Archive for February 10th, 2008
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced its winners this evening, with Atonement taking home the main award for Best Film.
The Joe Wright-directed British drama won two awards in total, while the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose won the most with four and Oscar favourite No Country for Old Men received three.
The acting awards went to Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) and Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton). Joel and Ethan Coen were awarded the Best Directing BAFTA award for No Country for Old Men; Shane Meadows’ This Is England won Best British Film.
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20th Century Fox’s sci-fi thriller Jumper doesn’t open until next week, but already there is talk about doing sequels according to Dark Horizons (via Teletext).
The film’s lead actor Hayden Christensen is quoted as saying: ‘Director Doug Liman already has another four stories in his head. I’m open to a sequel - I would love to do it actually. It lends itself to a sequel - there are a lot of things you could do with it.’
The film revolves around a genetic anomaly that allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between ‘Jumpers’ and those who have sworn to kill them.
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Now that the writers strike is as good as over we all want to know when exactly our favourite TV shows start returning with new episodes.
TV Guide (who else, really) has compiled a list of all the major network’s shows detailing how many episodes from the rest of this season will air and when:
Here’s the lowdown on some of the X-Realms’ favourites: 24 returns either this fall or in January ‘09; Bionic Woman is cancelled; Heroes is still TBD; Lost has six pre-strike episodes remaining with an additional six that could still air this season; Prison Break has two pre-strike episodes remaining with anything beyond that TBD; Smallville has four pre-strike episodes and 3-5 additional ones to air in April/May; Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has five pre-strike episodes with the future of the show TBD.
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The Writers Guild Association (WGA) may have been busy voting on the end of the strike this weekend, nevertheless they found time to announce the winners of the guild’s annual screenwriting awards.
There were no surprises as Diablo Cody won Best Original Screenplay for Juno and Joel and Ethan Coen topped the Adapted Screenplay category with No Country for Old Men. Taxi to the Dark Side writer Alex Gibney succeeded in the documentary category.
Cody and the Coens thus remain favourites to win the respective screenwriting Oscars when the Academy Awards ceremony takes place February 24.
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 