The process of Oscar predictions has changed completely over the last twenty years. Where there may have been favorites and hopes before that came with no sense of what could actually happen on Oscar night, blogging has turned the award ceremony into a stats game, where there are way fewer surprises than ever before. But, if you pay attention to the guilds, you have a great guide as to who is likely to win or lose. That doesn’t keep us from guessing, and our picks for Sunday’s Oscar ceremony are here. Hint: expect big wins for The Artist. Check it out…

Let’s start with the ones we’re most unsure of:

Shorts:

Best Animated Short Film:
“Dimanche/Sunday”
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”
“La Luna”
“A Morning Stroll”
“Wild Life”

Best Live Action Short Film:
“Pentecost”
“Raju”
“The Shore”
“Time Freak”
“Tuba Atlantic”

Best Documentary (short subject):
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement”
“God is the Bigger Elvis”
“Incident in New Baghdad”
“Saving Face”
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”

Um… word is high on those I tagged, so that’s what I’m going to go with. La Luna is from Pixar, which is one of those things that can just as easily work for the film as work against it.

Tech:

Best Sound Mixing:

“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”

Best Sound Editing:
“Drive”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”

Best Visual Effects

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″
“Hugo”
“Real Steel”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”

Best Art Direction:

“The Artist”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“War Horse”

Best Costume:
“Anonymous”
“The Artist”
“Hugo”
“Jane Eyre”
“W.E”

Best Makeup:
“Albert Nobbs”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″
“The Iron Lady”

Hugo is likely to lose most of the major prizes it’s nominated for, so its consolation should be the tech awards that aren’t up against The Artist. When going head to head, its scale is bigger so it should win Art Direction but lose Costuming – though Hugo vs. The Artist is the main drama of both awards. The Iron Lady is the most respectable of the make-up choices, and there’s no home team favorite (that is to say, Rick Baker). Still, we could see Potter eke out a victory.

Truth and Music:

Best Documentary Feature:

“Hell and Back Again”
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
“Pina”
“Undefeated”

There’s little consensus about what could win this one, but I’m going to go with Pina, as it can be viewed as a lifetime achievement award for Wim Wenders. Paradise Lost 3 could win for having real world success, but that could also be that film’s only reward.

Best Original Score:

“The Adventures of Tintin,” John Williams
“The Artist,” Ludovic Bource
“Hugo,” Howard Shore
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Alberto Iglesias
“War Horse,” John Williams

Best Original Song:
“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets,” Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio” from “Rio,” Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett.

John Williams splits his vote, and Howard Shore has a number of Oscars, so the movie that borrowed heavily from Vertigo gets it. I’m going Muppets because it’s such a great song.

The More Important Tech Awards:

Best Cinematography:

“The Artist”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”

Best Film Editing:

“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”

If Thelma Schoonmaker didn’t have three Oscars, then maybe she might be the odds-on favorite for editing, but because it’s The Artist‘s night it should win, which would be a good sign for its best picture chances. It could also win for cinematography, but as Deep Throat said “follow the guilds.” And if Tree of Life won the ASC award for best cinematography, and Emmanuel Lubezki has been nominated five times and never won, then it’s a good way to award him and the film.

Best Pictures that aren’t Best Pictures:

Best Animated Feature Film
“A Cat in Paris”
“Chico & Rita”
“Kung Fu Panda 2″
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”

Though the foreign films could be the usurpers, Rango looks like the odds on favorite and a good way to get Gore Verbinski an Oscar.

Best Foreign Language Film:
“Bullhead” (Belgium)
“Footnote” (Israel)
“In Darkness” (Poland)
“Monsieur Lazhar” (Canada)
“A Separation” (Iran)

In Darkness deals with WWII, which would normally make it the front runner, but A Separation also netted a Screenplay award, which means people have been paying attention. Though this category could lead to an upset, expect Separation to take it home. If not, expect Oscar bloggers to bitch a lot.

