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The Decade’s Film: 2005-2009
21 December 2009 7:33 AM, PST
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It had been a successful decade for the comic book movie, with that trend continuing into the latter half of the decade. Just as looked like the public demand for irradiated heroes looked to be diminishing, with lacklustre showings from the likes of Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four, out came Iron Man. Coupled with a brilliant script and an excellent performance from Robert Downey Jr as the titular zillionaire industrialist/playboy/freedom fighter/all-round genius, the end result was something truly special. Downey’s career was also revitalised, earning him a role in Tropic Thunder (which would earn him an Oscar nomination). Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk took a similar approach, this time giving Edward Norton of Fight Club fame a shot at getting under the skin of the green goliath.
They set a tough act to follow, but followed they were by one Christopher Nolan. With the Batman
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Weisz: 'Oscar Win Was Bizarre'
14 December 2009 12:06 AM, PST
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Rachel Weisz struggles to remember the moment she won a prestigious Academy Award in 2006 - because she was so heavily pregnant it was like an "out of body" experience.
The Mummy star was expecting son Henry when she was handed the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener.
Weisz admits the ceremony was extremely surreal - and confesses she can barely recall her winning moment.
She says, "My son was born in 2006, so it must have been then. It was bizarre, because I was seven months pregnant, so the whole experience was bonkers. (Winning is) surreal, it’s as if it isn’t really happening to you… it’s very out of body. Anyway, it takes a while for it to sink in. Ask me (what it was like) in another decade."
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Susan Sarandon, Luc Besson: 2009 Stockholm Film Festival
29 November 2009 10:41 PM, PST
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Best actress Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (for Dead Man Walking back in 1995) was at the 2009 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, where she was handed the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Kalle Mörck.)
Among Sarandon’s screen credits, which span nearly 40 years, are Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, and The Client. She was nominated for best actress Academy Awards for those four films.
Susan Sarandon will next be seen in Peter Jackson’s supernatural murder thriller/psychological drama The Lovely Bones, in which Sarandon plays Saoirse Ronan’s grandmother. Also in the film’s cast are Mark Wahlberg, Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (for The Constant Gardener in 2005), and Stanley Tucci.
While in Stockholm, Sarandon also introduced [...]
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'The Lovely Bones' - Video footage from the Royal Film Performance & World Premiere.
24 November 2009 10:16 PM, PST
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We have 11 clips from the Royal Film Performance and World Premiere of Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones." The event took place on November 24th in London's Leicester Square. Paramount Pictures distributes the eagerly anticipated drama adaptation based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel written by Alice Sebold.
The film stars Academy Award® nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed), Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener), Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Stanley Tucci (Julie & Julia), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) and Academy Award® nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement).
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Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'
19 November 2009 3:54 AM, PST
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The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare
"A machiavellian dandy . . . Pure coldheartedness . . . Fabulously insincere." As I read out reviews of an old Bill Nighy performance, the actor grimaces and drums his knuckles on the table. "If ever a face was made for villainy, it's Bill Nighy's," I continue. "Wow," he murmurs. "Nighy's decadently long jaw and narrow, sneaky eyes serve him well . . ." He snorts, amused. "Sneaky eyes! Long decadent jaw! My God. I didn't know I had a decadent jaw."
Perhaps it is how Glorious 39 unfolds around him that makes you never quite trust Nighy as Alexander Keyes, a devoted father and aristocratic Conservative MP in Stephen Poliakoff's sumptuous new thriller about appeasement, set on the eve of the second world war. But perhaps Nighy has a singular talent for projecting unreliability into charming characters.
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Can Saorise Ronan become the youngest best actress Oscar winner?
30 October 2009 1:26 PM, PDT
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A spy tells us that Saorise Ronan is in virtually every scene of "The Lovely Bones" as the central character of this compelling story of a murdered girl, her grieving family, and her killer. And we hear that Ronan steals the picture from everyone including Oscar champ Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener") and nominee Mark Wahlberg ("The Departed") as her parents, Oscar winner Susan Sarandon ("Dead Man Walking") as her grandmother and two-time Emmy victor Stanley Tucci ("Winchell," "Monk") as the murdering neighbor. All of them will compete in the supporting slots, leaving Ronan the only "Bones" star in a lofty lead Oscar race. While her first name may be pronounced "sir-sha" to rhyme with
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Iglesias writes concert piece for Dawn Upshaw
9 September 2009 12:25 PM, PDT
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Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias, who has scored the majority of Pedro Almodóvar’s films as well The Constant Gardener and The Kite Runner, has written a new concert work that will headline a program with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Miguel Hart-Bedoya in New York on November 7. The title of Iglesias’ work is ‘Three Songs in the Land of the Lemon Trees,’ and it’s a piece composed specifically
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From The Writer of City of God: Last Stop 174 Trailer
27 August 2009 9:31 AM, PDT
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The success of the 2002 Brazilian film City of God helped launch a number of careers, not the least of which is director Fernando Meirelles, who went on to helm The Constant Gardener and Blindness. It also spawned a TV series spin-off and a sequel called City of Men, and even now any association with that original film is bound to draw some attention. With that being said, here's another gritty crime drama that was penned by City of God screenwriter Bráulio Mantovani, and well, consider me interested!
