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WATCH: Post-Debate Lincoln TV Spot Reminiscent Of Obama’s "I Am The President" DNC Speech

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If President Obama didn’t exactly dominate Mitt Romney during their debate on Wednesday night, he got a nice subliminal boost courtesy of Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis. Following the political wrestling match, Disney ran an extended TV spot for Lincoln that finally justified all of  the early Oscar talk the film has generated and  and not-so-subtly established Lincoln and Obama as kindred spirits. After a series of emotionally charged scenes that depict Lincoln, played by Day-Lewis, grappling with Civil War (depicted in Saving Private Ryan -style brutality) and the politically unpopular idea of abolishing slavery, the clip closes with the two-time Oscar winner declaring, “I am the President of the United States of America…clothed in immense power!” That rousing movie moment called to mind a slightly less riveting one: President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in early September in which he said, “Times have changed, and so have I. I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President.” The line got plenty of media pick-up and, as the New Yorker reported , evoked a scene from the Aaron Sorkin-scripted 1995 film The American President . In the movie, Michael Douglas, who plays besieged president Andrew Shepherd, addresses attacks from a political challenger by saying: “If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I’ll show up. This is a time for serious people….My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I  am  the President. Sorkin’s line is cool, but the one delivered by Day-Lewis, which was written by Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner carries more force. And I much prefer the idea — purely of my own imagining — that Obama had advance intelligence about the highly anticipated  Lincoln  movie and script and was able to use it to his political advantage.  How’s that for a Left-wing Hollywood conspiracy theory?  Take a look at the spot below and tell me what you think. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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Yep, ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ Will Be Converted To 3-D

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It’s been rumored for years, but it looks like Warner Bros. is finally going to convert the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz to 3-D. Thank James Cameron and the Titanic 3-D rerelease that brought in cruise ship-loads of money. Temper that knee-jerk reaction for just a moment and consider: Could Wizard of Oz 3-D actually be a great thing for cinema? The Judy Garland musical about a Kansas farmgirl whisked away to a magical land was a game-changer in its own day, heralding the leap from black and white to color in one breathtaking cultural moment of Technicolor bliss. WB made the announcement today at a press event celebrating their 90th Anniversary; expect Dorothy to skip along the Yellow Brick Road and into your cerebral cortex in 2013. And while Wizard ‘s legacy has lived on in subsequent decades, trickling down tributaries of pop cultural influence as far reaching as the Muppets, to Japanese Lolita cosplay to a live-action prequel by the guy who made Evil Dead , there’s something wonderfully pure about the idea of an entirely new generation of youngsters getting an intro to Dorothy Gale’s fantastical Oz adventure on the big screen. Mimicking that transformative cinematic revelation from B&W to color could also be a big moment for the 3-D industry; imagine the black and white doldrums of Dorothy’s ho-hum homestead not only exploding in color, but in glorious three dimensional color once she awakens in Oz. It could blow kids’ minds, plus it opens the door to the next natural step: The Wizard of Oz 4-D . Opium highs and the odor or Munchkin sweat — the pinnacle of added-value cinema. [via Collider ]

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Glimmers Of Gold: An Early Look At The 2013 Oscar Race

