Tom Hardy is swiftly becoming a solid bet when it comes to physically demanding roles; the actor has already pumped himself up for parts in Bronson, Warrior, and The Dark Knight Rises, but he may be taking his dedication to a different level (or at least a different elevation). Deadline Hollywood reports that the actor is “in early talks” for the role of George Mallory in Doug Liman‘s fact-based Everest. While this is an early report, Hardy certainly seems like a very good fit for the part, so hopefully this scoop will pan out for all involved. Liman, who is apparently both “an avid climber and fan of the Mallory story” will helm the film from a Sheldon Turner script adapted from Jeffrey Archer‘s book, “Paths of Glory.” The story centers on the British Mallory who, so determined to be the first man to ever scale Everest, he tried it three times in the 1920′s...
- 9/25/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Lawless star Tom Hardy is in talks to take on the lead role in director Doug Liman's film project Everest. The movie will tell the true story of mountain climber George Mallory, who in the 1920's tried three times to become the first man to scale the world’s highest mountain.
The movie is an adaptation of the book Paths Of Glory, Everest written by Jeffrey Archer, it was adapted by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air). Liman is set to start shooting the movie after he's finished directing All You Need is Kill with Tom Cruise. Hardy is one hell of a talented actor, and he was awesome in Lawless! Everest sounds like a great project for him to take on, one where he'll once again be able to show off his acting skills.
If he doesn't get nominated for a Best Actor award for Lawless, maybe Everest...
The movie is an adaptation of the book Paths Of Glory, Everest written by Jeffrey Archer, it was adapted by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air). Liman is set to start shooting the movie after he's finished directing All You Need is Kill with Tom Cruise. Hardy is one hell of a talented actor, and he was awesome in Lawless! Everest sounds like a great project for him to take on, one where he'll once again be able to show off his acting skills.
If he doesn't get nominated for a Best Actor award for Lawless, maybe Everest...
- 9/25/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It’s been a long while since a Doug Liman picture had us truly excited. For a guy who burst onto the scene in the mid 90′s with such a confident and brash voice via the Indie hits Swingers (based on that great script by Jon Favreau) and 1999′s offbeat drug thriller Go before launching a modern day James Bond franchise in The Bourne Identity, Liman nosedived when he sold his soul to the blockbuster devil like many before him have done, helming the two paycheck endeavors Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Jumper. Very quickly a worthy independent voice had become just another filmmaker and although his last movie Fair Game put him back on track tonally, we couldn’t help but feel it was less meaningful in it’s intentions and more like an Oscar baiting political thriller vehicle for Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.
Often when a creative becomes too comfortable in life,...
Often when a creative becomes too comfortable in life,...
- 9/30/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Doug Liman may be an experienced climber in real-life, but his now going pro. Deadline reports that the Bourne Identity director has signed on to direct Everest, a Sony Pictures drama about "George Mallory and his three attempts in the early 1920s to become the first man to climb Everest, the world’s highest mountain." The film is being adaped from Jeffrey Archer’s book Paths of Glory, by Sheldon Turner who is penning the script. Jennifer Klein is serving as producer on the project.
The film is about "Mallory’s burning obsession to climb to the top of Mount Everest, and a rivalry with another great climber, Australian George Finch (the grandfather of actor Peter Finch) to get there first. While Everest has been scaled many times (though bodies are littered near the top of the summit of those who failed), the feat was symbolically important and for its...
The film is about "Mallory’s burning obsession to climb to the top of Mount Everest, and a rivalry with another great climber, Australian George Finch (the grandfather of actor Peter Finch) to get there first. While Everest has been scaled many times (though bodies are littered near the top of the summit of those who failed), the feat was symbolically important and for its...
- 9/30/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Reviewer: Philip Tatler
Rating (out of 5): ***½
Within the first decades of the 20th Century, Earth was becoming a smaller place. Most of the planet's surface had been mapped and the poles had been successfully reached. Only one natural superlative remained in defiance of man's despoilment: Earth's highest peak, Tibet's Mt. Chomolungma, known more familiarly in the West as Mt. Everest.
