Johnny Depp is a lizard named "Rango"; "The Avengers" will be filmed in New Mexico; Chicago Film Critics Association Awards nominees and winners;

• It seems that Johnny Depp will "appear" as a lizard next March... I mean, he will give his voice to a lizard in a movie named Rango, directed by Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean's three first installements). The way Depp's voice was captured was really interesting, it was a way that needs that actors playing the characters (on most animated feature, the animators are used as reference for character's movements, but in this one, the actors themselves are the references - characters sound and move like the actor, which make it a more natural acting experience, giving expressivity to Rango's characters!). Just watch it:
  
  
  
  
• According to Collider "Marvel Studios plans to shoot much of The Avengers in Albuquerque Studios in New Mexico, taking advantage of the state’s 25% tax rebate for film and TV productions. The rebate has lured over 150 projects to the “Land of Enchantment,” including Breaking Bad, True Grit, and Marvel’s Thor. According to Variety, The Avengers is the largest production to shoot in New Mexico to date. Secondary locations for the 3D production include New York and Michigan."
  The Avengers will star Robert Downey Jr. (as Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (as Hulk), Samuel L. Jackson (as Nick Fury), Chris Evans (as Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (as Thor), Scarlett Johansson (as Black Widow) and Jeremy Renner (as Hawkeye) and is set for a May 4, 2012, release.
  Aren't you thinking "Is it possible that this movie will rule with so many characters?"??? Yes, I have my doubts about this one too... Let's wait and see... Marvel have been done some good comic movies like Spider-Man franchise, The Incredible Hulk and the two Iron Man movies, but it seems to have potential to be such a messy movie... I don't know...
  
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards winners were announced some couple of days ago... Here's the list with the nominees with each category winner marked with *:
  
  Best Picture
  Black Swan
  Inception
  The King’s Speech
  The Social Network *
  Winter's Bone
  
  Best Director
  Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
  David Fincher - The Social Network *
  Debra Granik - Winter’s Bone
  Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech
  Christopher Nolan - Inception
  
  Best Actor
  Jeff Bridges - True Grit
  Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
  Colin Firth - The King’s Speech *
  James Franco - 127 Hours
  Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine
  
  Best Actress
  Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
  Jennifer Lawrence - Winter’s Bone
  Lesley Manville - Another Year
  Natalie Portman - Black Swan *
  Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine
  
  Best Supporting Actor
  Christian Bale - The Fighter *
  Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
  John Hawkes - Winter’s Bone
  Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right
  Geoffrey Rush - The King’s Speech
  
  Best Supporting Actress
  Amy Adams - The Fighter
  Helena Bonham Carter - The King’s Speech
  Melissa Leo - The Fighter
  Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit *
  Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom
  
  Best Original Screenplay
  Black Swan - Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz & John McLaughlin
  Four Lions - Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain & Chris Morris
  Inception - Christopher Nolan *
  The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
  The King’s Speech - David Seidler
  
  Best Adapted Screenplay
  Rabbit Hole - David Lindsay Abaire
  The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin *
  Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt
  True Grit - Joel & Ethan Coen
  Winter’s Bone - Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
  
  Best Foreign Language Film
  Biutiful
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  I Am Love
  Mother
  A Prophet *
  
  Best Documentary
  Exit Through the Gift Shop *
  Inside Job
  Restrepo
  The Tillman Story
  Waiting for Superman
  
  Best Animated Feature
  Despicable Me
  How to Train Your Dragon
  The Illusionist
  Tangled
  Toy Story 3 *
  
  Best Cinematography
  Black Swan - Matthew Libatique
  Inception - Wally Pfister *
  Shutter Island - Robert Richardson
  The Social Network - Jeff Cronenweth
  True Grit - Roger Deakins
  
  Best Original Score
  Black Swan - Clint Mansell *
  I Am Love - John Adams
  Inception - Hans Zimmer
  The Social Network - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
  True Grit - Carter Burwell
  
  Most Promising Performer
  Armie Hammer - The Social Network
  Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank
  Jennifer Lawrence - Winter’s Bone *
  Tahar Rahim - A Prophet
  Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
  
  Most Promising Filmmaker
  Bansky - Exit Through the Gift Shop
  Derek Cianfrance - Blue Valentine
  David Michod - Animal Kingdom
  Aaron Schneider - Get Low
  John Wells - The Company Men
  
  Just one more word: Hailee Steinfeld shouldn't be the winner of so many critics' prizes in the way that I bet that Jacki Weaver will win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and this kid is getting all the awards and I'm afraid she steals Weaver's worthy Oscar (Haven't you already seen Weaver's performance in Animal Kingdom? The Devil looks like Heidi after seeing Weaver's performance as a real "monster-mum"!).