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DP/30: Chico and Rita. director Fernando Trueba

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RIP Peter Breck

Seen here in Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor, after exclaiming in interior monologue, “Nymphos!”

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DP/30: The Ides of March, writer Beau Willimon

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Ticket Prices… Tickets Sold… Slumpy The Whale

So… NATO (National Association of Theater Owners… the other NATO) has come out with their Q4 and 2011 Year End figures on ticket prices at US movie exhibitors. And the answer is… Inconclusive. What we know from this exercise is that, in theory, movie tickets were more expensive in Q2 2011 than any other quarter….

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17 Days To Oscar: A Thin Line Between Win & Lose

This is the time of the season when things start lining up and one starts gathering perspective. As a result, I find myself endlessly pontificating about what could have been done, what should have been done, what would have been done had there been the money or the will. And so, a few basic rules…

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OSS 117 Laughs With Jean Duajrdin

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Adventures in Filmmaking: Something Resembling Forward Motion

The other day I was grumping to my colleague Ray Pride about how I needed something to stir a fire in me to write about. Usually a stroll through my Twitter and Facebook feeds and my routine pit stops through my morning bookmarks is good way to shift my writing mode into gear, but I…

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For Valentine’s Day, T-Mobile Clips A Joe Swanberg Movie

A clip from Alexander The Last? Um…. thanks, Cupid? [Via Joe Swanberg.]

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DP/30 @ Sundance 2012: Bachelorette, writer/director Leslye Headland

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BYOB 2812

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Somewhere, IRON SKY Lost Its Mind; Gained Udo Kier, Sarah Palin (trailer)

“I’ll see you in Valhalla.” Music by  Laibach. And the slightly stranger, smaller-scale original trailer. [Via Iron Sky.]

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DP/30: My Week With Marilyn, actor Michelle Williams

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Teasing Robert Byington’s SXSW 2012 SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME

“I’m… sixteen.”

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Postering EXTREMELY LOUD… In Holland

[Via IMP Awards.]

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DP/30 @ Sundance 2012: The House I Live In, documentarian Eugene Jarecki

Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.

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Amazing Spiderman Trailer/Preview

In this era of short exclusives, it may have been a little bit silly to do a trailer launch in 13 cities around the globe. Did Emma Stone really need to fly to Rio to answer one question and be cute in front of a few hundred Brazilian fans? I know the intention. And it…

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DP/30: Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, actor Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman

And an earlier chat with Gary and his co-star Mark Strong.

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Coppola And Savides Shoot In Moneyed Marrakech For H+M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7x4pCMRVQw

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Weekend Estimates by Khronicle

So… it looks like a resounding success for CBS Films and a solid hit with some leggy upside for Fox. All on Super Bowl “Why Are They Releasing Films” Weekend. There have only been four $20m openings on Super Bowl Weekend prior to this one. Personally, I think this speaks to the elasticity of the…

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Dujardin Kills On Leno

Jean Dujardin is a brilliant performer and a massive star. And he’s French. This has been the oddest curve of the awards season, as he has worked hard to learn English, so he could fully participate in the “fun.” It’s been hard. He’s a intuitive comedian, so he needs not just the language, but the…

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DP/30: Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, actor Gary Oldman

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DP/30: The Artist, composer Ludovic Bource

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DP/30: MIssion: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, director Brad Bird

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DP/30: The Grey, co-writer/director Joe Carnahan, actor Liam Neeson

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“I’ve seen cuts that were the first or second drafts of the movie. There were amazing things: much more of the children and Jessica and Brad. And you could almost make a whole other movie about Sean. There’s another side to his story. It’s almost unexplored in the film.”
~ Emanuel Lubezki On The Roots Of Tree Of Life

“Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie. The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down. It’s the same thing with Yoda. We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn’t get it done in time. We had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn’t as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we  put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be. If you look at Blade Runner, it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday and there are all kinds of different versions of it. Star Wars, there’s basically one version—it just keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward.”
~ George Lucas Suggests His Empire Not A Religion

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