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The death of the original screenplay...?
Wed, Nov 4 2009 8:07 AM

This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best Original Screenplay" category. If "Up," "Inglourious... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Up, The Hurt Locker, Awards, Where the Wild Things Are, Inglourious Basterds, (500) Days Of Summer, Star Trek, The Hangover, Away We Go, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Oscars 2010

Summer 2009: but what does it *mean*?
Mon, Aug 31 2009 11:31 PM

Clearly someone at Variety was crunching numbers every Sunday night and waiting for the moment they could announce that this was the highest-grossing summer EVER; late Monday afternoon, with all the box office estimates confirmed, it was time to drop the good news. Yes, this summer set records all over. $4.17 billion grossed over last summer's $4.16 billion... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Biz, Up, Pixar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, WALL-E, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers 2, District 9, Star Trek, The Proposal, Ratatouille, The Hangover

Venice embraces 3-D, the Jonas Brothers.
Mon, Aug 10 2009 9:45 AM

The 66th annual Venice Film Festival, which runs from September 2-12, has some undeniably awesome premieres in its line-up, with new films from Fatih Akin and Claire Denis, George Romero's latest zombie movie, and, most importantly, Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans." (Revisit the woozy trailer here.) But what the film... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Up, 3-D, Venice 2009, Jonas Brothers, Joe Dante, Coraline, The Hole, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Film festivals

Cannes 2009: "Up."
Thu, May 14 2009 5:00 AM

Pixar's proven, again and again, a miraculous ability to spin cinematic gold out of almost perversely unlikely scenarios, but the beginning of "Up," the opening night film at this year's Cannes, is something else entirely. A boy, Carl, watches a newsreel in a '30s theater about larger-than-life adventurer Charles Muntz, and when making his... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Cannes 2009, Up, Pixar, 3-D

Trailering: "W."'s wonderful world.
Mon, Jul 28 2008 12:57 PM

Dailymotion has a teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's "W." here. I... have no words. Other than that I find myself suddenly and unexpectedly looking forward to the film -- October 17th is the release date. From everything I've heard about "Sukiyaki Western Django," designating it "Takashi Miike's English language masterpiece... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, Trailering, Up, Pixar, Sukiyaki Western Django, RocknRolla, Martyrs, W., Oliver Stone, Takashi Miike