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Robert Pattinson Throws Himself Into Work After Kristen Stewart Split
16 hours ago | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
Rob is getting ready to begin work on his new ghost film ‘Maps To The Stars’ in July, following his reported break up with Kristen.
Robert Pattinson knows that idle thumbs are the devil’s playthings, so instead of sitting around moping about his break up with Kristen Stewart, he is throwing himself into work. Rob is set to begin working on his new project Maps To The Stars with Julianne Moore, John Cusack and Mia Wasikowska on July 8 in Toronto. Is he trying to distract himself from his break up pain with Kristen?
Robert Pattinson’s New Movie Filming In Toronto
Production opens on Rob’s new film on July 8, reports Screendaily.com. Rob will play a character called Jerome and he will be directed by his Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg. Maps To The Stars is a ghost story that also doubles as a commentary on celebrity culture in Los Angeles. »
- Eleanore Hutch
'Return of the Jedi': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy Finale
18 hours ago | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... well, Ok, 30 years ago (on May 25, 1983) in our own galaxy, came the theatrical release of "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi." The installment triumphantly wrapped up the "Star Wars" saga for all time. Or so we thought. Little did we know that the movie's cuddly-but-ferocious Ewoks would soon spawn a cottage industry of spinoffs, or that we'd be getting a trilogy of "Star Wars" prequels in another 16 years, and "Jedi" sequels another 15 years after that ("Episode VII" is due in 2014). Nor did we know, at the time, how close "Jedi" came to being an art-house film (judging by the directors whom "Star Wars" guru George Lucas initially asked to take the helm), or how close we came to losing Han Solo (Harrison Ford), or many of the other secrets of "jedi," which you can read below. 1. David Lynch »
- Gary Susman
Noah Baumbach 'annoyed' by Will Ferrell's 'Kicking & Screaming' title
21 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Noah Baumbach has admitted frustration that his 1995 film Kicking and Screaming is often confused with Will Ferrell's 2005 comedy of the same time.
Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming is the story of a group of college graduates who struggle to move on with their lives after school, while Ferrell's movie satirises children's soccer leagues.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Baumbach admitted that he wishes the producers of Ferrell's film had come up with a different title.
"It was very annoying. The same year, Crash came out too - or right around there - I imagined David Cronenberg was annoyed as well," the director said.
"I mean, actually, that was something that I was very conscious about because an obvious title for our [new] movie was Frances. And there's a very good movie with Jessica Lange called Frances about Frances Farmer."
He continued: "It kind of pushed Greta [Gerwig] and me to »
Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano Talk The English Teacher, Their Characters, the Film’s Tone, Maps To The Stars, Heat, and More
20 May 2013 5:16 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The indie dramedy The English Teacher tells the story of Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore), a 40-year-old, unmarried high school English teacher in small town Pennsylvania. With no children and no relationships to speak of, her life is uncomplicated, which is just how she likes it. Her greatest passion and her biggest fulfillment comes from helping her impressionable young students discover their own creative voices, until a former star student (Michael Angarano) returns and threatens to undo it all. During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, co-stars Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano talked about how they came to the project, what they enjoyed most about playing their characters, and how much they enjoyed the experience of working with each other. Julianne also spoke about the next film she’ll be shooting, Maps to the Stars, directed by David Cronenberg, while Michael spoke about how he’s shooting the remake of Heat with Jason Statham, »
- Christina Radish
Peter Weller on Star Trek, Getting His Ph.D., and Defending J.J. Abrams
20 May 2013 10:45 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
If you saw Star Trek Into Darkness this weekend and couldn't quite place Peter Weller, the actor playing Starfleet Admiral Marcus, allow us to refresh your memory: Weller starred in two of the biggest cult films of the eighties, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and RoboCop, as well as in David Cronenberg’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs's The Naked Lunch. He's also had supporting parts on 24, Dexter, Fringe, and House. And if that weren’t enough, the man is currently finishing up a Ph.D. in art history. He talked to us recently about his stint on Star Trek, his diverse career, and his professor's problem with J.J. Abrams.How did you get this part?I had done an episode of Fringe, and I had a meeting at the Bad Robot offices about some directing work. And afterward this young guy follows me into the parking lot and starts talking to me. »
- Bilge Ebiri
Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970′s
19 May 2013 4:43 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Recent hot cinema topics such as the portrayal of the Mandarin character in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 and speculations about what classic Star Trek villain Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in J.J Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness was modeled after leading up to the film’s release, among others, underline the importance of great villains in genre cinema.
