his birth out of the jungle and this one is "his return to Africa" and consequently "they kind of follow on, in narrative terms." He also notes though that they didn't have the use of computers for that movie. Having people in ape suits performing stunts limited production design in a way that this film does not have to worry about. As he puts it, "it compromised the set, the jungle set." While Craig's previous experience with Tarzan might lead into this movie, he also acknowledges that the way the worlds that are being portrayed are not the same. "I think there was an attempt to be deliberately different," he says after noting the use of a different look for the paddle steamer, tree house jungle home, and ancestral home for Tarzan's family (this time it's Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, last time it was Floors Castle). Discussing an entirely different sort of "look" for the film, namely nature of the action, is stunt coordinator Buster Reeves who can delve into everything from vine-swinging, to the tight confines of the train fight being shot today, to the "CGI padded suit" worn by some members of his team. With this last one, Reeves describes how they took the measurements of gorillas for this suit so that it could be appropriately padded. They also, "designed a set of arms to make them elongated… [since] monkeys arms are longer than the legs and we're vice-versa." He adds, "it's a real interesting process that when you put that stuff on, how much you feel your body physically change" and just how different it is from way most people would act while doing a monkey impression. How, exactly, audiences respond to the world that Yates and his team have put together remains to be seen. Barron promises that this is "just a great, big, fun action-adventure romp." That is, of course, precisely what has made Tarzan so popular in both literature and on the screen. Perhaps, if they have gotten everything just right and those who go to the theaters love it, Skarsgard will supplant Johnny Weissmuller (whom Skarsgard himself lists as his favorite) as the classic depiction of the character. The Legend of Tarzan is swinging into theaters in just a few short weeks.
- 6/15/2016
- by Josh Lasser
- Hitfix
Studiocanal, Film4 and The Ink Factory, in association with Potboiler Productions, have announced the start of shooting in London of Our Kind Of Traitor.
Susanna White directs this adaptation of John le Carré’s novel from a script by Hossein Amini, with a cast headed by Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, and Jeremy Northam.
An English couple, Perry (McGregor) and Gail (Harris), are taking a holiday in Marrakech. By chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima (Skarsgard) who owns a villa and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.
What else he wants propels the couple on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain’s Intelligence Establishment.
Our Kind Of Traitor is...
Susanna White directs this adaptation of John le Carré’s novel from a script by Hossein Amini, with a cast headed by Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, and Jeremy Northam.
An English couple, Perry (McGregor) and Gail (Harris), are taking a holiday in Marrakech. By chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima (Skarsgard) who owns a villa and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.
What else he wants propels the couple on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain’s Intelligence Establishment.
Our Kind Of Traitor is...
- 3/26/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This year’s Saturn Award nominations have been announced and include a number of horror movie and TV releases, such as The Conjuring and The Walking Dead:
“Los Angeles – February, 2014 – Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug both received 8 nominations as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films today announced nominations for the 40th Annual Saturn Awards, which will be presented in June.
Other major contenders that packed a real punch were The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, Star Trek into Darkness, The Book Thief, Her, Oz The Great and Powerful and Ron Howard’s Rush. Also making a strong showing was the folk musical fable Inside Llewyn Davis, which proves that the Coen Brothers are a genre onto their own. And Scarlett Johansson was the first Best Supporting Actress to be nominated for her captivating...
“Los Angeles – February, 2014 – Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug both received 8 nominations as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films today announced nominations for the 40th Annual Saturn Awards, which will be presented in June.
Other major contenders that packed a real punch were The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, Star Trek into Darkness, The Book Thief, Her, Oz The Great and Powerful and Ron Howard’s Rush. Also making a strong showing was the folk musical fable Inside Llewyn Davis, which proves that the Coen Brothers are a genre onto their own. And Scarlett Johansson was the first Best Supporting Actress to be nominated for her captivating...
- 2/26/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Digital Release Date: Jan. 14, 2014, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 28, 2014
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Director Ron Howard’s (The Dilemma) biography movie Rush scored plenty of acclaim but not as big a box-office take as it deserved.
The film stars Chris Hemsworth (Snow White and the Huntsman) and Daniel Bruhl (The Fifth Estate) as rivaling Formula One racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, respectively. Rush follows the two drivers in their 1970s atttempts to be number one.
Olivia Wilde (The Words) and Alexandra Maria Lara (The Reader) also star in the movie, as the women behind the racers.
Rush was nominated for two Golden Globe awards: Best Supporting Actor for Daniel Bruhl and Best Motion Picture – Drama. It scored highly with critics and moviegoers, earning 89% and 92% approval, respectively, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Despite the praise, however, the film grossed only $27 million in wide release in U.
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Director Ron Howard’s (The Dilemma) biography movie Rush scored plenty of acclaim but not as big a box-office take as it deserved.
The film stars Chris Hemsworth (Snow White and the Huntsman) and Daniel Bruhl (The Fifth Estate) as rivaling Formula One racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, respectively. Rush follows the two drivers in their 1970s atttempts to be number one.
Olivia Wilde (The Words) and Alexandra Maria Lara (The Reader) also star in the movie, as the women behind the racers.
Rush was nominated for two Golden Globe awards: Best Supporting Actor for Daniel Bruhl and Best Motion Picture – Drama. It scored highly with critics and moviegoers, earning 89% and 92% approval, respectively, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Despite the praise, however, the film grossed only $27 million in wide release in U.
- 12/19/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
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