It’s the weekend of the Oscars, but here are some awards that are very close to my heart, the Empire Magazine awards. Am the proud owner of a Best British Film award in 2005 for ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ and a Best Comedy award in 2008 for ‘Hot Fuzz’.
Now I am delighted to have learned that the lovely Empire readers have put ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs The World’ up for three awards, including Best Film and Best Director. Which is really quite awesome.
Even better, I just discovered that I’ve apparently made my first Sci Fi / Fantasy film. This is a very welcome development.
If you feel so inclined, please click below.
Lots of love,
Edgar (Age 36)
The first round of voting for the 2011 Jameson Empire Awards is now complete. We’ve sifted through the virtual sacks of entries and assembled the shortlist of finalists who will be waiting with baited breath on the night itself. It’s not over yet, though. With the gold in sight there’s still time to cast your vote and see your pick of the year’s films and filmmakers lauded on Awards night. Let the final round of voting commence! Voting ends 9th March.
Scott Pilgrim is nominated for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Best Director and Best Film.
Voting is now open and you can find out how here.
Thanks to the readers of JoBlo for giving us ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs The World’ four Golden Schmoes. Including my second Best Comedy win as ‘Shaun’ won back in 2004.
But the ‘Trippiest Film’ award eluded me, which can only mean one thing. My next film is going to have to be seriously cracked out.
The other two big winners this year were Edgar Wright’s SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD, which won 4 different categories including one of my favorite awards for “Most Underrated Movie of the Year”, as well as “Best Comedy”, “Best Music” and “Biggest Surprise”.
The awards were announced over on JoBlo.com here – for all the results check out The Golden Schmoes site here.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World | Awards & Nominations Round-Up List
- Winner, Audience Award – Lund International Fantastic Film Festival 2010
- Voted one of the top 10 films of 2010 – New York Online Critics
- Voted one of the top 10 films of 2010 – Austin Film Critics Association
- Winner, Best Original Song “We Are Sex Bob-Omb” – Houston Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay – San Diego Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Editing – San Diego Critics 2010
- Winner, Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) – Satellite Awards 2010
- Winner, Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) / Michael Cera – Satellite Awards 2010
- Nominated Best Screenplay (Adapted) – Satellite Awards 2010
- Nominated Best Art Direction & Production Design – Satellite Awards 2010
- Nominated Best Director – Detroit Film Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Ensemble – Detroit Film Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Runner Up, Best Visual Effects – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Winner, Best Comedy – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Runner Up, Moving The Medium Forward – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Runner Up, Best Artistic/Creative Film – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- One of the Top Ten Films of the Year – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Song – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Costume – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Art Direction – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Visual Effects – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Finalist for Best Film – Indiana Film Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay – Online Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Editing – Online Film Critics Society 2010
- No. 1 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool News
- No. 3 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – HitFix
- No. 6 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – Collider
- No. 6 on Top Twenty Films of the Year 2010 – Empire Online
- One of the Best Popcorn Movies of 2010 – Seattle Times
- Short Listed for Best Visual Effects – Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences Awards 2011
- Nominated Best Editing in a Comedy or Musical – 61st Annual American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards 2011
- Nominated for Outstanding Film – Wide Release – GLAAD Media Awards 2011
- Winner Best Film Director Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim Vs The World – SFX Awards 2011
- Nominated in 11 Categories in JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010 http://www.goldenschmoes.com/
- Winner Most Underrated Movie of the Year – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Winner Best Comedy – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Winner Biggest Surprise – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Winner Best Music – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Nominated Best Comedy Director – The Comedy Awards from Comedy Central and MTV
- Nominated for The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation – SFWA 2010 Nebula Awards
- Nominated Best Fantasy Film – 37th Annual Saturn Award Nominations 2011
- No. 3 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – The Film Stage
- >Nominated in 3 Categories in the 2011 Jameson Empire Awards
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game
- Best Adapted Video Game – Spike TV’s 2010 Video Game Awards
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I am not sure if the real Sex Bob-Omb could tour live.
