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Awards voting + Cillian-less 28 Weeks Later... + Barley keeps shaking UK
21 July 2006 at 04:35 PM | by Melty_Girl
[Note: This was originally published by cillianONLINE, which has been inactive since September 2006.]
Although it can be amusing to see what celebs get up to when they're up for the Golden Popcorn trophy, I think that the MTV Movie Awards and particularly the many popularity contests it's spawned are more about marketing and ad revenues than honoring artistic achievement. And I daresay our idol Mr. Murphy is more about chasing art than racing to the heart of popular culture.
That said, it can be fun to vote for him anyway, and there are currently two opportunities to do just that. Today at Comic-Con International, Spike TV announced the creation of the SCREAM Awards to "celebrate horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic books," and Cillian is up for Most Vile Villain (just how he wants to be best known... not!) for playing Scarecrow in Batman Begins. While the SCREAM Awards will be decided by popular vote, nominations were made by an advisory board made up of industry heavyweights, including two key Cillian collaborators: director Wes Craven (Red Eye) and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Batman Begins). Cillian's competitors in the Most Vile Villain category include X Men heavy Ian McKellen and all the bad guys from The Devil's Rejects. Spike TV will air the awards show on October 10th.
Also, at the repeated urging of someone anonymous in the comments to recent cillianONLINE posts, I am alerting those of you who are teenagers that you can cast a ballot for Cillian at Fox TV's Teen Choice Awards page. He's up for Choice Sleazebag (another dubious honor!), presumably for playing both Scarecrow and Jackson Rippner. Once again, he's up against Sir McKellen, plus Jack Black, Bill Nighy, Kevin Spacey AND Meryl Streep, making him a long shot against this formidable group of famous nominees. The show will air (live in the Eastern Time zone) on Fox on August 20th.
In case you weren't aware, a sequel to 28 Days Later..., called 28 Weeks Later..., is about to start filming—but Cillian will not be in the movie, and I don't believe that Naomie Harris or Megan Burns will appear either. Still, the 28 Days Later.../Sunshine team of Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and Andrew Macdonald are producing the sequel, so it may be of interest to fans of the original. In another Comic-Con event, the first plot details were just announced. ComingSoon.net reports:
Lead by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 28 Weeks Later... picks up six months after the Rage virus has decimated the city of London. The US Army has restored order and is repopulating the quarantined city, when a carrier of the Rage virus enters London and unknowingly re-ignites the spread of the deadly infection, wreaking havoc on the entire population.
Empire raises some pertinent questions:
How come the US Army are restoring order to London? What happened to our brave Brits? Aren't Rage carriers dying out by the end of the first movie?
This Cillian-less, potentially superfluous sequel will come out on May 11, 2007.
Last, a little good news: Reuters UK reported that The Wind That Shakes the Barley moved up a slot to take fourth place at the box office in the UK (and Ireland?). Still no word on a North American distributor, but PathÈ still maintains that it will happen.
>>> U P D A T E : An interesting comment to this post from Jackie prompted me to look into how much money The Wind That Shakes the Barley has made. Box Office Mojo shows that as of last weekend, Barley had brought in $4,027,423, which is approximately €3,175,200 or £2,166,912, the number to which Jackie may have been referring. The film's small budget was €6.5 million (source: Netribution).
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