A pregnant teenager flees life with her drug-addicted mother and ends up living on the street before being welcomed into her first real home in this gripping first trailer for Gimme Shelter, an extraordinary tale of survival and redemption inspired by actual events. Starring Vanessa Hudgens, the film will be in theaters January 24, 2014.
For 16-year-old Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens), life has been a constant struggle to overcome the harsh reality of a subsistence existence with her abusive mother, June (Rosario Dawson), and June’s string of lowlife boyfriends. When she finds herself pregnant and alone, Apple temporarily takes shelter with her biological father, Tom (Brendan Fraser), a wealthy Wall Streeter living in a New Jersey mansion with his wife Joanna (Stephanie Szostak) and two young children. But Apple’s inability to adjust to her new circumstances, and her refusal to terminate her pregnancy, soon force her back onto the streets.
For 16-year-old Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens), life has been a constant struggle to overcome the harsh reality of a subsistence existence with her abusive mother, June (Rosario Dawson), and June’s string of lowlife boyfriends. When she finds herself pregnant and alone, Apple temporarily takes shelter with her biological father, Tom (Brendan Fraser), a wealthy Wall Streeter living in a New Jersey mansion with his wife Joanna (Stephanie Szostak) and two young children. But Apple’s inability to adjust to her new circumstances, and her refusal to terminate her pregnancy, soon force her back onto the streets.
- 11/26/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Nine," the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, led the Satellite Award scoring 11 nominations including Best Picture in the Comedy or Musical category.
Rob Marshall also received a Best Director nomination, and stars Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, and Daniel Day-Lewis received Best Acting nods, and the cast got Best Ensemble.
John Woo's "Red Cliff" followed with seven nominations.
Roger Corman is the 2009 Recipient of the Auteur Award while master cinematographer and eight-time Oscar nominee, Roger Deakins, is the 2009 Recipient of the Nikola Tesla Award.
The 2009 14th Annual Satellite Awards are given by the International Press Academy. Winners will be announced on Sunday, December 20th, at the Grand Salon/Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
Visit the Satellite Awards official site right here.
And the nominees for the 2009 14th Annual Satellite Awards are:
Film
Motion Picture (Drama)
"Bright Star"
"An Education"
"The Hurt Locker"
"The Messenger"
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire...
Rob Marshall also received a Best Director nomination, and stars Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, and Daniel Day-Lewis received Best Acting nods, and the cast got Best Ensemble.
John Woo's "Red Cliff" followed with seven nominations.
Roger Corman is the 2009 Recipient of the Auteur Award while master cinematographer and eight-time Oscar nominee, Roger Deakins, is the 2009 Recipient of the Nikola Tesla Award.
The 2009 14th Annual Satellite Awards are given by the International Press Academy. Winners will be announced on Sunday, December 20th, at the Grand Salon/Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
Visit the Satellite Awards official site right here.
And the nominees for the 2009 14th Annual Satellite Awards are:
Film
Motion Picture (Drama)
"Bright Star"
"An Education"
"The Hurt Locker"
"The Messenger"
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire...
- 11/30/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Satellites (formerly Golden) have announced their 2009 nominations for what it's worth. And you might be screaming "not very much".
It's hard to know what to make of this Golden Globe splinter group. There is never much of a narrative thread in their nominations. You can't sense from year to year a type of film they like or whatnot. Which makes them feel a bit suspect. They also do very strange things which you're about to see if you read their nominations. They never get much attention and yet they keep plugging away. This year they were especially kind to 2012 (who knew?), Nine and The Stoning of Soraya M. But they were downright rude to the sci-fi drama Moon which received zero nominations despite their lack of aversion to sci-fi films. I mention this because the moon is a natural satellite and the Satellites are artificial. Maybe they're jealous. What they're orbiting we know not.
It's hard to know what to make of this Golden Globe splinter group. There is never much of a narrative thread in their nominations. You can't sense from year to year a type of film they like or whatnot. Which makes them feel a bit suspect. They also do very strange things which you're about to see if you read their nominations. They never get much attention and yet they keep plugging away. This year they were especially kind to 2012 (who knew?), Nine and The Stoning of Soraya M. But they were downright rude to the sci-fi drama Moon which received zero nominations despite their lack of aversion to sci-fi films. I mention this because the moon is a natural satellite and the Satellites are artificial. Maybe they're jealous. What they're orbiting we know not.
