TRANSFORMERS: THE RIDE

Here are some leaked concept art images from Universal Studios' Transformers: The Ride. Universal first annnounced in 2008 that they were launching an attraction based on Michael Bay‘s Transformers at the Hollywood and Singapore theme parks. opening irst announced in 2008, The ride is said to us High Definition 3D footage, special effects and “stunning” robotics to “place humans in the middle of a war between the Autobots and Decepticons”. The new ride lsts five minutes, a quarter of a mile, with the ride vehicles rising to 60 feet in the air. It reportedly used the same ride technology that The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride from Universal’s Islands of Adventure. 

Universal recently announced that the ride will also have 20-30 minutes of storytelling for the waiting as visitors wait to board the ride. This is said to be the similar to the experience done at Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey in Orlando. 

Check out the the cool concept art thanks to Theme Park Insider:

The Transformers ride replaces the old Backdraft special effects show and special effects stages in the lower lot at the Hollywood park, and is expected to open in early 2012. The Singapore ride is set to open in late 2011.

I have never been a fan of the Universal Studios parks in comparison to Disney. This looks pretty cool, but I would still rather go to Disney World any day of the week. What are your thoughts?

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Fast Five KILLED the box-office!

Fast Five made an amazing $83.6 million at the North American box office this weekend. Universal topped 2009's Fast & Furious, which made $70 million. The fifth installment averaged $22,942 per theater, making it the best April debut ever! It makes sense that Universal has already fast-tracked a sixth installment and changing the focus from street racing to heist film. Fast Five had a budget of $125 million, the film will easily top the $353 million Fast & Furious made globally. According to ERC, The film could be closer to $500 million, since it's already grossed $165 mil worldwide; Fast Five made $45.3 million this weekend internationally, for a total of $81.4 million.

For me it is easy to understand why Fast Five is doing this well. I loved watching the movie and had one of the best times going to a theater in a long time. For me, it was the best film of the franchise so far. Justin Lin is a great director that knows how to film action sequences. I am now very interested to see him helming the next Terminator film.

Did you see the Fast Five this weekend? What were your thoughts? Which Fast and Furious film do you like the most and why?

Read Venkman's review of the film HERE and check out all of our Fast Five coverage HERE.

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Elizabeth Taylor: 1932-2011

Elizabeth Taylor, one of the last great screen legends and winner of two Academy Awards, died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles of complications from congestive heart failure; she was 79. The actress had been hospitalized for the past few weeks, celebrating her birthday on February 27th (the same day as this year's Academy Awards) while at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with friends and family. Her four children, two sons and two daughters, were by her side as she passed.

A striking brunette beauty with violet eyes who embodied both innocence and seductiveness, and was known for her flamboyant private life and numerous marriages as well as her acting career, Taylor was the epitome of Hollywood glamour, and was one of the last legendary stars who could still command headlines and standing ovations in her later years. Born to American parents in England in 1932, Taylor's family decamped to Los Angeles as World War II escalated in the late 1930s. Even as a child, her amazing good looks -- her eyes were amplified by a double set of eyelashes, a mutation she was born with -- garnered the attention of family friends in Hollywood, and she undertook a screen test at 10 years old with Universal Studios. She appeared in only one film for the studio (There's One Born Every Minute) before they dropped her; Taylor was quickly picked up by MGM, the studio that would make her a young star.

Her second film was Lassie Come Home (1943), co-starring Roddy McDowall, who would become a lifelong friend. She assayed a few other roles (including a noteworthy cameo in 1943's Jane Eyre) but campaigned for the part that would make her a bona fide child star: the young Velvet Brown, who trained a champion racehorse to win the Grand National, in National Velvet. The box office smash launched Taylor's career, and MGM immediately put her to work in a number of juvenile roles, most notably in Life With Father (1947) and as Amy in 1949's Little Women. As she blossomed into a young woman, she began to outgrow the roles she was assigned, often playing women far older than her actual age. She scored another hit alongside Spencer Tracy as the young daughter preparing for marriage in Father of the Bride (1950), but her career officially entered adulthood with George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951), as a seductive rich girl who bedazzles Montgomery Clift to the degree that he kills his pregnant girlfriend (Shelley Winters). The film was hailed as an instant classic, and Taylor's performance, still considered one of her best, launched the next part of her career.