Last Stop 174 is based on the story of a bus hijacking that happened in Rio de Janeiro back in 2000. When Sandro do Nascimento boarded the bus, he didn't intend to take hostages, but the situation quickly escalated and turned into a media circus. The movie delves into his life growing up on the streets, and the events that brought him to that day.
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Thn Review Feature: Inglourious Basterds
18 August 2009 5:06 AM, PDT
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I am trying to remember the first time that I saw a Quentin Tarantino movie. It was his debut Reservoir Dogs, and I first saw it at a late night screening session at my local multiplex in either 1993 or 1994. The movie had been denied a video release in the UK, so film chains like Odeon and I think Virgin Cinemas at the time, took it upon themselves to show the film late at night to a nation of filmgoers who literally couldn't get enough of this exciting new filmmaker. Then, just a couple of months later Pulp Fiction arrived on the scene, and that movie changed everything. The film won the Palme D'or, and the following year garnered a few Oscar nominations to boot. I fell in love with the film, and could not wait to get back to the cinema to see it again the following weekend.
Then came
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'District 9' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know
14 August 2009 3:50 AM, PDT
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Learn how a failed 'Halo' movie paved the way for what could be the sleeper sci-fi hit of the summer.
By Larry Carroll
A scene from "District 9"
Photo: Sony Pictures
What do drunk, absent-minded, middle-age men have in common with outer-space aliens stranded on Earth? If you don't have an answer, well, you haven't been paying attention to Hollywood's summer of 2009.
Currently rolling out into theaters nationwide is "District 9," a film related to "The Hangover" in several key ways. Both movies are original stories made with no stars, for a low budget and filmed outside the magnifying glass applied to productions like "The Dark Knight" or "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." Both built huge buzz over the final few weeks before release by screening for critics, bloggers and other key tastemakers. Oh, and both films have one last thing in common: They're really freakin' good.
Over here at MTV News,
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Exclusive: First look at Johannes Roberts' mysterious new hooligan horror "F"
12 August 2009 10:44 AM, PDT
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Brit director Johannes Roberts made waves in the horror scene a few years back when he created the first Mobile phone series, When Evil Calls. Then in 2007, Roberts worked that series into an extended feature starring Sean Pertwee and Dominique Pinon, which was released by Lionsgate. What he has been working on recently has been a bit of mystery... until now.
His new film is simply titled F (as in the grade) and it looks to be the latest endeavor in Britain's recent wave of what I'm now coining as "hooligan horror" (see Eden Lake). We have received a small synopsis from Roberts, but I can't help but wonder if it will be a revenge movie where a humiliated teacher exacts some justice and hands out fails to all of his rowdy pupils. That would be sweet.
Synopsis:
F is a terrifying thriller about a group of teachers trapped in
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Peter Jackson Proud Of 'Fiercely Original' 'District 9'
11 August 2009 1:09 AM, PDT
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'It's not based on a comic; it's not based on a remake or a TV show. It's very original,' producer says of new film.
By Christopher Campbell
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If there's one thing Peter Jackson seems to be proud of as far as "District 9" is concerned, it's that the film is an original work. As producer of the much-buzzed-about science-fiction flick, he credits writer/director Neill Blomkamp with bringing something personal to the story that most action movies today lack.
"It's fiercely original, which is what I really like about it," Jackson told MTV News. "And I like the fact that it's based on the life experience of Neill, growing up in a society that was different to anything we've experienced."
Of course, he didn't mean to say that Blomkamp grew up living among alien refugees who've been forced to live in ghettos as marginalized non-citizens.
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Green Hair Cost Sienna Gardener Role
7 August 2009 9:06 AM, PDT
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Sienna Miller fears her green hair may have cost her a role opposite Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener.
The blonde actress reveals she had a home dye disaster the night before the audition for the film - and she could not have looked worse.
Miller explains, "I've tried to dye it (hair) dark before and it went horribly wrong.
"I thought I'd be all organic and hippie and I used henna instead of normal hair colour, which, if you have blonde hair, goes green... proper pond green.
"I had an audition the next day for The Constant Gardener, which I didn't get."
Rachel Weisz eventually landed the role Miller auditioned for - and won an Oscar.
The Alfie star notes, "They made the right decision about that one."
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Shooting To Commence on 'Your Highness'
17 July 2009 6:28 AM, PDT
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Principal Photography on 'Your Highness', directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express), is due to commence on Monday 20th July on location in Northern Ireland and the Paint Hall Belfast. The fantasy film which is written by Danny Mc Bride and Ben Best will see Scott Stuber producing through his Universal-based company Stuber Productions. Mark Huffam from Ni production company Generator Entertainment will executive produce with Stuber's Jon Mone and Danny McBride. Shooting for a twelve week period, the film will be lensed by Director of Photography Tim Orr (Pineapple Express, Dandelion), Production Designer is Mark Tildsley (28 Days Later, The Constant Gardener).