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Did you just see that glass of water tremble à la Jurassic Park ? Could that distant rumbling be Harvey Weinstein barreling T-Rex style down the endless red carpet leading to the Kodak Theater in February? Indeed, with the announcement this week that Seth McFarlane will be hosting the 85th Academy Awards , Oscar season is now officially under way. Screeners and For Your Consideration ads shall soon be raining down upon us. So this seems as good an occasion as any to assess the buzz around Oscar hopefuls in the major categories. Prognosticating about the Oscars so early in the race, when many of the most anticipated prestige movies of the year ( Lincoln, Django Unchained, Les Miserables ) remain to be seen, may be premature, like discussing the prospect of a Gingrich/Perry 2012 ticket a year ago. But what self-respecting pundit waits to be fully informed? After all, the jockeying has already begun . BEST PICTURE ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Like last year, there could be as few as five and as many as ten nominees in this category. The locks so far are Lincoln (a biopic of Abraham Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg could be made with animated stick figures and it would still be a shoo-in—actually, I’d like to see that…); Les Misérables (a lavish, crowd-pleasing period musical that couldn’t be more upfront about its Oscar ambitions); and Argo (Ben Affleck’s film about a CIA hostage rescue mission in Tehran under the guise of a Hollywood production — Zero Dark Thirty meets Tropic Thunder ? — got a terrific jump out of the Telluride and Toronto gates). Silver Linings Playbook , a romantic comedy with just enough of a serious edge to please Oscar voters, also had a solid Toronto run. Ang Lee’s lyrical Life of Pi delighted New York Film Festival audiences last week and there’s every reason to believe the Academy will be just as enchanted, especially since there’s a feeling Lee was screwed over when Crash was voted best picture over Brokeback Mountain in 2005. I’d be surprised if The Master didn’t get nominated for best picture, but Kristopher Tapley and Anne Thompson over at Indiewire  point out that, while the acting and cinematography are spectacular, the film itself left many critics cold. Michael Haneke’s rueful rumination on love and death, Amour , which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a bit of a long shot since it’s in French. But if Weinstein, who is distributing the film in the U.S., can get a French silent film a best picture Oscar, as he did last year with The Artist , there’s no saying what he can do with a French talkie. Rounding out the frontrunners is the oneiric bayou fantasy Beasts of the Southern Wild, which could provide this Oscar season’s feel-good, indie underdog narrative. (NB: This category will be shaken up in December, when many major contenders will be released, including Django Unchained ; The Hobbit ; Promised Land ; Zero Dark Thirty ; and The Impossible .) BEST DIRECTOR Ben Affleck Back in 1998, we all made jokes about how Ben Affleck was the luckiest man alive for tying his fate to Matt Damon’s and winning a screenwriting Oscar. But Affleck, who’s proven to be one of the best mainstream directors of his generation, may well get the last laugh — in addition to a nomination for helming Argo . Spielberg’s seat at this table has been booked for years. The Master auteur Paul Thomas Anderson is a near lock, too. Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, who won this award two years ago for The King’s Speech , will almost certainly get recognition for his use of live-action singing, which, to believe the featurette Universal put out last week, has never been attempted before in a musical of this scope. The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow could get a shot at a repeat victory with Zero Dark Thirty . The same goes for Ang Lee, who took home the best-director consolation prize in 2005, and breaks new ground this year with his innovative use of 3D in Life of Pi . If David O. Russell’s reputation as an on-set tyrant hasn’t blacklisted him so far — and judging from his 2010 nomination for The Fighter, it hasn’t — there’s a good chance he’ll get a nod for Silver Linings Playbook . Rounding out the category are heavy hitters Robert Zemeckis ( Flight ), Peter Jackson ( The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ); and Quentin Tarantino ( Django Unchained ).

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Richard Gere To Receive Honors At Upcoming Hamptons Film Festival; Twilight Tix To Go On Sale October 1st Online: Biz Break