- 11/30/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
To that short list of nail-biting, heart-pounding World War II submarine movies, get ready to add Jonathan Mostow's "U-571" to the honor roll. Packing the emotional wallop of a deadly accurate depth charge and filled with as much tension as any two-hour movie can withstand, this Universal/
Studio Canal production from producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis should make a big splash at the boxoffice followed by the kind of word-of-mouth and repeat viewings that could make "U-571" a worldwide hit.
Even if the script at times spring leaks -- like the ancient subs in the film -- the vivid, clearly delineated characters and their heroic action win the day. And while no sub movie is likely to challenge Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 classic "Das Boot" for sheer dramatic power, "U-571" provides a highly realistic portrait not only of sub warfare but of men's responses to gut-churning pressure.
The accuracy in Mostow's script (co-written with Sam Montgomery and ex-Navy sonar man David Ayer) as well as in the production design by William Ladd Skinner and Gotz Weidner (who did "Das Boot") pays off big time. One can sense Mostow's confidence that he's gotten the basics right: that this is how subs behave and how men react under water.
The film wastes little time before diving into action. The crew of an S-33 -- a World War I-vintage sub pressed into service for the battle to control the Atlantic -- gets pulled out of a wedding party, ordered to set sail quickly. It seems a crippled German U-boat is adrift in open seas, and on board is the "Enigma" machine, a secret Nazi coding device the Allies need to decipher German naval movements.
The S-33's mission is to beat a German repair sub to the stranded U-571, where the American sub will pose as a U-boat. A boarding party will overwhelm the crew, seize the coding device and destroy the U-boat so the enemy will never realize the Enigma has fallen into Allied hands.
Officers and crew aboard the S-33 are rapidly introduced. Matthew McConaughey is the sullen second-in-command, having just been passed over for promotion because his commander, Bill Paxton, doesn't think he's ready to lead men in battle. Jake Weber is in charge of the mission, while David Keith plays the intelligence officer who will lead the boarding party.
Harvey Keitel -- who actually was a Marine before turning to acting -- plays the chief, an old sea dog smarter about men and boats than any commander. Jack Noseworthy is the radioman who speaks fluent enough German to fool German naval officers. T.C. Carson is the cook, who sees more than he lets on, while Jon Bon Jovi plays an officer who helps ease the transition that occurs when McConaughey must assume control.
And assume control McConaughey must -- for when the original mission is nearly complete, another U-boat torpedoes the American sub. Thus, a handful of Americans wind up trapped on the enemy vessel in hostile waters. The Yanks manage to sink the German sub, but not before the U-571 is even more severely damaged.
The traditional sub-movie scenes play out here, but Mostow's twist of placing Yanks aboard a German U-boat, a vessel they barely know how to operate, gives "U-571" its narrative kick.
And the film's writers never let up on the floundering crew. One life-threatening crisis follows another. A few of these are pretty well telegraphed ahead of time. If the commander explains to his lieutenant that some day he may have to sacrifice some of his men to save the rest, you can be sure that day will be the next.
For the most part, actors must build their characters amid barked orders and no-time-to-lose action. McConaughey, virtually the only actor asked to furnish a character arc, smoothly accomplishes the transition from a brooding officer to a no-nonsense commander.
Mostow's direction is taut, with no energy expended that doesn't add to the white-knuckle ride. He certainly adds to a reputation established with his first feature, the 1997 thriller "Breakdown", for wringing maximum tension from familiar material.
And as with any good sub movie, the sets -- one American and the other German -- become characters themselves, pushed beyond endurance yet somehow stubbornly struggling to rise to the surface one more time.
U-571
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures and Studio Canal
in association with Dino De Laurentiis
Producers: Dino De Laurentiis,
Martha De Laurentiis
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Screenwriters: Jonathan Mostow,
Sam Montgomery, David Ayer
Story by: Jonathan Mostow
Executive producer: Hal Lieberman
Line producer: Lucio Trentini
Director of photography: Oliver Wood
Production designers: William Ladd Skinner,
Gotz Weidner
Music: Richard Marvin
Costume designer: April Ferry
Editor: Wayne Wahrman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tyler: Matthew McConaughey
Dahlgren: Bill Paxton
Chief: Harvey Keitel
Emmett: Jon Bon Jovi
Coonan: David Keith
Wassner: Thomas Kretschmann
Hirsch: Jake Weber
Wentz: Jack Noseworthy
Trigger: Thomas Guiry
Rabbit: Will Estes
Eddie: T.C. Carson
Running time -- 116 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Studio Canal production from producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis should make a big splash at the boxoffice followed by the kind of word-of-mouth and repeat viewings that could make "U-571" a worldwide hit.
