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Podcast: Jason Schwartzman
13 November 2009 12:26 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
In director Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox (read Vadim Rizov's "Film of the Week" review), 29-year-old actor Jason Schwartzman—who began his screen career working with Anderson as the overambitious teen hero of Rushmore, then co-starred in and co-wrote The Darjeeling Limited—lends his voice to the role of Ash. A runty young fox who longs for the attention and affection of his father Mr. Fox (George Clooney), Ash spends most of the story in a quiet jealous huff over his cousin Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson), who seems to be better than him in just about every sport—including the art of romance.
Sitting down with Schwartzman before the Fantastic Mr. Fox's limited release, we discussed the film, familial competition, his hilarious new HBO series Bored to Death, his band Coconut Records (did we mention he was a musician before he was a thespian?), and a somewhat unusual vice. »
Interview: F is for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
12 November 2009 9:40 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
With their matted pelts and porcelain eyes, director Wes Anderson’s stop motion puppets breathe new life into the Roald Dahl classic "Fantastic Mr. Fox" in his analog animated adaptation of the beloved British children’s book. For all you wanted to know about Fantastic Mr. Fox and the unique vision of Wes Anderson, here is CinemaSpy’s A-z guide to the film and the inspiration and processes of its filmmaker, as he described it to us recently in New York.
Fantastic Mr. Fox opened in limited release this weekend.
A is for Anderson
"Each time I've worked with Wes it's been so completely different than the last time, the movie and the situation that we find ourselves in," said Jason Schwartzman, who has collaborated with the filmmaker on Rushmore, Darjeeling Limited and who is the voice of Mr. Fox’s son, Ash, in Fantastic Mr. Fox. "It's a real »
Film Of The Week: Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 November 2009 4:37 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
by Vadim Rizov
Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson's sixth feature and third to be pre-judged as a "Wes Anderson" film—a calcified pejorative often bearing little relation to what the movies are actually like. A "Wes Anderson movie," we're given to understand, is a series of candy-colored rectangular sets and frames boxing in little more than statically quirky characters. It's true that Anderson's thematic concerns have been consistent: dysfunctional families, absent/negligent paterfamiliases, '60s pop and rock songs, hermetically detailed mise-en-scène. But there are also meaningful differences between each one, rarely noted in negative reviews convinced Anderson has outstayed his welcome. After The Royal Tenenbaums—in which Rushmore's occasional cuteness thickened into an emotional mausoleum, with only Luke Wilson's suicide attempt breaking through—Anderson made two transitional films entering new terrain. Anderson's detractors didn't notice: two movies about bad fathers and tragic sons with suicidal impulses were two too many. »
Review: The Fantastic Mr Fox
12 November 2009 4:09 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
When indie darling Wes Anderson was announced as the director for the big screen adaptation of The Fantastic Mr Fox, the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, the reaction was, to say the least, mixed. How, some felt, could a Texan director possibly bring to life a book with such a British sensibility? And how, others pondered, could two such disparate voices as Dahl’s and Anderson’s co-exist?
The finished film provides the answers to both these questions and, whilst the cultural xenophobes needn’t have concerned themselves with any notion of cultural imperialism, those fearing a cross-pollination of tones may have had their worries vindicated.