Writing:

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, “The Descendants”
John Logan, “Hugo”
George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, “The Ides of March”
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, “Moneyball”
Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”

Best Original Screenplay:
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, “Bridesmaids”
J.C. Chandor, “Margin Call”
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation”

The guild winners have the clearest shot, though The Artist would be the spoiler for Original screenplay. It feels like a bit of a spread the love year, so Woody Allen should get his fourth Oscar. Go Jim Rash aka Dean Pelton!

Acting!:

Best Actor:
Demian Bichir, “A Better Life”
George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Jean Dujarin, “The Artist”
Gary Oldman, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt, “Moneyball”

Best Actress:
Glenn Close, “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis, “The Help”
Rooney Mara, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep, “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams, “My Week with Marilyn”

Best Supporting Actor:
Kenneth Branagh, “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill, “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte, “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”
Max von Sydow, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

Best Supporting Actress:
Berenice Bejo, “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain, “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer, “The Help”

The most likely surprise here would be if George Clooney wins Best Actor, but SAG went with Jean Durjadin, and so should go the Oscar. The academy often acts like an over-compensating liberal, and so Durjadin will follow in Roberto Begnini’s footsteps because he’s new and foreign. The only other possible upset would be Meryl Streep for best actress, but Viola Davis has been doing well in every other award ceremony, and she is a well respected stage and screen actress, so that seems more likely (also as Streep has two Oscars, and this isn’t her best work). Christopher Plummer has been on lock for months, as has Octavia Spencer.

The Artist(s):

Best Directing:
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Alexander Payne, “The Descendants”
Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life”

Best Picture:
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
“The Help”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“Moneyball”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”

In ten years, the idea that Michel Hazanavicius has a best directing Oscar is the sort of thing that will make people scratch their heads. Same with The Artist‘s win. Doesn’t matter. Right now it’s the hot flavor. Expect an expanded run the week after, and expect years of bewilderment from people who will mention it in the same breath as Shakespeare in Love.

Which films/artists are hoping to see score an upset?

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The award season is getting close to wrapping up, and – as expected – Michel Hazanavicius‘s The Artist is continuing to sweep. Its latest victory was at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts film awards, where it walked away with seven prizes, including best film, director, screenplay and best actor for Jean Durjardin‘s lead performance. Meryl Streep‘s win for The Iron Lady was the only upset of the usual winners (beating Viola Davis), but Octavia Spencer  for The Help and Christopher Plummer for Beginners were also awarded, which goes with most of the major awards to date. Check out the full list…

At this point, the winners for the Oscars seem on lock. Davis will likely have a stronger chance in America, simply because Streep playing Margaret Thatcher was going to have a higher pull in England, and it appears the only drama in the night will be the best Actress and Actor awards. George Clooney could sneak in there as the winner, but The Artist is proving unstoppable, and it seems that Dujardin will trump Clooney – who can lick his wounds by already having one Oscar (on top of, you know, being George Clooney).

Currently The Artist is playing on 808 screens nation-wide and has made $24 Million, and may expand once it wins some of those Oscars. That said, it seems unlikely this will do the business of The King’s Speech (which made $135 Million), as it already has a DVD and Blu-ray release date of April 24.

Here’s the full list:

BEST FILM

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Drive
• The Help
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST ACTOR

• George Clooney – The Descendants
• Jean Dujardin – The Artist
• Michael Fassbender – Shame
• Brad Pitt – Moneyball
• Gary Oldman – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST ACTRESS

• Berenice Bejo - The Artist
• Viola Davis – The Help
• Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
• Tilda Swinton – We Need To Talk About Kevin
• Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn

BEST DIRECTOR

• Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
• Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
• Martin Scorsese – Hugo
• Tomas Alfredson – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• Lynne Ramsay – We Need To Talk About Kevin

BEST ANIMATED FILM

• The Adventures of Tintin
• Arthur Christmas
• Rango

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne – The Descendants
• Tate Taylor – The Help
• George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon – The Ides of March
• Steve Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin – Moneyball
• Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
• Kristin Wiig, Annie Mumolo – Bridesmaids
• John Michael McDonagh – The Guard
• Abi Morgan – The Iron Lady
• Woody Allen – Midnight In Paris

