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Robert De Niro is Teaming up with Luc Besson for Malavita
22 May 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
This isn’t a ‘goodfella,’ this is a ‘badfella’ – the project in question is an adaptation of the 1990 film Goodfellas based on spin-off novel called Badfellas. In addition, Luc Besson film based on a French novel by Tonino Benacquista has cast Robert De Niro who also starred in Martin Scorcese’s masterpiece. Let’s start at [...]
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Timothy Bottoms: The Hollywood Interview
21 May 2012 6:21 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Timothy Bottoms Gets His Pound Of Flesh
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Timothy Bottoms became an overnight sensation at the height of the so-called “Easy Riders and Raging Bulls” era, after landing the leading role in The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich’s film about the social and sexual rites of small town Texans in the early 1950s. Internationally acclaimed for his portrait of Sonny, a sensitive kid struggling to find his way in the harsh landscape of post-war America, the then-twenty year-old Bottoms suddenly found himself not only in-demand as a rising young star, but a major celebrity, as well, with younger brothers Sam (who co-starred in The Last Picture Show), Joseph and Ben following in their older brother’s footsteps, making names for themselves on stage and screen. Bottoms reprised the role of Sonny for Picture Show's 1990 sequel, Texasville.
After another triumphant turn with the lead in James Bridges’ The Paper Chase »
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DVD Review - Haywire (2011)
21 May 2012 2:18 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Haywire, 2011.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano and Michael Douglas.
Synopsis:
Betrayed by her employers, agent Mallory Kane must fight to clear her name.
Part two of Stephen Soderbergh’s speedy return to filmmaking post-Che, Haywire has very little in common with Contagion. Testament, maybe, to the director’s ability to transcend genres, although if Haywire is anything to go by, this jack of all trades approach can yield mixed results.
Former ‘Gladiator’ and Mma fighter Gina Carano, as Mallory Kane, an agent double-crossed by Ewan McGregor’s agency boss Ken, is the heart of the film, and given her lack of experience she does rather well. Casting a non-actor in the lead role of a major Hollywood production was always going to be a risky move, but in this case it seems to have paid off. »
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Addiction Experts Files Brief On Behalf Of Michael Douglas' Incarcerated Son Cameron
21 May 2012 12:11 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A dozen addiction experts have mounted a legal campaign on behalf of actor Michael Douglas' incarcerated son Cameron, vowing to help the family fight his 54-month prison term.
Cameron Douglas is currently serving five years behind bars for drug distribution and heroin possession and last year he was handed an additional four-and-a-half-month jail term after he was caught with heroin and Suboxone, a prescription medication used to dull the effects of opioid withdrawal, in jail.
Douglas and his legal team subsequently lodged an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, claiming his punishment was "shockingly long", and earlier this month a handful of doctors gave the 33 year old's case a boost by filing a supporting brief, insisting drug addiction is best treated with therapy, not prison time.
The group aims to help reduce or dismiss Douglas' 54-month sentence and push the corrections system into reiterating its stance on helping inmates with addiction, with Dr. Robert Newman writing, "My outrage is as a physician for someone who has a medical condition which has been ignored. What the judge has imposed has zero benefits for the community and has staggering consequences for society."
Michael Douglas and his lawyer, Nicholas M. De Feis, have been floored by the support of the top doctors.
De Feis tells The New York Times he and his client are "gratified that such a distinguished group of practitioners and experts have taken an interest in the case." »
As 'Battleship' Flops: Ten Other Memorable Box-Office Bombs
21 May 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
To have one giant money-losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.
The film, Universal & Hasbro's adaptation of the board game, directed by "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg, had taken the unusual step of opening everywhere else in the world six weeks ahead of the U.S, in the hope of bagging lucrative foreign coin and building buzz for the U.S. release. But while the film did ok abroad, »
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The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 21st May
21 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
After last week’s brilliant new releases in the home entertainment market, headed up by Steve McQueen’s Shame and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (I bought them both on Blu-ray, the latter in HMV’s exclusive steelbook special edition), this week sees another great slew of titles for us to add to our collections.
As ever, we have not just the brand new films and TV shows making their way to shelves for the first time, but also single-disc Blu-ray editions (which we’re increasingly seeing within a few months of the Double / Triple Play versions), and a host of films getting the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time, with Disney releasing a handful of old titles in the visually beautiful format.
