Great Job, Duncan Jones and Vera Farmiga!

They BOTH got nominated, such great news!

and

The nominations for the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards are as follows:

BEST FILM
AVATAR James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
THE HURT LOCKER Nominees TBC
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
UP IN THE AIR Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AN EDUCATION Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
FISH TANK Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
IN THE LOOP Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
MOON Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
NOWHERE BOY Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
LUCY BAILEY, ANDREW THOMPSON, ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK, DAVID PEARSON Directors, Producers - Mugabe and the White African
ERAN CREEVY Writer/Director - Shifty
STUART HAZELDINE Writer/Director - Exam
DUNCAN JONES Director - Moon
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Director - Nowhere Boy

DIRECTOR
AVATAR James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig
THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HANGOVER Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
A SERIOUS MAN Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
UP Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Geoffrey Fletcher
UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BROKEN EMBRACES Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A PROPHET Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
THE WHITE RIBBON Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke

ANIMATED FILM
CORALINE Henry Selick
FANTASTIC MR FOX Wes Anderson
UP Pete Docter

LEADING ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES Crazy Heart
GEORGE CLOONEY Up in the Air
COLIN FIRTH A Single Man
JEREMY RENNER The Hurt Locker
ANDY SERKIS Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

LEADING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN An Education
SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel

SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALEC BALDWIN It's Complicated
CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles
ALFRED MOLINA An Education
STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air
MO'NIQUE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy

MUSIC
AVATAR James Horner
CRAZY HEART T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
FANTASTIC MR FOX Alexandre Desplat
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL Chaz Jankel
UP Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY
AVATAR Mauro Fiore
DISTRICT 9 Trent Opaloch
THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Robert Richardson
THE ROAD Javier Aguirresarobe

EDITING
AVATAR Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Julian Clarke
THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Sally Menke
UP IN THE AIR Dana E. Glauberman

PRODUCTION DESIGN
AVATAR Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
DISTRICT 9 Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Nominees TBC
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

COSTUME DESIGN
BRIGHT STAR Janet Patterson
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Catherine Leterrier
AN EDUCATION Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A SINGLE MAN Arianne Phillips
THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell

SOUND
AVATAR Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
DISTRICT 9 Nominees TBC
THE HURT LOCKER Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer
STAR TREK Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
UP Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
DISTRICT 9 Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
THE HURT LOCKER Richard Stutsman
STAR TREK Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

MAKE UP & HAIR
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon
AN EDUCATION Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Sarah Monzani
NINE Peter 'Swords' King
THE YOUNG VICTORIA Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION
THE GRUFFALO Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
THE HAPPY DUCKLING Gili Dolev
MOTHER OF MANY Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby

SHORT FILM
14 Asitha Ameresekere
I DO AIR James Bolton, Martina Amati
JADE Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
MIXTAPE Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
OFF SEASON Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan van Tulleken

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
JESSE EISENBERG
NICHOLAS HOULT
CAREY MULLIGAN
TAHAR RAHIM
KRISTEN STEWART

Source Code's Director Duncan Jones and Actress Vera Farmiga Both Received BAFTA Nominations!

According to : http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jan/21/carl-foreman-award-bafta

Bafta's Carl Foreman award jury must do better

The prize is supposed to reward outstanding work by a first-time British writer, director or producer. However, it's been too focused on directors

Moonbase on a shoestring … Moon

Forget such baubles as best film and best actor - the Bafta that really matters, for people who care about UK cinema, is the one for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer.

It's not part of the Oscar race, so it gets overshadowed by the hoopla around the big prizes. But it's the award that says most about the present health and future hopes of British film. Ironically, it's given in honour of an American, the Oscar-winning screenwriter Carl Foreman, who fled Hollywood's blacklist to find sanctuary in Britain.

Foreman was a defiantly independent spirit. That's reflected in a prize which celebrates the passion, the determination, the ambition and the sheer bloody-minded desperation that drives first-time film-makers. The nominees often remark that they don't feel like newcomers, because it has taken such a long hard slog to get to this point.

