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***Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced; Best Director

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced; WINTER’S BONE Leads with 7 Nominations

by Matt Goldberg    Posted:November 30th, 2010

The nominations for the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards have been announced.  Here’s a quick breakdown of some interesting facts about the nominees.  After winning the top prize at the Gotham Awards last night, Winter’s Bone leads the pack with seven nominations.  And if you need more proof that the Best Actress race this year is crazy, it was the only category with a six nominees.

It’s also a good year for women filmmakers as Lisa Cholodenok (The Kids Are All Right) and Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) pick up nominations for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Nicole Holofcener also picked up a Best Screenplay nomination along with the Robert Altman Award for Please Give. Hit the jump for a full list of the nominees.  The Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 10pm ET/PT on IFC.

Best Film

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Greenberg
• The Kids Are All Right
• Winter’s Bone

Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
• Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
• Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right
• Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone
• John Cameron Mitchell – Rabbit Hole

http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/film-independent-spirit-award-nominations-winters-bone/

***New Poster for RABBIT HOLE Starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart ***Michael Douglas Still on for LIBERACE; Shooting Set to Begin in May or June 2011

New Poster for RABBIT HOLE Starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart

by Ben Brown    Posted: November 30th, 2010

Lionsgate has just released a new poster for John Cameron Mitchell’s upcoming drama Rabbit Hole. The poster is visually interesting, thoughtful, and a bit moving.  Basically, it’s everything the last poster wasn’t. If this is the type of work we can expect from the final product, then consider me sold.
Hit the jump to check out the poster.  The film, which stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart and picked up four Spirit Award nominations today, is slated for limited release on December 17th.

Poster via Cinematical.

Here’s the official synopsis for Rabbit Hole:

RABBIT HOLE is a vivid, hopeful, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of all situations. Becca and Howie Corbett (NICOLE KIDMAN and AARON ECKHART) are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. While Becca finds pain in the familiar, Howie finds comfort. The shifts come in abrupt, unforeseen moments. Becca hesitantly opens up to her opinionated, loving mother (DIANNE WIEST) and secretly reaches out to the teenager involved in the accident that changed everything (MILES TELLER); while Howie lashes out and imagines solace with another woman (SANDRA OH). Yet, as off track as they are, the couple keeps trying to find their way back to a life that still holds the potential for beauty, laughter and happiness. The resulting journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted off its axis.

http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/rabbit-hole-movie-poster-nicole-kidman-aaron-eckhart/

Michael Douglas Still on for LIBERACE; Shooting Set to Begin in May or June 2011

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 30th, 2010

When it was reported this past August that Michael Douglas was suffering from throat cancer, concerns arose not just for his health but for the future of the long-in-development Liberace biopic.  Douglas was to play the famous musician with Steven Soderbergh directing and Matt Damon co-starring.  However, a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter informs us that not only is Douglas recovering from his treatment, but he still has Liberace in his sights.  Douglas tells THR, “I’ve got a bunch of tapes of performances.  I’m thinking; I’m a blank slate. Everything shows me he was a lovely man; I just want to reconfirm that.”  THR also reports that shooting is scheduled to begin in May or June of next year, which confirms Damon’s claim earlier this year that he was planning to shoot the film next summer.  Damon will play Liberace’s lover Scott Thorson.
While I’m happy that Liberace is moving forward, I’m even happier that Douglas is feeling healthy enough to start working again and hopefully we can look forward to more performances from him.
http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/michael-douglas-liberace-biopic-steven-soderbergh/