LFC is going to give you the chance to win tickets to a Special screening of KICK-ASS in NY and Miami here on Latino film chatter.

// March 31st, 2010 // No Comments » // Film & Script Reviews, Trailers, What's Poppin

That’s right Latinofilmchatter.com is going to give you the opportunity to enter for a chance to win tickets to a SPECIAL screening of KICK-ASS!! which of course is Kick ass itself.

10 lucky winners in New York will get to see KICK-ASS April 7th and Miami will get to watch KICK-ASS April 8th, the week before it releases in theaters. We will also be giving 5 lucky individuals an official KICK-ASS prize pack which includes a cool Kick ASS T-shirt.

How? How do we get to win all this KICK-ASS stuff, Casper?

All you have to do is answer some fun questions and you can qualify for tickets to the special screening.

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS:

1. What is Nicholas Cage real last name?

2. What is the little girls (Chloe Moretz) superhero name in the movie?

3. What movie was Christopher Mintz-Plasse in with Jonah Hill?

The first ten people in NY and Miami to answer any of these questions right will win tickets for a special screening of KICK-ASS. In New York on the 7th of April and in MIAMI on the 8th. The first 5 who answer all three questions right get a KICK-ASS Prize pack!!

Please send your Replies to LATINOFILMCHATTER@Gmail.com and we will post up on Monday who won in NY and Miami and the Prize packs as well.

Oh yeah by the way I’ll be at the MIAMI screening so we can hang!!!

Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass

How come nobodys ever tried to be a superhero? When Dave Lizewski ordinary New York teenager and rabid comic-book geek dons a green-and-yellow internet-bought wetsuit to become the no-nonsense vig…
How come nobodys ever tried to be a superhero? When Dave Lizewski ordinary New York teenager and rabid comic-book geek dons a green-and-yellow internet-bought wetsuit to become the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass, he soon finds an answer to his own question: because it hurts. But, overcoming all the odds, the eager yet inexperienced Dave quickly becomes a phenomenon, capturing the imagination of the public. However, hes not the only superhero out there the fearless and highly-trained father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl have been slowly but surely taking down the criminal empire of local Mafioso, Frank DAmico. And, as Kick-Ass gets drawn into their no-holds-barred world of bullets and bloodletting with Franks son, Chris, now reborn as Kick-Asss arch-nemesis, Red Mist – the stage is set for a final showdown between the forces of good and evil – in which the DIY hero will have to live up to his name. Or die trying

Directed by Matthew Vaughn, from a screenplay by Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn, and based on the comic written by Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr. Lionsgate and MARV present a MARV Films / Plan B production.
In Theaters April 16, 2010!

For more on KICK-ASS THE MOVIE GO TO:

http://kickass-themovie.com

Our Family wedding in theaters today

// March 12th, 2010 // No Comments » // Film & Script Reviews

“Our marriage, their wedding.” It’s lesson number one for any newly engaged couple, and Lucia (America Ferrera) and Marcus (Lance Gross) are no exception. In Our Family Wedding, they learn the hard way that the path to saying “I do” can be rife with familial strife. When they return from college and too suddenly announce their marriage plans, they soon discover that their fathers – two highly competitive over-the-top egos – can wreak a major amount of havoc on their special day. With insults flying and tempers running high, it’s anyone’s guess if the alpha dads (Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia) will survive to make it down the aisle in one piece. Lucia’s mother (Diana Maria Riva) is busy planning the wedding of “her” dreams and the only levelheaded one in the bunch is Angela (Regina King), the groom’s father’s best friend and lawyer, who manages to keep her cool when the madness reaches a crescendo. With only weeks to plan their wedding, Lucia and Marcus soon discover the true meaning of love and find there is truth to the saying – that when you marry someone, you marry their entire family.

The Oscars finally shake things up!!!

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Film & Script Reviews

By reinstituting 10 best picture nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set out to shake up its 82nd annual awards show and, in the process, ended up making history.

Summit’s “The Hurt Locker,” with just $14.7 million in domestic grosses, captured a leading six Oscars on Sunday night and defied the odds to emerge as best picture — defeating five movies that had grossed more than $100 million each domestically, including Fox’s “Avatar,” the top-grossing movie of all time.

In fact, though the 10 nominees brought a number of studio movies to the party, the indies still ruled with Fox Searchlight’s “Crazy Heart” and Lionsgate’s “Precious” also winning key awards.

As part of “Locker’s” triumphant night, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to receive a directing Oscar, which was presented to her by Barbra Streisand, who appeared to savor the envelope-opening since her own efforts to break down barriers for female directors had been ignored by the Academy in an earlier era.

“There is no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said, drawing a deep breath as she accepted her trophy.

“Locker’s” success was all the more dramatic given that Hollywood’s previous efforts to portray the war in Iraq had drawn mixed critical responses.

Bigelow made a special point of dedicating her directing win to “the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. And may they come home safe.”

Eleventh-hour controversies — some real, some manufactured — had surrounded “Locker.” The Academy even took the unprecedented step of banning financier Nicolas Chartier from the awards after he sent out e-mails urging others to ignore “Avatar” and vote “Locker.”

