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    Producer Shannon McIntosh's Martial Arts Movie Slate

    ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Producer Shannon McIntosh Sets Martial Arts Movie Slate With UK Firm GFM
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    EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood producer and Quentin Tarantino regular collaborator Shannon McIntosh has set a four-picture venture with Evolution Pictures, the genre label of UK sales outfit GFM Films.

    McIntosh Films will team with Evolution on four martial arts action movies, which will be produced by McIntosh and H. Daniel Gross (Halloween: Resurrection), formerly of Blackbelt TV.

    Two films are due to be shot in Thailand, with the other two lined up to be made in the US. The team is aiming to shoot the first feature in early 2020. GFM Films will handle world sales and will launch the slate at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.

    According to the team, the movies will feature a mix of “new young martial arts talent and well-established American & Asian stars of the genre.”

    McIntosh and Gross, who have also been developing a martial-arts-themed series, said of the venture, “Joining forces with GFM on this slate is thrilling for all of us. Martial arts have a deep history in cinema, and these projects present an exciting opportunity to bring action-packed genre films grounded in strong scripts to the screen. There’s an audience for these films, and a dedicated one at that. There’s a true love for martial arts films, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to enter the arena with Evolution Pictures & GFM by our side.”

    Fred Hedman of Evolution said, “We are delighted to be working with Shannon and Dan to bring this unique opportunity to the marketplace. These four English-language kung fu/action movies will showcase new young martial arts talent, whilst at the same time drawing on well-established American & Asian stars of the genre. This venture furthers our ambitions for Evolution Pictures in becoming an established production arm and genre label of GFM Films and we could not be more excited.”

    Run by Guy Collins, Fred Hedman and Michael Ryan, GFM’s slate includes in-the-works animation Blazing Samurai, which is now being directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King), completed John Cleese rom-com The Naked Wanderer, and animations A Wizard’s Tale, which has Lily Collins among the voice cast, and Duck Duck Goose, whose voice cast includes Jim Gaffigan and Zendaya.

    Evolution’s development slate includes thriller The Ledge, about a female climber trapped on the face of a mountain who must fight off four killers on a ledge above her.
    I wish this article had dropped some working titles. For now, this will have to live on our Once Upon A Time In Hollywood & Blazing Samurai threads.
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    PRC release

    Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Confirmed For China Release
    By Andreas Wiseman
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    September 23, 2019 7:55am


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    Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is slated to get a China release on October 25, we have confirmed.

    The release will come soon after the country’s National Day holiday in the first week of October, a period when cinemas are often given over to local fare and patriotic content.

    Set in 1960s LA against the backdrop of the Manson murders, the film charts the story of a faded television actor and his stunt double who strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead the all-star cast.

    China’s Bona Film Group was a co-investor in the title, which has taken more than $300M global for Sony after debuting at Cannes.

    Tarantino’s Django Unchained secured China distribution in 2013 but the movie was pulled shortly after release due to “technical reasons”. It is widely understood that authorities took issue with the film’s content, including nudity and violence. A heavily re-edited version was subsequently released but to little box office success.

    It is unclear at this stage how much, if any, of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has been cut for the China release.
    Will they keep the Bruce Lee scene?
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    China Cancels Release of Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (Exclusive)

    by Patrick Brzeski for The Hollywood Reporter…
    Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Bruce Lee’s daughter made a direct appeal to China’s National Film Administration for changes to her father's controversial portrayal in the film. Now, the movie's China backer Bona Film Group is said to be frantically working with Tarantino on a new cut to salvage the release.
    In a shocking twist not unlike the ending of a Quentin Tarantino film or two, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's China box office ambitions appear to be going up in flames.

    The critically acclaimed movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, had been approved for release in China on Oct. 25, but regulators have abruptly reversed course.

    According to multiple sources close to the situation in Beijing, who asked not to be named because they weren't permitted to speak publicly about the matter, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's local release has been indefinitely put on hold.

    The film would have been Tarantino's first proper release in China, and the country's enormous market was expected to help push the title's worldwide box office total past the $400 million mark (it has earned $366 million to date). The abrupt change-up comes as a blow to both Sony Pictures and the film's Chinese financier, Beijing-based Bona Film Group.