Creating a great cinematic villain is a difficult goal that makes for an incredibly rewarding and memorable viewer experience when it is achieved.
We’ll now take a look at the greatest film villains. Other writing on this subject tends to be a bit unfocused, as “greatest villain” articles tend to mix live-action human villains with animated characters and even animals. Many of these articles also lack a cohesive quality as they attempt to cover too much ground at once by spanning all of film history.
This article focuses on the 1970’s, »
- Terek Puckett
Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Jimmy P.’ is a Solidly Acted Psychological Drama That Misses a Prime Dramatic Mark
19 May 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The clunkily titled Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (aka Jimmy P.) is Arnaud Desplechin‘s first film in a whole five years, though disappointingly proves a shakily uneven return for the director, entrenched in the more laborious, bone-dry methodology of its famous case study rather than probing the complex emotional state of the titular character. Resolutely a work of special interest and little else, of all the In Competition entries to screen so far, this is the one that can most easily be ruled out of the running for the Palme d’Or. The true story on which this film is based revolves around Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Blackfoot Indian who returns from service in World War II and begins suffering from headaches, sight loss and countless other ailments. While American doctors are quick to diagnose him as mentally ill, it is the arrival of anthropologist-turned-psychiatrist Georges Devereau (Mathieu Amalric) that changes everything »
- Shaun Munro
Cannes 2013: Dark Sky Films And Snowfort Pictures Gaze Together With Starry Eyes
18 May 2013 5:45 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Prominent indie production house Dark Sky Films and upstart Snowfort Pictures are combining forces to produce the 70s style influenced horror film Starry Eyes. Starry Eyes tells the story of Sarah Walker, a determined and desperate actor who would do anything to land her first big role. Unfortunately this leaves her prey to a satanic cult who has been operating as Hollywood's gatekeepers since the Golden Age. They have the power to make her a star, but it comes at a terrible price.What follows is an occult tale of paranoia and possession that explores themes of transformation, body horror and a woman going through a psychotic breakdown. Ira Levin meets David Cronenberg. The filmmakers, Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, along with Snowfort producer Travis Stevens, launched a...
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)’
18 May 2013 2:18 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The prosaic, marquee-challenging title tells mostly all in the case of “Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian),” Arnaud Desplechin’s profoundly Freudian study of loss and healing in post-wwii America, as seen through the experience of a dynamic shrink and his prize Native American patient. Largely a two-hander for stars Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, both working at the top of their craft, this demanding but highly absorbing closeup on the analyst/analysand relationship seems sure to earn a warmer reception than the iconoclastic French auteur’s previous foray into English-lingo period filmmaking (with 2000’s unfairly maligned “Esther Kahn”). Pic’s highly specialized subject matter, however, presents a significant sales and marketing challenge, especially for distribs still licking their wounds from last year’s similar-themed “The Master.”
Sporting one of the more unusual literary sources ever adapted into a feature film, the pic draws its inspiration from “Reality and Dream, »
- Scott Foundas
Cate Blanchett to Star in David Mamet’s JFK Assassination Thriller ‘Blackbird’ (Exclusive)
15 May 2013 11:40 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Cate Blanchett will star in helmer-scribe David Mamet’s “Blackbird,” a present-day Hitchcockian nailbiter turning on a secret explanation for the 1963 assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy.
Blanchett plays Janet, who travels to Los Angeles for the funeral of her grandfather, a Hollywood visual effects artist who moonlighted for U.S. special ops agencies. Her grandfather’s well-kept secrets become a threat to her, forcing Janet to discover the truth about a man who dedicated his life to making illusion reality.
