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Sir Paul McCartney found it therapeutic writing a song for Robert De Niro`s new movie
17 hours ago
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Former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney has said he found it a therapeutic experience writing a song for Robert De Niro's new movie Everybody's Fine. The 67-year-old has penned the track for the new movie, which features a storyline that is similar to parts of his own life. In the film, De Niro plays a widower who reconnects with his children during the festive period. McCartney, whose first wife Linda died in 1998, told Daily Variety: 'It's not necessary for me to relate to a project that I'm writing about, but if I do, it's more interesting. 'The De Niro character lost his wife, has grown-up children and wants to get them together for Christmas. I
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Ritter likes 'Killing Bono'
15 December 2009 6:30 PM, PST
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Krysten Ritter will star in the independent film "Killing Bono." According to Variety, Nick Hamm is directing. His previous work includes "The Hole" in 2001 and "Godsend" in 2004 which starred Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn and Robert DeNiro.The film will be based on the book "Killing Bono: I Was Bono.s Doppleganger," which details the early days of the rock band U2. Neil McCormick wrote the book and based it on his experiences in the 1970s Dublin punk scene and knowing Bono from their school days.Shooting will begin in January in Belfast and London.Charlie Cox, Ben Barnes and Robbie Sheehan are also starring. Mark Huffam, Piers Tempest and Ian Flooks are producing.Ritter is signed to star in director Amy Heckerling.s romantic
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Interview with Arthur Cauty – director of wrestling documentary Hard Knocks
15 December 2009 12:18 PM, PST
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There is a famous quote in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters in which Max Von Sydow’s character Frederick ponders aloud:
“You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?”
To Frederick it is baffling anyone would waste their time watching men in spandex engage in an orgy of pre-planned fake violence. Yet to Roland Barthes, the famous academic and acclaimed thinker, wrestling transcends the primitive notion that it consists solely of pretend fights; to him wrestling was one of the grand spectacles – part ballet, part Greek morality play, theatre and athletics combined, storytelling through physicality. Andy Kaufman, renowned for his eccentric humour, alternatively saw wrestling as a sublime medium for performing arts – blending fact and fantasy to invoke very real emotion from audiences.
To say professional wrestling is a subject that
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- Kieron Casey
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Krysten Ritter Will Kill ‘Bono’
14 December 2009 5:39 AM, PST
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Watch out, U2 fans. Breaking Bad’s Krysten Ritter has signed on for a film entitled Killing Bono, based on the book Killing Bono: I Was Bono’s Doppleganger by Neil McCormick.
While not the most eloquent title in the history of the written word, Killing Bono follows the early days of the famous band, but from the perspective of a rival band. Here’s a publisher synopsis:
“Everyone wants to be famous. But as a young punk in Dublin in the 1970s, Neil McCormick’s ambitions went way beyond mere pop stardom. It was his destiny to be a veritable Rock God. He had it all worked out: the albums, the concerts, the quest for world peace. There was only one thing he hadn’t counted on. The boy sitting on the other side of the classroom had plans of his own.
Killing Bono is a story of divergent lives.
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Blu-ray Review: Heat
13 December 2009 9:47 AM, PST
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“Heat? I saw that six years ago!”
“Yeah, I want to talk about it now.”
“No, Loser!”
-Jim Gaffigan
I’ve seen Heat about four times since it was released in 2005, and remain a bit torn on it to this day, sometimes finding myself in love with it and other times falling closer to the spectrum of bored.
On the one hand, Heat is a sprawling, dramatic crime saga directed by Michael Mann, pitting two legendary actors – Al Pacino and Robert De Niro – against one another in a sophisticated tale of cops and robbers that unfolds in the streets of Los Angeles, with inspired presentation of the action and an intimate look at the behind-the-scenes tolls it takes on both sides of the law. On the other hand, it is painfully slow-paced and long by the standards of both today and 14 year ago.
De Niro stars as criminal mastermind Neil McCauley,
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Tatum, De Niro, Howard and Gandolfini Set for Montiel's 'Son of No One'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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I guess this means that The Brotherhood of the Rose is on ice. Dito Montiel is instead pegging The Son of No One as his next project, his third film following 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and this year's Fighting. - I guess this means that The Brotherhood of the Rose is on ice. Dito Montiel is instead pegging Son of No One as his next project, his third film following 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and this year's Fighting (you'd have to pay me to watch that one). This would mark the third time that Dito works with Channing Tatum (safe to say they're friends) and a second straight project with Terence Howard. Also attached are a pair of actors synonymous with "the streets" are Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. Production is expected to begin in January.