Here are the nominees again in

Best picture
“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”

Best actor
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Best actress
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious”
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Best supporting actor
Matt Damon, “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best supporting actress
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Crazy Heart”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique, “Precious”

Best director
James Cameron, “Avatar”
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
Lee Daniels, “Precious”
Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”

Best foreign-language film
“Ajami,” Israel
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos,” Argentina
“The Milk of Sorrow,” Peru
“Un Prophete,” France
“The White Ribbon,” Germany

Best adapted screenplay
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, “District 9″
Nick Hornby, “An Education”
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, “In the Loop”
Geoffrey Fletcher, “Precious”
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”

Best original screenplay
Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, “The Messenger”
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “A Serious Man”
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and Tom McCarthy, “Up”

Best animated feature film
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Up”

Best art direction
“Avatar”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine” “Sherlock Holmes”
“The Young Victoria”

Best cinematography
“Avatar”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The White Ribbon”

Best sound mixing
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”

Best sound editing
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Up”

Best original score
“Avatar,” James Horner
“Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Alexandre Desplat
“The Hurt Locker,” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
“Sherlock Holmes,” Hans Zimmer
“Up,” Michael Giacchino

Best original song
“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog,” Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog,” Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36,” Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
“Take It All” from “Nine,” Maury Yeston
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart,” Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best costume design
“Bright Star”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“The Young Victoria”

Best documentary feature
“Burma VJ”
“The Cove”
“Food, Inc.”
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”
“Which Way Home”

Best documentary short
“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”
“Music by Prudence”
“Rabbit a la Berlin”

Best film editing
“Avatar”
“District 9″
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”

Best makeup
“Il Divo”
“Star Trek”
“The Young Victoria”

Best animated short film
“French Roast”
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)”
“Logorama”
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”

Best live-action short film
“The Door”
“Instead of Abracadabra”
“Kavi”
“Miracle Fish”
“The New Tenants”

Best visual effects
“Avatar”
“District 9″
“Star Trek”

Alice in Wonderland star gets ripped a new A$$ by British movie critic.

// March 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Film & Script Reviews

AUSTRALIAN actress Mia Waiskowska’s portrayal of Alice in Wonderland has been savaged by a British movie critic, who says she “looks like she’s on heroin”.

News of The World critic Robbie Collin gave the Tim Burton blockbuster just one star in his column on Sunday, describing the 3D film as one that should be burned and fired off into space.

On Waiskowska’s performance, Collin wrote that “there’s not been a lead character this paper-flat since the South Park movie”.

“The girl’s got all the warmth of a refrigerated trout, and a face you’d expect to see Blu-Tacked to the inside of a London phone box.

“She’s not a heroine – she looks like she’s ON heroin.”

Waiskowska’s co-stars, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, were also slammed for their roles as the Mad Hatter and Red Queen.

Depp’s Hatter was a “flailing, pointless idiot” and “the worst role he’s played in his life”, according to Collin.

His advice to Bonham Carter was: “put some bloody EFFORT into it woman”, describing her Red Queen as a “seventh-rate impression of Queenie from Blackadder II”.

Collin summed up the film as a “bona fide, bums-in-the-air fiasco that needs to be burned and the ashes hurtled off in the direction of the nearest black hole as soon as you can, NASA”.

“In fact, it’s Lesbian Vampire Killers bad – the kind of film that you don’t just dislike or even hate, but one that your body physically rejects like a dodgy organ transplant.”

Alice in Wonderland had its world premiere in London last Thursday.

Angelina Jolie in talks to bring “Serena: A Novel” to the big screen.

// March 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Film & Script Reviews

Angelina Jolie and Darren Aronofsky are in discussions to develop a big-screen adaptation of Ron Rash’s 2008 period tome “Serena: A Novel.” The project would be a starring vehicle for Jolie, while Aronofsky would direct.

Chris Kyle, who penned the Kathryn Bigelow movies “The Weight of Water” and “K-19: The Widowmaker,” wrote the screenplay for the project, which is being produced by Nick Wechsler, the man behind recent high-profile adaptation such as “The Road,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Reservation Road.”

Set in the rugged mountains of 1929 North Carolina, “Serena” follows a man named George Pemberton and his new bride, Serena, as they create a timber empire. Serena not only takes to the woods, but she also pushes her husband to commit more and more ruthless acts. When she learns she cannot bear a child, Serena sets out to murder the son her husband fathered illegitimately.

The package is quietly making the rounds around town in its search for financing. Work on the script is also needed before the duo could move forward.

CAA-repped Aronofsky, who just wrapped “Black Swan” for Fox Searchlight and Phoenix Pictures, is on the hunt for a new project. And he has shown that he is not afraid to go it alone to get a movie made — as he did with “The Wrestler.”

Despite the period setting, “Serena” could be made for a price if made in a similar fashion to the way Paul Thomas Anderson fashioned his early 20th century-set movie “There Will Be Blood.”

Jolie, repped by Media Talent Group, remains one of the few female actresses who can make or break a movie. It was her interest in “Salt” that got Sony to change the sex of its title character to make that pic, which opens July 23.

Jolie recently dropped out of “Wanted 2″ for Universal, which caused reports to surface the project was dead. The sequel is alive, according to Universal insiders.

The actress, who is currently shooting “The Tourist” with Johnny Depp, has nothing lined up as a follow-up, though