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Take Three: Chris Cooper
14 May 2012 8:11 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Craig here with this week’s Take Three. Today: Chris Cooper
Take One: Adaptation. (2002)
Cooper was up against a quartet of big names in the 2003 Best Supporting Actor Oscar race: Christopher Walken (Catch Me if You Can), Ed Harris (The Hours), John C. Reilly (Chicago) and Paul Newman (Road to Perdition). As the then least weighty name, his nomination didn’t necessarily guarantee success. But, conversely, his fifteen prior award wins and a further 5 nominations for the role spoke volumes. He emerged victorious, yet, inexplicably, Adaptation remains his only nod to date.
Spike Jonze’s very meta, self-referencing Adaptation was unique and playful in equal measure. It mulled over plenty of original ideas with its life-fiction overlap. Cooper, as orchid thief John Laroche, a real-life figure, stole the film away from actors as lively as Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Tilda Swinton. He played the wry humour and the tragedy of Laroche with equal skill. »
- Craig Bloomfield
The creeping melancholy of belated sequels
8 May 2012 4:19 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Although belated sequels are meant to play on our nostalgia for much-loved characters, such movies, Ryan argues, also have a melancholy side to them, too…
There are certain topics that mainstream movies seldom address. Going to the loo is one of them – Psycho was the first Hollywood film to (gasp) show an actual lavatory on a cinema screen, but at no point did we see Janet Leigh sitting on it and staring at a copy of Reader’s Digest.
Another taboo movie topic: growing old. Death’s everywhere in cinema, from the splashy skewerings of slasher movies to the fatal shootings of action flicks and thrillers. The actual process of gradually shrivelling up and shuffling off this mortal coil, however, is usually kept under wraps.
Even in The Expendables, which crowded more famous old men on the screen than at any time since those Coccoon movies in the 80s, the subjects of clicky knees, »
Justin Bieber basketball drama stalled by script problems
8 May 2012 4:10 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Teen star says sports film costarring Mark Wahlberg is undergoing script rewrite 'to make it fit better and stuff'
Justin Bieber and Mark Wahlberg are still waiting for the tip-off of their basketball drama, which is undergoing a script rewrite, according to the tween sensation.
"I don't know what the deal is," said Bieber when quizzed on the delays by MTV News. "Turns out they're rewriting the script or something, trying to make it fit better and stuff."
Wahlberg, who is likely to play the grizzled coach to Bieber's young slam-dunker, had previously compared the film to Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money, in which Paul Newman's veteran pool shark teaches young buck Tom Cruise how to cue up a victory on the felt. "[I got] this call from Paramount [with a story about] an old guy and a young guy," Wahlberg told MTV News last December. "I'm like, 'Cool, let's get Jack [Nicholson]. Let's get Robert De Niro. »
- Henry Barnes
Unseen Photos of Paul Newman, Cary Grant, Other Sixties Stars Offered for Sale
7 May 2012 6:49 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
A collection of never-before-seen vintage photographs of such Hollywood icons as Paul Newman, Doris Day and Cary Grant by famed photographer Leo Fuchs are being offered for sale by V&M (Vintage and Modern), the online retailer. Fuchs, a noted photographer who came to Hollywood in the sixties at the invitation of his friend Rock Hudson and later became an actor and producer, took the photos soon after her first arrived. He passed away in 1994. In 2007, his son Alexandre discovered eighteen trunks worth of prints, negatives and reels among his father's possession. The discovery included numerous
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- Andy Lewis
Justin Bieber Ready To Start 'Hooping' For Basketball Film
7 May 2012 12:02 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'They're rewriting the script ... trying to make it fit better,' Bieber tells MTV News about upcoming movie, co-starring Mark Wahlberg.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway
Photo: MTV News
The long-simmering basketball flick starring Justin Bieber and Mark Wahlberg looks like it's going to get delayed a bit longer. Both parties seem to remain steadfast to make it happen, but with the film still in the scripting phase, a timetable for when it might actually happen remains up in the air.
"I'm still working on this movie with Mark Wahlberg," Bieber told MTV News last week. "I don't know what the deal is. Turns out they're rewriting the script or something, trying to make it fit better and stuff."
Wahlberg previously told us the film would be in the vein of Martin Scorsese-directed "Color Of Money," starring Tom Cruise and Paul Newman, with Bieber »
Hockey returns to Johnstown! Should they honor 'Slap Shot' with a new team name?
