MUMBAI: Sarah Greenwood is to be honoured as production designer of the year at the Hollywood Film Awards for her work on Focus‘ Anna Karenina.
A similar award was given to Greenwood four years ago when she was recognised for her contributions to both The Soloist and Sherlock Holmes.
She has also been nominated three times for the Academy Award for best art direction – for Holmes, 2007‘s Atonement and 2005‘s Pride & Prejudice.
Additionally, she won the Art Directors Guild‘s Excellence in Production Design Award for Holmes.
The awards ceremony will take place 22 October.
Category: International
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Sarah Greenwood to be honoured for her work in Anna Karenina
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Black and White film Blancanieves is Spain’s entry at the Oscars
Mumbai: Blancanieves, a silent film shot in black and white, will be Spain‘s entry at the 85th edition of the Oscars and at Mexico‘s Ariel awards in the non-English best film category.
Starring Maribel Verdu, Macarena Garcia and Daniel Gimenez Cacho, the film begins showing in Spanish theaters Friday after being screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival where it enjoyed great critical success.
Blancanieves, directed by Pablo Berger, beat out El artista y la modelo, by Fernando Trueba and Grupo 7, by Alberto Rodriguez, in the voting conducted online by the Spanish academy members.
Earlier, four films from Spain namely Mar adentro, Volver a empezar, Belle Epoque and Todo sobre mi madre, have won the Oscar in the best non-English-language film category. -
Herbert Lom expires at 95
MUMBAI: Herbert Lom, best known for playing Inspector Clouseau‘s irritable boss Charles Dreyfus in all the Pink Panther‘ films has expired at the age of 95. Lom‘s family said he died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday.
The Czech-born, London-based actor starred opposite Peter Sellers in several Pink Panther films beginning with 1964‘s A Shot In The Dark. The actor appeared in more than 100 films during his 60-year acting career including classics as The Ladykillers, Spartacus and El Cid.
Lom also portrayed Napoleon Bonaparte on two instances. One of them came in the 1956 screen adaptation of Tolstoy‘s War And Peace that also starred Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda.
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Bruce Willis set to visit India to promote Looper
Mumbai: Hollywood star Bruce Willis might soon come to India to promote his upcoming film Looper.
If all goes well, the Hollywood actor might fly down to promote his upcoming futuristic action thriller that will hit the theatres in the country on 12 October.
However, Multivision Multimedia, the distributor of Looper in India, is not divulging details on the star‘s visit.
The 57-year old Willis is said to be kicked after the Rian Johnson-directed film got rave reviews at its screening at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
In Looper, based on time-travel, Willis co-stars along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt of Inception and The Dark Knight Rises fame. The film also has Emily Blunt as the female lead. -
Robert De Niro to be honoured at Hollywood Film Awards gala on 22 October
MUMBAI: Two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro will be honoured at the Hollywood Film Awards for his work in David O. Russell‘s film Silver Linings Playbook.
De Niro will be presented with the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award at the 16th annual Hollywood Film Awards, organized by the Los Angeles Times.
“Robert De Niro is not only highly regarded for his body of work as an actor, producer, and director, but also for the passion, integrity, and dedication he brings to his performances on camera, as well as his intense off-camera preparation and study of the characters he brings to life. His performance in the upcoming film ‘Silver Linings Playbook‘ is outstanding,” said Carlos de Abreu, the event‘s founder and executive director.
Also to be honoured along with at the 22 October gala ceremony will be actress Marion Cotillard; producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner; writer director Judd Apatow actor John Hawkes and actress Quvenzhane Wallis.
“We are very proud to be the first stop of the awards season. In the last nine years, a total of 85 Oscar nominations and 32 Oscars were given to the honorees of the Hollywood Film Awards,” said de Abreu. -
Fourth edition of TCM Classic Film Fest in April next year
MUMBAI: The annual TCM Classic Film Festival is set to return in Hollywood for its fourth edition from 25 to 28 April next year. The 2013 event will center on the theme “Cinematic Journeys: Travel in the Movies.”
Robert Osborne, TCM host, film historian and former longtime columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, will serve as the host, with TCM‘s Ben Mankiewicz also introducing various events. One event has already been announced in the form of 13 October showing of the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Orlando.
The 2012 festival included appearances by Liza Minnelli, Kirk Douglas, Mel Brooks, Kim Novak, Debbie Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Robert Wagner and Stanley Donen.
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John Travolta gets lifetime achievement award
Mumbai: Actor John Travolta has been conferred with a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The actor was honoured for his lengthy movie career at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Thursday. He was presented with the prestigious Donostia Award by his Savages‘ co-star Benicio del Toro.
“So much energy is spent in the nullification and invalidation of other people. So if some group of people get together to pat you on the back and say good job, I‘ll take it… thank you,” Travolta said after getting the award.
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Colin Firth not averse to The King‘s Speech sequel
MUMBAI: Colin Firth, who made a name with The King‘s Speech, is not averse to appearing in the sequel of the film.
“The sequel is going to be about the experience of families during the Blitz and will focus on how the privileged royal family was hit by the crisis, compared to the more ordinary family of George VI‘s speech therapist.
Said a source, “The focus will be on George but it will also show how the whole royal household was affected. There‘s still amazing interest in the Blitz. The movie is still in the very early stages but everyone‘s keen to get going soon.”
Firth‘s co-stars Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush are also said to be interested to return for the sequel while director Tom Hooper is keen to take the helm once again.
The King‘s Speech, which picked up four Oscars, including Colin Firth‘s for best actor, as well as a string of BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards, cost just 9 million pounds to make and earned over 250 million pounds at the box office. -
Crew member succumbs to heart attack on the sets of The Lone Ranger
MUMBAI:A crew member named Mike Bridger working on the sets of Johnny Depp‘s forthcoming film The Lone Ranger died of apparent drowning last Friday.
The 48-year-old diver is thought to have suffered a heart attack while cleaning out a pool that was going to be used in the film, it is reported. He was pronounced dead on arrival according to the coroner‘s spokesman.
“Our hearts and thoughts are with his family, friends, and colleagues at this time,” Walt Disney studios Spokesman Paul Roeder said in a statement. “Our full support is behind the investigation into the circumstances of this terrible event,” he added.
Police revealed the man had been wearing scuba equipment to carry out maintenance on a deep pool on a ranch near Palmdale, in the desert north of Los Angeles, where the Western is being filmed. Close friends said the victim‘s name is Mike Bridger, a welder and water safety guy who had worked alongside mega producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Depp for years. -
Resident Evil… at No. 1 spot grosses $30.5 mn in second weekend
MUMBAI: In a drowsy weekend at the foreign box office, Resident Evil: Retribution again took the No. 1 spot by grossing $30.5 million in its second weekend recording a 39 per cent drop from its overseas opener last weekend at 6,720 venues in 73 markets.
The latest film of producer-director Paul W. S. Anderson‘s action/sci-fi series has bagged an offshore total of $103.4 million so far. This has already put Retribution ahead of three of the four prior franchise titles released since 2002. Foreign box office champ remains 2010‘s Resident Evil: Afterlife, which recorded $236.1 million.
The film opened strongly in Mexico, taking the No. 1 spot with $3.5 million at 1,092 playdates. No. 1 openings were also recorded in Greece and in Vietnam. Biggest holdover market was Japan where the weekend tally (down only 28% from the prior round) was $6.2 million at 765 sites for a market cume of $28 million.
Russia delivered $2.9 million in the second weekend at 1,150 spots for a market cume of $13.2 million.
Retribution, being handled by Sony in most overseas markets, opens this week in the U.K. and in Italy.