Frustrated by MGM's insistence at putting her in period pieces (some were hits notwithstanding, including 1952's Ivanhoe), Taylor looked to expand her career, and took on the lead role in Elephant Walk (1954) when Vivian Leigh dropped out after suffering a nervous breakdown. As her career climbed in the 1950s, so did Taylor's celebrity: she married hotel heir Conrad Hilton in 1950, and divorced him within a year. She then married British actor Michael Wilding in 1952, with whom she had two sons, though that marriage ended in divorce in 1957, after she embarked on an affair with the man who would be her next husband, producer Michael Todd (who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days). As her personal life made headlines, she appeared alongside James Dean and Rock Hudson in Giant (1956), and received her first Academy Award nomination for Raintree County in 1957. Roles in two Tennessee Williams adaptations followed -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly Last Summer (1959), both considered two of her best performances -- earning her two more Oscar nominations, just as tragedy and notoriety would strike her life.

Todd, whom she married in 1957 and had a daughter with, died in a plane crash in 1958 in New Mexico, leaving a bereft Taylor alone at the height of her stardom. Adored by millions, she went from lovely widow to heartless home-wrecker in the tabloids after starting an affair with Eddie Fisher, Todd's best friend and at the time husband of screen darling Debbie Reynolds. The relationship was splashed across newspapers as Fisher left Reynolds and their two children (including a young Carrie Fisher) for Taylor. The two appeared together in 1960's Butterfield 8, where Taylor played prostitute Gloria Wandrous in a performance that was considered good but nowhere near her previous films, and earned her another Oscar nomination. As the Academy Awards ceremony approached, Taylor was thrust into the headlines again when a life-threatening case of pneumonia required an emergency tracheotomy, leaving her with a legendary scar on her neck. Popular opinion swung yet again as newspapers and fans feared for her life, and the illness was credited with helping her win her first Oscar for Butterfield 8.

Taylor was now the biggest female star in the world, in terms of film and popularity, and her notoriety was only about to increase. Twentieth Century Fox, making a small biopic about the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, tried to offer Taylor the part; she laughed them off, saying she would do it for $1 million, a then-unheard of sum for an actress. The studio took her seriously, and soon she was signed to a million-dollar contract (the first for an actress) and a movie that would soon balloon out of control as filming started. Initially set to film in England with Peter Finch and Rex Harrison as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, the movie encountered numerous problems and after a first shutdown was moved to Italy, with director Joseph L. Manckiewicz at the helm. Finch left and was replaced by acclaimed stage actor and rising movie star Richard Burton.

The rest was cinematic and tabloid history, as Taylor and Burton, whose electric chemistry was apparent to all on set, embarked on quite possibly the most famous Hollywood affair ever, while the filming of the epic movie took on gargantuan proportions and its budget increased exponentially. After the dust settled, Fox was saddled with a three-hour-plus film that, despite starring the two actors whose every move was hounded by photographers and reporters, was considered a bomb. The 1963 film almost sunk the studio (which only rebounded thanks to the megahit The Sound of Music two years later), while Burton and Taylor emerged from the wreckage relatively unscathed and ultimately married in 1964.

However, despite carte blanche to do whatever they wanted, the newly married couple made two marginally successful films, The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Sandpiper (1965), both glossy soap operas that made money but hardly challenged their talents. That opportunity would come with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the adaptation of the Edward Albee play directed by first-time filmmaker Mike Nichols. As the beleaguered professor George and his shrewish wife Martha, whose mind games played havoc one fateful night with a younger faculty couple (George Segal and Sandy Dennis), the two gave perhaps their best screen performances ever, tearing into the roles -- and each other -- with a gusto never seen in their previous pairings. They both received Oscar nominations, but only Taylor won, her second and final Academy Award.

