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Casting Notes: Rene Russo is Thor’s Mom; Tina Fey and Steve Carell Reunite
17 December 2009 9:29 AM, PST
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We haven't seen Rene Russo in a feature film since Yours, Mine and Ours in 2005, and (as someone noted, but I don't recall whom) we haven't seen her do a decent movie since The Thomas Crown Affair, in 1999. But Russo's turn in Wolfgang Peterson's In the Line of Fire will never fade, so I'm happy to see her coming back to the screen as a Norse queen.
Russo has been cast in Thor, where she'll play Frigga, the wife of Odin and mother to Thor and Loki. Sounds like a rather small part -- with all the characters we already know about there can't be much room for Thor's mom. But if anyone can manage a sprawling cast on film it is the Shakespeare-worshipping Thor director Kenneth Branagh. [Variety]
After the break, details on the possible reunion of Steve Carell and Tina Fey.
Steve Carell and Tina Fey are already
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Cassar to Protect 'Motorcade'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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I've been keeping tags on Motorcade since I heard the project being pitched as an In the Line of Fire meets Black Hawk Down. - I've been keeping tags on Motorcade since I heard the project being pitched as an In the Line of Fire meets Black Hawk Down. Billy Ray's script would be featured on the Black List, and with DreamWorks waiting for their Paramount divorce to finalize, I imagine the project collected some dust. Variety reports that Jon Cassar (from television's 24) will replace Len Wiseman in the director's chair and Ryan Reynolds is now the leading frontman for the role of the disgraced Secret Service agent who happens to be in the wrong place at the right time when the U.S. president is kidnapped in New York. Cassar has directed fifty-plus episodes Jack Bauer's misadventures - the high octane experience will certainly help with he format for this spec.
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Brolin Broke Malkovich's Thumb In Hex Fight
9 December 2009 11:16 AM, PST
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Actor John Malkovich was forced to suffer for his art filming upcoming movie Jonah Hex after breaking his thumb in an onscreen fight with co-star Josh Brolin.
The In the Line of Fire star plays villain Quentin Turnbull in the Western, a big screen adaptation of the popular comic books, with Brolin as disfigured bounty hunter Hex.
The pair is good pals off-screen but Brolin admits one particular action scene got so heated, he ended up breaking Malkovich's thumb.
But the W. actor was surprised at how calm Malkovich was dealing with the injury.
Brolin explains, "I had a fight with him on the movie that we did, he did amazingly and he ended up, I think, breaking his thumb. We were fighting during the movie and we're screaming at each other, and there's a knife in his hands and then they (the directors) say, 'Cut!'. Then he says, 'Josh can you come here for a second?' and I'm like, 'Sure'. And he goes, 'Can you pull my thumb?' So I go, 'Er, yes, I guess', so I pull it and he goes, 'Thank you, I think you broke it.' And I did, I broke it."
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Hathaway And Malkovich Are Vultures?
8 December 2009 8:13 AM, PST
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If there’s one thing John Malkovich does well – does really well – it’s give good villain. This, after all, is the man who was Cyrus ‘The Virus’ Grissom in Con Air, and the chameleonic assassin Booth in In The Line Of Fire. And who can forget his spine-chilling turn as Pascal Sauvage, the Greedy Frenchman in the epoch-making comedy, Johnny English?Yep, nobody does a nice line in on-screen evil quite like Malcatraz, and that’s something Sam Raimi knows all too well. After all, Raimi offered Malkovich the role of the Green Goblin in Spider-Man waaaaaaay back in 2001. For whatever reason – he was booked up, he didn’t like the script, he didn’t like the costume – Malkovich passed on the role, leaving it to Willem Dafoe to snap it up and try desperately to act while stranded in a completely expressionless helmet roughly the size of a small fridge.
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Warner Bros. to release 35 Clint Eastwood films in special DVD collection; list of movies
1 December 2009 11:52 AM, PST
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On February 16, 2010, Warner Bros. is planning to release a 19-disc collection of 35 films that were either acted, directed, or both, by Clint Eastwood. The package is entitled “Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros.,” and will contain features that span from 1968’s Where Eagles Dare to last year’s Gran Torino. The 35th film will be a short documentary by film critic Richard Schickel called “The Eastwood Factor,” which is a play on the original title for Invictus, which was “The Human Factor.”
“I’ve known Clint for most of the time he’s been at Warner Bros.,” said Schickel. “I was fortunate to be able to wander around the Warner lot with him and hear his reminiscences. To be able to show him in the places where he works and lives and feels most comfortable is, I think, a unique opportunity.”
The package has a beginning price of
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Saw VI - The Cast and the Creators Speak
22 October 2009 4:05 PM, PDT
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Despite the tagline for Saw V, audiences left theaters last year with only one thing to say: “I can believe how it ends.” But one year and another Saw later, the creators insist that fans will be much happier with the new installment.