Michael Cera is a dab hand with indie supergroup ‘Mister Heavenly’ of course and Alison Pill is pretty shit hot on the sticks.
But anyone watching the behind the scenes knows that Mark Webber (much like his character) would break out in cold sweats when playing guitar. And is all the more adorable for his stage fright.
So in lieu of a real Sex Bob-Omb touring, there’s fine fellows like this to pay raucous tribute.
1-2-3-4!
Originally posted to zerosuperhero‘s YouTube account here.
Sex Bob-Omb live show at Dana Auditorium on the campus of Guilford College, Greensboro, NC for the opening of What The Hell? Con 2011. Songs taken from the the works of Bryan Lee O’Malley and the motion picture by Edgar Wright. The song “Fangirls” is written and performed by David Howard.
Here are some details on some ‘Scott Pilgrim’ events going on this weekend and next week in Japan.
I can’t wait to go to Tokyo next week. My last trip with ‘Hot Fuzz’ was a blast, but this time it feels particularly special.
Both myself and Bryan Lee O’Malley were influenced by Japanese comics, films and music in the creation of the books and later the film.
Many will already know the influence of Mario, The Legend Of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Streetfighter and countless others in the books. And the influence of anime too, be it Akira, FLCL, Beck and Gatchaman. Not to mention the musical references to Guitar Wolf, a poster of which is on the wall in the opening scene.
Not only that the film features music from Keigo Oyamada (aka Cornelius) and stars Keita & Shota Saito as Evil Ex’s #5 & #6.
So, we will be excited to finally present ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs The League Of Evil Exes’ to Japanese audiences.
See you next week, Tokyo.
来週、東京に来る！
Japanese Premiere!
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
When: Feb 26th.
Shota Saito will attend.
Special Preview Screening
Location: Cinema Rise Theater in Shibuya, Tokyo
Date: March 2nd, 2011
Time: 9:30pm.
Buy Now: Tickets PIA ticketing center online (http://t.pia.jp/cinema/cinema.html) from Feb 24th.
Edgar Wright and Michael Cera will attend.
『スコット・ピルグリム VS. ザ・ワールド（原題）』
カナダ在住のブライアン・リー・オマーリーの人気コミックを映画化。ＴＶゲーム世代の主人公をリアリティに描く妄想と主観が入り混じるゲーム感覚の青春ドラマ。監督のエドガー・ライトが原作の面白さをさらに独創的な映像表現を加えて見事に創り上げた野心作。
監督 = Director
のエドガー・ライト = Edgar Wright
Thanks to Astaire, Universal, Rintaro Watanabe, Phil Knall and everyone else involved in making this trip and some cool events happen. Is going to be fun.
Further Events
Below you’ll find updates and last minute additions.
Tabela in Shibuya
Edgar will be present at the event held on March 3rd 2011 at 19:00 – Tabela, a world food restaurant run by Film distributor and event company Uplink.
Event cost 2000 Yen cover charge which ncludes 2 drinks.
For further information be sire to visit the venues site here.
… and a certain someone’s birthday.
I attended the American Cinema Editors awards on Saturday night, accompanying my ‘Scott Pilgrim’ editors, Jon Amos & Paul Machliss who were nominated for Best Feature Editing / Musical or Comedy.
They didn’t win, but it was still a great night. Especially since Jon & Paul were nominated for their first ever feature credit.
Also it was a nice ‘Spaced’ reunion of sorts, as Chris Dickens, my editor on ‘Spaced’, ‘Shaun’ & ‘Hot Fuzz’ and Academy Award winner for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was also present.
Chris and I worked with Paul on ‘Spaced’ (he was online editor on the first series and edited four episodes of the second.) Chris also introduced me to Jon Amos, his former assistant, who did some additional editing on action scenes in ‘Hot Fuzz’. So it was great for the four of us to all be together again.
Michael Kahn
Then we were shown a montage of Michael Kahn’s credits. It was possibly the most epic, daunting and yet inspiring body of work I’ve seen at any awards show, technical or otherwise.