Stay tuned for next week (and be sure to get your pre-orders in early), which will see Chornicle, Coriolanus, Martha Marcy May Marlene, »
- Kenji Lloyd
DVD Review: Haywire – Authentic and Well-paced Action Thriller
21 May 2012 3:41 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
With the most wafer thin of plots and a refreshingly slender running time, Steven Soderbergh’s action-thriller Haywire feels like little more than a star vehicle for its authentic female action star: Gina Carano – a former champion mixed martial artist in her first major film role. Its perfunctory story can basically be boiled down to: CIA operative is betrayed by her bosses and becomes determined to get revenge. But this is no bad thing, simply creating a framework in which the star gets to beat up beat up the male-dominated supporting cast in a series a fast, brutal and imaginatively choreographed set pieces – flooring the likes of Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum and Ewan McGregor along the way.
As hired killer Mallory Kane, Carano is the most capable and interesting action heroine in recent memory, largely down to the fact that her fighting background lends great authenticity »
- Robert Beames
DVD Review: Haywire
20 May 2012 9:18 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Stars: Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton | Written by Lem Dobbs | Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Mixed Martial Arts (Mma) is a sport that is becoming more and more popular. Some of its biggest stars such as Randy Couture, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and even Tito Ortiz have made their way into the film world to use their fighting skills on the big screen. The big muscular high testosterone fighters ready to do their own fight scenes and kick ass all for the big bucks. The only real problem is some don’t actually seem to have that much acting talent, see Tito’s attempt in The Crow: Wicked Prayer as an example (I’m sure he’s improved).
It’s refreshing that one fighter from the Mma world has made the move and impressed a lot more than the others, and guess what? »
- Pzomb
Movie News Wrap Up: May 19th, 2012
19 May 2012 10:38 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
This week:
Morgan Freeman kicks-back and joins Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in Last Vegas; Amy Adams goes to Dark Places; John Cusack and Elijah Wood live in perfect harmony in Grand Piano; Alex Proyas walks like an Egyptian with Gods of Egypt and Anthony Mackie goes the distance with Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in Runner, Runner.
1. Morgan Freeman is set to join Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in Last Vegas.
The Jon Turteltaub directed film follows four ageing gents as they hit Las(t) Vegas for one final hurrah. It’s believed that Christopher Walken will be the final member of the gang in what is being described as a “Hangover-style comedy.”
Forget The Hangover 3, this is what I’m looking forward to!
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This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
18 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
You can usually tell when someone who fights for a living is put into a movie, as the names in the credits are beefed up with prefixes like "Stone Cold". For mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano's latest big-screen appearance there are no such signifiers, but then this isn't a typical example of the sub-genre. For one thing, it's actually a decent movie.
Steven Soderbergh continues on his career-long quest to be the director with the most varied CV (his other 2011 offering was the serious and downbeat Contagion). In crafting a film around the considerable talents of non-actor Carano, Soderbergh has delivered a stark, sleek and stripped-down action movie.
Carano play a private firm black ops agent who's hung out to dry by her contractors, and forced to fight her way to the truth in order to clear her name. It's a role that purposely doesn't put many »
- Phelim O'Neill
Morning Meme: "Political Animals" Serves Up a Gay White House Son, Closet Cases Bug Jake Shears, and Did Sir Elton Take Another Dig At Madonna?
18 May 2012 4:45 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
A lot of celebrities had words to say about the passing of Donna Summer, but leave it to Sir Elton John to squeeze in a dig at (presumably) Madonna in his. "I'm so sad. This woman was the queen of disco and so much more. Her records sound as good today as they ever did. That she has never been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a total disgrace, especially when I see the second-rate talent that has been inducted. She is a great friend to me and to the Elton John AIDS Foundation and I will miss her greatly."
It's common wisdom that Gene Roddenberry pushed to have actors of color like Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek to create his perfect future world, but was it actually NBC recruiting people of color like Nichols and George Takei to help launch their switch to color television? »
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Morgan Freeman Will Also Head to Last Vegas
17 May 2012 9:48 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Morgan Freeman will star alongside Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in Last Vegas (also known as The Hangover, But With Old Dudes.) The script calls for "a quartet" of not-dead-yet gentleman, which means there's still another casting decision to be made. The most obvious choice, Jack Nicholson, seems to have passed on the project; Christopher Walken is rumored to be interested, but we're still holding out for Gene Hackman. »
- Caroline Bankoff
Morgan Freeman Gambles On Last Vegas
17 May 2012 8:53 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Morgan Freeman Gambles On Last Vegas
Soon to reprise his role of Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight Rises this July, Morgan Freeman has lined up another project for 2013 with ensemble comedy, Last Vegas. Essentially branded as a geriatric version of The Hangover, Deadline reports Freeman is in talks to join the ranks of Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro who have already signed on, as well as Christopher Walken who is still rumoured.