Anthony Geffen's film The Wildest Dream, released as an IMAX spectacular via National Geographic's theatrical imprint, documents the doomed 1924 conquest of Everest by British mountaineer George Mallory. Mallory's story dovetails into American climber Conrad Anker's modern attempt to reach Everest's summit using Mallory's route.
Rating (out of 5): ***½
Within the first decades of the 20th Century, Earth was becoming a smaller place. Most of the planet's surface had been mapped and the poles had been successfully reached. Only one natural superlative remained in defiance of man's despoilment: Earth's highest peak, Tibet's Mt. Chomolungma, known more familiarly in the West as Mt. Everest.
Anthony Geffen's film The Wildest Dream, released as an IMAX spectacular via National Geographic's theatrical imprint, documents the doomed 1924 conquest of Everest by British mountaineer George Mallory. Mallory's story dovetails into American climber Conrad Anker's modern attempt to reach Everest's summit using Mallory's route.
- 3/16/2011
- by underdog
- GreenCine
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Limitless – Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
The Lincoln Lawyer – Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe
Paul – Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen
Movie of the Week
Limitless
The Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
The Plot: A copywriter (Cooper) discovers a top-secret drug which gives him super-human abilities.
The Buzz: Until recently, I couldn’t stand Bradley Cooper — and no, it wasn’t his role in A-Team that won me over, it was, hearkening back a decade, his role in the television series ‘Alias.’ Yes, I’m a total johnny-come-lately when it comes to that show, but I love it, and I love Bradley Cooper in it. He can act, I was surprised to see. His success with ‘Alias’ ultimately launched his career, and now, ten years later, here he is approaching A-list status, starring in a fine-looking action film,...
Limitless – Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
The Lincoln Lawyer – Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe
Paul – Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen
Movie of the Week
Limitless
The Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
The Plot: A copywriter (Cooper) discovers a top-secret drug which gives him super-human abilities.
The Buzz: Until recently, I couldn’t stand Bradley Cooper — and no, it wasn’t his role in A-Team that won me over, it was, hearkening back a decade, his role in the television series ‘Alias.’ Yes, I’m a total johnny-come-lately when it comes to that show, but I love it, and I love Bradley Cooper in it. He can act, I was surprised to see. His success with ‘Alias’ ultimately launched his career, and now, ten years later, here he is approaching A-list status, starring in a fine-looking action film,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection"
Directed by Fernando Di Leo
Released by RaroVideo
Fans of badass '70s cinema and the stoic Henry Silva rejoice! Underappreciated Italian crime master director Fernando Di Leo finally comes to the U.S. via this set of four films -- "Caliber 9," "The Italian Connection," "The Boss," and "Rulers of the City" -- that shows what made him an influence of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.
"The Absent" (2011)
Directed by Sage Bannick
Released by Passion River
Twin brothers are bonded by the experience of having their parents try to kill them for insurance money, only to become killers themselves in this slasher film from Sage Bannick.
"Be My Teacher" (2011)
Directed by Lakisha R. Lemons
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
A student's (Derek Lee Nixon) flirtations with his English teacher (Lateace Towns-Cuellar) has serious...
"Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection"
Directed by Fernando Di Leo
Released by RaroVideo
Fans of badass '70s cinema and the stoic Henry Silva rejoice! Underappreciated Italian crime master director Fernando Di Leo finally comes to the U.S. via this set of four films -- "Caliber 9," "The Italian Connection," "The Boss," and "Rulers of the City" -- that shows what made him an influence of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.
"The Absent" (2011)
Directed by Sage Bannick
Released by Passion River
Twin brothers are bonded by the experience of having their parents try to kill them for insurance money, only to become killers themselves in this slasher film from Sage Bannick.
"Be My Teacher" (2011)
Directed by Lakisha R. Lemons
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
A student's (Derek Lee Nixon) flirtations with his English teacher (Lateace Towns-Cuellar) has serious...
