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Matt Damon Unwinds With His Girls and a Glass of White
33 minutes ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, took their girls for a sunny outdoor lunch at the Eden Roc Hotel in Antibes, France, yesterday. Matt sipped white wine and shared a sweet moment with his daughter Gia, showing her the water and pointing out some sights. Matt brought his clan along to Cannes while he promotes Behind the Candelabra, which debuts on HBO this Sunday. The family lunch was just part of a busy day for the actor - he attended a photocall for the film with his costar Michael Douglas and later hit the red carpet with Luciana for the movie's premiere, where he snapped photos of all the fun on his cell phone. In addition to his small-screen project, Matt has also been busy promoting the upcoming sci-fi flick Elysium. He screened trailers for the blockbuster in Mexico and Berlin late last month and will likely make the rounds »
- Brittney Stephens
Bono, Olivia Wilde, and Richard Branson join Matt Damon's 'toilet strike' -- Video
54 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Matt Damon’s “toilet strike” for water.org is claiming more and more celebrities in an Oprah-like sweep: Now Bono won’t use the bathroom! And Olivia Wilde! And British mogul Richard Branson! Like Damon, the trio has pledged “not to go to the bathroom until everyone in the whole world has access to clean water and sanitation.” Damon kickstarted the strike in February; Jessica Biel, Jason Bateman, and Josh Gad joined him in March. The movement protests the plight of the 780 million people who lack access to safe water and the 2.5 billion people who go without safe water and sanitation. »
- Adam Carlson
Special Feature: Reevaluating Matt Damon's 'Rounders'
1 hour ago | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
The chances are that many of you may not have seen John Dahl's 1998 film Rounders, unless you're either a fan of poker or its leading man Matt Damon (star of Steven Soderbergh's soon-to-be released Behind the Candelabra, which screened this week at the 66th Cannes Film Festival). Damon starred as Mike McDermott, a law student and former poker player who is convinced to return to the game by his old friend, Worm (played by Edward Norton.) What ensues is a look into the underground world of poker in New York and New Jersey and what it takes to be a true rounder. Below are some of our reasons why Dahl's Rounders is well worth a second look - or a first look for those yet to sample.
Insight into the mind of a poker player
Unlike most poker movies produced, viewers were actually privy to the actual thinking »
- CineVue UK
Michael Douglas fights back tears at Cannes
4 hours ago | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Cannes (France), May 22 (Ians/Efe) Michael Douglas wept here Tuesday as he recounted how director Steven Soderbergh waited for the Oscar-winning actor to recover from throat cancer so he could star as flamboyant pianist Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra".
"For me this ... it was right after my cancer. This beautiful gift was handed to me. I'm eternally grateful to Steven, Matt and Jerry," a tearful Douglas said, referring to Soderbergh, co-star Matt Damon and producer Jerry Weintraub.
The crowd of reporters covering the presentation applauded.
Made for Us cable network HBO, "Behind the Candelabra" screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and is set for limited theatrical release in Europe.
Douglas,. »
- Machan Kumar
Video: Matt Damon Talks "Jarring" Nudity at Cannes Premiere of Behind the Candelabra!
