You are here: Home / Archives for david fincher

68th Golden Globe Results

January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The glitz and the glamour was all on show last night as the red carpet was rolled out for the A-listers at the 68th Golden Globe awards.

With some surprising winners (in our opinion) it was the night for David Fincher and The Social Network who picked up the Best Director and Best Drama gongs respectively.

We’re not too sure how Inception was over looked but we won’t sulk too much!

Meanwhile, Trent Reznor’s score earned him a trophy, and Alan Sorkin’s screenplay for the film got him a prize, too.

You could have put your mortgage and life savings on Toy Story 3 winning Best Animated Film…which it rightly did, while The Kids Are All Rightwas announced Best Comedy Or Musical, and its star Annette Bening won the Best Actress.

Most of the pre awards hype surrounded Colin Firth nicking Best Actor which he did for his brilliant performance in The King’s Speech.

And our hero Christian Bale won the Best Supporting Actor award for The Fighter, and on that we reckon he’ll add an Oscar to his trophy cabinet as well.

Natalie Portman’s turn in Black Swan earned her the Best Actress in a motion picture drama award.

The Globes as a general rule are a yard stick as to how the Oscars will pan out, so we’re wondering if Fincher will clean up there as well?

Here’s the fill list of winners…

Best Motion Picture – Drama
The Social Network

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech

Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
The Kids Are All Right

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Natalie Portman – Black Swan

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Paul Giamatti – Barney’s Version

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Glee

Best Director – Motion Picture
David Fincher – The Social Network

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Robert De Niro

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Melissa Leo – The Fighter

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Laura Linney – The Big C

Best Foreign Language Film
In A Better World

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jane Lynch – Glee

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Claire Danes – Temple Grandin

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Al Pacino – You Don’t Know Jack

Best Animated Feature Film
Toy Story 3

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“You Haven’t Seen The Last Of Me” – Burlesque, Music & Lyrics By: Diane Warren

Best Television Series – Drama
Boardwalk Empire (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Chris Colfer – Glee

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale – The Fighter

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Carlos

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama
Katey Sagal – Sons Of Anarchy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right

Read more: Film news The Social Network wins big at 68th Golden Globes | TotalFilm.com




Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: , , , , ,

David Fincher talks up coming projects

January 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Director David Fincher has a lot of new projects coming up and finally he has spoken about a number of them including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rendezvous With Rama and 20,000 Leauges Under the Sea.

Speaking to Collider whilst promoting the DVD release of The Social Network, Fincher has come clean on some of his future projects.

On his currently shooting Stieg Larsson adaptation, Fincher said: “Dragon Tattoo came along and I was like “Awww fuck man you cannot make another serial killer movie… You’ve got to fucking stop this.”"

“[From the studio side] there was a hope that you could do a franchise movie for adults. And I thought “fuck man, I’ve been working my ass off for twenty years, hoping that someone would say something like this.”"

“And I just thought, you get an opportunity to hopefully pave the way for something like that to happen… you know, that would be a great thing.”

Fincher also stated that they had made the decision that “basically everything in the movie is pre-iPhone.”

On his long-gestating adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s expansive sci-fi epic Rendezvous With Rama, Fincher said: “Rendezvous With Rama is a great story that has an amazing role for Morgan Freeman who is an amazing actor and would be amazing in this thing.”

“The question was can we get a script that’s worthy of Morgan and can we get a script that is worthy of Arthur Clarke and can we do all of that in an envelope that will allow the movie to take the kinds of chances that it wants to take.”

“‘Cuz we want to make a movie where kids go out of the theatre and instead of buying an action figure they buy a telescope. That was the hope. The hope is, let’s get people interested in the fucking movie.”

“So there have been people that have been interested in this idea and we have never been able to get a script.”

Fincher didn’t say too much about his adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but he did say: “Yeah, 20,000 Leagues will be 3D.”

When pressed about whether the Jules Verne adap could be his next movie, Fincher replied: “I think that there’s a lot of movies that could be my next film.”