- 3/14/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Your Weekly Source for Blu-Ray and DVD Release News
What could be better than a young Nicole Kidman in classics 80′s era flickdom? Well, lots… but, we’re talking apples and oranges here. BMX Bandits is only one of the schlocky titles to go Blu this week, the other is Roger Corman’s Sharktopus, a modern schlockterpiece that was spawned from the recent giant mutant killer animal revival on DVD and the SyFy Channel. If you sit on the serious/schlock fence, perhaps you’ll appreciate the emergence of the Harry Potter franchise finally conjuring itself onto Blu. If your tastes are a bit more refined, I would suggest one of Criterion’s new Blu titles: Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants — set during WWII, about a French boarding school run by priests and a friendship that could risk the entire school’s safety; or, Edward Yang’s Yi Yi...
What could be better than a young Nicole Kidman in classics 80′s era flickdom? Well, lots… but, we’re talking apples and oranges here. BMX Bandits is only one of the schlocky titles to go Blu this week, the other is Roger Corman’s Sharktopus, a modern schlockterpiece that was spawned from the recent giant mutant killer animal revival on DVD and the SyFy Channel. If you sit on the serious/schlock fence, perhaps you’ll appreciate the emergence of the Harry Potter franchise finally conjuring itself onto Blu. If your tastes are a bit more refined, I would suggest one of Criterion’s new Blu titles: Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants — set during WWII, about a French boarding school run by priests and a friendship that could risk the entire school’s safety; or, Edward Yang’s Yi Yi...
- 3/14/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Restrepo is currently one of the highest reviewed films of the year, sitting at 97% with nearly 100 reviews on RottenTomatoes and recently garnered as a final selection for the documentary Oscar category. We have partnered with Virgil Films & Entertainment and National Geographic Entertainment to give away three Blu-ray copies to our readers!
For a chance to win one of the three Blu-rays just fill out the form below by 11:59 Pm Est on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. We will select the winners at random and you will be notified by e-mail. One entry per household. No purchase necessary. Winners must live inside the U.S. Shipping to a P.O. box is not permitted. Check out more info regarding the film as well as a trailer below, after the submission form. Good luck!
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Presented by Virgil Films & Entertainment and National Geographic Entertainment
From Directors Tim Hetherington And Sebastian Junger
The Award-winning Documentary...
For a chance to win one of the three Blu-rays just fill out the form below by 11:59 Pm Est on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. We will select the winners at random and you will be notified by e-mail. One entry per household. No purchase necessary. Winners must live inside the U.S. Shipping to a P.O. box is not permitted. Check out more info regarding the film as well as a trailer below, after the submission form. Good luck!
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Presented by Virgil Films & Entertainment and National Geographic Entertainment
From Directors Tim Hetherington And Sebastian Junger
The Award-winning Documentary...
- 11/27/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Enter The Void (18)
(Gaspar Noé, 2009, Fra/Ger/Ita) Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy. 143 mins
Noé adjusts your set from the inside with a film so hallucinogenic you might need to check into rehab afterwards. Despite some of the furthest-out visuals ever seen, nobody could accuse him of glamorising drugs. Following an American loser through the sleazy side of Tokyo, mostly after his death, it's a long, miserable tale, but the execution is amazing.
The Town (15)
(Ben Affleck, 2010, Us) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall. 125 mins
Affleck takes on a whole Boston district in this crime saga, which overextends him a little. It's a serious drama struggling to get out of a generic cops-and-robbers thriller.
Eat Pray Love (PG)
(Ryan Murphy, 2010, Us) Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem. 140 mins
Roberts goes to Italy, India and Bali but she's never been to "me" in this emetic hymn to self-absorption.
World's Greatest Dad (15)
(Bobcat Goldthwait,...
(Gaspar Noé, 2009, Fra/Ger/Ita) Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy. 143 mins
Noé adjusts your set from the inside with a film so hallucinogenic you might need to check into rehab afterwards. Despite some of the furthest-out visuals ever seen, nobody could accuse him of glamorising drugs. Following an American loser through the sleazy side of Tokyo, mostly after his death, it's a long, miserable tale, but the execution is amazing.
The Town (15)
(Ben Affleck, 2010, Us) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall. 125 mins
Affleck takes on a whole Boston district in this crime saga, which overextends him a little. It's a serious drama struggling to get out of a generic cops-and-robbers thriller.