This year's nominees have all paid their dues in one way or another – Duncan Jones, director of Moon; Sam Taylor-Wood, director ofNowhere Boy; Stuart Hazeldine, writer/director of Exam; Eran Creevy, writer/director of Shifty; and Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson, the directors and producers ofMugabe and the White African.

I served on Bafta's Foreman jury for the previous four years, during which time we gave the prize to Joe Wright, Andrea Arnold, Matt Greenhalgh and Steve McQueen – a pretty impressive rush of new blood to energise British cinema.

There are 50-70 films each year that involve a first-time British writer, director or producer – that's about half of all UK films – and it was a privilege to be forced to watch all of them. They ranged from big studio movies such as Mamma Mia! and Flushed Away to self-financed, self-distributed microbudgeters that got one week's release in one cinema in Wales. Some were excruciating, many showed sparks, and a few were quite brilliant.

But what struck me most was how old many of the debutants were, particularly the best ones. The average age of the nominees is around 40, having come via other careers, often very successful ones – TV, theatre, commercials (such as Jones), fine art (McQueen and Taylor-Wood), or in the case of Arnold, presenting children's TV. This isn't a prize for hot kids fresh out of film school because it generally takes them at least a decade to get their first movie made.

Some might argue that's a bad thing for British cinema, but making films isn't supposed to be easy. It means that first films such as McQueen's Hunger or Arnold's Red Road display a startling creative maturity that gives their makers a real shot at a long and durable career. British film-makers often arrive fully formed. It's worth noting that three of this year's Bafta nominees for outstanding British film – In the Loop, Moon and Nowhere Boy – are also debuts.

One thing about the Foreman bothers me, though. The award is monopolised by directors. Writers and producers barely get a look in. Greenhalgh is the only writer ever to win, for Control, and that was only possible because the film's debut director Anton Corbijn is Dutch and wasn't eligible. Producer Nicola Usborne shared the award with her director Joel Hopkins for Jump Tomorrow, but no other producer has ever won. Again this year, the jury didn't manage to nominate a solo writer or a solo producer.

It's difficult for the jury to see beyond what's up there on the screen, but they need to try harder. This year, they missed an open goal, in the form of Stuart Fenegan, the producer of Moon. Jones did fine work, but Moon is, above all, a remarkable achievement in production. Raising £3m in private finance, piecing together the relationships with the various effects houses and model-makers who created an utterly convincing moonbase on a shoestring, working with Jones and writer Nathan Parker to develop the concept into a script and then into a fully realised vision, negotiating the sale to Sony – if that didn't deserve a Bafta, I don't know what does. But like most first-time producers, Fenegan shared his credit with an experienced mentor, Trudie Styler, and that was enough to rule him out.

Was This True?

According to: http://www.empiremovies.com/2007/01/18/topher-grace-in-source-code/

Topher Grace in Source Code

January 18, 2007 by Liam

Filed under: Movie News

Topher Grace will star in the sci-fi thriller Source Code for Universal Pictures.

Ben Ripley wrote the spec script which revolves around time travel. No other details are currently available.

Grace next appears in Sony’s Spider-Man 3. Other upcoming credits include Kids in America andCockblockers with Seann William Scott.

HE GOT BOOTED! Is he UPSET? I'd be upset. LOL. Who do you like better, Topher or Jake?

OR

There's A Lot Of Hype With Vera Farmiga These Days!

She's a bad MOFO! Hope she gets a gun in Source Code!

Here's Vera in UC: Undercover (2001)

Briefly What Source Code Is About!

According to: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/duncan-jones-will-direct-source-code-with-jake-gyllenhaal-robhr.php

The Photos have nothing to do with ANY film, just posted photos for some fun visual aid.

This photo was from the website below!

