Whatever challenges Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu faced while directing "The Revenant" on location in wintry Canada and Tierra del Fuego, he always felt good about the film he was making, and with reason — the film leads the Oscar field with 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Supporting Actor Tom Hardy. In the month since the nominations, "The Revenant" has built steady momentum toward an eventual Best Picture win. For the first time in DGA history, Iñárritu won the DGA directing Award for the second time in a row, and also nabbed BAFTA awards for Picture and Director that had eluded "Birdman" last year, when the Brits went for Richard Linklater and "Boyhood." If "The Revenant" wins Best Picture, it will make Oscar history as the first time a director has won two years in a row. If Iñárritu takes...
- 2/18/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Whatever challenges Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu faced while directing "The Revenant" on location in wintry Canada and Tierra del Fuego, he always felt good about the film he was making, and with good reason—the film led the field with 12 Oscar nominations Thursday, including Best Picture, Best Director Iñárritu, Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Supporting Actor Tom Hardy. He starts building a dream of a movie in his head, puts his departments and cast together and painstakingly plans the production, which in this case, would have completely fallen apart without a very specific road map based on extensive rehearsals and intricately executed camera moves in an hour-and-a-half of natural light per day. This was tough on the actors, who had to find their characters while moving in perfect sync with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki's pre-choreographed cameras. The...
- 1/14/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and his cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki (who also collaborates with Terrence Malick and Alfonso Cuaron) had practice creating extended long shots on "Birdman," but this frontier actioner marks another order of magnitude in terms of epic scale and budget ($135 million). Shot on harsh wintry locations in Alberta and Tierra del Fuego, the virtually all-exterior revenge adventure could have completely fallen apart without a very specific road map based on extensive rehearsals and intricately executed camera moves in an hour-and-a-half of natural light per day. This was tough on the actors, who had to find their characters while moving in perfect sync with Lubezki's pre-choreographed new Alexa cameras. Very Malick with minimal dialogue and dreamy voiceovers, "The Revenant" demanded that bearded Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hardy as 19th-century fur trappers hunted by Native Americans...
- 12/21/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
A travel vlogger has completed his journey from the Arctic Circle to the world’s southernmost city, and along the way, he didn’t spend a cent--at least not in the physical sense. Steve Booker teamed up with PayPal for a worldwide journey, and during his travels, he was required to manage all his expenses through the online payment service.
Booker, who posts videos of his daily life and his travels on his YouTube channel, began his most recent journey on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. From there, he slowly made his way south, hitting cities like Moscow, Barcelona, and Cape Town on the route to Ushuaia, an Argentine locale found at the tip of Tierra del Fuego. For all the activities on his trip--he visited a Back to the Future installation, rented a bike, and took a gyrocopter ride, to name a few--he paid with PayPal,...
Booker, who posts videos of his daily life and his travels on his YouTube channel, began his most recent journey on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. From there, he slowly made his way south, hitting cities like Moscow, Barcelona, and Cape Town on the route to Ushuaia, an Argentine locale found at the tip of Tierra del Fuego. For all the activities on his trip--he visited a Back to the Future installation, rented a bike, and took a gyrocopter ride, to name a few--he paid with PayPal,...
- 11/3/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Alejandro G. Inarritu's upcoming wilderness survival drama "The Revenant" is already famous for its grueling production. Shot in sequence during only a brief period of the day when the film's all natural lighting was suitable, the shoot was pulled off in remote portions of Canada along with some additional shooting in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego region.
The resulting film, which was originally going to be a $60 million production shot over five months, ultimately became a $135 million filmed over ten months, a shoot so difficult that many crew members either quit or were fired. So it's not that surprising that the film's secondary male lead, Tom Hardy, got into some friendly tussling with the film's director to keep spirits up. He tells EW:
"When things get a bit too serious, I go, 'Why don't we have a cuddle in front of all these people here?' It ends with both of...
The resulting film, which was originally going to be a $60 million production shot over five months, ultimately became a $135 million filmed over ten months, a shoot so difficult that many crew members either quit or were fired. So it's not that surprising that the film's secondary male lead, Tom Hardy, got into some friendly tussling with the film's director to keep spirits up. He tells EW:
"When things get a bit too serious, I go, 'Why don't we have a cuddle in front of all these people here?' It ends with both of...