The story centres around the sociopathic Mr Fox (George Clooney) who, after announcing his retirement from chicken hustling to his wife (Meryl Streep), decides his life of writing a newspaper column isn’t as exciting as he may have hoped and, instead, »
- Kieron
Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 November 2009 11:10 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Fantastic Mr. Fox marks the first time Wes Anderson, that connoisseur of whimsy, has worked with animation. If the switch required an adjustment it’s hard to tell. From the use of slow-motion to Alexandre Desplat’s jaunty soundtrack the world of this stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic looks and feels a lot like the offbeat ones of The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore. It’s no small achievement that it does so while telling the story of a fox named Mr. Fox (George Clooney) who lives with his wife Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) and son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) in a tree and turns to espionage in a quest to combat three evil farmers. In the wrong hands, Dahl’s work could be prone to the strenuous prettifying and overt moralizing that are so often byproducts of family productions. Anderson goes the opposite direction, applying »
- Robert Levin
Wes Anderson on Fantastic Mr. Fox
11 November 2009 2:21 PM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Mr. Fox with his director Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson came to Hollywood from Texas armed with a short film and a best friend with a funny nose. The year was 1993, the film was Bottle Rocket, and the best friend was—and still is—Owen Wilson. By chance, James Brooks saw and loved Bottle Rocket, and gave Anderson the boost he needed, helping him shore up financing to expand the short into a full-length feature. Since then, Anderson has written and directed four films: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums—for which he was nominated for best original screenplay—The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited and its accompanying short, Hotel Chevalier. On Friday, he will be releasing his sixth film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, a sumptuous, stop-motion version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story, which Anderson co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. The film features the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep, »
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Director Wes Anderson Talks About How His Fantastic Cast Came Together
10 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: Wes Anderson is comfortable with his crew of Hollywood buddies, a bunch he started cobbling together along with college roommate Owen Wilson for his debut feature, "Bottle Rocket." In subsequent movies, Anderson's hipster squad grew to encompass Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and others, as he continued to cast them in films like "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Darjeeling Limited."
So when it comes to his first animated film, the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation "Fantastic Mr. Fox," no one should be surprised that Wilson, Murray and Schwartzman lend their voices to the animal characters. But was it always going to be this way? Did Anderson have these actors in mind from the beginning, or did the decision to cast them develop later on? And how did Oscar winners like George Clooney and Meryl Streep sneak into this tight-knit group?
Continue reading How Were George Clooney And Bill Murray »
- Adam Rosenberg
Exclusive Video: Jason Schwartzman Is an Animal in The Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 November 2009 12:12 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Actor Jason Schwartzman is a member of an exclusive club and no ... I'm not talking about the Coppola family. While, Schwartzman is the nephew of the famed director and Nicolas Cage's cousin he is also a member of a prestigious group of actors that appear in Wes Anderson films. The talented ensemble includes Luke and Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Seymour Cassel and Michael Gambon, actors who have all appeared in more than one Wes Anderson film. Schwartzman himself made his film debut in Anderson's Rushmore and later appeared in The Darjeeling Limited but now returns to work with Anderson again in his new film The Fantastic Mr. Fox, opening in theaters on November 13th. The film, which is based on the classic children's book by author Roald Dahl features stop motion animation and also introduces Oscar winners George Clooney and Meryl Streep into the Anderson family of actors. »
Natalie Portman on ‘Black Swan’ sex scene with Mila Kunis: ‘It’s extreme’
5 November 2009 8:55 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Natalie Portman doesn’t want to turn into Denise Richards who is remembered more for being naked rather than her acting…though, really, there’s little chance of that.
The former Star Wars star is not opposed to doing nude scenes when it’s called for, she’s against nude celebrity web sites like Mr. Skin.
Portman originally turned down a role in Wayne Wang’s 1999 film Anywhere But Here, but joined the project when her nude scene was written out of the film. “I’m not opposed to sexuality or nudity in a film, but I’m very opposed to pornography sites and you’re pretty much giving them material if you do any of that,” she told V magazine. “It’s always a big dilemma for me.”
Portman added that it’s “annoying because online bullshit interferes with what I want to do artistically.”
Natalie Portman will star »
- Reel Loop News Staff
U.K. box office: ‘Up’ still up
30 October 2009 10:16 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Up had edged close to a cumulative U.K. take of £20 million by the end of last weekend, and will have certainly already have passed that as we head into this weekend. Oh, those crazy Pixar kids, making movies with mass appeal and genuine emotion! Who knew making successful movies could be so simple? Fantastic Mr. Fox won’t open in North America for a couple weeks still, and it’ll get only a limited release in New York and Los Angeles -- hard to believe, but Wes Anderson’s biggest opener so far, number-of-screens-wise, was his first film, Bottle Rocket, which debuted on 28 screens; next is The Royal Tenenbaums, on five; his other films all opened on just two screens. Anyway: the point is, Fox cannot possible open to $15 million, which would be what we might expect for North America based on the U.K. performance, were it to open wide here. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
The Fantastic Mr. Fox interviews with Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Wes Anderson
29 October 2009 4:20 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane … Click Here to read Bayer’s interview with Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson for The Darjeeling Limited.
