'Margaret' trailer

Ok, I'm totally aware that the Venice Film Festival is in full swing (today Polanski's Carnage has been more or less positively received, while Madonna's W.E. has been trashed, as expected) and that the ever-secretive Telluride Film Festival has just unveiled the lineup for its 38th edition, but I've been waiting 6 years to get a first glimpse of some footage from Kenneth Lonergan's sophomore film Margaret, so forgive me if I ignore those events and offer up the freshly released trailer of Margaret instead.

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Kenneth Lonergan's 'Margaret' gets September release date after six years of legal battle

It´s been quite an eventful fortnight in terms of cinematic news since I last posted an entry here and jumped on a flight in search of two weeks of self-inflicted isolation. Some of the news were expected (the announcement of the lineups of the Venice and Toronto film festivals), some were sad (Silvio Narizzano's death), but the piece of news that has truly cushioned the always painful end of my holiday has been the announcement of a September release date for Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan's sophomore effort, after six years of seemingly never-ending post-production wrangles, including countless film cuts and two lawsuits.

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Anna Paquin and True Blood cast at Comic-Con

The complete cast of True Blood, including Anna Paquin and Alexander Skarsgård, and show creator Allan Ball attended the panel about the HBO series at this year's Comic-Con. You can check the pics, interviews and clips here, and wath the official HBO Season 4 trailer after the cut.

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Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret to be released in 2011

It's probably the best piece of cinematic news of the year: Kenneth Lonergan's second film Margaret will finally be released in 2011 after five years of legal disputes.

The film, which stars Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, was shot in three months back in 2005, but it has been tied up in several lawsuits ever since. It tells the story of a teenager indirectly involved  in a traffic accident and the unforeseeable aftermath the event has in her life.

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Oscar Becomes Her: why Meryl Streep should win her third Academy Award

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will announce its nominations tomorrow and, unless the plot of the appalling 2012 proves true two years in advance and LA is literally engulfed by the ocean, Meryl Streep will receive her staggering 24th Golden Globe nomination for her perfectly delicious portrayal of American cuisine guru Julia Child in the film Julie & Julia.

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