A successful adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew (1967) followed, but the couple's next films were a string of notorious bombs, including Doctor Faustus, The Comedians, and the so-bad-it's-good Boom. Though still one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Taylor's cinematic output in the 1970s became somewhat dismal, as her fraying marriage with Burton took center stage in the press, as did her weight gain after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The couple divorced in June 1974, only to remarry briefly in October 1975; by then, Taylor was more celebrity than movie star, still appearing occasionally onscreen and in television, but to less acclaim.

Taylor married U.S. Senator John Warner at the end of 1976, and during the late 1970s and 1980s played the politician's wife, and her unsatisfying life led her to depression, drinking, overeating and ultimately a visit to the Betty Ford Center. After TV and stage appearances during the 1980s (including a reunion in 1983 with Burton for a production of Private Lives), Taylor found another, surprising role, that of social activist as longtime friend Rock Hudson died of complications from AIDS in 1985. She threw herself into fund-raising work, raising by some accounts $50 million to fight the disease, helping found the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR).

Though later generations only saw Taylor on television in films like Malice in Wonderland, and the mini-series North and South, and in her final screen appearance as the mother of Wilma in the live-action movie adaptation of The Flintstones, she remained a tabloid fixture through her marriage to construction worker Larry Fortensky (her eighth and final husband), her friendship with singer Michael Jackson, and her continual charity work, which was only sidelined by hospital visits after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She is survived by four children -- two sons with Michael Wilding, a daughter with Michael Todd, and another daughter adopted with Richard Burton -- and nine grandchildren.

--Mark Englehart

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Production Begins on The Hobbit!

New Line/Warner Bros. announced today that production has begun in New Zealand on The Hobbit, Peter Jackson's two-film epic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's timeless classic. The studio has also revealed two photos of Jackson on the set which you can view below in the press release:

Production has commenced in Wellington, New Zealand, on "The Hobbit," filmmaker Peter Jackson's two film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's widely read masterpiece.

"The Hobbit" is set in Middle-earth 60 years before Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

The two films, with screenplays by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson, will be shot consecutively in digital 3D using the latest camera and stereo technology. Filming will take place at Stone Street Studios, Wellington, and on location around New Zealand.

"The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.

Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever... Gollum.

Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.

Martin Freeman takes the title role as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen returns in the role of Gandalf the Grey. The Dwarves are played by Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield), Ken Stott (Balin), Graham McTavish (Dwalin), William Kircher (Bifur) James Nesbitt (Bofur), Stephen Hunter (Bombur), Rob Kazinsky (Fili), Aidan Turner (Kili), Peter Hambleton (Gloin), John Callen (Oin), Jed Brophy (Nori), Mark Hadlow (Dori) and Adam Brown (Ori). Reprising their roles from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy are Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, Andy Serkis as Gollum and Elijah Wood as Frodo. Jeffrey Thomas and Mike Mizrahi also join the cast as Dwarf Kings Thror and Thrain, respectively. Further casting announcements are expected.

"The Hobbit" is produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, alongside Carolynne Cunningham. Executive producers are Ken Kamins and Zane Weiner, with Philippa Boyens as co-producer. The Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, also from the production team of Jackson and Walsh, grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide at the box office. In 2003, "The Return of the King" swept the Academy Awards, winning all of the 11 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture – the first ever Best Picture win for a fantasy film. The trilogy's production was also unprecedented at the time.

Among the creative behind-the-scenes team returning to Jackson's crew are director of photography Andrew Lesnie, production designer Dan Hennah, conceptual designers Alan Lee and John Howe, composer Howard Shore and make-up and hair designer Peter King. Costumes are designed by Ann Maskrey and Richard Taylor.