Later, Kirk Baxter (who won the feature editing prize for ‘The Social Network’) commented that the montage was like his ‘life flashing before his eyes’. I have to agree.
Quite aside from all his amazing work with Spielberg, the number of other mega hits on this reel is incredible; pretty much all the Amblin movies from ‘Poltergeist’ to ‘Arachnophobia’, not to mention the monster smash that was ‘Fatal Attraction’.
When this montage played, the ‘Close Encounters’ clips drew the first round of applause. I may have even started the applause as that film deeply effect me every time I see it.
And I am pretty sure I also said ‘Oh wow’ when ‘Poltergeist’ appeared.
The other amazing fact is that Michael Kahn until very, very recently has cut everything he’s done on film and is one of the very last major editors to join the non-linear revolution. George Lucas apparently said that “Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Moviola than anybody can cut on an Avid.”
That’s probably very true, because on this evidence, he’s edited every film since the late 70′s.
Enjoy the reel that played on Saturday night.
Tribute to Michael Kahn, A.C.E. from Carsten Kurpanek on Vimeo.
So what’s missing?
Well apart from ‘E.T.’ which I believe is the only Spielberg film since ‘CE3K’ that he didn’t edit (he was busy on ‘Poltergeist’ which was shot around the same time), there’s a number of cult classics like ‘Used Cars’ that didn’t appear. As well as some B movie faves that Kahn cut before collaborating with Spielberg. I would have loved to see a clip of ‘The Devil’s Rain’, ‘Truck Turner’ , ‘Black Belt Jones’ or ‘Trouble Man’ thrown in there too.
But that’s just me. What a reel, eh?
Check out Michael Kahn’s full credits right here.
Tribute reel for editor legend Michael Kahn, A.C.E who received a lifetime achievement award from the American Cinema Editors Feb 19th at the 2011 A.C.E. Eddies Awards.
Reel edited by Carsten Kurpanek & Rosanne Colello
Bonus
Uploaded by TheHotButton at YouTube.
Michael Kahn celebrates his 75th birthday with three new films coming out this year coming out of his cutting room. Associated with Steven Spielberg since the started working together on Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1976, Kahn has taken home 3 Oscars and a parade of other awards an nominations. He & Spielberg are known as the last converts to digital editing and just this last year Kahn gave up his Moviola for an Avid as Spielberg directed his first digital movie, The Adventures of Tintin. Kahn is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Cinema Editors this year.
That’s right. ‘Scott Pilgrim’ is finally coming to Japan. As are myself and Michael Cera who are flying out to Tokyo next week to promote.
Hoping to see our Japanese colleagues on the movie while we are there; master Keigo Oyamada of Cornelius fame and the twins brothers Shota & Keita Saito who play the Katayanagis.
My last trip to Tokyo promoting ‘Hot Fuzz’ with Simon Pegg was extremely memorable, so I can’t wait to come out again. Japanese press trips are the best.
Here is the Japanese poster and alternate title too; Behold ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs The League of Evil Exes.’
And check below for the literal translation of the Japanese text on the poster. That, my friends, is one hell of a tagline. Sold.
すぐに来る!
The trailer for new game Dead Island caused an internet sensation this week and talk of a movie adaptation.
But according to Douglby the movie version already exists.
Behold his ‘Shaun Of The Dead Island’. And beware backward spoilers!
Although if you haven’t seen ‘Shaun Of The Dead’, what brings you to my site? Go watch it now!
Perhaps a future collectors edition of ‘Shaun’ could include a full backwards version…
Last year I judged this competition for Empire Magazine and this year one of my films gets the one minute treatment. With one of my colleagues too!
So enjoy this ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Done In 60 Seconds video that’s a finalist for this years Empire Awards. If you dig it, please head on over to Empire Online and Vote Now!
Seriously, please vote. Simon Pegg needs more exposure.
‘Who is Jean?’s entry for the Jameson/Empire Done in 60 Seconds 2011 Competition. Featuring Simon Pegg!