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• George Harrison: Living In A Material World
• Project Nim
• Senna

RISING STAR AWARD

• Adam Deacon
• Chris Hemsworth
• Tom Hiddleston
• Chris O’Dowd
• Eddie Redmayne

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO FILM
John Hurt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
• Jim Broadbent – The Iron Lady
• Jonah Hill – Moneyball
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Ides of March
• Christopher Plummer – Beginners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Carey Mulligan – Drive
• Jessica Chastain – The Help
• Judi Dench – My Week With Marilyn
• Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
• Octavia Spencer – The Help

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

• My Week With Marilyn
• Senna
• Shame
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• We Need To Talk About Kevin

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• The Artist
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Hugo
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• War Horse

BEST DEBUT BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR, WRITER OR PRODUCER

• Richard Ayoade – Submarine
• Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw – Tyrannosaur
• Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
• Ralph Fiennes – Coriolanus
• Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley, Sarah Brocklehurst – Black Pond

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• Incendies
• Pina
• Potiche
• A Separation
• The Skin I Live In

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• The Artist
• Hugo
• Jane Eyre
• My Week With Marilyn
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR

• The Artist
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Hugo
• The Iron Lady
• My Week With Marilyn

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• The Artist
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Hugo
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• War Horse

BEST FILM EDITING

• The Artist
• Drive
• Hugo
• Senna
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST SOUND

• The Artist
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Hugo
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• War Horse

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

• Ludovic Bource – The Artist
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Howard Shore – Hugo
• Alberto Iglesias – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• John Williams – War Horse

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• The Adventures of Tintin
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Hugo
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• War Horse

BEST SHORT ANIMATED FILM

• Abuelas
• Bobby Yeah
• A Morning Stroll

BEST SHORT FILM

• Chalk
• Mwansa The Great
• Only Sound Remains
• Pitch Black Heist
• Two And Two

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Out in theaters now in theaters is the charmingly sweet and original romantic comedy Beginners with Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent with some of the best performances and well packaged film out in theaters now…

The Players:

• Director/Writers: Mike Mills
• Actors: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent
• Original Music by: Roger Neill, Dave Palmer, Brian Reitzell
• Cinematography by: Kasper Tuxen

The Plot:

Oliver (McGregor) is struggling through his life when his mother dies and his father comes out of the closet. He is trying to figure out who he is when he falls in love with a young girl.

The Good:

• The Good Kind of Cute: Sometimes cute gets a bad rep and rightly so, often people/films strive to be cute and in doing so become extremely desperate and obvious. But when underplayed in the right way it gives the film a kind of subtle charm that oozes under your skin and gives the film a depth that is rarely seen on the big screen.
• Relationships: All of the relationships in this film have a realistic quality to them that make them so fascinating to watch. The two leads have a remarkable chemistry together that is unique, endearing and realistic. The relationship between father and son is complex and yet sweetly simple — much like life. Then there is the broader relationship of man against society, which is by far the interesting to look at and gives the film a “one of a kind” feel.
• The Dog: Despite however good looking and engaging the couple is, the dog steals every scene he’s in.
• Wonderfully Weird: The film is pleasantly weird in a way that makes it unique without alienating audiences. There are some things that set this film apart from all the other films you’ll see. The voice-over is elegantly done and adds to the film without over explaining. The use of reality vs. memory and the commentary on how we walk through and organize our lives so that we can handle them is interestingly and artistically done.

Overall:

This is a love story with a lot of different kinds of love and relationships that explores life in unique ways. It has a sense of introspection that you don’t see in average cinema. It’s really beautifully put together and makes for a wonderful cinematic experience that is both complex and yet divinely simple.

Rating: 8.5/10

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Coming out May 13, Priest is going to be there at the start of the summer season. Paul Bettany will be doing battle with the forces of evil (aka Vampires) to protect his kin. There’s a lot of throwing stars and fighting involved, and the latest trailer also promises Cam Gigandet and Christopher Plummer. What more can you ask for from a Summer movie? Unknown. Check out the new trailer…

Priest has already been pushed back four times, and went through a troubled production, so I’m sure everyone’s happy to finally have the film hitting theaters. Little seen in the trailer are female stars Lily Collins and Maggie Q, nor any Karl Urban, who also appears in the film. Weird.

