THE CARRIE DIARIES (Sex and the City SpinsOff)

• THE CARRIE DIARIES

The CW's upcoming "Sex and the City" spinoff, "The Carrie Diaries," has landed its lead. Variety reports that AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia, Race to Witch Mountain) will play the young Carrie Bradshaw.

Based on the prequel book series by Candace Bushnell, "The Carrie Diaries" tells of Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker's character from "Sex and the City") coming of age in 1980's Manhattan.

AnnaSophia Robb

Amy Harris drafted the pilot and will executive produce with Bushnell, Len Goldstein, Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz.

AND THE WINNER IS (Academy Awards)

AND THE WINNER IS (Academy Awards)

BEST PICTURE


The Artist
 - WINNER

The Descendants

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close


The Help


Hugo


Midnight in Paris


Moneyball


The Tree of Life
War Horse

Jean Dujardin

BEST DIRECTOR


The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
- WINNER

The Descendants - Alexander Payne


Hugo - Martin Scorsese


Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen


The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

BEST ACTOR


Jean Dujardin - The Artist - WINNER


Demián Bichir - A Better Life


George Clooney - The Descendants


Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy


Brad Pitt - Moneyball

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR


Christopher Plummer - Beginners
 - WINNER

Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn


Jonah Hill - Moneyball


Nick Nolte - Warrior


Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Meryl Streep

BEST ACTRESS


Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
- WINNER

Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs


Viola Davis - The Help


Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS


Octavia Spencer - The Help
- WINNER

Bérénice Bejo - The Artist


Jessica Chastain - The Help


Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids


Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
 

BEST ANIMATED FILM


Rango 
- WINNER

A Cat in Paris


Chico & Rita


Kung Fu Panda 2 


Puss in Boots 
 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY


The Descendants - Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash 
- WINNER

Hugo - John Logan


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


Moneyball - Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
Story by Stan Chervin


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

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY


Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen 
- WINNER

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius


Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig


Margin Call - J.C. Chandor


A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

ART DIRECTION


Hugo - Production Design: Dante Ferretti, Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
 - WINNER

The Artist - Production Design: Laurence Bennett, Set Decoration: Robert Gould


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Production Design: Stuart Craig, Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan


Midnight in Paris - Production Design: Anne Seibel, Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil


War Horse - Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

CINEMATOGRAPHY


Hugo - Robert Richardson
- WINNER

The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth


The Tree of Life - Emmanuel Lubezki


War Horse - Janusz Kaminski

COSTUME DESIGN


Cast & Crew - The Artist

The Artist - Mark Bridges 
- WINNER

Anonymous -Lisy Christl
Hugo - Sandy Powell


Jane Eyre - Michael O’Connor


W.E. - Arianne Phillips

BEST FILM EDITING


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall 
- WINNER

The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius


The Descendants - Kevin Tent
Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker


Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM


A Separation - Iran 
- WINNER

Bullhead - Belgium


Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland


Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
 

BEST MAKEUP


The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland 
- WINNER

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
 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE


The Artist - Ludovic Bource 
- WINNER

The Adventures of Tintin - John Williams


Hugo - Howard Shore
T

inker Tailor Soldier Spy - Alberto Iglesias
War Horse - John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SONG


Man or Muppet - The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie 
- WINNER

Real in Rio – Rio, Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown
Lyric by Siedah Garrett

BEST SOUND EDITING


Hugo - Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty 
- WINNER

Drive - Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Ren Klyce


Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl


War Horse - Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

BEST SOUND MIXING


Hugo - Tom Fleischman and John Midgley 
- WINNER

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


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

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS


Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
 - WINNER

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Part 2 - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and
John Richardson


Real Steel - Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg


Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett


Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS SIX: WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

Fast Six... Would You Believe it??

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS SIX: WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

The Humble Beginnings of a unplanned Saga

With the success of the newest installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast Five has rejuvenated, as well as redefined this franchise that almost seemed to be a sinking ship.

