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Everybody’s Fine (review)
20 hours ago | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Oh my god, it’s my dad. Robert DeNiro is playing my dad in Everybody’s Fine. Okay, not really. After I got past the initial shock of seeing my dad coming through Robert DeNiro’s -- Robert DeNiro’s! -- face and body and mannerisms (and after I got past the shock of thinking, Oh dear, when did Robert DeNiro turn into an Old Man?), I started seeing all the things that weren’t like my dad: that’s different, and that’s different, and goodness, my dad would never have done that. But even after the specifics of the DeNiro-dad’s family veered wildly from anything my family has ever known or said or done, I never could shake the feeling that I was watching, up on the screen, a reality I knew intimately well. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Hitting Theaters This Weekend
2 December 2009 3:00 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
New Moon and The Blind Side have had a choke-hold on the box office for the last two weeks, and although some big names hit the screen this weekend in new releases, I'm betting vampires and a blonde Sandra Bullock will once again earn 1st and 2nd place when Sunday rolls around. December kicks off with an action-packed heist, a widower traveling the country to connect with his kids, and the remake of a 2004 Danish film. Also hitting theaters in limited release is Jason Reitman's latest buzz-worthy offering:
Armored featuring Matt Dillon and Columbus Short
Brothers starring Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal
Everybody's Fine with Robert De Niro and Kate Beckinsale
Up in the Air (Limited) starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick New and Expanded Photo Galleries
Avatar Photos - Sam Worthington/Sigourney Weaver
Invictus Photos - Morgan Freeman/Matt Damon
Iron Man 2 Photos - Robert Downey Jr »
Review: Everybody's Fine
2 December 2009 12:26 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Plot: A retired widower (Robert De Niro) hits the road in hopes of reconnecting with his grown children- none of whom seem to be as happy or successful as he presumed. Review: Everybody.S Fine is something of a comeback for star Robert De Niro. While he.s done enough brilliant work over the years to ensure his place among the legends of cinema, his recent output has been underwhelming to say the least. His last two films (What Just Happened, and Righteous Kill) were depressingly bad,... »
- Chris Bumbray
Exclusive: Robert De Niro and Kirk Jones for 'Everybody's Fine'
1 December 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
For his roles in such '70s and '80s classics as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, Robert De Niro has been revered as the master of Method Acting. But of late he has been more closely associated with animated family fare (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Shark Tale), thrillers that failed to deliver thrills (Hide and Seek and 15 Minutes) and slow plodding dramas (City by the Sea and Men of Honor). Even his recent reunion with Al Pacino in Righteous Kill failed to spark with audiences.
For much of this decade, many De Niro-led films have neither ignited the box office nor drawn critical kudos. But there have been a few notable exceptions. As Frank, the curmudgeonly soon-to-be-father-in-law in Meet the Parents, De Niro struck gold. The sequel, Meet the Fockers, raked in almost $280M in international ticket sales. And What Just Happened? »
Q&A - Sam Rockwell Describes His Incestuous Relationship With the Cast of Everybody's Fine
1 December 2009 9:00 PM, PST | amctv.com - Exclusive Interviews | See recent amctv.com - Exclusive Interviews news »
Thanks to movies like Moon, Choke and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, actor Sam Rockwell has become famous for his intense -- and idiosyncratic -- roles. With the family drama Everybody's Fine, he takes on something lighter, playing one of four grown children Robert De Niro is seeking to reconnect with. Rockwell talks to AMCtv.com about re-teaming with Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale, and when he's willing to play »
Movie Review: Everybody's Fine and the Quiet De Niro
1 December 2009 2:39 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Everybody's Fine offers one of the few Robert De Niro roles in recent memory that doesn't equate acting with histrionics. De Niro is at the center of the film in one of the quietest performances of his career, yet one of the most moving -- the kind that ought to draw Oscar attention. Written and directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine), adapted from a 1990 Giuseppe Tornatore film that starred Marcello Mastroianni, Everybody's Fine is a compelling character study, constructed as a family drama (though it's being sold in some commercials as a family comedy). De Niro plays Frank, a retiree and widower who, as the opening credits run, buys the food, drink -- and propane-fueled barbecue -- to host a reunion with his children at his home, an event that never happens. The kids call to beg off at the... »
- Marshall Fine
Weekend Box Office Predictions Game: Armored Brothers Attack
1 December 2009 1:18 PM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Blind Side has been firmly perched atop the domestic box office results for two weeks running now. They have also both overachieved and made the last two rounds of our Weekend Box Office Prophet game a nightmare for each and every person who played.
The bad news is New Moon and The Blind Side will each make their third appearance in the game this upcoming round. The good news is Armored with Matt Dillon, Brothers with Natalie Portman and Everybody's Fine with Robert DeNiro should eat into New Moon and The Blind Side's screens and diminish what thus far has been huge room for error.
