People Magazine picked one of my favorite actors Johnny Depp as this year’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”
Depp, who is 46, won in 2003 is being called “iconic status in terms of sexiness.” That is a mouth full.
People representative also said, “Johnny Depp was someone who was sexy 10 years ago. He’ll be sexy 10 years from now. He’s someone who appeals to multiple generations of women.”
Brad Pitt, Richard Gere and George Clooney also hold the honors of being a double winner.
Check out the issue of People Magazine if you ladies want to see more sexy men of 2009.
John Calley was too ill to attend the ceremony. Steven Spielberg accepted the Oscar for Calley.
Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis and John Calley were awarded Oscars this weekend at a special presentation at Hollywood & Highland Center called Governors’ Awards. The affair was a nostalgic celebration with attendees referring to the good old days when Oscars were handed out in such casual affairs without time limits, where recipients’ acceptance speeches were not based on a two-minute stopwatch. Although the ceremony was not televised, highlights of the toasts and acceptance speeches are available at the Academy’s website.
I highly recommend visiting the site and taking the time to view each clip. It’s truly a celebrated time where each recipient deserves recognition from their esteemed colleagues.
It is now entirely possible that, for the first time since the inception of the Oscars, fully FIVE FILMS could stand for Best Animated Feature.
There have never been this many eligible nominees, thus it’s entirely possible that the field could be expanded to be commensurate with the availability of entrants.
Folks, the field is positively MAMMOTH. There are fully twenty eligible films. I’ve seen several of them, and heard of most of the rest. There are some really obscure pieces there, and worse, there are some that never should have been nominated to begin with. For instance, Up,Coraline and Astro Boy are on the list, and those are indeed sweet titles. We reviewed them right here.
But Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel? That’s just an insult. And surely we can all do better than “Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure”. Wasn’t that direct to video? Or did it actually play in L.A. for a while?
Still though, a great big field goes into play soon–good luck to the nominees, whoever they may be.
The Prince of Wales stately knights Sir Christopher Lee, who is also known as Star Wars’ Count Dooku and of course – Dracula, received a knighthood for his services to drama and charity.
Lee is 87-years-old and is easily one of cinema’s most productive actors He appeared in more than 250 films over the course of a career to date has spanned 61 years.
Lee not only has been in Star Wars Prequels, but has started in The Wicker Man and the James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun.
He will next be seen in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
No song and dance man — Hugh Jackman will not host the Oscars a second year in a row.
The actor, who’s starring on Broadway with Daniel Craig in the drama “A Steady Rain,” quietly turned down the job sometime during the past few weeks.
I liked Jackman as the song and dance man of the Oscars. He drew praise from others as well. He says he’ll host the Oscar show again in the future, but is not certain.
After his Broadway run, Jackman plans to take time off and prepare for The Real Steel, the Shawn Levy-directed DreamWorks drama that starts production in the spring.
Twilight buffs take note, and I know there are a LOT of you–you’ll be extraordinarily happy to know that at Spike’s 2009 Scream Awards, you’ll be getting a special first look at some footage from the newest movie in the Twilight saga, New Moon.
Members of the cast will also apparently be in attendance that evening, though if it’s anything like the MTV movie awards you can look for Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to have run off and left Taylor Lautner holding a massive freaking bag once again. I bet they exchanged some choice words after that debacle, I tell you what.
Anyway, that’s not the only thing going into the Scream Awards–you’ll also get a farewell tribute from some of the cast of Battlestar Galactica, plus some of the cast of True Blood, which is a pretty decent show in its own right, will also be in attendance.
So you’ll definitely want to be on hand, for one reason or another, when the fourth annual Scream Awards hit Spike October 27th.
The Chiller Eyegore Awards, part of the Halloween Horror Nights festival (we just finished a couple weeks ago covering all the various short films that will be involved in the proceedings) just announced a couple of its special guest appearances.
If you ever wanted the chance to see the embodiment of a franchise and a complete disaster in filmmaking in the flesh, you’ll get your chance at the Chiller Eyegore Awards as both Tobin Bell and Rob Zombie will be making appearances.
The contrast is impressive, of course–with the representative of a major flagship title that’s only starting to look a bit long in the tooth (let’s face it, after six installments ANYTHING starts to look a BIT frayed around the edges. Don’t get me wrong–I enjoyed Saw V plenty, but the point remains) standing alongside a guy whose career never really produced much but fake blood and bombast.