Fast Five the Fire that kept the Franchise moving forward Brighter then Ever

The Fast and the Furious films is something of a wonder for Hollywood as this franchise should of probably sunk after the 2nd film yet, 5 films later here we are getting ready for a 6th and 7th entry into this franchise with High anticipation!

As fans, we just hope to see certain things in the new film and we sure that all you fans will definitely agree with some of thing we want to see.

WE WANT TO SEE MORE ROMAN PEARCE

This makes total sense, as Rome was a main character in the second film and is the only character in the supporting cast in Fast Five, which was main character before.

Paul Walker (Brian) & Tyrese Gibson (Rome) an Awesome Combination!!

Tyrese has also had one of thee most successful year, with two very successful films, a best selling book and a No. 1 album.

In the Ocean Eleven film series we see Linus, played by Mart Damon, character grow from a supporting player in the first film to a full fledged main character by the third film.

We hoping that Mr. Lin could adopt this blueprint and handle Roman Pearce in the same way, as he is definitely a fan favorite in this franchise.

Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel & Tyrese Gibson = Awesome

Another reason why this could be possible is that Brian, played by Paul Walker, as a character, his story is complete. There is nothing else for his character to go through, the character of Brian is fully developed. His Married, he has a Kid, he has money, he has his best friend back (Rome), he has redeemed himself in Dom’s eyes, and everything is good for him!

Now because of Brian’s complete story development, it gives extra room for another character to get more screen time. We believe that this character should be Roman Pearce, as Dom’s story in the sixth one will probably bring some drama once again. Having a little more focus on Rome will bring a lighter side to the story.

We also hope we get to see Brian return to his more fun and crazy antics we see, in the 2nd film.  Just, because he might not be the total focus of the story, doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be classic crazy as hell, highly determined, motivated, and just plain stubborn. He should play an integral part in the planning of the heist and action scenes but he doesn’t need his own personal storyline.

Jason Statham might drive himself into Fast Six

We really hope we get to see Jason Statham join the cast and if he does, we think he should either be as the primary antagonist, alongside Hobbs, or alongside Letty, or be an independent antagonist entirely. It doesn't matter as long as we get to see him and Vin Diesel throw down (That just means we want to see them fight)!!!

Justin Lin's Killing Tendencies 

Justin Lin has a tendency to kill off main characters in the film series since he started directing this franchise. In Tokyo Drift he killed Han, causing this whole prequel film series to occur just to make sense with Hans appearance (They should have just said that Tokyo Drift happened in a parallel universe, that makes more sense).

Then in the Fourth film he kills off Letty (off-screen), which kind of made that film suck adding to the fact that Rome didn't even make an appearance, which sucked even more (They said he was going to be in it, even if it was just a cameo). Not to mention how weak they made Letty, after we saw her as a strong fighter chick, in the first film.

Letty should be brought back to her bad ass roots!!

Side Note: Letty

We definitely want to see Letty be more badass, this time around. Letty should be loving her life of crime, doing Heist regularly while Dom just wants to get out of that life. Letty should tell Dom that she cant settled down and have a quiet life, that she loves heist, and that she is still angry with him for leaving her in the Dominican Republic. She can protect herself.

She has done everything she could to get Dom back, and it almost got her killed… Now she’s done, Letty is for herself!! Letty is in Germany pulling heist, which shows she moved on, she didn’t even try telling anyone that she is alive!! Clearly this shows that she doesn’t want to be reminded about her past life.

Yes, she will be happy to see Dom, but No, she will not want to get out the heist game just as yet. Maybe even make her the leader of her own crew.

They should have that dilemma, and maybe at the end of the series Dom doesn’t end up with Letty, he should remain with Elena (the Brazilian Cop) played by Elsa Pataky, or just end up alone.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE FAST SIX

After the mediocre Fast & Furious Four, Fast Five came and it seemed to have, corrected all that was wrong with the previous films, yet Vince could still not survive Justin Lin's insatiable appetite for killing off main characters.

Fast Five just a lot of fun with old and new characters...

