Guys, we really tried to make it through an entire day without reporting on another Kanye West rant, but alas, there is another that just couldn’t be ignored. This time, it’s in audio form, and you can listen to it below. In a clip obtained by Page Six , you can hear Kanye call Taylor Swift a “fake ass” and go off on an expletive-filled tirade backstage before his performance last week on Saturday Night Live . Kanye has received much backlash over a controversial lyric in his new song “Famous,” in which he says he might have sex with Taylor, since he “made that bitch famous.” “Don’t f*ck with me! Don’t f*ck with me! Don’t f*ck with me!” he screams in the clip, after going on about how he’s 50 percent more influential than notable figures in history including Pablo Picasso, Stanley Kubrick, Pablo Escobar and Paul the Apostle. We don’t know who did his calculations, but we’ve a feeling they’re a hair off. But the one who’s truly off – his rocker – is Kanye. Yeezy was so worked up over a problem with the set that he nearly walked out and left the show high and dry with no musical guest. View Slideshow: Kanye West Rants on Twitter, Defends Taylor Swift Lyric “Just moments leading into the live show, and during the live show, Kanye had a meltdown and threatened to walk off,” said one production insider. “He freaked out about how the set was arranged.” Another source told Page Six that Kanye was heard calling the SNL crew “white motherf**kers.” Kanye has arguably made himself famous (nevermind Taylor) by acting like a bona fide, screamy nut job, but his latest antics are stirring up even more controversy than usual. His former co-writer and close friend Rhymefest recently tweeted that ‘Ye was in need of “spiritual and mental” counseling , and that he should “step away from the public & yesmen & heal.” Someone close to him, if not a mental health professional, definitely needs to get into this man’s head and tell him to GET A MOTHERLOVING GRIP. And if you don’t believe us, hear it for yourself (audio NSFW): Kanye West SNL Meltdown
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Also in a round-up of news briefs Tuesday morning, the Academy is set to honor Stanley Kubrick ; the Austin Film Festival announces winners of its Audience Awards; And, a doc spotlighting Levon Helm heads to U.S. theaters. Academy to Honor Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick will be feted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Wednesday November 7th. Hosted by Malcolm McDowell at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the evening will feature film clips and personal remembrances by friends and collaborators including Paul Mazursky, Ryan O’Neal and Matthew Modine. The tribute is in association with the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA) which is hosting a retrospective. Silver Linings Playbook Wins Austin Film Festival Audience Award The romantic drama by David O. Russell won the Austin Film Festival’s “Marquee Feature Audience Award, while Junk by Kevin Hamedani took the Narrative Feature Audience Award. Joseph Levy’s Spinning Plates and T.C. Johnstone’s Rising From Ashes tied for the Documentary Feature Audience Award. The Muslims Are Coming! by Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah took the Comedy Vanguard Audience Award. Kino Lorber Picks Up Levon Helm Doc Ain’t In It For My Health The film is an in-depth and intimate look at music legend Levon Helm who died last April. The NYC-based distributor picked up the film on the heels of a recent “Love for Levon” tribute concert in New Jersey earlier this month where nearly 20,000 fans packed an arena to hear musicians including Roger Waters, Gregg Allman, Mavis Staples, Joe Walsh and Lucinda Williams celebrate his legacy. Kino Lorber is planning an early 2013 release followed by a VOD/home video release in early summer. Around the ‘net… Tom Cruise Teases a Mission: Impossible 5 A fifth installment appears to be in the preliminaries. “I started Mission: Impossible hoping I could make many of them. It’s a character that I can grow with…We’re already working on different images. Talking conceptually. I love traveling around promoting different movies because I’m always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city. I look at architecture, subways… coming up with different sequences,” Cruise told the U.K.’s Total Film. Hurricane Sandy Forces Broadway Theaters to Go Dark for Third Day; Region Slammed The shut-down is one day longer than the aftermath of 9/11. Power outages continue to plague Lower Manhattan and the subway is closed again as the city and region deal with the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, THR reports .