“I learned a lot,” says series editor and Saw VI director Kevin Greutert, “because I spent so much time in the cutting room with the previous directors. We’ve talked about all this stuff up and down and the history of movies and horror. So yeah, I had a huge advantage in this film that Darren [Lynn Bousman] and James [Wan] and to some extent David [Hackl] didn’t have so absolutely, I’ve learned a ton.”
Sitting side-by-side, Jigsaw killer Tobin Bell and the immortal Costas Mandylor have nothing by praise for Greutert. “He understands the films, he understands the connecting of the dots and where this potential richness, and that’s great,
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- Andrew Kasch
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Discuss: What Makes a Great Movie Villain?
20 October 2009 10:03 AM, PDT
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While watching Michael Mann's Heat, I discovered the "cup of coffee test" for screen villains. I found myself thinking again of that great scene in which the cop (Al Pacino) and the villain (Robert De Niro) sat down to share a cup of coffee. It was a simple gesture, with no chasing or guns or shooting. Just talking. But it demonstrated on a thematic and visual level that this hero and this villain were actually very close to one another. They were very similar people, with similar natures.
I started applying this test to almost every movie. Not surprisingly, most of them fall apart. Most movie villains simply sneer and cackle and try to take over the world. But think of Batman and the Joker in The Dark Knight. They don't literally have coffee together, but they do sit down together for a talk; the movie presents them as equals,
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Five Favorite Films with John Malkovich
15 September 2009 4:26 AM, PDT
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Actor, producer, and director John Malkovich has had a long career spanning almost three decades. Beginning in high school on stage, Malkovich, a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, has also earned praise for several of his film roles, including supporting turns in 1984's Places in the Heart and 1993's In the Line of Fire. This week, Malkovich stars in a new independent film, Disgrace, which opens in limited release on Friday. When we asked John for his Five Favorite Films, he responded by saying, "I can't really say that I have five favorite films; somehow my mind
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Blue Screen
20 August 2009 9:40 AM, PDT
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis's landmark album Kind of Blue, the gang at Slate combed through the best and worst uses of the record's smoky, mid-tempo jazz. Among them: Dexter, In the Line of Fire and Pleasantville, the latter of which best adheres to the theory that "the album tends to be used to achieve a particular effect, often showing up when a character is experiencing a transformation." The Runaway Bride, alas, doesn't fare well with "the most obvious, and most obviously wrong, Kind of Blue moment on film." Can't really argue there; don't let Garry Marshall near these songs for Valentine's Day. [Slate]
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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- Matt Medlock
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Scenes We Love: In the Line of Fire
30 April 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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If a movie is really only as good as its villain, the summer of 1993 proved it with the double-whammy of In the Line of Fire and The Fugitive in July. Everyone else had Jurassic Park fever, but I was swept up by these two excellent, evenly-matched bouts. The latter, The Fugitive, reveled in some gray areas; Tommy Lee Jones's character wasn't all bad, but in In the Line of Fire, John Malkovich was pure bad. (They were both nominated for Oscars, and Jones won.) Malkovich plays Mitch Leary, a former military man who feels the need to assassinate the current U.S. president (Jim Curley -- who looks a bit like John McCain). Clint Eastwood plays aging Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan, who blames himself for allowing JFK to be shot, and is determined not to let it happen again. Mitch knows all about Frank's history and leaves him clues,
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Remake of the Day #3: 'The NeverEnding Story'
26 February 2009 12:33 AM, PST
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As the remake train continues to roll this one shouldn't come as much of a surprise as the title of the film alone tells us this one never ends. However, since Warner Bros. isn't making another sequel to 1984's The NeverEnding Story and in fact is planning on reboot, doesn't that sort of seem like cheating?
Personally I have no interest in a remake of this film as it was probably my favorite film growing up. I must have watched The NeverEnding Story on HBO close to one hundred times, I just couldn't get enough of it. The fantasy film centered on a young boy who discovers an extraordinary storybook-and the fantastical world within its pages. The boy's life increasingly became intertwined with the plot of the novel, in which a hero in the land of Fantasia must save the universe on behalf of an empress.