With Fast Six we think there is an extremely high chance that someone will be dying, and with a cast that is ever expanding some characters will have to be removed from the story line. That in itself is a very sad thing, but it has to be done.

We thinking Giselle, played by the beautiful Gal Gadot, will probably have to die. Her death could spark Han wanting to go to Tokyo to start a new life there. This will see Han leave the film series with the 7th film looming. Tego and Leo can die, even though they were much better characters in the fifth film than they were in the fourth, they wouldn’t be sorely missed. DON’T KILL TEJ!! We like Ludacris, if you want to take him out, you DON’T have to KILL him, Mr. Lin!! TEJ might just decide he doesn’t want that life no more, but we LIKE TEJ, so rather keep him IN!!!

Jordana Brewster appearance should be limited in future films as she has a baby! She can't be part of the action stuff.

Something that we would also really love to see is the return of Leon, played by Johnny Strong. This is the last member of Dom’s beloved crew from the first film and we all want to know what happened with him! We thinking, Leon helped get Letty to Europe where they got themselves a new crew, which may include Jason Statham, whereby they pulled off that job that Eva Mendes tells Hobbs about in the post credit scene in Fast Five.

Dom, Brian and there Awesome crew!! Letty gots to get her own awesome crew!!

I think one thing that will really get fans cheering in Fast Six, is if the opening sequence of the film is Letty and her crew pulling off the truck heist, which was mentioned in post credit scene. It will be reminiscent of the very first film, while re-introducing us to Letty, in a similar fashion of the Fourth film, while opening with a heist, which we all love seeing!! It will even give us a glimpse of how good her new crew is.

Tej & Rome, representing 2Fast 2Furious!!

In Fast Six there will be a slight change when it comes to the cars, and in Fast Five there was a hint of this. After seeing tuner and muscle cars, the future of this franchise points to exotics, we just hope that they have some awesome chase scenes and hopefully one race scene. This is the still the Fast and the Furious franchise and we like to see some awesome car chase scenes!!

One thing we would like from Fast Six is a much better Marketing Campaign from the film... Give us some viral videos and Character Posters... There are so many awesome characters in the film, give each one a poster or have team posters, where you have the guys from the first film together, the guys from the second and so forth. Give the fans things to geek over about!!!

ONE MORE THING... Give Ryan Gosling a cameo appearance has his character Driver from Drive!! LoL that one is a but to much but hey it would be AWESOME!!!

Tell us what u would like to see from this franchise and do you agree with our wants??

MAD BUDDIES (In Production)

•  MAD BUDDIES ( SA FILMS NEWS)

Mad Buddies will be the Leon Schuster latest comedy film, which will be releasing 22 June this year, reports Screen Africa.

The Films plot will see sworn enemies, Boetie (Schuster) and Beast (Kenneth Nkosi), as they are forced to embark on a road trip as unwitting subjects of a new TV reality show, devised by a gorgeous TV Producer, Kelsey (Tanit Phoenix). On camera, with the whole of South Africa in on the joke, the pair come unstuck at every stage of this hilarious journey until they discover that they have been conned and join forces to exact revenge.

Leon Schuster & Kenneth Nkosi

Also starring long-time Schuster collaborator Alfred Ntombela, Mad Buddies is directed by Gray Hofmeyr and produced by Helena Spring. Fans can also visit the official website at www.facebook.com/MadBuddiesMovie for exclusive content and updates as the countdown to the film’s 22 June release edges nearer.

SAMA award winner, platinum selling musician and TV presenter Ed Jordan will be at the helm of the music and score composition of the hotly anticipated Leon Schuster film Mad Buddies, set for release across South Africa on 22 June 2012.

 “I am looking forward to working with Leon and Gray in what can only be described as an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. From what I have already seen, audiences are going to be aching with laughter from the very first scene!”

On the addition of Jordan as the Mad Buddies score composer, Leon Schuster adds, “It’s a real treat for all of us to have Ed on board. The collaborative nature of this film on all levels has me really excited in delivering a truly memorable experience for cinema-goers.”