The thriller is about a young
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- Ioncinema.com Staff
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Morgan Freeman: He makes any movie better, but in 'Invictus' he's finally a great actor again
12 December 2009 9:28 AM, PST
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Whenever you sit down to watch a movie, it's always a welcome moment when the name Morgan Freeman appears in the opening credits. Whether he's playing God in Bruce Almighty, a saintly janitor in Million Dollar Baby, or a judge, detective, mechanic, or prison inmate, you can rest assured that each and every moment Morgan Freeman is on-screen, the movie, even if it's a dog, will snap to attention, and that Freeman, even in a nothing role, will take the lines he’s been asked to deliver and, through the sheer magnetism of his presence, turn them into something forceful and vibrant and compelling.
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Portman 'Overdid It' With Workload
11 December 2009 11:16 AM, PST
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Natalie Portman is struggling with her heavy workload after "overdoing it" by taking on every project she has been offered.
The Star Wars beauty has been busy promoting her new movie Brothers, and recently wrapped filming on period comedy Your Highness with James Franco.
Portman went straight back to work with director Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan, which she is currently shooting, and she's then set to join Robert De Niro and director Kenneth Branagh in the comic-book adaptation of Thor.
The 28 year old has also just signed on to tackle Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's book which adds flesh-eating monsters to Jane Austin's period novel.
And that's not all - she recently produced her first movie, Hesher, and adapted Amos Oz's novel A Tale of Love and Darkness for the big screen, which she hopes to also direct.
The ambitious actress admits she's struggling to juggle all the different projects and maybe shouldn't have committed herself to so much work.
She tells Marie Claire magazine, "I overdid it. It was like an all-you-can-eat buffet, and I was like, 'I'm hungry!' And now I'm like, 'Oh, s**t!'
"I tend to get overambitious with what I can do."
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The 2009 Black List Revealed
11 December 2009 10:04 AM, PST
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Since 2004, Franklin Leonard releases The Black List every December. It’s a list of best read scripts that’s complied from the suggestions of agents assistants, managers, film executives, and whoever else he gets to contribute. While last year had 260 people contribute, this year’s had 97 scripts from 311 contributors. Most of the scripts on the list are in some stage of development in the studio system, and it’s been said that a high listing can help move your project forward. What I’m trying to say is, the list is very important in Hollywood and many people try extremely hard to land in the top ten.
So now that you’re curious, hit the jump to check out the top ten on the 2009 Black List:
Of course big thanks to Entertainment Weekly for posting the list. If you can, hit the link to show some appreciation. And for more on The Black List,
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Exclusive: 'The Black List' -- Top 11 unproduced screenplays of 2009
11 December 2009 8:30 AM, PST
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Last December, we introduced you to Franklin Leonard and The Black List, the list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Since then, Leonard has been named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top 35 executives under 35 working in Hollywood and his list has gained even more prominence. This year's list consists of 97 scripts with 311 people contributing to the ranking -- up from 260 in 2008. The top 10 (actually, 11, thanks to a tie in 10th place) is filled with mostly up-and-comers, with the exception of Aaron Sorkin and David Scarpa. All of the scripts are in some stage of development around Hollywood,
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- Nicole Sperling
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The feelgood spin doctors | Mark Lawson
10 December 2009 4:57 PM, PST
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Bad times call for upbeat slogans, producers seem to think, no matter what the film is really about
These are feel-bad times in western economies, and two high-profile movies just released in the United States (due in Britain early next year) can be commended for reflecting this. In Up in the Air, George Clooney plays a chilly figure whose job is to fly around the Us as an industrial executioner, sacking employees at firms who are downsizing or, as the cute euphemism has it, "right-sizing". Equally tuned to the current mood is Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro as a seriously ill widower who, when his children renege on their promises to visit him for Christmas, summons his dwindling energies for a bus tour to their doorsteps.
