Spielberg Named Cecil B. DeMille Honoree

Steven Spielberg will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field" at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards.

Josh Brolin made the announcement Wednesday at The Beverly Hilton, calling Spielberg a "one-of-a-kind talent."

The 60-year-old director has won six Golden Globes and three Oscars best director and best picture for "Schindler's List" and best director for "Saving Private Ryan."

He has also received lifetime achievement honors from the Directors Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center.

He is in post-production on "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which will be released next year.

Spielberg will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille trophy at the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13. The awards will air live on NBC.

Rumer Willis was named Miss Golden Globe, who assists in the awards ceremony. The honor is traditionally granted to the offspring of a well-known celebrity.

Willis, 19, is the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, so she is "doubly qualified," said Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Jorge Camara.

"It's really an amazing opportunity to help recognize people who've done great work in this industry," said Willis, who appears in two films scheduled for release next year.

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Apatow, Lasseter, Spielberg Among Top in Power List 2007

The movie biz loves its lists. While making countdowns of best-reviewed genre movies is our niche here at Rotten Tomatoes, categorizing human beings is a task we happily pass over to someone else. That's where Premiere Magazine comes in. They've just published the Power List 2007, their annual organized compendium of Hollywood's 50 most notable movers and shakers.

The Power List list holds few surprises, though considering its function as a reflection of all the big events over the last 12 months, arguably that's how it should be. Each actor, producer, director, and studio exec on the list are included based on a criteria revolving around their power, influence, and visibility throughout the world. Essentially, the more schedules, projects, and 323 area code phone numbers stuffed inside your BlackBerry -- and the more snarky blog posts written about you -- the more likely you were to make it on the list.

The top five Power 50 slots are occupied by studio heads, with Pixar founder John Lasseter at #2, a drop from being top Hollywood toast last year. (Click here for our exclusive article with Lasseter.) Steven Spielberg leads the way for creative artists with his placement in sixth.

Judd Apatow, who has gone from cult TV hero to the ubiquitous face behind Hollywood comedy, enters the list for the first time, impressively staking a claim at #13.

Apatow's name has been inseparable from two of the most beloved comedies this year (Knocked Up and Superbad), and he's producing and/or writing five upcoming comedies, each highly anticipated: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Step Brothers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and The Pineapple Express.

Judd Apatow being Superbad.

George Lucas is also back on the list, though, for once, it has nothing to do with Star Wars. Premiere argues that ILM's role in creating the CG denizens of Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Transformers, combined with Lucas's producer role for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is enough to be #17. Meanwhile, the sheer act of announcing a new movie (Avatar) has put James Cameron at #29.

Mainstays like Reese Witherspoon (#38), Julia Roberts (#37), Jim Carrey (#35), Mel Gibson (#30), and Tom Cruise (#20) showing signs of vulnerability as they slide down the list. On the other hand, Paul Greengrass (#47), Sacha Baron Cohen (#49), and Shia LaBeouf (#50) made big enough splashes in 2007, and have bright enough 2008 horizons, to crack the list.

 

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Spielberg Talks Indy 4 and Tintin

It seems a pretty safe bet that, on nine out of ten film fans' wish lists, "meeting with Steven Spielberg on the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" would be somewhere near the top. As it turns out, this isn't an impossible dream -- all you need to do is help Spielberg catch a thief.

Spielberg, in a show of gratitude to the online film press for helping track down the person responsible for the recent theft of some Indy 4-related stuff, invited a number of writers out to the set for a 20-minute meeting on Tuesday. Slashfilm's Peter Sciretta was one of the anointed few, and naturally, he's shared some details of what went down.

As you might expect, not a great deal of information changed hands during the meeting -- it was less than half an hour long, after all -- but the writers were able to glean a few morsels of information, primarily relating to Indy 4 and the upcoming Tintin. With regards to the latter, Slashfilm reports:

Spielberg confirmed that Tintin will be shot on stage using motion capture over a 30-day shoot. One of the films will be shot by Steven, the other by Jackson, and the third by...and this is the shocker: Spielberg said they are on the lookout for a director for the third film, but they are considering filming the movie together. That's right -- Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson directing side by side on the epic conclusion to the Tintin trilogy. This is something that has never been clearly stated in the trades.

Perhaps the most interesting piece of Indy information is the news that it's being shot on film, despite what seem to have been repeated efforts by George Lucas to convince Spielberg to make it a digital production. From Slashfilm:

Steven gushed about how a film frame is alive with movement and film grain and that digital video is "too perfect." Lucas tried to convince Steven that they could add the film grain to the digital image, which Spielberg found totally amusing because doesn't that defeat the whole purpose? And wouldn't it just be easier to shoot the whole thing on film.

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