Find us on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Who-is-Jean/108568125849711
And Twitter @whoisjean, http://www.twitter.com/whoisjean
Confession. I did do this banana gag for the Houston Critics Society awards. But it wasn’t a green banana that time and didn’t explain what the acronym SFX stands for.
Some SFX Awards winners couldn’t make it on the night, but they did send along some recorded thank yous… including Edgar Wright!
See more winner videos from the SFX Awards Videos here.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World | Awards & Nominations Round-Up List
- Winner, Audience Award – Lund International Fantastic Film Festival 2010
- Voted one of the top 10 films of 2010 – New York Online Critics
- Voted one of the top 10 films of 2010 – Austin Film Critics Association
- Winner, Best Original Song “We Are Sex Bob-Omb” – Houston Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay – San Diego Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Editing – San Diego Critics 2010
- Winner, Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) – Satellite Awards 2010
- Winner, Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) / Michael Cera – Satellite Awards 2010
- Nominated Best Screenplay (Adapted) – Satellite Awards 2010
- Nominated Best Art Direction & Production Design – Satellite Awards 2010
- Nominated Best Director – Detroit Film Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Ensemble – Detroit Film Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Runner Up, Best Visual Effects – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Winner, Best Comedy – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Runner Up, Moving The Medium Forward – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- Runner Up, Best Artistic/Creative Film – St. Louis Film Critics 2010
- One of the Top Ten Films of the Year – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Song – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Costume – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Art Direction – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Visual Effects – Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2010
- Finalist for Best Film – Indiana Film Critics 2010
- Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay – Online Film Critics Society 2010
- Nominated Best Editing – Online Film Critics Society 2010
- No. 1 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool News
- No. 3 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – HitFix
- No. 6 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – Collider
- No. 6 on Top Twenty Films of the Year 2010 – Empire Online
- One of the Best Popcorn Movies of 2010 – Seattle Times
- Short Listed for Best Visual Effects – Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences Awards 2011
- Nominated Best Editing in a Comedy or Musical – 61st Annual American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards 2011
- Nominated for Outstanding Film – Wide Release – GLAAD Media Awards 2011
- Winner Best Film Director Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim Vs The World – SFX Awards 2011
- Nominated in 11 Categories in JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010 http://www.goldenschmoes.com/
- Winner Most Underrated Movie of the Year – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Winner Best Comedy – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Winner Biggest Surprise – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Winner Best Music – JoeBlo.com’s The Golden Schmoes 2010
- Nominated Best Comedy Director – The Comedy Awards from Comedy Central and MTV
- Nominated for The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation – SFWA 2010 Nebula Awards
- Nominated Best Fantasy Film – 37th Annual Saturn Award Nominations 2011
- No. 3 on Top Ten Films of the Year 2010 – The Film Stage
- >Nominated in 3 Categories in the 2011 Jameson Empire Awards
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game
- Best Adapted Video Game – Spike TV’s 2010 Video Game Awards
Got this comment from Jeff Smith, the creator of a slap happy cinematic montage; ‘Glove, Actually’.
I had seen and loved his work online a couple of weeks ago and was very pleased to see ‘Shaun’ and ‘Pilgrim’ in such esteemed company. The two slaps from ‘Pilgrim’ are favourites for me as Michael Cera slapping Mark Webber in the face makes me laugh every time.
And to be included in a montage that features Sean Connery slapping Margaret Nolan’s bum is a great honour indeed.
Here’s the comment from Jeff, the clip and my name drop heavy reply.
Jeff Smith http://mobetterblogging.blogspot.com
4 hours agoI recently finished this mashup of cinema’s greatest slaps, and you’ll be pleased to see that “Shaun of the Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim” made the cut – check it out for some slap-happy madness. Enjoy!
From Edgar Wright
1 hour agoOkay. Get this. And apologies for the name drop.
But I had seen your montage before and was very pleased that Shaun and Pilgrim made it in there.
Then I saw Sam Raimi at a genuine Hollywood party and for some reason our conversation turned to cinematic slaps and vocal slap sound effects. True.