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- Simon Brookfield
Morgan Freeman to Party Like it's 1959 With DeNiro & Douglas in 'Last Vegas'
17 May 2012 6:13 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Ever wondered what it would be like if the The Hangover featured guys who find eating at 5:30pm to be extremely late, well guess what, I'm going to make your day. The movie is Last Vegas. Michael Douglas and Robert DeNiro have already signed on the dotted line and it now looks like Morgan Freeman is going to join them. Seeing these 3 great/formerly great actors together would have been an absolute treat…if this were 1995. »
- Craig Dietz
Morgan Freeman Will Play Army Veteran In "Last Vegas" w/ Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro
17 May 2012 3:01 PM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Yesterday, Morgan Freeman was said to be in talks to join the cast of Last Vegas, the dramedy centered on four old friends who reunite in Sin City for one last big bash at the bachelor party of the only one who has managed to stay single. Freeman would be joining a cast that already includes Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro, to be directed by Jon Turtletaub. This afternoon, Freeman is confirmed to join his fellow Oscar winners in Las Vegas; and further, we now know what role he'll play. Per the press release, Freeman is set to play Archie Clay, an army veteran, who looks to escape the watchful eyes of his son and daughter-in-law and accompany his »
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Morgan Freeman joins Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas' old man bachelor party in Last Vegas
17 May 2012 2:46 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
The guest list for Last Vegas continues to grow, in the sense that it is fun to discuss a movie about a bachelor party as though it were an actual bachelor party, relative to cataloging listlessly the inevitable procession of time in all its meaningless minor triumphs and disappointments, anyway. There will be plenty of time for that in the actual movie plus hopefully some old-man boner jokes, after all, perhaps delivered in the sonorous, warmly authoritative voice of Morgan Freeman as he joins the previously cast Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas at the table for all the Hangover »
Morgan Freeman Joins Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in Last Vegas
17 May 2012 1:26 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Can you believe this? Morgan Freeman is now set to star next to previously announced Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in that Jon Turteltaub‘s upcoming comedy Last Vegas. I mean, don’t get me wrong, this sounds awesome, but it’s quite a surprise. Freeman in something described as Hangover with old people? Count me in! [...]
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Morgan Freeman Signs on for CBS Films Comedy 'Last Vegas'
17 May 2012 12:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
It’s official: Morgan Freeman has signed a deal to star alongside Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in the CBS Films comedy Last Vegas. Written by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and directed by Jon Turteltaub, the story centers on a quartet of retired boomers who are called upon for a Las Vegas bachelor party by their friend, a ladies' man (Douglas), who is finally settling down and marrying a woman half his age. According to CBS Films, Freeman will play “an army veteran who looks to escape the watchful eyes of his son and daughter-in-law and accompany
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Morgan Freeman Confirmed for Last Vegas
17 May 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
CBS Films and Good Universe confirmed today that Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman will join fellow Oscar-winners Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in the comedy Last Vegas . Directed by Jon Turteltaub ( National Treasure , While You Were Sleeping ) from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman ( Crazy, Stupid, Love , Tangled ), Last Vegas is a comedy about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single. Freeman is set to play Archie Clay, an army veteran, who looks to escape the watchful eyes of his son and daughter-in-law and accompany his best friends on a trip to Vegas. The ensemble comedy is being produced by Laurence Mark ( Julie & Julia , Dreamgirls ) and Amy Baer. Good Universe's Nathan Kahane will »
Casting: Cusack, Hopkins, Fonda, Freeman
17 May 2012 5:24 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
John Cusack ("The Raven") has signed on to star in Eugenio Mira's upcoming high-concept thriller "Grand Piano". Damien Chazelle penned the script and shooting begins this summer in Chicago and Alicante.
The story follows a celebrated concert pianist (Elijah Wood) making a comeback performance when he discovers a note that demands he play his best if he wants to save both himself and his wife. [Source: Digital Spy]
Hemingway & Fuentes
Financing is finally set for Andy Garcia's passion project "Hemingway & Fuentes" with filming to begin in January. Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening remain attached to star in the project with Garcia who is also directing and co-wrote the screenplay.
The story chronicles the relationship between Hemingway (Hopkins) and his Cuban fishing-boat captain Gregorio Fuentes (Garcia) which was a key inspiration of arguably his most famous work "The Old Man and the Sea". [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
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