There is good news for those of you who want to know more about the 2010 Hugo Awards. Yes! They have been announced and handed over in the morning. The 2010 Hugo Awards have been announced in Australia and there has been a tie in the Best Novel category with other novels like Doctor Who and Moon racing for the honors. The double honor was bagged by China’s Miéville for The City & The City and Paolo Bacigalupi for The Windup Girl, The Rocket Trophies were bagged by Moon and Doctor Who in Australia when the awards were announced last night.
Get ready to watch the best science fiction film of the past ten years.
Written and directed by ‘Duncan Jones’ son of pop star/head of the Guild of Calamtious Intent, ‘David Gowie’. Read the rest of this entry »
Duncan Jones’ Moon has stormed the 42nd Sitges Film Festival of Catalonia.
Though going up against excellent competition such as Mr. Nobody, Enter the Void and Zombieland, Jones’ much revered story managed to pull in the awards for ‘Best Picture’, ‘Best Actor’ (Sam Rockwell), ‘Best Screenplay’ (Nathan Parker), ‘Best Art Direction’ (Tony Noble).
Perhaps most interesting is that Jones himself didn’t pull in the ‘Best Director’ award, which went to Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay. Nonetheless, congratulations to Duncan Jones for a brilliant film that is receiving appropriate recognition.
Vincenzo Natali’s Splice also premiered there to big applause, and subsequently won the Sitges’ coveted ‘Best F/X’ award.
Duncan Jones impressed the sci-fi world with his indie hit Moon and, as a result, has many fans eager to see what he can do with his next Blade Runner style sci-fi film, Mute.
Mute is described as “very human” sci-fi story that takes place in a very normal but futuristic city. It follows a mute bartender who goes head to head with the city’s gangsters as he attempts to find out what happened to his missing partner.
The first concept art (above) emerged last month when at the same time Liberty Films (who released the above image) listed the project as “in pre-production” and scheduled to shoot in Berlin early 2010.
The latest news isn’t so promising, with reports surfacing that Mute is experiencing its share of financing struggles.
Four never-before-seen posters from Duncan Jones' sci-fi film 'Moon'
The above image contains four never-before-seen posters from Duncan Jones’ awesome independent sci-fi film Moon. Click on the above image to enlarge.
The images come from the good folks over at Quiet Earth who have published five posters, although the fifth poster in their list was actually released some time ago. That one and the second official movie poster can be viewed from Sci Fi Scoop’s poster gallery or by clicking here (poster #1) and here (poster #2).
Moon continues to expand in distribution. If you have yet to see what many are calling one of the best films of 2009, check the Moon theater list to find a location to go see it.
Moon tells the story of Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who has spent nearly three years working alone on the Moon save for his only companion, a computer named GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). His job has been to collect and send back to Earth parcels of a resource essential to help with Earth’s power problems. As Sam nears the end of his time on the Moon he encounters something unexpected that threatens to change his life completely.
Moon is the first full-length feature film from Director Duncan Jones and one of our most highly acclaimed films of the year. In the following featurette Jones provides insight into how the film came about:
Moon continues to expand in distribution. If you have yet to see what many are calling one of the best films of 2009, check the Moon theater list to find a location to go see it.
Moon, the debut feature film from director Duncan Jones, won the award for ‘Best New British Feature Film’ at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Sunday.
Over the last two months there have been regular conflicting reports over what Jones’ next feature film will be. At times it has been reported his next film will be a Blade Runner style sci-fi project titled Mute, whilst at others it has been reported his next film will be a submarine survival flick titled Escape from the Deep.
As a result of the win at the Edinburgh Film Festival many news sites are now reporting that his next project will be Mute after all. Whilst Jones has previously confirmed that he hopes Mute is the next film he works on, the up and coming director has exlusively confirmed to Sci Fi Scoop that there is no actual confirmation that Mute is next on the agenda and that it will be months before even he knows what’s next.
“I wish it were,” Jones said. “In all honesty, at this stage, whatever film i am lucky enough to do next, will take time. So there is no way anything will be certain for a good few months yet.”
In other Moon related news, Jones has confirmed that Clint Mansell’s score to Moon will be released in early July. Mansell’s previous soundtracks include The Fountain, Doom, The Wrestler and more recently Blood: The Last Vampire.
Finally, Moon continues to receive wider distribution. If you have yet to see what many are calling the best sci-fi film of 2009, click the link below to find a theater near you where Moon is playing and go see it – you won’t be disappointed.
We received some excellent entries, but in the end we had no choice but to select the one that made us laugh the most, and that accolade goes to @moviechopshop with “I want the moon poster-Always had a dream of mounting Sam Rockwell in a mind-melding series of concentric circles on my wall ”
Update 2/7/09: Unfortunately for @moviechopshop they failed to reply to our request for their address and more than two weeks on we needed to send this poster somewhere. As a result the poster will now be award to Ryan Horvath, our lucky runner up who also demonstrated more eagerness to own this poster than anyone else. Congratulations Ryan.
Moon hits theaters today in a limited run throughout Los Angeles and New York. If you’re in those areas, go see it!
It will then be released:
USA – June 12, 2009 (limited run in LA and NY)
UK – July 17, 2009
Australia – September 3, 2009
SCI FI Wire recently spoke with Duncan Jones, the director of the upcoming indie sci-fi film Moon.
Jones talks about the blossoming of sci-fi, the difference between “hard sci-fi” and “soft sci-fi”, what it was like to work with Sam Rockwell, and what it took to get Kevin Spacey involved (as the voice of the computer Gerty).
Also, take notice of the poster on the wall behind him – dont’ forget we’re running a competition where you can win yourself a copy of that poster signed by the director himself. Go here for the competition details.
Moon will hit theaters:
USA – June 12, 2009 (limited run in LA and NY)
UK – July 17, 2009
Australia – September 3, 2009
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