I asked him if he’d seen your montage ‘Glove, Actually’ as it featured ‘Army Of Darkness’. He had not.
I sent it to him that night and he loved it.
So there you go.
CLANG. Told you it was some namedrop. And at a Hollywood party no less!
P.S. Jeff Smith just sent me the list of all the films featured.
Glove, Actually – the films revealed!
Due to the blink-and-you-might-miss-it nature of many clips in Glove, Actually – An Ode to Cinema’s Greatest Slaps (and in case anyone is actually interested in the context behind these slaps), I thought it only fair to post the full list of movies used in the tribute and put to rest burning questions such as, “Who is that guy???” (2:33 and 5:39). Well, correction – I’m not going to say who, but since you have the title, now you can watch and find out for yourself! So, as promised, here is the list of clips in its entirety, in the order they appear in the montage:
PRE-OPENING CREDIT CLIPS
—————1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
2. Humoresque (1946)
3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
4. Monster-in-Law (2005)
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
6. Baby Boy (2001)
7. The Great Lie (1941)
8. A Bronx Tale (1993)
9. RocknRolla (2008)
10. Scrooged (1988)
11. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)POST-OPENING CREDIT CLIPS – 3:00
—————12. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
14. The Orphanage (2007)
15. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
16. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
17. Queen Bee (1955)
18. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
19. Waterworld (1995)
20. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
21. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
22. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
23. The Deer Hunter (1978)
24. Father Goose (1964)
25. Coffy (1973)
26. Donnie Brasco (1997)
27. Goodfellas (1990)
28. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
29. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
30. American Beauty (1999)
31. Drunken Master (1978)
32. Army of Darkness (1992)
33. Pretty Woman (1990)
34. Possessed (1947)
35. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
36. The Lion King (1994)
37. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
38. Hero Never Dies (1998)
39. City of God (2002)
40. Le Doulos (1962)
41. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
42. Mean Streets (1973)
43. The Mistress of Spices (2005)
44. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
45. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
46. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
47. 25th Hour (2002)
48. The Lion King (1994)
49. The Birds (1963)
50. There Will Be Blood (2007)
51. Sin City (2005)
52. Drunken Master (1978)
53. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
54. Summer of Sam (1999)
55. Police Story (1985)
56. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The Movie – Endless Waltz (2000)
57. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
58. City of God (2002)
59. A Bronx Tale (1993)
60. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
61. A Prophet (2009)
62. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
63. Humoresque (1946)
64. Chasing Amy (1997)
65. The Exorcist (1973)
66. Léon (1994)
67. Ratatouille (2007)
68. Titanic (1997)
69. Mommie Dearest (1981)
70. The Deer Hunter (1978)
71. Monster-in-Law (2005)
72. Waterworld (1995)
73. Exiled (2006)
74. Donnie Brasco (1997)
75. Casino (1995)
76. Cruising (1980)
77. Analyze This (1999)
78. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
79. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
80. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
81. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
82. Toy Story (1995)
83. Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
84. GoldenEye (1995)
85. Drunken Master (1978)
86. Father Goose (1964)
87. In the Heat of the Night (1967)3:00 – 5:00
—————88. Friday After Next (2002)
89. Gangs of New York (2002)
90. Monster-in-Law (2005)
91. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
92. Batman Begins (2005)
93. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
94. Analyze This (1999)
95. Key Largo (1948)
96. RocknRolla (2008)
97. City of God (2002)
98. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
99. Blazing Saddles (1974)
100. RocknRolla (2008)
101. Donnie Brasco (1997)
102. RocknRolla (2008)
103. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
104. Groundhog Day (1993)
105. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
106. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
