Deadline is reporting that Jim Caviezel is set to be the Person of Interest in the upcoming Jonah Nolan/J.J. Abrams TV Pilot for CBS. Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) has signed on to play Reese, a presumed dead ex-CIA agent who partners with reclusive billionaire Finch (Lost‘s Michael Emerson) to prevent violent crimes in New York City. Emerson’s casting was announced last month to a positive reaction. What do you all think about Caviezel playing the lead?
I’m sure by now you all are familiar with the results of the 2011 Academy Awards. And you’re probably quite aware that Inception took home 4 Oscars this past Sunday night. It’s not breaking news, or news even, but we have to talk about it right? So we’ll try to make it interesting by including video clips and opinions. Let us remind you that Inception was nominated for a total of 8 Academy Awards. Quite famously none of those 8 were for Best Director. Here is what the nominations were for: Art Direction, Cinematography, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Original Screenplay, and Best Picture. And here’s the breakdown of the half of those it did win.
First up, Best Achievement in Cinematography. Inception had just lost the first award of the night, Achievement in Art Direction, to Alice in Wonderland. Not the best sign for Inception‘s night it would seem. I personally thought it had a more than fair shot at winning in that category, but I’m often wrong about these things. Cinematographer Wally Pfister had some tough competition, among them the great Roger Deakins who has been nominated a total of 8 previous times without a win. But sure enough the prized golden statue went to 4 time nominee Wally Pfister! You can check out video of his acceptance speech later on in the article.
You may have noticed that we talked about giving away a single Memento Blu-ray via Twitter in our story about the film celebrating its 10th anniversary with select screenings across North America. This is still the case. Only now our Twitter winner will also be receiving a 10th anniversary 27″ x 40″ poster in addition to the Blu-ray, as will 19 other people! Cinedigm Entertainment is helping us give away a total of 20 brand-new Memento Blu-rays and 20 special edition Memento 10th anniversary posters.
This giveaway will run until 11:59pm EST on February 21st and we’ll be sending emails to our winners shortly after to confirm shipping addresses. Our goal is to have this stuff in the mail to you by Tuesday, February 22nd — the release date of the 10th anniversary Memento Blu-ray. To enter to win head over to our Giveaway Page and enter your first name, last name, and email address into the form on the right and submit.
UPDATE: All 20 of our winners have been notified via email that they’ve won! Thanks to all the entrants. For those who didn’t win this time around, there’s always next time!
