Archive for January, 2008
‘Babylon A.D.’ 2008 (Added Pictures)
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Most Romantic Movie Scenes
The final scene between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in
Casablanca has been named the ‘Most Romantic Moment’ in cinema.
Rick’s farewell to Ilsa at the end of the 1942 World War II classic beat Virginia Cherrill and Charlie Chaplin’s love scene from 1931’s City Lights.
Gregory Peck teasing Audrey Hepburn at the Mouth of Truth in 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday took third position in the poll by CNN.
Burt Lancaster’s famous clinch with Deborah Kerr in 1953’s From Here to Eternity came in fourth, followed by Audrey Tautou and Mathieu Kassovitz’s bicycle ride through Paris in 2001 French film Amelie.
The Top 10 Most Romantic Moments were from the following films:
1. Casablanca
2. City Lights
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’Asterix at the Olympic Games’ on January 30th 2008
Before the Beijing Olympic Games get under way, world is about to catch a slightly different Olympic fever, ’Asterix at the Olympic Games’
With a production budget of EUR78 million, it is the most expensive French movie ever made. The six-month shoot in Spain’s new Ciudad de la Luz studio complex was followed by lengthy postproduction to complete no fewer than 1,300 shots with special effects.
’Asterix and the Olympic Games’ is adapted from the celebraed comic strips written by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo about a band of uppity Gauls who refuse to bend to the Roman invaders, and whose resistance is helped by a strength-giving magic potion. In this outing, they travel to Olympia to compete in the Games and win the hand of a Greek princess.
Clovis Cornillac takes over the title role, replacing Christian Clavier, who starred in the first two big-screen adaptations. Gerard Depardieu has his role of Obelix. Alain Delon, Benoit Poelvoorde, Jamel Debbouze and a host of Gallic stars join the fray.
Guest star appearances include soccer legend Zinedine Zidane, ex-Formula One champ Michael Schumacher, tennis ace Amelie Mauresmo and basketball wizard Tony Parker. Wrestling colossus Nathan Jones adds a bit of menace.
The two previous live-action adaptations, both produced by Pathe, were huge hits. ’Asterix and Obelix versus Caesar’, directed by Claude Zidi in 1999 and ’Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra’ with Monicca Belucci in 2002.
read more and watch the trailer
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Interview with Daniel Craig
IGN Movies was at the Quantum of Solace set last week.
Here’s what Bond himself had to say about the ‘Quantum of Solace’.
Who was the first person to suggest the title?
Daniel Craig: It’s been going around for a while, we’ve been discussing it quite a while. We could have found a nippy title – we had plenty of suggestions that would look good on the poster. But we made a lot of effort last time around to take the film to a new place, and we want to continue to do that. So this title is meant to confuse a little. It’s meant to make you wonder, and that’s what we want – we want people thinking as they come into the film. When we first came up with the title I wasn’t sure, but I’ve been re-reading the Fleming books, which I do when we start shooting because it passes the time. Fleming always has a very emotional line to his books, and that’s where we kind of left the last movie. It doesn’t mean that this movie is going to be some character-driven kitchen sink drama – we’re making a Bond movie – and ‘Quantum of Solace’ ties in with a very strong plot point, which I’m not going to give away at this point.
So given that should we expect an even more introspective Bond from this film?
Craig: No. There’s revenge. There’s a fight within him. There’s a need to do his job and to solve this riddle that’s been given to him, because basically everything he understood about the world has been turned upside down. All this points towards a bad organisation that’s trying to undermine the world’s economies by trying to control money around the world in a very secretive way; and he’s after them.
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‘Frozen River’ best drama at Sundance Film Festival
For the third year in a row, a movie revolving around immigrants won the grand-jury prize for best U.S. drama at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. Only this time, they come from the north.
“Frozen River,” a film about a struggling single mother in upstate New York who teams with a Mohawk woman to smuggle people across the Canadian border, is the first feature from director-writer Courtney Hunt. She adapted it from her own 2004 short of the same name.
“Trouble the Water,” about the survival of a New Orleans couple through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, earned the grand jury award in the U.S. documentary competition at the festival, the nation’s top showcase for independent film.
The movie by Michael Moore collaborators Tia Lessin and Carl Deal utilizes footage shot by one of its subjects, Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Roberts traveled to the festival with her husband Scott and gave birth to a daughter, Skyy, in Salt Lake City on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Del Toro In Talks For ‘The Hobbit’?
The Hollywood Reporter is, well, reporting that Guillermo Del Toro is now officially in talks to direct both The Hobbit and its sequel. This. Is. Awesome.
Their story doesn’t really hold any concrete facts or give us any new information on the film, but it’s very encouraging to hear that Del Toro is at the very least on the shortlist of directors who might handle the prequels to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Del Toro already has a lot of films on his plate, so he’d have to clean house a little if he took this on. Principal photography is set to start in 2009. Del Toro is currently finishing off ‘Hellboy 2′ and then had plans to make a new version of Frankenstein, a long-planned adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s At The Mountain’s Of Madness and ghost story 3993.
He’d also expressed some interest in directing the final Harry Potter movie. But when we spoke to the series producer David Heyman recently he said that Del Toro was sadly not really in the running because “he’s rather busy”, despite Del Toro telling Heyman that he’d like to make the movie because “I want to kill your children”. We guess you can’t have everything. We gladly sacrifice all of those other projects to see Del Toro’s take on ‘The ‘Hobbit.
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George Clooney Moves Out Of House
George Clooney has been forced to move out of his house. Why? Well, naughty Britney Spears is his neighbour.
Clooney narrates the incident (I just can imagine)
’I just found out, like, 10 days ago I must live within, like 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears. I found out because I came home at 10 o’clock at night and there was all these helicopters over my house with these lights.’
’I think, ‘Someone’s broken out of prison.’ I get my baseball hat, which is what you always get in every film, and I called up my assistant, who I thought was in my guesthouse.
I said, ‘Are you okay?’
She’s like, ‘Yes.’
I said, ‘if there’s someone in the place, say the word Stonehenge,’
and she’s like, ‘What the f*** are you talking about?’
‘So now I have to move.’ 
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