    As The Hollywood Reporter reported exclusively in January, Bona took a sizable equity stake in Once Upon a Time, which gave the company participation in the film's worldwide box office, as well as distribution rights in Greater China. Bona's CEO Yu Dong and COO Jeffrey Chan are both prominently credited as executive producers of the film.

    As is typical in China, no official explanation for the cancellation has been offered by Beijing regulators. Bona didn't reply to text messages and emails, and Sony's China office could not immediately be reached.

    But the story swirling through the executive ranks of China's film industry Friday was that the decision stemmed from Tarantino's somewhat controversial portrayal of martial arts hero Bruce Lee, the only character of Chinese descent in the movie. Friends and family of the late Lee have blasted the director for the depiction, saying the real-life action star didn't behave as he's portrayed in the film.

    According to sources close to Bona and China's Film Bureau, Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, made a direct appeal to China’s National Film Administration, asking that it demand changes to her father's portrayal.

    Played by Mike Moh, the Lee in Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is wildly cocky and claims he could have "crippled" Muhammad Ali in a fight (referred to as Cassius Clay). Pitt's character, a stuntman and former war hero named Cliff Booth, laughs in Lee's face over the comment and then the two get into a "friendly" contest of who can knock the other down three times without hitting the face. The scuffle ends before either side wins, but Pitt appears to have an edge near the end, after throwing Lee into the side of a classic car.

    Sources described to THR a last-minute scramble at Bona to work with Tarantino to cut the film in time for it to be re-approved ahead of its originally planned Oct. 25 release date.

    The only prior Tarantino title to come close to a proper theatrical rollout in China was his 2012 Western Django Unchained. That film also initially received permission to screen, but was bizarrely ordered pulled from cinemas across the country minutes into its opening night.

    Again, no official explanation for the sudden change was ever provided, but sources said at the time that a senior Communist Party official had seen the film on opening night and took issue with its graphic violence. Django received heavy cuts and was rereleased a month later; but by then, pirate copies were widely available with Chinese subtitling. The unedited, pirated version went widely seen, but the delayed official release fizzled and promptly faded from cinemas, earning just $2.6 million.

    Although Once Upon a Time's ultimate fate remains uncertain, the release drama comes at a time of rising official repression within China's media and entertainment sector.

    Beijing has taken a heavy-handed approach to censoring China's own film output throughout 2019, blocking the distribution of hotly anticipated titles from some of the country's most esteemed directors, such as Zhang Yimou and Guan Hu.

    On the international front, the NBA was plunged into an international crisis after Beijing took extreme umbrage with a single tweet from the general manager of the Houston Rockets, who expressed his support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. The uproar over the tweet briefly appeared to threaten the NBA's entire multi-billion-dollar business in China (the league and its stars' seeming capitulation to Beijing's pressure has only inspired more international outrage).

    A recent episode of South Park, meanwhile, made international headlines by poking fun at Hollywood's willingness to bend over backwards to appease Chinese censors in order to maintain market access there. Beijing responded in its typical fashion, instituting an outright ban of the comedy show. South Park creator's Matt Stone and Trey Parker then responded in their own typical fashion, ridiculing the authorities with a satirical apology.

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    So Tarantino

    QT just doesn't know how to edit. He'll probably release an extended director's cut on Netflix later too.

    OCTOBER 23, 2019 9:52AM PT
    Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ to Be Re-Released With New Footage

    By REBECCA RUBIN
    News Editor, Online
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    CREDIT: COURTESY OF SONY

    Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is heading back to the silver screen.

    Sony Pictures, the studio behind Tarantino’s latest feature, announced the movie will be re-released with 10 minutes of additional footage, including four new scenes. The lengthier version of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which already clocked in at two hours and 41 minutes, will hit 1,000 North American locations starting on Oct. 25.

    “Audiences have shown tremendous support for this movie, and we look forward to offering them another opportunity to see the film as it’s meant to be seen — in theaters on the big screen — with more sights and sounds of the sixties from Quentin Tarantino as an added treat,” Adrian Smith, Sony’s president of domestic distribution, said in a statement.

    The news comes following Tarantino’s announcement that he would not re-cut the movie to appease Chinese censors, putting its Oct. 25 debut in that territory “on hold.” Exhibitors say China was displeased with the movie’s portrayal of Bruce Lee.

