More long overdue media! Today, the media archive has been updated with 7 site-exclusive movie clips of Chloë Sevigny’s portrayal of Melanie Greysmith in Zodiac (2007), the acclaimed David Fincher-directed fact-based thriller about a San Fransisco serial killer who torments both the police and the press with cryptic clues and messages. The film also stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards and Robert Downey Jr. Be sure to check them out!

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• Film Work > ‘Zodiac’ (2007) Movie Clips

The winners of the 34th Annual Saturn Awards have been announced. Unfortunately, Zodiac did not win the award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film which the movie was nominated for. The award went to Zack Snyder’s 300.

I just got word that David Fincher’s (excellent!) crime drama Zodiac, which recently premiered on Region 1 DVD as a Director’s Cut Edition, has been nominated for three awards at the 2008 Sony Ericsson Empire Awards! Although Chloë was not nominated for her portrayal of Melanie Graysmith, the film was nevertheless prominently recognized in the film and directing categories. From EmpireOnline.com:

Best Thriller
• Zodiac
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
The Bourne Ultimatum
Disturbia

Best Director
Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Joe Wright (Atonement)
David Yates (Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix)
Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz)
• David Fincher (Zodiac)

Best Film
The Bourne Ultimatum
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Ratatouille
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
• Zodiac

Keep your fingers crossed for Zodiac’s success! The winners will be announced on March 9.

I just discovered Entertainment Weekly picked Zodiac as the 10th Best Film of 2007 in their December 28 2007 issue. From Rose-McGowan.com:

Drawn, with meticulous precision, from the actual case files, and shot under dank fluorescence, David Fincher’s raptly unsettling docudrama about the hunt for the San Fransisco serial killer is a journalistic procedural mystery in the tradition of All the President’s Men. Yet it’s also an investigation into the obsessive addiction of mystery itself. The killer creates a reign of terror metaphorically evocative of the one we’re in now, and as the case gets bounced from one precinct to the next, finally landing in the hands of a cartoonist and amateur sleuth (Jake Gyllenhaal, in an underrated performance), we’re trapped in his desire to look the monster in the face – and, more impossibly, to make the monster go away.

Film.com reports the Zodiac Director’s Cut has today been released on Region 1/North American DVD and and HD-DVD. No word on a Region 2/European release, but those interested in the R1 release can purchase it fot $23 at Amazon.com. From Film.com:

Out now in standard def and HD DVD, this Director’s Cut edition — packaged unnervingly in a case that recreates one of the Zodiac’s letters to the San Francisco Chronicle — adds a few minutes to the original cut, with no fundamental changes impacting the new running time of 162 minutes. (Andrew Fitzpatrick details the Director’s Cut additions at his blog The Blood Spattered Scribe.) The image (anamorphic 2.35:1) and DD 5.1 audio are quite good, identical to last July’s bare bones DVD.

Where this new edition really shouts out is through its second disc and quality extras. On tap are two commentary tracks: a solitary track by Fincher and a composite track with Gyllenhaal, Downey Jr., Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt and novelist James Ellroy. The extras on Disc 2 are separated into two categories: The Film and The Facts. The first group holds “Zodiac Deciphered,” an hour-long, eight-part examination of the production, beginning to end, with behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsals and shooting. “The Visual Effects of Zodiac” gets into the surprisingly complex CGI work that went into such a grounded, beneficially “old school” film. “Previsualization” presents three before-and-after clips showing how Fincher used computer animatics to plan his production. Under The Facts we get “This is the Zodiac Speaking,” a feature-length comprehensive documentary about the real-life events that inspired the movie, with interviews with actual investigators and surviving victims. Then a 42-minute featurette, “Prime Suspect: His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen,” collects interviews with people who have reason to believe that they know who the Zodiac was.

Earlier today I came to the realization the gallery is lacking in footage from Chloë’s latest feature film, David Fincher’s crime drama Zodiac (2007), in which Chloë portrays Robert Graysmith’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) wife Melanie, who feels ignored and uneasy in the face of Robert’s obsession with the Zodiac Killer. Her part in the film, although relatively small, is a signficant feature of the film, as her role represents its only ‘human’ connection. The film has an impressive 89% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes!

While we wait for screen caps from the entire film, I took this opportunity to update the gallery with promotional footage from the film as well as site exclusive screen captures from related interviews and available online clips. Enjoy!

New Photo Albums:

• ‘Zodiac’ IGN Interview Captures
• Promotional Stills
• Screen Captures – Clip 1
• Screen Captures – Clip 2
• Screen Captures – Trailer

Updated Photo Albums:

• Promotional Posters

Although the single-disc edition of one of Chloë’s latest projects, Zodiac, will be released in just three days, you might want to wait out until 2008, as Warner Brothers is reportedly planning on a Director’s Cut-release, out some time in 2008. From SlashFilm:

David Fincher’s Zodiac: 2-Disc Director’s Cut will be arriving in 2008. [...] this new release will be packed with special features missing from the single disc version, including an audio commentary by David Fincher, actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr., screenwriter James Vanderbilt, producer Brad Fischer and crime novelist James Ellroy, extensive behind-the-scenes featurettes detailing the production from start to finish, and an in-depth look at the actual Zodiac crimes, including all-new interviews with the original investigators and survivors.

As the SlashFilm blogger so rightly points out, however, you should keep in mind that the director’s cut is not necessary longer than the theatrical version (as with e.g. Oliver Stone’s Alexander).