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RANGO Receives Best Animated Feature Award at 39th Annual Annie Awards
Paramount Pictures Rango took top honors as the Best Animated Feature at the 39th Annual Annie Awards, Saturday, February 4, at UCLA’s Royce Hall. With the expanded list of categories from 25 to 28, and the addition of two new categories – Editing and Best Animated Special Production – this year’s show honored more nominees than in the past. Also new to the ceremony was the live streaming of the event at www.annieawards.org/watch-it-live. The complete list of winners can be viewed at www.annieawards.org. The newly created ‘Member’s Favorite’ award voted on by the entire ASIFA-Hollywood community also went to ‘Rango.’
The Last Airbender Review
Other than The Last Airbender, it’s hard to think of another movie that conveys so much urgency in every line of dialogue and yet goes absolutely nowhere. M. Night Shyamalan, fighting to reclaim his commercial viability, wrote, produced and directed this live-action adaptation of the hit Nickelodeon animated series, and while he successfully condensed an entire season into one feature-length film, he did so by packing it with only exposition, leaving no room for characters, story, or anything else. A soul-crushing disaster made worse by unnecessary, counterproductive 3-D, The Last Airbender fails to immediately qualify as the worst film of the summer only by virtue of the year’s abundance of other candidates…read more [Cinematical]
The good news for those eagerly anticipating this live-action, big budget adaptation of the Nickelodeon anime series is that the 3D isn’t horrible. The bad news? Just about everything else is. Fans of the series may appreciate The Last Airbender’s faithful adaptation of the series’ first season (at least in terms of plot; less with its white-washed casting), but laborious storytelling and clumsy performances drag it down. Waaaay down. Helmer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) ably manipulates the technical elements to create a fantasy world with scope and cool effects, but he seems to have spent too much time crafting CGI balls of water and not enough writing a passable script. Worse, he fails to keep his cast from drowning in a sea of cheesy, ham-fisted dialogue, instead leaving his actors to suffer valiantly on-screen and us to watch helpless as they bravely tai chi their way to the end. The Last Airbender may not be the worst film of the summer (that honor remains with Jonah Hex), but it’s certainly the biggest disappointment…read more [Movies.com]
Frank Marshall To Direct Covert One
Frank Marshall will be directing an adaptation of a series of books called the Covert One series.
So, although the Jason Bourne franchise is dead at this moment, we have new adventure story on a way.
New franchise? Why not, after all “a top-secret team of political and technical experts who fight corruption and conspiracy at the highest and most dangerous levels of society” already sound’s like something that could be interesting to see on a big screen…
“An unknown virus has emerged, and with time running out for all of humanity, it’s up to disease expert and former secret agent Colonel Jonathan Smith to isolate the source of the outbreak and expose the culprit responsible in an action-packed thriller penned by Bourne Identity author Robert Ludlum with several other authors.
Colonel Smith is not only one of the country’s best-known disease experts, he was also a top agent in the highly classified Covert One agency that reports directly to the president of the United States.
Matt Damon to Star in Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter”
Matt Damon will star in supernatural thriller “Hereafter,” Clint Eastwood‘s next producing-directing project for Warner Bros. Pictures, set to begin shooting this fall.
Peter Morgan, who got an Oscar nomination for “Frost/Nixon,” wrote the script. Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Morgan and Tim Moore are executive producing. Spielberg previously worked as producer on Eastwood’s “Flags Of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.”
“Bourne 4″ Moving Ahead With Nolfi Penning
Universal is moving forward with a fourth Jason Bourne movie, tentatively titled “Bourne 4“. The Bourne Ultimatum writer George Nolfi has been hired to pen the sequel. Nolfi’s other credits include The Sentinel, Ocean’s Twelve and Timeline.
Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon are attached to the new film. The film will be produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Jeffrey Weiner and Henry Morrison.
”Bourne 4” in 2010!
In early 2008, there were some rumors around the possibility of Universal Pictures making another “Bourne” movie.
“Bourne” producers Frank Marshall and Tom Crowley recently unveiled that the speculation is true.
Marshall and Crowley confirmed to IESB that the fourth Bourne film is indeed on the way.
