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When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
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Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
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It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
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Canadian horror movie ‘Splice,’ starring Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody, has been named the highest-grossing Canadian film of 2010.
Director Vincenzo Natali and co-writer Doug Taylor were awarded with the Golden Box Office Award this morning at a Toronto genetics lab, presented by Telefilm Canada. The two men each received a cheque for $20,000.
In the film, Polley and Brody play scientists who create a horrific human-animal hybrid that goes goes psycho.
The film grossed $2.1 million in domestic box office sales and $26.9 million worldwide.
“Making movies is much like making a monster, you don’t know what terror you’ve wrought until it has escaped from the lab,” Natali said in a statement.
“The fact that ‘Splice’ was a box office success in its native country is another testament to Telefilm’s foresight and their faith in Canadian filmmakers to produce popular entertainment. Without their support this strange but beautiful creature could never have come to life.”
Last year, the award was handed to the director and writers of ‘Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day.’ That film grossed $2.9 million in Canada in 2009.
Wow, I had no idea this film grossed that much. I thought it was just another run-of-the-mill horror film, but apparently not – congrats to the filmmakers for giving Canadians a good name.
Sarah Polley has joined the Canadian film and television community in the fight against the passage of Bill C10.
Polley held a parliamentary news conference on the issue today, saying if passed, the bill would send a “chill” down the spines of Canada’s already fragile film industry, thestar.com reports.
Bill C-10 is the proposed amendment to the income tax act which would see films deemed not fitting with national policy denied funding. Executives in the film and television industry fear this would put a stop on numerous Canadian television shows and films.
Polley is expected to testify to a parliamentary committee on the matter today.
It’s safe to say that Sarah Polley had a magical night at the Genie Awards on Monday.
Polley won for best director and best adapted screenplay for her film, “Away From Her.” The film also received best picture, and its stars, Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent and Kristen Thomson, won best actress, best actor and best supporting actress.
Polley, the one-time “Road to Avonlea” star, said that “The ridiculousness of me winning in this category is not lost on me,” as she accepted the award.
David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises” also won a slew of awards, though mostly for technical achievement.
Here’s a complete list of the winners:
Best picture: Away From Her.
Actor: Gordon Pinsent, Away From Her.
Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her.
Supporting actor: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Eastern Promises.
Supporting actress: Kristen Thomson, Away From Her.
Director: Sarah Polley, Away From Her.
Original screenplay: Steven Knight, Eastern Promises.
Adapted screenplay: Sarah Polley, Away From Her.
Editing: Ronald Sanders, Eastern Promises.
Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky, Eastern Promises.
Art direction/production design: Rob Gray, James Willcock, Fido.
Costume design: Carlo Poggioli, Kazuko Kurosawa, Silk.
Original score: Howard Shore, Eastern Promises.
Original song: Valanga Khoza, David Hirschfelder, Kawa (From Shake Hands With the Devil).
Overall sound: Stuart Wilson, Christian Cooke, Orest Sushko, Mark Zsifkovits, Eastern Promises.
Sound editing: Wayne Griffin, Robert Bertola, Tony Currie, Andy Malcolm, Michael O’Farrell, Eastern Promises.
Documentary: Radiant City.
Live action short: Après Tout.
Animated short: Madame Tutli-Putli.
“Away From Her” is up for an impressive seven Genies at the March 3rd gala show — but its director Sarah Polley is already guaranteed an honour.
Polley will receive the 2008 Claude Jutra Award for her debut feature about a couple, played by Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent, dealing with the wife’s onset of Alzheimer’s.
The Claude Jutra Award, created in 1993 in honour of the late Quebec director, is presented annually at the Genie Awards to the year’s best feature film by a first-time film director.
“Away From Her” is also nominated for the Genie’s top prize, Best Motion Picture. Only two films, “Le Confessional” and “Atanarjuat,” have previously won both the Jutra prize and the Best Picture Genie in the same year.
“Away From Her” is also up for best adapted screenplay at this Sunday’s Academy Awards. The film is based on the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Canadian author Alice Munro.