3 May 2012 11:25 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Minor-league hockey is coming back to Johnstown, Pa.
Fans of the movie Slap Shot will remember that the blue-collar western Pennsylvania town was the inspiration and the setting for the 1977 Paul Newman movie, which glorified the sport’s lust for fighting and introduced the bespectacled Hanson brothers, who weren’t afraid of starting brawls — occasionally before the opening puck was dropped. Newman played the wily player/coach of the Charlestown Chiefs — a barely fictionalized version of the real-life Johnstown Jets — and much of the movie’s on-ice action was filmed at the city’s 4,000-seat Cambria County War Memorial Arena. »
- Jeff Labrecque
"Glee" Episode 317 Recap: Dance With Somebody
25 April 2012 4:01 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
The McKinley High class of 2012 is coming up on graduation, fast. We have no idea how the rest of the student body is handling that, but the Glee Club kids are, of course, singing about it, in the form of a Whitney Houston tribute episode.
I actually didn't realize how thin "Dance With Somebody" was on plot until I went to recap it, because I was distracted by all the shiny Klaine angst and Brittana dancing, and also the gay hugging. (Hugging is what same-sex couples do when hetero couples would be kissing. We only kiss during Very Special Episodes.)
Possibly as part of this plot-lite approach, Glee apparently no longer feels the slightest need to set up their opening musical numbers in terms of context.
Just like last week, when Blaine, Mike, and Brittany went right into "Saturday Night GLEEver's" first song, we're launched directly into Mercedes, Santana, Kurt, »
- christiekeith
Susan Sarandon Under Us Government Surveillance?
24 April 2012 12:16 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Susan Sarandon has been removed from a guest list for a White House event next week. Why? "I was denied security clearance and I don’t know why," Sarandon, 65, told the crowd attending a Q&A with herself and Michael Moore at the Tribeca Film Festival this past weekend. It gets better. As reported in The Independent, Sarandon added: "We know we are under surveillance. I’ve gotten my file twice under the Freedom of Information Act. I know my phone was tapped. If they’re not surveilling you then everyone else has cameras on their phones." If what Susan Sarandon says is accurate, that means Americans can rest assured their tax dollars are being wisely invested in the protection of their freedoms and their persons from clear and present danger. Sarandon has always espoused dangerous liberal causes, including gay rights and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is a Unicef representative. »
- Andre Soares
70 Things We Love About Barbra Streisand, in Honor of Her 70th Birthday
24 April 2012 10:35 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Which is more shocking: the fact that Barbra Streisand turns 70 years old today, or the fact that she's been famous for more than 50 of them? Bottom line, everything about Barbara Joan Streisand is astounding, and we've compiled 70 accomplishments, songs, performances, and trivia items to celebrate about the most accomplished female vocalist of the past century. Don your naughtiest Owl and the Pussycat lingerie and jump along with us through a haphazard history of the woman who dazzled Broadway, dumbfounded Ryan O'Neal (I am obsessed with What's Up, Doc?), and has remained larger than life for longer than anyone else.
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days »
- virtel
Juliette Binoche & Clive Owen In Talks To Star In Fred Schepisi's School-Set Drama 'Words And Pictures'
24 April 2012 8:19 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
In the 1980s and 1990s, Australian director Fred Schepisi was something of a big deal. The 73-year-old filmmaker got his start back in Oz with 1976's "The Devil's Playground," made his U.S. debut with the underrated Western "Barbarosa," and went on to make acclaimed, successful pictures like "Roxanne," "A Cry In The Dark," "The Russia House" and "Six Degrees Of Separation," as well as a few that didn't quite connect in the same way, like "I.Q." and "A Fish Called Wanda" semi-sequel "Fierce Creatures." The filmmaker's been relatively quiet in the last ten years, with 2003's Michael/Kirk/Cameron Douglas disaster "It Runs In The Family" and 2005's acclaimed HBO drama "Empire Falls," which featured Paul Newman's final live-action performance, as his only output.