Eat Pray Love (PG)
(Ryan Murphy, 2010, Us) Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem. 140 mins
Roberts goes to Italy, India and Bali but she's never been to "me" in this emetic hymn to self-absorption.
World's Greatest Dad (15)
(Bobcat Goldthwait,...
- 9/24/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Leo Houlding and guest attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Maryam d'Abo attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Leo Houlding attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Leo Houlding and guest attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Anthony Geffen attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. 09/21/2010 - Maryam d'Abo - "The Wildest Dream" UK Premiere -...
- 9/24/2010
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
“Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” “Because it’s There”.
For those that don’t know their history, George Mallory was a British mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s and who was last seen just a few hundred metres from the summit. This was 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing conquered it for the first recorded time.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest is a truly awe-inspiring documentary about the final venture to conquer Mount Everest by the climber George Mallory who never returned from his last attempt to scale it and whose body was never found until 1999. The man who found Mallory’s body, Conrad Anker, goes on his own journey to attempt the same recorded route to see if Mallory did actually reach the summit or whether he died trying as previously thought.
The film...
For those that don’t know their history, George Mallory was a British mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s and who was last seen just a few hundred metres from the summit. This was 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing conquered it for the first recorded time.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest is a truly awe-inspiring documentary about the final venture to conquer Mount Everest by the climber George Mallory who never returned from his last attempt to scale it and whose body was never found until 1999. The man who found Mallory’s body, Conrad Anker, goes on his own journey to attempt the same recorded route to see if Mallory did actually reach the summit or whether he died trying as previously thought.
The film...
- 9/20/2010
- by Gary Phillips
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Winter's Bone (15)
(Debra Granik, 2010, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan. 100 mins
What No Country For Old Men did for west Texas, this striking landscape thriller does for Missouri's Ozark mountains. This is no country for poor women: an insular rural community clouded by drugs and patriarchy where they do things their way. So when Ree learns her father's skipped bail, and the family home was his security, she must ask difficult questions in dangerous places – chiefly among her extended outlaw family. Tough suspense, documentary-like observation and character drama are perfectly balanced.
I'm Still Here (15)
(Casey Affleck, 2010, Us) Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Combs, Anthony Langdon. 107 mins
What was Joaquin thinking? This film won't clear that up, but it at least shows you what he was doing: taking drugs, falling out with friends and the movie biz, rapping badly and descending into mumbling incoherence – apparently.
The Other Guys (12A)
(Adam McKay, 2010, Us) Will Ferrell,...
(Debra Granik, 2010, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan. 100 mins
What No Country For Old Men did for west Texas, this striking landscape thriller does for Missouri's Ozark mountains. This is no country for poor women: an insular rural community clouded by drugs and patriarchy where they do things their way. So when Ree learns her father's skipped bail, and the family home was his security, she must ask difficult questions in dangerous places – chiefly among her extended outlaw family. Tough suspense, documentary-like observation and character drama are perfectly balanced.
I'm Still Here (15)
(Casey Affleck, 2010, Us) Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Combs, Anthony Langdon. 107 mins
What was Joaquin thinking? This film won't clear that up, but it at least shows you what he was doing: taking drugs, falling out with friends and the movie biz, rapping badly and descending into mumbling incoherence – apparently.
The Other Guys (12A)
(Adam McKay, 2010, Us) Will Ferrell,...
- 9/17/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Summiting Mount Everest is and always has been the ultimate achievement for any extreme sport enthusiast. Scaling the cliffs and reaching the peak at over 29,000 feet is the rush every climber has seen as a goal since as early as the 1920s. In the 1920.s, before anyone else had ever reached the daunting peak of Mount Everest, George Mallory and colleague Andrew Irvine embarked on the same journey many attempt now in the 21st century. The new documentary The Wildest Dream describes how the two disappeared on their third attempt to conquer the mountain in 1924 and were not found for 75 years, in 1999. Using re-enactments, archival photos and stock footage, the film investigates whether or not Mallory and Irvine reached the summit before disappearing. The trailer at HeyUGuys does a great job of conveying the intensity of the climb, but that might have something to do with the always powerful voice...