Christie, who has already won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actor’s Guild award, is nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
How many award nominations can Ellen Page and Sarah Polley accumulate over one season? Apparently, quite a lot!
The Canadian actresses continued their sweep with the Genie Award nominations, announced yesterday.
This time it was Page’s performance in “The Tracy Fragments” that had garnered acclaim for the 20-year-old. Not only will she be competing for best lead actress against Julie Christie, who took home the SAG award over the weekend, but she is also up against Molly Parker. Page credits Parker with inspiring her love of acting, after working together on the Canadian Independent film “Marion Bridge.”
The nod for Christie is good news for Polley, as she directed Christie in “Away From Her.” Polley herself was nominated for Achievement in Direction and Adapted Screenplay.
Here’s a complete list of all the nominees.
BEST MOTION PICTURE
L’AGE DES TENEBRES / DAYS OF DARKNESS – Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
AWAY FROM HER – Daniel Iron, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
CONTINENTAL, UN FILM SANS FUSIL / CONTINENTAL, A FILM WITHOUT GUNS – Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
EASTERN PROMISES – Robert Lantos, Paul Webster
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL – Laszlo Barna, Michael Donovan
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION
DENYS ARCAND – L’Age des tenebres / Days of Darkness
SARAH POLLEY – Away From Her
DAVID CRONENBERG – Eastern Promises
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE – Shake Hands With the Devil
BRUCE MCDONALD – The Tracey Fragments
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
ROY DUPUIS – Shake Hands With the Devil
MARC LABRÈCHE – L’Age des tenebres / Days of Darkness
CLAUDE LEGAULT – Les 3 P’tits Cochons / The 3 Little Pigs
VIGGO MORTENSEN – Eastern Promises
GORDON PINSENT – Away From Her
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
ANNE-MARIE CADIEUX – Toi / You
JULIE CHRISTIE – Away From Her
ELLEN PAGE – The Tracey Fragments
MOLLY PARKER – Who Loves the Sun
BÉATRICE PICARD – Ma tante Aline / My Aunt Aline
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MARIE-GINETTE GUAY – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns
VÉRONIQUE LE FLAGUAIS – Surviving My Mother / Comment survivre à sa mère
LAURENCE LEBOEUF – Ma fille mon ange
FANNY MALLETTE – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns
KRISTEN THOMPSON – Away From Her
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
DANNY GLOVER – Poor Boy’s Game
GUILLAUME LEMAY-THIVIERGE – Les 3 P’tits Cochons / The 3 Little Pigs
ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL – Eastern Promises
MICHEL ANGE NZOJIBWAMI – Shake Hands With the Devil
GILBERT SICOTTE – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
PIERRE LAMOTHE, CLAUDE LALONDE – Les 3 P’tits Cochons / The 3 Little Pigs
DENYS ARCAND – L’Âge des ténèbres / Days of Darkness
MARC-ANDRÉ LAVOIE, SIMON OLIVIER FECTEAU, DAVID GAUTHIER – Bluff
STEVE KNIGHT – Eastern Promises
DOUGLAS COUPLAND – Everything’s Gone Green
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
SARAH POLLEY – Away From Her
MICHAEL DONOVAN – Shake Hands With the Devil
MAUREEN MEDVED – The Tracey Fragments
BEST DOCUMENTARY
PANACHE / ANTLERS – André-Line Beauparlant, Danielle Leblanc
RADIANT CITY – Gary Burns, Jim Brown, Bonnie Thompson, Shirley Vercruysse
SHARKWATER – Robert Stewart
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA
APRES TOUT – Alexis Fortier Gauthier, Élaine Hébert
FAIRE CHALUIM MHIC LEÒID / THE WAKE OF CALUM MACLEOD – Marc Almon, Nona MacDermid
REGARDING SARAH – Michelle Porter, Amy Belling