Click below to find more David Fincher films




Filed Under: Featured Tagged With:

Niels Arden Oplev not happy with Dragon Tatoo remake

November 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Remakes, remakes, remkaes. It seems its an easy way to make Hollywood and its studios and money these days, but it seems that it doesn’t always pay off.

This is something that Niels Arden Oplev has revealed he’s extremely sceptical about when he discusses David Fincher’s currently-shooting Hollywood remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Oplev is no doubt annoyed (as our many others I’m sure) that so many great foreign films are being mashed through the remake machine, Oplev first defended his star Noomi Rapace.

“The Sony PR machine is trying to make their Lisbeth Salander the lead Lisbeth Salander,” he says. “That’s highly unfair because Noomi has captured this part and it should always be all her. That’s her legacy in a way I can’t see anyone competing with.”

The director then goes on to add that he’s noticed a little remake-phobia in Hollywood itself…

“Even in Hollywood there seems to be a kind of anger about the remake, like, ‘Why would they remake something when they can just go see the original?’

“Everybody who loves film will go see the original one. It’s like, what do you want to see, the French version of La Femme Nikita or the American one [The Assassin]? You can hope that Fincher does a better job.”

Now, while Oplev makes a valid point, we’re still curious to see what Fincher will come up with for his Dragon Tattoo – even more so after the brilliant Social Network.

Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo opens on 26 December, 2011.

Source: Word & Film

Filed Under: Film News Tagged With: , ,

David Fincher, MRC Near Deal

September 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

David Fincher is negotiating with MRC to produce movies under his own moniker.

The deal isn’t done, but the outline of the arrangement is similar to one M. Night Shyamalan made with the company. The “Sixth Sense” filmmaker is producing a trio of horror-thrillers under the banner “The Night Chronicles.”

Fincher’s deal would include two pictures, though that could change. Their genre isn’t known, but two Shyamalan projects at MRC feature supernatural elements: Horror pic “Devil” opens Friday, and a second MRC production was announced Wednesday, the thriller “Reincarnate.”

Fincher’s MRC films could be similar to such crime-oriented thrillers as “Seven” and “Zodiac,” for which he is known.

The director is prepping the release of “The Social Network,” a drama about the founding of Facebook, a Columbia production generating awards buzz ahead of its Oct. 1 bow. Fincher next returns to darker terrain with Columbia’s adaptation of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Filed Under: Film News Tagged With: ,

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – 2008

March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Even though The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is almost touching the three hour run time, as a viewer you are encapsulated by the extraordinary story, locations and beautiful visual effects.

Director David Fincher more at home to the darker genre, those that have seen Fight Club, Zodiac and Se7en will know exactly what I mean, undertakes a well written script and turns it into something truly exceptional. Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is unlike any normal person, in that he is born an old man and grows younger as others around him grow old.

His life is full of experience all centred around his love for a girl called Daisy (Cate Blanchett), as well as reconnecting with the father who abandoned him all those years ago when he was a baby. The transition from old man to young boy is meticulous in its delivery and does not rush through the motions in an attempt to get to the conclusion.

Both Pitt and Blanchett have a wonderful on screen chemistry together with does a lot to heighten the stories narrative. The visual and make up effects and breath taking, it’s a tear jerker and you’ll be reaching for the Kleenex on occasion. This is one of Fincher’s finest films since Fight Club.

View the trailer

Rating: (4.5/5)

Visit the IMDb page for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

DVD Extras: These are interestingly divided into four trimesters, and retraces the evolution of the film from page to screen.

Blu-ray Extras: The extras like the DVD version are split into four parts: First Trimester talks about the film’s long road to the screen through the many casting choices, production teams, location scouting and technology choices required to create the film they wanted to make.

The Second Trimester covers the actual making of the film, while the Third concentrates on the post production, scoring and visual effects. Finally, Birth covers the film’s release.

Please feel free to comment on this film, I would love to know what you think and I will do my best to respond!

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: , ,
« Older Posts
Newer Posts »