Paramount Vantage Sends Free Milkshakes to Press
You have to give Paramount Vantage credit. They’ve decided to embrace the cult popularity of the “I Drink Your Milkshake” quote from Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Today I had to sign for a couriered letter. The return address said nothing more than the THERE WILL BE BLOOD logo.
I open up the letter and am greeted with the black card seen above. In white TWBB font it reads “I Drink Your Milkshake”. Inside the black card is a coupon for a free milkshake from Cold Stone Creamery and the text “I Drink it up!” “from your friends at Paramount Vantage”, as seen below.
Round 4: Pre-Sundance - U2 3D and Cloverfield
Due to the lack of any extra time since the moment Sundance began last Thursday, this episode of the FightCast has been delayed until today. However, it’s up now and I hope you all enjoy!
In this week’s FightCast, we fight about U2 3D, Cloverfield and briefly There Will Be Blood. We recorded the FightCast on the road to Salt Lake City to pick up a friend for Sundance 2008, and apologize for the delay in getting this up. U2 3D is the 3-D concert film which premiered this week in Park City. Cloverfield is the J.J. Abrams produced monster movie which hit theaters last Friday. And we talk a bit about Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, which is in theaters now. Check it out!
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Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood Score Out of Oscar Race!
“Damn.”
Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of things to come in regards to the Academy Awards for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood: Jonny Greenwood’s feted instrumental soundtrack for the film, seen as a shoe-in for Best Original Score, has been officially disqualified. The reason? The score contains preexisting music. Red Carpet District reports that Greenwood’s score contains “35 minutes of original recordings and roughly 46 minutes of pre-existing work (including selections from the works of Arvo Pärt, as well as pieces in the public domain, such as Johannes Brahms’ “Concerto in D Major”). Peripheral augmentation to the score included sporadic but minimal useage (15 minutes) of the artist’s 2006 composition “Popcorn Superhet Receiver.”
While I downloaded the soundtrack and admire it, I admit that the above details regarding source material eluded me. Rules are rules; even though I’m sure some die-hard Radiohead and PTA fans can’t be talked into coming down from their anger trees right now. What’s more surprising is the supreme suddenness of the Academy’s announcement, with Greenwood learning the decision via an official letter on January 17th, and the studio, Paramount Vantage, two days later. In comparison, Paramount Vantage says they learned that the soundtrack for their Into the Wild was also ineligible (due to predominant use of songs) much further in advance. And it sounds as if the studio would have appealed the TWBB decision if they had the proper time.
Right when the impossibly important category starts to attract the attention and interest of a younger demographic, poof! Maybe it’s time to reinstate the “Adaptation and Song Scores” category, which has been off the ballots since 1984?
2008 Academy Awards Odds
The Academy announced the nominations, and BoDog has now announced the first day odds for the 80th Annual Academy Awards:
Best Picture:
No Country For Old Men 10/11
Atonement 3/1
Michael Clayton 3/1
Juno 7/2
There Will Be Blood 4/1
Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood 3/1
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men 3/1
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton 11/4
Jason Reitman - Juno 5/2
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 9/4
Best Actor:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton 7/2
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood 1/4
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd 15/4
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah 17/4
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises 6/1
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age - 9/4
Julie Christie - Away from Her 2/1
Marion Cotillard - La vie en Rose 7/2
Laura Linney - Savages - 4/1
Ellen Page - Juno 5/2
Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 3/1
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men 1/2
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War 11/4
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild 6/1
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton 9/2
Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There 10/11
Ruby Dee - American Gangster 5/1
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement 13/4
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone 11/4
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton 5/2