He’s the director most associated with 21st century cinematic spectacle and, finally, he has an Oscar. Christopher Nolan has won the Best Director Oscar at the 96th Academy Awards for “Oppenheimer.”
This is only the second time Nolan’s ever been nominated for Best Director. His first came for 2017’s “Dunkirk.” He has received a total of eight Oscar nominations in his entire career, however, including those two Best Director nods: also, for Best Original Screenplay for 2000’s “Memento,” Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for 2010’s “Inception,” Best Picture for “Dunkirk,” and Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture for “Oppenheimer.” With the film also winning Best Picture that means he actually now has two Oscars.
“Oppenheimer” itself won seven Oscars: in addition to Best Director and Best Picture, it won Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
This is only the second time Nolan’s ever been nominated for Best Director. His first came for 2017’s “Dunkirk.” He has received a total of eight Oscar nominations in his entire career, however, including those two Best Director nods: also, for Best Original Screenplay for 2000’s “Memento,” Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for 2010’s “Inception,” Best Picture for “Dunkirk,” and Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture for “Oppenheimer.” With the film also winning Best Picture that means he actually now has two Oscars.
“Oppenheimer” itself won seven Oscars: in addition to Best Director and Best Picture, it won Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
- 3/11/2024
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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Maestro opens with an extravagant shot that starts on a young Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) as he’s awakened with the news of his big break, filling in for the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. What thunderous score do we hear as L.B. rips open the curtains, grabs his robe, runs down the hall and, magically, steps into a balcony box inside Carnegie Hall?
A. “Symphonic Suite” from On the Waterfront
B. “Prologue” from West Side Story
C. “I Get Carried Away” from On the Town
D. “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
↓ Jump to Answer
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Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, who brought back Japan’s famous monster franchise with Godzilla Minus One, is the first director to be nominated for a visual effects award.
A. True
B. False
↓ Jump to Answer
3
We may never know if Sandra Hüller’s character in Anatomy of a Fall killed...
Maestro opens with an extravagant shot that starts on a young Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) as he’s awakened with the news of his big break, filling in for the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. What thunderous score do we hear as L.B. rips open the curtains, grabs his robe, runs down the hall and, magically, steps into a balcony box inside Carnegie Hall?
A. “Symphonic Suite” from On the Waterfront
B. “Prologue” from West Side Story
C. “I Get Carried Away” from On the Town
D. “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
↓ Jump to Answer
2
Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, who brought back Japan’s famous monster franchise with Godzilla Minus One, is the first director to be nominated for a visual effects award.
A. True
B. False
↓ Jump to Answer
3
We may never know if Sandra Hüller’s character in Anatomy of a Fall killed...
- 2/26/2024
- by Craigh Barboza
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pedro Pascal arrives at the 2024 SAG Awards (Photo Provided by SAG)
Members of the Screen Actors Guild honored their own at the 2024 SAG Awards held on February 24, 2024 and streaming live on Netflix. The 2024 awards recognized the best performances in film and television of 2023, with Oppenheimer continuing to rule the season with three SAG Awards wins.
The Oppenheimer ensemble won the Outstanding Performance by a Cast award, and Cillian Murphy was named the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner. Robert Downey Jr took home a SAG win in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category.
On the television side, Succession, The Bear, and Beef cast members were big winners. And The Last of Us‘ Pedro Pascal pulled off a surprise win in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series category over three Succession actors and Billy Crudup from The Morning Show.
Members of the Screen Actors Guild honored their own at the 2024 SAG Awards held on February 24, 2024 and streaming live on Netflix. The 2024 awards recognized the best performances in film and television of 2023, with Oppenheimer continuing to rule the season with three SAG Awards wins.
The Oppenheimer ensemble won the Outstanding Performance by a Cast award, and Cillian Murphy was named the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner. Robert Downey Jr took home a SAG win in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category.
On the television side, Succession, The Bear, and Beef cast members were big winners. And The Last of Us‘ Pedro Pascal pulled off a surprise win in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series category over three Succession actors and Billy Crudup from The Morning Show.
- 2/25/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Oppenheimer won the award for best performance by a cast in a motion picture at the 2024 SAG Awards, which were handed out Saturday night.
The film also scooped up two other awards, for leading actor Cillian Murphy and supporting actor Robert Downey Jr.
Leading actress honors went to Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, while Da’Vine Joy Randolph was named best supporting actress for The Holdovers.
On the TV side, The Bear won three awards, including best ensemble in a comedy series. Star Jeremy Allen White won the nod for best performance by a male actor in a comedy series, while Ayo Edebiri won the female actor award in the same category. Another awards favorite, Succession, was named best drama series ensemble, but lost out in the other categories in which it was nominated.
Elsewhere, Beef took two awards: Ali Wong won the award for best performance by...
The film also scooped up two other awards, for leading actor Cillian Murphy and supporting actor Robert Downey Jr.
Leading actress honors went to Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, while Da’Vine Joy Randolph was named best supporting actress for The Holdovers.
On the TV side, The Bear won three awards, including best ensemble in a comedy series. Star Jeremy Allen White won the nod for best performance by a male actor in a comedy series, while Ayo Edebiri won the female actor award in the same category. Another awards favorite, Succession, was named best drama series ensemble, but lost out in the other categories in which it was nominated.
Elsewhere, Beef took two awards: Ali Wong won the award for best performance by...
- 2/25/2024
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All eyes are on what Christopher Nolan is going to do next…beyond probably winning his first Oscar.
The world is Nolan’s oyster after his 12th feature-length film “Oppenheimer” was nominated for 13 Academy Awards. “Oppenheimer” is the frontrunner for Best Picture and Nolan is for Best Director.
You know what might make a great movie for lucky 13? A horror flick. Nolan is open to the idea. Asked at a British Film Institute panel discussion in London on February 15 if he would ever consider making a horror movie, Nolan said he loves playing with genre and would do so if he stumbled across a “really exceptional idea.”
“‘Oppenheimer‘ has elements of horror in it definitely, as I think is appropriate to the subject matter,” Nolan said (via Variety). “I think horror films are very interesting because they depend on very cinematic devices. It really is about a visceral response to things,...
The world is Nolan’s oyster after his 12th feature-length film “Oppenheimer” was nominated for 13 Academy Awards. “Oppenheimer” is the frontrunner for Best Picture and Nolan is for Best Director.
You know what might make a great movie for lucky 13? A horror flick. Nolan is open to the idea. Asked at a British Film Institute panel discussion in London on February 15 if he would ever consider making a horror movie, Nolan said he loves playing with genre and would do so if he stumbled across a “really exceptional idea.”
“‘Oppenheimer‘ has elements of horror in it definitely, as I think is appropriate to the subject matter,” Nolan said (via Variety). “I think horror films are very interesting because they depend on very cinematic devices. It really is about a visceral response to things,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
Oppenheimer to stream online soon (Photo Credit – IMDb)
It has been seven months since Oppenheimer was released in theatres. The biographical drama film received rave reviews from the audience and critics alike. It is cited as one of the best films by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. In terms of numbers, the Nolan directorial also made a considerable collection worldwide.
