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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes

4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.

On the Waterfront (1954)

“You don’t understand! »

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The gutting of Miramax, Pt. II: Is this the end of New York movie culture?

2 November 2009 3:58 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

Last week, it was announced that Miramax Films would close its New York offices, and that its president, Daniel Battsek, was being asked to step down. If that sounds like an unhappy day for the world of independent film -- well, it is. Yet as far as Miramax is concerned, it's really just one more nail in a coffin that was already slamming shut. In case you missed the news, here's the post I wrote back on Oct. 11 about the gutting of Miramax that took place last month, and what it could portend, in general, for studio specialty divisions. There's »

- Owen Gleiberman

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Fright Exclusive Interview: Tony Todd Talks Splatter

26 October 2009 6:44 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

Tony Todd Talks Splatter

Conducted by Phil Fasso and Mike Cucinotta on October 26, 2009

So we're sitting here in The Frightquarters waiting for Tony Todd to report in. We interviewing him via telephone so no need to repeat his name five times. We tried it, it didn't work. (Ok, ok... we only got to 4 and turned the lights on.)

A funny thing pops up on our telescreen: An old doc on 'Bride of Frankestein', hosted by Joe Dante, starring Clive Barker and featuring Bill Condon, all of whom have worked with Todd. Barker and Condon having been involved in 'Candyman' and 'Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh', and Dante having recently directed him in 'Splatter', a new 3 episode web series, produced by Roger Corman and debuting exclusively for free on Netflix on October 29th.

Tony Todd chatting with us about this upcoming free web series, as well a few new and upcoming projects, »

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The Death of Hollywood?

23 October 2009 2:29 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.” – John Huston The sagacious Huston may have been right, once, but if recent reports are to be believed, and there is no reason to doubt them, the finances of the major Hollywood studios are in freefall. Battered by both the rise of digital, and thus the manner in which people are choosing to consume entertainment, and a quickening drought in funding, production is predicted to fall by more a third over the coming year. In response to the broader global economic meltdown banks have withdrawn much of their investment in the West Coast industry ($12bn from a total of $18bn has been made unavailable) and the ascent of Internet piracy, and even the legitimate but far less profitable download and video-on-demand sectors, is ripping the DVD market asunder. Foreign language films, too, are chipping away at the assumed »

- Nick Clarke

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Son Of The Sunshine: Ryan Ward's Directorial Debut rocks!

12 October 2009 7:37 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

I have not heard of Ryan Ward before, and I felt sorry for myself. I guess, understanding what this movie - Son of the Sunshine - is all about, which is directed by Ryan himself, will help me understand him as an actor and as a filmmaker.

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- - - About the Movie: Life is hard for Sonny (director and co-writer Ryan Ward). He's 24 and still living with his poor, negligent, heroin-shooting mom. He's unemployed. He's alienated and lonely. And he's got a wicked case of Tourette syndrome. Twitching, scowling and spewing random curses, he's a social outcast and victim of a vicious personal cycle: his illness isolates him, his isolation makes him angrier, his anger mixes with his condition and isolates him even further...Faint hopes for a livable future include a risky operation, a prospective lover, and a distant chance of getting to the bottom »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Son Of The Sunshine: Ryan Ward's Directorial Debut rocks!

12 October 2009 7:37 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

I have not heard of Ryan Ward before, and I felt sorry for myself. I guess, understanding what this movie - Son of the Sunshine - is all about, which is directed by Ryan himself, will help me understand him as an actor and as a filmmaker.

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- - - About the Movie: Life is hard for Sonny (director and co-writer Ryan Ward). He's 24 and still living with his poor, negligent, heroin-shooting mom. He's unemployed. He's alienated and lonely. And he's got a wicked case of Tourette syndrome. Twitching, scowling and spewing random curses, he's a social outcast and victim of a vicious personal cycle: his illness isolates him, his isolation makes him angrier, his anger mixes with his condition and isolates him even further...Faint hopes for a livable future include a risky operation, a prospective lover, and a distant chance of getting to the bottom »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Son Of The Sunshine: Ryan Ward's Directorial Debut rocks!