- 9/17/2010
- cinemablend.com
We’ve been given an exclusive peek at the latest trailer for The Wildest Dream, Anthony Geffen’s feature documentary retracing the climb undertaken by British explorer George Mallory in his attempt to be the first man to climb Mount Everest.
The trailer shows off the film’s stunning vistas and features the voices of Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson in her final film role.
Here’s the synopsis,
The Wildest Dream is a story of obsession and breathtaking adventure, told through the explorer’s poignant and evocative correspondence with his wife and using previously unseen photos and archive footage. Anker and British rock-climbing prodigy Leo Houlding embark on their own quest to conquer Everest, following the original North East Ridge route taken by Mallory in 1924 to discover whether he and fellow climber Andrew “Sandy” Irvine could have reached the summit. In their attempt they must...
The trailer shows off the film’s stunning vistas and features the voices of Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson in her final film role.
Here’s the synopsis,
The Wildest Dream is a story of obsession and breathtaking adventure, told through the explorer’s poignant and evocative correspondence with his wife and using previously unseen photos and archive footage. Anker and British rock-climbing prodigy Leo Houlding embark on their own quest to conquer Everest, following the original North East Ridge route taken by Mallory in 1924 to discover whether he and fellow climber Andrew “Sandy” Irvine could have reached the summit. In their attempt they must...
- 9/17/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
IMAX Corporation announced that John Woo and his producing partner Terence Chang will have their next film, Flying Tigers, digitally remastered for The IMAX Experience. The film--a Hollywood-China joint production with China Film Group as lead Chinese financier--tells the story of the American Volunteer Group and its later incarnation as the 14th Air Force during WWII. Led by Air Force General Claire Chennault, the joint air forces consisted of American and Chinese pilots flying side by side against the Empire of Japan. Shooting begins next spring. Said Woo: "It has always been a dream of mine to explore shooting with IMAX cameras and to work in the IMAX format and the strong visual element of this film is incredibly well-suited to the tastes of cinemagoers today. Using IMAX for Flying Tigers would create a new experience for the audience and I think it would be another breakthrough for Chinese movies.
- 8/30/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Wildest Dream, a docudrama set for September release, examines enduring exploration puzzle – but mystery remains
In so many ways, it was a peculiarly British expedition to Everest – with its four cases of Montebello champagne, 60 tins of quail and foie gras, 70 porters, 300 animals, and the climbers wearing hobnailed boots and gabardine jackets.
But, 86 years on, the mystery remains. Did the obsessed aesthete George Mallory and his colleague Sandy Irvine make it to the top and become the first people to conquer the world's highest and most formidable peak?
A documentary-drama, The Wildest Dream, to be released in cinemas in September, examines one of the most enduring and possibly unanswerable of exploration mysteries. While it does not offer a conclusion, it does throw up some fascinating new angles, and shows that the pair could have made it to the top.
The film's director and producer, Anthony Geffen, said: "What is great...
In so many ways, it was a peculiarly British expedition to Everest – with its four cases of Montebello champagne, 60 tins of quail and foie gras, 70 porters, 300 animals, and the climbers wearing hobnailed boots and gabardine jackets.
But, 86 years on, the mystery remains. Did the obsessed aesthete George Mallory and his colleague Sandy Irvine make it to the top and become the first people to conquer the world's highest and most formidable peak?
A documentary-drama, The Wildest Dream, to be released in cinemas in September, examines one of the most enduring and possibly unanswerable of exploration mysteries. While it does not offer a conclusion, it does throw up some fascinating new angles, and shows that the pair could have made it to the top.
The film's director and producer, Anthony Geffen, said: "What is great...
