Coming Soon
Out this week:
* Albums
- Little Fictions by Elbow: Seventh album by the English alternative rock band, the follow-up to The Take Off and Landing of Everything (2014); led by the single ‘Magnificent (She Says)’.
- Also out this week: country singer Reba McEntire’s twenty-ninth album Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope; rapper Wyclef Jean’s EP J’ouvert; and I Decided., the fourth album by rapper Big Sean.
* Movies
- The Space Between Us (starring Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman) - sci-fi; a boy (Butterfield) born on Mars forms an online friendship with a girl (Robertson) from Earth and then travels to the planet to experience its wonders.
- Rings (starring Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki) - horror, third film in the American Ring franchise; a woman (Lutz) faces a terrifying curse linked to a videotape that kills the viewer in seven days.
Star
Isla Lang Fisher
- Born on 3rd February 1976 in Muscat, Oman.
- Daughter of Scottish parents; her father worked in Oman at the time of her birth.
- Has four brothers.
- Grew up in Australia.
- Started appearing in commercials and children’s shows on Australian television as a kid.
- Wrote two novels - Bewitched and Seduced by Fame - in her late teens.
- Appeared on the soap opera Home and Away from 1994 to 1997.
- Got her Hollywood breakthrough with a role in Wedding Crashers (2005). Has since appeared in movies including Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Rango (2011), The Great Gatsby (2013), Now You See Me (2013), Grimsby (2016), and Nocturnal Animals (2016).
- Published her first children’s book, Marge In Charge, in 2016.
- Has been married to English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen since 2010; they have three children - daughters Olive (born 2008) and Elula (2011), and son Montgomery (2015).
Also born today: Sean Kingston, Warwick Davis, Maura Tierney, Blythe Danner
Awards
89th Academy Awards - movies with the most nominations
1. La La Land (14 nominations): Best Picture, Director (Damien Chazelle), Actor (Ryan Gosling), Actress (Emma Stone), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song (‘Audition (The Fools Who Dream)’ and ‘City of Stars’), Production Design, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing.
2. Arrival (8 nominations): Best Picture, Director (Denis Villeneuve), Adapted Screenplay, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, Film Editing, and Production Design.
3. Moonlight (8 nominations): Best Picture, Director (Barry Jenkins), Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), Supporting Actress (Naomie Harris), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, and Film Editing.
S p o t l i g h t
Passengers
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Morten Tyldum
Tagline: There is a reason they woke up.
- Sci-fi; a mechanical engineer (Pratt) and a journalist (Lawrence) wake up too soon from induced hibernation on a long space journey.
- Had a budget of $110 million; has made $270 million in a month.
- Has received mixed to negative reviews from critics who took issue with the ethics of the plot.
- Original script was written in 2007, but the film spent years in development hell.
- Was set to star Keanu Reeves and Emily Blunt at one point.
- Score composed by Thomas Newman.