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Bryce Dallas Howard Joins Clint’s Hereafter
15 December 2009 4:23 PM, PST
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Bryce Dallas Howard has signed on to Clint Eastwood’s next film, Hereafter, a supernatural drama about three separate people affected by death in different ways. Matt Damon is already on board and filming is underway.
The announcement isn’t clear which role she’ll be playing, but Ron Howard’s daughter is most likely filling the part of Melanie, a love interest to Damon’s character, a factory worker and psychic who can communicate with the dead.
Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Peter Morgan are executive producing. Cecile De France and Lyndsey Marshal also star. What, no room for Clint’s son this time?
Eastwood is a hit or miss director. 2004’s Million Dollar Baby seemed to be the peak of the acting legend’s second career. Each of his films have rare moments of greatness, but there’s not much of a unique style there aside from pulling memorable performances from the cast.
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Nicole and Marion Join Maybe Single Kate For Nine at Per Se
15 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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A trio of Nine stars attended a luncheon to celebrate their movie at Per Se in NYC yesterday. If the rumors of Kate Hudson's recent split with Alex Rodriguez are true, you wouldn't know it from the big smile on her face. Nicole Kidman also stuck with pants for the afternoon together while Marion Cotillard wore a form-flattering dress. Different groups of the movie's many actresses have been attending premieres - Penelope, Fergie and Nicole in La, Kate joining up but no Fergie in London so we'll see which stars make it to tomorrow night's New York screening. Nine struck it big with the Critics' Choice Award nominations but all eyes are on this morning's big show Golden Globes announcement.
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Expansion of Oscar's best-picture race to 10: Is it all Harvey's fault?
14 December 2009 8:26 PM, PST
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"Personally, I think it's a bad idea," Harvey Weinstein said yesterday when we chatted about the widening of Oscar's best-picture race to 10 nominees. "When the category was smaller, it felt like more of an achievement getting in. Now, with 10, it's not going to feel so special." Maybe so, but the expansion may actually be Harvey's fault — that is, if a theory posed by a past Oscar champ (Ron Howard, "A Beautiful Mind") is true. Yesterday Harvey hosted a small, elite lunch in New York with his cast members of "Nine" (Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Judi Dench) plus media wags and reigning Oscar royalty like Ron Howard at Per Se restaurant...
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NBC midseason: 'Parenthood,' 'Celebrity Apprentice' premiere in March
14 December 2009 12:10 PM, PST
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NBC has laid out the rest of its midseason schedule, with "Parenthood" and "The Marriage Ref" joining "The Celebrity Apprentice" on the network following the Winter Olympics.
"Parenthood," a loose remake of Ron Howard's 1989 movie revolving around a group of adult siblings (Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Erika Christensen and Dax Shepard) and their respective families, will premiere at 9 p.m. Et Monday, March 1 -- one day after NBC wraps its coverage of the Winter Olympics. It will fill the slot vacated by "Heroes," which ends its season Feb. 8, and pair with "Chuck" on Mondays.
The Sunday-night schedule will fall into place starting March 14, with the Jerry Seinfeld-produced "Marriage Ref" debuting at 8 o'clock and the third season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" following at 9 (it will again run for two hours each week).
Several specials, including the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17 and the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Jan.
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The 2009 Terror Film Festival 'Claw' Awards - Winners Announced
13 December 2009 1:23 AM, PST
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On October 24th, The Terror Film Festival Claw Awards took place at the Ethical Society Building on the famous Rittenhouse Square of Philadelphia.
The 4th season brought in the most astounding talent from all over the USA, as well as, the world. The assemblage of fans, filmmakers, screenwriters, and industry professionals, waited in anticipation, and all bets were on, as the illustrious Claw and the beautiful Princess Horror stood onstage, envelopes in hand, to present the coveted awards.
And the winners are...
Evil Angel - A steamy and heart-pounding story based on the ancient myth of Lilith, the first wife of Adam, who has roamed the Earth for centuries as a sexy and seductive villainous, and proudly holds the title of the world’s first serial killer. Written and directed by the iconoclastic Richard Dutcher of Utah, the film garnered several awards, such as, Best Feature Film, Best Original Music
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Promo Videos for 'Parenthood'
9 December 2009 7:59 AM, PST
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March may seem like a long ways off, but its closer than you think, and it's when NBC will finally roll out their new dramedy Parenthood which stars Craig T Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, and funnyman Dax Shepherd, just to name a few. Below is an overview of Parenthood as well as some new promotional clips of the show.
"Parenthood" is a one-hour drama inspired by the box-office comedy hit of the same name. This re-imagined and updated NBC Universal Media Studios/Imagine Television production introduces audiences to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
The dynamic star-studded cast includes Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen.
Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham, "Gilmore Girls"), a financially strapped single mother, brings us into the fold of her parents and siblings who will make us laugh and cry, and on occasion,
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Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film | Into That Good Night | We Are Family | Comedy Showcase: The Amazing Dermot | Watch this
3 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film | Into That Good Night | We Are Family | Comedy Showcase: The Amazing Dermot
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
7.15pm, TCM
The director Ron Howard got his first break in Hollywood at the age of four, starring against Yul Brynner in The Journey before graduating to The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days. It all prepared him for an adult life as a filmmaker. He talks about each of his films eloquently here, and among the stinkers (he describes Far and Away as "misunderstood") Howard also predicted reality television with Ed TV, and brilliantly captured Richard Nixon's exile and hubris with Frost/Nixon. A good insight into the director's craft.
Into That Good Night
7.30pm, Channel 4
The disparate group interviewed for this doc are united by something so fundamental that it overrides their differences: they're all going to die. This statement could, of course,
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Reliance Big Entertainment inks creative partnership with Ron Howard
2 December 2009 8:24 PM, PST
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Reliance Big Entertainment has signed a development/production financing deal with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. The first project under the deal will be the comedy Mofos, which is about two 20-something best friends who are unemployed, strapped for cash, down on their luck and decide to start up a business as Los Angeles' most unlikely male escorts. Mofos will be produced by Grazer, written by Josh Berghaus and Jay Shore and overseen by Karen Kehela Sherwood and Sarah Bowen at Imagine Entertainment. ...
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Blu-Ray Review: Wordy ‘Angels & Demons’ Fails to Illuminate
2 December 2009 5:45 PM, PST
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Chicago – Give Ron Howard an intimate character study like “Frost/Nixon,” and he’ll knock it out of the park. Give him a sprawling plot-driven thriller like…well, let’s face it: anything written by Dan Brown, and he’ll be consumed by the enormity of his subject. Yet while Howard’s “The Da Vinci Code,” failed on a human level, it did succeed in highlighting the tantalizing questions raised by Brown’s text, particularly the implications of historical distortion throughout the centuries. When the characters were allowed to simply analyze the story’s inherent mysteries, the film took flight.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
Unfortunately, “Angels & Demons” never has a chance to truly engage, which is partly due to the fact that the material itself is less philosophical, and more on the level of a conventional thriller. That isn’t to say that Brown’s story (which was originally the prequel to
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Reliance Big inks deal with Hollywood filmmakers
2 December 2009 6:50 AM, PST
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Los Angeles, Dec 2 (Ians) Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has signed a development-production financing deal with Hollywood filmmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.
Their first project, titled “Mofos”, will be a comedy revolving round a group of youngsters who are unemployed, strapped for cash, down on their luck and decide to start a business as Los Angeles’ most unlikely male escorts.
“Ron and I are very pleased to have signed this deal with our friends at Reliance,” said Grazer.
“With their huge expertise in one of the most exciting film industries in the world, they bring a wholly.
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Reliance Big Ent. inks deal with Hollywood filmmakers
2 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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Los Angeles, Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has signed a development-production financing deal with Hollywood filmmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.
Their first project, titled “Mofos”, will be a comedy revolving round a group of youngsters who are unemployed, strapped for cash, down on [...]Posted from: Bollywood World
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Paul Greengrass Officially Leaves Jason Bourne Franchise
1 December 2009 8:27 PM, PST
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Yesterday we posted that Paul Greengrass was being rumored as leaving the fourth Bourne film and now its being confirmed by the director himself.
Here is the statement from Greengrass presented by the studio:
“You won’t find a more devoted supporter of the Bourne franchise than me. I will always be grateful to have been the caretaker to Jason Bourne over the course of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. I’m very proud of those films and feel they express everything I most passionately believe about the possibility of making quality movies in the mainstream. My decision to not return a third time as director is simply about feeling the call for a different challenge. There’s been no disagreement with Universal Pictures. The opportunity to work with the Bourne family again is a difficult thing to pass up, but we have discussed this together and they
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Exclusive Interview: Possesion(s) star Laurence Fuller
1 December 2009 3:51 PM, PST
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Possession(s), a new Australian short, featured one of the most notable launches in recent memory. To coincide with the film’s release a famous Peter Booth artwork, Painting (Man With Bandaged Head), was sold off in The Deutscher and Hackett Important Fine Art Auction.
The tie-in between the film and the auction comes in the shape of actor Laurence Fuller who used the painting, which he owned, as inspiration for the dark, brooding short. His character Frank, upon seeing the Peter Booth work, becomes embroiled with a sense of obsession; he simply has to own the piece and will do anything to make it so. However, it soon becomes clear that Frank is not the only one consumed by the desire to possess.
Laurence Fuller shines in the lead role and it is easy to see why he is a much sought after young actor. Having attended the Method
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Imagine Joins Ranks of Reliance's 'Creative Partnerships'
1 December 2009 1:08 PM, PST
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By Wrap Staff
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has joined the list of Hollywood production companies who have signed development/production financing deals with Reliance Big Entertainment.
Reliance is the media and entertainment arm of Indian conglomerate Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-adag).
The first project under the deal will be the comedy "Mofos," about two unemployed 20-somethings who decide to start a business as Los Angeles' most unlikely male escorts.
Grazer will produce "Mofos," which is written by Josh Berghaus and Jay...
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Bollywood Courts Helen Mirren, Tom Hanks For Biopic to End All Biopics
1 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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· Helen Mirren, Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones are among the Oscarrific stars reportedly in talks to join Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story, a long-gestating, Bollywood-produced biopic of the former Indian prime minister who was assassinated in 1984. Mirren would reprise her signature role as Queen Elizabeth II, while Hanks and Jones would take on the roles of -- deep breath -- Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Respectively. Emily Watson and Albert Finney may also drop in as Margaret Thatcher and Peter Ustinov, the latter of whom was awaiting an audience with Gandhi when she was killed. "Queen of Bollywood" Madhuri Dixit is attached to the title role, having narrowly edged out this year's ambitious awards-season lock Sandra Bullock. [Telegraph via The Wrap]
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard makes their own Indian deal, the new My Fair Lady picks up a director and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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No Fourth Bourne Film for Paul Greengrass
30 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST
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Paul Greengrass who directed The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum and has been set to direct a fourth Bourne film is no longer interested in directing the next installment of the Ludlum series.
The Playlist is reporting that director Paul Greengrass has left the production of the fourth Jason Bourne film, which is currently in development at Universal Pictures.
It was said that there are currently two scripts for the project, one by The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer George Nolfi and another by Josh Zemuter. It seems that no one cares much for Nolfi’s script and Greengrass wasn’t happy when Zemuter was hired without consulting with him first. Greengrass is currently working on post-production of his latest film with star Matt Damon, The Green Zone, which was said to be in a bit of trouble itself with the budget escalating to $150 million, from its original $100 million budget.
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[TV] Moonshot
30 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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The format of the History Channel’s Moonshot is a strange one. Similar to their prior Manson, the film contains both authentic documentary footage (interviews in that film, and verite footage of actual events in this one) and fictionalized re-enactments, but unlike that film, this one has the distinct disadvantage of following in the footsteps of many, many well-produced films and television shows about Nasa in the 1960s, whereas nothing comparable had really been produced about Manson. That’s not always a liability (Lord knows they’ll always be enough room in national consciousness for another television movie about Hitler), but Moonshot turns it into one, taking too many cues from prior films to make its pseudo-documentary style feel like anything other than a cost saving gimmick.
Odds are good that if you went through an American high school at some point in the last forty years, you are at
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Angels & Demons Blu-ray Review
29 November 2009 6:13 PM, PST
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One of the rules in the mystery thriller genre is that if you want to find your suspect for the killings, it’s probably not the obvious answer. One should be suspicious of the nice, the genteel, the physical unthreatening, and often the sexual repressed/fey types. If the idea is surprising your audience, the person in the first act cutting the brushes will probably not be the killer, unless he never shows up again, and the camera lingers (the Hunt for Red October rule). As mystery/thrillers go, Angels & Demons is perfectly competent, but never much more, and the person most likely to be the ringleader is evident if the rules above are paid attention to. My review of the Angels and Demons Blu-ray after the jump.
Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon, called to the Vatican to help after the illuminati have shown their hand and threaten to
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Beloved Turkey: Vibes
28 November 2009 8:24 AM, PST
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Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here to share a turkey for Thanksgiving. When Vibes arrived in theaters in 1988, I was predisposed to like it for a number of reasons. First, there was Cyndi Lauper in her first starring role. In the great Madonna/Cyndi debate of the mid-80s, I was firmly in Cyndi's camp. (Keep in mind that I was 12 years old at the time.) Second was her co-star, Jeff Goldblum, on whom I'd harbored a crush since watching his Seth Brundle awkwardly woo Geena Davis at the beginning of The Fly. (I chose to ignore the gallons of puss he spewed later in the film.) As an added bonus there was Julian Sands, whom I'd also mooned over since he swung from a tree in A Room with a View. Finally, add a zany Peter Falk, pathologically lying à la Vincent Ricardo, and you had the stuff of my cinematic dreams.
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Revenge of the shlockmeister: Roger Corman gets his due
25 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST
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Roger Corman's output through the years may not be immediately familiar, but he's been a wide conduit for emerging talent and raw creativity. That's why he's finally been given an Oscar
"Ok, so, November 14th 2009, Roger Corman receives an Oscar. People … what took you so long?" The words of Jonathan Demme in his speech before handing over the statuette to Corman on that fateful evening.
Don't worry, you've not missed the Oscar ceremony (something surprisingly easy to do since Sky swiped the TV rights). This was the inaugural Governors awards, part of the new-look Academy that will see the number of nominees greatly expanded come March, where the board issue honorary Oscars to deserving talents who they missed out or ignored over the years. It's a shame this was such a sidelined event as we were denied the opportunity to see Hollywood's brightest and best politely clapping at a
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