10 hours ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
The beaches in the South of France are known for their rather liberal bathing suit requirements, so it was the perfect place to premiere Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra - which, according to star Matt Damon, reveals a "jarring" shot of his own behind. Hear all the details on how Matt and costar Michael Douglas committed to playing lovers and what critics are saying about this daring film, which might be Steven's last. »
- Becca Frucht
Matt Damon Captures His Cannes Premiere With Luciana
10 hours ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Matt Damon joined up with his Behind the Candelabra costar Michael Douglas to premiere their new film at the Cannes Film Festival today. Matt also had his wife Luciana by his side and they snapped pictures of all the action as they made their way down the carpet. Matt and Michael are screening their HBO project in the South of France before it officially hits the small screen on Sunday, May 26. Earlier in the day, Matt and Michael attended a photo call and a press conference. They have been doing quite a bit of press for the biopic, which follows Liberace, played by Michael, and his young lover, played by Matt. Naturally, a story about a couple had to involve love scenes, and Michael revealed in a recent interview he wasn't exactly put off by the idea of kissing one of America's best-looking actors. He said, "As far as making out with Matt, »
- Maria Mercedes Lara
Candelabra is tipped for Cannes success
11 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Director Steven Soderbergh says Hollywood studios refused to finance Liberace movie, thinking only gay people would watch it
Behind the Candelabra – a lavishly rhinestone-encrusted story about the pianist and entertainer Liberace – has charmed and delighted audiences at the Cannes film festival, just as its central character did so effervescently before he lost his life to an Aids-related illness in 1987. And, with its mesmerising central performances from Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, the film has a good shout at the Palme D'Or, with Douglas himself a strong contender for a Cannes best actor award.
But the film, and its actors, will never win an Oscar. The Hollywood studios refused to finance it, said director Steven Soderbergh, because they believed the film would find no audience "except for people who are gay". Instead, it was made by the TV company HBO and, though it will receive theatrical release in the UK on 7 June, »
- Charlotte Higgins
Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Behind the Candelabra’ Sees Soderbergh Bow Out With A Highly Entertaining Biopic
12 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Steven Soderbergh has for years been a director who continues to work entirely in spite of himself; he presses on, releasing a film a year (if not more) while constantly expressing frustration with the industry and claiming that his next will be his last. With his latest effort – a production from the increasingly prestigious HBO Films banner – it appears that the director might finally be sticking to his word, and if so, he goes out with quite the belter to his name. Doing huge justice to the oft-sneered at TV film delegation, Behind the Candelabra is a studious project shot through with the high production quality, dedicated craftsmanship and superior acting of a great theatrical feature, and went down a storm at this morning’s world premiere. Soderbergh trains his focus on the final decade of Liberace’s (Michael Douglas) life, from meeting his most prolific lover, Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) to his eventual death from AIDS »
- Shaun Munro
Cannes 2013: Behind the Candelabra – first look review
12 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Steven Soderbergh's biopic of the pianist is a bizarre anti-Pinocchio parable in which toxic love transforms a handsome young man into a deeply unhappy latex doll
After Side Effects, supposedly his final work for the cinema, Steven Soderbergh has now apparently performed his post-swansong. Behind the Candelabra was commissioned for HBO television but is shown here in the Cannes festival competition as a standalone feature-length drama: a bizarre anti-Pinocchio parable in which the power of loneliness and toxic love transform a handsome young man into a deeply unhappy, plump-nosed, cleft-chinned latex doll. It's the true-life story of the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young companion and chauffeur Scott Thorson, taking us from the couple's ecstatic first meeting backstage in Las Vegas in 1976 to Liberace's death from an Aids-related illness in 1987.
The film is mesmeric, riskily incorrect, outrageously watchable and simply outrageous. Unlike ITV's Vicious, which stars two famously gay actors, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Upfronts Show Cracks in the Facade of Networks
12 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Forgive the major broadcast networks for feeling a bit like the evil “Queen in Snow White” and the Seven Dwarfs these days. When asking their Magic Mirror for positive reinforcement, the answer is seldom completely satisfying.
Still the fairest of them all? Not in terms of prestige and awards. The biggest? Yes, but this season programs like “The Walking Dead,” “The Bible,” “Downton Abbey” and (from the sublime to the ridiculous) “Duck Dynasty” have all drawn ratings that level the playing field — and undercut traditional claims to commercial broadcasters representing a unique audience-delivery vehicle.
For the broadcast networks, the challenge encapsulated if seldom articulated during their upfront-week presentations thus boiled down to a simple question: In today’s fragmented world, what attributes still make them special?