Taylor is also overseeing the design and production of weaponry, armour and prosthetics which are once again being made by the award winning Weta Workshop. Weta Digital take on the visual effects for both films, led by the film's visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri. Post production will take place at Park Road Post Production in Wellington.

"The Hobbit" films are co-produced by New Line Cinema and MGM, with New Line managing production. Warner Bros Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television licensing being handled by MGM. The two films are planned for release in late 2012 and 2013, respectively.

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'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1" Becomes The Top Ranking 'Potter' Film Internationally

Like a fine wine, the "Harry Potter" movies only get richer with age. It's no surprise, then, that "Deathly Hallows" is poised to become the richest of them all.

 On Wednesday, Warner Bros. announced that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" has passed "Sorcerer's Stone" to become the top-grossing "Potter" film on an international level. The first half of the "Harry Potter" finale has earned $657.24 million in foreign markets, just barely edging out the "Sorcerer's Stone" total of $657 million.

 “It’s tremendously gratifying to reach this benchmark as we enter the final stretch of this remarkable journey,” said Jeff Robinov, President of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, in an official statement. “We share this achievement with Jo Rowling, whose books are the foundation of this rich and vibrant world, as well as the talented people who brought her vision to life on the screen.”


On a worldwide level, "Sorcerer's Stone" is still the "Potter" film to beat, thanks to its performance at the domestic box office. The first installment in the series made $317.6 million in the United States, while "Deathly Hallows: Part 1" finished out with $294.6 million. That explains the $23 million gap that's keeping "Sorcerer's Stone" ahead in the numbers game.

But if the first part of "Deathly Hallows" is already this close to snatching the top spot from "Sorcerer's Stone," we can only imagine the box-office success that "Part 2" will enjoy. Many viewers flocked to the first "Harry Potter" flick to see what all the hullabaloo was about, and it's likely that even more people will want to see how the story comes to an end.

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The Complete List of Oscar Winners!

The 83rd Academy Awards were presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre and we will be posting the winners as they are announced! The show was hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Let us know what you thought of the show and the winners by using the comments below!

You can view the complete list of winners and nominees below:

BEST PICTURE:
**Winner** The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
The Fighter (Paramount Pictures), David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
Toy Story 3 (Disney•Pixar), Darla K. Anderson, Producer
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

DIRECTING:
**Winner** Tom Hooper - The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
David O. Russell - The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
David Fincher - The Social Network (Columbia Pictures)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - True Grit (Paramount Pictures)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
**Winner** Colin Firth - The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)
Javier Bardem - Biutiful (Roadside Attractions)
Jeff Bridges - True Grit (Paramount Pictures)
Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network (Columbia Pictures)
James Franco - 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
**Winner** Natalie Portman - Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole (Lionsgate)
Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions)
Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine (The Weinstein Company)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
**Winner** Christian Bale - The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
John Hawkes - Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions)
Jeremy Renner - The Town (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
**Winner** Melissa Leo - The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
Amy Adams - The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)
Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit (Paramount Pictures)
Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom (Sony Pictures Classics)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
**Winner** The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
Toy Story 3 (Disney•Pixar), Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
**Winner** The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler
Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter (Paramount Pictures), Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
**Winner** In a Better World (Sony Pictures Classics), Denmark
Biutiful (Roadside Attractions), Mexico
Dogtooth (Kino International), Greece
Incendies (Sony Pictures Classics), Canada
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (Cohen Media Group), Algeria

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
**Winner** Toy Story 3 (Disney•Pixar), Lee Unkrich
How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation), Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics), Sylvain Chomet

ART DIRECTION:
**Winner** Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures), Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures), Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
**Winner** Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Wally Pfister
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Matthew Libatique
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Danny Cohen
The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN:
**Winner** Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures), Colleen Atwood
I Am Love (Magnolia Pictures), Antonella Cannarozzi
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Jenny Beavan
The Tempest (Touchstone Pictures), Sandy Powell
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Mary Zophres