This is director Scott Charles Stewart‘s second film with Bettany in a similar territory – they both did Legion together. That also had supernatural asskickery.

If this film is just action sequences of priests using kung fu and elaborate weapons to fight off vampires, then I would bet that this might be better than its schedule changes would suggest. But this is also going to be a low budget type of affair where many of the money shots will be in the trailer. Bettany came close to being a real A-lister, but he’s taken his lumps, and now seems to have moved in to character acting, and being a B movie lead. At one point he was almost the lead in Kingdom of Heaven. Perhaps that was a bullet dodged for everyone.

Will you see Priest this summer?

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Ewan McGregor is one of our favorite actors so whenever he has a new project coming out we’re all over it. The latest film from the Scottish star is called Beginners and it features Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer and Inglourious Basterds’ star Melanie Laurent. Check out the first poster and trailer for the film below…

Trailer:

Poster:

Official Plot Synopsis:

From writer/director Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. -Beginners- imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Golden Globe Award nominee Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Melanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds) only months after his father Hal (Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.

Beginners is scheduled to hit theaters on June 3rd, 2011.

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Paul Bettany’s done fighting angels in Legion, and chasing Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in The Tourist, he’s ready to stake some vampires!  The British actor appears in the new theatrical trailer for his summer action film Priest, which is based on the Tokyo Pop comic book of the same name. Check out the new trailer below…

Priest is set in an alternate world world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire and follows a warrior priest who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece. Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.

The film is directed by Scott Stewart who also helmed Legion, and it co-stars Karl Urban, Maggie Q (“Nikita“), Cam Gigandet, Stephen Moyer (“True Blood“), Madchen Amick, and Christopher Plummer.

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We need the special anniversary edition of The Sound of Music in our DVD collections right now! The cast of the classic musical appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” this Thursday after a 45 year hiatus. The show started out with a one on one with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, then they brought out all the actors who played their children in the film who are currently middle aged men and women. The cast revealed some interesting things about what went on behind the scenes of the shoot and it kind of taints our image of the family film.

During their interview, Plummer admitted to Oprah that he had a huge crush on Andrews during filming. She was 28 years old and he was 34. At the time she had just had a baby and he said that he had to keep himself at arm’s length because of that. He described her as “an awful tease!”

They also revealed that Plummer was considered a Hollywood bad boy at the time of his casting. This is news for us because this was the first film we ever saw him in. He was well known for his dramatic roles and getting into trouble behind the scenes. During the show they revealed that he taught his on screen daughter Charmian Carr (Lisa), who was 21 at the time, how to drink! She was playing 16 going on 17 but she was an adult and he treated her like one.

It’s hard to think that Carr and Andrews are only 7 years apart yet Andrews played her step-mother. The biggest piece of trivia had to come from the casting of the kids. Originally Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, and Mia Farrow were all in the running to play one of the Von Trapp children, but the producers decided to go with unknowns instead.

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How many veteran actors does David Fincher need to make his adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Apparently Stellan Skarsgard wasn’t enough, he had to go and pick up Christopher Plummer along the way. According to THR, Plummer has landed a pivotal and patriarchal role in the film, which might have him replacing Max von Sydow.

The trade reports that Plummer is in talks to play Henrik Vanger, a role that Sydow was rumored to have. It’s not clear what happened but it looks like Plummer landed the part instead. This is an interesting move considering both actors look alike, and are around the same age. Sydow did have one up on Plummer — he’s actually Swedish. It would have been nice to have Skarsgard joined by another native member of the country from which the material is based.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo centers on a middle-aged journalist who joins forces with a private investigator named Lisbeth Salander to solve a missing persons case that’s been open for decades. Daniel Craig plays the journalist, who’ll work alongside Rooney Mara as the young investigator. The cast also includes Robin Wright.

