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Dallas Critics back Popular Opinion: Slumdog is tops of the Year
Slumdog Millionaire continues it domination of year-end kudos locking up Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Assn. Top Film and Top Director awards. Among the more noteworthy selections is Anne Hathaway’s win for Rachel Getting Married which bets out some stiff competition and the most successful picture with subtitles this year picked up the best Foreign Language film of the year. Tell No One had a miracle run at the box office and made over six million and some change in a crazy theatrical run.
McAdams and Ford what’s the story ‘Morning Glory’
Two actors in need a good career move are pairing off in the studio comedy that takes place in the highly competitive world of news anchoring. Paramount Pictures has grabbed Harrison Ford to topline picture and have hopes to lock Rachel McAdams in the co-lead.
Austin Film Critics think ‘The Dark Knight’ is Best of 2008
The kids at Austin’s Film Critics Association did drink the Kool-Aid. The group has become the first and perhaps the only ones to nominate Nolan’s The Dark Knight as the best picture of 2008. Interesting category wins include Colin Watkinson’s cinematography work for The Fall, the Breakthrough Artist Award which went to Danny McBride for his work in Pineapple Express, The Foot Fist Way and Tropic Thunder…and finally best First Film went to Nacho Vigalondo for Timecrimes.
Slumdog-Millionaire-is -crowned-king-by- San-Diego-Critics
The San Diego Critics Society are convinced that Danny Boyle’s pic is the best of the best in 2008. Slumdog picked up the awards for director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and score. Worth pointing out is another nod going to Mickey Rourke for his comeback role and Swede horror film Let the Right One In collects yet another kudo for Best Foreign film.
Film Dept. thinks Peter Chelsom is ‘Perfect Man’ for the Job
I'm looking forward in seeing the first couple of films roll out of Mark Gill's Film Department in 2009. So far the projects in development show that Gill is preferring genre films - which makes sense in these tough economic times. So the announcement of helmer Peter Chelsom joining rom com The Perfect Man continues in the same direction of the kind of material they are putting into development.