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4.8m invest in BBC One's 'Mistresses'
19 February 2009 2:13 AM, PST
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The second series of BBC One's Mistresses began Tuesday night with a decent 4.79m (20.8%) in the 9pm hour. Ratings for the drama, about the troubled love lives of a group of female friends, was roughly in line with those for the first series. The debut episode, shown on January 8, 2008, pulled in 4.91m (19.7%). BBC One comfortably won the 9pm hour on Tuesday. Five's CSI was second, with 3.11m (13.5%), then ITV1 police documentary In The Line Of Fire had 2.9m (12.6%). On BBC Two, a Horizon exploration of nuclear fusion interested 1.89m (8.2%). Channel 4 was last with 1.67m (7.3%) for the penultimate episode of controversial social experiment Boys and Girls Alone. Holby City won the 8pm hour with 5.86m (24.9%) for BBC One. Oz and James Drink To Britain pulled in 3.29m (14.3%) for BBC Two in the first half of the hour, then the (more)
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- By Neil Wilkes
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Why I Don't Like the 'Adjusted for Inflation' Box-Office Argument
26 January 2009 3:26 AM, PST
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Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
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On Friday I posted the Friday box-office estimates and inside of it I said how Gran Torino will become Clint Eastwood's highest grossing film of all-time, ahead of In the Line of Fire. Of course, the very first comment that comes in comes from Allan saying, "Adjusting for inflation, Every Which Way but Loose will remain number one."
Now, to be fair, Allan was not the only one presenting this little inflation case to me with regards to Eastwood. In his Box-Office Wrap-Up our very own Laremy Legel said, "As Brad has already noted, [Gran Torino] is on the way to being the biggest Eastwood flick of all time. However, I maintain 1978's Every Which Way but Loose is still way up adjusted for inflation."
In 1978 Every Which Way but Loose earned $85.1 million and according to Box-Office Mojo's inflation charts the average
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- Brad Brevet
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'Gran Torino' to Become Biggest Eastwood Flick Ever While 'Underworld' Likely Takes the Weekend
24 January 2009 3:39 AM, PST
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Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
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I didn't necessarily like Gran Torino and as a result have received my fair share of email telling me how stupid I am as a result. However, that doesn't mean I will fail to recognize the fact people seem to have an interest in what may end up being Clint Eastwood's final screen performance as it is sure to become the actor's biggest box-office success as an actor by the middle-end of next week.
Steve Mason brings us the early Friday box-office estimates from his new home at Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog and while Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (my review) is set to take the weekend, Gran Torino is showing a meager 29% drop from last weekend and will likely end the weekend with a $97.1 million cume.
To date, as an actor, Eastwood's largest box-office return was the 1993 political thriller In the Line of Fire
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Box Office - Clint Earns $30 Million with 'Torino'
11 January 2009 12:07 PM, PST
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Clint Eastwood has been a major box office player for years. Dirty Harry kicked off three straight movies in that franchise that were in the top ten of their given years in the 1970s. Every Which Way But Loose, his 1978 brawling comedy, was the fourth biggest hit of that year. Unforgiven and In the Line of Fire did great business,and even Space Cowboys made $90 million.
And at 78, Eastwood has his biggest debut ever, as well as the biggest wide release debut for a leading actor in his 70s. Gran Torino, which had been in limited release for a couple of weeks, put a stranglehold on its competition this weekend, outgrossing Bride Wars
and The Unborn by nearly ten million dollars each.
Eastwood's latest earned $29 million this weekend, according to Box Office Mojo, a phenomenal number when you consider all the factors. There's nobody else in the movie anyone's paying
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Box Office: Gran Torino Grabs $10M Friday, Could Reach $30M Weekend
9 January 2009 10:58 PM, PST
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Clint Eastwood may have saved his biggest for last.
If Gran Torino (Warner Bros) is, as he has hinted, his final big screen acting role, he is going out on top. The 78-year-old multi-Oscar winning director has the #1 movie in America, and the biggest opening of his career.
Gran Torino, the redemptive story of a racist Korean War veteran named Walt Kowalski, has expanded to just over 2,800 playdates with an estimated $10M Friday. That puts the modestly budgeted film on target for a $30M wide opening, easily the biggest of the screen legend’s career.
All-time Best Clint Eastwood Openings
- wide release –
1. Gran Torino - $30M (projected)
2. Space Cowboys - $18.09M
3. In the Line of Fire - $15.2M
4. Unforgiven - $15M
5. Absolute Power - $14.6M
Novice screenwriter Nick Schenk managed to get a copy of Gran Torino into Eastwood’s hands and the legendary actor/director/composer decided to
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Vin Diesel's xXx 1967 Pontiac to be sold at auction
9 January 2009 5:08 AM, PST
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His star isn’t shining as brightly as once it did, but once upon a time Vin Diesel was pretty cool. The brawny baldy flexed his many tattooed muscles, growled in a deep voice and raced about in fast muscle cars – none more wet-your-pants cool than the 1967 Pontiac Gto from xXx. And now that very car as driven by Diesel in the 2002 action flick is to be sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. I wonder if it still has the flame thrower, exploding hubcaps, concealed stinger missiles, mini-bombs, parachutes in seats and ejectable roof. Surely that would cost extra.
The classic muscle car joins 200 other General Motors cars of historical or cultural significance to go under the hammer at the event which kicks off this Sunday continuing until the 18th. Others of interest include a 1986 presidential limousine replica that has graced the silver screen in flicks such as
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