- 8/27/2010
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
The Wildest Dream director Anthony Geffen has cemented his relationship with that doc’s executive producer, Mike Medavoy. They are getting their Geffen Medavoy Pictures banner off the ground with a branded slate of high-end documentaries--most shot 3D--to bring to life ancient empires, dinosaurs and other historical topics. Budgets on the 3D films will fall between $11 million and $15 million. It's a non-exclusive relationship and Medavoy continues with Phoenix Pictures. Their first 3D documentary together will focus on Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who spearheaded an expedition to the South Pole that left his crew stranded in sub-zero tundra after ice crushed their ship in 1915. Using shrewd management and harrowing treks through mountains, glaciers and brutal waters over 18 months, Shackleton kept all 27 members of his crew alive until they could be rescued. Medavoy and Geffen will produce together, hire a director and start production at year’s end. Medavoy said other...
- 8/24/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
By SAÏDEH Pakravan - August 10, 2010
At age 7, George Mallory sneaked out of his parents’ home in a Cheshire, England, village and climbed the church steeple. At age 38, he died on Mount Everest, a few hundred feet from the summit—on his way up or on his way down. Whether he did or didn’t reach the summit on this, his third Everest expedition, remains to this day a vexing question. Is George Mallory, twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary, to be credited with the exploit of standing on top of the tallest mountain in the world? At the time of his doomed last adventure, he was already a world-renowned climber, a distinguished member of geographic societies, and a hero to Englishmen in that golden age of heroic expeditions. With his disappearance, his name became legend.
Over the following decades, searches for his body were unsuccessful. Then, in 1999, so 75 years later, another hardy and renowned climber,...
At age 7, George Mallory sneaked out of his parents’ home in a Cheshire, England, village and climbed the church steeple. At age 38, he died on Mount Everest, a few hundred feet from the summit—on his way up or on his way down. Whether he did or didn’t reach the summit on this, his third Everest expedition, remains to this day a vexing question. Is George Mallory, twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary, to be credited with the exploit of standing on top of the tallest mountain in the world? At the time of his doomed last adventure, he was already a world-renowned climber, a distinguished member of geographic societies, and a hero to Englishmen in that golden age of heroic expeditions. With his disappearance, his name became legend.
Over the following decades, searches for his body were unsuccessful. Then, in 1999, so 75 years later, another hardy and renowned climber,...
- 8/10/2010
- by Screen Comment
- Screen Comment
For the second straight weekend, The Girl Who Played with Fire led all specialty releases. This was less due to its own strength and instead a result of disappointing debuts from a set of high-profile new entries, including Middle Men and Flipped. The Girl Who Played with Fire held well again, off 13 percent to $471,459. Through its fifth weekend, it has grossed $4.56 million, and, while that's still more than its predecessor The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had made at the same point, the gap narrowed. Middle Men, which is based on a true story about the founding of the online porn industry, made just $325,641 at 252 locations, translating to a poor per site average of $1,292. Distributor Paramount Vantage currently has the movie scheduled to expand on Aug. 20, though weak initial attendance often thwarts such plans. Showing little signs of fatigue, Winter's Bone was down only four percent to $296,753. In nearly two months in theaters,...
- 8/10/2010
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Kristen Stewart, David Slade on the set of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Chace Crawford’s Twelve, Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon, Anthony Geffen’s The Wildest Dream: Box Office Directed by David Slade, the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner romantic fantasy The Twilight Saga: Eclipse collected $2.3m this weekend according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Thus, Eclipse was edged out by The Sorcerer’s Apprentice‘s $2.35m — the Disney release jumped 38.4% on Saturday, the second highest surge among the top twelve films. (Toy Story 3 posted the highest one, +39.8%.) The end result is that Eclipse was gone from North America’s top twelve movies for the first time since it opened 40 days ago. Now, Eclipse‘s weekend fate is still iffy, as its estimated take was only $50k below that of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. They may still switch places when actuals are released on Monday.