(http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/space_group_wins_competition_for_oslos_central_train_station/)

There’s been plenty of speculation recently as to what director Duncan Jones would be doing for a follow-up to his excellent film Moon. It appeared for a time that it would be a film in the vein ofBlade Runner, called Mute, that would be written by Jones as well. It seems that project, which Jones is still writing, will be postponed as the director has officially been announced to helm the new thriller Source Code. Also attached to the film is the Prince of Persia himself, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Source Code is about a soldier named Colter (Gyllenhaal) who awakens on a passenger train in another man’s body with no idea how he got there. He begins to explore his surroundings and finds a bomb… which blows up, killing him and everyone else on board. The end.

Kidding… after the explosion Colter awakens in darkness, strapped to a harness with a monitor in front of him. He discovers that he’s part of a mission of sorts attempting to stop those responsible for the train bombing before they can strike again. With little else to go on Colter is sent back to the train seventeen minutes before the explosion. He’ll be sent back again and again, always for seventeen minutes, each time bringing him closer to the bomber(s) and closer to a truth about himself.

Having read the very cool script by Ben Ripley I can see definite hints of several cinematic influences with the two most obvious being a combination of Deja Vu and Groundhog Day. (Yes, you read that right. Just know that Source Code is far superior to Deja Vu and not nearly as funny as Groundhog Day.) Ripley does a fine job moving the story between the train and the control center that Colton returns to after each explosion, and he also manages to keep things interesting even though we return to the same point in time and space several times throughout the screenplay. ScriptShadow has a very positive review of the script here, but don’t read it if you want to avoid spoilers.

Jones has confirmed the report via Twitter (@ManMadeMoon) and Variety states that production will begin sometime early next year. They also report that the film, which will be distributed by Summit Entertainment, was originally with Universal with Topher Grace attached to star. Which makes me wonder where the hell did Grace go? Has he had a film since Spiderman 3?

What do you think of the news? Happy to see Jones behind the camera? Sad to see it isn’t for Mute?

Read more articles by Rob Hunter

Sci Fi For Days!

MOON by Duncan Jones was amazing, and I can't wait til Prince Of Persia! I was a HUGE fan of the game back in the day!! Anyone else remember the game?

Here are some stuff I've found...

The Graphic Novel:

The Video Game!

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....What do YOU think?

Another Duncan Jones & Clint Mansell Collllabo?

According to: http://thefilmstage.com/2009/12/27/clint-mansell-scoring-aronofskys-black-swan-possibly-duncan-jones-source-code/

Surprise, surprise. Composer Clint Mansell has scored all of Darren Aronofsky’s films (most notableRequiem for a Dream and The Wrestler) and now he will be working on his upcoming project, Black Swan. In an interview with Little White Lies magazine (via The Playlist) he talked about his involvement and plans for the score, which include drawing from elements solely in Tchaikovsky’s 19th century ballet, Swan Lake. Check out the quote below.

Well it’s all really embryonic at the moment, one of the main ideas we’ve got is building the entire score out of elements from Swan Lake. I mean it would have to be vastly screwed with, but that’s a starting point. Sometimes we’ve had ideas in the past and you put them into practice and they just suck, so we’ll see. Darren only just started shooting so for now it’s about doing the nuts and bolts really and providing him just what he needs to shoot with and in January I’ll start to mess around with some of the things we’ve talked about.

As we reported previously Moon director Duncan Jones will be taking on Source Code, the script that was on the 2007 Black List, with Jake Gyllenhaal to star. After scoring Moon, Mansell also spoke a bit about the next project from Jones:

Well I think Duncan is a terrific guy, he’s really talented and I’d love to do more films with him. I suppose the problem could be that you don’t know what the studio is gonna want and they might look at the the rest of his team, me included, and we might be seen as not having the experience that the studio is looking for. So it might be a case where Duncan has to do what it is he has to do so he can progress. He hasn’t done a big budget film with an A-list star, he might love that or he might think ‘fuck this it ain’t for me I don’t wanna do it anymore’, but he’s gotta find that out.

It’s too bad Jones may get forced to use a different composer now that he is in the Hollywood system, but I’ll still hold out some hope. I’m quite excited Aronofsky’s film is being made and it will be hard for Mansell to live up to his Fountain score, but I’m looking forward to be proven wrong. /Film highlighted that Last.FM has some soundtrack previews from Swan Lake, which you can check out there.

