Tim Robbins products
Quicklinks
Top Links
biographyby votesawardsNewsDeskmessage boardFilmographies
overviewby typeby yearby ratingsby votesby TV series awards by genre by keywordBiographical
biography other works publicity photo galleryTwitterblogNewsDeskmessage boardExternal Links
official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips video clipsNews for
Tim Robbins (I) More at IMDbPro »
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1997
1-20 of 114 items from 2012 « Prev | Next »
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, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Blu-ray Release: High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank
18 May 2012 1:10 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 7, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $20.00 each
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Two of our favorite John Cusack (2012) movies are High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank, and we’re thrilled to finally have them on high-definition Blu-ray.
2000′s High Fidelity and 1997′s Grosse Pointe Blank and both smart, fast-talking and very funny films.
Based on the book by Nick Hornby, High Fidelity tells the story of Rob (Cusack) a record store owner and compulsive list maker who’s having relationship issues. After his girlfriend (Iben Hjejle) leaves him for their older and very strange neighbor (Tim Robbins, Bull Durham), Rob recounts his top five breakups, visiting his exes (including Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Rebound) to find out where he went wrong.
Jack Black (Gulliver’s Travels) and Todd Louiso (The Switch) are great as Cusack’s record store sidekicks in the film, which was directed by Stephen Frears (Tamara Drewe »
- Sam
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Teaser Poster Unveiled
17 May 2012 2:35 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Since news dropped that an Anchorman sequel is no longer the stuff of dreams and has gone into production, people have been waiting and anticipating as much news and brand spanking new information as possible. With that, I’m pleased to say that some has arrived – in the form of a teaser poster. It’s not ground breaking, but it’s better than a kick in the face with a pair of steel-toed boots.
The poster itself speaks testament to how iconic the Channel 4 News Team have become to our generation, using just loafers and trousers we can instantly recognise what the poster is all about. If you can’t, then luckily for you there’s a huge clue at the bottom. It seems that the Adam McKay directed sequel has decided to lose the “Anchorman 2″ tag, and go with the new title of “Anchorman: The Legend »
- Neil Tillbrook
First Images and Poster from Thanks For Sharing, Starring Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow
16 May 2012 1:14 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The first images from the sex addict dramedy Thanks for Sharing have gone online. The film marks the directorial debut of The Kids Are All Right co-writer Stuart Blumberg and features an all-star cast in this story of three sex addicts struggling to function in normal society. Mark Ruffalo plays an addict who’s trying to strike up a relationship with a woman who has sworn off dating other addicts (Gwyneth Paltrow), Tim Robbins plays a man married to his high school sweetheart who actually becomes addicted to his 12-step recovery program, and Book of Mormon star Josh Gad plays a young man whose addiction is so bad that he hides a camera in his shoe in order to film up women’s skirts. The film certainly looks much lighter than that other sex addict movie from last year, Shame, and I’m a big fan of the ensemble cast. »
- Adam Chitwood
First Look: Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins In Sex-Addiction Comedy-Drama ‘Thanks For Sharing'
16 May 2012 12:19 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Photos removed at the request of the producers.
All it takes is one little film to bust down a taboo, and so it's seemingly been done with Steve McQueen's "Shame." The critically-acclaimed drama was a rare picture to tackle the question of sex addiction, and while it hasn't quite opened the floodgates, it's made it easier for other filmmakers to tackle the subject matter. For one, Gary Oldman says he's got a project revolving around the condition that he might direct. And for another, there's "Thanks For Sharing," which marks the directorial debut of Stuart Blumberg, the Oscar-nominated co-writer of Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right."
Blumberg's taking a somewhat lighter tone to the subject matter than McQueen did with his comedy-drama, which stars Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and "Book of Mormon" star Josh Gad as a trio of sex addicts. The first images from the film »
- Oliver Lyttelton
First Official Stills of Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins and Pink In Sex Addict Drama ‘Thanks For Sharing’
16 May 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Last year we got what seemed to be the definitive serious sex addict drama with Steve McQueen‘s Shame, highlighted by a stirring performance from Michael Fassbender. On the other side of things, The Kids Are All Right co-writer Stuart Blumberg seems to be taking a lighter approach for his directorial debut Thanks For Sharing.
Leading the ensemble is Mark Ruffalo, who is coming off his hit role in The Avengers. He is joined by Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit, Josh Gad, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Alecia Moore (or, Pink), the dramedy centers on “a group of unlikely friends brought together through their shared determination to recover from sex addiction as they try to forge meaningful relationships for the first time in their lives.” Check out the first stills and an early poster below.
Update: Removed at the request of the producers.
Synopsis:
From the Academy Award »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
8 New Images from Thanks For Sharing with Gwyneth Paltrow & Mark Ruffalo
16 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Oscar-nominated Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right) makes his directorial debut with Thanks for Sharing, and with Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, and Tim Robbins topping the cast, it’s definitely got the makings of a great film.
Eight new images have made their way online, featuring Paltrow, Ruffalo, Robbins, and some of the great supporting cast, which includes Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Josh Gad (Love and Other Drugs), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (The Wire), and Pink (you know who Pink is).
