The newly Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara has booked her first post-Dragon Tattoo role, and it ain’t shabby. The ingénue will take the lead role in Steven Soderbergh‘s pharmaceutical thriller Side Effects (formerly titled Bitter Pill), Deadline reports. Mara is replacing Blake Lively in the picture, which is also set to star Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. […]
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David O. Russell is Nailed to a project he’d rather forget
March 8, 2011 
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After seeing production on his film Nailed shut down nine times due to finance and post-production issues, David O’Russell had all but given up hope for the project. But, according to Deadline, the film had a recruited screening this week. Good news? Could have been, only it was incredibly underhand and no one informed the […]
Continue readingTrue Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld lands new thriller
February 21, 2011 1 Comment
Hollywood’s favourite 14-year-old wunderkind Hailee Steinfeld has landed her first studio project after her Oscar nominated performance in Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit. Deadline New York is reporting Paramount has optioned screen rights to the forthcoming Young Adult novel Forgotten by Cat Patrick. In a move similar to the upcoming film I Am Number […]
Continue readingThe brave and the boulder – 127 Hours review
February 8, 2011 0 Comments
127 Hours – Starring James Franco. Directed by Danny Boyle. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Why do people climb a mountain “just because it’s there”? I find that reasoning to be wildly unsatisfying, and it has led me to judge adrenaline junkies and extreme sportsmen and women as flighty and undeserving of our adulation. I’m […]
Continue reading>Javier Bardem to play Bond villain?
February 1, 2011 3 Comments
>Javier Bardem has been approached to star in the next James Bond film according to Deadline. While details haven’t been released, it would be fair to assume Bardem will be playing opposite Bond as the villain of the film (something Bardem experienced in 2007’s No Country for Old Men). (UPDATE: Bardem told the L.A. Times […]
Continue reading>The King’s Speech to be censored for Oscar push?
January 27, 2011 1 Comment
>Will Harvey Scissorhands ever be happy with a film? That is indeed the question as he considers releasing a censored cut of The King’s Speech after it has received a pack-leading 12 Oscar nominations. The story so far… Back in November, the MPAA slapped The King’s Speech with an R-rating, meaning that those under the […]
Continue readingAcademy reveal Best Documentary Oscar shortlist
November 19, 2010 0 Comments
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have whittled down their longlist of 101 eligible documentaries to a mere 15. It is from these 15 titles that the five nominees for Best Documentary at the 83rd Academy Awards shall be chosen. Here are the films, listed in alphabetical order: Client 9: The Rise and […]
Continue readingDreamWorks kick off the Oscar race!
September 2, 2010 0 Comments
DreamWorks have wasted no time in kicking off the latest Oscar season with a For Your Consideration ad and website for their hit animated film How To Train Your Dragon. (Thanks In Contention for bringing this to our attention.) We’re big fans of FYC ads here on the Quickflix blog. In the past we’ve documented […]
Continue readingWho do YOU want to win big at the Oscars?
March 3, 2010 0 Comments
There is less than a week to go until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hand out Oscars to Christoph Waltz and Mo’nique. Oh, and they will probably reveal the other winners of this year’s Academy Awards also. As is tradition, we at the Quickflix offices are finalising the entry forms for our […]
Continue readingDedicated follower of fashion – A Single Man review
February 25, 2010 0 Comments
A Single Man – Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode. Directed by Tom Ford. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man is unspeakably gorgeous to behold. From the glorious cinematography to the impossibly beautiful actors and actresses; no frame is wasted on anything even close to ugliness. It […]
Continue readingHurts so good – The Hurt Locker review
February 16, 2010 2 Comments
The Hurt Locker – Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is one of the most thrilling action films I’ve seen in the past few years. It features set piece after pulse-quickening set piece. But unlike other action films, you […]
Continue readingOscar fallout – the biggest snubs and shocks of this year’s nominees!
February 3, 2010 7 Comments
“Dear Hollywood. You’re great. From Hollywood.”We can only assume that these six words were etched upon the envelope containing the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. Yep, the Oscars are the most self-congratulatory event on the Hollywood calendar. But you know what? I love ‘em. I love ‘em love ‘em love ‘em. I love evaluating […]
Continue reading82nd Academy Award nominations!
February 2, 2010 2 Comments
source: oscars.org The time for speculation is over! The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles (Tuesday night in Australia) by Academy President Tom Sherak and 2008 Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway. So, who made the cut? Find out after the jump! Box office behemoth Avatar and Iraq war […]
Continue readingInglourious Basterds triumphs at SAG awards
January 24, 2010 0 Comments
source: sag.org Quentin Tarantino’s motley crew of Inglourious Basterds took the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards yesterday. The films’ cast, including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent and, hilariously, Mike Myers, were awarded Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock received Outstanding Actor and Actress […]
Continue readingSamson and Delilah makes Oscar shortlist
January 21, 2010 0 Comments
source: incontention.com Warwick Thornton‘s AFI-award winning film Samson and Delilah has inched closer to an Academy Award nomination, having made it onto the shortlist of films eligible for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. We reported back in September 2009 that the film would be Australia’s official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film category. […]
Continue readingSamson and Delilah Oscar ad!
December 10, 2009 0 Comments
source: awardsdaily.com The Samson and Delilah Oscar campaign is in full swing, with the following advertisement appearing in a recent issue of Variety in the U.S. As reported previously, Samson and Delilah will be Australia’s official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. It joins Mary and Max as […]
Continue readingThe Hangover for Best Picture?
December 1, 2009 5 Comments
source: awardsdaily.com Warner Bros purchased a full page advertisement on the front cover of Monday’s Variety to push box office behemoth The Hangover for Best Picture consideration. Wait. WHAT?! This FYC ad is directed at the Golden Globes, specifically by asking for a nomination in the Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) category. However, what with […]
Continue readingOscars to feature 10 Best Picture nominees
June 25, 2009 0 Comments
source: oscars.org The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science have announced that the 2010 Oscar Ceremony will feature ten Best Picture nominees as opposed to the traditional five. Academy President Sid Ganis said the move is intended to be a tribute to the ceremony’s earlier roots. The last ceremony to feature 10 nominees in […]
Continue readingOSCAR WATCH – Final Predictions!
February 16, 2009 1 Comment
Well, it’s been a hell of an Awards season. If you would have told me 12 months ago that the new Batman film and a movie that almost went straight-to-DVD would be duking it out for Oscar supremacy, I would have laughed in your face. And then I would have slapped it. But that’s exactly […]
Continue readingOscar fallout – Analysing the nominations and getting worked up about it!
January 23, 2009 0 Comments
As reported earlier this morning, the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards have been announced. And I’ve got to say, while there are a WHOLE bunch of pleasant surprises, there are a couple of shocking exclusions that need to be examined. Firstly, check out the nominees over here. Then, see my hilariously inaccurate predictions. Without […]
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