WOAH! The two new posters for Synechdoche, New York and Valkyrie

What an unbelievable poster for Synecdoche, New York. It truly looks amazing!



And on to the Valkyrie poster, which looks, well, COOL! There I said it people! Maybe this movie won't be so bad after all... or maybe the only good thing about this movie is the poster...

The New Changeling Poster

Trailer Round-up!

Finally, the real trailer for W. by Oliver Stone starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks. Based off this trailer, I am highly considering predicting Banks for a Best Supporting Actress nomination!



And here is a better version of the Revolutionary Road trailer, extended and without the Mary Hart narration.



And here is the trailer for Bride Wars starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson. This looks like it can be funny but not funny at the same time...



And here is the new trailer for Waltz With Bashir that is Israel's Official Selection for the Foreign Film race at the Oscars. Waltz With Bashir just won the top prize at the Israel Film Academy Awards (Israel's answer to the Oscars). Sony Pictures Classics will be releasing this film here.



Well this movie could be interesting... Here is the trailer for Notorious. For some reason, I had no idea that there was going to be a movie about this, and meanwhile I keep on thinking that I heard of it. But oh well...



And here is the trailer for Inkhart starring Brendan Frasier and Helen Mirren.



And to end it off, here are two clips from Adam Resurrected starring Jeff Goldblum.

Should we take "Hunger" into major consideration?

After being well recieved at Cannes and Toronto, can this controversial film from artist-turned-first-time-filmmaker, Steve McQueen, come in as a surprise contender in this year's Oscar race? Hunger is about Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. Hunger dramatises the events in the notorious Northern Ireland's Maze prison six weeks prior to Sands's death.



Steve McQueen won the Camera d'Or at Cannes for Best First Feature Film as well as the DIESEL Discovery Award at the Toronto Film Festival.



Michael Fassbender (300) stars as Bobby Sands, and he is one sure to look out for as a dark horse contender. Fassbender can soon be seen alongside Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards.

Just by looking at the trailer, it looks very compelling, and Fassbender looks unbelievable.

Check out the trailer for Hunger:

My Emmys Rundown...

Well I just have to say, ABC knows how to put on a good show! I loved the stage, and I think the show was very successful overall, yes even with the 5 hosts... (even though the opening bit was terrible and annoying...) though I would have much preferred if it was someone like Kathy Griffin...

But this was definetly classic emmy - the shockers and the snubs. Here's one thing that I've noticed about predicting who's gonna win at the Emmys as oppossed to the Oscars. With the Oscars, most of the time (well at least recently), you can get an idea of who will come out as the winner. But not with the emmys... Jean Smart, Zelijko Ivanek, Bryan Cranston, Tim Conway, Dianne Weist, Glynn Turman... It was the night of surprises. But I have to say, I am very happy for Mad Men! I am so glad that they won Best Drama Series! Truly deserved, and I'm glad that they made history by being the first basic cable show to win! But what a night for AMC, Cranston is almighty over Hamm... What a shocker there! I really thought it was between Hamm and Spader... Also, I am very happy for Tina Fey and her 3 deserved emmys! Way to go Tina! And when will Steve Carell ever win an emmy... Please let it be next year... And the biggest crime of the night - Wiest stealing the emmy from Wilson. Wilson's episode was the most heartbreaking performance in my mind of that year. Wilson truly deserved that emmy, and I really hope that she will have another chance! But what a crime! What a damn crime... (que: nods head down in shame...) It would have been nice to see Laura Dern or Ashley Jensen win, but of course they had to choose Eileen Atkins... And though I like Jean Smart on Samantha Who, what a surprise! I really thought Poehler was going to win... I am also very happy for Tom Wilkinson! He was so outstanding in John Adams as Ben Frankin! Truly a great performance to remember for a long time! Well deserved, but I wish he was there! When will Kyra Sedgwick ever win? When? When? When?

