Just like last year, here is a list movie releases that I'm looking forward to checking out in 2012. As the year goes on, I'm thinking that more films will be added, but we'll see.
Torrent Freak has released the Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of 2011. Last year, Avatar was #1 with over 16 million downloads. This year, Fast Five leads the pack, but did it get over 16 million downloads? Let's find out...
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - 6 million
9. The King's Speech - 6.2 million
8. Rango - 6.4 million
7. 127 Hours - 6.9 million
6. Sucker Punch - 7.2 million
5. I Am Number Four - 7.6 million
4. Source Code - 7.9 million
3. Thor - 8.3 million
2. The Hangover II - 8.8 million
1. Fast Five - 9.2 million
The only real surprise for me is seeing I Am Number Four in the top 10. I wasn't expecting that at all, but there always seems to be a surprise or two like that on any list.
The nominations for the 69th annual Golden Globes have been announced. The winners will be announced Live on January 15, 2012 at 8pm (EST) on NBC.
Best Motion Picture - Drama The Descendants The Help Hugo The Ides of March Moneyball War Horse
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
George Clooney - The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Ryan Gosling - The Ides of March
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical 50/50 The Artist Bridesmaids Midnight in Paris My Week With Marilyn
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Jodie Foster - Carnage
Charlize Theron - Young Adult
Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
Kate Winslet - Carnage
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Brendan Gleeson - The Guard
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 50/50
Ryan Gosling - Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Owen Wilson - Midnight in Paris
Best Animated Feature Film The Adventures of Tintin Arthur Christmas Cars 2 Puss in Boots Rango
Best Foreign Language Film The Flowers of War (China) In the Land of Blood and Honey (United States) The Kid With a Bike (Belgium) A Separation (Iran) The Skin I Live In (Spain)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks - Drive
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen - A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Best Director - Motion Picture
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
George Clooney - The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, Jim Rash - The Descendants
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon - The Ides of March
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian - Moneyball
Best Original Score - Motion Picture Ludovic Bource - The Artist Abel Korzeniowski - W.E. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Howard Shore - Hugo John Williams - War Horse
Best Original Song - Motion Picture "Hello Hello" - Gnomeo & Juliet "The Keeper" - Machine Gun Preacher
"Lay Your Head Down" - Albert Nobbs
"The Living Proof" - The Help
"Masterpiece" - W.E.
Best Television Series - Drama American Horror Story Boardwalk Empire Boss Game of Thrones Homeland
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Claire Danes - Homeland Mireille Enos - The Killing Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife Madeleine Stowe - Revenge Callie Thorne - Necessary Roughness
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad Kelsey Grammer - Boss
Jeremy Irons - The Borgias
Damian Lewis - Homeland
Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical Enlightened Episodes Glee Modern Family New Girl
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical
Laura Dern - Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel - New Girl
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Laura Linney - The Big C
Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
David Duchovny - Californication
Johnny Galecki - The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane - Hung
Matt LeBlanc - Episodes
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Cinema Verite Downtown Abbey (Masterpiece) The Hour Mildred Pierce Too Big to Fail
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Romola Garai - The Hour
Diane Lane - Cinema Verite
Elizabeth McGovern - Downtown Abbey (Masterpiece)
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult
Kate Winslet - Mildred Pierce
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Bonneville - Downtown Abbey (Masterpiece)
Idris Elba - Luther
William Hurt - Too Big to Fail
Bill Nighy - Page Eight (Masterpiece)
Dominic West - The Hour
Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jessica Lange - American Horror Story
Kelly MacDonald - Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Smith - Downtown Abbey (Masterpiece)
Sofia Vergara - Modern Family
Evan Rachel Wood - Mildred Pierce
Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Peter Dinklage - Game of Thrones
Paul Giamatti - Too Big to Fail
Guy Pearce - Mildred Pierce
Tim Robbins - Cinema Verite
Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family
I've decided to have a Part III of Christmas movie recommendations this year, so here it goes...
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) - Bill Melendez
Charlie Brown searches for the true meaning of Christmas when he sees nothing but commercialism surrounding the holiday.
Home Alone (1990) - Chris Columbus
A young boy must protect his home from burglars after he was accidentally left home alone.
Black Christmas (1974) - Bob Clark
During Christmas break, a sorority house receives disturbing phone calls from a stranger and eventually, he begins to kill the sorority sisters one by one.
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) - George E. Sellier Jr.
A young man, who's parents were killed in front of him when he was a child, is forced to wear a Santa suit which causes him to go on a murderous rampage.