    Even without a China release, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is already Tarantino’s second-highest grossing movie ever behind “Django Unchained” ($425 million). So far, the R-rated film has earned $139 million in North America and $228 million overseas from a $90 million budget.

    Tarantino’s ninth feature is expected to be an Oscar frontrunner and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as an aging actor and his longtime stunt double, respectively, who are struggling to find their place in a changing Hollywood. At the same time, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), the up-and-coming actress married to director Roman Polanski, moves next door. The drama, which pays tribute to the golden age of showbiz, is set in the late 1960s against the backdrop of the Manson family murders.
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    Bong Joon Ho FTW

    'Parasite' Voted Best Picture by New York Film Critics Online
    3:08 PM PST 12/7/2019 by Trilby Beresford


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    In addition, Bong Joon Ho was tapped as best director for his work on the film.

    Parasite has been named best picture of the year by New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO). The vote took place Saturday.

    In addition, Bong Joon Ho was tapped as best director for his work on the film, which also garnered best screenplay honors.

    Us' Lupita Nyong'o was named best actress and Joker star Joaquin Phoenix was chosen as best actor, while Laura Dern was hailed as best supporting actress for Marriage Story and Joe Pesci was recognized for his supporting role in The Irishman.

    The NYFCO, founded by reviewer Harvey Karten in 2000, met in Lincoln Center's Furman Gallery inside the Walter Reade Theatre for its 20th annual convocation. Last year, the group selected Roma as best picture.

    A full list of 2019 winners follows.

    Picture: Parasite
    Director: Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
    Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
    Actress: Lupita Nyong'o (Us)
    Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
    Supporting Actress: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
    Screenplay: Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-Won)
    Cinematography: 1917 (Roger Deakins)
    Documentary: Apollo 11 (Neon)
    Foreign Language: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Neon)
    Ensemble Cast: Knives Out (Casting director: Mary Vernieu)
    Breakthrough Performer: Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves, Luce)
    Debut as Director: Lila Aviles (The Chambermaid)
    Use of Music: Rocketman (Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Giles Martin, Matthew Margeson)
    Animated Feature: I Lost My Body (Netflix)

    Top 10 Films:

    1917 (Universal)
    The Farewell (A24)
    Hustlers (STXfilms)
    The Irishman (Netflix)
    Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight)
    Joker (Warner Bros.)
    Marriage Story (Netflix)
    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony)
    Parasite (Neon)
    The Two Popes (Netflix)


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    Golden Globe Nominees 2020

    I only copied the films we've discussed here.

    Winners & Nominees 2020

    Best Motion Picture - Drama

    NOMINEE
    Joker

    Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

    NOMINEE
    Dolemite Is My Name

    NOMINEE
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

    NOMINEE
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joker

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

    NOMINEE
    Awkwafina
    Farewell, The

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

    NOMINEE
    Leonardo DiCaprio
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    NOMINEE
    Eddie Murphy
    Dolemite Is My Name

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

    NOMINEE
    Brad Pitt
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Director - Motion Picture

    NOMINEE
    Bong Joon Ho
    Parasite

    NOMINEE
    Todd Phillips
    Joker

    NOMINEE
    Quentin Tarantino
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

    NOMINEE
    Quentin Tarantino
    Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

    NOMINEE
    Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won
    Parasite

    Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language

    NOMINEE
    Farewell, The
    USA, Lulu Wang

    NOMINEE
    Parasite
    South Korea, Bong Joon Ho
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    Donnie on Quentin

    Donnie Yen 'very disappointed' with Quentin Tarantino's treatment of Bruce Lee
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    By MICHAEL CHEANG


    Donnie Yen at the media interview promoting Ip Man 4: The Finale in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: The Star/Michael Cheang

    Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen said he was “disappointed” with director Quentin Tarantino’s treatment of Bruce Lee in the recent Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

    Tarantino came under fire earlier this year from Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee for portraying the late star as an arrogant braggart who is beaten up by Brad Pitt’s character, and also for saying Lee was "kind of an arrogant guy".