That was nice. And now on to the future with The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Stop-motion, George Clooney, Murray, things that are fantastic … yeah, I’m excited about this film.
Schwartzman voices Ash in the film. Anybody watching his HBO show “Bored to Death”? I saw the first episode, now I am just sitting on all the others, I figure it will make great viewing on a plane in the near future.
Bill Murray voices Badger in the movie. Can we get him to host “Saturday Night Live” to help promote the film? Is that too much to ask?
Wes Anderson is the director of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. And since we don’t have Clooney or Meryl Strep interviews here, we’ll have Anderson talk »
- Jeff Bayer
Wes Anderson
26 October 2009 3:15 PM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »
In the five films that Wes Anderson has directed, from his 1996 debut feature Bottle Rocket to 2007’s picaresque The Darjeeling Limited, he has managed to assemble a constellation of actors who might best be described as “Wes’s Gang.” This tragicomic fraternity includes Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Luke Wilson, and, of course, his college friend and longtime collaborator OwenWilson. Like Woody Allen before him, Anderson has constructed his own immediately identifiable cinematic landscape, one so distinct that certain clothes, music, expressions, and cleverly awkward situations in the real world can be dubbed as being “very Wes Anderson.” »
- By Arnaud Desplechin Photography SØlve SundsbØ
American characters easier to write in ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ says Wes Anderson
15 October 2009 2:44 PM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Fresh from the “Oh, give me an effing break” department, director Wes Anderson explains why the animals in his upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel Fantastic Mr. Fox has American accents. The answer may surprise you.
“Noah Baumbach and I adapted the script together, we’re American,” said Anderson at the BFI London Film Festival press conference. “I feel like we’re better writing American voices so we decided that we would make all the animals American and the humans would be British.” So why are only the humans British? “Because they’re the bad guys!” Murray yelled.
The story is set in Great Britain and features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Anderson favorite, Jason Schwartzman. Using stop-motion animation and modern technology, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a visually stunning piece. Will the revered story be lost in the effects?
“I always intended for it to be stop-motion, »
- Erik Buckman
London Film Festival Opening Gala Report
15 October 2009 7:31 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival kicked off in fine style last night, with the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox.Anderson has an affinity with the Lff – his The Darjeeling Limited closed the Festival in 2007 – but it’s fair to say that his presence alone wouldn’t have ensured that Leicester Square was closed off and turned into a giant, circuitous red carpet, with the film’s premiere itself spilling out of the Odeon Leicester Square to fill a second venue, the Empire (no relation).That was all down to the Clooney Factor, with Anderson’s silky-smooth star – who voices the title character in the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation – attracting hundreds of onlookers to the Square. Clooney gave plenty of time to the fans clustered around the red carpet, but didn’t stop to speak to the press, even – admirably – blanking the extremely annoying Rick Edwards from T4, »
Irrfan Khan in 'Indian Summer' with Cate Blanchett and Hugh Grant
13 October 2009 2:41 PM, PDT | The Bollywood Ticket | See recent The Bollywood Ticket news »
Awarding-winning Indian actor Irrfan Khan may be playing India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, alongside British actor Hugh Grant as India's last British viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and Australian actress Cate Blanchett as the viceroy's wife, Edwina, in an upcoming film called 'Indian Summer,' about the last days of British rule in India—and the supposed affair between Nehru and Edwina.
The film is based on the book 'Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire,' by British historian Alex von Tunzelmann, which chronicles the transition of power from Mountbatten to Nehru in the summer of 1947.