FILM EDITING:
**Winner** The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter (Paramount Pictures), Pamela Martin
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Tariq Anwar
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Jon Harris

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
**Winner** Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics), Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency, Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
Gasland (Rooftop Films), Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment), Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land (Arthouse Films), Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

MAKEUP:
**Winner** The Wolfman (Universal Pictures), Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Barney's Version (Sony Pictures Classics), Adrien Morot
The Way Back (Newmarket Films), Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng

ORIGINAL SCORE:
**Winner** The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation), John Powell
Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Alexandre Desplat
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight Pictures), A.R. Rahman

ORIGINAL SONG:
**Winner** "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 (Disney•Pixar), Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Coming Home" from Country Strong (Screen Gems), Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
"I See the Light" from Tangled (Walt Disney Pictures), Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

SOUND MIXING:
**Winner** Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt (Columbia Pictures), Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network (Columbia Pictures), Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

SOUND EDITING:
**Winner** Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Richard King
Toy Story 3 (Disney•Pixar), Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
TRON: Legacy (Walt Disney Pictures), Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit (Paramount Pictures), Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable (20th Century Fox), Mark P. Stoeckinger

VISUAL EFFECTS:
**Winner** Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures), Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures), Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures), Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter (Warner Bros. Pictures), Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios), Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
**Winner** Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Killing in the Name, Jed Rothstein
Poster Girl, Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block
Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
**Winner** The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Day & Night, Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let's Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), Bastien Dubois

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
**Winner** God of Love, Luke Matheny
The Confession, Tanel Toom
The Crush, Michael Creagh
Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite


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The Hangover Writers Keep The Party Going With Two More Scripts

There's already a Hangover 2 in the works and set to start filming this fall, but the movie's writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore aren't letting go of their "morning after" premise until they've milked as much money out of it as they can. The LA Times reports that the screenwriter duo's next project will be set not at a bachelor party but a holiday party, specifically one that goes horribly awry. They're developing the script with directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon, who brought you this weekend's The Switch as well as Blades of Glory.

And that's not all! Variety reports the two have sold their pitch 21 and Over to Relativity Media, about two college pals who get their friend drunk the night before his med-school exams and then must help him get through the test the next day. I admit, all of these concepts sound pretty promising, but they also sound so much inspired by The Hangover that if they were coming from other writers, they'd be sued. Are Lucas and Moore just aware that they've got a good thing going, or are they digging themselves into a rut? They're not on board as writer for Hangover 2 and it'll be a while before any of their other projects hit screens, so we'll have to wait a while before we can answer that one.

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Milli Vanilli to be made into a movie!

A decorated film-maker is taking on the story of shamed German pop duo Milli Vanilli.

The band, featuring Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, was a huge hit after being formed in 1988, but had a dramatic fall from favour after it was discovered the pair lip-synched to the voices of The Numarks, a group which included executive Kevil Liles of Def Jam Records.

They were forced to hand back a Grammy award they won in 1990 for Best New Artist, faced several lawsuits, and a campign to refund consumers.

An album featuring their real voices flopped, and their downfall was followed by Pilatus' descent into personal problems, including drug abuse. He died, apparently as a result of a alcohol and drug overdose, on the eve of a promotional tour for a comeback album, in 1998.
Fab has continued to work as a recording artist and DJ.

Now, German director Florian Gallenberger is set to take on a big screen biopic about the pair, reports Allhiphop.com.

Gallenberger, a former actor and philosophy student, won an Academy Award in 2001 in the Best Live Action Short Film category for his short film Quiero Ser (I want to be...), which was set in Mexico.
He has directed two features: Shadows of Time, an epic about India made in the Benglai language, and John Rabe, about a German businessman who created a Safety Zone in Nanking which saved 200,000 Chinese people during the second World War. The film won 4 German Academy Awards, including best film.

