The 64th Cannes film festival is over for another year, as the red carpet is packed away we look back over the winners, newcomers and controversies.
Kirsten Dunst walked away with best actress for her performance in the apocalyptic saga Melancholia, despite director Lars Von Trier’s Nazi remarks resulting in him being thrown out of the film festival.
Cannes is famed for launching many a career and this year was no exception as we saw a new generation of stars born.
Tree Of Life star Jessica Chastain impressed audiences with her appearance alongside Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick’s Palme D’Or winning masterpiece. The flame-haired actress is making her mark in Hollywood appearing in no less than eight films since filming Tree Of Life.
Check out the full list of winners at the Cannes Film Festival 2011:
Grand Prize
Shared between The Kid with the Bike by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
James Cameron and Michael Bay talk about the future of 3D
James Cameron and Michael Bay have spoken out about the future of 3D at a special event in Hollywood.
The pair hosted ‘3D: A Transforming Visual Art’ at the Paramount Theater, where they spoke about the future of multi-dimensional film-making (as well as presenting some clips from Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon).
Here’s what they had to say:
Michael Bay
“I first met James Cameron on the set of Titanic, and he invited me on the set of Avatar. At first I thought 3D was harder than you could imagine, and really not me. Really not me. I’m old school, I like 35mm film where you can touch it, you can feel it. 3D is just all ones and zeros. When I got on set James said he wanted to show me some cool algorithms, and I was like ‘What?’”
“James explained it to me like 3D is just a new toy to play with.”
James Cameron
“All films benefit from 3D to varying degrees, but I thought Michael had to do 3D. The marriage of his very technical filmmaking and 3D was something I wanted to see.”
As video games became more popular across the world in the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, more movie studios looked to the niche as an easy way to put out new movies that catered toward this audience. This fun infographic from CinemaBlend takes a deeper look at movies that are based after video games, plus some data on video games that were created because of a movie, like Tron. This infographic starts out by providing insight into the top grossing movies of all time that were adapted from a video game. Despite coming out in 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie, is the number one movie on this list, grossing just over $131 million. It is interesting that a movie like Resident Evil didn’t make this list, considering it is about to release its 4th film, which will be in 3D. To release 4 films and one with the technology of 3D, one would assume that this video game movie has grossed a lot of money to pad its budget.
The infographic continues by pointing out other interesting facts including how many video game movies go straight to video. It also appears that video game adaptations to movies are most popular in Japan, which has produced 25, 12 of which revolve around Pokemon.
Overall the movies based on video games infographic from CinemaBlend is an easy to understand and informative way to learn about this niche in the movie industry.
This infographic was submitted to us by FilmShaft.com for the upcoming film by Sony, Priest. The infographic covers different types of movie genres and sub genres, and compares other famous films to Priest based on the number and range of genres that they cover.
Newcomers to cinema advertising 6 May 2011 including Bethesda Brink, Magners Original, Diet Coke, and Magners Golden Draught
This is the official Summer of Cinema 2011 Trailer, that will be shown at cinemas across the UK this Summer. The trailer includes clips from all the big summer blockbusters, and also lots of unseen footage.
Prepare to geek out over this Summer’s most anticipated movies in Hollywood.com’s Summer Movie Preview.
FRESH GREEN ADS has developed a RAINCAMPAIGN for SEA LIFE Scheveningen. Every time it rains the octopus of SEA LIFE Scheveningen appears on the streets and out of public drains and man-hole covers with its tentacles holding the text: “SEA LIFE laat je niet meer los” (SEA LIFE never lets you go). When the streets dry up the RAINCAMPAIGN disappears again.
In a surprising way the people in the streets are drawn to the wonderful world of SEA LIFE Scheveningen when it rains. When the streets dry up the octopus disappears again. These striking and environmentally friendly messages remain visible up to eight weeks.
