For the first time, a film has won both the audience award at Sundance and Toronto. Precious, by Lee Daniels, took home TIFF's audience award this weekend. Unlike other festivals, at Toronto the audience award is the top honor, and has previously been won by Hotel Rwanda, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Slumdog Millionaire. Meanwhile, in the new audience award set up specifically for the genre-based Midnight Madness program at Toronto, Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones was the winner.
Precious has been doing well since it debuted at Sundance. (It played there under the title Push (Based on the Novel by Sapphire).) The film was already considered a significant Oscar contender before TIFF, but this second audience award is a big push for the film. In the real world people are seeing the trailer and reacting well to it, but the film still looks like a hard sell to regular ...
Video: Mystery Team At The Haunted Hotel
Monday, August 10, 2009 5:21 PM | From Cinema Blend
One of the great ironies of my Comic Con experience was that, even though I interviewed the guys behind Mystery Team, ran into them on a daily basis and spent my last night in San Diego having dinner with them, I never actually managed to see the movie. What I did catch, though, was a short they made exclusively for their Comic Con panel, titled "The Case of the Haunted Hotel." I hear from sources in the know that it's ...
Video: The Mystery Team At The Haunted Hotel
Monday, August 10, 2009 2:42 PM | From Cinema Blend
One of the great ironies of my Comic Con experience was that, even though I interviewed the guys behind Mystery Team, ran into them on a daily basis and spent my last night in San Diego having dinner with them, I never actually managed to see the movie. What I did catch, though, was a short they made exclusively for their Comic Con panel, titled "The Case of the Haunted Hotel." I hear from sources in the know that it's ...
Only psychopaths and serial killers should be allowed to stalk Paris Hilton's life. So leave it to some moron in Dubai to spy on the heiress while she chilled in her hotel room. This idiot also had the time and money to bug the most intellectual personality of our time. Her bodyguards found a bug in her room. And no, it wasn't crabs...
Developing: David Carradine Found Dead in a Bangkok Hotel
Thursday, June 4, 2009 10:00 AM | From RopeofSilicon
CNN is reporting David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand, hotel, according to his personal manager, Chuck Binder. The BBC adds to the report saying a hotel maid found him sitting in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. While a US embassy official said the [...]
Mixed reports are coming in, but they are all saying the same thing: Bill is killed. David Carradine, star of Kung Fu and Kill Bill is dead at 72. The most common report is that he was found dead of natural causes in a Bangkok hotel. One other...
Marisa Miller signing autographs at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Miller arrived at the event wearing a short black dress, rockin' a flawless body and...
Hotel For Dogs Special Effects Wiz On Building Rube Goldberg-esque Contraptions
A time-traveling Delorean. Dinosaurs. Crazy steam-powered tanks. Over nearly 30 years as a special effects dynamo on films like Back to the Future II, Jurassic Park and Wild Wild West, theres not much Michael Lantieri hasnt been asked to do.
That is, until he joined the production of Hotel for Dogs and had to create a [...]
Sofia Coppola Checks In To The Chateau Marmont -- Her next film SOMEWHERE will be set at the Hollywood hotel
Written by Nicole Pedersen
I dont live in LA but I am of course familiar with the Chateau Marmont. Heres what I know from watching TMZ: the hotel is a Hollywood landmark. It has bungalows and it is the destination of choice for troubled young stars like Jim Morrison and Britney Spears. The A-listers seem to check into the Marmont when they are just sick to death of all the harassment from the paparazzi which is funny because if theres one place the press are sure to follow you it is to the threshold of the Chateau Marmont. Its not exactly a low-profile place to crash.
Heres something else I know about The Chateau. Sofia Coppola is setting her next film at the famed hotel. The writer director of Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette has been granted permission to film inside the Marmont for her next ...
Jason Adams reviews "Hotel For Dogs"
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