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Also in Thursday evening’s round-up of news briefs, the Academy names a director for the 85th Oscars telecast. And a slew of Venice and Toronto titles find homes, leading them to U.S. theaters in the coming months. Don Mischer to Direct 85th Oscar Telecast Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said Don Mischer will direct the 85th Academy Awards telecast, marking the “continuation of [his] multi-faceted relationship with the Academy, which includes pro ducting the Oscars red carpet pre-show and producing the annual Governor’s Ball.” Richard Gere to Receive Hamptons International Film Festival Honors Aactor Richard Gere will attend the 20th anniversary HIFF to receive The Golden Starfish Award for Lifetime Achievement in Acting on October 6th. The award will be presented during the festival’s “Conversation With Richard Gere”, a discussion with Mr. Gere about his life and career, moderated by the festival’s Honorary Chairman, Alec Baldwin. The 20th Hamptons International Film Festival takes place October 4th – 8th in Long Island, NY’s East End. Fandango Eyes Advanced Ticket Sales for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 The final installment of the Twilight behemoth will first go on sale October 1st at Midnight ET, more than six weeks before the movie’s November 16th release, the online ticketed said. Deadline also reports that MovieTickets.com is offering the advanced tickets on its site too . Advance tickets for the November 15 Twilight Marathon – where all five films of The Twilight Saga will be shown in order at select theaters – will also go on sale on October 1st. And, as part of a special sweepstakes on Fandango, two fans will also have the chance to win a trip to the world premiere of Breaking Dawn, Part 2 in Los Angeles. Visit their site   for more details. Venice and Toronto’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist Heads to U.S. Theaters IFC Films picked up North American rights to the film, directed by Mira Nair, which opened the recent Venice Film Festival and screened last week at the Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, and Riz Ahmed, the film tells the story of a young Pakistani man (Ahmed) whose pursuit of corporate success on Wall Street leads him on a strange path back to the world he had left behind. The deal for the film was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films and Hal Sadoff for DFI and Bart Walker of Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Toronto’s No Place On Earth Heads to U.S. Theaters Magnolia Pictures picked up U.S. theatrical rights to the emotional directorial debut of Janet Tobias’ Toronto documentary No Place On Earth . The film, which recently had its world premiere in Toronto, tells the little-known story of thirty-eight Ukrainian Jews who survived World War II by living in caves for eighteen months, the longest-recorded sustained underground survival.  Built upon interviews with former cave inhabitants, as well as Chris Nicola, the caving enthusiast who unearthed the story. negotiated by Josh Braun and David Koh at Submarine with Dori Begley, Magnolia’s Senior Vice President of Acquisitions. Magnolia will release No Place On Earth theatrically in 2013. While We Were Here Heads to U.S. Theaters The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere is set on the isle of Ischia off the Amalfi Coast in Italy. The film follows a young American writer named Jane (Bosworth) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroadswhen she accompanies her husband Leonard (Goldberg) on a business trip. While escaping the mundanity of her comfortable marriage by delving deeper into adapting her grandmother’s WWII stories into a memoir she stumbles into a romantic affair with a younger man (Blackley) who complicates her life even further. L.A.-based distributor Wrekin Hill release the film in the U.S., which stars Kate Bosworth, Jamie Blackley and Iddo Goldberg. How To Make Money Selling Drugs Heads to U.S. Theaters The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival Friday. Directed by Matthew Cooke, the provocative documentary offers an in-depth look at the high-stakes world of drug dealing and drug enforcement by blending authentic reportage with pop culture references. Tribeca Film, the distribution component of the group that oversees the Tribeca Film Festival, plans a 2013 theatrical release as well as Video On Demand platforms.

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WATCH: Google + Premieres Lincoln Trailer During Glitchy Q&A With Spielberg And Gordon-Levitt

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Steven Spielberg debuted the trailer to Lincoln , his highly anticipated film about the 16th U.S. President at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, but the experience was less-than-mesmerizing. That’s because the webcast was initially plagued with glitches that left some viewers with nothing more than a “buffering” notice or moments when the trailer seemed to fade in and out of blackness.  The Google + Hangout session with the filmmaker and Joseph Gordon-Levitt , who stars as Lincoln’s son Robert Todd Lincoln, was also bedeviled by sound problems that turned the question-and-answer session into an annoying echo chamber.  If you didn’t — or couldn’t — see the trailer during its premiere, check it out after the jump, along with the first images from Spielberg’s ’12 Oscar contender.  PHOTOS: First Images From Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln The sound problems were eventually corrected, and Spielberg remarked that Lincoln “is a figure in this national landscape who hasn’t been re-examined enough,” except, he added, as parody.  According to Spielberg, the last movie to take a substantial look at the historical figure was the 1939 feature  Young Mr. Lincoln , in which Henry Fonda portrayed him in his pre-presidential days as a lawyer. “I think a figure as great as Abraham Lincoln deserves re-examination,” Spielberg said. Gordon-Levitt took a more personal approach to the Q&A, taking time to give a shout-out to his high-school AP  U.S. History teacher, Mr. Bechtel — I’m guessing at the spelling here — who the actor said was one of his favorite teachers because he presented history as if it were “story time” instead of reducing it to “a bunch of facts and multiple-choice questions.” Gordon-Levitt also said he was “honored” to work with Spielberg. Here’s the trailer. Instant Oscar powerhouse? Watch it on Youtube. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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Daniel Day Lewis’ Lincoln Hits In Black & White