Three decades and change after publishing his 1977 classic The Shining (which made its way into horror movie history a few years later courtesy of Stanley Kubrick), Stephen King has set a release date for his Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep . “Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton have established September 24, 2013 as the official first publication date,” King’s official website announced today. In Doctor Sleep , King catches up with little Danny Torrance, who’s now in his forties and uses his abilities to help the terminally ill in his work as a hospice caregiver. Also: Vampires are involved! Because of course. Last fall, King gave a surprise reading from Doctor Sleep at George Mason University: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.” Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. With the book hitting shelves in 2013, how long until we hear of movement on a Doctor Sleep film? That should go interestingly with the Shining prequel reportedly in the works , no? [ Stephen King official website via Allie is Wired ]
Mark your calendars, movie nerds: November’s “An Academy Salute to Stanley Kubrick” event, hosted by Malcolm McDowell, will kick off a film retrospective accompanying LACMA’s exhibition dedicated to the films and work of Stanley Kubrick : “Kubrick’s films will be represented through a thoughtful selection of archival material, annotated scripts, photography, costumes, cameras and equipment, set models, original promotional materials, and props. The interdisciplinary exhibition draws attention to Kubrick’s fixation with historical research and his visionary adaptations of influences from the fine arts, design, and architecture, and enables visitors to experience the cinematic journey of one of the great artists of the twentieth century.” [ Deadline ]
Also in Monday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, Toronto ’12 doc heads for U.S. distribution, while an Occupy Wall Street doc is also set for theaters. Julia Louis-Dreyfun, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener and more begin work on a new comedy, while Bruce Dern and Will Forte are set for Alexander Payne project. And Joe Manganiello has boarded an action-thriller. Jennifer Lawrence Eyes The Ends of the Earth The Weinstein Company will produce and distribute the project. It picked up worldwide rights from Escape Artists, which will produce the film. Lawrence is in talks to star in the epic love story, based on true events as Lydie Marland. In the film Ernest Marland, an oil tycoon, risks losing everything after an affair with his adopted daughter, Lydie. The screenplay was written by Chris Terrio (ARGO). The director has yet to be chosen. Commented Harvey Weinstein: “I’m not sure that anything resonates more with an audience than a true story. Jennifer Lawrence shows the skill of a seasoned veteran in everything she does, and we’re thrilled to work with her again.” Stanley Kubrick’s First Feature Fear and Desire Set for Blu-Ray and DVD Release The 1953 release is an existential war film that is often compared with Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way down river to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and tie her to a tree, where she is tormented by a mentally unbalanced soldier (future director Paul Mazursky). Before making their escape, the soldiers determine the location of an enemy base and formulate a plot to assassinate its commanding officer. Kino Lorber will release the film on Blu-Ray and DVD October 23rd following a restoration by the Library of Congress. The Central Park Five Headed to Theaters The documentary is about five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of brutally beating and raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park, but acquitted later after a confession by a serial rapist and DNA evidence. The Central Park Five will screen at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival and will close Doc NYC in November. Jeff Deutchman, Director of Acquisitions & Productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films, with co-director, writer and producer McMahon on behalf of the filmmakers. Occupy Wall Street Doc Set for September Magnolia Pictures label Magnet Releasing will bring Occupy Unmasked by Stephen K. Bannon to a limited theatrical release day and date with VOD in late September. The film takes viewers into the Occupy Wall Street camps around the country in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Portland, Denver and Oakland for an up-close look at what’s happened there and who’s at the heart of the movement, documenting criminal activity and raw brutality in the camps – much of which has not been reported by the mainstream media. The film also features the late conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette Start New Comedy Indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener directing her fifth feature from a script she wrote. The Fox Searchlight project revolves around soon-to-be divorced empty nester Eva (Louis-Dreyfus) who meets Marianne (Keener) whom she considers the embodiment of her “perfect self.” Eva decides to take a chance on a new love interest, Albert (Gandolfini), but things get complicated when she discovers he’s in fact Marianne’s ex-husband. The film will shoot in and around Los Angeles throughout August and September. Around the ‘net… Bruce Dern and Will Forte Set for Alexander Payne’s Nebraska Paramount has green-lit the black and white production, which is set to begin production in mid-October. Bob Nelson and Dern wrote the $13 million project about a cranky alcoholic dad who believes he’s struck it rich in a sweepstakes and undertakes a road trip with his underachieving son (Forte) to claim the winnings. The film is apparently going to be ready for the 2013 Oscar season, Deadline reports . Joe Manganiello Eyes Arnold Schwarzenegger Action Thriller Manganiello is in negotiations to join Schwarzenegger’s Breacher , which David Ayer is directing. Written by Skip Woods ( Swordfish ), the film follows 10 DEA agents who pull off a heist during an operation, but afterward start dying one by one, THR reports .
