Happy New Year's Eve!

Have a good time tonight everyone! We're starting the night off at Buffalo Philly's and then to Richmond for the Cary st. Bash you see below! We'll have pics from the shennaigans we got into tonight up this weekend! 2009 is going to be big for us. Hope you stay tuned.

-Richard out!

Goodbye 2008!

Well it's been a somewhat productive year here at Sean Malloy Studios. "Where's Waldo: The Second Coming" was brought to the internet and a new website was formed. All the pieces are in place for a great 2009. Expect to see a lot more content from John and Richard as they piece together their follow up to "Where' Waldo." Expect Grit, expect sewers, expect Machine Guns. Hope you all have a crazy time tonight let's carve this last year a new asshole. 2008 sucked and will go down as one of the worst years on record for pretty much everyone and everything except Batman I guess.

Sean Malloy Productions crew will be in Richmond for the famous Byrd Theatre Ball Drop! Hope to see you there!

To end the year here is the list of our collective Top 10 Movies of 2009:

10. The Happening (viewed as a spoof movie)
9. Synecdoche, New York
8. In Bruges
7. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (the movie we watched the most of in 2008)
6. Boogie Nights (at the AFI Silver)
5. The Wrestler
4. Wall-e
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Slumdog Millionaire
1. The Dark Knight

Some Great Anime to End the Year On!

Man this is pretty damn entertaining if you ask me. I don't even speak Japanese, is Japanese right?

FOX brings us a Watchmen Exclusive!

Watchmen Exclusive


This is a pretty badass piece of new and old footage from Watchmen with Director's Commentary turned on. I just cannot imagine what goes on in 20th Century Fox studios that they take WB to court over rights and now use their own social network to bring people exclusives from a movie they may not even have any sort of ownership of, but it's good to get the ball rolling in the marketing department I guess. What was the last R-Rated movie Fox released? It sure as hell wasn't "Max Payne" or "Die Hard 4.0" even though both of those should have been. If Watchmen gets held up by these arrogant DVD hungry studio execs heads will roll. I've read to many forums where people are freaking out. We should all ban together and send FOX smiley face pins and flood their offices with them. Buttons for Watchmen has begun!

TRANSFOMERS 2 IMAGES!!!

Some new badass sneak peeks at what will probably be the most expensive "geekgasm" of 2009. Megan Fox looks even better hot damn I can't wait! Thanks to Empire for the images! We'll be watching this one pretty closely. SO MANY TRANSFORMERS ARE IN THIS MOVIE!

Asteroid Hit Earth: Is this the Disaster?

Amazing piece of CGI greatness I feel like an ass posting this not in HD so just go watch that version! I can't wait for HD to be embeddable!


Watch the Earth get blown up real nice in HD

It's Christmas!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YYYEEEEAAAAARRRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas Eve From All of Us at Sean Malloy Productions!

Thundercats! HOOOOO!!!!

LOST steals from Aronofsky again!

Another promo for LOST Season 5 uses the badass "Death is the Road to Awe" from "The Fountain." When I was alone in the theatre on Thanksgiving Eve two years ago watching "The Fountain" I knew the score needed to be put out there, well thanks LOST for stealing all the thunder. Assholes.

Gil Says Scarlett Johansson is Amazing

Yet again Scarlett makes us pay attention to "The Spirit" by being goddamn stunning at the premiere, this movie only has one thing going for, well two things if you want to be particular, Frank Miller must be a genius director, actually it was probably Lionsgate who thought up this whole evil scheme. They must have thought if they fill this movie out with truly sexy and sexual women atleast horny boys and older dudes would want to see it. Well congrats assholes I'm sold and I'll be seeing "The Spirit" within the opening week hopefully AMCinema. More later on Ryan Reynolds and his goddamn joyful life.

Gamer Loses His Shit!

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Tumbling Tumbleweeds Vortex!

Christmas Gifts Step. 1

BUY ME THESE! BUY ME THESE! BUY ME THESE!

The Spirit: Worst Movie Ever?

As we begin the coverage for the upcoming Christmas Day releases one film stands out above the rest as a true must see; Frank Miller's "The Spirit." I've seen all the trailers and the incredible hotness contained in the photos of Scarlett, but these clips have solidified my anticipation. This will be the absolute worst movie to ever be released by a major studio. Even if Lionsgate is known for their schlock horror movies and what have you this is some new kind of 'torture porn' that I hope never reels its head any time soon. Please try to get through these 6 clips from "The Spirit." I'm thinking my double feature for the 25th will be Benjamin Button and The Spirit back to back.