12 October 2009 7:37 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

I have not heard of Ryan Ward before, and I felt sorry for myself. I guess, understanding what this movie - Son of the Sunshine - is all about, which is directed by Ryan himself, will help me understand him as an actor and as a filmmaker.

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- - - About the Movie: Life is hard for Sonny (director and co-writer Ryan Ward). He's 24 and still living with his poor, negligent, heroin-shooting mom. He's unemployed. He's alienated and lonely. And he's got a wicked case of Tourette syndrome. Twitching, scowling and spewing random curses, he's a social outcast and victim of a vicious personal cycle: his illness isolates him, his isolation makes him angrier, his anger mixes with his condition and isolates him even further...Faint hopes for a livable future include a risky operation, a prospective lover, and a distant chance of getting to the bottom »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Son Of The Sunshine: Ryan Ward's Directorial Debut rocks!

12 October 2009 7:37 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

I have not heard of Ryan Ward before, and I felt sorry for myself. I guess, understanding what this movie - Son of the Sunshine - is all about, which is directed by Ryan himself, will help me understand him as an actor and as a filmmaker.

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- - - About the Movie: Life is hard for Sonny (director and co-writer Ryan Ward). He's 24 and still living with his poor, negligent, heroin-shooting mom. He's unemployed. He's alienated and lonely. And he's got a wicked case of Tourette syndrome. Twitching, scowling and spewing random curses, he's a social outcast and victim of a vicious personal cycle: his illness isolates him, his isolation makes him angrier, his anger mixes with his condition and isolates him even further...Faint hopes for a livable future include a risky operation, a prospective lover, and a distant chance of getting to the bottom »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Son Of The Sunshine: Ryan Ward's Directorial Debut rocks!

12 October 2009 7:37 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

I have not heard of Ryan Ward before, and I felt sorry for myself. I guess, understanding what this movie - Son of the Sunshine - is all about, which is directed by Ryan himself, will help me understand him as an actor and as a filmmaker.

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- - - About the Movie: Life is hard for Sonny (director and co-writer Ryan Ward). He's 24 and still living with his poor, negligent, heroin-shooting mom. He's unemployed. He's alienated and lonely. And he's got a wicked case of Tourette syndrome. Twitching, scowling and spewing random curses, he's a social outcast and victim of a vicious personal cycle: his illness isolates him, his isolation makes him angrier, his anger mixes with his condition and isolates him even further...Faint hopes for a livable future include a risky operation, a prospective lover, and a distant chance of getting to the bottom »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Stone And Evans Can Get Satisfaction

6 October 2009 1:44 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Sharon Stone and Chris Evans have signed on to star in Satisfaction, a drama about a male prostitute and the older lady who looks after him. How do we know this? Because Stone herself blabbed about it to Prestige magazine (sadly, not an offshoot of Dale Doback and Brennan Huff’s Prestige Worldwide).Evans will play a gigolo who becomes involved with an older lady, all while going through a traumatic relationship with his agency. Stone, we’re guessing, will play the older lady.“You think they have legitimately fallen in love, by his behaviour and her behaviour,” Stone told Prestige, “until the call-out service starts sending him out again while he's with her. He starts trying to break her down. And it's incredible what they do together: a very, very fascinating journey."So, is it an opposite-sex Midnight Cowboy for the Noughties? A riff on The Graduate? A new spin on American Gigolo? »

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Bye Bye Birdie! Hello, Lada!