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Mr Men set for big screen

It's raining Men ... Roger Hargreaves's Mr Men characters have already been a hit with readers in 28 countries worldwide.

Mr Men: The Movie looks set to arrive on the big screen. Twentieth Century Fox's planned adaptation of British author Roger Hargreaves's much-loved children's books is being put together by the studio's animation department, which may preclude the kind of live-action/CGI mix that has seen fans of Yogi Bear, Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks wailing into their popcorn.

But Mr Tickle, Mr Greedy and Mr Nosey may still be rendered in pixels rather than Hargreaves's traditional hand-drawn techniques: Fox Animation is best known for films such as the Ice Age series and Horton Hears a Who!, all of which are heavily CGI-based.

Hargreaves, who died in 1988, wrote 43 Mr Men books, with five more being completed by his son Adam. The Hollywood Reporter's story about the film version does not mention whether the Little Miss characters will also be included. That accompanying series began in 1981 and ended up extending to 42 characters, including Little Miss Chatterbox and Little Miss Scary.

More than 100m books based on Hargreaves's characters have been sold worldwide in 28 countries, so the adaptation already has a global audience. The stories have been adapted into four animated television series, most recently airing in the UK on Channel 5 in 2008 and 2009.

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Top 40 Hollywood Earners of 2010

Vanity Fair magazine has put together a list of the top 40 earners in Hollywood for the year of 2010. James Cameron took first place with a whopping $257 million, which is more than second, third and fourth highest earners took combined.

Click here to see a break-down of how the celebrities made their money, which shows that the each member of "Twilight" took $25 million for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn." Meanwhile it took only $12.5 million to hire Tom Cruise to write, produce and star in "Mission: Impossible 4."

Oren Peli, the man behind the $10,000 "Paranormal Activity," is now a rich man with $26.5 million, most of which came from producing the second installment. And $50 million of Steven Spielberg's $80 million once again came from his very lucrative deal with Universal Studios theme park, which pays him consulting fees and royalties.

And one can only wonder how Nicolas Cage continues having financial difficulties, since he earned $23.5 million last year.

1. James Cameron ($257 million)

2. Johnny Depp ($100 million)

3. Steven Spielberg ($80 million)

4. Christopher Nolan ($71.5 million)

5. Leonardo DiCaprio ($62 million)

6. Tim Burton ($53 million)

7. Adam Sandler ($50 million)

8. Todd Phillips ($34 million)

9. Taylor Lautner ($33.5 million)

10. Robert Downey Jr. ($31.5 million)

11. Will Smith ($29 million)

12. Joe Roth ($28.5 million)

13. Kristen Stewart ($28.5 million)

14. Jerry Bruckheimer ($27.5 million)

15. Robert Pattinson ($27.5 million)

16. Jason Blum and Oren Peli ($26.5 million)

17. Tyler Perry ($25 million)

18. Jennifer Aniston ($24.5 million)

19. Jon Favreau ($24 million)

20. Nicolas Cage ($23.5 million)

21. Angelina Jolie ($23.5 million)

22. Sandra Bullock ($22 million)

23. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard ($21 million)

24. Christopher Meledandri ($21 million)

25. Joel Silver ($21 million)

26. Owen Wilson ($19.5 million)

27. Vince Vaughn ($18.5 million)

28. Daniel Craig ($18 million)

29. Vin Diesel ($18 million)

30. Ben Stiller ($18 million)

31. Steve Carell ($17.5 million)

32. Martin Scorsese ($17 million)

33. Katherine Heigl ($16 million)

34. Shia LaBeouf ($16 million)

35. Tom Cruise ($14.5 million)

36. Reese Witherspoon ($14.5 million)

37. Hugh Jackman ($14 million)

38. Shawn Levy ($14 million)

39. Guy Ritchie ($13.5 million)

40. Eddie Murphy ($13 million)

Source: Vaniry Fair

Chevrolet's "Transformers 3" Super Bowl TV Spot

Paramount Pictures is planning to show a TV spot for their upcoming "Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon." But before that ad plays, Chevrolet will have their own, which will feature Bumblebee. Chevrolet has decided not to wait till February 6th, and has instead unveiled their TV spot online. Watch it below.