But with his latest film "The Eye Of The Storm," a return to Australia that stars Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis and Sam Neill, given »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The Lucky One Movie Box Office: Zac Efron Third Best Opening
23 April 2012 4:04 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Taylor Schilling, Zac Efron, The Lucky One movie Think Like A Man Breaks Record At no. 2 this weekend, the Zac Efron romantic movie The Lucky One collected $22.51 million at 3,115 sites, averaging a good $7,137 per-location according to box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. Following a solid opening on Friday, The Lucky One was expected to gross somewhere between $22-25 million by Sunday evening. It failed to reach the higher mark because, unlike the weekend’s other top-twelve movies, it was down on Saturday (-6%). Best known as the leading lady in the nearly universally panned film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s libertarian novel Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, Taylor Schilling plays Zac Efron’s love interest in this nearly universally panned adaptation of Nicholas Sparks‘ tearjerking novel — The Lucky One has a dismal 16% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes‘ top critics. Now, even though this may sound bad for Schilling, it’s anything but. »
- Zac Gille
Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock, and Alfred Hitchcock
23 April 2012 11:22 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Look! It's Anthony Hopkins and Toby Jones as the great Alfred Hitchcock and the great Alfred Hitchcock in the upcoming movies Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho (2013) about, you guessed it, the making of Psycho, and The Girl (2012... post production but I'm guessing also 2013) about the making of The Birds. We keep forgetting that the second one exists (Cinema Blend recently reminded us while talking to Tippi Hedren at the Tribeca Film Festival) which is the second time that's happened to a Toby Jones biopic. First Capote, now Hitch? Poor guy.
All of which begs for us to make it a trinity...
Who else should play Hitchcock and which movie other than Psycho & The Birds deserves this "making of" dramatization. For some reason I'm tempted to say Frenzy (1972) to get a late career trying to keep up with the times mixed reception drama but I could go for Torn Curtain »
- NATHANIEL R
Zac Efron/The Lucky One Box Office: $25 Million?
21 April 2012 6:28 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Zac Efron, The Lucky One Think Like A Man Box Office: Strong Overperformer At no. 2 on Friday, the Zac Efron romantic melodrama The Lucky One collected $9.13 million at 3,115 sites (about 1,000 more locations than Think Like a Man), averaging a good $2,894 per-venue according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The Lucky One is expected to score somewhere between $22-25 million by Sunday evening. Best known as the leading lady in the nearly universally panned film adaptation of Ayn Rand's sprawling libertarian novel Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, Taylor Schilling plays Zac Efron's love interest in this nearly universally panned adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' tearjerking novel. Even though this may sound bad for Schilling, it's not — at all. The Lucky One was a smart, high-profile career move following Atlas Shrugged, a critical and box-office disaster admired only by the American far-right. The Lucky One has a dismal 16% approval rating »
- Zac Gille
Zac Efron/The Lucky One Box Office: Overperforming
21 April 2012 1:52 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Zac Efron, The Lucky One Box Office: Think Like A Man Beats The Lucky One At no. 2 this weekend, The Lucky One is expected to take in $25 million (up from an estimated $22 million a few hours ago) after collecting $8.8 million at 3,115 sites (about 1,000 more than Think Like a Man) on Friday according to estimates found at Deadline.com. Taylor Schilling, probably best known as the leading lady in the nearly universally panned film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, plays Zac Efron's love interest in this nearly universally panned adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' romantic novel. (This may sound bad for Schilling, but it's not. The Lucky One was a smart, high-profile career move following the Atlas Shrugged critical and box-office disaster.) The Lucky One has a mere 16% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics — Think Like a Man is an instant classic by comparison. Yet, even after adjusting for inflation, »
- Zac Gille
Have Link Will Travel
20 April 2012 6:09 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
New York Times on Paul Thomas Anderson's secretive new movie The Master. It's about... something.
Mnpp Charlize Theron and Alexander Skarsgård are dating? The Mayans were right about 2012
Your Movie Buddy interviews The Hunter's storied leading man Willem Dafoe
Draw Adrian Draw isn't happy about Anne Hathaway as Catwoman but is sketching her anyway
Michael Musto "who's your favorite Taylor?" fun question except there's only one appropriate answer. La Liz! Not that I don't appreciate Taylor Mac...
The Incredible Suit unexpectedly loves The Avengers ... even the Hulk part.