18 September 2009 9:35 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

. With Paul Lynde on the set of Bye Bye Birdie Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 If you came of age during the Sixties, you may well remember the name Lada Edmund, Jr.  who was one of the original gyrating, mini-skirted go-go girls who danced in a cage on NBC-tv’s music program, Hullabaloo 1965-66.  Similar to ABC’s Shindig, Hullabaloo featured a different celebrity host each week to introduce some of the most popular musical performers of the day.  However, the show received most of its press not for the rock groups or vocalists that guest starred but for Lada and fellow dancers who bumped, grinded and twisted their way into the homes of teenagers every week.  So popular was she that she landed on the cover of TV Guide magazine.

Before she found TV fame, Lada began her career dancing on Broadway. She was one of »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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What Recession? Designers Storm the Waldorf for Gala

18 September 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Despite the eco-friendly cardboard centerpieces, the ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria, with its velvet draperies and glittering chandeliers was an uncomfortably swanky venue for the annual Aiga Design Legends gala in a year when the ripples from the financial mayhem on Wall St. had wreaked such economic turmoil throughout the industry

So Aiga president Debbie Millman, in a little black dress and long white gloves, addressed the issue straight up: "The guy who created my fabulous up-do asked me, 'Do people really have events like these anymore? In this economy?'"

Noting that the room had been booked long before last fall's market meltdown, Millman acknowledged the unease the space created, given the general state of the economy. "Not to be a buzzkill," she said, "but 86% of industries said they had cut back over the past year, the most in 42 years. Every state has reported upticks in unemployment." So, she asked, »

- Linda Tischler

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[DVD Review] Homeboy

3 September 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Let me just start off by saying that I fucking love Mickey Rourke. I love the goddamned shit out of him. I don't care how many unnecessary facelifts he gets or how many homophobic slurs he casually throws around while drunk off his ass; in my eyes the man can do no wrong. It's only fitting that I should warn you of this unflinching devotion of mine prior to getting into the review portion of this ode to Rourke, lest you think that I actually aim to be objective. But there is a reason for my fanatic blubbering, as Homeboy is largely just a shameless vehicle for the man in question to display his unabashedly cocky yet undeniably enigmatic persona.

To get pretentious for just a minute: Rourke was practically made for the role of the Byronic anti-hero. His steadfast stoicism heightens the emotional implications of the pained soul that undoubtedly lurks beneath the surface, »

- Inna Mkrtycheva

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Culture Warrior: Independent Music/Independent Film

31 August 2009 3:26 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The relationship between pop music and popular film has been a fruitful one. When popular tracks started to accompany the soundtrack of mainstream films regularly in the mid-late 1960s, the music was often used in the context of the film to reflect the aural preferences particular to a specific counterculture. Movies like The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider and A Hard Day’s Night integrated top 40 hits or artists into their film not only to help sell the film to a broad or specific audience (which proved especially effective when marketing to young people), but to tie that film’s narrative and themes to the counterculture that such music allegedly speaks for. Songs featured in The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy were written specifically for their films, but by artists already associated with these social and aural movements (Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Nilsson, respectively). The existence of Top 40 radio made it rather easy to identify which songs »

- Landon Palmer

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'Bruno' Star Sacha Baron Cohen Is Just One Of Hollywood's Top Cinematic Chameleons

14 July 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

How weird is it that, out of Sacha Baron Cohen’s three trademark characters, Ali G is now the least famous of them all? With this past weekend’s strong “Brüno” opening, the UK-born and raised funnyman has once again fooled the world into believing that he is someone else. Where he goes from here is anyone’s guess, but as we play Monday-morning quarterback there is an even more pressing question: is Cohen the greatest cinematic "chameleon" of all time?