Many people couldn’t get enough of the spectacle that Oppenheimer was. Many saw it multiple times in theatres. Some have been waiting for the movie to drop on some streaming site to witness the riveting storytelling, impeccable performances and the hard-hitting truth bombs and dialogues in the film. Well, the good news is that the Nolan directorial will soon be released on a streaming platform for the US audience. We have listed the same, along with other crucial details about the 2023 film.
Oppenheimer Cast and Crew
The film is a biographical...
It has been seven months since Oppenheimer was released in theatres. The biographical drama film received rave reviews from the audience and critics alike. It is cited as one of the best films by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. In terms of numbers, the Nolan directorial also made a considerable collection worldwide.
Many people couldn’t get enough of the spectacle that Oppenheimer was. Many saw it multiple times in theatres. Some have been waiting for the movie to drop on some streaming site to witness the riveting storytelling, impeccable performances and the hard-hitting truth bombs and dialogues in the film. Well, the good news is that the Nolan directorial will soon be released on a streaming platform for the US audience. We have listed the same, along with other crucial details about the 2023 film.
Oppenheimer Cast and Crew
The film is a biographical...
- 2/14/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
Last night at UCLA’s Royce Hall, nearly 1,000 lucky attendees got to hear the music that defined the cinematic event of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Following warm introductions from Cillian Murphy and Nolan, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson and his partner in life and music, Serena Göransson, produced a live-to-film experience of their Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-shortlisted score for the $955 million-grossing historical epic. The duo were joined by conductor Anthony Parnther, who led the evening’s 55-piece orchestra, featuring many of the same musicians he also conducted during the score’s original studio sessions.
Together with Universal Studios, Syncopy and the event-related services of Black Ink, Fine Line and Encompass, the Göranssons dedicated the entirety of the past two months to Oppenheimer: Live in Concert. They painstakingly rearranged their two-hour and 43-minute score, so that it could be played live in continuous fashion, with the exception of a musician-friendly intermission at the film’s two-hour mark.
Following warm introductions from Cillian Murphy and Nolan, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson and his partner in life and music, Serena Göransson, produced a live-to-film experience of their Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-shortlisted score for the $955 million-grossing historical epic. The duo were joined by conductor Anthony Parnther, who led the evening’s 55-piece orchestra, featuring many of the same musicians he also conducted during the score’s original studio sessions.
Together with Universal Studios, Syncopy and the event-related services of Black Ink, Fine Line and Encompass, the Göranssons dedicated the entirety of the past two months to Oppenheimer: Live in Concert. They painstakingly rearranged their two-hour and 43-minute score, so that it could be played live in continuous fashion, with the exception of a musician-friendly intermission at the film’s two-hour mark.
- 1/11/2024
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the first movie in the director’s career that told the story of the main character in the first person. It’s an intimate portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist credited as the “father of the atomic bomb,” during World War II. And the intimacy is not only reflected in the camerawork, with shots very close to the actors’ faces — it is also expressed in Ludwig Göransson’s score.
“I never read anything like it, and I never worked on something where you’re completely experiencing everything from one character’s eyes and mind,” Göransson tells THR. “I thought that was going to be extremely interesting, but also important and difficult, to see how much the music needed to play the part of his emotions. It needed to make the audience feel what he’s feeling, put the audience in his shoes, and not have them judge.
“I never read anything like it, and I never worked on something where you’re completely experiencing everything from one character’s eyes and mind,” Göransson tells THR. “I thought that was going to be extremely interesting, but also important and difficult, to see how much the music needed to play the part of his emotions. It needed to make the audience feel what he’s feeling, put the audience in his shoes, and not have them judge.
- 11/30/2023
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Never one to skirt the truth, visionary director Christopher Nolan has always paid close attention to getting the real story down on 70mm film, even down to the smallest detail. "The Dark Knight" was so grounded in reality that Batman seemed more like an actual historical figure than a traumatized superhero. With "Oppenheimer," Nolan and his team had one of the most exhaustive biographies ever written at their disposal, "American Prometheus," written by authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. That deep dive into the definitive account of the creation of the atomic bomb and its aftermath even led to more discoveries that the historians missed the first time around.
In the ongoing effort during production to make "Oppenheimer" as accurate as possible, Nolan originally wanted to film the show-stopping spectacle of the atomic bomb detonation at the same location...
Never one to skirt the truth, visionary director Christopher Nolan has always paid close attention to getting the real story down on 70mm film, even down to the smallest detail. "The Dark Knight" was so grounded in reality that Batman seemed more like an actual historical figure than a traumatized superhero. With "Oppenheimer," Nolan and his team had one of the most exhaustive biographies ever written at their disposal, "American Prometheus," written by authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. That deep dive into the definitive account of the creation of the atomic bomb and its aftermath even led to more discoveries that the historians missed the first time around.
In the ongoing effort during production to make "Oppenheimer" as accurate as possible, Nolan originally wanted to film the show-stopping spectacle of the atomic bomb detonation at the same location...
- 10/27/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
‘The Theory Of Everything’ Review: A Weirdly Elusive Dive Into The Multiverse – Venice Film Festival
Thanks to science fiction, we all have a basic grip on the theory of the multiverse: the idea that there are innumerable parallel worlds in which the chances and choices of the past – the roads not taken, whether by ourselves or the dinosaurs – have split off into alternative stories, endlessly bifurcating into other pasts, other futures that must be peopled, most provocatively, with other versions of ourselves. It is an idea that has proved rich pickings for comic-book adventures, where peril can come from any available universe and there is always a chance of confronting a doppelganger, but German director Timm Kröger has returned to the theory – which dates back to the 1950s – to explore how mysterious, sinister and terrifyingly vast a proposal it really is. This is a theory of everything where everything – that familiar word – is infinite. Where nothing, in fact, is ever going to be “everything.”
The...
The...
- 9/3/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Kenneth Branagh’s version of the famous detective Hercule Poirot is very likely to return once again after his third outing as the Belgian detective from the Agatha Christie novels, as executive producer James Prichard is more than open to making more films as long as Branagh and writer Michael Green are still interested.
According to Aceshowbiz, “If Ken wants to do more, and Michael wants to write more, we’ll certainly do another. There’s a lot of material still to go, so we’re not going to run out of inspiration,” Prichard told ‘Total Film’ magazine.
Kenneth Branagh for his part has been more than open to return as the iconic detective once again, as he’s made it clear before that there is an element of charm and intrigue to the character, which got him interested to play the role in the first place.
The 62-year old...
According to Aceshowbiz, “If Ken wants to do more, and Michael wants to write more, we’ll certainly do another. There’s a lot of material still to go, so we’re not going to run out of inspiration,” Prichard told ‘Total Film’ magazine.
Kenneth Branagh for his part has been more than open to return as the iconic detective once again, as he’s made it clear before that there is an element of charm and intrigue to the character, which got him interested to play the role in the first place.