107. American Gangster (2007)
108. Les Misérables (1998)
109. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
110. Scrooged (1988)
111. The Great Lie (1941)
112. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
113. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
114. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
115. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
116. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
117. You Only Live Twice (1967)
118. Jaws (1975)
119. There Will Be Blood (2007)
120. Moonstruck (1987)
121. Friday After Next (2002)
122. Empire of the Sun (1987)
123. Monster-in-Law (2005)
124. Notorious (2009)
125. A Bronx Tale (1993)
126. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
127. Airplane! (1980)
128. The Deer Hunter (1978)
129. Airplane! (1980)
130. Rashomon (1950)
131. Airplane! (1980)
132. Mean Streets (1973)
133. Goldfinger (1964)
134. Drunken Master (1978)
135. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
136. There Will Be Blood (2007)
137. Friday After Next (2002)
138. Bad Guy (2001)
139. The Deer Hunter (1978)
140. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
141. Click (2006)
142. Le Doulos (1962)
143. There Will Be Blood (2007)
144. Raging Bull (1980)
145. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
146. National Security (2003)5:00 – ENDING CREDIT
—————147. The Great Lie (1941)
148. The Abyss (1989)
149. The Notebook (2004)
150. Groundhog Day (1993)
151. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
152. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
153. La Haine (1995)
154. The Graduate (1967)
155. Raging Bull (1980)
156. Mean Streets (1973)
157. The Big Sleep (1946)
158. Cruising (1980)
159. The Lion King (1994)
160. Chinatown (1974)
161. There Will Be Blood (2007)
162. Contempt (1963)
163. Raging Bull (1980)
164. American Beauty (1999)
165. Pay It Forward (2000)
166. Mildred Pierce (1945)
167. Ratatouille (2007)
168. The Deer Hunter (1978)
169. Rope (1948)
170. Sleeper (1973)
171. Cruel Intentions (1999)
172. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
173. Baby Boy (2001)
174. The Deer Hunter (1978)
175. Friday After Next (2002)
176. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
177. Jungle Fever (1991)
178. Liar Liar (1997)
179. Goodfellas (1990)
180. Mommie Dearest (1981)
181. The Mist (2007)
182. Bad Guy (2001)
183. Father Goose (1964)
184. Mermaids (1990)
185. The Notebook (2004)
186. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
187. Donnie Brasco (1997)
188. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
189. The Hot Chick (2002)
190. Exiled (2006)
191. Chinese Box (1997)
192. The Deer Hunter (1978)
193. The Deer Hunter (1978)
194. The Deer Hunter (1978)
195. The Deer Hunter (1978)
196. The Deer Hunter (1978)
197. The Golden Compass (2007)
198. Mildred Pierce (1945)
199. Closer (2004)
200. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
201. Moonstruck (1987)
202. Possessed (1947)Originally posted at http://mobetterblogging.blogspot.com/2011/01/glove-actually-films-revealed.html
You like Scott Pilgrim? You like zombies?
Well thank Matcnew for…
Original art by Matcnew and originally posted here as part of Deviant Art and Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim – Create the 8th Evil Ex Contest.
Matcnew’s note follows;
Well, here’s my entry to the Scott Pilgrim Eight Evil Ex Contest. Cutting it kind of close!
Man, this was hard work. Like 50+ hours over two weeks. I almost didn’t think I was going to get it done in time! Especially once school started back up. In case you’re wondering, if printed this is about 20 pages long, almost a full length comic book.
Even if I don’t win, it was an interesting personal challenge seeing if I was capable of making such a long comic in such a short amount of time.
… Though I’d still like to win, ha.
If there are any spelling errors, please don’t tell me. It would be a pretty big pain trying to fix it at this point.
Let me know if any of you have trouble loading the image. It’s kind of a big file, so I’m not sure how well this is going to go.
One more thing, I’d like to thank Joss Whedon. I watched a lot of Buffy and Angel while working on this. A LOT.
Here’s a story from last weeks Wells Journal that while very true, misses out a vital and crucial fact!
As you may or may not know, the beautiful countryside of Wells, Somerset in the West of England is where I grew up.
I was contacted before Christmas by my parents saying that Jason Bryant, the photographer from the Wells Journal had saved the ‘S’ from the Somerfield supermarket sign and would like me to autograph it to give to charity.
