With "Hitchcock" now in the Oscar hunt, and set to hit theaters next month, we're going to be seeing a lot more from this film in the coming weeks. But we just hope the rollout gets a bit smoother as it goes along.
Read More »AFI Fest is bringing the heat in 2012. Already locking down Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" for a world premiere as their Closing Night film, they are going to kick things off with a helluva get.
Read More »A week after Fox Searchlight surprised many by scheduling biopic "Hitchcock" for an awards-hungry November release date, AFI has announced that the film will open this years AFI Fest on Thursday, November 1st.
Read More »Surprisingly, the Toronto International Film Festival, which in years past has seen previously unregarded pictures like "The King's Speech" and "Slumdog Millionaire" break out into Oscar front-runners, didn't really provide an out-of-nowhere shocker this year. Sure, there...
Read More »In terms of Oscar contenders this year, Fox Searchlight was looking a little light in the loafers. They've had an odd 2012 with excellent films like "Sound Of My Voice" and "Ruby Sparks" failing to find the audiences they deserved, while "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" mostly crushed it overseas. But o...
Read More »The Nov. 23 weekend is already busy with releases big and small, and Searchlight itself has two awards-season hopefuls in Sundance Film Festival pick-ups "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "The Sessions." Is there room for everything?
Read More »Surely at this stage, Danny Elfman must have some kind of cloning machine at work. In 2012 alone, the Oingo Boingo member turned composer has penned two scores for his regular collaborator Tim Burton, "Dark Shadows" and "Frankenweenie," another for "Men In Black 3," and one for David O. Russell's "S...
Read More »The organisers of the Karlovy Vary International FIlm Festival, taking place this week in the obscenely picturesque spa town of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, have hit on a canny strategy. The festival’s programming has for some years now been above reproach in every respect, something that has not a...
Read More »Alfred Hitchcock seems to be firmly in the zeitgeist at the moment: the British Film Institute is showing an extensive retrospective of the director's work later in the year, and the next twelve months or so will see not one, but two biopics of the legendary master of suspense. The first, "The Girl,...
Read More »Well, we already got a peek at what Toby Jones looks like as Alfred Hitchock in "The Girl" -- one of two movies on the way about the director -- and now it's time for Anthony Hopkins to step into the famous silhouette, and it's pretty impressive.
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