The 62-year old...
- 8/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Warning: This article contains spoilers for "Oppenheimer."
Despite what the loudest voices on social media might have you believe, the job of any biopic isn't necessarily to reenact history with complete accuracy -- that's what textbooks and documentaries are for, after all. Rather, it's much more satisfying when it's about storytellers finding the emotional, humanizing truth at the core of figures whom we'll never truly know or understand. That's never stopped anyone from pointing out such historical errors and exaggerations anyway, of course, but do those complaints become more meaningful when the direct descendants of real-world figures are the ones voicing such thoughts?
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is destined to land at or near the top of several "Best of" lists by the end of the year (check out Chris Evangelista's review for /Film here), but at least one member of J. Robert Oppenheimer's family has a certain misgiving...
Despite what the loudest voices on social media might have you believe, the job of any biopic isn't necessarily to reenact history with complete accuracy -- that's what textbooks and documentaries are for, after all. Rather, it's much more satisfying when it's about storytellers finding the emotional, humanizing truth at the core of figures whom we'll never truly know or understand. That's never stopped anyone from pointing out such historical errors and exaggerations anyway, of course, but do those complaints become more meaningful when the direct descendants of real-world figures are the ones voicing such thoughts?
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is destined to land at or near the top of several "Best of" lists by the end of the year (check out Chris Evangelista's review for /Film here), but at least one member of J. Robert Oppenheimer's family has a certain misgiving...
- 7/28/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has generated a lot of headlines due to its nudity and sex scenes, the first of the director’s career. Cillian Murphy, who plays the title character in Nolan’s biographical drama, was recently asked by GQ UK to weigh in on all of the buzz surrounding the “Oppenheimer” sex scenes, to which Murphy said they were “vital” to the film. The film depicts sex between Oppenheimer and Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), a physician with whom Oppenheimer had a romance with before and during his marriage to Katherine Puening (Emily Blunt).
“I think they were vital in this in this movie,” Murphy explained. “I think the relationship that he has with Jean Tatlock is one of the most crucial emotional parts of the film. I think if they’re key to the story then they’re worthwhile. Listen, no one likes doing them, they’re the...
“I think they were vital in this in this movie,” Murphy explained. “I think the relationship that he has with Jean Tatlock is one of the most crucial emotional parts of the film. I think if they’re key to the story then they’re worthwhile. Listen, no one likes doing them, they’re the...
- 7/27/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a moment in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” (in theaters now), where Niels Bohr, the famous Danish physicist (played by Kenneth Branagh) who developed the model of the atom, asks a young J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), years before he would gain notoriety and infamy as the father of the atomic bomb: “Can you hear the music?” At that specific moment, the score by composer Ludwig Göransson quite literally soars – it’s beautiful and lilting but soon turns more menacing, even ominous. In that single musical moment (clocking in at less than two minutes on the official album), the entire movie – how the scientific idealism that gives way to untold horror – elegantly unfurls. And Göransson cements himself as one of Nolan’s most essential collaborators.
TheWrap spoke to Göransson about what it was like collaborating with Nolan a second time, why it’s Ok to use electronics in the...
TheWrap spoke to Göransson about what it was like collaborating with Nolan a second time, why it’s Ok to use electronics in the...
- 7/25/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
In a recent, now-viral interview, Matt Damon talked about how he told his wife that he would cut down on the amount of work he does and give her more time than before, but he would make an exception if Chris Nolan called. Damon, a Hollywood A-lister who first worked with Nolan on Interstellar (2015), where he had a very impactful cameo, has always been a vocal admirer of the director. He would probably take on any role if it was a Nolan project. Because a role in a Christopher Nolan film is sacred—at least, that’s how so many people in the business perceive it. And it makes sense, too, considering how Nolan uses his actors.
Nolan’s latest, Oppenheimer, is no exception, as the man has successfully lined up a huge supporting cast around the titular role of the controversial physicist, played by Cillian Murphy. Coincidentally, this is...
Nolan’s latest, Oppenheimer, is no exception, as the man has successfully lined up a huge supporting cast around the titular role of the controversial physicist, played by Cillian Murphy. Coincidentally, this is...
- 7/24/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Courtesy of Universal
“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” is the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita that physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke upon witnessing the first denotation of a nuclear device, as the world entered the new era of nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about Oppenheimer, his work on the Manhattan Project, and his treatment after the war. The biographical drama starts like a historical thriller and ends like a profound warning to the world, all set against the sweep of history that changed the world.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan’s epic film in fact opens with a reminder of that myth of the man who stole...
“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” is the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita that physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke upon witnessing the first denotation of a nuclear device, as the world entered the new era of nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about Oppenheimer, his work on the Manhattan Project, and his treatment after the war. The biographical drama starts like a historical thriller and ends like a profound warning to the world, all set against the sweep of history that changed the world.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan’s epic film in fact opens with a reminder of that myth of the man who stole...
- 7/24/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the late 19th century, the legendary chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel discovered the destructive potential of nitroglycerin and invented dynamite, an explosive that, along with its other subsidiaries, not only changed the course of human civilization but also made global warfare even more destructive. For his invention, Alfred Nobel was called an ‘Emissary of Death’, a title he regretted so much that he wished to leave a legacy that could absolve him of the sin of creating a means of mass destruction. To do that, he left the majority of his fortune to create the prestigious Nobel Prize, which has since awarded excellence in various streams of science, but most importantly in peace.
Almost half a century later, another brilliant mind who was fascinated with the intricacies of molecules, J. Robert Oppenheimer, tried to harness the energies of stars and create a nuclear fission reactor in weaponized form, which...
Almost half a century later, another brilliant mind who was fascinated with the intricacies of molecules, J. Robert Oppenheimer, tried to harness the energies of stars and create a nuclear fission reactor in weaponized form, which...
- 7/22/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
Is "Oppenheimer" Christopher Nolan's best, most ambitious film yet? That might sound hard to believe from the director who delivered a movie with a complicated series of timelines in "Memento," an entire "Batman" trilogy, the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream meticulousness of "Inception," more timeline shenanigans with "Dunkirk," and, oh yeah, that feature-length excuse to film things in reverse known as "Tenet." But even with all those examples under Nolan's belt, what else would you call a movie adaptation of J. Robert Oppenheimer's definitive biography, "American Prometheus," seeking to unravel the brilliance, guilt, and hypocrisy at the heart of such a controversial and paradoxical figure in history? As brought to life with such nuance by Cillian Murphy, this is a protagonist -- and, by extension, an entire story -- unlike any other that Nolan has attempted to tackle before.
That story plays out in quintessential Chris Nolan fashion, unspooling in two separate timelines delineated by on-screen subheads: "Fission,...
That story plays out in quintessential Chris Nolan fashion, unspooling in two separate timelines delineated by on-screen subheads: "Fission,...
