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Aug 26 - Release of "August" DVD
Aug 28 - Dec 20 - Josh in London performing "Rain Man"
Nov 30 - Josh in Old Vic’s 24 Hour Plays (Tickets & Info)
Sept - Filming of "Queen of the South" begins in Mexico and Spain
2009 - Filming of "End Zone" begins in New Mexico
Summer 2009 - "Bunraku" release
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Plays: Tom
Status: Completed
Release: July 11
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Trailer | Official Site |
 I Come with the Rain
Plays: Kline
Status: Post-production
| Info|
Trailer | Official Site |
End Zone
Plays: ---
Status: Pre-Production
| Imdb | Trailer | Official Site |
 Bunraku
Plays: The Drifter
Status: Post-Production
Release: Summer 2009
| Imdb | Trailer | Official Site |
Queen of the South
Plays: Santiago Fisterra
Status: Pre-production
| Info | Trailer | Official Site |
Nobody
Role: Executive Producer
Status: Filming
| Info | Trailer | Official Site |
Rain Man Stage Production
Role: Charlie Babbit
Status: Playing
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| Sin City (2005) |
 Release Date:
28 March 2005
Genre: Action/ Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino (special guest director)
Writer: Frank Miller (graphic novels)
Runtime: 124 min / USA:147 min (director's cut)
Language: English
Color: Technicolor
MPAA: R
Status: On Dvd/VHS
Filming Dates: 29 March 2004 - ???
Plays: The Man
Cast:
+ Jessica Alba ---- Nancy Callahany
+ Devon Aoki ---- Miho
+ Alexis Bledel ---- Becky
+ Rosario Dawson ---- Gail
+ Benicio Del Toro ---- Jackie Boy
+ Jaime King ---- Goldie / Wendy
+ Brittany Murphy ---- Shellie
+ Clive Owen ---- Skinny Dude
+ Mickey Rourke ---- Marv
+ Bruce Willis ---- Hartigan
+ Elijah Wood ----Kevin
Tag line:
+ Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything.
+ Hell of a way to end a partnership.
+ There is no justice without sin.
+ Do I take this cop down and risk it all?
Synopsis:
"Sin City" is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some
searching for vengeance, some for redemption and others, both. The film
incorporates storylines from three of Miller's graphic novels including 'Sin
City,' which launched the long-running, critically acclaimed series, as well
as 'That Yellow Bastard' and 'The Big Fat Kill.' Where Hartigan, a cop with
a bum ticker and a vow to protect stripper Nancy. Marv, the outcast
misanthrope, is on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love,
Goldie; there's also Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley who spends his
nights defending Gail and her Old Towne girls from Jackie Boy, a dirty cop
with a penchant for violence.Other Titles:
+ Tennessee (USA working title)
+ Pearl Harbour (UK Promotional Title)
+ Pearl Harbor, entre el fuego y la pasión (Columbia)
Alternate Versions:
+ December 2005 DVD reissue included an extended, reedited version of the
film. The four story lines were separated into individual short films, with
about seven minutes of additional footage added, marketed as approximately
25, but about thirteen of those minutes are credits added to each story and
five come from marketing exaggeration.
+ In the extended version is a scene where Marv returns to his mother's
house to retrieve his gun, Gladys.
+ The theatrical version shown in France is cut slightly to get a 12 rating.
Notable scenes removed include Roark Jr's ear blown off by Hartigan, Miho
slicing off Jackie Boy's hand with a swastika/manji shaped shuriken and its
aftermath and Hartigan removing Yellow Bastard's genitals and then beating
him. The DVD release is uncut with a 16 rating.
+ Among the additions to the December 2005 DVD release is an extended
appearance by Carla Gugino as Lucille in the "That Yellow Bastard" story.
(Previously she had only appeared in the Hard Goodbye segment).
Filming Locations:
+ Austin,
Texas, USA
Production Companies:
+
Dimension Films
+ Troublemaker Studios
Distributors:
+ Buena Vista International
+ Buena Vista Pictures
+ Dimension Films
+ Miramax Films
+ Touchstone Home Video |
| Trivia |
+ Adrien Brody auditioned for the role of Jackie Boy.
+ The first scene shot is the opening scene with Josh Hartnett. This was the scene which was used to convince Frank Miller to agree to have his graphic novel adapt into film. The directors decided to put the scene later in the movie as a tribute.