The Polar Express (2004) - Robert Zemeckis
On Christmas Eve, a young boy who has lost the Christmas spirit boards a magical train that's heading to the North Pole hoping he'll believe again.
Get ready for a shark attack to hit the Jersey Shore next year.
The SyFy network and Hybrid Entertainment are bringingJersey Shore Shark Attack to your television screen in the summer of 2012.
The flick will feature a cast that includes Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Joey Fatone (*NSYNC), Jack Scalia (Dallas) and Vinny Guadagnino (Jersey Shore).
Here is the plot of what should be an awesomely bad movie:
"Jersey Shore Shark Attack unfolds during the July Fourth weekend at – where else? — the Jersey Shore, where rare swarms of sharks are converging due to illegal underwater drilling. Now the angry sharks are on a rampage, devouring residents, and leaving it up to the locals to try and save the day. Sirico is Captain Sallie, the wise veteran of boardwalk life and lore. Scalia is Moretti, former Guido beach bum and now police chief. Sorvino portrays the possibly corrupt Mayor and Atherton is the greedy developer Dolan, who wants to tear down the boardwalk to build a luxury resort where the Guidos will not be welcome. Vinny Guadagnino plays the on-scene reporter Conte and Joey Fatone appears as himself."
Here is Part II of my recommendations for what to watch this Christmas.
Christmas Vacation (1989) - Jeremiah S. Chechik
Clark Griswold's plans for the perfect family Christmas goes horribly wrong in hilarious ways.
Die Hard (1988) - John McTiernan
John McClane, a New York detective, is trapped in a L.A. office building with terrorists. He plans to stop them and save the hostages which include his wife.
A Christmas Story (1983) - Bob Clark
Ralphie tries to convince his parents to get him an official Red Rider BB gun for Christmas.
Trading Places (1983) - John Landis
Due to a bet between two millionaires, a successful commodity
broker trades places, not by choice, with a streetwise hustler. The bet is made
to see if a common criminal can be made into a successful businessman and if the
wealthy broker will resort to crime if everything he has become accustomed to
was taken away.
It's December 1st and Christmas will be here before we know it, so just like last year, I'm going to post some suggestions for what to watch this Christmas.
I was going to leave out any movies that I had on my list last year, but that's not going to happen because there are some movies that I feel deserve to be mentioned every year.
Keep an eye out for Part II which will be posted in the next few days or so.
Joyeux Noel (2005) - Christian Carion
During WWI, German, French and Scottish troops called a ceasefire on Christmas Eve to celebrate it...together. A true story.
Love Actually (2003) - Richard Curtis
A movie that follows several different, but intertwining couples or individuals that show the ups, downs, twists and turns of love.
The Ref (1994) - Ted Demme
A cat burglar takes a couple hostage only to find out they're a bickering couple.
Just Friends (2005) - Roger Kumble
A man ends up in his hometown for Christmas where he comes face to face with his best friend and secret crush from high school who rejected him.
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - Kizo Nagashima and Larry Roemer
It's Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, so no description should be needed. It's a classic, in my opinion.
The Hollywood Reporter has chosen the top 20 most outrageous, amusing and/or over-the-top promotional movie posters from this year's American Film Market.
While the majority of the posters are amusing or over-the-top, I found some to be pretty boring.
To everyone who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday! :)
I'll be spending the day with my family where we'll eat some good food thanks to my mom and watch some football (go 49ers!). I'll probably end the day with a movie. I'm thinking about watching Fast Five (2011), but it could change.
Whatever you end up doing that day, have fun and be safe.
To end this post, I give you a video clip from 2008 that features Sarah Palin and the pardon of a turkey. What happens after the pardon is when it gets hilariously awkward because while she's fielding questions from the media, she's completely oblivious to the fact that turkeys are being slaughtered right behind her.
A teaser trailer for the upcoming sequel to Piranha (2010), Piranha 3DD, has been released despite the fact that the movie has been pushed back from its release date.
It was due to hit theaters on November 23rd, but it has been pushed back to an unspecified 2012 date. Before the November 2011 release date, it was originally set to be in theaters during the summer of 2011.
While the uncertain release date for Piranha 3DD is not good news for fans, I have hope that it'll be released in theaters because if it's anything like the original, it'll be a fun movie that doesn't take itself seriously and will be full of gratuitous violence, gore and nudity. If you want to see what I'm talking about, then check out the teaser trailer below!
A new trailer and poster has been released to promote "Titanic 3D" which will be released on April 6, 2012.
Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox have spent $18 million on the 3D conversion and it's safe to say that they will easily make that money back.
