Monthly Archives: September 2010

‘The King’s Speech’ wins Toronto’s People Choice Award

Posted on September 19, 2010 by The MakingOf Team

“The TIFF’s Cadillac People’s Choice Award is voted on by Festival audiences. This year’s award goes to Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech (United Kingdom/Australia). The King’s Speech tells the story of King George VI. After his brother abdicates, George, Bertie’ VI (Colin … Continue reading →

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Ben Affleck leads team of bank robbers in ‘The Town’

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Mitch

Directing his first feature film since 2007′s Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck also stars in the upcoming action crime thriller The Town. Affleck, along with Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard, adapted the screenplay from Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Theives. … Continue reading →

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Venice, Telluride, Now…Toronto!

Posted on September 9, 2010 by The MakingOf Team

On the heels of the Venice and Telluride film festivals, the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off today.  Many of the films that premiered to great news and buzz at Venice and Telluride will hit Toronto this week. The MakingOf team … Continue reading →

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Milla Jovovich returns to ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ in the “most action packed, crazy” movie in the series

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Mitch

In the fourth installment of the Resident Evil movie series, Milla Jovovich returns to play Alice, the tough and rugged center of the saga. In this MakingOf featurette, we see how the Resident Evil filmmakers incorporated 3D for the first … Continue reading →

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Emma Stone takes on a different role in Will Gluck’s new movie ‘Easy A’

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Mitch

After taking down countless walking dead last year in the successful film Zombieland, Emma Stone takes on a very different role as she stars in Will Gluck’s new movie Easy A. In Easy A, Olive (Emma Stone) agrees to pretend that she lost … Continue reading →

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MakingOf exclusive interview with ‘Lucky’ filmmakers Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Mitch

Director Jeffrey Blitz and producer Sean Welch talked with MakingOf about their documentary Lucky, which explores the lives of lottery winners after they hit it big. Blitz and Welch found it extremely difficult to find cooperative lottery winners. “When these … Continue reading →

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Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba heat up the screen in ‘Machete’

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Mitch

The new Robert Rodriguez film Machete comes to theaters this weekend.  This MakingOf featurette looks at the women of Machete, Michelle Rodriguez and Jessica Alba. Playing characters on opposite sides of the law, Rodriguez and Alba come to understand one another through … Continue reading →

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Idris Elba talks picking projects, music and his new film ‘Takers’

Posted on September 1, 2010 by The MakingOf Team

‘Takers’ was #1 at the Box Office this weekend and MakingOf recently sat down with one of its stars, Idris Elba. Idris talks about making a heist film, mix tapes, and why he’d like to pull a heist with Tina … Continue reading →

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