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King Richard of 'Robin Hood' Found in 'Wolverine' Villain
13 July 2009 1:32 AM, PDT
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Moving on from his villainous role in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", Danny Huston will tackle on a historical figure in "Robin Hood". According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 47-year-old actor will step into the shoes of King Richard who is more commonly known as Richard the Lionheart due to his exploits during the Third Crusade.
Landing the role means he will be sharing screen with Academy Award-winning actor Russell Crowe, who headlines the project as the titular character. He will also join other cast ensemble that include Cate Blanchett as Maid Marion and Mark Strong as Sir Godfrey. The actor who is also credited as director is expected to shoot for his part after wrapping up on "Clash of the Titans".
Eying a May 14, 2010 U.S. release, "Robin Hood" is the working title given for the action adventure film which was once named "Nottingham". A first look at Russell Crowe's
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A 'Tailor' made International Career for Let the Right One In's Tomas Alfredson
9 July 2009
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- You can bet that Swedish helmer Tomas Alfredson had to field tons of requests for his next directing gig since the international success of Let the Right One In – the pic that was so popular that an American remake was commissioned quickly during the craze (Let Me In is going to be released in January of next year). Today, the director follows in the footsteps of Fernando Meirelles, who after giving us breakout City of God also took on a John Le Carré novel (The Constant Gardener). Alfredson has been paired with the very busy Peter Morgan on the adaptation of Le Carré’s Cold War spy novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Here is Wiki's entry description for the novel and reasoning for the title: First published in 1974. It is the first volume of a three-book series informally known as The Karla Trilogy, followed by The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.
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Reese Witherspoon is Universal’s Pharm Girl
17 June 2009 10:36 PM, PDT
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Universal and Reese Witherspoon are joining forces for Pharm Girl, a comedy centering on one woman's odyssey through the pharmaceutical business. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the duo behind the Billy Bob Thornton comedy Bad Santa, will write the screenplay and are in talks to direct.
Witherspoon will play a woman who gets a job at a pharmaceutical powerhouse but begins to see the underbelly of the industry as she rises through the company's ranks. The actress is also producing the film via her Type A banner.
The modern pharmaceutical industry has played a villainous role in Hollywood films dating to The Fugitive, and several years ago it was at the center of a conspiracy in the Focus Features thriller The Constant Gardener.
Ficarra and Requa most recently helmed and wrote I Love You Phillip Morris, the Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor dramedy about the romance between a con artist
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Hugh Jackman and Robert Pattinson in Unbound Captives
13 May 2009 5:00 PM, PDT
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Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight) will star in the period drama "Unbound Captives," with actress Madeleine Stowe (We Were Soldiers) making her directorial debut from a script she wrote. Though Stowe is a newcomer behind the camera, getting the job and landing that cast is a payoff for her risky decision to turn down millions of dollars for the script in 1993. Under pseudonym O.C. Humphrey, Stowe teamed with her husband, actor Brian Benben, to write "Unbound Captives" as a star vehicle for herself. She would have played a woman (now to be played by Weisz) whose husband is killed and her two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party in 1859. She is rescued by a frontiersman, to be played by Jackman. Pattinson will play the son. Fox offered Stowe $3 million, and later $5 million, for her script, with Ridley Scott poised to direct and Russell Crowe to star.
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Rachel Weisz May Play '40s Movie Icon Hedy Lamarr
12 May 2009 7:49 AM, PDT
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rachel Weisz -- who won an Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener -- may portray Hedy Lamarr in the upcoming movie Face Value.
Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Austria, was best known for her performance as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949). However, Face Value reportedly will focus a great deal on her often-overlooked career as a scientist. In the '40s, she helped pioneer a communications technology currently utilized by today's WiFi devices.
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Rachel Weisz Reaches Hedy Heights
12 May 2009 4:50 AM, PDT
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She may already be a classic beauty, but Rachel Weisz is going all-out Old Hollywood as she circles the role of Hedy Lamarr for a film by Amy Redford.The indie biopic, named Face Value, originally had Charlize Theron rumoured for the role, which will show the eccentric post-wwii actress' career, including a sideline in scientific research into wireless technology.Known best for her lead turn in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, Lamarr was nicknamed The most Beautiful Woman In Films by her contemporaries, and was one of the most gifted actresses in old Hollywood town. Motorcycle Diaries scribe Jose Rivera penned the script along with Gretchen Somerfeld, and the movie will be made with a Tfi Sloan Filmmaker grant which the project was awarded from the Sundance Institute (hmm, nepotism? Amy Redford is Sundance founder Robert's daughter. But then, if she's inherited his filmmaking skills, it's probably fair enough). Weisz,
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