At long last, the meeting of influential cinema icon Stanley Kubrick and the amorphous multi-headed entity known collectively as The Kardashians has occurred, and here is the photographic evidence: Kendall and Kylie Jenner, younger sisters of Kim Kardashian and the other two from that show you know you watch when no one else is looking, pose a la the creepy twins from The Shining with matriarch Kris Jenner as… uh, you tell me. This particular photo shoot from the lesser Kardashians’ guest visit to America’s Next Top Model required its model-contestants to pose as toddlers. Naturally some genius dreamed up this scenario. I mean, all of the classic Kubrick signatures are here in this image, from the bright playroom colors to the clown lurking in the background to the leggy model-contestants posing at Kris’s feet to the pastel cut-outs proclaiming “GLAMOROUS” on the wall. “Glamorous” is what Kubrick was all about, right? [ Celebuzz ]
Between the rise of digital media and the shortcuts many theaters have taken to alleviate waning profits – forgoing film rigs for digital projectors , replacing projectionists with button-pushers, lowering projection-bulb levels to cut replacement costs – many filmmakers are concerned about the state of their industry. Visual effects veteran and filmmaker Douglas Trumbull ( 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters, The Tree of Life ), for one, is doing something about it: He hopes to bring back the spectacle of the theater-going experience – and revitalize the industry in the process — with a project he’s shooting at 120 frames per second, in 3-D, to be projected at seven times the luminosity often seen in theaters today. Trumbull rocked the visual effects community with his big ideas for change while accepting the Georges Méliès Award at the annual Visual Effects Society Awards last night in Beverly Hills. Named after the cinema pioneer whose groundbreaking work in motion-picture art was celebrated in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated Hugo (which, incidentally, took home top honors for Supporting Visual Effects), the Méliès Award “honors a special individual who has pioneered a significant and lasting contribution to the art and science of the visual effects industry.” Trumbull, who collaborated with Steven Spielberg on Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Ridley Scott on Blade Runner , and most recently contributed mesmerizing effects to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life , pointed to his work on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as the kind of moviegoing experience he hopes to recreate with his 120 FPS, 3-D project. The key, however, and the element that makes many a filmmaker cringe when their product is released into the world, is the substandard light level at which many theaters project 3-D films, which Trumbull argues diminishes the power of a movie and the often amazing visual effects work that created it. While the industry standard recommended luminosity for a projected film is 16 foot-lamberts for 2-D projection, many theaters wind up projecting 3-D at much dimmer levels , as low as four foot-lamberts, and Trumbull suggests this has led to diminishing appeal for moviegoers. Trumbull has nearly twice the ideal standard — 30 foot-lamberts — in mind for his new project. Add in the 120 fps frame rate Trumbull is working with and that’s one helluva recipe for mind-blowing visual presentation; standard films use a frame rate of 24 frames per second, but a few filmmakers have recently begun exploring filming at a higher than standard rate for increased picture clarity and smoothness, especially with 3-D. Peter Jackson is currently filming The Hobbit at 48 fps ; James Cameron was considering either 48 fps or 60 fps for his Avatar sequels, explaining the choice thusly: “The 3D shows you a window into reality; the higher frame rate takes the glass out of the window. In fact, it is just reality.” So just imagine Trumbull’s movie projected in 3-D, brighter and more detailed at 30 foot-lamberts and 120 frames per second. If Cameron and Jackson think 48 fps and 60 fps will bring us this much closer to a perception of true reality at the movie theater, what will the Trumbull experience do to the way we see movies? From Trumbull’s VES Awards speech: “I am horrified when I go to a movie theater and