Although both films have good jokes in them, they are fundamentally bleak case studies of alienation. Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, is emotionally cut
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- Mark Lawson
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Lindsay Lohan Saves 40 Children in India
9 December 2009 8:03 PM, PST
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Lindsay Lohan shows she is more than a party girl as she recently tweeted that she has so far helped 40 children while doing a charity work in India. On December 9, the "Georgia Rule" star wrote on her Twitter page, "Over 40 children saved so far ... Within one day's work ... This is what life is about ... Doing This is a life worth living !!!".
"Oh, and I'm talking about being in India," Lindsay in addition tweeted. The 23-year-old beauty further expressed her excitement "about escaping the drama of La and doing something real," she wrote, "Focusing on celebrities and lies is so disconcerting, when we can be changing the world one child at a time.... hope everyone can see that."
Lindsay is currently in India to film BBC's documentary which focuses on women and children's trafficking in Behar. On her thoughts about trafficking, she posted, "Trafficking is a big issue here, I'm [here to do] what I can,
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Exclusive Interview: Everybody's Fine Director Kirk Jones
9 December 2009 3:26 PM, PST
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Kirk Jones isn't just any British director; his best-known film, Waking Ned Devine, is about as English as comedy comes. So when it came time for him to tackle Everybody's Fine, a remake of an Italian road trip film to be set in America, Jones knew there was only one way to prepare: take a road trip himself. Having traveled all over America by bus and train, and even meeting a few strangers he would wind up casting in the film, Jones set out to direct Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore as a family-- a task that came with its own set of challenges.
Below is my video interview with Jones, in which we talk about his road trip, creating a family out of a crew of well-known actors, and even the film's poster, which you see above, and which both Jones and I had
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Drew Barrymore and Kate Moennig play girlfriends in "Everybody's Fine"
9 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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I knew there was a reason why I wanted to see Everybody's Fine — besides the fact it looks like a sappy holiday film with an uplifting ending. Thanks to reader Rachel, I now know that my subconscious was telling me there were lesbians involved.
In Everybody's Fine, which just opened nationwide last Friday, Drew Barrymore plays one of Robert De Niro's adult children whom he goes to visit and rekindle relationships with, after finding out his health is deteriorating. He knows very little about his kids, including Barrymore's Rosie.
Caution: Minor spoilers ahead. Look away if you want to be surprised!
Rosie lives in Las Vegas, where she is a professional dancer. (As in, showgirl not as in exotic dancer.) She takes her dad back to a high-rise apartment and introduces him to her "friend" Jilly (Kate Moennig) and her "friend's baby." Yes, Rosie is a "covert lesbian," as the Washington Examiner writes.
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‘Blind Side’ is the Weekend Champ
8 December 2009 2:05 PM, PST
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The Blind Side rolled over the competition at the box office this past weekend, adding another $20 million to its growing total. The feel-good football story has already scored $130 million in 18 days on a budget of a mere $35M.
The movie was placed into turnaround by Fox and picked up by Alcon Entertainment. Warner Bros distributed the sleeper hit, which banked on strong word of mouth like their summer smash The Hangover, Paramount’s viral Paranormal Activity, and Fox’s early Taken. Blind Side is the only movie in the box office top 10 with a “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon wasn’t able to fend Sandra Bullock off this time, falling to second with yet another sizable drop. The teen vampire/werewolf drama fell 70% last weekend and 64% this one to $15.4 million. Summit’s sequel has still managed to reach $255 million so far.