Even if the script at times spring leaks -- like the ancient subs in the film -- the vivid, clearly delineated characters and their heroic action win the day. And while no sub movie is likely to challenge Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 classic "Das Boot" for sheer dramatic power, "U-571" provides a highly realistic portrait not only of sub warfare but of men's responses to gut-churning pressure.
The accuracy in Mostow's script (co-written with Sam Montgomery and ex-Navy sonar man David Ayer) as well as in the production design by William Ladd Skinner and Gotz Weidner (who did "Das Boot") pays off big time. One can sense Mostow's confidence that he's gotten the basics right: that this is how subs behave and how men react under water.
The film wastes little time before diving into action. The crew of an S-33 -- a World War I-vintage sub pressed into service for the battle to control the Atlantic -- gets pulled out of a wedding party, ordered to set sail quickly. It seems a crippled German U-boat is adrift in open seas, and on board is the "Enigma" machine, a secret Nazi coding device the Allies need to decipher German naval movements.
The S-33's mission is to beat a German repair sub to the stranded U-571, where the American sub will pose as a U-boat. A boarding party will overwhelm the crew, seize the coding device and destroy the U-boat so the enemy will never realize the Enigma has fallen into Allied hands.
Officers and crew aboard the S-33 are rapidly introduced. Matthew McConaughey is the sullen second-in-command, having just been passed over for promotion because his commander, Bill Paxton, doesn't think he's ready to lead men in battle. Jake Weber is in charge of the mission, while David Keith plays the intelligence officer who will lead the boarding party.
Harvey Keitel -- who actually was a Marine before turning to acting -- plays the chief, an old sea dog smarter about men and boats than any commander. Jack Noseworthy is the radioman who speaks fluent enough German to fool German naval officers. T.C. Carson is the cook, who sees more than he lets on, while Jon Bon Jovi plays an officer who helps ease the transition that occurs when McConaughey must assume control.
And assume control McConaughey must -- for when the original mission is nearly complete, another U-boat torpedoes the American sub. Thus, a handful of Americans wind up trapped on the enemy vessel in hostile waters. The Yanks manage to sink the German sub, but not before the U-571 is even more severely damaged.
The traditional sub-movie scenes play out here, but Mostow's twist of placing Yanks aboard a German U-boat, a vessel they barely know how to operate, gives "U-571" its narrative kick.
And the film's writers never let up on the floundering crew. One life-threatening crisis follows another. A few of these are pretty well telegraphed ahead of time. If the commander explains to his lieutenant that some day he may have to sacrifice some of his men to save the rest, you can be sure that day will be the next.
For the most part, actors must build their characters amid barked orders and no-time-to-lose action. McConaughey, virtually the only actor asked to furnish a character arc, smoothly accomplishes the transition from a brooding officer to a no-nonsense commander.
Mostow's direction is taut, with no energy expended that doesn't add to the white-knuckle ride. He certainly adds to a reputation established with his first feature, the 1997 thriller "Breakdown", for wringing maximum tension from familiar material.
And as with any good sub movie, the sets -- one American and the other German -- become characters themselves, pushed beyond endurance yet somehow stubbornly struggling to rise to the surface one more time.
U-571
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures and Studio Canal
in association with Dino De Laurentiis
Producers: Dino De Laurentiis,
Martha De Laurentiis
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Screenwriters: Jonathan Mostow,
Sam Montgomery, David Ayer
Story by: Jonathan Mostow
Executive producer: Hal Lieberman
Line producer: Lucio Trentini
Director of photography: Oliver Wood
Production designers: William Ladd Skinner,
Gotz Weidner
Music: Richard Marvin
Costume designer: April Ferry
Editor: Wayne Wahrman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tyler: Matthew McConaughey
Dahlgren: Bill Paxton
Chief: Harvey Keitel
Emmett: Jon Bon Jovi
Coonan: David Keith
Wassner: Thomas Kretschmann
Hirsch: Jake Weber
Wentz: Jack Noseworthy
Trigger: Thomas Guiry
Rabbit: Will Estes
Eddie: T.C. Carson
Running time -- 116 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 4/14/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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