The Wells branch of Somerfield was heavily featured as a location in ‘Hot Fuzz’. It has since changed hands and become a Co-Op superstore. One can only imagine that Simon Skinner would not be pleased.
So I agreed to the charity proposal, but when I was sent the ‘S’ to sign, I had a change of heart. I wanted to keep it all for myself.
The ‘S’ meant something to me. You could say it had sentimental value. So I opted to buy it myself and donate what someone would have bid to a charity, Somerset Film and the Engine Room who nurtures Somerset’s emerging film-making talents.
But the following story misses out a vital part of my long history with Somerfield!
Read on and then I will fill in the missing piece of the saga!
Somerset director Edgar gets his bid in early for Hot Fuzz film sign
Originally posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at ThisIsSomerset.co.uk
It was the film that confirmed Simon Pegg’s place in Hollywood, and became one the most-loved comedies of the 21st century.
But Hot Fuzz, the tale of a London policeman who moves to a West Country town, would have been nothing without the beautiful city of Wells providing the backdrop to the laughs.
And now, the film’s director Edgar Wright, who started his career as a projectionist at Wells’ now closed Regal Cinema, has bought an unlikely piece of the film’s cinematic history.
Central to Hot Fuzz was Wells’ Somerfield supermarket – a regular venue in the film and the site of the legendary shoot-out scene.
But the supermarket has recently been rebranded as a Co-operative store, after Somerfield was bought out. The Somerfield sign was torn down, and was to be auctioned to raise money for a local charity for young film makers.
Which is when Mr Wright, now an in-demand Hollywood filmmaker, stepped in and snapped up the ‘S’ for £500.
It took a while to contact him – he is currently working on the script of the new Tintin movie for Stephen Spielberg, which is being shot in New Zealand – but when he heard the letters were being sold off, he declared that he wanted the letter S.
He found out about the auction when our sister newspaper the Wells Journal, contacted him about the sale.
“It means more to me than it could ever do to any movie geek,” he said. The sign was presented to him on a recent homecoming by his parents, who still live locally.
The Somerfield store was run by the villainous Simon Skinner in the film, played by Timothy Dalton. When Co-operative shop-fitters went to work, they agreed not to put the sign in a skip, and saved the unique piece of movie memorabilia. It was originally intended to sell the sign on eBay until Mr Wright’s bid. The money will go to Somerset Film at the Engine Room in Bridgwater, which nurtures Somerset’s emerging film-making talents.
The charity’s Phil Shepherd said: “We are delighted by this generous gesture from a great Somerset talent.” The rest of the salvaged sign will be auctioned on eBay with a £20 reserve from February 20.
Originally posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at ThisIsSomerset.co.ukA nice piece, but what it fails to mention is that my relationship with Somerfield predates ‘Hot Fuzz’ by nearly twenty years.
For I worked at the store as a shelf stacker from 1989 right up until early 1994.
It was my Saturday job at first and I then went on to work there in school holidays too. Indeed I worked there when it was still called ‘Gateway’ and rocked a deeply unsexy grey uniform when I did so.*
(*This was deeply embarrassing as a 15 year old as many girls from school would walk through the store on the way to the high street. It was impossible to look cool wearing a Gateway or Somerfield uniform.)
Not only that, my 1993 cop movie ‘Dead Right’ (which can be found on the ‘Hot Fuzz’ Blu Ray / DVD) also had a climax that took place in the store; the same location that we would shoot 13 years later in Hot Fuzz.
‘Dead Right’ featured my old boss Mike Stockwell, who is sadly no longer with us and even sadder died before ‘Hot Fuzz’ was released. I would have loved to have known what he made of the movie. He was a big support to me when I was a teenage film-maker and would frequently let me take time off to shoot scenes for my amateur films. He also let me shoot ‘Dead Right’ in the store, sometimes when it was still open. Mike, or Mr. Stockwell as I called him, can be seen in ‘Dead Right’ clip above as the supermarket manager shouting ‘You’re fired!’
