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While Hollywood is busy releasing the remake of her signature character movie, Sweedish actress Noomi Rapace has moved on to new horizons. Her first Hollywood movie “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” has already been released last week, and now the first trailer of her second one, one of the most awaited movies of 2012, Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” has been released today.
Melinda Liu, Dec 16, 2011 1:42 PM EST
While trying to visit a Chinese activist, Christian Bale is attacked by government guards—even though he’s starring in a movie partly funded by the Chinese government.
Rural Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, once asked me whether U.S. films accurately portrayed American life—and specifically whether police brutality was as common as it seemed. He could never have dreamed that, a decade later, Academy Award winner Christian Bale would be roughed up by Chinese security guards as the American actor attempted to visit Chen—and that Bale would be in China on a publicity tour for a movie, The Flowers of War, that the Beijing regime is heavily promoting in hopes it’ll earn China its first Oscar.
2:17 PM PST 11/30/2011 by Scott McKim
From Steven Spielberg to Terence Malick and Christopher Nolan, Bale has won the hearts and minds of many top directors.
1) Steven Spielberg
Bale was 12 when Steven Spielberg cast him in Empire of the Sun, beating out 4,000 kids who also auditioned. Amy Irving, who was then married to the director, had recommended Bale after starring with him in the TV movie Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.
If the Academy Awards are the most respected, high profile, and sought-after awards in film, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globes Awards are probably the second biggest awards show around. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominations and The Artist led the way with six nominations, while The Descendents and The Help were right behind with five apiece.
Here’s the full list of nominees, including all those television categories:
Before he cleans up the streets of Gotham next summer in The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale will travel back in time for some heroism and carnage in China.
That is for acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou‘s (director of 3 foreign-language Oscar nominated movies) latest movie, war epic “The Flowers of War” (working title was 13 Flowers of Nanjing).
The movie is abt the true life story of an American mortician who gets stuck in China and becomes the reluctant savior to a group of innocent school girls as well as some hardened prostitutes who take refuge at a cathedral during the horrific 1937 Nanjing massacre, when thousands of inhabitants of the then-capital Nanjing were murdered by invading Japanese troops.
First up is the extraordinary first look poster, the gorgeous one-sheet, according to many is proof that “Poster art is definitely not dead”.
This has been a good year for Frieda Pinto. “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is a worldwide blockbuster, the $93 million movie has amassed $481 million (worldwide) so far. And the newer one “Immortals” is also doing good, the $75 million has grossed $181 million (worldwide) so far in one month of it’s release.
Now check out the first look and French Theatrical Trailer of her next movie “Black Gold”
By MovieMaster of site comicbookmovie
Today I have come across a new description of the 6-minute prologue and details on Bane. Grains of salt at the ready, but this has a chance of being legit…
The Film Independent Spirit Awards have announced their nominees for organization’s 2012 ceremony, to be held on February 25, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. If anyone doesn’t know the Independent Spirit Awards is a prestigious award as the event exists to reward films that won’t get the recognition they deserve from the Oscars, SAG Awards or Golden Globe Awards and more importantly a boon for the small and Indie film makers.
By Gregory Ellwood Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011 1:00 AM
After all the buzz for “War Horse” and “The Descendants’” superb reviews and box office over the Thanksgiving frame, Oscar player “The Artist” needed a nice boost to keep in step on the publicity front and boy did they get it. Winning the NYFCC award for best feature film and best director for Michel Hazanavicius along with the film’s surprising five Independent Spirit Awards, including best feature film, mean The Weinstein Company has a lot to brag about. Well, at least until Thursday when the National Board of Review reveals their top picture which many assume will be “The Artist” anyway. It has certainly left other studios reassessing their campaigns for the weeks ahead.
Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist."