SCREENING – Anthony Green, Philip Svoboda
THE TRAGIC STORY OF NLING – Jeffrey St. Jules, Larissa Giroux
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
HERE AND THERE – Diane Obomsawin, Marc Bertrand
JEU – Georges Schwizgebel, Michele Belanger, Marcel Jean
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI – Maciek Szczerbowski, Chris Lavis, Marcy Page
ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
JEAN-FRANCOIS BERGERON – Les 3 P’tits Cochons / The 3 Little Pigs
SUSAN MAGGI – Poor Boy’s Game
JEREMIAH MUNCE, GARETH C. SCALES – The Tracey Fragments
RONALD SANDERS – Eastern Promises
DAVID WHARNSBY – Away From Her
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC – ORIGINAL SCORE
DAVID HIRSCHFELDER – Shake Hands With the Devil
STEVE LONDON – That Beautiful Somewhere
DON MACDONALD – FIDO
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO – Silk
HOWARD SHORE – Eastern Promises
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC – ORIGINAL SONG
ALAN DOYLE – Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With – Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With
VALANGA KHOZA, DAVID HIRSCHFELDER – Shake Hands With the Devil – Kaya
BYRON WONG, LUKE NICHOLSON – Poor Boy’s Game – Breathe
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
ANDRE LINE BEAUPARLANT – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns
LINDSEY HERMER-BELL, JUSTIN S.B. CRAIG – Shake Hands With the Devil
ROB GRAY, JAMES WILLCOCK – FIDO
FRANCOIS SEGUIN – Silk
CAROL SPIER – Eastern Promises
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
DOLLY AHLUWALLIA – Partition
DENISE CRONENBERG – Eastern Promises
CARLO POGGIOLI, KAZUKO KUROSAWA – Silk
MARY E. MCLEOD – FIDO
JOYCE SCHURE – Shake Hands With the Devil
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
MIROSLAW BASZAK – Shake Hands With the Devil
BRUCE CHUN – Nitro
ALAIN DOSTIE – Silk
VIC SARIN – Partition
PETER SUSCHITZKY – Eastern Promises
ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND
CLAUDE LA HAYE, OLIVIER CALVERT, HANS PETER STROBL, BERNARD GARIÉPY STROBL – Silk
ERIC FITZ, JO CARON, GAVIN FERNANDES, BENOÎT LEDUC – Shake Hands With the Devil
JOHN J. THOMSON, STEPHAN CARRIER, MARTIN LEE – Citizen Duane
JOHN HAZEN, MATT CHAN, BRAD DAWE – The Tracey Fragments
STUART WILSON, CHRISTIAN COOKE, OREST SUSHKO, MARK ZSIFKOVITS – Eastern Promises
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
MARTIN PINSONNAULT, PIERRE-JULES AUDET, MICHELLE CLOUTIER, SIMON MEILLEUR, LOUIS MOLINAS – Nitro
WAYNE GRIFFIN, ROBERT BERTOLA, TONY CURRIE, ANDY MALCOLM, MICHAEL O’FARRELL – Eastern Promises
MARIE-CLAUDE GAGNÉ, DIANE BOUCHER, GUY FRANCOEUR, CLAIRE POCHON, JEAN-PHILIPPE SAVARD – Roméo et Juliette
MARCEL POTHIER, GUY FRANCOEUR, ANTOINE MORIN, GUY PELLETIER, FRANÇOIS SENNEVILLE – Shake Hands With the Devil
STEVEN MUNRO, JOHN SIEVERT, DAVID DRAINIE TAYLOR – The Tracey Fragments
Despite being nominated twice in the same category, Michael Cera – along with his Canadian counterparts – lost at the 13th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards last night.
Cera was nominated in the Best Young Actor category for both his roles in “Superbad” and “Juno.” But it was Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada (The Kite Runner) who picked up that trophy.
The Broadcast Film Critics Association also chose Julie Christie’s performance in “Away From Her” over Ellen Page’s “Juno.” That’s good news for fellow Canadian Sarah Polley, however, as she directed and adapted the screenplay for “Away From Her.”
Page and Cera didn’t go home completely unhappy, however. “Juno” was named Best Comedy Movie and screenwriter Diablo Cody won in the Best Writer category for the script – her first ever. The hip soundtrack to the film is out in stores today.