Co-written by Blumberg and Matt Winston (making his writing debut), the plot looks a little something like this:
“Dramatic comedy follows a group of unlikely friends brought together through their shared determination to recover from sex addiction as they try to forge meaningful relationships for the first time in their lives.”
Edward Norton is exec. producer, with his production company, Class 5 Films (Leaves of Grass »
- Kenji Lloyd
Here are some official stills from the sex-addict dramedy Thanks for Sharing with Ruffalo and Paltrow
16 May 2012 7:20 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Some official stills have surfaced for the dramedy Thanks For Sharing, starring Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Patrick Fugit, Joely Richardson, Josh Gad, and Alecia "Pink" Moore. The film is about recovering sex addicts and is the directorial debut of Stuart Blumberg, the co-writer of The Kids Are All Right, the Oscar nominated dramedy also starring Ruffalo. There's quiet a few things that spark my interest with this project: Ruffalo, hot off The Avengers, is »
- Paul Shirey
Cinema Verite | Review
12 May 2012 9:47 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Reality television is one of today’s most consumed forms of entertainment. One of the first forays into this genre was by PBS in 1973 with a show called An American Family. A small camera crew followed and documented the Loud family, a suburban middle-class family which seemed like the perfect average American family. PBS was hopeful audiences would tune in to see this revolutionary show and the rest is history. HBO Films released a TV movie called Cinema Verite, shedding light on the inner workings of the reality show’s production as well as its impact on pop culture.
Craig Gilbert (James Gandolfini) is a TV producer who selects the Loud family as the first American family to be filmed and documented for mass audiences to see. The family consists of the patriarch Bill (Tim Robbins), matriarch Pat (Diane Lane) and five children. The film shows the progression of the »
- Randall Unger
DVD Release: The Big Fix
3 May 2012 2:41 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: DVD $ $24.95
Studio: Green Planet Productions
The 2011 documentary film The Big Fix recounts the events surrounding the 2010 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and paints a disturbing picture of the aftermath of the largest oil spill in America’s history.
Directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Fuel), the film contains interviews with scientists, government officials, journalists, attorneys and Gulf States natives. It sets out to reveal the powerful political and corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability of people and the environment in the aftermath of the spill. The film posits that no matter what the petroleum and government officials say, the oil is still coming ashore, the seafood industry is wiped out, and many people of the locals are sick.
Most disturbingly, Rebecca Harrell Tickell became ill after being exposed »
- Laurence
Documentary News: Dave Grohl to Direct Sound City; GoDigital to Release Oil Spill Doc The Big Fix June 19
1 May 2012 9:24 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
News on a pair of interesting documentaries surfaced tonight: Dave Grohl will direct and produce Sound City, a feature-length documentary about the legendary recording studio in Van Nuys, California. GoDigital acquired The Big Fix, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, for release on June 19. Hit the jump for more on both movies, including trailers. Grohl gushed to Variety: "Sound City is a film about America's greatest unsung recording studio. Deep in California's sun-burnt San Fernando Valley, it was the birthplace of legend. It was witness to history." Sound City has hosted Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Guns N' Roses, Fear, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica over the years. Also, it's where Grohl laid down the drum tracks for Nirvana's Nevermind in 1991. Variety says Grohl will incorporate interviews with the artists and producers who have recorded at Sound City to "discuss »
- Brendan Bettinger
Lionsgate and GoDigital to Release 'The Big Fix' June 19 on DVD and VOD
1 May 2012 11:07 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell's Cannes 2011 documentary "The Big Fix," which investigates the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and its economic and environmental after-effects, will receive a June 19 release on DVD and VOD. GoDigital is handling digital rights while Lionsgate will handle the release on cable VOD and the social gifting platform PlayItFWD.com The Green Planet Productions release features Peter Fonda, who is an executive producer along with Tim Robbins and Maggie Wachsberger. Associate producer Jason Mraz contributed the original song “Collapsible Plans” to the film's soundtrack. UTA and Preferred Content repped the filmmakers. »
- Jay A. Fernandez
Box Office: Biggest International Opening Weekends
29 April 2012 3:24 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: Biggest International Opening Weekends Box Office: Ninth Biggest International Opening Weekend – The Avengers David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 with Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint — $314,000,000 Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush — $260,400,000 David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint — $236,000,000 Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 with Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco — $230,544,376 Michael Bay’s Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon with Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel — $219,810,798 Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley — $216,000,000 David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 with Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint — $205,000,000 David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix »
- Zac Gille
The Top 9 Romantic Comedies for Dudes
27 April 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Relationships can turn us into self-involved, sentimental wrecks. But throw on a good romantic comedy and suddenly it's tough to take yourself too seriously. With life back in perspective, you laugh away your tears and regain the certainty that love will conquer all.
Well, unless you're a guy.
Men seem more immune to the mirror these movies hold up, perhaps because they rarely see themselves reflected. It's the infrequent film that makes a guy nod his head and say "Yup, that's me in love. Aren't I silly?"