The Weekend Box Office Prophet game lets you predict the weekend box office totals for five films, in this round for the weekend of December 4-6. The difference between your prediction and the final tally for each »
Fight Club 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review
1 December 2009 10:04 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
We’re ten years on from Fight Club. There’s still so much to talk about, but the text has been evaluated, eviscerated and analyzed a great deal over that time. Fight Club was an obsession for me when it came out; I saw it at an early screening and it spoke to me. I got it. And it became the movie I took people to see. I ended up in the theater at least ten times with different sets of friends to enjoy this brilliant black comedy. My review of Fight Club after the jump.
The film opens with an unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) sweating and with a gun in his mouth. The gun owner is Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and a bunch of high-rise buildings are about to be destroyed. That’s the ticking clock, and the film then explains how Norton got there. The narrator is unhappy »
- Andre Dellamorte
Yogi Bear Gets A Ranger Smith
30 November 2009 10:59 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
A few weeks ago when it was announced here that Anna Faris had been cast as the non-animated lead in the new live-actionish movie version of Yogi Bear, I wondered what the hell happened to Ranger Smith. Well here he is! He.s being played by Tom Cavanagh, a guy who.s never been in anything that wasn.t utterly forgettable. If you know him at all, maybe it.s as the lead in the wholly awful Heather Graham movie Gray Matters in which she victimizes her brother by lezzing out with his wife behind his back. Some Tom Cavanagh.s playing Ranger Smith and he has no particular qualifications other than that he does, rather strangely, actually sort of look like him (I think it.s the ears). Well this is the Yogi Bear movie, what the hell did you expect? Robert De Niro already did Rocky & Bullwinkle, he »
This week's new movie releases - Dec. 4, 2009
30 November 2009 11:07 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Opening this week are "Armored" with Matt Dillon; "Brothers" with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal; "Everybody's Fine" with Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore; and "Transylmania."
Brothers (with Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal)
Synopsis: When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. Brothers tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething Captain Sam Cahill and younger brother Tommy Cahill, who are polar opposites. »
- Franck Tabouring
Vampires Are Among The Quartet Of Wide Releases In This Week's Box Office Poll
30 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
I expect we'll see the "New Moon"-slaught wane a bit this week, especially in light of its not-overwhelming performance through the holiday weekend. Not that $42 million is bad, but it's quite a drop after the $140+ million opening weekend the previous week. Perhaps that was just holiday traffic? Or is declining attendance the sign that the phenomenon isn't quite as big as some had guessed? I'll be following up on those questions later today, but for now let's consider what's new this week.
We'll start with "Armored," directed by Nimrod Antal. This is the guy who's currently hard at work on "Predator" sequel "Predators." So if you're curious about what to expect there, "Armored" is a good place to start. It's also an action-thriller starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne and Jean Reno, so there's that.
There's also "Brothers," a family drama starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. Maguire »
- Adam Rosenberg
Sam Rockwell: The Movieline Interview
30 November 2009 8:40 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Sam Rockwell began 2009 in Sundance's best one-man show, and he'll end it this week in one of Hollywood's higher-octane holiday ensembles. Everybody's Fine features Rockwell as the son of Frank Poole (Robert De Niro), a retired widower who hits the road to visit his grown children scattered throughout the United States. Among them are his married ad-exec daughter in Chicago (Kate Beckinsale), his youngest girl in Vegas (Drew Barrymore), and his musician son (Rockwell) in Denver. By bus, train and plane, Frank reconnects with his kids in a series of surprise visits that brings every last family secret -- some more dire than others -- around for reckoning. (Director Kirk Jones adapted the story from Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 film Stanno Tutti Bene.) Talking to Movieline recently in New York, Rockwell discussed his Deer Hunter powwow with De Niro, the do's and dont's of acting in a remake and the diminishing returns of text messaging. »
Blue Skies and Black Metal
30 November 2009 7:48 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week's slate gathers together so many big name stars in one place you'd think it was Oscar night already.
