Dreams of a Life - the video diary

Dreams of a Life director Carol Morley has been creating a video diary to document the release of her film

Video Diary 1
Director Carol Morley is interviewed by a number of journalists but decides to turn the camera on them for a change...

Video Diary 2
Carol Morley travels to Bristol to show the film at the Encounters Film Festival

Video Diary 3
Carol Morley looks at responses to the film on Twitter and Facebook, and encourages fans to 'demand it'

Video Diary 4
Head over to facebook to see the fourth installment where Carol Morley talks to the singer/songwriter Alice Temple, who's song is used both in the film and trailer.

Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.

Who was she? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age - the so-called age of communication? For her film Dreams of a Life, filmmaker Carol Morley set out to find out. Joyce may have died in tragic isolation, but Morley was not going to let her be forgotten. She placed adverts in newspapers, on the Internet, and on the side of a London taxi. What she finds out is extraordinary.

A range of people that once knew Joyce help to piece together a portrait of the woman that became so forgotten. “She was very sweet, beautiful looking, a bit of a mystery. We weren’t too sure where she came from. It’s almost like she was a ghost, even then.” Dreams of a Life becomes as much about the people who remember her as it is about Joyce herself.

Find out more at the Official Site, on twitter or even on facebook
In UK cinemas December 16, 2011

Join the party on New Years Eve

Warner Bros. has just sent over the below "making of" featurette. After watching it the cast does seem to have had a great time making it.

Not only do you get the above featurette, you can write a wish on the New Year's Eve Wishing wall over on facebook.

If you want a change of pace then you can find out who will you kiss with the New Year’s Eve Kiss Calculator exclusively on Sugarscape! Again over on facebook

Select the name of one of your Facebook friends and click ‘generate’. The calculator will then show the percentage likelihood you and your friend will kiss at midnight on New Year’s Eve!

Director Garry Marshall and a stellar ensemble cast will ring in the 2011 holiday season with the romantic comedy “New Year’s Eve.”

“New Year’s Eve” celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories of couples and singles, told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

The film stars Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, two-time Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Hector Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Academy Award® nominee Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Ryan Seacrest, two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank and Sofia Vergara.

Reuniting with Marshall from last year’s hit romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day” are screenwriter Katherine Fugate and producers Mike Karz and Wayne Rice. Serving again as executive producers will be Josie Rosen and Diana Pokorny, joined by Heather Hall as co-producer. The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography Charles Minsky (“Pretty Woman,” “Valentine’s Day”) production designer Mark Friedberg (“The Darjeeling Limited,” “Morning Glory,”) editor Michael Tronick (“The Green Hornet,” “Hairspray”) and Oscar®-nominated costume designer Gary Jones (“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Valentine’s Day”).

Find out more at the official website.

Hitting UK cinemas December 8, 2011
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Impossible clips

Paramount has just sent over two great clips from the upcoming Mission Impossible IV, sorry, Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

One involves Simon Pegg talking geeky with a great punchline at the end of the clip. The other is just two girls trying to pound each other into unconsciousness / death.

Girl Fight

From the Outside

This is not just another mission.

The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization’s name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL is in cinemas and IMAX December 26, 2011.

Dreams of a Life - clips and images

I've just been sent over a set of clips and some images from the upcoming Dogwoof documentary, Dreams Of Life. A sad story of death and anonyminity in todays computer generated, always online world.

“STAR”

“SEARCHING”

“REPORTERS”

Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.

Who was she? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age - the so-called age of communication? For her film Dreams of a Life, filmmaker Carol Morley set out to find out. Joyce may have died in tragic isolation, but Morley was not going to let her be forgotten. She placed adverts in newspapers, on the Internet, and on the side of a London taxi. What she finds out is extraordinary.

A range of people that once knew Joyce help to piece together a portrait of the woman that became so forgotten. “She was very sweet, beautiful looking, a bit of a mystery. We weren’t too sure where she came from. It’s almost like she was a ghost, even then.” Dreams of a Life becomes as much about the people who remember her as it is about Joyce herself.

Find out more at the Official Site, on twitter or even on facebook
In UK cinemas December 16, 2011

Are you The Lucky One?

Warner Bros. has just sent over a poster, some images and a, sort of, trailer. It's more a mix of classic trailer and a featurette. Let's call it a "trailette"!

It's been a while since a film about Iraqistan came out. This one is a "love of sorts" story. Starting out with a lucky find and, I assume, it ends happily ever after as this sort of film tends to do.

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U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive—a photograph he found of a woman he doesn’t even know. Learning her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling) and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.

The Lucky One Hits UK cinema screens from May 4, 2012

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Arrietty coming to DVD & Blu-ray in January

Out to own on DVD, Blu-ray Double play & Limited Edition Collector’s Edition - 9th January 2012

Discover an amazing adventure that’s unlike any other. From Studio Ghibli, the creators of Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ponyo, ARRIETTY is an enchanting tale of “little” people with a big heart, released on DVD and Blu-ray on 9th January 2012 courtesy of STUDIOCANAL.

Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two old ladies, who are absolutely unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants. Arrietty and her family live by “borrowing”. Everything they have, they borrow or make from the things they have borrowed. Essentials like gas, water and food. Tables, chairs, cooking utensils. And treats - a sugar cube here, a scrap of material there. But only a little each time, so the ladies do not notice.

A 12-year-old boy, Sho, moves into the mansion while he waits for urgent medical treatment in the city. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you.” Once seen, little people always have to move on. But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and Sho discovers her. The two begin to confide in each other and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom...

Based on Mary Norton’s much-loved children’s classic ‘The Borrowers’, ARRIETTY is a beautiful story of childhood and friendship from the Academy Award® winning anime master Hayao Miyazaki, and the directorial debut of Studio Ghibli’s star animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

Featuring the voices of Olivia Colman (Rev, Tyrannosaur), Mark Strong (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Green Lantern), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), and Tom Holland, with its stunning animation and captivating storytelling, ARRIETTY will enthral children and adults alike.

Extras (Double-pay and deluxe edition only)

• Storyboards
• Trailers and Japanese TV spots
• Interviews with Hayao Miyazaki - Hiromasa Yonebayashi
• Cécile Corbel “Arrietty’s Song”
• Promotional Video

Happy Feet 2 gets more clips

Not that long to go before we get to see Mumbles again on the big screen with Happy Feet 2. I was wondering where other clips were when I was sent over this one a couple of weeks ago.

CLIP - Bringing fluffy back

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CLIP - Hop on my feet

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CLIP - Everybody came

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The sequel to “Happy Feet,” the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, “Happy Feet Two” returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D.

Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven—a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model.

But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces.

Erik learns of his father’s “guts and grit” as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures—from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals—to put things right.

“Happy Feet Two” is directed by George Miller, who won an Oscar® as the creator of the original “Happy Feet.” The film features the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (P!nk), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski, Anthony LaPaglia, Richard Carter and Benjamin “Lil P-Nut” Flores, Jr.George Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Gary Eck, Warren Coleman and Paul Livingston.

Hitting cinemas in 3D, 2D and in IMAX from December 2, 2011

Find out more at the official website
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