"Transformers 3" will deal with the space race between USSR and USA, and will feature Shockwave as the main villain. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Ken Jeong, Tyrese Gibson, and Frances McDormand.

The new movie is once again directed by Michael Bay and will hit 2D and 3D theaters on July 1st.

 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Confirmed for "The Dark Knight Rises"

It was once reported that Christopher Nolan has been looking to bring several of his "Inception" cast members for "The Dark Knight Rises." Tom Hardy is already on board as Bane and there were talks that Joseph Gordon-Levitt would play The Riddler.

Nolan has previously confirmed that The Riddler won't appear in the film, but Deadline has now learned that Gordon-Levitt will still appear in "The Dark Knight Rises." As always, it's not clear what role he will be playing.

The third Batman film also has Anne Hathaway on board to play Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and is set to begin shooting in May for a July 20th, 2012 release.

Source: Deadline

New Trailer - Bridesmaids

Your mind is the scene of the meme

Social media and the creativity of user generated content has forever changed the way we watch movies – take Inception, for example. Christopher Nolan’s latest is a hit with the internet, which has latched on to stills, quotes and even the theme music to make some truly hilarious content.

You had better stop reading if you haven’t seen it yet as there are some spoilers in the pick of the best memes, image mashups and fan videos that we’ve collected below: Oh, and if you haven’t seen Inception, go and see it now – it’s OK, we’ll wait.

The trailer
The trailer was always going to be ripe for remixing – with the pumping score and rememberable quotes. Here’s our pick of the litter:

DORA THE EXPLORER in INCEPTION: Incepción Trailer

Inception Trailer A Capella Re-Dub

Trailer for ‘Toy Story 3: Inception’

Cobb and Fischer
Much like the interrogation scene from The Dark Knight, these stills from the bar conversation have been used far and wide as an image macro or ‘exploitable’ (an image that can be endlessly altered by adding text):

Strutting Leo

Taken on the set of the movie, this infectiously happy Leo DiCaprio has been photoshopped into countless scenes for humerous effect. No matter what happens, he just keeps on strutting:

Infographics Galore

All the dream layers in Inception mean infographics – where information meets design – are not only apt but many are incredibly beautiful. Here’s our favourites, click them to see them full size:

NEW POSTER: Bridesmaids

From the Producers of Superbad and Knocked-Up...

Are you ready for movies about Hula Hoops, Slip-n-slide and Frisbees?

This whole business of making toys into movies is really starting to get out of hand. The Wham-O toy company has just signed a deal with ICM for representation to help in the process of bringing their toy products to the big screen. This is the same toy compnay that brought the world classic toys such as  Frisbee, Hula Hoops, Super Ball, Slip 'N Slide, Hacky Sack, Boogie boards and several others.

THR brings up the fact that Wham-O also developed a ton of interesting toys that never really went anywhere, "such as a do-it-yourself bomb shelter (created during the time when backyard bomb shelters where de rigeur) and the “instant fish” idea that consisted of selling mud with eggs from a unique species of African fish (they wouldn’t mate in America)." I would have loved to play in a do-it-yourself bomb shelter!

It's not surprising that Wham-O would want to try and capitalize on the toys they have developed, after all every other major toy company is doing it right now. I guess they'd be stupid not to try. And I'm sure a good movie or TV series could come from it.

ICM also represents Atari and has made deals at studios to develop films for Asteroids at Universal, Rollercoaster Tycoon with Sony Pictures Animation and Missile Command at 20th Century Fox. It wont be long before we see a Slip 'N Slide movie go into production.

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