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CONTACT US AT: 8351-9186, [email protected] Monday October 30, 2017 16 ENtertainment VR installation to get nod from Academy OSCAR winner Alejandro G. Inarritu’s virtual reality installa- tion “Carne y Arena” (“Virtually Present, Physically Invisible”) has been voted a Special Award — an Oscar statue — “in recogni- tion of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday. It has been 22 years since the Academy last presented a Special Award when it pre- sented one to John Lasseter for creating the first feature- length computer-animated film in “Toy Story.” Only 18 such honors have been presented in the Academy’s 90-year history. “Carne y Arena,” which debuted at the Cannes Film Fes- tival in May, combines virtual reality, physical artifacts and video testimony to create the experience of migrants cross- ing the U.S.-Mexico border. Participants are first confronted with a piece of the actual border wall itself. They then enter an antechamber, where shoes and other discarded belong- ings of those who’ve crossed the border are on display. After removing their own shoes, each individual participant then enters a large soundstage, cov- ered in sand, where he or she dons a virtual reality headset. A six-and-a-half-minute, 360-degree experience then takes place: First a small line of migrants, led by coyotes, approach from the distance, struggling to make their way across the desert. A helicopter overhead trains its spotlight on them. Border guards, with barking dogs, drive up and force the terrified migrants to their knees before taking them away and silence then descends once again on the desert setting. Finally, participants exist through another corridor, lined with video portraits of actual immigrants as a text scroll tells their individual stories: Why they sought a better life in the U.S., what they endured during the crossing and what has become of them since. “Carne y Arena,” which is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Fon- dazione Prada in Milan and Tlatelolco Cultural Center in Mexico City, is a collaboration between Inarritu, his longtime cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, producer Mary Parent, Legendary Entertainment, Fondazione Prada, ILMx- LAB and Emerson Collective. The award will be presented at the Academy’s ninth Gov- ernors Awards ceremony Nov. 11, where writer/director Charles Burnett, cinematog- rapher Owen Roizman, actor Donald Sutherland and director/documentarian Agnes Varda will collect previously- announced honorary Oscars. “The Governors of the Acad- emy are proud to present a spe- cial Oscar to ‘Carne y Arena,’ in which Alejandro Inarritu and his cinematographer Emman- uel Lubezki have opened for us new doors of cinematic percep- tion,” Academy president John Bailey said in a statement. (SD-Agencies) “THE Crown” has found its new Queen Elizabeth. Netflix has cast Olivia Colman to replace Claire Foy as Her Royal Highness in the drama series from Peter Morgan. Colman will take over the lead role for the show’s third and fourth seasons. Foy was only set to play the young Queen for two seasons. According to Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos, the plan is to have the period drama run for six seasons, following the Queen’s story throughout her whole life. “This is going to take Queen Elizabeth from age 29 to, pre- sumably, the current day. We’ll see it lay out over decades,” the exec said last year. “The idea is to do this over six decades, in six seasons presumably, and make the whole show [run] over eight to 10 years.” Every two seasons, new cast members are expected to step in for the major roles to accurately portray the timeline and characters’ aging. Colman, who has had roles in feature films “The Lobster” and “Hot Fuzz,” will be seen next on the big screen in “Murder on the Orient Express.” (SD-Agencies) ‘The Crown’ casts Olivia Colman as Queen Emma Stone dating ‘SNL’ writer EMMA STONE has been casu- ally dating 32-year-old “Saturday Night Live” writer Dave McCary. Page Six was first to report the news Wednesday. The 28-year- old actress reportedly met McCary when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” last December, where she starred in the sketch “Wells for Boys,” which McCary directed. “Not many people knew about Emma and Dave,” reports said. “It’s been clear that they were trying to keep this low key.” She also made a surprise appearance on the show last month to support her “La La Land” co-star, Ryan Gosling, during Gosling’s monologue. But romance rumors between Stone and McCary began heating up in July, when she was spotted sup- porting McCary at the premiere of his big screen directorial debut, “Brigsby Bear.” The Oscar-winning actress’ last public relationship was with Andrew Garfield. The two split in 2015 after dating for four years, but remain on friendly terms. Last October, Stone referred to her “Amazing Spider-Man” co-star as “someone I still love very much” in an interview with Vogue. Meanwhile, McCary has worked for “Saturday Night Live” since 2014. His romance with Stone has been the latest in a string of high- profile relationships between the show’s staffers and A-listers who have hosted the show. Ben Affleck is currently dating producer Lindsay Shookus, and