Trent Reznor to write new Nine Inch Nails material in 2012

http://www.billboard.com/news/trent-reznor-to-write-new-nine-inch-nails-1005867562.story#/news/trent-reznor-to-write-new-nine-inch-nails-1005867562.story


I can't wrap my head around that right now. I am so happy.

First 3 minutes of The Walking Dead released

Episode #8 titled "Nebraska" won't air until February 12th, but for now we get a 3 minute sneak peek.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/28123



I can't wait for the rest of this season.

Rockstar Mayhem Festival announces the 2012 lineup

Slipknot
Slayer
Anthrax
The Devil Wears Prada
Asking Alexandria
As I Lay Dying
White Chapel
High on Fire


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.......what the fuck? Is it seriously that hard for them to put together another decent lineup? Looks like this will be the second year in a row that I sit out of Mayhem. Fucking hell.

Lily Collins drops out of The Evil Dead

Maybe this is a sign?

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/28051






More like hopefully this is a sign.

Well said...

http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/01/24/oscar-snubs-2012-trent-reznor-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/

2012 Academy Award nominations

Best Picture:
The Artist
The Descendents
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

The Help

Hugo

Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Best Actor:
Demian Bichir for A Better Life
George Clooney for The Descendents
Jean Dujardin for The Artist
Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Brad Pitt for Moneyball

Best Supporting Actor:
Kenneth Branagh for My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill for Moneyball
Nick Nolte for Warrior
Christopher Plummer for Beginners
Max von Sydow for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Best Actress:
Glenn Close for Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis for The Help

Rooney Mara for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actress:
Berenice Bejo for The Artist
Jessica Chastain for The Help

Melissa McCarthy for Bridesmaids

Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer for The Help

Best Animated Film:
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots

Rango

Art Direction:
The Artist - Laurence Bennett & Robert Gould
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Stuart Craig & Stephenie McMillan

Hugo - Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Shiavo

Midnight in Paris - Anne Aeibel & Helene Dubreuil
War Horse - Rick Carter & Lee Sandales

Cinematography:
The Artist - Guillame Schiffman

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth

Hugo - Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life - Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse - Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design:
Anonymous - Lisy Christi
The Artist - Mark Bridges

Hugo - Sandy Powell

Jane Eyre - Michael O'Connor
W.E. - Arianne Phillips

Best Director:
Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
Alexander Payne for The Descendents

Martin Scorsese for Hugo

Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life

Best Documentary Feature:
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated

Best Documentary Short:
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Film Editing:
The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendents - Kevin Tent

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall

Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker

Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen

Best Foreign Language Film:
Bullhead (Belgium)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
A Separation (Iran)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)

Makeup:
Albert Nobbs - Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston, and Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, and Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Best Original Score:
John Williams for The Adventures of Tintin
Ludovic Bource for The Artist

Howard Shore for Hugo

Alberto Iglesias for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Williams for War Horse

Best Original Song:
"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets - Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from RIO - Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, and Siedah Garrett

Best Animated Short Film:
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life

Best Live Action Short Film:
Pentecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic

Sound Editing:
Drive - Lon Bender & Victor Ray Ennis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Ren Klyce

Hugo - Philip Stockton & Eugene Gearty

Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Ethan Van der Ryn & Erik Aadahl
War Horse - Richard Hymns & Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Bo Persson

Hugo - Tom Fleischman & John Midgley

Moneyball - Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco, and Ed Novick

Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers,  Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Peter J. Devlin
War Horse - Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Descendents - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash

Hugo - John Logan

The Ides of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon

Moneyball - Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

Best Original Screenplay:
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius

Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig

Margin Call - J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

My picks are in red if I have a pick. If there are multiples that means I would take either one.

But let me get this straight... The Academy completely stiffed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? The nomination for Best Actress is deserved and should be there, but nothing for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, or Adapted Screenplay? Nothing?! That is bullshit. How in the fuck did Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross not get a nomination this year? The score for that film was 1000x better, and longer, than the score for The Social Network and they swept the awards for that one last year. Leaving that film out of the major categories while films like The Tree of Life were included was a big "fuck you" to intelligent moviegoers. I am pissed. Rooney Mara should win but she won't. It will be any of the other 4 in the category despite Mara giving the best performance and putting herself through such a physical and mental transformation. Who else did that and won an Oscar for it last year? Ugh...

Comparing these nominations to others I am surprised they didn't give a nomination to Ryan Gosling for either Drive or The Ides of March and that Leonardo DiCaprio got shafted for J. Edgar. I am also surprised, and a little disappointed, that Bridesmaids wasn't nominated for Best Picture. Crazy, Stupid, Love was also left out of the mix.

Underworld: Awakening

Yes... I saw the fourth Underworld film this past Friday, January 20th, in 3D.

I must start off by saying I am a huge fan of the Underworld films. Well, I am a fan of 2 of the 3. Personally I think Rise of the Lycans was a huge mistake but that isn't the point.

