News Archive - February 2005

26 February

Oscars Predictions and Wish List
The "winners" of the 25th Razzie Award were announced. List is on the official site.
Oscar nominees can be found at Oscars.com or at IMDB.
You can also see a list of Nominated Films.

Category Oscars Nominees All 2004 Movies
Who will Win? 1 DK's Wish List 2
Picture The Aviator Sideways The Machinist
Director The Aviator Sideways The Incredibles (Animated)
Sideways (Drama/Comedy)
The Machinist (Psychology)
Saw (Thriller)
Actor Jamie Foxx Clint Eastwood Christian Bale
Supporting Actor Morgan Freeman Thomas Haden Church
Actress Hilary Swank Hilary Swank Virginia Madsen
Supporting Actress Cate Blanchett Virginia Madsen
Adapted Screenplay Sideways Sideways Sideways
Original Screenplay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Incredibles The Machinist
Animated Film The Incredibles The Incredibles The Incredibles
Visual Effects Spiderman 2 I, Robot
Music Score Finding Neverland None Van Helsing (Action/Adventure)
The Machinist (Psychology)
Saw (Thriller)
The Incredibles (Animated)
Sideways (Drama/Comedy)
Cinematography The Aviator The Aviator Team America
The Incredibles
The Machinist
Foreign Language The Sea Inside
Song Shrek 2
1 Based on ReadaBet, which compares betting odds from 20 different gambling sites on the internet.
2 DK's wish list is based on 73 movies.

11 February

The Fly SE DVD is on its way!
DVD producer David Prior is the man behind DVDs like Fight Club, Die Hard, both releases of Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes and Blade 2. He is also the man behind the long awaited Special Edition of David Cronenberg's The Fly.

As a regular member at the Home Theater Forum, he was kind enough to gives some updates about the status of The Fly DVD:

David [Cronenberg]'s commentary has been done for a long time. As you'd expect from him, it's terrific. He felt he said everything he needed to say there, so he has (so far, I'm still bugging him) declined an on-camera interview. He's busy making new movies and prefers not to dwell overly on the past. Pretty understandable.

Reassembling the deleted reel from boxes of unmarked negative and without logs or notes has been, shall we say, challenging. The good news is Cronenberg has approved most of it. Not all of it, but the majority of it.

I've been pestering, needling and making a general nuissance of myself at Fox to let me produce this DVD since I started doing this job and now it's in the home stretch. More details will come when Fox is ready, but hopefully this will tide you over till then.

Also:

A quick clarification: The DVD already has the green light -- it has for some time (seems like ages, actually). I know Fox wanted it finished a long time ago, but they deserve a lot of credit for not rushing it and letting me take the extra time.

(Big thanks goes to Greg K)

8 February

DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 2004
The 2004 section of the Best Achievements in Cinema Awards considers almost 60 movies and still gets updated by the day.

I'd love to hear your opinion on the forum - do you agree with my opinion? Do you think otherwise? Did I miss anything? Let your voice be heard.

5 February

Rachel Weisz talks about The Fountain
Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman on the set of The Fountain (2005) Rachel Weisz talked a little bit about Darren Aronofsky's new movie, The Fountain (2005). You can read about it on FilmForce and on Sci Fi Wire.

The production is currently in Canada. Shooting finishes at the end of February, and the movie might get released later this year.

Click on the image on the right to see a large image of Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman on the set of the movie.

DK's Recommendation

My Life without me (2003)

DK's rating: 7.5/10


DK's Recommendation

About Schmidt (2002)


DK's Recommendation

Memento (2000)

DK's rating: 8/10


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Oldboy (2003)

DK's rating: 8/10


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The Machinist (2004)

DK's rating: 9/10


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