Still, it should be an interesting show, no matter how it ends up.
Roman Polanski can’t seem to get a break. The notoriously intense film director, who made films such as ChinatownandThe Pianist, was on his way to Switzerland last Saturday to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival, only to be nabbed by the authorities. Why? Well, it seems to be due to a very old yet still publicised incident in the US. Polanski famously fled Hollywood after he was accused of raping a 13-year old girl. He has yet to return. The arrest warrent is still out and despite having travelled to Switzerland many times before, someone decided to uphold the warrent and arrest him. Polanski now faces extradition to the US and he may even spend the rest of his life behind bars. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night’s Emmy awards must have seen bookies sitting back and relaxing, with many of the clear favourites nabbing the prestigious TV award. It’s no surprise that 30 Rock won Best Comedy Series (and it’s hard to contest- the other nominess are all mediocre or else shadows of their former selves), and it was a delight to see the taut period drama Mad Men nab best drama series (Note: the Emmys actually use the word Outstanding to such an extent that it makes the word redundant). Of course, the only real surprise is the question of whether the quality of recent TV shows is so poor that the winners of last year’s comedy and drama series award have to win the same thing a year later!
Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and 30 Rock’s Alec Baldwin also both won for the second year in a row. In fact, they may as well have repeated last year’s broadcast if it wasn’t for Toni Collette nabbing an award for Best Actress for United States of Tara, in which she convincingly pulls off a suburban mom with a multiple personality disorder. It was nice to see fellow countryman Brendan Gleeson win an award (for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Into the Storm), and Michael Emerson’s award for Lost was a little suspect. The full list is here, though I imagine after such an unimaginative ceremoney most of you aren’t that bothered.
Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) ultimate movie star showcase: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS. Returns for its seventh year, the festival dedicates each of its 31 days to one of Hollywood’s most enduring personalities. This is an opportunity for you to enjoy a varied selection from each star’s body of work, and at best the films are uncut and commercial free.
More than half of the month’s actors and actresses featured in this year’s SUMMER UNDER THE STARS are first-timers to the festival. The 17 memorable performers include six Oscar winners: James Coburn (Aug. 4), Gloria Grahame (Aug. 13), Yul Brynner (Aug. 26), two-time winners Gene Hackman (Aug. 21) and Fredric March (Aug. 24), and honorary recipient Harold Lloyd (Aug. 5). Other stars getting their first showcases include James Mason (Aug. 2), Marion Davies (Aug. 3), Dirk Bogarde (Aug. 10), Red Skelton (Aug. 19), Miriam Hopkins (Aug. 20), Sterling Hayden (Aug. 22), Merle Oberon (Aug. 25), Ida Lupino (Aug. 27), Jean Arthur (Aug. 30) and Claire Bloom (Aug. 31).
This year’s SUMMER UNDER THE STARS also features 42 feature films making their premiere on TCM, nearly twice as many as last year. Movies making their first appearance on TCM during the festival include The Grapes of Wrath (1940), An Affair to Remember (1957), Les Miserables (1935), Mississippi Burning (1988) and Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955).
What I love best about this giveaway program is the remake of the movie posters. Here we have TheMagnificent Seven starring Yul Brynner. There are a number of posters to view at TCM.
Turner Classic Movies is so excited about their Summer Under the Stars program that they have asked Screenhead to offer three giveaway packages that includes six mini (18”X12”) posters of the following films (listed below) and a Robert Osborne bobble head.
Post your name and Screenhead will pick 3 winners August 31, 2009. Please keep in mind the TCM Summer Under the Stars programing runs through the month of August.
It is now entirely possible that, for the first time since the inception of the Oscars, fully FIVE FILMS could stand for Best Animated Feature.
No song and dance man — Hugh 
Twilight buffs take note, and I know there are a LOT of you–you’ll be extraordinarily happy to know that at Spike’s 2009 Scream Awards, you’ll be getting a special first look at some footage from the newest movie in the 
The Chiller Eyegore Awards, part of the 
Roman Polanski can’t seem to get a break. The notoriously intense film director, who made films such as 
Last night’s Emmy awards must have seen bookies sitting back and relaxing, with many of the clear favourites nabbing the prestigious TV award. It’s no surprise that 
This year’s SUMMER UNDER THE STARS also features 42