I see any of our movies projected on four foot-lamberts or less. This is bad. The mission that I’ve been on ever since I’ve had the really great pleasure and responsibility to work with Stanley Kubrick on 2001 was that that movie was shot and projected in Cinerama, on giant 90-foot-wide screens — which are unheard of today except in a few IMAX theaters — and it was an experience that went beyond normal cinematic conventions. It took you on an adventure to outer space, and it was a first-person experience, not necessarily a third-person experience. It didn’t have much in the way of drama, conflict, suspense, or action in the normal sense, but Kubrick wanted to get out of the way and let you go on this trip in outer space, and was enabled by this amazing giant screen movie process… and a lot of special effects. So I’m looking forward to a time that I think is achievable in the very near future with this mission that I’m personally on right now. I feel that I have to direct a film the way I want to see a film be made and to be seen. I’m experimenting right now, amazingly, at 120 frames a second in 3-D on giant screens, 30 foot-lamberts after polarization. And I have to tell you that the illusion is like a window unto reality. So it’s not just like going to a movie, it’s like going to a live Broadway show. It’s like Cirque du Soleil, a spectacle. It has potential to unleash the power of all of the work that you all do, to deliver to the audience incredible… if you’re going to spend $100, $150, $250 million on a movie that’s being throttled through a very narrow bandwidth of a 4:2:2 digital cinema package to go to a theater to get projected in four foot-lamberts, I think it’s unacceptable. So my job is to try to fix that for you. I don’t find anybody else working on it, strangely enough; Michael Bay talks about his frustrations with the brightness of his movies, as do other movie directors. I’m hoping I can make some progress and I’m hoping I can make a movie that actually demonstrates how this all works.” Meanwhile, Trumbull also has designs on improving the industry for the artists themselves — not the celebrity actors who already earn big bucks and hog the spotlight, or even the directors themselves, but the below-the-line talent, the technical artists who create movie magic by building the worlds that actors play in. “We are the most important players in the whole movie industry.,” Trumbull told the hundreds of Visual Effects Society members in attendance. “You guys do all the heavy lifting.” The biggest problem for technical artists, he said, is that they’re not compensated well enough for their contributions, especially since their CG work and effects arguably make possible the tentpoles and billion-dollar franchises that keep the studio system afloat. “We don’t get to participate in the profits, and this is a very big problem,” he declared. “I was very lucky in the early days when I was working with Steven Spielberg on Close Encounters ; I was able at that moment in history to negotiate a piece of the net profits on Close Encounters . I’m looking forward to a time in the hopeful near future where you will all receive residual checks for the work you do.” And Trumbull is willing to put his money where his mouth is; uniting both of his big ideas, he promised profit share for any VFX artists who come work on his movie. “If we want to bring people back into theaters and show them all the work that you did,” he said, “we’ve got to make the screens bigger, we’ve got to make theaters more spectacular, we’ve got to have showmanship in theaters like they did in the old days. We’ve got to bring people back in theaters because what you can get out of a movie theater is so different, so better, and so spectacular that you couldn’t possibly get it on your iPad.” Impressed as the VES Awards crowd seemed with Trumbull’s potential game-changer and his rousing cry for artist recognition, at least one effects professional I spoke with seemed skeptical of his plan. It’d be too risky and, he thought, too costly, to jump in with the visionary, profit-sharing or no. That said, Trumbull said he’s determined to see his 120 fps/3-D experiment come to life to show the world his vision for film’s potential. “Even if I can only show it in one movie theater, I will be happy to do that.” Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