Photos: Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Gatsby’ kick off the Cannes Film Festival
“Blackbird” is produced by Said Ben Said’s Paris-based Sbs Prods., which established a reputation from its 2010 launch for producing films by heavyweight directors aimed at adult audiences: Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” Brian De Palma’s “Passion,” and David Cronenberg’s upcoming “Maps to the Stars,” starring Julianne Moore, John Cusack and Robert Pattinson, which Ben Said »
- John Hopewell
David Mamet will direct Cate Blanchett in the JFK conspiracy thriller Blackbird
15 May 2013 10:34 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
When you think of Kennedy conspiracy theories and movie directors, you usually think of Oliver Stone. But, another talented filmmaker is helming a JFK project that will attempt to put a new spin on the decades old assassination. David Mamet will direct Blackbird and has nabbed Cate Blanchett to star. Variety reports that Blackbird will be produced by Sbs Productions, the French based group behind Roman Polanski's Carnage, David Cronenberg's upcoming Maps To The Stars, and Brian De Palma's »
- Alex Maidy
Twickenham Celebrates 100th Anniversary With New Owner, New Investments
15 May 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London’s Twickenham Studios hits 100 this year, but nearly didn’t make it past 99 except for the doggedness of one of its execs and a Kenya-born British businessman.
Last year, the studio was insolvent but Maria Walker, then post-production supervisor and now Twickenham chief operating officer, spearheaded a Save Twickenham campaign supported by leading entertainment industry figures including Steven Spielberg, David Cronenberg, Paul McCartney and Ian McKellen. Sunny Vohra took notice and acquired the southwest London facility.
Twickenham is in the midst of an 18-month £2.5 million ($3.8 million) renovation to restore it to its former glory. “There were lots of surprises,” Vohra says. “The studio is 100 years old this year but suffered under a lack of investment for the past 30 to 40 years. It needed investment in infrastructure, upgrading, maintenance.”
Because of the lack of investment, Twickenham had received only the remnants of business with productions settling for the studio rather than choosing it. »
- Robert Mitchell
[Bd Review] ‘Naked Lunch’ Has to be Experienced
14 May 2013 2:53 PM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
Reviewed by Patrick Cooper Sitting down to write a review of the Criterion Collection’s Naked Lunch Blu-ray, I thought about how I’d probably get nothing done if my laptop had a pulsating sphincter. The film, loosely based on the infamous drug-soaked book by William S. Burroughs, may be David Cronenberg’s most unusual and least accessible... Read More »
- David Harley
Augustine | Review
14 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
A Scandalous Method: Winocour’s Debut a Rich Case Study
Celebrated filmmaker Alice Winocour, renowned for several of her short films, makes a compelling debut with Augustine, based on the real life case study of a highly publicized teenage patient of a 19th century French neurologist. Subtle and sharply observed, unlike the shrill and spurious 2011 David Cronenberg A Dangerous Method, which shares similar unprofessional patient and doctor themes, Winocour creates an entrancing, impressionistic portrayal of historical sexism and exploitation.
In 1885 Paris, Augustine (Soko), an illiterate housemaid, suffers from a series of seizures, which usually results in partial paralysis of various body parts. After one such violent and very public display, Augustine awakens to find one of her eyes shut tight, and so her cousin, who works in the same household, shuttles her off to the Hospital of Pitie Salpetre and there she is placed under observation by the famed Professor »
- Nicholas Bell
Why This Famous Director Is Annoyed At A Will Ferrell Movie
14 May 2013 5:58 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Noah Baumbach directed his first feature-length movie, "Kicking and Screaming," in 1995, about that uncertain, post-college phase of life. (It's a personal favorite of this reporter.) Of course, the best known movie with that title is a 2005 effort about a youth soccer team starring Will Ferrell. (Not a personal favorite of this reporter, primarily because of the number of times I've switched the channel to TBS, only to see this version instead of Baumbach's.) As it turns out, Baumbach is annoyed by the similarities of these titles, too, and it has everything to do why the name of his new movie is "Frances Ha."
"Frances Ha," not called "Frances" because there's already a Jessica Lange film with that title, has been a darling of the festival circuit since it debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in September. Greta Gerwig stars (and co-wrote the screenplay) as the title character who wanders through life, »
- Mike Ryan
Ten Of The Best: Action Films Set In London!