+ Based on the graphic novels "Sin City" (the first graphic novel was just called "Sin City;" this story has been renamed "The Hard Good-Bye" by Miller), "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard", by Frank Miller. The opening footage with Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton is from the Sin City short story "The Customer is Always Right" from the "Babe Wore Red" collection. However, the epilogue featuring Hartnett and Alexis Bledel is an original scene written specifically for the movie.
+ Both Nancy (Jessica Alba) and Wendy (Jaime King) drive cars with the license plates "LEV 311". Frank Miller often puts this in his various stories for "favourite girl" character in that story. The number is a nod to his wife and frequent collaborator Lynn Varley, whose birthday is 11 March.
+ Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller planned each shot in the movie by using the panels from the original book as storyboard.
+ As each sequence of this film was shot separately, new cast members were added and incorporated in the stories throughout the production. In many cases separate footage was composited in post-production to look as if it were all shot the same day. For example: Marv (Mickey Rourke) takes Wendy (Jaime King) to Nancy's (Jessica Alba) home. Alba had not been cast yet when Rourke and King shot the scene; her footage was added in later. The same is true of the scenes between Marv and Cardinal Roark (Rutger Hauer) and Kevin (Elijah Wood), as Hauer and Wood were cast after Rourke had shot his scenes.
+ The swords used by Miho (Devon Aoki) in this film are the same ones used by some of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). That film's director, Quentin Tarantino, had been keeping them in the back of his garage.
+ Guest director Quentin Tarantino directed the scene involving Dwight (Clive Owen) and Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) in the front of the car, before Dwight is pulled over by a police officer.
+ Marley Shelton also starred in the 1998 Gary Ross film Pleasantville (1998) which, much like this, employed the same visual technique of showing everything in black and white with only the occasional person, object or scene shown in color.
+ Robert Rodriguez originally envisioned Johnny Depp in the role of Jackie Boy. Due to prior commitments, Depp could not play the part. While at the Academy Awards, Rodriguez saw Benicio Del Toro with long hair ("Wolf Man" hair, as he describes it) and said that he "was looking at Jackie Boy". He told Del Toro not to cut his hair and mailed him the comic book and a copy of the short, "The Customer is Always Right." Del Toro immediately signed on.
+ Jessica Alba went to strip clubs as a part of her research for her character. However, she said that it didn't help because all the pro-strippers were doing "is trying to get tips".
+ Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi and Michael Douglas were all originally offered roles. Douglas was offered the role of Hartigan, Buscemi was offered the part of Junior when he became the Yellow Bastard, and Dafoe and Walken were both offered the role of Senator Roark.
+ Leonardo DiCaprio was originally up for the role of Junior but eventually declined the role, which later went to Nick Stahl.
+ Kate Bosworth was the first choice for the role of Gail.
+ Footage had been so coveted by fans before its release that when a 27-second behind-the-scenes clip appeared on "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) (airdate: 19 May 2004), it was quickly (though not officially by the show) placed on the Internet and downloaded over one million times. The raw footage featured only quick shots of Bruce Willis and a scantily-clad Jessica Alba performing in front of green-screen.
+ Cameo: [Frank Miller] the co-director and creator of the original comic series has a cameo as a priest.
+ The shape of Elijah Wood's chin was changed subtly in post-production to give him a more unsettling appearance.
+ Because of the way the movie was shot, Mickey Rourke (Marv) and Elijah Wood (Kevin) never met until after the film was released.
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| Goofs and Mistakes |
+ Continuity: The blood on Marv's chin appears and
disappears when he's being interrogated by Wendy and the girls.
+ Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Miho dives into the tar pits to pull
Dwight out. But when we see her in another shot, there is barely any tar on
her. This was an intentional joke by the filmmakers.
+ Revealing mistakes: Stuka makes a point of not moving or reacting
physically in any way when Miho shoots him with an arrow. So when we pull
back to long shot, it's clear from where he's standing the arrow must've
come in through the brickwork, not the window.
+ Plot holes: When the motorcycle cop pulls Dwight over during the
scene in which he's driving to the Pits, he tells Dwight that he's driving
with a busted tail light. However, you can see during the part in which he
swerves the car to avoid the other driver, and during the shot from behind
when the cop first approaches that both his tail lights are lit and working
fine. |
| Quotes |
+ [last lines]
The Salesman: [narrating] Turn the right corner
in Sin City, and you can find anything...