- 7/22/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer’ (Photo Credit by Melinda Sue Gordon © Universal Pictures)
Five-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Oppenheimer, focuses on the race to create the ultimate weapon to end World War II and bring the soldiers home. The movie delves into the life of Robert Oppenheimer, who is widely regarded as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb.”
The film begins with Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, depicted as a brilliant but socially awkward man who attends prestigious colleges in Europe and is light years ahead of all his professors. Robert attends a communist party meeting where he meets Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), a known communist. The two begin a tumultuous relationship marked by both passion and conflict.
It’s while Oppenheimer’s running the quantum physics department at the University of California, Berkeley, that the military starts eyeing him for a special project.
Five-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Oppenheimer, focuses on the race to create the ultimate weapon to end World War II and bring the soldiers home. The movie delves into the life of Robert Oppenheimer, who is widely regarded as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb.”
The film begins with Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, depicted as a brilliant but socially awkward man who attends prestigious colleges in Europe and is light years ahead of all his professors. Robert attends a communist party meeting where he meets Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), a known communist. The two begin a tumultuous relationship marked by both passion and conflict.
It’s while Oppenheimer’s running the quantum physics department at the University of California, Berkeley, that the military starts eyeing him for a special project.
- 7/21/2023
- by Kevin Finnerty
- Showbiz Junkies
“Oppenheimer” composer Ludwig Göransson guesstimates there’s “about two and a half hours of music in the film,” which he recorded over the course of five days.
The film marks his second collaboration with Christopher Nolan, after the pair first teamed up on 2020’s “Tenet.” Göransson describes the “Oppenheimer” score as “dynamic.”
“Sometimes, it’s just the use of a singular instrument, and other times we bring in a whole ensemble. It fluctuates,” he says. Nolan’s most ambitious film, about the race to create a nuclear bomb during World War II, in turn became Göransson’s most ambitious score — it was different from anything he had done before.
Göransson says Nolan wanted a violin-heavy score for the film, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. “His thought process was that the violin is a fretless instrument. You can go from the most...
The film marks his second collaboration with Christopher Nolan, after the pair first teamed up on 2020’s “Tenet.” Göransson describes the “Oppenheimer” score as “dynamic.”
“Sometimes, it’s just the use of a singular instrument, and other times we bring in a whole ensemble. It fluctuates,” he says. Nolan’s most ambitious film, about the race to create a nuclear bomb during World War II, in turn became Göransson’s most ambitious score — it was different from anything he had done before.
Göransson says Nolan wanted a violin-heavy score for the film, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. “His thought process was that the violin is a fretless instrument. You can go from the most...
- 7/20/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In true Christopher Nolan fashion, Oppenheimer is a lot of movie. As usual, the often brilliant and sometimes equally frustrating auteur has set out to make the ultimate of whatever genre he’s working in, whether it’s the superhero movie with The Dark Knight, the techno-thriller with Inception, or the mind-bending space travel epic with Interstellar.
In this case, he’s made the final word on biopics about controversial 20th century scientists: an exhaustive and exhausting look at the rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist widely credited as “the father of the atomic bomb.” Oppenheimer is the man who oversaw the American scientific effort, known as the Manhattan Project, to introduce nuclear weapons to humanity. The results were terrifying.
But Oppenheimer is about more than just the man, a haunted, hard-to-know figure played with impressive backbone and clarity by Cillian Murphy in a career-defining performance.
In this case, he’s made the final word on biopics about controversial 20th century scientists: an exhaustive and exhausting look at the rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist widely credited as “the father of the atomic bomb.” Oppenheimer is the man who oversaw the American scientific effort, known as the Manhattan Project, to introduce nuclear weapons to humanity. The results were terrifying.
But Oppenheimer is about more than just the man, a haunted, hard-to-know figure played with impressive backbone and clarity by Cillian Murphy in a career-defining performance.
- 7/20/2023
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty that quakes with the disquieting tremors of a forever rupture in the course of human history.
“Oppenheimer,” a feverish three-hour immersion in the life of Manhattan Project mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), is poised between the shock and aftershock of the terrible revelation, as one character calls it, of a divine power.
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There are times in Nolan’s latest opus that flames fill the frame and visions of subatomic particles flitter across the screen — montages of Oppenheimer’s own churning visions. But for all the immensity of “Oppenheimer,” this is Nolan’s most human-scaled film — and one of his greatest achievements.
It’s told principally in close-ups, which, even in the towering detail of IMAX 70mm, can’t resolve the vast paradoxes of Oppenheimer.
“Oppenheimer,” a feverish three-hour immersion in the life of Manhattan Project mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), is poised between the shock and aftershock of the terrible revelation, as one character calls it, of a divine power.
Read More: Christopher Nolan Breaks Down The Best Ways To Watch A Movie, Ahead Of His ‘Oppenheimer’ Release
There are times in Nolan’s latest opus that flames fill the frame and visions of subatomic particles flitter across the screen — montages of Oppenheimer’s own churning visions. But for all the immensity of “Oppenheimer,” this is Nolan’s most human-scaled film — and one of his greatest achievements.
It’s told principally in close-ups, which, even in the towering detail of IMAX 70mm, can’t resolve the vast paradoxes of Oppenheimer.
- 7/19/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
During a time of tumult in the industry, when adult-oriented thrillers and dramas are increasingly dicey theatrical propositions, Oscar-winning filmmaker Kenneth Branagh has managed to keep his series of movies based on Agatha Christie‘s Detective Hercule Poirot going. Roughly 19 months after “Death on the Nile” — a critical and theatrical disappointment released in February after many delays forced by the coronavirus pandemic and controversy around star Armie Hammer — Branagh and Poirot are back in September with “A Haunting in Venice.”
On Wednesday, 20th Century Studios released a new trailer for the thriller, which stars Branagh and a cast of some major stars.
Adapted from Christie’s 1969 novel “Hallowe’en Party,” the trailer has Poirot’s latest adventure veering more into the realm of horror, with Tina Fey playing mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver (clearly meant as an avatar for Christie herself).
In the trailer, she urges Poirot to visit a psychic,...
On Wednesday, 20th Century Studios released a new trailer for the thriller, which stars Branagh and a cast of some major stars.
Adapted from Christie’s 1969 novel “Hallowe’en Party,” the trailer has Poirot’s latest adventure veering more into the realm of horror, with Tina Fey playing mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver (clearly meant as an avatar for Christie herself).
In the trailer, she urges Poirot to visit a psychic,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Cillian Murphy, the star of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer, has shared some details about the filming process and how he prepared for the role of the American physicist who led the development of the atomic bomb.
In an interview on Marc Maron’s Wtf podcast, Murphy revealed that the film was shot in a record time of 57 days, despite being a huge production with massive sets and a large ensemble cast. He said that Nolan’s approach was very fast and efficient, with minimal crew and equipment.
“The pace of that was insane. The sets are huge, but it feels like being on an independent movie. There’s just Chris and the cameraman. One camera always, unless there’s some huge, huge set piece, and the boom op and that’s it. There’s no video village, there’s no monitors, nothing. He’s a very analog filmmaker.