14 May 2013 1:31 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Good old London town is the greatest city on Earth. I realise that many of you out there will immediately disagree with me, but I don’t care. I don’t want to alienate you from these pages, but this is a fact. I’ve lived in a small town in the northern part of the Cotswolds in the UK for a large part of my life, and five years ago this summer, this big beautiful place became my home. Since living here however, I’ve often thought that there was something seriously lacking, and now after sitting through a screening of the glorious Fast And Furious 6, is that ‘that thing that be lacking’ is a kick-ass $200 million action movie. I’ve been thinking to myself since viewing this fantastic piece of modern filmmaking (review coming soon); why have we not had many kick-ass action movies set in our big beautiful city? »
- Paul Heath
Robert Pattinson’s Birthday: 27 Reasons He’s Great
13 May 2013 1:14 PM, PDT | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
Robert Pattinson is one of those few Hollywood stars who has remained humble, friendly and totally down to earth despite becoming one of the biggest celebrities on the planet. Here’s 27 reasons we at HollywoodLife.com love him — feel free to add on!
Why do we love Robert Pattinson? Let us count the ways!
27 Reasons We Love Robert Pattinson
1. Every person — and I mean every one — who meets him says he’s sweet, polite and friendly.
2. He hilariously puts himself down in interviews. He’s said: ” pretty much everything that comes out of my mouth is irrelevant”, and has described himself as ” a geek about everything”.
3. He’s also been good natured about dissing his own teen modeling career: ”I had the most unsuccessful modeling career,”he’s laughed while pointing out that he was so skinny and androgynous he “looked like a girl.”
4. He’s totally close to his parents and two sisters, »
- Bonnie Fuller
Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? | John Dugdale
11 May 2013 12:55 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The same daredevil spirit that has informed many an apparently insane film or TV version over the past decade has seen adaptations of literary novels
When the Cannes film festival starts next week, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, adapted and directed by James Franco, will be in the lineup. The Spider-Man star is known for mixing bookish projects with acting in blockbusters, but has nevertheless raised eyebrows by selecting a novel with 15 narrators that tells the seemingly uncinegenic story of a southern matriarch's death and burial.
This month will also see Paul Thomas Anderson begin to shoot his version of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, the first of Pynchon's dauntingly complex works to be filmed; and Steven Soderbergh recently announced plans for a 12-hour TV dramatisation of John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor ("If it works, it'll be super-cool. And if it doesn't, you won't be able to »
Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? | John Dugdale
11 May 2013 12:55 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The same daredevil spirit that has informed many an apparently insane film or TV version over the past decade has seen adaptations of literary novels
When the Cannes film festival starts next week, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, adapted and directed by James Franco, will be in the lineup. The Spider-Man star is known for mixing bookish projects with acting in blockbusters, but has nevertheless raised eyebrows by selecting a novel with 15 narrators that tells the seemingly uncinegenic story of a southern matriarch's death and burial.
This month will also see Paul Thomas Anderson begin to shoot his version of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, the first of Pynchon's dauntingly complex works to be filmed; and Steven Soderbergh recently announced plans for a 12-hour TV dramatisation of John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor ("If it works, it'll be super-cool. And if it doesn't, you won't be able to »
Best of the Week: Interviews with Bradley Cooper and Sarah Polley, 'Great Gatsby' Arrives, Zach Braff Kickstarts a Controversy and More
10 May 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
The top stories of the week from Toh! Interviews: How Katie Aselton Made Feminist Thriller "Black Rock" (Exclusive Clip, Trailer) Sarah Polley Opens Up About Must-See "Stories We Tell" (Exclusive Video, Trailer) Bradley Cooper Is New Smart Model Star Features: Immersed in Movies: Designer Catherine Martin Talks "Gatsby"'s 3-D Glide and Lasting Appeal (Trailer) News: Navigating the Streaming Studio System, from Amazon and Netflix to Warner Archive Instant Ben Affleck Returns to Boston and Dennis Lehane for Next Film Casting Watch: Mia Wasikowska and Olivia Williams Join David Cronenberg's Schizoid Ghost Story "Maps to the Stars" "Iron Man 3" Director Shane Black Set to Direct Comic Book Adaptation "Doc Savage" Zach Braff Responds to Kickstarter Campaign Vitriol: "It's Not Like I Lobbied Congress" Casting Watch: Andrew Garfield to Star in Martin Scorsese's "Long-Awaited Silence" Reviews: Weekend Preview: Sarah Polley's Must-See Doc "Stories We Tell," Baz Luhrmann's Showy but Sagging. »
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