And who ever knew Josh Groban had that much range? Doing South Park impressions... lol. That was very very interesting. But the best part of the night was when Rickles and Griffin presented. Two great comedians and just absolutely hilarious! Can they do those American Express commercials too like Tina Fey and Martin Scorsese do? And also Ricky Gervais's bit! "Give me my emmy!" That was great. I couldn't stop cracking up! So funny! Gervais and Carell are great!

And also it was very nice to see such a great tribute to tv history in the past 60 years. They could have done much more, but they made it simple and sweet, but the message lasted throughout the entire show. It was really great seeing Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White, Lily Tomlin, Ed McMahon, Tommy Smothers, and of course Don Rickles... It was very nice.

Well anyways, I think the show was a success! And though I wish some of the winners would have been different, at least overall it was a much better show (cough...last year...cough).

My Emmy Predictions

DRAMA SERIES:

Will & Should Win: Mad Men

DRAMA LEAD ACTOR:

Will Win: James Spader, Boston Legal

Should Win: Jon Hamm, Mad Men

DRAMA LEAD ACTRESS:

Will Win: Glenn Close, Damages

Should Win: Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Will Win: William Shatner, Boston Legal

Should Win: Ted Danson, Damages

DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Will & Should Win: Chandra Wilson, Grey's Anatomy

DRAMA DIRECTING:

Will & Should Win: Alan Taylor, Mad Men ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes")

DRAMA WRITING:

Will & Should Win: Matthew Weiner & Robin Veith, Mad Men ("The Wheel")

COMEDY SERIES:

Will & Should Win: 30 Rock

COMEDY LEAD ACTOR:

Will Win: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Should Win: Steve Carell, The Office

COMEDY LEAD ACTRESS:

Will & Should Win: Tina Fey, 30 Rock

COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Will Win: Rainn Wilson, The Office

Should Win: Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother

COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Will & Should Win: Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live

COMEDY DIRECTING:
Will & Should Win: Barry Sonnenfeld, Pushing Daisies ("Pie-Lette")

Honorable Mention: Paul Feig, The Office ("Goodbye, Toby")

COMEDY WRITING:

Will & Should Win: Bryan Fuller, Pushing Daisies ("Pie-Lette")

Honorable Mention: Jack Burditt, 30 Rock ("Rosemary's Baby")

TV MOVIE:

Will & Should Win: Recount

TV MINISERIES:

Will & Should Win: John Adams

MOVIE/MINISERIES LEAD ACTOR:

Will & Should Win: Paul Giamatti, John Adams

MOVIE/MINISERIES LEAD ACTRESS:

Will Win: Laura Linney, John Adams

Should Win: Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun

MOVIE/MINISERIES SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Will & Should Win: Tom Wilkinson, John Adams

MOVIE/MINISERIES SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Will Win: Laura Dern, Recount

Should Win: Ashley Jensen, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale

MOVIE/MINISERIES DIRECTING:

Will Win: Tom Hooper, John Adams

Should Win: Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale

MOVIE/MINISERIES WRITING:

Will Win: Kirk Ellis, John Adams

Should Win: Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale

VARIETY SERIES:

Will Win: Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Should Win: Colbert Report

VARIETY SPECIAL:

Will Win: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Should Win: Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell

VARIETY PERFORMANCE:

Will Win: Don Rickles, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Should Win: Stephen Colbert, Colbert Report; Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live

VARIETY DIRECTING:

Will & Should Win: Louis J. Horvitz, 80th Annual Academy Awards

VARIETY WRITING:

Will Win: Late Show with David Letterman

Should Win: Colbert Report

REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM:

Will Win: The Amazing Race

Should Win: American Idol

REALITY HOST:

Will Win: Ryan Seacrest, American Idol

Should Win: Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars

"Honest to blog..."