    When the subject came up during a media interview to promote his new film Ip Man 4: The Finale in Kuala Lumpur, Yen said: “I know Tarantino personally, but I’m very disappointed with how he portrayed Bruce Lee in the movie. I watched most of the movie, but after that scene, I couldn’t continue on.”

    Yen explained that Lee was not just a great martial artist and action star, he was also a great influence and inspiration to filmmakers all over the world.

    “As filmmakers, I feel we should be more respectful towards someone like Lee, who has contributed so much to our industry, ” added the 56-year-old actor.


    Danny Chan portrays Bruce Lee in the upcoming 'Ip Man 4'.Danny Chan portrays Bruce Lee in the upcoming 'Ip Man 4'.

    Being a former student of Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, Lee also features heavily in Ip Man 4, played by Hong Kong actor and Lee-lookalike Danny Chan.

    Yen was full of praise for Chan’s portrayal of Lee. “Danny doesn’t just look like Bruce Lee, he has also researched and practiced Lee’s moves and fighting style intensively," he said.

    Set for release in Malaysia on Dec 20, Ip Man 4 will be Yen's final portrayal of the Wing Chun grandmaster. In it, Ip Man travels to San Francisco under Lee's invitation, but gets involved in a conflict between the Chinese community and the American authorities.

    Directed by Wilson Yip, who also directed the first three Ip Man movies, the movies co-stars Vanness Wu, Wu Yue, and Scott Adkins.

    Yen is in town with Chan, producer Raymond Wong and scriptwriter Edmond Wong to promote the film. The four of them will be meeting fans at the Centre Court, Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur, at 8pm today (Dec 11); and two locations on Dec 12: Oval Concourse, LG, 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Petaling Jaya (7pm) and Foyer, MBO The Starling Level 5, Petaling Jaya (8.30pm).

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    I got to see this, and IMO the movie itself is good. Overall, QT did a good job capturing the spirit and feel of 1969 L.A. but IMO, you probably had to have been alive at that time to some degree, and also have some familiarity with some of the names of celebrities from that era bandied about in the movie, to appreciate it. After watching it, I read the comments section on Amazon, and from the likes/dislikes and grammar, it seems that most of the dislikes were from millennials who couldn’t stand the slow pace and wanted constant action/violence throughout. Many also said there is too much talking. Anybody who watches a QT film and doesn’t expect long stretches of self-indulgent dialogue throughout the film are clearly unfamiliar with his style of filmmaking.

    As for the Bruce Lee scenes, he is portrayed as a c0cky a-hole, and Mike Moh has his mannerisms spot-on. What Moh does NOT have, at least in the context of this movie, is BL’s speed or explosiveness, in terms of his movement (what little we see of it). Tarantino’s vision of BL is strictly cinematic, because there is no way BL would have used a running flying side kick in a sparring match or fight. I said BL scenes, because later in the movie there are brief glimpses of BL training Sharon Tate for her fight scene in The Wrecking Crew, and also training Roman Polanski in the yard of the Cielo Drive house (both of which were factual). QT’s timeline is off when he has BL refer to boxing champ Joe Louis, then says, “The boxer Joe Louis, not that white kickboxer a-hole Joe Lewis.” I doubt that BL would have referred to Joe Lewis in that manner, even after they’d had a falling-out in real life. And in 1969 Joe Lewis was still a karate fighter; kickboxing came along in 1970 or 71. But overall, the BL character was a very minor part of the movie.

    This movie is a huge departure for QT. With the exception of Kerry Washington’s character in Django Unchained, virtually every character in QT’s films is a scumbag, a criminal, or corrupted in some way. Sharon Tate is portrayed as almost angelic, and Jay Sebring as a really nice guy. Which nobody in show business was ever that innocent in Hollywood, including back in 1969.

    The acting is first-rate; even though I’m usually mixed about Brad Pitt’s acting, this role suited him perfectly. DiCaprio’s acting is good to great as usual, but some of his scenes where he appears CGI’d into actual 1960s movie scenes, or shown alongside images of actual past Hollywood stars, don’t really fit. It LOOKS as if he was retro-added in.

    The Manson Family parts were mostly excellent, especially the scene at Spahn Ranch. A person should have some degree of understanding of the Manson Family story (read The Family by Ed Sanders, NOT Vincent Bugliosi’s book) to appreciate their portrayals. I do feel that the guy who played Tex Watson should have been a bit more imposing than the actor who played him. The actress who played Susan Atkins was mostly spot-on. I won’t go any further with any spoilers but to say that this is another big QT alternate dimension/revisionist history.