6 Clips from "The Spirit"

AFI TOP 10: 2008

More lists! Lists! Lists! List!

AFI AWARDS 2008

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL•E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER

AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
BREAKING BAD
IN TREATMENT
JOHN ADAMS
LIFE
LOST
MAD MEN
THE OFFICE
RECOUNT
THE SHIELD
THE WIRE

Congrats to the winners! David Fincher is racking it up this year, this should've happened with Zodiac last year.

pta's short: Cigarettes & Coffee!

Cigarettes & Coffee from maverick chen on Vimeo.

Special Nod to Kate Winslet

For shame! Kate Winslet has never been posted about on this blog. Well that's changing right now. Check out this pic from the premiere of The Reader! Plenty more to come!

100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters!

WellMedicated

National Board of Review Awards!

Awards for 2008:

Best Film

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Top Ten Films
(In alphabetical order)

BURN AFTER READING
CHANGELING
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
DEFIANCE
FROST/NIXON
GRAN TORINO
MILK
WALL-E
THE WRESTLER

Best Foreign Language Film

MONGOL

Top Five Foreign Films

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
ROMAN DE GARE
A SECRET
WALTZ WITH BASHIR

Best Documentary

MAN ON WIRE

Top Five Documentaries

AMERICAN TEEN
THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON)
DEAR ZACHARY
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED

Top Independent Films
(In alphabetical order)

FROZEN RIVER
IN BRUGES
IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
MR. FOE
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
SNOW ANGELS
SON OF RAMBOW
WENDY AND LUCY
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
THE VISITOR

Best Actor

CLINT EASTWOOD, Gran Torino

Best Actress

ANNE HATHAWAY, Rachel Getting Married

Best Supporting Actor

JOSH BROLIN, Milk

Best Supporting Actress

PENELOPE CRUZ, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Ensemble Cast

DOUBT

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor

DEV PATEL, Slumdog Millionaire

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress

VIOLA DAVIS, Doubt

Best Director

DAVID FINCHER, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Directorial Debut

COURTNEY HUNT, Frozen River

Best Adapted Screenplay

SIMON BEAUFOY, Slumdog Millionaire and ERIC ROTH, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Spotlight Award

MELISSA LEO, Frozen River and RICHARD JENKINS, The Visitor

Best Original Screenplay

NICK SCHENK, Gran Torino

Best Animated Feature

WALL-E

William K. Everson Award For Film History

MOLLY HASKELL and ANDREW SARRIS

The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression

TRUMBO

The films I've highlighted are the ones we at Sean Malloy Productions can't wait for or have deemed the best of 2008 already. What a great beginning push for Slumdog Millionaire, I'm not sure if it is up for Best Picture at the Oscars though doesn't it have to be an American made film to win that? I doubt FOX Searchlight would release a movie with such Oscar potential without covering their bases.

Best Picture Prediction for 12/4/08

Based on these results I'd say: Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Gran Torino and The Wrestler for Best Picture.

Congrats go out to Finch, he's finally knocked it out of the park with his latest brilliant film. Fincher may turn out to be the most revered director of our times. You can look back on his career (Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac and now Benjamin Button) and you can tell he is about to enter a period of absolute brilliance, I for one am very excited. David Fincher vs. Paul Thomas Anderson Battle to come.

Cahiers du cinéma’s 100 Greatest Films

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The List:

1. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
   
2. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton
3. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) - Jean Renoir
4. Sunrise - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
5. L’Atalante - Jean Vigo
6. M - Fritz Lang
7. Singin’ in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
8. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
9. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) - Marcel Carné
10. The Searchers - John Ford
11. Greed - Erich von Stroheim
12. Rio Bravo - Howard Hawkes
13. To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch
14. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
15. Contempt (Le Mépris) - Jean-Luc Godard
16. Tales of Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari) - Kenji Mizoguchi
17. City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
18. The General - Buster Keaton
19. Nosferatu the Vampire - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
20. The Music Room - Satyajit Ray
21. Freaks - Tod Browning
22. Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
23. The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) - Jean Eustache
24. The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin
25. The Leopard (Le Guépard) - Luchino Visconti
26. Hiroshima, My Love - Alain Resnais
27. The Box of Pandora (Loulou) - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
28. North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
29. Pickpocket - Robert Bresson
30. Golden Helmet (Casque d’or) - Jacques Becker
31. The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph Mankiewitz
32. Moonfleet - Fritz Lang
33. Diamond Earrings (Madame de…) - Max Ophüls
34. Pleasure - Max Ophüls
35. The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
36. The Adventure - Michelangelo Antonioni
37. Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein
38. Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock
39. Ivan the Terrible - Sergei M. Eisenstein
40. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
41. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
42. The Wind - Victor Sjöström
43. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
44. Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
45. The Crowd - King Vidor
46. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
47. La Jetée - Chris Marker
48. Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard
49. Confessions of a Cheat (Le Roman d’un tricheur) - Sacha Guitry
50. Amarcord - Federico Fellini
51. Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) - Jean Cocteau
52. Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder
53. Some Came Running - Vincente Minnelli
54. Gertrud - Carl Theodor Dreyer
55. King Kong - Ernst Shoedsack & Merian J. Cooper
56. Laura - Otto Preminger
57. The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
58. The 400 Blows - François Truffaut
59. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
60. The Dead - John Huston
61. Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch
62. It’s a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
63. Monsieur Verdoux - Charlie Chaplin
64. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer
65. À bout de souffle - Jean-Luc Godard
66. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
67. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
68. La Grande Illusion - Jean Renoir
69. Intolerance - David Wark Griffith
70. A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne) - Jean Renoir
71. Playtime - Jacques Tati
72. Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini
73. Livia (Senso) - Luchino Visconti
74. Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
75. Van Gogh - Maurice Pialat
76. An Affair to Remember - Leo McCarey
77. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
78. The Scarlet Empress - Joseph von Sternberg
79. Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi
80. Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar
81. The Party - Blake Edwards
82. Tabu - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
83. The Bandwagon - Vincente Minnelli
84. A Star Is Born - George Cukor
85. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday - Jacques Tati
86. America, America - Elia Kazan
87. El - Luis Buñuel
88. Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich
89. Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone
90. Daybreak (Le Jour se lève) - Marcel Carné
91. Letter from an Unknown Woman - Max Ophüls
92. Lola - Jacques Demy
93. Manhattan - Woody Allen
94. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
95. My Night at Maud’s (Ma nuit chez Maud) - Eric Rohmer
96. Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) - Alain Resnais
97. The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin
98. Scarface - Howard Hawks
99. Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio de Sica
100. Napoléon - Abel Gance

Couple of French guys picked this list, it's not as much fun as the Empire 500, more on that later if you haven't seen it.

MORE BLACK DYNAMITE!

More Proof Sean Malloy is HUGE in Japan!

Where's Waldo Article
From GIGAZINE:

劇場版ウォーリーをさがせ偽予告ムービー

人がゴチャゴチャに入り乱れている中から、赤と白の横縞シャツを着た眼鏡の男を探し出す絵本「ウォーリーをさがせ!」(北米版はWhere's Waldo?)。この人気作品が映画化されたらいったいどうなるのか。アクション風やホラー風など色々な偽予告ムービーが作られていますが、結構面白そう です。

動画は以下から。
ウォーリーを見つけてはいけない。ホラー風予告。

It basically says this: (Initiate Goodle Translator{ Are people from all jumbled mess in the red shirt and white horizontal stripes and a picture book to find a man wearing glasses, "the SAGASE Wally!" (North American version of Where's Waldo?). The popular movie work is what you get? Wind action, such as wind and a variety of fake horror movies are made subject, but it is quite interesting.}

The two greatest tap dancers that ever lived-certainly the most beloved dance team in the history of entertainment are Fayard (born 1914) and Harold (born 1921-2000), the famous Nicholas Brothers.


The Official Nicholas Brothers Website

LOST Clip featuring Kate!

I cannot wait to post about LOST! The show is by far the best thing on ABC and that alone does it for me. I ran a LOST blog as well as a few others during last season and so I'm ready for the onslaught that is coming to this place. More LOST clips to come.

Boogie Nights at the AFI Silver

The SMP crew just saw Boogie Nights at the AFI Silver in Silver Spring, Maryland. It was stupendous! Such a great looking flick on a huge screen. If you live in the area be sure to go check out the screenings of all of pt's soon to be classic movies.

AFI Silver Site

Great Old Tune