- 8/8/2010
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Samuel Maoz‘s Lebanon Luke Wilson-Giovanni Ribisi’s Middle Men Flops, Rob Reiner’s Flipped Does Okay: Box Office Also in limited release, via Box Office Mojo: Twelve grossed $107k at 231 venues for a dismal $463 average. Directed by Joel Schumacher, who has seen better box-office days, the crime & drugs thriller features Chace Crawford, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Philip Ettinger, Ellen Barkin, and 50 Cent. Budget: $5m. At 12 locations, The Wildest Dream collected $64,600, for an okay $5,383 average. Directed by Anthony Geffen, the documentary tells the "intersecting" stories of both George Mallory, the first man to try to reach the peak of Mt. Everest, and Conrad Anker, the man who found Mallory’s frozen remains 75 years later. Samuel Maoz‘s Venice Film Festival winner Lebanon, a war drama set during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, grossed $16,700 at two sites. Average: an acceptable $8,350. Photo: Lebanon (Sony Pictures Classics)...
- 8/8/2010
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Will Ferrell returns to theatres this weekend with The Other Guys, hoping for a hit that will erase memories of Land of the Lost from people's minds. It's likely to be a tight race between that and Inception for the box office crown, although with Step Up 3-D also out this weekend, they both could end up getting served. In select theatres, there are all kinds of alternatives including Middle Men (the internet porn comedy starring Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi), Lebanon (the war movie that takes place entirely inside a tank), and Twelve (Joel Schumacher's latest crapterpiece). Also out this weekend is The Oxford Murders starring Elijah Wood, The Disappearance of Alice Creed starring Gemma Arterton, and Rob Reiner's Flipped. What will you be checking out this weekend? The Other Guys [1] Step Up 3-D [2] Middle Men [3] (limited) Lebanon [4] (limited) The Oxford Murders [5] (limited) The Disappearance of Alice Creed...
- 8/6/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The Wildest Dream’s premise alone should make it a riveting documentary. In 1999, as part of a Nova expedition, climber Conrad Anker found the preserved body of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Mallory, who famously told The New York Times that the reason to climb Everest is “Because it is there,” died on the mountain in 1924, alongside partner Sandy Irvine; they were last seen 800 feet from the summit. No one knows whether they reached the peak, but if so, they were the first, nearly 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary officially claimed the honor—and the body ...
- 8/5/2010
- avclub.com
Hugh Dancy, last seen on screen in, er, Confessions of a Shopaholic but shortly to be heard in documentary The Wildest Dream, has signed up to joing the cast of My Idiot Brother, joining Paul Rudd, Rashida Jones, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer.Kathryn Hahn (Step Brothers, Anchorman), Shirley Knight (Paul Blart, Desperate Housewives) and Janet Montgomery (Entourage, the upcoming Black Swan) have also signed up today.The film's already shooting in New York, with Rudd as the slacker idealist who crashes into the lives of his three more ambitious sisters.There's no word yet on who the newcomers will be playing, but our money's on Dancy being a boyfriend to one of the sisters, Hahn being someone's best friend, Knight being the family's mother and Montgomery playing your general temptress.Jesse Peretz (The Ex) is directing.
- 7/22/2010
- EmpireOnline
"The Reverse," directed by Borys Lankosz, backed away with the grand jury prize at the 36th Seattle International Film Festival on Sunday.
In addition, Jeff Malmberg's "Marwencol" won the documentary grand jury prize, and Sara Colangelo's "Little Accidents" won the best narrative short award.
The fest, which began May 20, presented 408 films, including "The Extra Man," closing-night film "Get Low," "Howl," "Waiting for 'Superman,' " the Imax film "The Wildest Dream" and the 3D "Cane Toads: The Conquest." Boxoffice receipts were up 20%, breaking all previous Siff records.
The Fipresci Award for best American feature went to "Night Catches Us," directed by Tanya Hamilton. The grand jury prize for best documentary short was awarded to "White Lines and the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug," directed by Travis Senger, and Beomsik Shim's "The Wonder Hospital" won the prize for best animated short.
The features "Turistas," directed by Alicia Scherson,...
In addition, Jeff Malmberg's "Marwencol" won the documentary grand jury prize, and Sara Colangelo's "Little Accidents" won the best narrative short award.
The fest, which began May 20, presented 408 films, including "The Extra Man," closing-night film "Get Low," "Howl," "Waiting for 'Superman,' " the Imax film "The Wildest Dream" and the 3D "Cane Toads: The Conquest." Boxoffice receipts were up 20%, breaking all previous Siff records.