- 11/1/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The first trailer for The Revenant arrived last week and managed to impress most that saw it as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's follow-up to last year's Best Picture-winner Birdman has been hotly anticipated from the moment it was announced. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, the story centers on explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) as he's brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald (Hardy), turning the film not only into a tale of survival, but also revenge and redemption. Tom Hardy in The RevenantPhoto: 20th Century Fox The film, which began shooting in October 2014 in Calgary, overshot its production schedule, which is why Hardy had to drop out of Suicide Squad. Then sudden heat melted the snow in Alberta and the production was put...
- 7/21/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
We've heard about the ambitious plans that Alejandro Inarritu enacted to make his revenge drama "The Revenant". Hoping to shoot entirely in sequence in remote locations in Calgary with only natural light, the weather didn't co-operate and led to delays and production issues. Filming began nearly a year ago, had a break, and will finally finish up its last bit of shooting this month with a week-long stint on the other side of the world - Tierra del Fuego.
Even so, the first trailer was released the other day to a rousing reception for its stunning cinematography and nearly wordless conveyance of story. The latter isn't just a feature of the trailer though as actor Leonardo DiCaprio recently revealed to Grantland that the film is almost dialogue free and that he portrays a kind of American rarely seen in cinema:
"It was a different type of challenge for me because...
Even so, the first trailer was released the other day to a rousing reception for its stunning cinematography and nearly wordless conveyance of story. The latter isn't just a feature of the trailer though as actor Leonardo DiCaprio recently revealed to Grantland that the film is almost dialogue free and that he portrays a kind of American rarely seen in cinema:
"It was a different type of challenge for me because...
- 7/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Patricio Guzmán's The Pearl Button has the distinction of winning this year’s Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear prize for Best Script — as a documentary. A fall limited release is in the works for the follow-up to Guzmán’s Nostalgia For The Light. It uses water as a metaphor for the history of crimes against humanity in Chile: Aerial shots of Tierra del Fuego are juxtaposed with an investigation of state crimes by Chile's military junta and rare interviews with the last…...
- 3/26/2015
- Deadline
Dear Adam,
What does it say that we've both put off discussing the new Werner Herzog film? I must admit my profound disappointment at Herzog's first fictional feature film since his two-shot salvo of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son, My Son, What Have You Done? in 2009 and certainly his most expansive drama for decades. With a cast of James Franco, Robert Pattison, and Damian Lewis led by Nicole Kidman, Queen of the Desert adapts the true saga of Gertrude Bell, an utterly unique woman who at the turn of the last century plunged into the deserts of the Middle East by herself and become better acquainted and more influential among its myriad tribes and factions than anyone else before and probably since.
Yet for a director so adept at discovering, eliciting and pursuing a kind of inspired mania and adventurousness in his fellow man,...
What does it say that we've both put off discussing the new Werner Herzog film? I must admit my profound disappointment at Herzog's first fictional feature film since his two-shot salvo of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son, My Son, What Have You Done? in 2009 and certainly his most expansive drama for decades. With a cast of James Franco, Robert Pattison, and Damian Lewis led by Nicole Kidman, Queen of the Desert adapts the true saga of Gertrude Bell, an utterly unique woman who at the turn of the last century plunged into the deserts of the Middle East by herself and become better acquainted and more influential among its myriad tribes and factions than anyone else before and probably since.
Yet for a director so adept at discovering, eliciting and pursuing a kind of inspired mania and adventurousness in his fellow man,...
- 2/12/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
The screenwriter of the moment is Adam Karp! Why is he the screenwriting world’s It Boy? Because it’ll be his words that will fuel two new shows coming to the CW and CBS. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on these two pilots. Karp is writing a script for CW’s “Unnatural Selection,” a show based on Charles Darwin voyage to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone on the Hms Beagle, a ship under the command of Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy. The script will feature a 21-year-old Charles Darwin and Capt. Fitzroy (retconned as his childhood friend) as they journey deep into the Amazon to take the woman they both love [ Read More ]
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- 10/17/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
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