Scarlett Johans- son is reportedly involved with “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost. (SD-Agencies) JOHN MOLLO, the costume designer who brought to life Ralph McQuarrie and George Lucas’ conceptual vision for “Star Wars,” has died. He was 86. A military history expert, Mollo had never seen a sci- ence-fiction film before agree- ing to meet with Lucas, who was planning his third feature after his Oscar-nominated “American Graffiti” (1973). “We discussed a few con- cepts when I joined the team, and George had a clear vision of what he was looking for. He liked the idea of the bad- dies having a fascist look about them, with the heroes reflect- ing the look of heroes of the American Wild West,” he told www.starwarshelmets.com. With McQuarrie’s sketches and a meager budget of US$1,173 for one costume, the London- born Mollo began shaping and fine-tuning Darth Vader’s image through his knowledge of World War I trench armor and Nazi helmets, ultimately creating the look of one of cinema’s most memorable vil- lains. His military influence is also visible in the regalia worn by the crew of the Death Star. “Star Wars” went on to become the highest-grossing film of 1977 and received 10 Oscar nominations (and a Spe- cial Achievement award). Mollo won for best costume design. “As you see, the costumes from ‘Star Wars’ are really not so much costumes as a bit of plumbing and general automobile engineering,” he said upon receiving his Oscar, flanked by his cre- ations of Darth Vader, Prin- cess Leia and Stormtroopers. Mollo won a second Academy Award in 1983 for his work on Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (he shared the award with Bhanu Athaiya, the first Indian to win). His military knowledge first came in handy as an adviser on “Nicholas and Alexandra” (1971) and “Barry Lyndon” (1975) — both collected Oscars for costume design. After the success of “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope,” Mollo’s next film was another sci- ence fiction blockbuster: “Alien” (1979). Mollo created used and well-worn clothing for the crew of the Nostromo on their long return trip to Earth as well as designing the patches and emblems embla- zoned across their suits. (SD-Agencies) John Mollo dies at 86 A poster for “Carne y Arena” at Cannes Film Festival in May. SD-Agencies Emma stone Dave McCary John Mollo (L) with Natalie Wood (C) and Darth Vader at the 1978 Oscars. Olivia Colman Olivia Colman Alejandro G. Inarritu
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CONTACT US AT: 8351-9186, [email protected]
Monday October 30, 2017 16 ENtertainment
VR installation to get nod from AcademyOSCAR winner Alejandro G. Inarritu’s virtual reality installa-tion “Carne y Arena” (“Virtually Present, Physically Invisible”) has been voted a Special Award — an Oscar statue — “in recogni-tion of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday.
It has been 22 years since the Academy last presented a Special Award when it pre-sented one to John Lasseter for creating the fi rst feature-length computer-animated fi lm in “Toy Story.” Only 18 such honors have been presented in the Academy’s 90-year history.
“Carne y Arena,” which debuted at the Cannes Film Fes-tival in May, combines virtual reality, physical artifacts and video testimony to create the experience of migrants cross-ing the U.S.-Mexico border. Participants are fi rst confronted with a piece of the actual border wall itself. They then enter an antechamber, where shoes and other discarded belong-ings of those who’ve crossed the border are on display. After removing their own shoes, each individual participant then
enters a large soundstage, cov-ered in sand, where he or she dons a virtual reality headset.
A six-and-a-half-minute, 360-degree experience then takes place: First a small line
of migrants, led by coyotes, approach from the distance, struggling to make their way across the desert. A helicopter overhead trains its spotlight on them. Border guards, with barking dogs, drive up and force the terrifi ed migrants to their knees before taking them away and silence then descends once again on the desert setting.
Finally, participants exist through another corridor, lined with video portraits of actual immigrants as a text scroll tells their individual stories: Why they sought a better life
in the U.S., what they endured during the crossing and what has become of them since.
“Carne y Arena,” which is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Fon-dazione Prada in Milan and Tlatelolco Cultural Center in Mexico City, is a collaboration between Inarritu, his longtime cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, producer Mary Parent, Legendary Entertainment, Fondazione Prada, ILMx-LAB and Emerson Collective.
The award will be presented at the Academy’s ninth Gov-ernors Awards ceremony Nov. 11, where writer/director Charles Burnett, cinematog-rapher Owen Roizman, actor Donald Sutherland and director/documentarian Agnes Varda will collect previously-announced honorary Oscars.
“The Governors of the Acad-emy are proud to present a spe-cial Oscar to ‘Carne y Arena,’ in which Alejandro Inarritu and his cinematographer Emman-uel Lubezki have opened for us new doors of cinematic percep-tion,” Academy president John Bailey said in a statement.