    I’m still not happy with QT about how BL was portrayed in his scene with Pitt’s Cliff Booth character, to be used as fodder to display how bad@ss Booth is, nor with QT’s lame explanation as to why he did it that way. But I must be truthful and say that overall, this is a good movie, and I wasn’t bored at any point. Of course, YMMV. In the reviews I read after watching the movie, it seemed that viewers either really loved it or absolutely hated it. There was very little, if any, in-between. And again, I strongly suspect that’s mostly a generational thing, with the ones hating it mostly being much younger, with far shorter attention spans, as well as a lack of understanding of that era. I draw that conclusion from the type of grammar used in many/most of the negative posts, such as “This movie sucked!” “Boooring!” “I’m only 12 minutes into it and I can’t finish this movie, and this is my third try!”

    I was only 6 at the time, but I have clear memories of the music (which is laced throughout the film), the cars, the ads, many of the shows, etc. I suspect that most who were alive at that time and at least old enough to remember SOMEthing about that time period, will find at least something to appreciate about the film. Is it QT’s best? Not IMO, but it is still a good movie.
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    92nd short lists


    92ND OSCARS SHORTLISTS

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists in consideration for the 92nd Academy Awards in nine categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects.

    INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
    Ten films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category (formerly known as Foreign Language Film) for the 92nd Academy Awards. Ninety-one films were eligible in the category.

    Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round. They must have viewed the submitted films theatrically and met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. Their seven choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s International Feature Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

    In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt-in to participate and must view all 10 shortlisted films in order to cast a ballot.

    The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

    Czech Republic, “The Painted Bird”
    Estonia, “Truth and Justice”
    France, “Les Misérables”
    Hungary, “Those Who Remained”
    North Macedonia, “Honeyland”
    Poland, “Corpus Christi”
    Russia, “Beanpole”
    Senegal, “Atlantics”
    South Korea, “Parasite”
    Spain, “Pain and Glory”


    MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
    Ten films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 92nd Academy Awards. All members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view seven-minute excerpts from each of the 10 shortlisted films on Saturday, January 4, 2020. Members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

    The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

    “Bombshell”
    “Dolemite Is My Name”
    “Downton Abbey”
    “Joker”
    “Judy”
    “Little Women”
    “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”
    “1917”
    “Once upon a Time…in Hollywood”
    “Rocketman”


    MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
    Fifteen scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 92nd Academy Awards. One hundred seventy scores were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

    The scores, listed in alphabetical order by film title, are:

    “Avengers: Endgame”
    “Bombshell”
    “The Farewell”
    “Ford v Ferrari”
    “Frozen II”
    “Jojo Rabbit”
    “Joker”
    “The King”
    “Little Women”
    “Marriage Story”
    “Motherless Brooklyn”
    “1917”
    “Pain and Glory”
    “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
    “Us”

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    MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
    Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 92nd Academy Awards. Seventy-five songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

    The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title:

    “Speechless” from “Aladdin”
    “Letter To My Godfather” from “The Black Godfather”
    “I’m Standing With You” from “Breakthrough”
    “Da Bronx” from “The Bronx USA”
    “Into The Unknown” from “Frozen II”
    “Stand Up” from “Harriet”
    “Catchy Song” from “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”
    “Never Too Late” from “The Lion King”
    “Spirit” from “The Lion King”
    “Daily Battles” from “Motherless Brooklyn”
    “A Glass of Soju” from “Parasite”
    “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman”
    “High Above The Water” from “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”
    “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from “Toy Story 4”
    “Glasgow” from “Wild Rose”


    VISUAL EFFECTS
    Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 92nd Academy Awards. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films online or attend satellite bake-off screenings in January 2020. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

    The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

    “Alita: Battle Angel”
    “Avengers: Endgame”
    “Captain Marvel”
    “Cats”
    “Gemini Man”
    “The Irishman”
    “The Lion King”
    “1917”
    “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
    “Terminator: Dark Fate”

    Nominations voting begins on Thursday, January 2, 2020 and concludes on Tuesday, January 7, 2020.

    Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards will be announced on Monday, January 13, 2020.

    The 92nd Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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    The return of Shannon v QT

    Didn't Shannon say QT could 'shut up' about this? So why beleagure the point? It's about grabbing some of the awards spotlight, right? Or maybe it's the media just miling a feud.


    There's an embedded vid of Shannon's interview.

    DECEMBER 16, 2019 4:55PM PT
    Bruce Lee’s Daughter, Shannon, Says She’s ‘Open for a Conversation’ With Quentin Tarantino
    By AUDREY CLEO YAP

    “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” nabbed five Golden Globe nominations and is a box office success, grossing over $370 million worldwide — a feat that the drama, starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, achieved without being released in China. The film was originally scheduled for a theatrical bow in the country on Oct. 25, but was put on hold reportedly after Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee’s daughter, filed a complaint to China’s National Film Administration objecting to the film’s depiction of her late father. In October, director Quentin Tarantino confirmed that he would not re-cut “Once Upon a Time” to appease Chinese censors.

    “I had just complained there as I complained here, but obviously through China channels. But really, their decision to do whatever they did with that movie was their decision,” Lee told Variety at the 18th annual Unforgettable Gala, an event honoring Asian Americans in entertainment.

    Whether or not the film’s hold in China was due to Lee’s complaint exclusively is unclear, although depictions of violence may have also factored in. Tarantino previously edited his film “Django Unchained” in 2012 after Chinese officials delayed its scheduled release due to graphic content.

    Last summer, the director and Lee engaged in a public back-and-forth, with Lee saying the movie portrayed her martial arts legend father as arrogant. Tarantino defended the depiction at a press conference in Moscow in August. The scene in question shows Bruce Lee (played by Mike Moh) bragging about his ability to cripple Muhammad Ali, before ultimately losing a fight to Pitt’s (fictional) character, aging stuntman Cliff Booth.

    Lee, who oversees her father’s estate, said she has worked throughout her career to preserve her father’s legacy. Bruce Lee passed away in 1973 at age 32 and is known for introducing martial arts to mainstream Hollywood through films like “Enter the Dragon” and “The Game of Death.”

    “I really do think [‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’] did a disservice to him, I think it did a disservice to Asian actors and I think that it was really a shame,” said Lee, an executive producer of Cinemax’s “Warrior,” a show based on a treatment her father wrote.

    She added that while she has not spoken with Tarantino, she’s open to it.

    “I would imagine he has no love lost for me or wants to speak to me,” said Lee, laughing. “But I’m always open for a conversation.”

    A representative for Tarantino did not respond to Variety’s request for comment.
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    The funny thing about the onscreen Bruce Lee vs Cliff Booth fight is that IIRC, Mike Moh or someone else said that the fight was actually a draw. No it wasn’t. The Bruce Lee character was losing and was on the way to a beat down.

    From all accounts, BL was arrogant, but I know he didn’t say anything on tape or in print that he would cripple Muhammad Ali. I know what Lee’s quote about Ali was, and that wasn’t it. And I seriously doubt he would have referred to Joe Lewis, the karate fighter, as “the white a-hole kickboxer Joe Lewis.” So yes, IMO QT wildly misrepresented BL while saying that he “heard” BL say he would cripple Ali, which is a lie. Ironically, in real life, during a press conference before Ali’s “match” with Antonio Inoki, Joe Lewis (who also had a wrestling background) easily took Ali to the floor (supposedly more than once) to demonstrate what a wrestler can do, and Ali was pretty helpless.

    However, all that said, IMO the movie itself is good, and at least there were no anti-Chinese or anti-Asian slurs in the movie, which is a bit unusual for QT, especially since virtually all of his early films had at least one anti-Asian slur, even if there were no Asian characters in them.
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    And the winner is...

    Winners & Nominees 2020

    Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
    WINNER
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
    WINNER
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joker

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
    WINNER
    Awkwafina
    Farewell, The

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
    WINNER
    Brad Pitt
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
    WINNER
    Quentin Tarantino
    Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

    Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language
    WINNER
    Parasite
    South Korea, Bong Joon Ho
    THREADS
    The Golden Globes
    Parasite
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
    Joker
    The Farewell
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    And the winner is...

