My list of the ten best films of 2007 goes to print on Wednesday in the Capital Times and I’ll post it here on Tuesday night. To whet your appetite here’s the shortlist of best (and worst) of 2007 with the additional bonus of the New Zealand box office grosses for each film. The keen-eyed and statistically minded reader will be able to calculate the precise degree of influence exerted over the market by an (even above) average weekly local film reviewer.
The complete list of 24 best and 21 worst is after the jump.
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Before we get too far into this great Summer of 07-08 I want to express some concern at how easy young Vettori seems to be taking defeat. He’s taking it graciously, magnanimously and generously to be sure. But he doesn’t look like he hates losing, like it eats away at him, corroding his very soul.
In this he reminds me of another young captain who was supposedly “the chosen one”, annointed and appointed with the full support of the great minds at HQ. Taine Randell, we were told, had captained every New Zealand age group representative rugby side and was positively destined to be All Black captain. And so he became.
And with a win-draw-loss record of 12-1-9 we got pretty used to seeing Taine giving “full credit” to the opposition and after a while it looked like it didn’t even hurt.
Dan Vettori’s win-loss record in internationals before taking over the job permanently from Stephen Fleming was a very creditable 8 from 11. Since the Twenty20 World Cup, it has been P9 W2 L7.
Tomorrow we take on Australia again, this time in Sydney. And let’s hear no more about Tait’s suspect action. Of course, he chucks- but if we are going to worry about him then we should take a look at Kyle Mills and that is a bit too close to home.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox have pushed back the proposed release date for James Cameron’s Avatar from Memorial Day 2009 (which is June 22) to December 18 2009. That’s a six month delay. Fox are giving availability of 3D screens and extra time for Weta to do a bang-up job on the techy stuff as the reason for the delay.
But the fact that the live-action shoot in Wellington is proving to be a challenge with 18 hour days being the norm plus Cameron’s history of going over schedule and over budget on Titanic – it won’t have anything to do with that at all. I have one staff member who was booked for three days work as a featured extra and that call has turned into 15 days, and may still go longer.
Black Magic has more on the Avatar shoot including some behind-the-scenes material.
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