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So long, farewell my eye, the cast from the classic musical The Sound of Music are back! When was the last time that you saw every member of the famous Von Trapp family in the same place at the same time? A while ago Julie Andrews and the seven actors who played the children appeared on a national news program but Christopher Plummer was unable to attend. Therefore it wasn’t really an reunion was it?

Today we’ve learned that after 45 years, Andrews, Plummer, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies-Urich, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, and Kym Karath will all reunite on an upcoming episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

The host announced that the cast will appear on the October 29th episode of her show. Mark your calendars because this really is a once and a lifetime opportunity. Oprah is pulling out all the stops for her final season, because this is nothing short of a miracle. The Sound of Music is my favorite Julie Andrews film and I have fond memories of watching it as a child. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there besides myself who would love to see the cast together again.

Here’s a clip from the film that features one of its most famous songs: So Long, Farewell.

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Hello everyone in LA, it’s Ben here, reporting from London. Now as some of you already know, Terry Gilliam’s new film The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus is already out in the UK, and it will not be out in America until Christmas Day. So here is a ‘First Look’ of the film for all of you to have have to wait. Also, know that this piece is 100% Spoiler Free…

For those of you who don’t know the story it’s about a man named Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) who leads a traveling theatre troupe who literally transport audiences into a realm of strange wonders. But he risks losing the soul of his daughter in a bet with the devil that newcomer Tony (Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell) might help or hinder.

Good Points

• The look of the film is utterly infectious, you get caught in the set design, Doctor Parnassus’s carriage, the costumes and the imaginary sequences. Even though is an independent production, it looks absolutely fantastic.
• We all know what happened to film when Heath Ledger suddenly passed away in January 2008, which left the film in limbo for months. The film has come up with a simple yet effective way to carry on the story after his death, it has created three different versions of Tony depending on which side of the mirror he’s on. It is nice to see people like Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell turning up in the film to voice their support, not just for Heath Ledger but for Terry Gilliam, and they all turn in good performances, although they all try to channel Ledger’s original’s performance, which is more successful in some cases than others.

Bad Points

• This might just be me, or possibly everyone else who has seen the film, but I just didn’t get the film. I was so confused by it that I just didn’t know what to think about it. This is a film that will demand its audience to see it numerous times just to find out if the story works or not.

Overall

This isn’t Terry Gilliam’s best film, due to the plot problems. But it is no less imaginative, and it is a testament to Terry Gilliam’s perseverance to overcome the tragedy that bestowed this production.

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Over an Empire, they’ve got an exclusive first look at the official poster for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Like many of you, this film has been on my radar for a very long time. It hits theaters domestically this Christmas, and features the final performance of Heath Ledger. The poster highlights all four actors who carry the lead role of Tony the carnie, as played by Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.

Check out the beautiful poster for Doctor Parnassus…

Isn’t this gorgeous? The only issue I have with this poster is Jude Law. In all the scenes of him featured in the trailer, he has a ponytail, but here his hair it cut short. Continuity issues? I will admit his ponytail looked a bit unnatural and this suits him better, but come on Jude take one for the team.

The poster also features co-stars Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, and Tom Waits. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is directed by Terry Gilliam.

What do you think of the first poster for the film?

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The Scott Stewart adaptation Priest, has been filming in the Los Angles area for the past few weeks. With production underway, they’re still in the midst of making casting deals. Stewart announced on his official Twitter page that Christopher Plummer and Brad Dourif have joined the ever growing cast of the film, but that’s not all. It also broke that actress Madchen Amick also signed on to co-star. Three actors in one day, such a coup for the director.

Priest centers on “a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire and follows a warrior priest who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.” The cast already includes Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, and Stephen Moyer. In the film, Madchen Amick will play the mother of the kidnapped niece. Plummer and Dourif’s roles haven’t been specified as of yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as anything is announced.

Christopher Plummer is still going strong with his career. I love to see older actors keep the same zest for their craft that they had during their youth. Madchen Amick on the other hand was a bit random in my opinion, but she’s done a lot of television work that covers every genre you could think of. I suppose the casting of certain actors was a budgetary concern more than anything. All in all, I do love how everything is shaping up.

What do you think of the latest castings for Priest?

Additional source Variety

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