In an interview on Marc Maron’s Wtf podcast, Murphy revealed that the film was shot in a record time of 57 days, despite being a huge production with massive sets and a large ensemble cast. He said that Nolan’s approach was very fast and efficient, with minimal crew and equipment.
“The pace of that was insane. The sets are huge, but it feels like being on an independent movie. There’s just Chris and the cameraman. One camera always, unless there’s some huge, huge set piece, and the boom op and that’s it. There’s no video village, there’s no monitors, nothing. He’s a very analog filmmaker.
- 7/18/2023
- by amalprasadappu
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
The popular 1990s animated TV series ‘Gargoyles’, which defined the childhood of many, has been up for a live-action adaptation for a long while now. Now, Oscar winning actor-director Kenneth Branagh is rumoured to direct a live action movie of ‘Gargoyles’.
As reported by ‘Collider’, the news comes as courtesy of the English actor’s hometown paper of the Belfast Telegraph reported that the director-actor will be at the helm of affairs.
‘Gargoyles’ became a very big pop-culture hit in the 1990s, with attempts of adapting it into a feature film dating all the way back to the late 1990s. However, the attempts didn’t pan out leading to the project going into development hell. It was later brought back into development in 2010 when ‘X-Men’ movie producer Lauren Shuler Donner and ‘Wolverine and The X-Men’ writer Zoe Green began working on a film treatment.
At that time, David Elliot and Paul Lovett,...
As reported by ‘Collider’, the news comes as courtesy of the English actor’s hometown paper of the Belfast Telegraph reported that the director-actor will be at the helm of affairs.
‘Gargoyles’ became a very big pop-culture hit in the 1990s, with attempts of adapting it into a feature film dating all the way back to the late 1990s. However, the attempts didn’t pan out leading to the project going into development hell. It was later brought back into development in 2010 when ‘X-Men’ movie producer Lauren Shuler Donner and ‘Wolverine and The X-Men’ writer Zoe Green began working on a film treatment.
At that time, David Elliot and Paul Lovett,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Writer, director, and filmmaker Christopher Nolan has been reassured by researchers working in the development of artificial intelligence (A.I.) that they recognize parallels between their work and when J. Robert Oppenheimer “fathered” the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945. The filmmaker takes this modicum of self-awareness as a hopeful sign, but it is not necessarily a comforting one for those who know the Oppenheimer story—including Christopher Nolan.
The director seemed to suggest as much during a panel in New York City that commemorated the 78th anniversary of the Trinity test in New Mexico—the first time a nuclear bomb was successfully detonated. After the test, Oppenheimer famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita when he reflected, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
That legacy and so much more was carefully discussed, and perhaps lightly debated, during the Trinity anniversary panel, where Den of Geek was in attendance.
The director seemed to suggest as much during a panel in New York City that commemorated the 78th anniversary of the Trinity test in New Mexico—the first time a nuclear bomb was successfully detonated. After the test, Oppenheimer famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita when he reflected, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
That legacy and so much more was carefully discussed, and perhaps lightly debated, during the Trinity anniversary panel, where Den of Geek was in attendance.
- 7/17/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Step aside, Barbie, it’s Oppenheimer’s turn in London’s Leicester Square tonight — and Christopher Nolan’s biographical drama is finally ready to detonate.
While buzz was near-radioactive at the U.K. premiere of Nolan’s twelfth feature film on Thursday evening, the possibility of SAG-AFTRA’s actors strike loomed over the red carpet at the Odeon Luxe cinema. The event was moved up an hour only the night before in case a strike action commenced and forced the cast to stay home. Nolan himself, along with Florence Pugh, Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr., were selective with the press. Reporters were warned away from mentioning the impending SAG-AFTRA strike.
With the focus clearly on the film thanks to edict about the strike, Cillian Murphy led the way, admitting he relished the opportunity to impress as Nolan’s frontman after years of collaboration between the pair. “It’s a dream,...
While buzz was near-radioactive at the U.K. premiere of Nolan’s twelfth feature film on Thursday evening, the possibility of SAG-AFTRA’s actors strike loomed over the red carpet at the Odeon Luxe cinema. The event was moved up an hour only the night before in case a strike action commenced and forced the cast to stay home. Nolan himself, along with Florence Pugh, Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr., were selective with the press. Reporters were warned away from mentioning the impending SAG-AFTRA strike.
With the focus clearly on the film thanks to edict about the strike, Cillian Murphy led the way, admitting he relished the opportunity to impress as Nolan’s frontman after years of collaboration between the pair. “It’s a dream,...
- 7/13/2023
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Update, 11:44 am Pst: Christopher Nolan confirmed before the beginning of the “Oppenheimer” screening that the cast has left in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Previously: Matt Damon has revealed that the “Oppenheimer” cast discussed their strike strategy before hitting the movie’s red carpet premiere in London on Thursday.
“We talked about it,” Damon told Variety on the carpet. “Look, if it’s called now, everyone’s going to walk obviously in solidarity … Once the strike is officially called, [we’re walking]. That’s why we moved this [red carpet] up because we know the second it’s called, we’re going home.”
Damon added: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”
“It’s really about working actors,” he continued. “It’s $26,000 to qualify for health coverage and a lot of people are on the margins and...
Previously: Matt Damon has revealed that the “Oppenheimer” cast discussed their strike strategy before hitting the movie’s red carpet premiere in London on Thursday.
“We talked about it,” Damon told Variety on the carpet. “Look, if it’s called now, everyone’s going to walk obviously in solidarity … Once the strike is officially called, [we’re walking]. That’s why we moved this [red carpet] up because we know the second it’s called, we’re going home.”
Damon added: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”
“It’s really about working actors,” he continued. “It’s $26,000 to qualify for health coverage and a lot of people are on the margins and...
- 7/13/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Gunsmoke lead U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon found himself in a lot of gun duels over the years in his fight to protect Dodge City from villains. However, he wasn’t always able to best every single gunfighter he came across. Matt still managed to defeat bad guys, even when he didn’t draw first. A physicist once explained why Matt still won the Gunsmoke opening title credits duel, even though he drew second.
‘Gunsmoke’ opening showed Matt Dillon in a gun duel James Arness as Matt Dillon | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
James Arness was first brought onto Gunsmoke starting with the first episode of the television adaptation of the popular radio show. He played the marshal for all 20 seasons, which ran from 1955 to 1975. However, the opening title credits made some changes over the years.
The original opening that started with episode 1 was shot on an outside street, rather than a painted backdrop.
‘Gunsmoke’ opening showed Matt Dillon in a gun duel James Arness as Matt Dillon | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
James Arness was first brought onto Gunsmoke starting with the first episode of the television adaptation of the popular radio show. He played the marshal for all 20 seasons, which ran from 1955 to 1975. However, the opening title credits made some changes over the years.
The original opening that started with episode 1 was shot on an outside street, rather than a painted backdrop.
- 3/4/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Scandi major Nordisk Film has acquired a minority stake in leading Norwegian production company Fantefilm, known for successful local blockbusters including The Quake and The Wave.