First of all, I don't care what all of you haters have to say, Diablo Cody is awesome! I thought she wrote a very funny screenplay for Juno, and I'm glad she won the Oscar, and based on reading her blog on Myspace and her column in Entertainment Weekly and seeing interviews with her, she seems like a really awesome person!

But her latest post has been hitting the web the past couple of days, and well, let Diablo speak for herself:

A while back, there was a thoughtful article in the above-mentioned publication about Ellen Page and myself. The article was mostly about how passionately some people hate me. As I explained to my therapist the following day (ha) it's kind of weird to read something like that about yourself. On one hand, you feel defensive. On the other hand, you feel puzzled. You feel compelled to identify what it is about you that might inspire such vitriol. (I personally suspect the hate isn't that widespread; it's just loud.)

I thought about it. For months. I even wrote a screenplay on the theme. And then, finally, I figured it out.

I have a response to those who are still boring enough to lob insults in my direction. (Those of you who are friends, fans, enablers, or dislike my writing for legitimate, rational, nonpersonal reasons can tune out now if you like. This isn't for you.)

Anyone else? Bend thine ear:

I am not Charlie Kaufman or Sofia Coppola (much as I supplicate at their Cannes-weary feet.) I'm not Paul Thomas Anderson. I'm not even Paul W.S. Anderson. I am middle-class trash from the Midwest. I'm a competent nonfiction writer, an admittedly green screenwriter, and a product of Hollywood, USA. I am "Diablo Cody" and if you're not a fan, go rent Prospero's Books again and leave me the fuck alone.

I may have won 19 awards that you don't feel I earned, but it's neither original nor relevant to slag on Juno. Really. And you're not some bold, singular voice of dissent, You are exactly like everyone else in your zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod. You are even like me. (I, too, loved Arrested Development! Aren't we a pretty pair of cultural mavericks? Hey, let's go bitch about how Black Kids are overrated!)

I'm sorry that while you were shooting your failed opus at Tisch, I was jamming toxic silicon toys up my ass for money. I get why you're bitter. I took exactly one film class in college and-- with the curious exception of the Douglas Sirk unit—it bored the shit out of me. I also once got busted for loudly crinkling a bag of Jujubes during a classroom screening of Vivre Sa Vie. I don't deserve to be here. We've established that. But I'm here. Five million 12-year-olds think I'm Buck Henry. Accept it.

(Incidentally, if you were me for one day you'd crumble like fucking Stilton. I am better at this than you. You're not strong enough, Film_Fan78. Trust me.)

I'm sorry to all those violent, semi-literate fanboys who hate me for befriending their heroes. I can't help it if your favorite writer, actor, director, or talk show host likes me. Maybe you would too, if we actually met.

I know my name is fake and that it annoys you. What, do you hate Queen Latifah and Rip Torn, too? Writers and entertainers have been using pseudonyms for years. Chances are, you're spewing bile under an assumed screen name yourself. I'm sorry if you think I'm like some inked-up quasi-Suicide Girl derby cunt from 2002, but I like my fake name. It's engraved on an Oscar. Yours isn't.

Listen: I've been telling stories my whole life. Even when I was a phone sex operator, I was the Mark Twain of extemporaneous jerk-off fiction. I took every perspiring creep on a fucking journey. I don't know how to do anything else.

I'm going to make more movies and shows. I doubt they'll all be good, but that's the nature of this life. Even though the public only knows me from one book, one movie, and several aborted blogs, I've spent the last few years hustling like Iceberg Slim out here to prove myself professionally. The people I currently work for, and with, are more than pleased with my post-Juno output. My pilot was so good (thanks, Toni Colette!) that it got picked up for series. That is rare, children. That is blue-rare.

In summation: you try it.

This is the last I have to say on the subject, unless I'm provoked by a journalist in which case I'll gladly reload. With relish, as Betty Rizzo might say. That said, I'm a 30-year-old woman with a dwindling interest in blog culture, and I don't have time to address this bullshit every time one of my projects comes out. I'm in love, I just bought a house, and my boss made E.T. I kind of have to focus on reality.