Awards Daily Sasha Stone loves HBO's Girls and Lena Dunham in particular
Stale Popcorn meet the Cannes class of 2012. Serious Thespians (lol)
Flavorwire always finds interesting things. Did you know that crazy auteur Werner Herzog didn't realize that crazy auteur John Waters was gay for 30+ years. lol
Gold Derby who will Laura Dern (Enlightened) knock out of the Emmy Best Comedy Actress race this season? »
- NATHANIEL R
5 Things You May Not Know About Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita,' 51 Years After It Hit U.S. Theaters
18 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
51 years ago today, on April 19th 1961, Federico Fellini's masterpiece "La Dolce Vita" arrived in U.S. theaters. The film was already a phenomenon; it had premiered in Italy the previous February, was instantly condemned by the Catholic Church (it was banned entirely in Spain until 1975), and won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960. On its U.S. release, it was widely acclaimed by critics, became a huge box office hit, and picked up four Oscar nominations the following year, including director and screenplay, and won for costume design.
To mark the anniversary of the much copied, but never equalled film which follows a journalist, played by Marcello Mastroianni over the course of a tumultous week in Rome, we've assembled a selection of five pieces of info that even the biggest Fellini fans might not be aware of. Check them out below.
1. Paul Newman and Henry Fonda were considered for roles. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Disney's Happy Blu Year
17 April 2012 3:51 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
It's the kind of announcement you'd expect either in the final quarter of 2011 or in January of 2012, but instead Disney announced today that they'd finally begin the process of converting many of their past films from DVD to Blu-ray. They've been doing this for many of their big animation classics like The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Pinocchio, and so forth, but their rather large stable of live-action films have so far sat relatively untouched. They released a list of 30 films that would be getting Blu-ray releases for 2012, like Newsies (Christian Bale), High Fidelity (John Cusack), Arachnophobia (Jeff Daniels), Dick Tracy, The Color of Money (Paul Newman, Tom Cruise), Father of the Bride (Steve Martin), and more. For the full list as well as Blu-ray art on some of them, read on.
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- Lex Walker
Tonight I See My First Nicholas Sparks Adaptation in Eight Years
16 April 2012 11:15 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
For some reason I thought there had been more Nicholas Sparks adaptations since 2004's The Notebook. However, there have only been three -- Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, Dear John with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried and The Last Song with lovebirds Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. Before that there was A Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner, Robin Wright and Paul Newman and A Walk to Remember with Mandy Moore. Come to think of it, tonight, when I see The Lucky One, it won't only be my first Sparks adaptation since The Notebook, it will be my second Sparks adaptation altogether. The only reason I mention this is because I had such a strong, negative reaction to The Notebook it has taken me this long to gather my composure to the point I felt I could give another Sparks adaptation a shot. That film »
- Brad Brevet
Hal E Chester obituary
16 April 2012 5:33 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Shrewd film producer behind School for Scoundrels and Night of the Demon
Hal E Chester, who has died aged 91, was a juvenile actor, then a producer of low-budget movies in Hollywood, before he moved in 1955 to Britain, where he set up his own production company to take advantage of the lower costs of filming. Over the next 15 years he turned out a wide range of pictures, which often featured American stars such as Mickey Rooney, Dana Andrews, Yul Brynner and Paul Newman. For a period he specialised in British comedies. The first and best of these was School for Scoundrels (1960), loosely based on the popular Gamesmanship books of Stephen Potter. The impressive cast included Alastair Sim, Terry-Thomas and Dennis Price, with Ian Carmichael as the intrepid hero trying to impress Janette Scott.
Small, dynamic and fast-talking, Chester was perhaps a typical example of the shrewd and ambitious Hollywood producer. He »
- Joel Finler
Blackthorn – review
14 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sam Shepard excels in Mateo Gil's elegiac sequel imagining further adventures in Bolivia for the Wild Bunch leader
Back in 1969 George Roy Hill brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a self-consciously stylish western in which two notorious bandits were celebrated as forerunners of the outlaw sensibility of the 1960s. A decade later, Richard Lester, one of the film-makers credited for shaping the artistic expression of the 60s with The Knack and two Beatles films, made his only western, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Featuring two young actors, Tom Berenger and William Katt, with uncanny resemblances to Newman and Redford, the film took a quirky but generally realistic look at frontier life as it related to the pair's early criminal life and friendship, ending in the 1890s at the point where they were becoming aware of being legends, leaders of a gang called the Wild Bunch. »
- Philip French
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