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“Inception” mystifies Manila, grosses P61-M in 2 weeks 0

Posted on August 02, 2010 by kankan

MANILA, July 29 – Excellent word-of-mouth and multiple viewings have driven Warner Bros.’ sci-fi thriller “Inception” to a remarkable P60.88-million gross nationwide after two weeks of release (July 15 to 28).  This was announced today by Francis Soliven, general manager of Warner Bros. Philippines.

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Oscar talk underway for “Inception” 0

Posted on July 22, 2010 by kankan

Let the Academy Awards buzz for Inception begin!

Days before the genre-defying film opened in the US, internet giant Yahoo already proclaimed Inception as the best film of the year to-date.  Yahoo wrote in its citation – “From its mind-bending dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream plot to its way cool special effects, the movie stands head-and-shoulders above an otherwise lackluster movie summer.”

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The fascinating men of “Inception” 0

Posted on July 05, 2010 by kankan
Aside from Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Bros.’ new sci-fi actioner “Inception” also features a top caliber group of exciting actors, lead by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“(500) Days of Summer”), Tom Hardy (“RockNRolla”), Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai”) and Cillian Murphy (“Batman Begins”).
In the film, Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable.  Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.  Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.
Director Christopher Nolan offers, “It was fascinating to watch the actors evolve as a group, very much the way the characters do in the story.  It really brought a richness to their scenes together.  As a writer, you hope for that kind of chemistry, but it’s not until you get on the set that you see the cast bring out their characters’ idiosyncrasies and interesting inter-relationships.  That’s a vital part of any movie, especially a heist movie, and I think these actors really delivered that.
“The film follows a team of very different people, each with singular skills, who are brought together to accomplish a very special task,” Nolan continues.  “If any one of them fails, it can spell disaster, so each individual is integral to their success.  And we understand everything they’re going through because we are on that journey with them.”
Cobb’s longtime and most trusted colleague is Arthur, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  While Cobb is the master planner, Arthur takes care of the details.  Gordon-Levitt asserts, “Arthur is the organized one, the one making sure everything is in its right place.  But as fastidious as he is, Arthur didn’t want to apply his organizational skills to being a lawyer or doctor or any of the things he could have been because sharing dreams is fascinating.  It’s not just a job for him. Ultimately, it’s not the money he’s doing it for.  He wouldn’t risk his life for a good paycheck.  He loves it.”
Tom Hardy plays the role of Eames, who, he notes, possesses surprising skills as a forger…and not just on paper.  “In the dream world, Eames can project the image of anyone, so he’s actually forging an identity in a physical manifestation and can convince another person that he’s whomever the team needs him to be in order to aid their deception.”
Ken Watanabe portrays the role of Saito, a rich and powerful business magnate, who offers Cobb a very special job with a promise of payment more valuable than money.  Simply put, if Cobb can give Saito what he wants, Saito will get Cobb home.  There is only one condition: Saito wants to accompany Cobb’s team on the job to be sure he gets what he’s paying for.  Watanabe observes, “At first, it’s only a business relationship, but as the story continues, Saito and Cobb develop an understanding and a respect.  They need each other.”
The target of Saito’s business proposition is Robert Fischer, who is about to inherit control of his dying father’s multibillion-dollar empire. Cillian Murphy, who plays the part of Fischer, points out, “Despite his vast wealth, Robert is riddled with all sorts of insecurities, as one might expect of someone who has lived his entire life in the shadow of a hugely powerful individual.  It doesn’t help that he has a very strained relationship with his father.  So here you have a person who is about to inherit the world and is lacking for nothing except, perhaps, the thing he wants most: a proper relationship with his father.”
Opening across the Philippines on Thursday, July 15 in IMAX, Digital 2D and regular format, “Inception” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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Aside from Leonardo DiCaprio, Warner Bros.’ new sci-fi actioner “Inception” also features a top caliber group of exciting actors, lead by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“(500) Days of Summer”), Tom Hardy (“RockNRolla”), Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai”) and Cillian Murphy (“Batman Begins”).