The Salesman: Becky, care for a smoke?
Becky: [on cell phone] I love you too, mom.
The Salesman: [narrating, screen goes black] ...
Anything. + Marv: I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them,
you don't feel bad.
+ [first lines]
The Salesman: [voiceover] She shivers in the wind
like the last leaf on a dying tree. I let her hear my footsteps. She only
goes stiff for a moment.
+ The Salesman: The wind rises, electric. She's soft and warm and
almost weightless. Her perfume is a sweet promise that brings tears to my
eyes. I tell her that everything will be all right. That I'll save her from
whatever she's scared of and take her far, far away. I tell her I love her.
[silenced gunshot]
The Salesman: The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot. I hold her
close until she's gone. I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash
her check in the morning. |
| Awards and Nominations |
+ ALMA Award: Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture - Benicio Del Toro (Nominated)
+ ALMA Award: Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture - Robert Rodriguez (Nominated)
+ ALMA Award: Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture - Jessica Alba (Nominated)
+ ASCAP Award: Top Box Office Films (WON)
+ Saturn Award: Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film (WON)
+ Saturn Award: Best DVD Special Edition Release (WON)
+ Saturn Award: Best Supporting Actor - Mickey Rourke (WON)
+ Saturn Award: Best Make-Up (Nominated)
+ Saturn Award: Best Supporting Actress - Jessica Alba (Nominated)
+ BMI Film Music Award (WON)
+ Black Reel: Best Supporting Actress - Rosario Dawson (Nominated)
+ Critics Choice Award: Best Acting Ensemble (Nominated)
+ Cannes Film Festival: Technical Grand Prize - Robert Roderiguez
(Nominated)
+ Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm (Nominated)
+ CFCA Award: Best Supporting Actor - Mickey Rourke (WON)
+ Empire Award: Best Film & Best Thriller (Nominated)
+ MTV Movie Award: Sexiest Performance - Jessica Alba (WON)
+ MTV Movie Award: Best Kiss - Rosario Dawson & Clive Owen (Nominated)
+ MTV Movie Award: Best Movie (Nominated)
+ Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure/Thriller -
Jessica Alba (Nominated)
+ Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie Bad Guy - Elijah Wood (Nominated)
+ Teen Choice Award: Choice Movie: Action/Adventure (Nominated) |
| Release and Reception |
+ Budget: 40 million
+ USA box office: 74 million
+ Opening weekend: 29 million
+ Worldwide Box Office: 159 million
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| DVD Information |
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS
Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital Surround AC-3 Sound
Number of Discs: 2 (Single Side Dual
Layer)
Classification: Unrated
Studio: Dimension
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Run Time: 147 minutes
Additional Release Materials:
1.Bloopers
2. Audio Commentary -
1. Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller
2. Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino
3. Austin Premiere Audience Reaction
3. Featurette -
1. 15 Minute Film School With Robert Rodriguez
2. The Movie In High-Speed Green Screen
3. THE LONG TAKE: 17 Uninterrupted Minutes of Tarantino's Segment
4. SIN CITY NIGHT AT ANTONES
5. 10 Minute Cooking School with Robert Rodriguez
6. A HARD TOP WITH A DECENT ENGINE - The Cars of Sin City
7. MAKING THE MONSTERS - Special Effects, Make Up
8. TRENCH COATS & FISHNETS - The Costumes of SIN CITY
9. BOOZE, BROADS & GUNS - THE PROPS OF SIN CITY
10. HOW IT WENT DOWN - Convincing Frank Miller to Make the Film
11. SPECIAL GUEST DIRECTOR: QUENTIN TARANTINO
4. Trailer -
1. Teaser Trailer
2. Theatrical Trailers
5. Interactive Features:
Interactive Game -
1. SIN-CHRONI-CITY Interactive Game
6. Additional Products:
Complete SIN CITY Graphic Novel - THE HARD GOODBYE
Note: Some of the above information may vary due to different DVD versions.
Buy DVD at
Amazon,
Official Site and
CD Universe. |
| Soundtrack Information |
Sin City: Music From the Motion Picture
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Label: Varese Sarabande
Tracks: 24
Buy and listen to sample tracks at
Amazon. |
| Sin City Merchandise |
Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library (Paperback)
Publisher: Dark Horse
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 4.8 inches
Language: EnglishBuy here at
Amazon. |
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