Newcomer Brothers, starring Natalie Portman,
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Dark-horse Film Finishes First
8 December 2009 11:11 AM, PST
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Like one of those sports movies in which the dark-horse hero overcomes tremendous odds and overtakes a mighty rival, Warner Bros.' The Blind Side raced ahead of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in their third week of competition to take over first place with $20.04 million, according to final box-office figures released Monday. Veteran box-office tracker Paul Dergarabedian attributed the "amazing ... ascent" to "great word-of-mouth." Another factor may have been early market saturation for New Moon. Fans of the Twilight films (and/or its star, Robert Pattinson) may have been so eager to see New Moon that they rushed to the theaters in its first two weeks of release. That there was relatively little new or repeat business in its third week was evidenced by the fact that it dropped a whopping 64 percent to $15.3 million. Among four newcomers, only Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, and Jake Gyllenhaal, posted decent figures. It came in at the high end of expectations with $9.53 million. The thriller Armored, starring Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne debuted with $6.51 million, a figure probably better than what the studio, Sony/Screen Gems, expected, given the fact that it declined to show it in advance to critics. And there was little that was fine about the opening of Disney/Miramax's Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore, which collected just $3.85 million. A fourth film, the vampire spoof Transylmania had the distinction of opening with the lowest total in recent box-office history for a film opening in more than 1,000 theaters -- just $263,941 from 1,007, theaters -- or an average take of $262 from each of them. On the other hand, two films showing in limited release performed sensationally. Paramount's Up in the Air, starring George Clooney, amassed $1.18 million from just 15 theaters, or a massive $78,763 per theater (by contrast, The Blind Side averaged $6,026 per theater); it's due to open wide on Christmas Day. And Disney previewed The Princess and the Frog in New York and Los Angeles, combining it with an activities sideshow. The premium-priced screenings amassed an amazing $747,710 from the two theaters showing it -- or $373,855 for each theater. Dergarabedian pronounced the result "phenomenal."
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Blu-Ray Review: Underrated ‘Angel Heart’ With Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro
8 December 2009 10:41 AM, PST
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Chicago – Some movies from my youth have not aged as well as memory would have me believe. We’ve all been there. A movie we thought was great when we were a teenager looks downright awful with the passage of time. I was worried that my memory of Alan Parker’s “Angel Heart” was through similar rose-colored glasses. Worry not. “Angel Heart” is even better than you remember.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
Featuring Mickey Rourke in his absolute prime, Robert De Niro when he was still a master of the form, and masterful direction by Alan Parker, “Angel Heart” is a fantastic modern noir, a film of which the overall quality was overshadowed by the scandal surrounding the sexy performance by Lisa Bonet (when she was supposed to be giving off a family image on the hit “The Cosby Show”). Rourke plays a down-and-out Brooklyn detective named Harry Angel who is hired
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Ed Norton Wants Robert De Niro To Sleep With His Wife
8 December 2009 10:15 AM, PST
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Not many people have attempted to manipulate Robert De Niro (or the characters he plays, rather) and succeeded. In fact, has anyone even tried to manipulate De Niro at all? With his creepy laughs and intimidating demeanor, I wouldn.t want to have dinner with the dude, much less try to make him the butt of a diabolical plan. But that.s what Ed Norton is up to.
According to Variety, Overture Films has picked up Us distribution rights to Stone, a new film starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, and Milla Jovovich. The film will have Norton playing a convicted arsonist who attempts to manipulate his parole officer in order to ensure his parole. How does he do that? By offering up his super hot wife of course, played by Jovovich. The film is directed by John Curran and written by Junebug.s Angus MacLachlan.
This sounds like a
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Hollywood Ink: Patricia Clarkson Gets in the Ring with WWE
8 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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· This is the kind of news that keeps me getting out of bed every morning: Patricia Clarkson and Danny Glover are among those now cast in Brother's Keeper, a World Wrestling Entertainment-produced drama about a young man who tries to reunite his mother (Clarkson) and estranged older brother (WWE star John Cena) after the death of their wrestling-legend father. Evidently the family is healed by the saving grace of high-school wrestling. If you can't wait for the Oscar clip of Clarkson reminiscing to her younger son about his father's "special holds," then kiddo, you just got no heart. [THR]
Robert De Niro and Edward Norton get bought, Kate Bosworth tries on her producer's cap, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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Sandra Bullock's new film Blind Sides New Moon at Us box office
8 December 2009 3:15 AM, PST
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The Blind Side rose to No 1 in its third weekend on release, giving Sandra Bullock her second box-office chart-topper this year
The winner
It's rare that a movie climbs up to No 1 in its third weekend, so hats off to The Blind Side for pulling it off. True to its name, Warner Bros' true-life drama snuck up and slipped past Summit's leviathan New Moon, adding an estimated $20.4m (£12.4m) to boost its running total to $129.3m. Sandra Bullock plays the mentor of a homeless African-American kid who helps him become an accomplished American footballer. Now there's talk of an Oscar nomination. With the five most likely contenders at this stage being Helen Mirren (The Last Station) Carey Mulligan (An Education), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Sandy Bullock has a shot. Blimey.
Bullock is enjoying the best box-office year of her career when you
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