Now most of the prestigious end of year lists have made themselves available to the masses, MTV want you to know that, hey, they've got their own list, too - and have ranked The Dark Knight Rises as the best movie of the past year. Though a whole bunch of publications didn't appear have as much love for Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie as, say, Zero Dark Thirty or Lincoln, MTV have gone with the The Dark Knight Rises. Hey, they didn't even include Lincoln (or Django Unchained, for that matter). What? Isn't slavery down with the kids? Not enough CGI for the MTV crowd, we suppose.
Either you're blissfully unaware of Tyler Perry, or you avoid him at all costs. Granted, if none of those options describe you, you're a lover of a director who continually insults the intelligence of his audience and/or movies in which a man dresses up as a woman and is rude about it. And whilst you can find Tyler Perry, Hollywood's highest-paid actor/director/whatever, currently bringing nothing to the latest Alex Cross adaptation, Alex Cross, he's just signed a deal with The Oprah Winfrey Network to bring two new shows to the air next year. Because, yes, it'd be highly un-Perry to create just one show.
Though he's recently signed on to race between the feet of large transforming robots, screaming things in a Boston accent, Mark Wahlberg has also signed on to star in an upcoming movie about hacking, yet to be titled. The movie is loosely based on an article that appeared in GQ called "The Hacker Is Watching", which may or may not end up as the actual title, depending on who's feeling lazy on that particular day.
Presumably spurred on by the world's love for all things Batman - and the fact that it contains a word rather similar to that of "Taken" - Olivier Megaton has signed on to direct Taking Gotham, an action thriller written by Blue Bloods producer Thomas Kelly and a rumored budget of $60 million. Just think about how many grenades you could buy with that amount of cash, Olivier - not to mention innocent bystanders to take the brunt of the damage!
This year - perhaps even more than any other year in history - has contained its fair share of cinematic disappoints, likely because we're all getting way too enthralled with the power of franchises, and because trailers are manipulating our thoughts and expectations in ways that just aren't fair. I mean, what happened to the days of hearing about a movie on a whim and just, you know, checking it out? I'll tell you what happened: those days died a horrible, agonising death, and we're all to blame for it.
Unveiled fresh from Los Angeles this morning with about as much self-importance, as, well the Golden Globes, the 70th Golden Globe nominations are upon us, and the list appears exactly as one might have expected - save for multiple nominations for that Ewan McGregor flick Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, which I thought we'd all agreed to forget about.
Now that his first entry in The Hobbit trilogy officially hits theatres in the UK today (and in the US tomorrow), fans of the New Zealand director might be forgiven for thinking that Peter Jackson has his hands full putting together the remaining chapters, what with that being his job and such. Until next year that is, when Jackson will begin work on his sequel to Steven Spielberg's Tin Tin. Which means that there'll be more motion capture over the next few years than you can shake an Andy Serkis at.
Pixar fans worldwide have their fingers crossed that Monsters University - next year's sequel to the brilliant Monsters Inc. - will mark a return to form for the studio after a genuine tragedy and a middling flick that just didn't have all the usual magic. Set during Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley's (John Goodman) alma mater days, this sequel doubles as Pixar's first prequel, a movie that will hopefully grant the studio a chance to innovate what it means to go back in time and tell a story.
The return of Arrested Development on Netflix is, like, the greatest news ever, news that might only ever be improved through the promise of even more episodes - and we all know how unlikely that would be, because the world isn't that kind, and Netflix aren't that good. Except no, Netflix are that good, and it's actually happening, and maybe we'll get world peace and the polar icecaps will stop melting and...
Not that anybody much cares or respects what actors have to say about this year's films, the Screen Actors Guild insists on getting involved with their own list of nominations, all of which you can read below. And apparently they were hugely enamoured with Silver Linings Playbook, probably because of all the great performances, but also because they could really use a gig working with David O. Russell: he's winning people Oscars these days, right? Despite the fact that Silver Linings has been nominated in almost all of the "good categories", Jennifer Lawrence is bizarrely missing from the Best Actress category, which to us, denotes a whole bunch of jealousy. Now that's not very actor-ish, is it?