The parties have also signed a new output deal which will see Nordisk continue as the Nordic distribution and international sales rights partner on Fantefilm’s future slate.
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Fantefilm’s credits also include Ragnarok (2013), Escape (2012) and Cold Prey (2006) as well as the popular Merry Christmas, Mr. Andersen film series. Fantefilm currently has four feature films in production and is also developing a major TV series.
Said Kenneth Wiberg, President of Nordisk Film Distribution and Vice President,...
The parties have also signed a new output deal which will see Nordisk continue as the Nordic distribution and international sales rights partner on Fantefilm’s future slate.
More from DeadlineBFI Reveals Writer-Director Bursary Shortlist, Danny Boyle Joins Jury; Nordisk Deal In Norway -- Global BriefsNordisk Film & 'Land Of Mine' Director Martin Zandvliet Set Cast For Department Q Thriller 'The Marco Effect''Out Of Africa' Writer Karen Blixen & Nuclear Bomb Physicist Niels Bohr Get Biopic Treatment Via Nordisk Film
Fantefilm’s credits also include Ragnarok (2013), Escape (2012) and Cold Prey (2006) as well as the popular Merry Christmas, Mr. Andersen film series. Fantefilm currently has four feature films in production and is also developing a major TV series.
Said Kenneth Wiberg, President of Nordisk Film Distribution and Vice President,...
- 4/23/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Coproduction Office reveals first deals on ’Dau. Natasha’.
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of makeup and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post-production.
The...
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of makeup and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post-production.
The...
- 2/26/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Coproduction Office reveals first deals on ’Dau.Natasha’.
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of make up and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post production.
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of make up and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post production.
- 2/26/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Mikael Rieks will produce both projects.
Nordisk Film has acquired the screen rights to two new books from historian Tom Buk-Swienty about author Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) and scientist Niels Bohr.
Mikael Rieks of Nordisk, whose credits include Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine as well as current box-office hit That Time Of Year, will produce both projects.
Out of Africa author Blixen will be the subject of The Lioness, a feature film and TV mini-series which will cover her life as an upperclass Danish woman who became a coffee farmer in colonial Kenya from 1914-1931. Jakob Weis (That Time of Year...
Nordisk Film has acquired the screen rights to two new books from historian Tom Buk-Swienty about author Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) and scientist Niels Bohr.
Mikael Rieks of Nordisk, whose credits include Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine as well as current box-office hit That Time Of Year, will produce both projects.
Out of Africa author Blixen will be the subject of The Lioness, a feature film and TV mini-series which will cover her life as an upperclass Danish woman who became a coffee farmer in colonial Kenya from 1914-1931. Jakob Weis (That Time of Year...
- 1/3/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Nordisk Film is developing “The Lioness,” an international feature film and a miniseries about Karen Blixen, the Danish author best known for her autobiographical novel “Out of Africa,” which Sydney Pollack adapted into the 1985 pic starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
The film and miniseries will be written by Jakob Weis (“That Time of Year”), based on two upcoming books by acclaimed author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty, and will chronicle Blixen’s life as a coffee farmer in Kenya from 1914 to 1931.
Set in the early 20th century, Buk-Swienty’s biography tells the story of a young upper-class Danish woman who sought independence from her overbearing Victorian family and hoped to make it as a coffee farmer in colonial Kenya.
“After 17 years of hardship, marked by World War I, poor harvests due to various natural disasters, the onset of the Great Depression and her tragic love affair with Denys Finch Hatton,...
The film and miniseries will be written by Jakob Weis (“That Time of Year”), based on two upcoming books by acclaimed author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty, and will chronicle Blixen’s life as a coffee farmer in Kenya from 1914 to 1931.
Set in the early 20th century, Buk-Swienty’s biography tells the story of a young upper-class Danish woman who sought independence from her overbearing Victorian family and hoped to make it as a coffee farmer in colonial Kenya.
“After 17 years of hardship, marked by World War I, poor harvests due to various natural disasters, the onset of the Great Depression and her tragic love affair with Denys Finch Hatton,...
- 1/3/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Scandinavian powerhouse Nordisk Film is lining up English-language biopics of Danish icons Karen Blixen, writer of acclaimed memoir Out Of Africa, and physicist Niels Bohr.
Nordisk has acquired rights to author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty’s upcoming books about the pair. Currently in development are The Lioness, a feature film and mini-series about author Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) and her life as a coffee farmer in Kenya from 1914-31, and feature The Great Dane, about scientist Bohr, one of the fathers of the nuclear bomb.
“This deal is the culmination of a year-long search for the right collaboration to turn the lives of two of the greatest Danes who ever lived into film”, said Mikael Rieks, producer of Oscar-nominated Danish drama Land Of Mine. Rieks will produce both films with Jakob Weis (That Time Of Year) penning both scripts. The Lioness is due to be adapted first.
Blixen, born in...
Nordisk has acquired rights to author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty’s upcoming books about the pair. Currently in development are The Lioness, a feature film and mini-series about author Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) and her life as a coffee farmer in Kenya from 1914-31, and feature The Great Dane, about scientist Bohr, one of the fathers of the nuclear bomb.
“This deal is the culmination of a year-long search for the right collaboration to turn the lives of two of the greatest Danes who ever lived into film”, said Mikael Rieks, producer of Oscar-nominated Danish drama Land Of Mine. Rieks will produce both films with Jakob Weis (That Time Of Year) penning both scripts. The Lioness is due to be adapted first.
Blixen, born in...
- 1/3/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Danish studio Nordisk Film has greenlit a pair of biopics based on the lives of two of the best-known Danes in history: Out of Africa author Karen Blixen and scientist Niels Bohr, one of the fathers of the nuclear bomb.
Nordisk has snapped up film rights to two upcoming books by famed author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty: The Lioness on Karen Blixen and The Great Dane on Bohr.
The Copenhagen-based shingle company is planning The Lioness as both a feature film and miniseries about the life of Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), a Danish Baroness whose account of running a coffee ...
Nordisk has snapped up film rights to two upcoming books by famed author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty: The Lioness on Karen Blixen and The Great Dane on Bohr.
The Copenhagen-based shingle company is planning The Lioness as both a feature film and miniseries about the life of Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), a Danish Baroness whose account of running a coffee ...
Danish studio Nordisk Film has greenlit a pair of biopics based on the lives of two of the best-known Danes in history: Out of Africa author Karen Blixen and scientist Niels Bohr, one of the fathers of the nuclear bomb.
Nordisk has snapped up film rights to two upcoming books by famed author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty: The Lioness on Karen Blixen and The Great Dane on Bohr.
The Copenhagen-based shingle company is planning The Lioness as both a feature film and miniseries about the life of Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), a Danish Baroness whose account of running a coffee ...
Nordisk has snapped up film rights to two upcoming books by famed author and historian Tom Buk-Swienty: The Lioness on Karen Blixen and The Great Dane on Bohr.