I stopped working at Somerfield around the Easter holidays in 1994. By the summer I had somehow lucked into making my first no-budget feature film ‘A Fistful Of Fingers’. I then left to move to London in September and edit the movie.
I’d never forgotten working in the store and indeed elements of it crop up in ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ with Noel (Rafe Spall) becoming a trolley pushing zombie in the final moments. I had collected shopping trolleys as part of my duties there.
I had fun times while working at the store and met some friend who I still occasionally see or e-mail with.
I also have fond memories of twirling my price gun on my hand like Murphy in ‘Robocop’. If someone could find me a Somerfield price gun too, I would be most happy.
Somewhere I still have my Somerfield nametag with ‘Edgar’ written on it.
So I hope now you can see why the store sign had a resonance for me beyond just ‘Hot Fuzz’.
Also worth pointing out about the story above, I don’t think it was difficult to contact me because of writing on ‘Tintin’. My work on that ended in the summer of 2008 and the film is currently in post production.
I hope that the other letters of the sign will be auctioned off to the same charity in Somerset and I am very happy to sign those if that would end up raising more money.
Somerfield on Wells High Street, you will be missed. By me and many others.
I am glad I got to make two films within your sliding doors.
I have been sent all these videos via Twitter in the last seven days.
They are very much appreciated and warm the cockles of my heart.
Great work all. These are exactly like the movies I made when I was a youngling.
Keep sending ‘em in.
Have A Coke Day
From jonathandanefilm.
Toastman!
From Qwert2378.
Scott Pilgrim Intro Remake – Boston Accents
This is a video shot for my Single Cam class. It is a remake of the first scene of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with the characters having Boston accents.
Scott Pilgrim Intro Remake – Boston Accents from Brian Berg on Vimeo.
Nerds Doing IT
Nerds doing what they do
by STuFF FiLMS written by Jonathan “Gonzo” Galvez directed by Paul Chresomales starring Joya Mia Italiano and Jared Miller Produced by STuFF FiLM.
To make your Valentines Day extra happy, check out this expertly edited montage of warm & fuzzy TV / Film moments. It kicks off with ‘Scott Pilgrim’ and ends with ‘Spaced’, so I am very flattered by that.
Along the way are great clips of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Curb Your Enthusisam, Star Wars and some nifty crosscutting between Tim & Dawn with Jim & Dawn.
Another amazing cut is between Marty McFly and both Jennifers from the BTFF trilogy.
Good job, the man know only as Big Al (6’6) from Canada. He sent it to me earlier. Hats off to you sir!
And Happy Valentines to all.
I’d like to thank Russell Brand for giving myself and my brother Oscar full credit for inventing the aeroplane on the red carpet for the Grammys last night.
Thanks Russell.
(Shout out is at 1.15)
Frequently Asked Questions
Q) Did you direct ‘Paul’?
A) No I did not. Greg Mottola directed it. And did a fantastic job.
Q) Did you write ‘Paul’?
A) No I did not. Simon Pegg & Nick Frost wrote it together. And it is a top notch effort.
Q) Is it part of the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy?
A) It does not feature a single mention of Walls Ice Cream or Cornettos, so no, it is not.
Q) Have you seen ‘Paul’?
A) Yes I have and it is one whole bundle of fun.
Q) When do you recommend I see ‘Paul’?
A) I recommend everyone in the UK and Ireland go see it today. It’s Simon Pegg’s birthday and you should celebrate by seeing ‘Paul’ tout suite.
Q) Will I get a discount if I mention that Edgar Wright told me to see it.
A) No you will not. But if you try, I want you to make note of the nonplussed response and leave it in the comments section.
So in summary.
Go. See. Paul.
That’s an order!
My congratulations to my old muckers Simon Pegg & Nick Frost, as well as Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio, John Carroll Lynch, David Koechner, Sigourney Weaver & Seth Rogen
And much love to Greg Mottola, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Chris Dickens, David Arnold, Julian Slater, Mike Solinger, all the gang at De Lane Lea and course the ever wonderful Nira Park!