The Indian government has reportedly given its approval to the film on certain conditions, including the removal from the script of some intimate scenes between Nehru and Edwina and a statement by the filmmakers that the picture is a work of fiction.
Filming is scheduled to begin »
Adrien Brody Will Star in Predators
6 October 2009 5:24 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Who is the new Arnold Schwarzenegger for this generation? Would you believe me if I told you it was Adrien Brody? No, really-- Variety is reporting that Brody has been cast as the human in lead in Predators, a reboot of the franchise that originally starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the action hero ridding the world of giant-headed alien beasts. There's a huge cast along with Brody for the ride, including Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Louiz Ozawa, and two actors we already knew were taking part, Danny Trejo and Walt Goggins. Filming starts pretty much immediately in Hawaii, and the film is already set for a July 9, 2010 release date. So-- Adrien Brody, ass kicker? I mean he was great in The Pianist and everything, and has been earning his indie cred with The Darjeeling Limited and The Brothers Bloom, but who would have guessed that he'd follow all that »
Whip It! | Review
2 October 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Drew Barrymore Writer(s): Barry Mendel, Drew Barrymore Starring: Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern Bliss (Ellen Page) is a misfit – at least as far as rural Texas standards are concerned – high schooler. Bliss’ mother (Marcia Gay Harden) wants Bliss to be a beauty pageant queen, just like she was; but when Bliss shows up at a beauty pageant with blue hair, we all know that Bliss doesn’t share her mother’s aspirations. One day, Bliss’ mother takes Bliss to Austin to do some shopping. She reluctantly agrees to buy Bliss a pair of combat boots, until she notices that the boutique also sells bongs. Bliss buys the combat boots with her own cash, and picks up a flyer on the way out…the flyer is for a female roller derby exposition match in Austin. Bliss drags her »
- Don Simpson
'Whip It': Roller Girls, By Kurt Loder
2 October 2009 5:59 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Ellen Page dons skates for Drew Barrymore's directorial debut.
Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig in "Whip It"
Photo: Fox Searchlight
Stuck in a dead-end job in a no-pulse Texas town, 17-year-old Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) is miserable. Then, on a trip to Austin to buy clothes for the dreadful junior-miss pageants her mom (Marcia Gay Harden) keeps forcing her to enter, Bliss spots an ad for an upcoming all-girl roller-derby match — the Hurl Scouts versus the High Rollers. Sneaking away on the designated night, she catches the match, falls in love with the action, returns home to dig out her old pink Barbie skates, sneaks back to Austin, lies about her age, auditions for the Hurl Scouts and wins a place on the team. Soon her life, for the first time, begins to get interesting.
In "Whip It," Drew Barrymore, directing her first film, demonstrates solid movie-construction »
The Fantastic Mr. Fox Returns With New Trailer
29 September 2009 11:01 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
The first trailer to The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s throwback to The Mouse and the Motorcycle-style stop motion animation starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and the rest of Anderson’s usual gang, was met with mixed reviews. Some loved the aesthetic, some found it distracting; personally, I loved it. He seems to have taken Ronald Dahl’s original story and married it to a style that’s completely distinct from anything we’ve seen on the big screen, perhaps ever.
If you were in that first crowd, you might not be fully convinced by this new trailer. However, you will realize that the movie seems prety darn funny — quite a bit funnier than the director’s last output, The Darjeeling Limited. And once again, Clooney proves he has a voice of the gods.
Click on the picture below to head over and watch the trailer at Apple.com. »
- John Cooper
The World's Most Clever Stop Motion Film (trailer) (Mixed Media)
18 September 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »
What does a director famous for his awkward, dry comedies do when he has squeezed all of the sarcastic strangeness out of real life actors? Apparently, he turns to animation. In his new stop-motion film, Fantastic Mr. Fox (based on the Roald Dahl children’s book of the same name), director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited) enlists the help of some of his old favorites, including Rushmore screen mates Bill Murray and Jason Bateman, to give voice to his woodland creatures. Although the failure of Tim Burton’s new film 9 to live up to its fantastic trailer… »
- By Jesse Steele
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