Do you enjoy Mansell’s work? What do you think about him incorporating element’s fromTchaikovsky’s ballet?

Who Has Read The Source Code Script?

Who do you think will be next on board the Source Code Film!??!

Looks Like They Have Confirmation!

According to http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/13/michelle-monaghan-and-vera-farmiga-join-duncan-jones-source-code/

Back in November, we reported that Jake Gyllenhaal will star in Duncan Jones’ post-Moon feature, Source Code. Now THR’s Heat Vision Blog is reporting that Vera Farmiga is in negotiations and Michelle Monaghan is set to to star in the film as well. THR describes the film as one which “centers on a soldier (Gyllenhaal) who, as part of an experimental government program to investigate a terrorist incident, finds himself in the body of an unknown commuter living and reliving a harrowing train bombing until he can find out who is responsible for it.” Brendon kindly provided additional plot details in his previous post.

Farmiga will play a communications officer who controls Gyllenhaal’s character during the experiment, and Monaghan will plan a woman on the train who is romantically involved with the commuter Gyllenhaal inhabits. I can’t argue with either choice. I’ve loved Farmiga in many of her recent roles (aside from Up in the Air, there’s also The Departed and Running Scared), and Monaghan can be great with the right material (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Gone Baby Gone, though she was a bit miscast for the latter).

The film’s script was written by Ben Ripley (Species 3), and has had revisions done by Billy Ray. I’m a huge fan of Ray’s Shattered Glass and Breach, both of which he wrote and directed, so anything with his name attached automatically gets my attention now.

Given what Duncan Jones accomplished with Moon — bringing classical sci-fi sensibilities to audiences overloaded with CG, his brilliant use of practical effects — I’m sure I’m not the only one looking forward to his sophomore feature. I’m just hoping he can convince Clint Mansell to give us another amazing score.

Source Code is set to begin filming in March for a release sometime in 2011.

Read more: Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga Join Duncan Jones’ Source Code | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/13/michelle-monaghan-and-vera-farmiga-join-duncan-jones-source-code/#ixzz0ci4ykPIb

Who Is Duncan?

According to: WikiPedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Jones

Jones recently directed his debut feature film, Moon. Produced by Liberty Films (UK), the film was shot in the UK between January and March 2008. It is a sci-fi thriller starring Sam Rockwell.

Moon recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was purchased for distribution in the United States by Sony Picture Classics. Sony Classics released the film on 12 June 2009 in the US. The film's British premiere was held on 20 June 2009 at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh as part of the 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jones was present at the screening along with other key crew members.

Moon was screened at the NASA Space Center in Houston at the request of a professor there. The screening was part of a lecture series. "He'd been reading online that we'd done this film about Helium-3 mining and that's something that people at NASA are working on," says Jones.^[7] "We did a Q&A afterward. They asked me why the base looked so sturdy, like a bunker, and not like the kind of stuff they are designing that they are going to transport with them. I said 'Well, in the future I assume you won't want to continue carrying everything with you, you'll want to use the resources on the moon to build things' and a woman in the audience raised her hand and said, 'I'm actually working on something called Mooncrete, which is concrete that mixes lunar regolith and ice water from the moon's polar caps.'"

Jones is currently planning a follow up film, which will serve as an epilogue to Moon. "Sam has agreed to do a little cameo in the next film," says Jones,^[7] who ultimately hopes to do three films in the Moon series.

It was recently announced that he will direct the feature film adaptation of Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew byAlex Kershaw.^[8]

Jones also revealed that he will be doing "another science fiction film, called Mute, which takes place in a future Berlin. It's a Blade Runner-inspired piece, a little love letter to that film."^[9]

He will direct Summit Entertainment project Source Code^[10], a Science-Fiction thriller from Vendome Pictures, which will be produced by Mark Gordon. Actor Jake Gyllenhaalis in negotiations to play a major role in the film.^[11]