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A stripped-down neo-noir with a twist, this feature debut for filmmaker Alex Merkin began as a 2005 short (starring Adrian Grenier, which can be found online here). Grenier didn't return, but Mike Vogel takes his place as Julian, a young man who races to a seedy hotel where his best friend's wayward fiancée (Brittany Murphy) and another man have aroused the suspicions of his pal, who's holed up "across the hall" with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"Armored"
Having garnered a great deal of attention with his grungy murder mystery debut "Kontroll," American-born Hungarian helmer Nimród Antal first made his mark in Hollywood »
- Neil Pedley
American Road Trip: Everybody's Fine
30 November 2009 5:15 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
In Everybody's Fine, the new adaptation of the 1990 Italian classic Stanno tutti bene (which starred Marcello Mastroianni), Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) is a newly-widowed retiree just trying to keep busy: gardening, vacuuming, doctor's appointments, grocery shopping... On a larger scale, he is trying to reconnect with his grown children (Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale), and when they won't come to visit him, he sets out on a road trip - via Amtrak and Greyhound - traversing the same country across which he strung telephone lines for forty years. Writer/director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine, Nanny McPhee) is a Brit, and though his vision seemed ripe for an American road movie, he knew he had to get the lay of the land before writing the script. Cue the cross-country trip, a la Frank himself: countless buses, trains, and cheap motels later, Jones knew he had found his inspiration. »
Why New Moon's box-office success is good for everyone
30 November 2009 2:06 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Twilight sequel, which held on to the Us box-office crown for a second consecutive week, has given the independent sector a genuine shot in the arm
The winner
New Moon by a whisker. In its second weekend, Summit Entertainment's vampire saga just about held on to the North American box-office crown, thanks to an estimated $42.5m (£25.7m) three-day haul over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that boosted the running total to $230.7m. This was only a few million dollars ahead of Warner Bros' true-life tale The Blind Side, which held firm in second place and delivered $40.1m to propel Sandra Bullock to her second $100m movie of the year after rom-com The Proposal and the fifth of her career (six if you include her voice part in The Prince of Egypt). It's been quite a year for La Bullock.
Still, the weekend belonged once again to New Moon as »
- Jeremy Kay
Tatum, De Niro, Howard and Gandolfini Set for Montiel's 'Son of No One'
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
I guess this means that The Brotherhood of the Rose is on ice. Dito Montiel is instead pegging The Son of No One as his next project, his third film following 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and this year's Fighting. - I guess this means that The Brotherhood of the Rose is on ice. Dito Montiel is instead pegging Son of No One as his next project, his third film following 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and this year's Fighting (you'd have to pay me to watch that one). This would mark the third time that Dito works with Channing Tatum (safe to say they're friends) and a second straight project with Terence Howard. Also attached are a pair of actors synonymous with "the streets" are Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. Production is expected to begin in January. The thriller is about a young »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 20 ‘Everybody’s Fine’ Chicago Passes With Robert De Niro
28 November 2009 7:38 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In our latest comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 20 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Everybody’s Fine,” which stars Robert De Niro!
“Everybody’s Fine” also stars Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, Katherine Moennig, James Frain, Melissa Leo, Ben Schwartz, Lucian Maisel and Cheryl Woolsey from writer and director Kirk Jones. The film opens on Dec. 4, 2009.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Everybody’s Fine” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question below. That’s it! This screening will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
“Everybody’s Fine” stars Robert De Niro.
Image credit: Miramax Films
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“Everybody’s Fine” (a »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Name Game: Biblical Boys
27 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | People - CelebrityBabies | See recent People - CelebrityBabies news »
For baby name purists the search for the perfect moniker often begins and ends with the Bible. Featuring countless names that have endured for thousands of years, it is the epitome of traditional — offering time-honored appeal to both celebrities and non-celebrities alike.
Nameberry.com co-founder Linda Rosenkrantz notes that biblical names claim the top five spots on the Most Popular list for boys. What’s more, she points out, “there’s been an Old Testament name at #1 for the past 55 years, when New Testament classics like John and James started to lose their lead.”
Following the lead of the general population, »
- Missy
'Red Cliff' Just the Latest Film Re-Edited for American Consumption
26 November 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Last Friday marked the arrival of Red Cliff (read our review here) the new war epic by Chinese action-meister John Woo. But this wasn’t the same version that graced Asian theaters prior to its international release: In its home country, Red Cliff was released as two films, the first in mid-2008; the second in early 2009.
Rather than unleash a nearly six-hour magnum opus on audiences worldwide, Woo pared both films down into a single two-and-a-half hour cut. In interviews, he said the deleted scenes mostly placed the film’s events in historical context, which might not have appealed to Westerners unfamiliar with Chinese history. Woo’s movie depicts the famous Battle of Red Cliffs, which was fought around early 200 A.D. between warlords from the northern and southern regions of China.
It’s too early to tell how successful Red Cliff will be with North American viewers (In mainland China, »
Dustin Hoffman Declines To Reprise Role In "Little Fockers"
25 November 2009 10:10 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Dustin Hoffman reportedly refuses to join the second sequel to "Meet the Parents." The Academy Award winning actor will allegedly not appear on the latest installment of the comedy franchise, "Little Fockers," because of scheduling conflicts.
Hoffman, 72, played Ben Stiller's dad in the 2004 sequel "Meet the Fockers," was highly expected to reprise his role in the upcoming third film.
But the versatile actor won't be joining his co-stars. According to reports, scheduling conflicts prevented him to act alongside Stiller, and confirmed stars Jessica Alba and Robert De Niro.
Also yet to confirm is Barbra Streisand, who played Stiller's mother in "Meet the Fockers."
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