Milla Jovovich to Host Academy’s Sci-Tech Awards

Beverly Hills, CA – Actress Milla Jovovich will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Jovovich will present 10 awards to 30 individual recipients during the evening.

Jovovich is the star of “The Fifth Element” and the “Resident Evil” franchise. She will next be seen in the feature “Resident Evil: Retribution.”

Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation will be included in the Oscar® ceremony.

Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

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Milla Jovovich steamed at the lack of promotion of “The Three Musketeers”

Actress Milla Jovovich took to Twitter to show her displeasure to Summit Entertainment for not properly promoting her film “The Three Musketeers”.

Jovovich tweeted today:

Milla Jovovich at a Tommy Hilfiger Limited Edition Bag Presentation in Milan

Actress Milla Jovovich arrives at the Tommy Hilfiger Limited Edition Bag Presentation held at Coin department store on March 2, 2010 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
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Milla Jovovich at the premiere of “Perfect Getaway”

Actress Milla Jovovich arrives at the Premiere Of Rogue Films’ ‘Perfect Getaway’ at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on August 5, 2009 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images). Content © 2009 Getty Images . All rights reserved.

The Fifth Element (A J!-ENT DVD Review)

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MOVIE COMPANY: Columbia Pictures
CAST: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry and more.
DIRECTED BY: Luc Besson
PRODUCED BY: Patrice Ledoux
RATING: PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119116
TYPE OF TV SHOW: Action, Sci-Fi

Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich and Gary Oldman star in acclaimed director Luc Besson’s outrageous sci-fi adventure, an extravagantly styled tale of good against evil set in an unbelievable twenty-third century world.  All aboard for “A Futuristic , Eye Popping Adventure!” – Bill Diehl, ABC Radio Network.

DVD EXTRAS:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound, Digital Sound, DTS Stereo
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats

KNOWN DVD SECRET:  None that I know of at this time.

DVD REVIEW:

When I heard that this DVD is known as one of the best reference DVD’s out there.  I must admit that it was a decision that was hard for me to decided if I wanted to buy this or not because #1) It’s known that there is no extra’s on this DVD and I heard this movie is so-so.  Also, the label on the DVD is on the wrong sides, so you need to put it on the side that says full screen to access the wide screen segment.  Then again, this problem maybe my DVD.

I finally saw this movie and this is what I thought.  I liked it a lot!  This movie is visually stunning and the computer graphics were wonderful.  The storyline is good but it appeared an extra 30 minutes or an hour would have given this movie judgment because I felt there were some loose ends.

But people are not buying this DVD much for the extra’s and looking for a good story, they are buying this DVD because it’s the definitive reference DVD.

Now, what makes this DVD so much of a reference DVD?  It’s the sound.  I watched this movie twice now.  The first just to listen to it in regular dolby surround.   Then I watched it again in digital 5.1 and all I can say….oh my!

For those who are contemplating if they should upgrade their old home theater receivers for a digital 5.1 system, I have two words for you…”Heck yeah!”  You don’t understand that they utilize the sound to the utmost best.  I thought “Godzilla” was one hell of a reference DVD but “The Fifth Element” is definitely a reference DVD.  The sounds are coming from everywhere…I  mean everywhere.  Very awesome!

Ah…but although the audio is the main superb highlight, the video is also pretty awesome.  Check this out… the colors on the DVD are truly awesome!  The colors really do come out on this DVD.

So, all in all this DVD sucks in terms for extras because there are hardly any.  The movie is slightly above average because they did one hell of a job on the graphics and colors.  The story for me had loose ends and was rushed.  I wish they could of added deleted scenes but knowing how much DVD fanatics consider this DVD among the best, I hope a special edition DVD comes out.

I can’t give this DVD a great grade for overall because of the extra’s but as for a reference DVD, this DVD earns the highest of highest of marks.

THE MOVIE:  B
THE DVD EXTRAS:  D-
THE DVD OVERALL:  C