Month: December 2010

Golden Globe nominations revealed with more than a few surprises

With seven nods, the British drama The King’s Speech, about a royal with a speech impediment, led the nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards that were announced Tuesday morning. The Facebook origins drama The Social Network and the Mark Wahlberg/Christian Bale boxing tale The Fighter followed close behind with six nominations each. The ….

More details and a new poster for sci-fi thriller Apollo 18

Dimension Films has released the one sheet, release date and website information for Apollo 18, the sci-fi thriller Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov is producing with the Weinsteins. Apollo 18 is based on a screenplay by Brian Miller, winner of the inaugural Astana International Action Film Festival screenplay competition, which was founded by Bekmambetov. Trevor Cawood ….

James Cameron’s Sanctum coming to IMAX 3D

IMAX announced today that Universal Pictures Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, will be released for a special two-week run in IMAX 3D digital locations starting February 4, 2011, simultaneously with the action-thriller’s wide release in domestic and select international markets. Shot on location off the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, the new film from ….

Precious director to develop big-screen adaptation Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play

THR reports that Precious director Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer and Steinberg Prize-winning Broadway play Anna in the Tropics, which is being produced by John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy of Austin-based Mankind Entertainment. Anna in the Tropics is set in 1920s Tampa, which ….