Ryan Gosling also lost the Best Actor award to Daniel Day-Lewis.
Director Yves Simoneau was the only Canadian who didn’t go home empty-handed. His TV movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” won in the Best Picture Made for Television category.
Here is the complete list of nominees and winners:
Best Picture
American Gangster
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
George Clooney – Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch – Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises
Best Actress
Amy Adams – Enchanted
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie – Away From Her
Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page – Juno
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There
Catherine Keener – Into the Wild
Vanessa Redgrave – Atonement
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton
Best Acting Ensemble
Hairspray
Juno
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
Gone Baby Gone
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Best Director
Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Sidney Lumet – Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Sean Penn – Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright – Atonement
Best Writer
Diablo Cody – Juno
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
Nancy Oliver – Lars and the Real Girl
Sean Penn – Into the Wild
Aaron Sorkin – Charlie Wilson’s War
Best Animated Feature
Bee Movie
Beowulf
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie
Best Young Actor
Michael Cera – Juno
Michael Cera – Superbad
Freddie Highmore – August Rush
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada – The Kite Runner
Edward Sanders – Sweeney Todd
Best Young Actress
Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray
Dakota Blue Richards – The Golden Compass
AnnaSophia Robb – Bridge to Terabithia
Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
Best Comedy Movie
Dan in Real Life
Hairspray
Juno
Knocked Up
Superbad
Best Family Film
August Rush
Enchanted
The Golden Compass
Hairspray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Best Picture Made for Television
The Company
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Tin Man
The War
Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
Best Song
“Come So Far”, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley – Hairspray
“Do You Feel Me”, Anthony Hamilton – American Gangster
“Falling Slowly”, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Once
“Guaranteed”, Eddie Vedder – Into the Wild
“That’s How You Know”, Amy Adams – Enchanted
Best Composer
Marco Beltrami – 3:10 to Yuma
Alexandre Desplat – Lust, Caution
Clint Eastwood – Grace Is Gone
Jonny Greenwood – There Will Be Blood
Dario Marianelli – Atonement
Alan Menken – Enchanted
Best Documentary
Darfur Now
In the Shadow of the Moon
The King of Kong
No End In Sight
Sharkwater
Sicko
Receiver of the Joel Siegel Award: Don Cheadle
Sarah Polley was the big winner at the 2007 Directors Guild of Canada Awards on Saturday. Not only was Polley herself named best director, but her film Away From Her won best picture.
Keeping it in the family, Polley’s husband, David Wharnsby, took home the award for best picture editing.
Other big winners include:
Documentary: “Sharkwater”
Comedy Television Series: “Corner Gas”
Family Television Series: “Instant Star”
Direction, Television Movie/Miniseries: “Above and Beyond.”
Production Design – Feature Film: “Fido.”
Sarah Polley took top honours at the Directors Guild of Canada awards Saturday, as her feature directing debut “Away from Her” was named top feature film. Polley herself was named top director.
Polley’s husband, David Wharnsby, also won for best feature editing for the film.
‘Away from Her’ is based on a short story by Canadian novelist Alice Munro. Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent play a couple dealing with Alzheimer’s.
In the TV movie or miniseries categories, ‘Dragon Boys’ won for best TV movie or miniseries, and Sturla Gunnarsson won best director for ‘Above and Beyond.’
For TV series, ‘Slings and Arrows’ won for top drama and ‘Corner Gas’ won for top comedy. Stephen Surjik took best TV series director for ‘Intelligence,’ episode 311, ‘Not a Nice Boy.’
On the family side of things, ‘Me and Luke’ won for best family TV movie or miniseries, and best family TV series went to ‘Instant Star.’
Rob Stewart’s ‘Sharkwater’ won for best documentary.
The lifetime achievement award was given to director-producer-writer Paul Almond, while veteran producer Marilyn Stonehouse was honoured with the Don Haldane Distinguished Service Award.
The fifth annual awards show was held in Toronto.