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A pensive Daniel Day-Lewis turned Abraham Lincoln appears in this black and white poster of DreamWorks’ Lincoln due to hit U.S. theaters in November – actually only days after the 44th POTUS or the 45th POTUS wins the U.S. election. Directed by Steven Spielberg , Lincoln spotlights the 16th President of the United States during his final months in office. On set, Spielberg revealed that he’d refer to Day-Lewis as “Mr. President” along with referring to all the film’s actors by their character names, ML noted via a report by EW when the first color images of Lincoln appeared two weeks ago. If the sneak looks are any indication, an Oscar-nomination for Make Up and even Costume Design cannot be far off the mark. A quick look at Lincoln’s actual beard in an actual photo of the President shows his beard to appear less whiskery in the mid-jaw area. And voila, such is the facial hair as it manifests in the Lincoln version of Lincoln. Though obviously some time before audiences will first see Lincoln , with two-time Academy Award-winner Daniel Day-Lewis as the Civil War leader, more Oscar nominations will likely be in the offing come January. And who knows what Joseph Gordon-Levitt will do as Robert Todd Lincoln (the First Son) and Sally Field as the sometimes maligned wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Dreamworks revealed its official log-line for the feature: Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.   Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln” is produced by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, with a screenplay by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox film, in association with Participant Media, releases in U.S. theaters exclusive on November 9, 2012, with expansion on November 16, 2012.

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Film Society of Lincoln Center Co-Founder Martin E. Segal Dead at 96

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Russian-born American businessman and cultural philanthropist Martin E. Segal died Sunday just under two months before the 50th anniversary of the New York Film Festival , the premiere Manhattan film event hosted annually by the venerable organization he founded, the Film Society of Lincoln Center . He was 96. Segal’s son Paul confirmed his death, the New York Times reports . In 1969, he co-founded the organization that has grown into a film behemoth that hosts year-round film events including NYFF, New Directors/New Films, major retrospectives and other high-profile events that attracts over 200,000 film aficionados, filmmakers, and industry. He served as FSLC’s president and CEO until 1978 and as chairman of Lincoln Center from 1981 – 1986 Segal was born in Vitebsk in what was still known as the Russian Empire in 1916, a year before the Bolshevik revolution. He founded The Segal Company in October, 1939 and has grown to become one of the nation’s largest firms dealing with benefits, compensation and human resources consultation. In addition to Lincoln Center, Segal was active in other New York cultural institutions including the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the New York Public Library, the New York International Festival of the Arts (which discontinued in 2002) and the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2000. Additionally, he served as the first chairman of NYC’s Commission for Cultural Affairs from 1975 – 1977. “Marty was a passionate and enthusiastic champion of film,” Rose Kuo executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center told ML. “When something caught his attention, he would quickly respond, gather support and with a great sense of urgency, he would make sure that things happened like last year’s NYFF screening of the newly restored Chaplin’s Gold Rush . I was fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from his wisdom and be inspired by his curiosity. He was the youngest 96 year old I ever met.” [Source: New York Times ]

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REVIEW: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Tells the Real Story Behind the Civil War — Not!