When it was first released in 1997, the film ended up winning 14 Academy Awards and was the highest grossing film of all time until "Avatar" (2009) came along.
Thanksgiving is almost upon us, well for those who live in the United States, so here is a small list of movies to watch that take place around the holiday.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) - John Hughes
Neal Page (Steve Martin) really wants to get home in time for Thanksgiving, so he accepts Del's (John Candy) offer to ride with him. It's an offer that Neal soon regrets accepting.
Dutch (1991) - Peter Faiman
Dutch (Ed O'Neill) offers to drive his girlfriend's son home from his prep school so they can spend Thanksgiving together. Not a smart move.
What's Cooking? (2000) - Gurinder Chadha
A film that follows four families as they prepare for Thanksgiving and the family conflicts they must deal with.
Son in Law (1993) - Steve Rash
Rebecca (Carla Gugino) brings her friend Crawl (Pauly Shore) home with her for Thanksgiving and ends up having him pretend to be her fiance after her old boyfriend asks her to marry him.
I know that there are more Thanksgiving movies out there, but to be honest, I can't add them to my list since I haven't seen them. I am planning on checking out Home For the Holidays (1995) and Pieces of April (2003), so they could make the list next year.
Just for fun, here is the fake trailer for Thanksgiving that was directed by Eli Roth for Grindhouse (2007).
A new trailer for "American Reunion" has been released. Check it out below.
"In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little
more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school
reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who
hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship. It was
summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their
virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin
and Vicky said goodbye. Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for
Stifler’s mom. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce
about—and get inspired by—the hormonal teens who launched a comedy legend."
Look for the movie to hit theaters on April 6, 2012.
Peter and Bobby Farrelly have begun the move to developing a sequel to Dumb and Dumber (1994). They are hoping to bring back both Jim Carrey (Lloyd Christmas) and Jeff Daniels (Harry Dunne). The Farrelly brothers will most likely direct the sequel. As for who will be writing the script, Sex Drive (2008) co-writers Sean Anders, he also directed the movie, and John Morris have been hired to do so. The original producers from the movie, Charles B. Wessler, Brad Krevoy and Steve Stabler, are signed on for the sequel.
The original was filmed with a $16 million budget and it was a huge hit grossing over $250 million worldwide.
It's exciting to read that the Farrelly brothers have moved onto the sequel since they've finished with their latest project, The Three Stooges (2012), but I'm not getting my hopes up too much until both Carrey and Daniels sign on for the movie. Only then will I be really excited. There is hope with Carrey joining the project because while he was promoting Mr. Popper's Penguins, he mentioned this little tidbit about the possibility of a sequel, "We're talking about maybe returning to some old characters that everyone has been asking about...There's Bruce Almighty and we're talking about maybe another Dumb and Dumber." So, maybe there is hope that this sequel will work.
Here is the red band trailer for "American Reunion" that is set to be released on April 6, 2012.
The official synopsis has also been released:
"In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship. It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vicky said goodbye. Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for Stifler’s mom. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about—and get inspired by—the hormonal teens who launched a comedy legend."
Check out the teaser trailer below if you haven't already.
About this time last year, I created a post that featured some of my favorite "final girls". With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I'd repost it just like I did with my Top 10 Favorite Jason Voorhees kills.
Final Girl: The final girl is a horror film (particularly slasher film) trope that specifically refers to the last woman or
girl alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story
(wikipedia).
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) from "Halloween"
(1978)
Ginny Field (Amy Steel) from
"Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981)
Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) from
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) from
"Scream" (1996)
Ellen Ripley
(Sigourney Weaver) from "Alien" (1979)
Nancy
Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) from "A Nightmare on Elm Street"
(1984)
Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence)
from "Hellraiser" (1987)
Stretch
(Caroline Williams) from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" (1986)
I know I'm forgetting
several more, but these were the ones that I thought of off the top of my head.
I would add more, but it's getting late and I'm tired. I might make a second
list later, though.
Get ready for a shark attack to hit the Jersey Shore next year.
Peter and Bobby Farrelly have begun the move to developing a sequel to Dumb and Dumber (1994). They are hoping to bring back both Jim Carrey (Lloyd Christmas) and Jeff Daniels (Harry Dunne). The Farrelly brothers will most likely direct the sequel. As for who will be writing the script, Sex Drive (2008) co-writers Sean Anders, he also directed the movie, and John Morris have been hired to do so. The original producers from the movie, Charles B. Wessler, Brad Krevoy and Steve Stabler, are signed on for the sequel.