The Copenhagen-based shingle company is planning The Lioness as both a feature film and miniseries about the life of Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen), a Danish Baroness whose account of running a coffee ...
Fifteen years ago, America was asked a very important question: Who wants to be a millionaire? Turns out lots of people were interested in getting an extra seven figures, and so a game show was born. Originally hosted by Regis Philbin, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? premiered on Aug. 16, 1999. Through the years, the program made some tweaks, but the basic principles have stayed the same. If a hot-seat contestant uses their lifelines wisely and answers all 15 questions correctly, they are going home with at least $1,000,000. Many have come close to the feat, but only 13 folks have reached the big prize so far.
- 8/16/2014
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
Fifteen years ago, America was asked a very important question: Who wants to be a millionaire?
Turns out lots of people were interested in getting an extra seven figures, and so a game show was born. Originally hosted by Regis Philbin, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? premiered on Aug. 16, 1999. Through the years, the program made some tweaks, but the basic principles have stayed the same.
If a hot-seat contestant uses their lifelines wisely and answers all 15 questions correctly, they are going home with at least $1,000,000. Many have come close to the feat, but only 13 folks have reached the big prize so far.
Turns out lots of people were interested in getting an extra seven figures, and so a game show was born. Originally hosted by Regis Philbin, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? premiered on Aug. 16, 1999. Through the years, the program made some tweaks, but the basic principles have stayed the same.
If a hot-seat contestant uses their lifelines wisely and answers all 15 questions correctly, they are going home with at least $1,000,000. Many have come close to the feat, but only 13 folks have reached the big prize so far.
- 8/16/2014
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- People.com - TV Watch
The history of Tinseltown is littered with allegations of espionage, as the revelations about the successful producer have reminded us. Welcome to the world of 'thespionage'
The history of Hollywood is littered with spies. So it should come as no surprise that the producer Arnon Milchan began his working life as an Israeli secret agent and arms dealer. The billionaire behind Fight Club, Pretty Woman and Heat confirmed rumours of his shady past in an interview broadcast on Israeli television on Monday. At one point, we learned, he ran 30 companies worldwide on behalf of the Israeli government.
He joins a long line of Hollywood power-brokers who have dabbled in the spying game. In the early 1950s, the head of foreign and domestic censorship at Paramount was a CIA employee named Luigi Luraschi. Among Luraschi's many covert triumphs was the insertion of "well-dressed" respectable "negroes" into Us movies, to undermine Soviet...
The history of Hollywood is littered with spies. So it should come as no surprise that the producer Arnon Milchan began his working life as an Israeli secret agent and arms dealer. The billionaire behind Fight Club, Pretty Woman and Heat confirmed rumours of his shady past in an interview broadcast on Israeli television on Monday. At one point, we learned, he ran 30 companies worldwide on behalf of the Israeli government.
He joins a long line of Hollywood power-brokers who have dabbled in the spying game. In the early 1950s, the head of foreign and domestic censorship at Paramount was a CIA employee named Luigi Luraschi. Among Luraschi's many covert triumphs was the insertion of "well-dressed" respectable "negroes" into Us movies, to undermine Soviet...
- 11/28/2013
- by Tom Meltzer
- The Guardian - Film News
Gunslingers who wait for their opponent to draw first in a gunfight are faster, psychologists have found. But they're still dead meat
Ever since cowboys first swaggered onto the silver screen, scientists have been struggling to solve a conundrum. Why do the bad guys always get shot in a gunfight when they're the ones who reached for their guns first?
The Nobel laureate and quantum physicist Niels Bohr was so intrigued with the puzzle he came up with a theory: the one who draws second moves faster because he reacts without thinking.
Research by psychologists at Birmingham University has shown that Bohr was right, at least up to a point. In mock gunfights, volunteers were 10% faster when they drew second than when they made the first move.
One of the researchers, experimental psychologist Andrew Welchman, said our brains seem to be wired up in a way that makes reactions faster than conscious thought.
Ever since cowboys first swaggered onto the silver screen, scientists have been struggling to solve a conundrum. Why do the bad guys always get shot in a gunfight when they're the ones who reached for their guns first?
The Nobel laureate and quantum physicist Niels Bohr was so intrigued with the puzzle he came up with a theory: the one who draws second moves faster because he reacts without thinking.
Research by psychologists at Birmingham University has shown that Bohr was right, at least up to a point. In mock gunfights, volunteers were 10% faster when they drew second than when they made the first move.
One of the researchers, experimental psychologist Andrew Welchman, said our brains seem to be wired up in a way that makes reactions faster than conscious thought.
- 2/3/2010
- by Ian Sample
- The Guardian - Film News
If you build it, they will come. This time we're not talking about ballparks and baseball players, but rather satellite dishes and intelligent extraterrestrial life, as an unconventional astronomer obsesses to connect with other life in the universe.
A distillation of the late Carl Sagan's best seller "Contact", this filmic adaptation is also constructed with generic sci-fi components and characters and draws on blueprints from such filmic predecessors as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." But despite its lineage and some impressive special effects, "Contact" is a disappointingly earthbound production, weighed down by the ballast of talking-heads dramaturgy and bloated storytelling.
At the boxoffice, Warner Bros. has a "tweener" on its hands, a vessel that falls between certain audiences: High schoolers and special-effects buffs will find its thermo-dramatics insufficiently charged, lacking in action and outer-space razzle-dazzle, while intelligent life forms will find its philosophizing a quantum level below expectations, unless one is hoping for an "Oprah"-ish discussion on the science-vs.-religion debate. Look for a big launch based on Jodie Foster's star appeal in the lead role and Sagan's following, but word-of-mouth will soon put this Robert Zemeckis-directed film into a disappointing tailspin, burning out far below boxoffice outer space.
In this ambitious undertaking, Foster stars as Ellie Arroway, a brilliant astronomer who has alienated her mentors by her choice of specialty: Ellie has chosen to dedicate her career to making contact with other intelligent life forms in the universe. After all, as her late father told her, "If we're The Only Ones here, what a waste of space."
While gutty little crackpot yarns are always appealing as the renegade thinker takes on the establishment and ultimately wins the day, this scenario is so ponderous and transparently schematic that one only half-heartedly roots for the scrappy scientist to prove her point by connecting with extraterrestrial life and toppling the dunderheaded establishment, herein consisting of not only the scientific-industrial complex but the citadels of organized religion as well.
While one can appreciate the vexing tribulations with cross-wiring Sagan's downbeat novel to popular filmic dimension, screenwriters James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg have programmed a bugged-up format of story viruses and black hole-sized logical voids.
Consisting of dialogue so gratingly expositional that one would have to consult a VCR manual to duplicate its utilitarian dullness, and philosophical debates so turgidly pompous that one would have to fetch an Los Angeles Times Op/Ed page for comparable drivel, the story is woefully dependent on talking-heads newscasters delivering the plot.