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It’s not every day you see a movie and ask yourself, “Why does this thing even exist?” But I’m truly puzzled by the existence of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter . I get that it’s based on a novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, part of a pop literary genre — launched by Grahame-Smith himself — that takes famous figures, fictional or otherwise, and pits them against vampires and zombies. I get that it’s directed by Timur Bekmambetov, the zany Russian-Kazakh mastermind behind cult apocalyptic favorites Night Watch and Day Watch (2004 and 2006, respectively), not to mention the stupidly entertaining 2008 action thriller Wanted. I even grant you that it’s probably OK to make up wholly imaginary motives for why Abraham Lincoln might have wanted to end slavery, motives having to do not with the preservation of human dignity, equality between all people and all that rot, but because it was kind of a handy sideline to the task of ridding the world of vampires. I know and accept all of this. And still I ask — Why? I do understand, sort of, the appeal of Benjamin Walker, a young actor who made a splash on the New York stage a few years back in another semi-historical (actually, pretty damn historical) work of fiction, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson . In Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , he plays first the young and then, with a strip of fun fur attached to his chin, the older Abe Lincoln, radiating a suitable degree of Mount Rushmorelike intensity. But again I ask — Why? Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter provides an alternative history of the Civil War, one that begins during Abe’s childhood: He realizes an evil neighbor has caused the death of his mother, but he doesn’t know exactly how. Later, he meets a fellow who explains it all: Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper) gives Abe the lowdown on vampires who restlessly walk the earth — the man who murdered Abe’s mother was one of these nasty dudes — and then trains him in the art of vampire destruction (it’s a little more complicated than you might imagine), necessitating a training sequence in which Abe learns to twirl an ax like a majorette at Ole Miss. Mid-movie, Abe retires from the vampire hunting game and turns his attention to politics. By this time, he’s married (to a serene Mary Todd, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and before long, the Civil War breaks out and things get really hairy, including his chin. It’s then that Abe learns the bloodsuckers, led by vampires extraordinaire Adam (Rufus Sewell) and Vedoma (leggy model-turned-actress Erin Wasson), play an even more sinister role in American politics than he’d previously thought. Meanwhile, the always-terrific Anthony Mackie wanders through the film listlessly as Abe’s Black Friend. It doesn’t take long for Bekmambetov to wear out his welcome with a laundry list of generic-looking action sequences: When you’ve seen one vampire get stabbed in the eyeball, you’ve seen ’em all. Actually, the script, written by Grahame-Smith, explains the whole North vs. South, Abolitionist vs. pro-slavery interests, vampire vs. human thing pretty well, considering how inane it is. And the picture is surprisingly handsome-looking, especially for a 3D vehicle. (The DP is Caleb Deschanel.) But none of those attributes are enough to convince me that Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter isn’t the sort of story that’s best left as an unfilmed concept. The moment Winstead’s Mary Todd Lincoln taps her foot impatiently and calls to her husband, “Hurry, Abraham — we’ll be late for the theater!” can’t come soon enough. At least Grahame-Smith had the good sense to realize he couldn’t make up a better ending. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter at WonderCon: Boomsticks and Train Fights and Freedom, Oh My

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Saturday at WonderCon, Timur Bekmambetov debuted new footage and and a 3-D trailer for his upcoming revisionist fantasy-actioner history lesson Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter — the Seth Grahame-Smith-penned retelling of how America’s 16th President saved the nation… from vampires. Watch the 2-D version of the trailer after the jump and marinate on the wholly new lessons we can learn from the saga of Honest Abe — or, as star Benjamin Walker explained to the crowd in Anaheim: “As an American, I want to know that my leaders are strong and have the capacity to make decisions — and cut some heads off.” The new trailer squeezes in some backstory between the insane amounts of axe-twirling action on display, depicting why Lincoln is so hell-bent on ridding his country of the insidious new vampire scourge — they killed his family, and he wants revenge. Bekmambetov, Walker, and Grahame-Smith (who adapted his own novel) were on hand to give context to the seeming silliness of their high concept film; supernatural bloodsuckers aside, their tale follows the real-life achievements and events that made Lincoln one of history’s best-loved presidents. The trio described their version on Lincoln’s life as a “superhero origin story” in which the movie Lincoln fights for what the real Lincoln did hundreds of years ago: In a nutshell, freedom. Additional footage shown gave an expanded glimpse of how the vampire-slayer metaphor works within a larger historical context. In it, Lincoln and his cohort William Johnson (Anthony Mackie), prepare for a vampire assault as they travel by train to Gettysburg. “It’s 80 miles from here to Gettysburg,” growls Lincoln “80 miles will decide if this nation belongs to the living or the dead.” Lincoln and Johnson proceed to chop and blast their way through a gaggle of vampires, with Lincoln making swift and economical use of his trusty axe. (Grahame-Smith and Bekmambetov took inspiration from the real-life Lincoln’s handiness with the tool.) At one point atop the moving train, Lincoln and Johnson work in tandem to fend off their attackers — the President and his African-American friend, literally battling evil together. Look for more on Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter in Movieline’s upcoming chat with Bekmambetov.

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Hilary Clinton Departs ‘Women in the World’ Summit

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Hilary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton depart the prestigious ‘Women in the World’ Summit held at the David H. Koch theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. ‘Like’ us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/hollywoodtv!

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