‘The Artist’ dog Uggie is banned from Oscar’s red carpet

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Feb 152012
 

“Uggie has not been asked to par­ti­cip­ate or appear at the Oscars,” said The Wein­stein Com­pany, dis­trib­ut­ors of “”.

Without an offi­cial invit­a­tion or cre­den­tial, the play­ful Jack Rus­sell ter­rier, 10, will not be able to romp with other stars on the red car­pet as the silent film front-runner vies for the movie industrys highest hon­ours, said Reu­ters today. Con­trary to some press reports, Uggie has not been rehears­ing an skit with host Billy Crystal.

Uggie has at least one trophy in his own right to add to his own Face­book page and Twit­ter account. On Monday night he fought off a stiff chal­lenge from Blackie the Dober­man — the star of dir­ector ’s “Hugo” — to win the inaug­ural Golden Col­lar Award for best dog in a the­at­rical film. … [con­tinue reading]

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Egyptian film star is sent to jail for insulting Islam

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Feb 022012
 

The Arab world’s most fam­ous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sen­tence for insult­ing Islam in films and plays.

Imam, who has fre­quently poked fun at author­it­ies and politi­cians of all col­ors dur­ing a 40-year career, has one month to appeal the sen­tence and will remain out of jail until the appeal pro­cess is concluded.

The sen­tence yes­ter­day even­ing came weeks after Islam­ists swept most seats in a par­lia­ment­ary elec­tion. The case was brought by Asran Man­sour, a law­yer with ties to Islam­ist groups, and had lan­guished in court for months, judi­cial sources said.

Man­sour accused the actor of offend­ing Islam and its sym­bols, includ­ing beards and the Jilbab, a loose-fitting gar­ment worn by some Muslims.

via Reu­ters… [con­tinue reading]

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Oscar nominations 2012

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Jan 242012
 

Academy Awards Oscar nominations 2012Mar­tin Scorsese’s Paris adven­ture “Hugo” leads the Academy Awards with 11 nom­in­a­tions, among them best pic­ture and the latest dir­ector hon­our for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Also nom­in­ated for best pic­ture today: the silent film “”; the fam­ily drama “The Des­cend­ants”; the Sept. 11 tale “Extremely Loud & Incred­ibly Close”; the Deep South drama “The Help”; the romantic fantasy “Mid­night in Paris”; the sports tale “Money­ball”; the fam­ily chron­icle “The Tree of Life”; and the World War I epic “War Horse.”

“The Artist” ran second with 10 nom­in­a­tions, among them writ­ing and dir­ect­ing nom­in­a­tions for French film­maker Michel Hazanavi­cius, a best-actor hon­our for Jean Dujardin and a supporting-actress slot for Berenice Bejo.

Dujardin, who won the Globe for best actor in a musical or com­edy as a silent-era star whose career goes kaput with the arrival of talk­ing pic­tures, will be up against Globe dra­matic actor win­ner George Clooney for “The Des­cend­ants,” in which the Oscar-winning super­star plays a dad try­ing to hold his Hawaiian fam­ily together after a boat­ing acci­dent puts his wife in a coma.… [con­tinue reading]

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Winslet and Branagh back together again

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Jan 152012
 

342px KateWinsletAAFeb09 Winslet and Branagh back together again is to work with for the first time since they made in 1996, says Variety.

Wins­let will star in the director’s latest film, The Guern­sey Lit­er­ary and Potato Peel Pie Soci­ety.

Branagh has described the pro­ject as “a beau­ti­ful romance, very touch­ing and uplifting.”

The film is to be based on the best-selling 2008 book by Mary Ann Shaf­fer and her niece Annie Bar­rows, who helped her fin­ish the book after she became ter­min­ally ill. The writer even­tu­ally died aged 74, a few months before the novel was published.

Set after World War II, the story is about a magazine colum­nist, Juliet Ashton, who learns how Guern­sey islanders cre­ated a book group dur­ing the war to out­wit their Ger­man occu­pi­ers.… [con­tinue reading]

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Kim Novak, on hearing the homage to the Vertigo score in The Artist, felt “raped”

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Jan 102012
 

I want to report a rape. My body of work has been viol­ated by .”

Kim Novak Vertigo Kim Novak, on hearing the homage to the Vertigo score in The Artist, felt rapedThis is a state­ment by Ver­tigo star Kim Novak.

Novak says she was appalled when she sat down to watch the front-runner and found that an import­ant sequence in the movie shame­lessly lifts Bern­ard Hermann’s score from Vertigo.

Novak’s man­ager told Dead­line that the score sampling sent Novak into “an abso­lute state of shock and devastation”.

Even though they did give Bern­ard Her­rmann a small credit at the end, I believe this kind of film­mak­ing trick to be cheat­ing. Shame on them!”

Someone had bet­ter take all those Brian De Palma movies off Novak’s Net­flix queue, and quickly, jokes Kyle Buchanan for New York Magazine.… [con­tinue reading]

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Berlin Film Festival to honour Meryl Streep

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Jan 032012
 

Meryl Streep Berlin Film Festival to honour Meryl Streep is to be hon­oured at this year’s Ber­lin Film Fest­ival, which takes place next month. Streep will be presen­ted with the hon­or­ary Golden Bear award, the festival’s highest accol­ade, on 14 February.

“Meryl Streep is a bril­liant, ver­sat­ile per­former who moves with ease between dra­matic and comedic roles,” said fest­ival dir­ector Dieter Kosslick.

Streep’s latest film, , will be screened at the festival.

via BBC News 

Photo by Andreas Tai… [con­tinue reading]

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Darcey Bussell on Astaire, Fonteyn and Michael Jackson

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Dec 222011
 

Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood Darcey Bussell on Astaire, Fonteyn and Michael JacksonOn Christ­mas Day the BBC2 will trans­mit  Dances Hol­ly­wood, a trib­ute to the great film music­als. Bus­sell talked to the Radio Times’ Alexia Skinitis about the dan­cers who have inspired her:

As a little girl, I didn’t dream of being a bal­let dan­cer, I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dan­cing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a per­fect Dis­ney­land world. Astaire was a genius.

Cheek to Cheek from Top Hat was his iconic dance with Ginger Rogers and it was such a joy re-creating it — although dan­cing in heels was very hard for me. He made everything look so easy, but trust me, it is not!… [con­tinue reading]

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