Admittedly, we possess a certain perverse admiration for an opus that relies on the likes of "The Larry King Show" for delving into the big issues. Still, even an enthusiastic numbers cruncher would be taxed by tabulating the truly amazing number of times this serioso mind-candy relies on TV talking heads to propel its narrative. So leaden is its dramatic thrust that not even director Robert Zemeckis, whose productions usually travel at the speed of light, can get this one moving faster than a mule train.
The data is not all bad on the writing, however. On the plus side, the science-vs.-religion debates are mercifully short, interrupted, for instance, by a beeper-page from President Clinton. Indeed, Clinton appears in a number of press conference-ish vignettes, delivering wishy-washy blather on the big happenings. In this regard, the screenwriters are to be commended for their deft duplication of Clintonesque platitudinery.
Despite being short-circuited by the dialogue, Foster is commanding as the strong-minded astronomer. Alternately shrill, contentious and self-absorbed, the character is nicely rounded and made sympathetic by Foster's smartly textured portrayal. As the voice of science, she is paired with and against Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a touchy-feely religious type. Unfortunately, this dichotomy is crammed up with an unlikely romance, so bipolar that it defies even the laws-of-opposites attraction.
Under Zemeckis' surprisingly small screen-ish visualization, the technical contributions are a mixed bag. Highest praise to production designer Ed Verreaux and the visual effects team for the brainy look, an inspired mix of Leonardo Da Vinci and Niels Bohr. Most impressively, there's some dazzling sorcery in the opening, big-space sequence -- it's thrilling and humbling, all at once. Along with "2001" and "Star Wars", it's among the best eye-openers for a space-directed movie.
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A South Side Amusement Co. production
A Robert Zemeckis film
Producers Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey
Director Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriters James V. Hart,
Michael Goldenberg
Based on the novel by Carl Sagan
Based on the story by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Executive producers Joan Bradshaw,
Lynda Obst
Director of photography Don Burgess
Production designer Ed Verreaux
Editor Arthur Schmidt
Music Alan Silvestri
Costume designer Joanna Johnston
Senior visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston
Casting Victoria Burrows
Co-producers Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Sound designer Randy Thom
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ellie Arroway Jodie Foster
Palmer Joss Matthew McConaughey
David Drumlin Tom Skerritt
Rachel Constantine Angela Bassett
Michael Kit :James Woods
S.R. Hadden John Hurt
Young Ellie Jena Malone
Ted Arroway David Morse
Fisher Geoffrey Blake
Richard Rank Rob Lowe
Running time -- 150 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
A distillation of the late Carl Sagan's best seller "Contact", this filmic adaptation is also constructed with generic sci-fi components and characters and draws on blueprints from such filmic predecessors as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." But despite its lineage and some impressive special effects, "Contact" is a disappointingly earthbound production, weighed down by the ballast of talking-heads dramaturgy and bloated storytelling.
At the boxoffice, Warner Bros. has a "tweener" on its hands, a vessel that falls between certain audiences: High schoolers and special-effects buffs will find its thermo-dramatics insufficiently charged, lacking in action and outer-space razzle-dazzle, while intelligent life forms will find its philosophizing a quantum level below expectations, unless one is hoping for an "Oprah"-ish discussion on the science-vs.-religion debate. Look for a big launch based on Jodie Foster's star appeal in the lead role and Sagan's following, but word-of-mouth will soon put this Robert Zemeckis-directed film into a disappointing tailspin, burning out far below boxoffice outer space.
In this ambitious undertaking, Foster stars as Ellie Arroway, a brilliant astronomer who has alienated her mentors by her choice of specialty: Ellie has chosen to dedicate her career to making contact with other intelligent life forms in the universe. After all, as her late father told her, "If we're The Only Ones here, what a waste of space."
While gutty little crackpot yarns are always appealing as the renegade thinker takes on the establishment and ultimately wins the day, this scenario is so ponderous and transparently schematic that one only half-heartedly roots for the scrappy scientist to prove her point by connecting with extraterrestrial life and toppling the dunderheaded establishment, herein consisting of not only the scientific-industrial complex but the citadels of organized religion as well.
While one can appreciate the vexing tribulations with cross-wiring Sagan's downbeat novel to popular filmic dimension, screenwriters James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg have programmed a bugged-up format of story viruses and black hole-sized logical voids.
Consisting of dialogue so gratingly expositional that one would have to consult a VCR manual to duplicate its utilitarian dullness, and philosophical debates so turgidly pompous that one would have to fetch an Los Angeles Times Op/Ed page for comparable drivel, the story is woefully dependent on talking-heads newscasters delivering the plot.
Admittedly, we possess a certain perverse admiration for an opus that relies on the likes of "The Larry King Show" for delving into the big issues. Still, even an enthusiastic numbers cruncher would be taxed by tabulating the truly amazing number of times this serioso mind-candy relies on TV talking heads to propel its narrative. So leaden is its dramatic thrust that not even director Robert Zemeckis, whose productions usually travel at the speed of light, can get this one moving faster than a mule train.
The data is not all bad on the writing, however. On the plus side, the science-vs.-religion debates are mercifully short, interrupted, for instance, by a beeper-page from President Clinton. Indeed, Clinton appears in a number of press conference-ish vignettes, delivering wishy-washy blather on the big happenings. In this regard, the screenwriters are to be commended for their deft duplication of Clintonesque platitudinery.
Despite being short-circuited by the dialogue, Foster is commanding as the strong-minded astronomer. Alternately shrill, contentious and self-absorbed, the character is nicely rounded and made sympathetic by Foster's smartly textured portrayal. As the voice of science, she is paired with and against Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a touchy-feely religious type. Unfortunately, this dichotomy is crammed up with an unlikely romance, so bipolar that it defies even the laws-of-opposites attraction.
Under Zemeckis' surprisingly small screen-ish visualization, the technical contributions are a mixed bag. Highest praise to production designer Ed Verreaux and the visual effects team for the brainy look, an inspired mix of Leonardo Da Vinci and Niels Bohr. Most impressively, there's some dazzling sorcery in the opening, big-space sequence -- it's thrilling and humbling, all at once. Along with "2001" and "Star Wars", it's among the best eye-openers for a space-directed movie.
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Warner Bros.
A South Side Amusement Co. production
A Robert Zemeckis film
Producers Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey
Director Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriters James V. Hart,
Michael Goldenberg
Based on the novel by Carl Sagan
Based on the story by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Executive producers Joan Bradshaw,
Lynda Obst
Director of photography Don Burgess
Production designer Ed Verreaux
Editor Arthur Schmidt
Music Alan Silvestri
Costume designer Joanna Johnston
Senior visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston
Casting Victoria Burrows
Co-producers Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Sound designer Randy Thom
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ellie Arroway Jodie Foster
Palmer Joss Matthew McConaughey
David Drumlin Tom Skerritt
Rachel Constantine Angela Bassett
Michael Kit :James Woods
S.R. Hadden John Hurt
Young Ellie Jena Malone
Ted Arroway David Morse
Fisher Geoffrey Blake
Richard Rank Rob Lowe
Running time -- 150 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
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