The Fipresci Award for best American feature went to "Night Catches Us," directed by Tanya Hamilton. The grand jury prize for best documentary short was awarded to "White Lines and the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug," directed by Travis Senger, and Beomsik Shim's "The Wonder Hospital" won the prize for best animated short.
The features "Turistas," directed by Alicia Scherson,...
- 6/14/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last night I went to a press screening of National Geographic Entertainment's The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, a film by Anthony Geffen. In 93 minutes that sometimes feels much longer, Geffen tells the story of George Mallory, the British explorer who disappeared on his quest to be the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1924, and American mountaineer Conrad Anker, who discovered Mallory's body in Mt. Everest's 'death zone' in 1999 and set off to determine whether it would have been possible for Mallory to reach the summit. Anker and his partner, young British climbing prodigy Leo Houlding, attempt parts of the climb in the same type of gabardine outerwear and hobnail boots that Mallory and his partner Andrew Sandy Irvine wore when Mt. Everest claimed their lives many decades before. In the film's climax, Anker and Houlding must climb the notorious "Second Step," the sheer cliff...
- 5/20/2010
- IrishCentral
Shekhar Kapur has had more success when making films about iconic British figures (Elizabeth) than attempting to remake dramas (The Four Feathers). So he’s sticking with his strength for a biopic about famed explorer George Mallory.Vanity Fair’s Mark Skeet and Matthew Faulk have worked on the script with producer Kevin Townsend, and the plot will follow Mallory’s growing obsession with conquering Everest and the strain it places on his marriage.His quest had a tragic ending – in 1924 he and his climbing partner disappeared 800 feet from the summit of the mighty mountain, and his body was discovered years later, in 1999. Oh, and… er… spoiler alert! Sorry, probably too late on that one.The movie has an unexpected other partner – Julia Roberts is producing with her Red Om company, though we don’t think she’s taking a role. Mallory is also the subject of an upcoming Imax documentary,...
- 4/22/2010
- EmpireOnline
Liam Neeson and his wife, Natasha Richardson, who died in a skiing accident last March, will appear on the big screen together in a documentary about the life and works of British explorer George Mallory this summer. The documentary, "The Wildest Dream," tells the tale of Mallory's two greatest loves, his wife Ruth and his obsession with the "last great adventure." Mallory set out to become the first ever person to climb Mount Everest, the worlds highest peak. Ruth Mallory is voiced by Natasha Richardson in her final role before she was killed in a skiing accident in Canada last year. Throughout the film, Richardson's voice can be heard through love letters she had written her husband while he is on expedition. Neeson narrates the film which is due to be released in August. Mallory (voiced of Ralph Fiennes) was last seen alive 800 ft from top of the summit. He...
- 3/29/2010
- IrishCentral
Liam Neeson is set to reunite with his late wife Natasha Richardson in a new film. The widower, who was married to the actress for 15 years until her death last year, narrated a documentary in which she had voiced a character before she died.
"The Wildest Dream" features a point in the life of British explorer George Mallory when he was torn between his love for his wife Ruth and his passion with the "last great adventure," becoming the first person to climb Mount Everest.
Richardson voiced Ruth before she was killed in a skiing accident in March 2009. Neeson is narrating the story. The voices of Ralph Fiennes, as Mallory; Hugh Dancy, as his fellow climber Andrew Irvine; and Alan Rickman, as Noel Odell, the last person to see Mallory alive, are also featured.
The film, released under the National Geographic World Films, is dedicated to the actress, "who readings...
"The Wildest Dream" features a point in the life of British explorer George Mallory when he was torn between his love for his wife Ruth and his passion with the "last great adventure," becoming the first person to climb Mount Everest.
Richardson voiced Ruth before she was killed in a skiing accident in March 2009. Neeson is narrating the story. The voices of Ralph Fiennes, as Mallory; Hugh Dancy, as his fellow climber Andrew Irvine; and Alan Rickman, as Noel Odell, the last person to see Mallory alive, are also featured.
The film, released under the National Geographic World Films, is dedicated to the actress, "who readings...
- 3/29/2010
- icelebz.com
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