With the impending release of Maleficent, we take a look at the most frightening villains that Disney created to scare little kids into going to bed on time and eating their peas.
There are more but these are the ones that still freak us out a little. Enjoy!
1. Ursula – The Little Mermaid
2. Maleficent – Sleeping Beauty
3. Scar – The Lion King
4. Jafar – Aladdin
5. Captain Hook – Peter Pan
The release date for Grace Kelly’s biopic, Grace of Monaco, has been indefinitely delayed.
The movie, starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace, was due for release in March following an original delay to the release date back in November.
It would seem the delays are coming from reported disagreements between the movie’s director Oliver Dahan and co-founder of the movie’s production company, Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company.
Following the delay last year Dahan spoke with a French newspaper about the difficulties: “There are two versions of the film for now: … mine and his, which I find catastrophic”.
We were really looking forward to this, so hopefully it’s resolved!
Another awards ceremony! Aren’t those movie and TV stars tired of putting on their gorgeous gowns and glittering jewels yet? We didn’t think so.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards took place yesterday, celebrating actors and actresses in both movies and television.
Make sure you check out Bryan Cranston’s legendary speech after winning the SAG award for Best Male Actor in a Drama Series as Walter White (a.k.a. Heisenberg) in Breaking Bad.
Here are the big winners of the night:
1. Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture
12 Years a Slave
2. Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
3. Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
4. Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
5. Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
6. Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series
Breaking Bad
7. Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series
Modern Family
The 19th Critic’s Choice Awards were held in Santa Monica, California last night and hosted a range of Hollywood’s favourite movie stars.
The highlight of the night for us was when Benedict Cumberbatch won an award for Hollywood’s Hottest Star, which we definitely agree with!
The biggest winners of the evening were as follows:
Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Best Actor
Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave
Best Directing
Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
Best Animated Feature
Disney’s Frozen
Hollywood’s Hottest Star
Benedict Cumberbatch
Below is everything you need to know about the Oscars nominations this year. No surprises really, so now we can look forward to Ellen’s hilarious turn at presenting!
Best Picture
Actor in a leading role
Actress in a leading role
Actor in a supporting role
Actress in a supporting role
Some big names in the Animations category too with Frozen, Despicable Me 2 and The Croods receiving nods.
Nooooo, how did we miss this?
Josh Hartnett was seen filming in Temple Bar yesterday for his upcoming drama Penny Dreadful.
Anybody hanging around the area will have noticed it was transformed into a Victorian-era set – hope the tourists didn’t get too confused.
The new drama will also star Billie Piper and has been filming since October.
Keep your eyes peeled for the sexy Pearl Harbour actor – we know we will.
A change to the end of the movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel Gone Girl is set to divide fans.
The screenplay, rewritten by Flynn herself and directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network) is due out in October.
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are set to star as the novel’s couple Amy and Nick Dunne. Nick becomes prime suspect when Amy vanishes from their rural home on their fifth wedding anniversary.
Flynn isn’t giving anything away, however she has said; “There was something thrilling about taking this piece of work that I’d spent about two years painstakingly putting together with all its eight million Lego pieces and take a hammer to it and bash it apart and reassemble it into a movie,”.
This isn’t the only novel of Flynn’s that is set to be made into a movie this year; Dark Places is also set for release in 2014 and will star Chloë Moritz, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult and Charlize Theron.
If you haven’t yet read any of Gillian Flynn’s novels then get to it before the movies are released. Expect to be on the edge of your seat…and possibly needing to sleep with the light on!
Awards season is upon us so we decided to take a look at five of the movies you NEED to watch before settling in with a hot water bottle (or any other bottle of your choice) to watch the Oscars this year.
1. Gravity
This movie is entirely set in space – a “3D science fiction thriller” if you will. This made us sceptical to say the least. “It’s basically Open Water in space” was one of the quotes floating around in relation to the movie, but it’s actually a very impressive film. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are the story’s two stars and Bullock has impressed critics everywhere with her performance as astronaut Dr Ryan Stone.
2. Philomena
A British comedy-drama set in Britain, Ireland and the US, this movie starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan has created quite a stir. Based on the true story of Limerick woman Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), the movie follows Lee’s journey to find her son who was taken off her at the convent in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, where she was kept during her pregnancy 1960’s. A truly inspiring and heart breaking tale with a light comedic touch that is worth seeing; if even just for the relevance of what so many women in Ireland went through at the time.
3. American Hustle
Jennifer Lawrence. Need we say more? Christian Bale. There we go! A fast paced, interesting and vibrant movie that is far from let down by its impressive cast. A little on the hard side to explain, the movie involves con artists, robbery and politicians. Well worth seeing and it is sure to be a hit at the Oscars this year.
4. 12 Years a Slave
Based on a true story, the movie on everybody’s lips this week is 12 Years a Slave. It has been predicted that this will win massively at the Oscars this year. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Soloman Northup, a free man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in post-civil war America and whose autobiography was the inspiration for the movie. The movie also stars our very own and very lovely Michael Fassbender, alongside Brad Pitt.
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
Oh Leo. We want you to get the Oscar you deserve so much this year – it’s been a long time coming. The movie, a black comedy directed by Martin Scorsese, revolves around stockbroker Belfort (Leonardo Di Caprio) who works at a firm on Wall Street during the nineties, engaging in fraud and corruption. Set to be huge, it will be released in Ireland on the 17th January.
Parents Lily and Leon are giving their little boy Orson the coolest baby photos of all time.
The couple behind Cardboard Box Office have been recreating famous movie scenes with the help of their baby and some cardboard boxes and the results are just amazing.
The little guy has already taken on iconic roles played by Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, so his future is looking bright.
Will Orson be the first guy not to cringe when mum drags out the baby pictures for his girlfriends?
Star Wars
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jurassic Park
Jaws