Because the hilarious new flick "The Five-Year Engagement" fits the bill, here are our favorite rom-coms that aren't just for chicks.
9. '(500) Days of Summer' (2009)
In a bit of postmodern role reversal, Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a hopeless romantic who's sure that true love is his only shot at happiness. Zooey Deschanel plays Summer, a pragmatist who doesn't believe true love exists. As »
- Ben Freiburger
Blu-ray Review: Diane Lane, James Gandolfini Shine in ‘Cinema Verite’
26 April 2012 4:49 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – HBO’s under-appreciated original movie recalls the moment when entertainment-seeking Americans averted their eyes from actors to their neighbors over the fence. Voyeurism had a new name, “cinema verite,” and one-time producer Craig Gilbert was determined to take it from art houses to small screens in homes across the country.
His target was the Loud family—a large and popular clan headed by the philandering Phil and the strong-willed Pat. Their son Lance was openly gay and his flamboyant exuberance was celebrated within the walls of his home but proved to alarm conservative viewers once it was broadcast on TV. The show resulted in the dissolution of Pat and Bill’s marriage, which was already ailing but wasn’t at all aided by Gilbert’s manipulative strategies to intensify their domestic conflict.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
The enormous timeliness of the subject matter makes “Cinema Verite” a fitting entry in HBO’s ever-impressive filmography. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Our Top Ten Rain Scenes - Which Is Your Favourite?
25 April 2012 6:08 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
To thank April for its annual showers and celebrate this, the wettest day of the year that will bring us a whole month’s worth of rain, we thought it only fitting to bring you the top ten rain scenes in film.
Here’s a taste of what’s to come to whet – or wet – your appetite. We’ve got Gene Kelly swinging round lampposts declaring the obvious; the slightly creepy upside-down kiss between Kirsten Dunst and a man who shoots webs out of his hands; and the torrential downpour at the end of Shawshank Redemption’s dramatic escape scene that gave Tim Robbins a much-needed, post-sewer, wash.
Are we missing your favourite? Let us know in the Comments below...
But for now (with a big thanks to Lovefilm for compiling the most-popular poll), here's, arguably, the top ten. So put the kettle on, slip on the old slipper socks, »
- The Huffington Post UK
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
Susan Sarandon believes the government tapped her phone
23 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
Susan Sarandon is one of a handful of celebrities — along with Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, and former partner Tim Robbins — who's known for being a big, outspoken liberal even by the standards of Hollywood. (She is also known for playing ping-pong, but sadly this story doesn't include her throwing down with a table-tennis racket.) Maybe that's why it's not super-surprising that, while at a Tribeca Film Festival panel yesterday, Sarandon said that she'd been under government surveillance, The Daily Beast reports: “We know we were under surveillance,” Sarandon said in answer to a question from the audience [...] “I’ve had my phone tapped,” she went on, noting that she gleaned the disturbing evidence from two Freedom of Information Act requests. “I was denied a security clearance to go to the White House and I don’t know why. Do you know why?” Liberal firebrand [...] »
Five Things You Don't Know About Jack Black
20 April 2012 10:40 AM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
Known for his rousing performance as a wannabe rock star in School of Rock and his outrageous HBO series (and band) Tenacious D, his voice is also heard in the animated blockbusters Ice Age and Kung Fu Panda. Here are five things you may not know about Jack Black, whose new dark comedy Bernie features him portraying a flamboyant Texas mortician who ends up killing a wealthy widow.
1.Born Thomas Jacob Black on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, CA -- his parents were both engineers who literally worked as rocket scientists.
2. Was a member of Tim Robbins' acting troupe while studying at UCLA and it was through this collaboration that led to his 1992 film debut in the political comedy Bob Roberts.
3. Established himself in the business by appearing in a series of TV shows including Life Goes On, Northern Exposure, Mr. Show, Picket Fences, and The X-Files.
4. Filmed a TV pilot in 1999 called Heat Vision and Jack -- a parody »
Robert Altman's 'The Player': What Lessons Hollywood Has Learned From The Showbiz Satire
13 April 2012 5:02 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Released 20 years ago this week , "The Player" seemed at the time like one of the most merciless lampoons of Hollywood ever made, but director Robert Altman liked to insist that it was "a very mild satire." He meant that it could have been even meaner if he'd made it more realistic. Altman was working from Michael Tolkin's screenplay, adapted from Tolkin's own novel, but the observations it made about the movie industry's contempt for art and artists were clearly informed by Altman's own decades of frustration as a creative filmmaker with a singular, idiosyncratic vision who repeatedly clashed with executives interested only in profit. Judging by how many Hollywood A-listers he got to do free cameos in the movie -- about five dozen of them -- a lot of the industry's top talent must have felt as he did. So did critics and audiences, who helped make the movie »
- Gary Susman
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1997
1-20 of 114 items from 2012 « Prev | Next »
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.
See our NewsDesk partners
Copyright © 1990-2012
IMDb.com, Inc.
Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.
An 
company.