Happy
New year to all the visitors of our web-site! We'd like to wish you all the
best in the world! Lots of love and happiness! Spend lovely time with your
friends and family! Let the upcoming year be lots of hope and happiness!
Thankx
to all for support!
and
Happy New Year to ms. Moss!
~27.12.04~
Psycho
shower scene voted top film moment
Janet Leigh’s shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has been voted the
best film moment of the last 50 years. The battle sequence in Star Wars sequel
The Empire Strikes Back, where Darth Vader devastates the Rebel base is second
in the poll. Stanley Kubrick’s horror movie The Shining, starring Jack
Nicholson, comes third in the UCI Cinemas survey, for the scene were Scatman
Crothers “shines” in his bedroom. Fourth is The Italian Job for the Mini
car chase through Turin, followed by Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now,
where Col Kilgore (Robert Duvall) and his helicopters swarm out of the dawn
light to flatten a Vietcong village.
UCI spokesman Katy Harris said: “Today’s computer generated graphics that
have helped to make films like the Matrix and the Star Wars trilogy such
a success.
“But the choices show that what makes a memorable movie moment is much more
about how we make an emotional connection to the screen images, through humour,
tragedy, fear or disbelief.”
The survey, of 500 people, also came up with the best movie moments for each
decade.
1950s
From Here to Eternity (1953): Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing in the
surf. 1960s
Psycho (1960): The editing, shrieking music and camera angles in the shower
scene. 1970s
Apocalypse Now (1979): where Col Kilgore (Robert Duvall) and his Air Calvary
helicopters swarm out of the dawn light to flatten a Vietcong village. 1980s
The Empire Strikes Back (1980): The AT-AT attack. 1990s The Matrix (1999): The sequence with Carrie-Anne Moss jumping,
kicking and flying through the air.
~21.12.04~
The
Ultimate Matrix Collection: Limited Edition
Easily
weighing in as the most exhaustive DVD treatment of a film series in 2004, The
Ultimate Matrix Collection is daunting in its more description—10 discs
holding everything you ever wanted to know about The Matrix trilogy. Debuting
in two incarnations—a standard edition and a Limited Edition—that vary only
in their packaging, the set is a Matrix monster, plugging you in to a brand-new
visual presentation of the first film and assembling a vast array of heretofore
unseen special features and, for good measure, also throwing in some stuff you
might already have in your collection.
Particularly
if you’re a fan of the saga, this set is going to deliver some redundancy.
But can you resist the sheer coolness of this comprehensive behemoth? The
Ultimate Matrix Collection is a scrumptious, only slightly flawed film-school
compendium of a remarkable series of films, and even if your reactions to the
Wachowskis’ cerebral trilogy were of increasing disappointment as it
approached its narrative climax, this set will give you a much deeper
understanding of the astonishing intellectual scope of the project and will
show you exactly what it was like to be on the sets, making these films. The
Ultimate Matrix Collection truly lives up to its title.
~20.11.04~
We
are one year old!
Today
is our site's birthday! We are one year old, and it was great year for this
place! Actually at first time there were two small sites, but then we decided
to make one, the bigger one, the more beautiful one, and here it is.
We'd
like to thank every single visitor of our site. And of course thank ms. Moss,
who is the main reason for that we created it :o))
The Tom Cruise star vehicle was set for pre-production this past summer. But
then Cruise fired director Joe Carnahan and the movie went into limbo. Now,
even though TV's J.J. Abrams ("Lost," "Felicity") has
signed up to replace Carnahan, insiders are still talking about the disastrous
situation and its ramifications. In fact, some sources tell that Carnahan never
really had a script for the third movie in the series.
"When
it came down to it, the real script was only about 60 or 70 pages," a
source said. The average screenplay runs about 120 pages, or a page per minute
of screen time.
"The rest of it," the source said, "was in Tom's head."
"MI:3" was budgeted for almost $200 million, with locations in 15
countries — give or take. Cruise was determined to make the biggest movie
ever, but had no actual plan for executing the scheme. The overwhelming nature
of the project was ultimately too much for Carnahan, whose previous experience
was limited to indie films like the Ray Liotta flick "Narc."
Nevertheless, Cruise — now filming Steven Spielberg's "War of the
Worlds" — was already envisioning himself as the star of a
super-successful "MI:3."
Cruise actually assembled a trailer for "MI:3," including credits,
voiceovers and clips, that he screened for friends as a way to bolster his own
ego. Trailers, as most movie fans know, are made after a film is completed, not
before it's even been shot.
The failure of "MI:3" to come together is said to be one yet another
reasons for the departure of Paramount chief executive Sherry Lansing.
The beleaguered studio head was said to be frantic last summer when she saw
"MI:3" unraveling and couldn't do anything about it. At one point,
she is said to have approached several potential replacements for Carnahan,
even though there was no finished script.
"Sherry needed 'MI:3' for 2005," a source said.
P.S.
Anyway, still hope to see Carrie-Anne there.