And drinking. I have to focus on drinking.

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Diablo Cody = Awesomeness! You tell 'em Diablo! I wish you good luck in all of your future projects, especially The United States of Tara.

Will Miley Cyrus be playing Carrie Bradshaw? No joke!

Cyrus Tipped For Teenage Sex Role

20 September 2008 7:02 AM, PDT

Sex + The City author Candace Bushnell wants teen sensation Miley Cyrus to play the young Carrie Bradshaw if her prequel novels are turned into movies of TV shows.

Bushnell has just signed a deal to pen two teen novels about her character Bradshaw's high school years and she'd love for Cyrus to take the lead in a TV or film spin-off.

When asked to name her new Carrie - a part Sarah Jessica Parker has played on the big and small screen - Bushnell said, "I don't know... What about Miley Cyrus?"

And it appears Cyrus is game - in a recent interview she said, "I'd love to do a younger, cleaner version of Sex + The City."

What do you guys think about this? Could "Hannah Montana" be a good Carrie Bradshaw?

Why do I love Kathy Griffin so much?

"Now, a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Milan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is suck it, Jesus, this award is my god now!" -- Kathy Griffin

Why do I love Kathy Griffin so much? How can anyone not love Kathy Griffin? She is so awesome! I am very happy that she won last week for her awesome reality show, Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List, which is like the only reality show that I watch, but she still has one more catagory to go... She has been nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special for Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell, which is just absolutely hilarious, and this time she may have a chance to give one of her famous speeches at the REAL Emmys, and not the "Schmemmys" as she likes to call the Creative Arts Emmys...

And if you have not been able to see Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell, like me a little over an hour ago, well you're in luck, because it's on Youtube! Gotta love the power of youtube!

Is this what Aaron Sorkin's Facebook: The Movie is going to be like?

Facebook in Reality! Is this what Aaron Sorkin's movie is going to be like?

Somehow I stumbled upon this hilarious skit from some British comedy show called The Wall that's on the BBC. And even though the new facebook is bugging the hell out of me, this skit is so funny, and so true too!

Check it out:

Stephen Colbert Really Wants An Emmy...

"Academy, what game are you playing with these nominations? Every year you give my Emmy to a different beloved entertainment legend with an enlarged prostate... I believe that's what Emmy's holding up!"

And after realizing that his competition is Don Rickles, since he has lost in the past to legends Barry Manilow and Tony Bennett, he shows a few clips from his HBO special for which he is nominated, and he shows the clips in which he makes fun of some of the audience members. So, Stephen Colbert thinks that if making fun of people will get him an emmy, why not trashtalk the Emmy president, John Shaffner, and see if he will FINALLY win that way...

The best joke ever: "Speaking of which, Shaffner, when you have sex, I hear your wife start playing the wrap-it-up music after 30 seconds... Hadcjah..."

Is anyone else excited for this weekend?

First of all, sorry I haven't been able to post in the past few days, I've been really busy. But I'm here now!

But anyways, I was reading EW today and I saw this awesome advertisement for the Emmys:

I think it will be a good night for the Emmys. I've noticed that the Emmys tend to be at it's best when it is on ABC, and NBC... Think about it. Last year it was on FOX, it sucked, and when it is was on CBS, it was alright, but when it has been on ABC and NBC it has always been great... So even with five hosts on Sunday night, the overall theme to "celebrate television" over the past 60 years, I have high expectations for it... It should be exciting! And I will post my predictions very soon!

-And also I thought I would bring up W. If you look on youtube, Oliver Stone has a new contest where you can create your own "mashup" for W., and if you win, you get a prize... But there are snipet-clips up on the page, so if you want to check that out, go to: http://www.youtube.com/WtheFilm.

And speaking about W., here is a new cast photo from Vanity Fair: