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Talk show apperances start this week : On Thursday 10/12 Micheal Caine is on the Tonight show with Jay Leno on NBC. And on Friday he is on the Craig Ferguson show on CBS.
Hugh Jackman is on the tonight show monday 10/16.
There are also some other talk show appearances next week check this link:http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html
These are some things that have been out there awhile , I don't think anyone has posted them yet though :
Hugh Jackman interview on The Prestige and The Fountain :http://www.premiere.com/feature/3060/cover-story-hugh-jackman.html
Bale and Jackman on their roles in the movie :http://www.boxoffice.com/bxoscr/getcontent.asp?terms=2304
and finally the running time is to be 135 minutes and is premiering at the Rome fillm festival on the 17th :http://www.romacinemafest.org/catalogoEng.asp?ID_WEB_FILM=143
Hugh Jackman is on the tonight show monday 10/16.
There are also some other talk show appearances next week check this link:http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html
These are some things that have been out there awhile , I don't think anyone has posted them yet though :
Hugh Jackman interview on The Prestige and The Fountain :http://www.premiere.com/feature/3060/cover-story-hugh-jackman.html
Bale and Jackman on their roles in the movie :http://www.boxoffice.com/bxoscr/getcontent.asp?terms=2304
and finally the running time is to be 135 minutes and is premiering at the Rome fillm festival on the 17th :http://www.romacinemafest.org/catalogoEng.asp?ID_WEB_FILM=143
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Exclusive: New Prestige Photos!
Source: Touchstone Pictures
October 10, 2006
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at seven new photos from Touchstone Pictures' highly-anticipated The Prestige, opening in theaters on October 20.
From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them.
Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London, the exceptional cast includes two-time Oscar® winner Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
Exclusive: New Prestige Photos!
Source: Touchstone Pictures
October 10, 2006
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at seven new photos from Touchstone Pictures' highly-anticipated The Prestige, opening in theaters on October 20.
From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them.
Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London, the exceptional cast includes two-time Oscar® winner Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
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Great pic with Caine and the pigeon.
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Fenrir said:
That review that came from that guest reviewer on Latino Review was weird. It was written terribly, but then he'll try to impress by using big words or terminology. I'm sorry that only works if you got good grammar, and by repeating the title multiple times, it doesn't work.
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This film looks awsome, cant wait to see it.
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SCOTT&JEAN said:Have you guys seen this before? It's the first time I see it.
I love this! It's the international poster, totally legit...
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New Prestige TV Spots and Photos
Source: Touchstone Pictures
October 11, 2006
We've got three more TV spots for director Christopher Nolan's suspense thriller The Prestige, as well as many new photos from the film. You can watch the new TV spots here in various formats and the photos are available here.
The Prestige is a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
The movie, opening October 20, stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
New Prestige TV Spots and Photos
Source: Touchstone Pictures
October 11, 2006
The Prestige is a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
The movie, opening October 20, stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
just wow 
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dam im still on chapter 2........ theres no way im finishing before the movie comes out
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I can't wait for this film.
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hugh jackman looks a lot like chris nolan thereSCOTT&JEAN said:
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Hey, when does this movie come out?
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xwolverine2 said:dam im still on chapter 2........ theres no way im finishing before the movie comes out
If you read it like, over the weekend non stop. No problem, wham bam.
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October 20th.Blue_Beetle said:
New Positive Review! 
http://emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=3427
The Prestige
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Set in the Victorian era, Christian Nolan's "The Presige" is a period mystery-thriller about two magicians whose competition sparks a powerful rivalry that builds ups to some unexpectedly lethal effects.
This bizarre, convoluted movie, which boasts (or suffers from) lots of twists and turns and ups and downs, deals with the escalating battle between Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), a flashy, sophisticated magician who's a consummate entertainer, and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), a rough-edged purist magician who is a genius but lacks the panache to showcase his magical ideas.
Again collaborating with his brother Jonathan, the screenplay is based on the highly acclaimed novel by Christopher Guest. For this picture, Chris Nolan has assembled a formidable cast that includes two of today's most compelling stars, both of whom vets of franchise pictures. Jackman is still better known for his portrayal of Wolverine in the "X-Men movies," and Bale most recently starred as the latest Caped Crusader in Nolan's "Batman Begins."
The cast also benefits from Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Andy Serkis ("Lord of the Rings"), icon David Bowie, as the groundbreaking electrical genius Nikola Tesla, and some promising newcomers like Rebecca Hall and Piper Perabo.
It takes at least a reel to warm up to the movie, and another one to get involved, but the intricacies of this plot-driven movie finally kick in and the second half fulfills expectations and delivers secrets and lies, magic and illusions, doppelgangers and twins.
How would the public related to this prestigious item is anyone's guess.
It's probably a coincidence that Nolan's film follows another period mystery set in the world of magic, "The Illusionist," which surprisingly became a hit this fall, when sold as a romantic drama.
"The Prestige" begins and ends symmetrically, with the voice-over narration by Cutter, the magician's ingeneur (the man who designs illusions behind-the-scenes). In his distinctively resonant and immediately recognizable voice, Michael Caine tells a little girl the motto of the film, which explains its title. "Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first act is called The Pledge: The magician shows you something ordinary, but of course it probably isn't. The second act is called The Turn. The magician makes his ordinary something do something extraordinary. Now, if you're looking for the secret, you won't find it. That's why there's a third act called The Presitge. This is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before."
Those who have followed Nolan's career, from the modest debut of "Following" through the spectacular noir "Memento" (still his best film), know that his work provides a field day for film scholars (like me) who use the structuralist and semiological perspectives.
The above may be strictly academic issue, but I'd like to point out that the Nolans have used the same principles of Caine's voice-over in carefully constructing their script, which contains many secrets and shocking moments of revelation in unfolding this windy, surprise-fill tale of the dueling magicians.
"The Prestige" is an intricately mounted thriller, in which every mystery counts, in which illusions permeate every action, and nothing is quite what it seems—except the primal human drives of competition, jealousy and revenge
The Nolans are good in delineating the context, the rapidly-changing, turn-of-the-century London, a time that precedes the movies as a form of entertainment, and when magician are the idols and celebs of the highest order.
Roughly the same age, two ambitious magicians set out to carve their own path to fame. Angier and Borden start out as admiring friend and partners. However, when their biggest trick goes terribly awry, and Angier loses his loved wife in stage accident, they become enemies for life. From that point on, each man is motivated by outdoing and upending the other—to the bitter end.
Trick by trick, show by show, their ferocious competition builds, until it knows no bounds. At one point, Angier resorts to utilizing the fantastical new powers of electricity and the scientific brilliance of Nikola Tesla (Bowie).
Meanwhile, we get glimpses of their personal lives, which are intertwined with their professional ones. In fact, the lives of all those around them—especially the women—hang in the balance, or rather imbalance.
As he showed in his previous films, Nolan like film noir, and he imbues "The Prestige" with noir themes, such as obsession and betrayal, specifically in the character played by Scarlett Johnasson as the woman who comes between Angier and Borden.
And as in every film of his, Nolan creates an intriguing relationship between the narrative form of the story and the techniques and ideas used by magicians to fool you and engage you in deception. Clearly, he relates to the audience on screen that attends these performances as he does to the audience off screen that is watching his movie.
The tone of the film is appropriately dark and even tragic, considering the trajectory of the two magicians and the way it all began. As Borden says in voice-over early on: "We were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone." What ensue is a tale of obsession and revenge that shows, how despite naïve beginning and good intentions, careers often take their own unexpected paths to some detrimental effects.
Unfolding as a series of flashbacks--and flashbacks within flashbacks--"The Prestige" is told from multiple points of view, the transition among which is not always clear and often disrupts the natural flow of events. While Caine's Cutter is the privileged narrator who knows more about the proceedings than either magician, we also get Angier's and Borden's POVs through notebooks and diaries that each man keeps or tries to steal from the other (I can't elaborate more on this point without spoiling the fun).
The strong parallels between the role of the magician and the role of the filmmaker is used both in the text and the subtext of the film. Fillmmakers like magicians manipulate their audiences through the selective way that they transmit information, using their own techniques, blind alleys and red herrings to achieve their result—fooling and entertaining the viewers.
"The Prestige" is the movie for viewers who complain that few American movies have plot anymore, that most event movies are based on one idea or premise. Rife with sleight-of-hand shocks and revelation, the film delves into a riveting world where the farthest and darkest edges of faith, trust, and the possible are tested and contested.
Whether viewers will perceive "The Prestige" as intricately complex or just unnecessarily complicated would depend to a large degree on their willingness to suspend disbelief for two hours, and immerse themselves in the idiosyncratic world of magic with its own set of values, norms, and a very fluid code of ethics and honor.
If movies about magic constitute a genre or sub-genre, then "The Prestige is a good sampler. I don't recall any movie that offers so much info about the life of magicians, the ideas and techniques that dominate their work.
Nolan is an accomplished director who doesn’t repeat himself. Each of his five features boasts a different look and feel.
In "The Prestige," he creates a mysterious, yet vividly contemporary, portrait of the torch-lit heyday of London's magic scene, that benefits immensely from the talents behind the camera, specifically lenser Wally Pfister (Oscar-nominated for "Batman Begins"), production designer Nathan Crowley, and editor Lee Smith, all of whom have worked with Nolan before. Special kudos also go to the period costumes, designed by Joan Bergin (Emmy nominee for TV's "David Copperfield").
Films of similar interest
While watching Michael Caine in "The Prestige," I flashbacked to 1972's "Sleuth," the Joseph Mankiewicz movie, in which Caine and Laurence Olivier gave Oscar-nominated roles. Olivier plays a wealthy, snobbish mystery writer who devises a nasty plot, full of tricks, masks, and magic, to get even with his wife's Cockney lover (Caine), only to realize that his adversary may be smarter and more than a simple match for him.
"The Prestige" is obviously a richer, denser movie, with at least a dozen characters. However, the rivalry in its center and the tricks used by Angier and Borden to outdo and destroy each other bears some thematic resemblance to "Sleuth"'s two-character movie, based on Anthony Shaffer's hit stage play.
End note
In a statement to the press, Chris Nolan has written: "The Prestige is a mystery structured as a cinematic magic trick. In order to allow audiences to fully enjoy the unfolding of the story, we respectfully ask that you not reveal too much about the deceptions at the heart of the film."
BTW, who is that?
http://emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=3427
The Prestige
B
Set in the Victorian era, Christian Nolan's "The Presige" is a period mystery-thriller about two magicians whose competition sparks a powerful rivalry that builds ups to some unexpectedly lethal effects.
This bizarre, convoluted movie, which boasts (or suffers from) lots of twists and turns and ups and downs, deals with the escalating battle between Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), a flashy, sophisticated magician who's a consummate entertainer, and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), a rough-edged purist magician who is a genius but lacks the panache to showcase his magical ideas.
Again collaborating with his brother Jonathan, the screenplay is based on the highly acclaimed novel by Christopher Guest. For this picture, Chris Nolan has assembled a formidable cast that includes two of today's most compelling stars, both of whom vets of franchise pictures. Jackman is still better known for his portrayal of Wolverine in the "X-Men movies," and Bale most recently starred as the latest Caped Crusader in Nolan's "Batman Begins."
The cast also benefits from Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Andy Serkis ("Lord of the Rings"), icon David Bowie, as the groundbreaking electrical genius Nikola Tesla, and some promising newcomers like Rebecca Hall and Piper Perabo.
It takes at least a reel to warm up to the movie, and another one to get involved, but the intricacies of this plot-driven movie finally kick in and the second half fulfills expectations and delivers secrets and lies, magic and illusions, doppelgangers and twins.
How would the public related to this prestigious item is anyone's guess.
It's probably a coincidence that Nolan's film follows another period mystery set in the world of magic, "The Illusionist," which surprisingly became a hit this fall, when sold as a romantic drama.
"The Prestige" begins and ends symmetrically, with the voice-over narration by Cutter, the magician's ingeneur (the man who designs illusions behind-the-scenes). In his distinctively resonant and immediately recognizable voice, Michael Caine tells a little girl the motto of the film, which explains its title. "Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first act is called The Pledge: The magician shows you something ordinary, but of course it probably isn't. The second act is called The Turn. The magician makes his ordinary something do something extraordinary. Now, if you're looking for the secret, you won't find it. That's why there's a third act called The Presitge. This is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before."
Those who have followed Nolan's career, from the modest debut of "Following" through the spectacular noir "Memento" (still his best film), know that his work provides a field day for film scholars (like me) who use the structuralist and semiological perspectives.
The above may be strictly academic issue, but I'd like to point out that the Nolans have used the same principles of Caine's voice-over in carefully constructing their script, which contains many secrets and shocking moments of revelation in unfolding this windy, surprise-fill tale of the dueling magicians.
"The Prestige" is an intricately mounted thriller, in which every mystery counts, in which illusions permeate every action, and nothing is quite what it seems—except the primal human drives of competition, jealousy and revenge
The Nolans are good in delineating the context, the rapidly-changing, turn-of-the-century London, a time that precedes the movies as a form of entertainment, and when magician are the idols and celebs of the highest order.
Roughly the same age, two ambitious magicians set out to carve their own path to fame. Angier and Borden start out as admiring friend and partners. However, when their biggest trick goes terribly awry, and Angier loses his loved wife in stage accident, they become enemies for life. From that point on, each man is motivated by outdoing and upending the other—to the bitter end.
Trick by trick, show by show, their ferocious competition builds, until it knows no bounds. At one point, Angier resorts to utilizing the fantastical new powers of electricity and the scientific brilliance of Nikola Tesla (Bowie).
Meanwhile, we get glimpses of their personal lives, which are intertwined with their professional ones. In fact, the lives of all those around them—especially the women—hang in the balance, or rather imbalance.
As he showed in his previous films, Nolan like film noir, and he imbues "The Prestige" with noir themes, such as obsession and betrayal, specifically in the character played by Scarlett Johnasson as the woman who comes between Angier and Borden.
And as in every film of his, Nolan creates an intriguing relationship between the narrative form of the story and the techniques and ideas used by magicians to fool you and engage you in deception. Clearly, he relates to the audience on screen that attends these performances as he does to the audience off screen that is watching his movie.
The tone of the film is appropriately dark and even tragic, considering the trajectory of the two magicians and the way it all began. As Borden says in voice-over early on: "We were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone." What ensue is a tale of obsession and revenge that shows, how despite naïve beginning and good intentions, careers often take their own unexpected paths to some detrimental effects.
Unfolding as a series of flashbacks--and flashbacks within flashbacks--"The Prestige" is told from multiple points of view, the transition among which is not always clear and often disrupts the natural flow of events. While Caine's Cutter is the privileged narrator who knows more about the proceedings than either magician, we also get Angier's and Borden's POVs through notebooks and diaries that each man keeps or tries to steal from the other (I can't elaborate more on this point without spoiling the fun).
The strong parallels between the role of the magician and the role of the filmmaker is used both in the text and the subtext of the film. Fillmmakers like magicians manipulate their audiences through the selective way that they transmit information, using their own techniques, blind alleys and red herrings to achieve their result—fooling and entertaining the viewers.
"The Prestige" is the movie for viewers who complain that few American movies have plot anymore, that most event movies are based on one idea or premise. Rife with sleight-of-hand shocks and revelation, the film delves into a riveting world where the farthest and darkest edges of faith, trust, and the possible are tested and contested.
Whether viewers will perceive "The Prestige" as intricately complex or just unnecessarily complicated would depend to a large degree on their willingness to suspend disbelief for two hours, and immerse themselves in the idiosyncratic world of magic with its own set of values, norms, and a very fluid code of ethics and honor.
If movies about magic constitute a genre or sub-genre, then "The Prestige is a good sampler. I don't recall any movie that offers so much info about the life of magicians, the ideas and techniques that dominate their work.
Nolan is an accomplished director who doesn’t repeat himself. Each of his five features boasts a different look and feel.
In "The Prestige," he creates a mysterious, yet vividly contemporary, portrait of the torch-lit heyday of London's magic scene, that benefits immensely from the talents behind the camera, specifically lenser Wally Pfister (Oscar-nominated for "Batman Begins"), production designer Nathan Crowley, and editor Lee Smith, all of whom have worked with Nolan before. Special kudos also go to the period costumes, designed by Joan Bergin (Emmy nominee for TV's "David Copperfield").
Films of similar interest
While watching Michael Caine in "The Prestige," I flashbacked to 1972's "Sleuth," the Joseph Mankiewicz movie, in which Caine and Laurence Olivier gave Oscar-nominated roles. Olivier plays a wealthy, snobbish mystery writer who devises a nasty plot, full of tricks, masks, and magic, to get even with his wife's Cockney lover (Caine), only to realize that his adversary may be smarter and more than a simple match for him.
"The Prestige" is obviously a richer, denser movie, with at least a dozen characters. However, the rivalry in its center and the tricks used by Angier and Borden to outdo and destroy each other bears some thematic resemblance to "Sleuth"'s two-character movie, based on Anthony Shaffer's hit stage play.
End note
In a statement to the press, Chris Nolan has written: "The Prestige is a mystery structured as a cinematic magic trick. In order to allow audiences to fully enjoy the unfolding of the story, we respectfully ask that you not reveal too much about the deceptions at the heart of the film."
BTW, who is that?
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i don't know the plot twists and turns, but i heard that there's some.....steampunk in this movie...
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steampunk.
Impossible technology advances in a period piece. For example, the air ships Miyazaki's films (Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle).
Imagine a robot powered by steam in the old west. stuff like that.
Most movies with 'steampunk' fail for one reason or another. Like Wild Wild West and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In fact, Sky Captain was borderlling steampunk as well.
Then there's the anime, Steamboy, too.
Impossible technology advances in a period piece. For example, the air ships Miyazaki's films (Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle).
Imagine a robot powered by steam in the old west. stuff like that.
Most movies with 'steampunk' fail for one reason or another. Like Wild Wild West and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In fact, Sky Captain was borderlling steampunk as well.
Then there's the anime, Steamboy, too.
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