As far as Underworld: Awakening goes, I absolutely loved it. I thought the plot had a good direction and although you could tell it would most likely have a 5th movie coming after it they didn't leave us with a terrible cliffhanger or conclusion. It was great to have Selene back and I appreciated what they did with Subject #2. (Spoiler alert, the girl is Selene and Michael's daughter. As if anyone who has seen these movies couldn't decipher that from the trailers.)

But with almost every movie there is some criticism to be given. And yes, there will be spoilers with one of these.

1. How exactly did they get Selene's daughter with Selene having no memory of having a daughter? Unless vampires are harvested some other way we don't know about she would have been pregnant and from the looks of it, when she was captured along with Michael she was most certainly not visibly pregnant. I was disappointed that we found out nothing about how the daughter even came into play. They just fast forwarded 12 years into the future and told us Selene had a daughter with Michael.

2. The 3D was a mistake. It was dark, the light that did exist was in a strobe effect practically the whole movie, and the silver nitrate particles used to fight off the Lycans was distracting as hell. It clouded the whole picture too much. My recommendation... if you have a theater playing this movie in 2D choose that over the 3D. It really sucks ass.

3. They could only give us 88 minutes? The movie was good but it was way too short. They could have easily squeezed in 15-20 more minutes without putting a damper on anything.


Other than that, it is a great film for fellow Underworld and/or horror fans. Selene is back with a vengeance and I fucking loved it.

Second time is almost always better

I went and saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for a second time today. Finally.

I still loved it. I caught things I didn't notice the first time and I just enjoyed every minute of it. How Rooney Mara is not being included in the awards season, minus the Golden Globe nomination, still baffles me. She was fucking fantastic.

More imagery for The Devil's Carnival released along with cast updates

It has been announced that Repo! The Genetic Opera stars Terrence Zdunich, Alexa Vega, Ogre, and Paul Sorvino along with Marc Senter have now joined the cast for The Devil's Carnival. Other cast members announced previously are Emilie Autumn, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Bill Moseley (who was also in Repo!). Taryn Manning will also not be appearing in the project despite being previously confirmed.

I'm getting pretty excited for this based on the cast alone. I hope Darren Lynn Bousman finds some redemption with people.

Resident Evil: Retribution 3D first trailer

Someone please stop Resident Evil movies. They just don't get the job done.

New image from Dark Shadows surfaces

Barnabas Collins... hello  =^D

We now also have a basic synopsis of Dark Shadows:

"The Story focuses on Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) who was transformed into a vampire by a jilted lover (Eva Green) way back in the 1700's and buried. He's just been dug up and attempts to reintegrate with his descendents, led by Michelle Pfeiffer's Elizabeth and Jonny Lee Miller's Roger, despite the fact that Angelique (Eva Green) is still around and not in a forgiving mood." 

Bring it on!

Trailer #2 for Snow White and the Hunstman surfaces

By second trailer I mean practically the same trailer as the first that surfaced with minor changes. These minor changes being like two more snaps of Charlize Theron. I am now awaiting a third trailer that will feature dialogue and more scenes from Snow White, ffs. Hopefully we will get one by March or April.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Wolvie09/news/?a=53115&t=New_SNOW_WHITE_AND_THE_HUNTSMAN_Sneak_Peek__Features_More_Footage

Internet blackout on January 18th.

Basically most popular sites on the internet are blacking out tomorrow in protest?

Who gives a flying fuck? Holy shit.

Idris Elba confirmed for Thor 2

Along with Chris Hemsworth, Jaimie Alexander, and Natalie Portman returning for Thor 2 it was recently confirmed that Idris Elba, aka Heimdall, will be returning as well. I'm pretty excited, tbh. I loved Heimdall.

OPEN THE BIFROST!

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/22810/idris-elba-set-to-return-for-thor-2

The Artist leads 2012 BAFTA nominations with 12

Main nominees:

Best Film:
The Artist
The Descendents
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Leading Actress:
Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn
Viola Davis for The Help
Tilda Swindon for We Need to Talk About Kevin
Berenice Bejo for The Artist

Leading Actor:
George Clooney for The Descendents
Brad Pitt for Moneyball
Jean Dujardin for The Artist
Michael Fassbender for Shame
Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Supporting Actress:
Carey Mulligan for Shame
Jessica Chastain for The Help
Judi Dench for My Week with Marilyn
Melissa McCarthy for Bridesmaids
Octavia Spencer for The Help

Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer for Beginners
Jim Broadbent for The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill for Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh for My Week with Marilyn
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Moneyball

Outstanding British Film:
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Director:
Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
Nicholas Winding Refn for Drive
Martin Scorsese for Hugo
Tomas Alfredson for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay for We Need to Talk About Kevin


The full list of nominees can be found here: http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/nominees-winners-2012,2449,BA.html

I'm honestly disappointed with the BAFTA nominees this year.
Leading Actress should go to Rooney Mara for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but she isn't even nominated. It will probably go to either Viola Davis or Meryl Streep, I think. Supporting Actress should be Melissa McCarthy but it will probably be Octavia Spencer. Leading Actor will go to George Clooney, I have no doubt. Best Director should go to Martin Scorsese but will probably go to Michel Hazanavicius. I have no doubt Best Film will go to The Artist.

Le sigh.