So, The Hurt Locker pulled it out. People were expecting the Avatar sweep but you can always count on the Academy to mix things up a bit. Kathryn Bigelow also won for her Direction of the movie (ironically, she's one of James Cameron's exes, if you didn't know). Anyway, I'm not really surprised by that since it was a "serious" movie and not some silly sci-fi epic (that has made more money than any other film in history!). Avatar and Star Trek did win some technical awards, however (can you say "consolation prize"?).Other winners were Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Bastards), Mo'Nique (Precious) and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side). Sandra is also the proud recipient of this year's worst actress Razzie Award for her performance in All About Steve. Moving on....
This weeks box office has Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland coming in at $116 million, breaking a few records. It has been getting mixed reviews, but money talks. And, yes, Avatar is still at number 5 after twelve weeks in the theaters. Brooklyn's Finest, Shutter Island and Cop Out were numbers 2, 3 and 4 respectively. New this Friday will be Matt Damon's Green Zone. New on video this week; Up In The Air, Precious and Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.
Watched 2012 the other night. Completely over-the-top action, but a lot of fun (in an end-of-the-world kinda way). I've stated before that you have to give Rolland Emmerich (Director/Producer) credit for being the new Disaster Movie King and this generation's Irwin Allen (creator of such gems as Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure). His next big project is to take on the Isaac Asimov's Foundation story. A difficult task to say the least.
Just found out today that J. Michael Straczynski will be taking over the writing for Superman and Wonder Woman comics in July starting with issues 701 and 601 respectively. JMS is the creator of Babylon 5 and has numerous other writing credits to his name including Changeling (with Angelina Jolie) and most recently Ninja Assassin. Haven't done the comic book scene in a while, might have to check it out. One of his next projects is a remake of the Sci-Fi classic, The Forbidden Planet.No update on Recession Proof as of yet. The local indy film that I am associated with is still in post-production. Editing should be complete soon...
And now I leave you with the latest Iron Man 2 trailer...