Source:
~11.11.04~
News
about MI:3
Carrie-Anne
Moss, Kenneth Branagh, and Scarlett Johansson were all announced to star in
“M:I-3″, but Tom says that now depends on what Abrams wants. He
mentions that at this point it’s “just me. I want to work with Carrie and
Scarlett, and Kenneth is someone I’ve been wanting to work with for years,
but you have to start with the director and see where he’s going to take
us.”
The
character of Leah Quint (which is going to be Carrie-Anne's part)
is described as a natural American beauty and endowed with grace, warmth and
vulnerability. She is exceedingly intelligent with a compelling presence and a
great, disarming sense of humor. Leah has had extensive training with the IMF
(Impossible Mission Force), starting her training with the agency right out of
school. She has extensive experience for someone her age, a force to be
considered with, as she can instantly turn into a person of steely resolve and
toughness.
The ideal actress being sought would be between 24 and 36 years old, and in
keeping with the casting of Thandie Newton in the previous installment, could
be a person of diverse ethnicity. Producers and casting agents are looking for
a facile, confident and skilled actress with a significant depth of range, and
should have a "perfect American accent" if she is not American. While
previously rumored actresses Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Brook both would fit
within these character traits, no actress has been signed for the role and this
casting info indicates that both will not be a part of this project.
Source:
~31.10.04~
Matrix
Cast Returns In Matrix Online
The surviving stars of the
Matrix movies will lend their likenesses and voices to The Matrix Online, Sega
and Warner Bros. announced today.
Today's release makes mention of the following specific actors and roles:
Collin Chou (Seraph), Harold Perrineau Jr. (Link), Harry Lennix (Lock), Lambert
Wilson (The Merovingian), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Mary Alice (The
Oracle), Monica Bellucci (Persephone), Nona Gaye (Zee), Tanveer Atwal (Sati).
Through process of
elimination, of course, we can surmise that Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity)
and Keanu Reeves (Neo) won't be appearing in the game, although it's
true that working them back into the plot would be a rather complex reversal.
It's interesting to see that the stars of Enter the Matrix (Jada Pinkett-Smith
and company) will apparently not be showing up in the Matrix MMO, though.
"Since The Matrix Online is the legitimate continuation of the Matrix
storyline, we felt that it was imperative to preserve character continuity
between this game and the films as much as possible," explained Warner's
Jason Hall. "On January 18th 2005, the Matrix storyline will resume right
where it left off, and players will see, hear and ultimately interact with
familiar characters while they make gameplay decisions that can become
permanent legend in the storyline of the Matrix."
They'll also hear familiar music -- Don Davis, composer of the score to all
three Matrix films, is also working on the soundtrack for Matrix Online.
Source:
~08.10.04~
A
new Carrie-Anne's movie
Carrie-Anne
Moss, Luke Wilson and Jeff Goldblum will join Alex Baldwin and Nikki Reed
in Mini's First Time, reports Production Weekly. The black comedy was written
and will be directed by first-time helmer Nick Guthe and produced by Kevin
Spacey.
Desperate to be free from her drunken, unloving mother Diane, the beautiful,
scheming young Mini (Reed) seduces her stepfather Martin (Baldwin) and soon
convinces him to join her in a sadisctic scheme to have Diane declared insane.
But their conspiracy soon escalates to murder and when John Garson, a young
detective starts investigating, Martin and Mini begin to turn on each other.
The film will begin production in Los Angeles on Monday.
Source:
~23.09.04~
"Alias"
writers rewriting "Mission: Impossible 3"
Now
that "Mission: Impossible 3" has been put on hold, The Hollywood
Reporter reports that director JJ Abrams will be doing some work on Frank
Darabont's draft of "Mission: Impossible 3." The trade reports that
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, co-writers on Abrams' series "Alias"
starring Jennifer Garner, will polish Darabont's draft.
Currently,
"MI:3" is being put on hold for a summer 2005 production start.
Cruise will be reprising his role as Agent Ethan Hunt, while Vin Rhames,
Carrie-Anne Moss, and Scarlett Johansson will have supporting roles.
Source:
~04.09.04~
Site
update
Some
interesting articles added to the Press
section.
M:I
3. Something new about
Paramount
Pictures and Cruise/Wagner Productions made it official today that J.J. Abrams
will direct Mission: Impossible 3, starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Carrie-Anne
Moss, Kenneth Branagh, and Scarlett Johansson.
Abrams, the screenwriter of Armageddon, is also the creator of Alias and
Felicity as well as a writer on the new television series Lost. Having directed
all three of those series, Abrams makes his major motion picture directorial
debut with the third installment of "Mission: Impossible."
Previously being prepped in Berlin, the film is now set to begin shooting in
the summer of 2005.
Cruise will first team up with director Steven Spielberg on The War of the
Worlds, which starts filming this November. The 2005 release is a Paramount and
DreamWorks production.
Based on H.G. Wells' legendary science fiction classic, "The War of the
Worlds" (published in 1898), the film is a modern day version of what many
critics agree is the definitive model for alien invasion stories.