    Winners & Nominees 2020

    Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
    WINNER
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
    WINNER
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joker

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
    WINNER
    Awkwafina
    Farewell, The

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
    WINNER
    Brad Pitt
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

    Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
    WINNER
    Quentin Tarantino
    Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

    Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language
    WINNER
    Parasite
    South Korea, Bong Joon Ho
    THREADS
    The Golden Globes
    Parasite
    Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
    Joker
    The Farewell
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    the noms

    Selected for films we've discussed here.

    THE 92ND ACADEMY AWARDS | 2020
    Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center
    Sunday, February 9, 2020
    Honoring movies released in 2019

    ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
    NOMINEES
    LEONARDO DICAPRIO
    Once upon a Time...in Hollywood
    JOAQUIN PHOENIX
    Joker

    ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
    NOMINEES
    BRAD PITT
    Once upon a Time...in Hollywood

    CINEMATOGRAPHY
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Lawrence Sher
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Robert Richardson

    COSTUME DESIGN
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Mark Bridges
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Arianne Phillips

    DIRECTING
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Todd Phillips
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Quentin Tarantino
    PARASITE
    Bong Joon Ho

    FILM EDITING
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Jeff Groth
    PARASITE
    Yang Jinmo

    INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
    NOMINEES
    PARASITE
    South Korea

    MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou

    MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Hildur Guðnadóttir
    STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
    John Williams

    BEST PICTURE
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino, Producers
    PARASITE
    Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, Producers

    PRODUCTION DESIGN
    NOMINEES
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
    PARASITE
    Production Design: Lee Ha Jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won Woo

    SOUND EDITING
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Alan Robert Murray
    1917
    Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Wylie Stateman
    STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
    Matthew Wood and David Acord

    SOUND MIXING
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano

    VISUAL EFFECTS
    NOMINEES
    AVENGERS: ENDGAME
    Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken and Dan Sudick
    STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
    Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach and Dominic Tuohy

    WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
    NOMINEES
    JOKER
    Written by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver

    WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
    NOMINEES
    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
    Written by Quentin Tarantino
    PARASITE
    Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won; Story by Bong Joon Ho
    REVIEWS
    Joker
    Once upon a Time...in Hollywood

    THREADS
    Joker
    Once upon a Time...in Hollywood
    Parasite
    Skywalker
    Endgame
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    This strikes me as so funny. Can ya blame him?

    JANUARY 13, 2020 DOCUMENT: Crime Moviegoer Beat Fellow Patron Over Phone Use
    Cops: Yoga instructor claimed victim ruined Tarantino film



    JANUARY 13--An Iowa yoga instructor allegedly pummeled a fellow moviegoer whose use of a phone during a showing of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was purportedly responsible for “ruining the film” for the accused assailant.



    Police yesterday arrested Nicholas Glasgow, 34, on assault and criminal mischief charges in connection with an incident last year at an Iowa City multiplex. Seen at right, Glasgow was released this morning from the Johnson County jail, where he had been booked on the misdemeanor charges.

    According to a criminal complaint, the Oscar-nominated film starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio had not even begun when Glasgow “contacted theater staff and demanded they speak to the victim about his phone usage.” Workers recalled Glasgow “telling them to take care of it or he would,” an investigator noted.

    At the conclusion of the Quentin Tarantino-directed film, Glasgow allegedly approached the victim and his friend and “demanded they apologize for ruining the film for him.” While the victim was seated and “before he could react,” Glasgow began punching him in the face, cops allege.

    During the ensuing fight, the victim ended up on the ground, and Glasgow began kicking him. The victim, cops say, suffered “a cut to his head, swelling, soreness, and redness to his face, and had his eyeglasses broken from the assault.”



    The 6’, 230-pound Glasgow was identified by theater personnel as “a regular who attends most Tuesday nights.” While the attack occurred in September, an arrest warrant for Glasgow was only issued Friday.

    In an online Q&A posted to the web site of an Iowa pilates studio, Glasgow described himself as “fiercely loyal, flexible, freedom lover” and said he loved yoga due to “the healin power.” In response to a question about his guilty pleasure, Glasgow answered, “Movie theater gluttony.” (1 page).
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