There are few things I love more in a movie than when an actor fully immerses himself in another persona. Sometimes it’s for comedy, sometimes it’s for drama... but whatever the performance is in the name of, when done right it can make that performer a legend. Below are my favorite "chameleon" actors of all time. Post your thoughts in the comments section and tell us where »

- Larry Carroll

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Voight, Hoffman Reminiscence In Tempo For Midnight Cowboy Screening At Laff

26 June 2009 3:37 PM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

“When I see this picture, the chemistry between us is delightful still,” began Jon Voight as he and Dustin Hoffman took the stage late last night after a packed Los Angeles Film Festival screening of John Schlesinger’s 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. “It's still a little bit of a miracle to see, when actors have such chemistry; when one of us starts moving, the other one does too.” Forty-some years after making the film, that chemistry was still on display during the two great actor’s conversation, hosted by La Times critic Kenneth Turan. Exceedingly generous with their time and thoughtful responses, Voight and Hoffman entertained the audience with recollections of the film’s shooting, the director... »

- Jason Sanders

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Asshat Smackdown! for June 10, 2009

10 June 2009 3:06 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

You might be familiar with our regular Friday feature, Battle of the Network Gays, where we ask you to crown the Gay of the Week.

You folks seem to enjoy crowning people a lot. Hence our new feature: Asshat Smackdown!

Every Wednesday we'll ask you to select from a current crop of schmucks, jerks, demagogues and harpies to see who is most deserving of the week's coveted Asshat Crown! We'll announce the results right here on the blog on Friday, and that asshat will reign supreme until a new challenger is crowned the following week.

Curious to know more about the challengers this week!? Check them out after the break, and vote for your favorite!

This week's contenders:

1. Pat Robertson. The 700 Club's grand poobah pontificated on the origins of "so-called homosexuals"  and placed the blame on abusive coaches and guidance counselors...

"I am not at all persuaded that »

- dennis

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Voight: 'Obama Is A False Prophet'

10 June 2009 1:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actor Jon Voight has launched an explosive attack on Barack Obama, calling the U.S. President a "false prophet".

The Midnight Cowboy star hosted a fundraiser for the U.S. Republican Party in Washington, D.C. on Monday, where he took to the stage to deliver a fiery speech criticising Obama, who became President in January.

Voight told the assembled audience that the Democrat had fooled people into voting him into the White House by promising change.

But the veteran actor, whose daughter Angelina Jolie has publicly praised Obama in the past, remained adamant the President's administration has thus far been a failure.

He said, "Are we supposed to be sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new Holocaust? Who's going to take the responsibility to keep America, I mean Israel, safe? I'll tell you why this really scares the hell out of me. Everything Obama has recommended has turned out to be disastrous.

"Obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken Julius Caesar. He think he's going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk and really think he's going to bring all of the enemies of the world into a little playground, where they'll swing each other back and forth."

The 70 year old went on to call for the Republican party to rally together to resume power: "We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression. Let's give thanks to (Republicans) for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet, Obama." »

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Chris Pine, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana at Star Trek Berlin Premiere

18 April 2009 10:20 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Sven Sturm, Eric Bana, Zachary Quinto, J. J. Abrams, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, and Chris Pine at the Star Trek German premiere held on April 16 at the Kino CineStar Sony Center in Berlin. Photos: © Paramount / Norbert Kesten Click on the images to enlarge them. Chris Pine Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana J. J. Abrams   Reese Witherspoon at Monsters Vs. Aliens London Premiere Star Trek’s Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto’s Sydney Photo Shoot Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams in State Of Play Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe in State Of Play Photos Sylvia Miles, John Barry at Midnight Cowboy Screening »

- Deborah Arthur

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Star Trek’s Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto’s Sydney Photo Shoot

14 April 2009 5:05 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Star Trek stars Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine (above) and director J. J. Abrams pose at their hotel ahead of the premiere of their movie on April 7, 2009, in Sydney. Pine plays the role of Captain James T. Kirk while Quinto is Mr. Spock. Photos: © Gaye Gerard / Paramount Click on the images to enlarge them. Chris Pine Zachary Quinto J. J. Abrams Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto   Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams in State Of Play Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe in State Of Play Photos Sylvia Miles, John Barry at Midnight Cowboy Screening Oscar 2009: Robert Pattinson, Sophia Loren, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon Oscar 2009: Jennifer Aniston, Penelope Cruz, Zac Efron, Daniel Craig »

- Deborah Arthur

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