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Leonardo DiCaprio, the dream-extractor in “Inception” 0

Posted on June 29, 2010 by kankan
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Dom Cobb, a master in the art of dream-extraction, in Warner Bros.’ original sci-fi action adventure “Inception.”
In the film, Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable.  Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.  Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.
“Cobb has achieved a level of expertise that has made him very well known in the underground black market of individuals who are able to infiltrate people’s minds and extract information,” DiCaprio notes.
“At the beginning of the film,” director Christopher Nolan says, “we learn that Cobb is the best extractor in the game.  He is hired by corporations to steal secrets they would otherwise never have access to.  It’s all based on the persistence of an idea, the notion that any concept will stay fixed in the subconscious.  It’s impossible to unlearn something, and that forms the basis for what an extractor is able to do in terms of retrieving information.”
The way extraction works is through a process called dream sharing—manufacturing the world of the dream and bringing the subject into that world, which feels completely real as long as they are in it.
But Cobb’s rare skills have also resulted in him being a wanted fugitive who can never go home.  Producer Emma Thomas shares, “From the start, we know he is a man with a past that makes it impossible for him to go back to America.  But his kids are there and that motivates him more than anything else.  He’s willing to take any risk in his work if it means he can get home to what he loves most.”
For that reason, DiCaprio says that the approach he and Nolan took was that “no matter how surreal the dream state, everything needed to be grounded in our connection with the character; everything had to be emotionally charged.  From Cobb’s standpoint there is something very real at stake, so all of his choices, his reactions, and how he deals with the people he’s working with is a means to one end: getting back his life.”
Nolan expounds, “Working with Leo early on, we really delved into the emotional life of his character.  It was very important to him that that be the guiding thread of the story, and with it he is able to draw the audience through the complex story in a very clear fashion.  That’s what great actors are able to bring to a project, and Leo made a massive contribution to the film.  I think he is one of our finest actors and his performance in the film is extraordinary.”
For his part, DiCaprio states, “Chris is an extremely talented filmmaker,” adding, “I also appreciated getting to collaborate so closely with such an unbelievable cast.  We had lengthy conversations about our characters, and their individual histories and relationships.  And Chris definitely encouraged that; he wanted every actor, no matter how big or small the part, to have a real sense of our characters and to bring something to the table to make them our own.”
Opening soon across the Philippines in IMAX, Digital 2D and regular format, “Inception” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Dom Cobb, a master in the art of dream-extraction, in Warner Bros.’ original sci-fi action adventure “Inception.”

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Christopher Nolan invades your dreams with “Inception” 0

Posted on June 23, 2010 by kankan
Director-writer Christopher Nolan follows up “The Dark Knight’s” blockbuster success with Warner Bros.’ new sci-fi action-thriller “Inception” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
The acclaimed filmmaker reveals that he began creating the world of “Inception” almost a decade before he made the movie.  “About ten years ago, I became fascinated with the subject of dreams, about the relationship of our waking life to our dreaming life,” Nolan explains.  “I’ve always found it to be an interesting paradox that everything within a dream—whether frightening, or happy, or fantastic—is being produced by your own mind as it happens, and what that says about the potential of the imagination is quite extraordinary.  I started thinking how that could be applied to a grand-scale action movie with a very human dimension.”
“Inception” hinges on the premise that it is possible to share dreams…dreams that have been designed to look and feel completely real while you’re in them.  And in that subconscious state, a person’s deepest and most valuable secrets are there for the taking.  Nolan elaborates, “At the heart of the movie is the notion that an idea is indeed the most resilient and powerful parasite.  A trace of it will always be there in your mind…somewhere.  The thought that someone could master the ability to invade your dream space, in a very physical sense, and steal an idea—no matter how private—is compelling.”
Producer Emma Thomas agrees, noting that the film had to maintain that balance between a thrill ride and an emotional journey.  “It has elements of a heist movie, but one set in a more fantastical framework.  It has huge action sequences, but it also has characters you truly care about, and there is a real emotional driving force throughout.”
That driving force is largely embodied in the central character of Dom Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.  “In essence, that’s what was immediately engaging to me about the script,” says the actor.  “It is this highly entertaining, complex thriller where anything can happen, but at the heart is one man’s quest to uncover a long-buried truth and to get back home.  It’s also completely original; I don’t think anyone could say they’ve experienced anything like it before.  That combination made me excited about working on the project, as well as with Chris Nolan.  He is an expert at taking this kind of multi-layered storyline and making it true and tangible to an audience.”
Nolan asserts that the central theme of the story is both personal and universal “because we all dream.  We all experience the phenomenon of our minds creating a world and living in that world at the exact same time.  There is also an incredible contrast in the world of dreams—they are so intimate and yet they have infinite possibilities in terms of what we can imagine.  So the challenge was to blend the intimacy and emotion of what might take place in a dream with the massive scope of what our brains can conceive of.  I wanted to create a film that would allow the audience to experience the limitless realities that only in dreams can we realize.”
“We knew the production of ‘Inception’ was going to have to be big because of the subject matter—you can do anything in a dream,” adds Thomas.  “In fact, the scope of this film is greater than anything we’ve done before, even just in terms of the number of countries in which we shot.”
“To me, the material demanded a very large-scale approach,” Nolan attests.  “That’s why we wound up shooting in six different countries, building enormous sets, and really pushing the boundaries of what could be achieved practically, as opposed to computer effects.
“It’s interesting because the human brain is often compared to a computer,” the director continues, “but the truth is that’s a very inadequate analogy because the brain is capable of more than we’ll ever know.  For a filmmaker, that made it an ideal world to be delving into because there are no rules for what the mind can create, and a movie exploring that had to be the grandest form of entertainment.”
Opening soon across the Philippines in IMAX, Digital 2D and regular format, “Inception” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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Director-writer Christopher Nolan follows up “The Dark Knight’s” blockbuster success with Warner Bros.’ new sci-fi action-thriller “Inception” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

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“Inception” gets IMAX release in RP  0

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kankan
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures recently announced that “Inception,” directed by Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will be released to IMAX theatres in the Philippines simultaneously with the film’s wide release in Digital 2D and conventional cinemas on July 15.
The film marks the third IMAX project for Christopher Nolan, following the record-breaking IMAX release of “The Dark Knight,” which grossed more than $65 million at IMAX theatres. “Inception,” a contemporary sci-fi action film set within the architecture of the mind, will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with IMAX DMR technology.
The film also stars Ellen Page (“Juno”), Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai”), Marion Cotillard (“La vie en rose”), Joseph Gordon Levitt (“(500) Days of Summer”), Tom Hardy (“RocknRolla”), Cillian Murphy (“Batman Begins”), Tom Berenger and Michael Caine.
“Chris Nolan and IMAX have proven to be ideally suited to each other, and we’re very excited to bring them back together again for ‘Inception,’” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Picture’s president of domestic distribution. “With the rapidly growing IMAX network, our IMAX audience base for this release will be significantly larger than it was for ‘The Dark Knight,’ which will add to the film’s event status.”
“Chris Nolan’s unique vision makes his films ideally suited for the IMAX format,” said Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President, Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International. “As the number of IMAX screens around the world continues to grow, we’re thrilled to continue to supply films like ‘Inception’, which become that much richer when experienced in IMAX.”
“This is an incredible addition to our exciting and growing 2010 film slate,” said IMAX CEO Richard L. Gelfond. “Chris Nolan’s unique vision combined with the talents of Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of the cast creates the kind of cinematic event that resonates very well with IMAX moviegoers.”
“We’re thrilled to be working again with Chris Nolan, Emma Thomas and Warner Bros. Pictures to deliver one of next year’s biggest movies to our growing audience worldwide,” added Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. “With a brilliantly creative and innovative director that knows and understands the power of the IMAX medium, a talented cast lead by a superstar actor and a powerhouse studio that knows how to communicate the IMAX brand to audiences worldwide, this film has all the key ingredients that make this an anchor 2010 IMAX release.”
“Inception” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures recently announced that “Inception,” directed by Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will be released to IMAX theatres in the Philippines simultaneously with the film’s wide release in Digital 2D and conventional cinemas on July 15.

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Warner Bros. releases “Inception” character banners 0

Posted on June 10, 2010 by kankan
Warner Bros. has just launched the new character banners of “Inception,” the upcoming sci-fi action-thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight,” “Batman Begins”).
The banners feature the seven major individual characters led by The Extractor (Leonardo DiCaprio), The Tourist (Ken Watanabe), The Point Man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), The Shade (Marion Cotillard), The Architect (Ellen Page), The Forger (Tom Hardy) and The Mark (Cillian Murphy).
In the film, Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable.  Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.
Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.  One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible—inception.  Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse; their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one.  If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime.
But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move.  An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.
This season, your mind is the scene of the crime.
Opening soon across the Philippines, “Inception” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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Warner Bros. has just launched the new character banners of “Inception,” the upcoming sci-fi action-thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight,” “Batman Begins”).

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“Inception” – your mind is the scene of the crime 0

Posted on June 03, 2010 by kankan
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in Warner Bros.’ “Inception,” an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams.
In the film, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable.  Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.
Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.  One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible—inception.  Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse; their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one.  If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime.
But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move.  An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.
This season, your mind is the scene of the crime.
“Inception” stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao and Michael Caine.
“Inception” was written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced the film with Emma Thomas.  Chris Brigham and Thomas Tull served as executive producers, with Jordan Goldberg co-producing.
Nolan’s behind-the-scenes collaborators included three-time Oscar®-nominated director of photography Wally Pfister, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, editor Lee Smith, Oscar®-nominated costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and Oscar®-nominated special effects supervisor Chris Corbould.  The music is by Academy Award®-winning composer Hans Zimmer.
Opening soon across the Philippines, “Inception” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in Warner Bros.’ “Inception,” an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams.

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