(SD-Agencies)
“THE Crown” has found its new Queen Elizabeth.
Netfl ix has cast Olivia Colman to replace Claire Foy as Her Royal Highness in the drama series from Peter Morgan. Colman will take over the lead role for the show’s third and fourth seasons. Foy was only set to play the young Queen for two seasons.
According to Netfl ix content chief Ted Sarandos, the plan is to have the period drama run for six seasons, following the Queen’s story throughout her whole life. “This is going to take Queen Elizabeth from age 29 to, pre-sumably, the current day. We’ll see it lay out over decades,” the exec said last year. “The idea is to do this over six decades, in six seasons presumably, and make the whole show [run] over eight to 10 years.” Every two seasons, new cast members are expected to step in for the major roles to accurately portray the timeline and characters’ aging.
Colman, who has had roles in feature fi lms “The Lobster” and “Hot Fuzz,” will be seen next on the big screen in “Murder on the Orient Express.”
(SD-Agencies)
‘The Crown’ casts Olivia Colman as
Queen
Emma Stone dating ‘SNL’ writerEMMA STONE has been casu-ally dating 32-year-old “Saturday Night Live” writer Dave McCary.
Page Six was fi rst to report the news Wednesday. The 28-year-old actress reportedly met McCary when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” last December, where she starred in the sketch “Wells for Boys,” which McCary directed.
“Not many people knew about Emma and Dave,” reports said. “It’s been clear that they were trying to keep this low key.”
She also made a surprise appearance on the show last month to support her “La La Land” co-star, Ryan Gosling, during Gosling’s monologue. But romance rumors between Stone and McCary began heating up in July, when she was spotted sup-porting McCary at the premiere of his big screen directorial debut, “Brigsby Bear.”
The Oscar-winning actress’
last public relationship was with Andrew Garfi eld. The two split in 2015 after dating for four years, but remain on friendly terms. Last October, Stone referred to her “Amazing Spider-Man” co-star as “someone I still love very much” in an interview with Vogue.
Meanwhile, McCary has worked for “Saturday Night Live” since 2014. His romance with Stone has
been the latest in a string of high-profi le relationships between the show’s staffers and A-listers who have hosted the show.
Ben Affleck is currently dating producer Lindsay Shookus, and Scarlett Johans-son is reportedly involved with “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost.
(SD-Agencies)
JOHN MOLLO, the costume designer who brought to life Ralph McQuarrie and George Lucas’ conceptual vision for “Star Wars,” has died. He was 86.
A military history expert, Mollo had never seen a sci-ence-fi ction fi lm before agree-ing to meet with Lucas, who was planning his third feature after his Oscar-nominated “American Graffi ti” (1973).
“We discussed a few con-cepts when I joined the team, and George had a clear vision of what he was looking for. He liked the idea of the bad-dies having a fascist look about them, with the heroes refl ect-ing the look of heroes of the American Wild West,” he told www.starwarshelmets.com.
With McQuarrie’s sketches and a meager budget of US$1,173 for one costume, the London-born Mollo began shaping and fi ne-tuning Darth Vader’s image through his knowledge of World War I trench armor and Nazi helmets, ultimately creating the look of one of cinema’s most memorable vil-lains. His military infl uence is also visible in the regalia worn by the crew of the Death Star.
“Star Wars” went on to become the highest-grossing fi lm of 1977 and received 10 Oscar nominations (and a Spe-cial Achievement award). Mollo won for best costume design.
“As you see, the costumes from ‘Star Wars’ are really not so much costumes as a bit of plumbing and general automobile engineering,” he said upon receiving his Oscar, fl anked by his cre-ations of Darth Vader, Prin-cess Leia and Stormtroopers.
Mollo won a second Academy Award in 1983 for his work on Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (he shared the award with Bhanu Athaiya, the fi rst Indian to win).
His military knowledge fi rst came in handy as an adviser on “Nicholas and Alexandra” (1971) and “Barry Lyndon” (1975) — both collected Oscars for costume design.
After the success of “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope,” Mollo’s next fi lm was another sci-ence fi ction blockbuster: “Alien” (1979). Mollo created used and well-worn clothing for the crew of the Nostromo on their long return trip to Earth as well as designing the patches and emblems embla-zoned across their suits.
(SD-Agencies)
John Mollo dies at 86
A poster for “Carne y Arena” at Cannes Film Festival in May. SD-Agencies
Emma stone Dave McCary
John Mollo (L) with Natalie Wood (C) and Darth Vader at the 1978 Oscars.
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Alejandro G. Inarritu
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