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And so, the networks’ pitch to media buyers — a ritual NBC’s Ted Harbert »
- Brian Lowry
66th Cannes Film Festival Review - Behind the Candelabra (2013)
13 hours ago | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Behind the Candelabra, 2013.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Starring Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, and Scott Bakula.
Synopsis:
An intimate study of Liberace's five-year relationship with Scott Thorson.
It is hard to believe, watching Behind the Candelabra, that the word bling was not coined in Liberace's honour. This man was the king - or queen - of bling. But Behind the Candelabra goes behind the scenes, focussing on Liberace's (Michael Douglas) secret love affair with Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), a man he meets by chance and with whom he falls in love.
Scott is a sweet, blond Californian boy, who we see living on a little ranch with Joe and Rose, his loving and protective foster parents. Scott is dog trainer on Hollywood sets and it is his interest in dogs that leads him into Liberace's life. Going to Vegas with best friend Bob »
- Flickering Myth
Cannes: Damon, Soderbergh on the Bared Souls and Butts in Behind the Candelabra
14 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Michael Douglas couldn’t speak. Seated on the dais at a Cannes press conference for Behind the Candelabra, he looked at his creative collaborators — including co-star Matt Damon, director Steven Soderbergh, and producer Jerry Weintraub — and suddenly went silent in the middle of his sentence. When he began speaking again, emotion choked the actor’s voice. “Sorry,” he said tentatively, tears in his eyes. “It was right after my cancer that this beautiful gift [of a movie] was handed to me. I’m eternally grateful.”Behind the Candelabra is a funny picture: funny in some laugh-out-loud ways, but also funny as in unusual. For example, it’s Douglas’s first starring role since he was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, but it’s also Soderbergh’s last movie before his declared retirement. The film earned a gala competition slot at Cannes and will play in theaters all over Europe, yet American movie studios passed »
- Kyle Buchanan
Celebrity Roommates: See Who Channing Tatum, Lindsay Lohan and Other Stars Lived With
14 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Before the million-dollar paychecks and luxurious mansions, some of Hollywood's biggest stars started their careers with an ordinary experience: They had a roommate! From Los Angeles to New York City, many undiscovered stars bonded with their housemates in small living quarters and messy rooms across the country. But what are the odds both of the roomies would end up finding fame and fortune? From Oscar winners Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to former child stars Lindsay Lohan and Raven-Symoné, you won't believe who some stars shared a room with before making it big. Take a look at all the celebrities who lived with a famous roommate early on in their careers. »
See All the Stars at the Cannes Film Festival - So Far!
14 hours ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
The Cannes Film Festival is well under way, and the South of France has been flooded with stars. Adrien Brody arrived on the scene to charm Jessica Chastain at the special Cleopatra restored screening today, while Matt Damon got snap-happy during his Behind the Candelabra premiere with producer Jerry Weintraub and writer Richard Lagravenese. Alec Baldwin swept his wife, Hilaria Thomas, off her feet at a Seduced and Abandoned photocall earlier today, and Justin Timberlake had Jessica Biel by his side for a waterside stroll yesterday. Other stars like Michael Douglas, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Rachel Bilson have also been getting in on the Cannes fun this week. Be sure to check back for more Cannes Film Festival photos, and don't forget to vote for your favorite stars in our Popsugar 100 bracket! View Slideshow › »
- Maria Mercedes Lara
Matt Damon’s Brazilian Tan Line, And 9 Other Highlights From Cannes 'Behind The Candelabra' Press Conference
15 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It was hard to envisage as positive a Cannes response to a Us competition film as that which greeted the Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” the other day, but if such a thing is possible, it may well have happened today, for Steven Soderbergh’s wonderful Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra” (our review here). Immediately after the press screening stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, writer Richard Lagravanese, Producer Jerry Weintraub and director Steven Soderbergh spoke to press, turning up some choice anecdotes and opinions in the process. Here are our 10 favorite moments. 1. The team recounts their personal memories of Liberace Michael Douglas: I met him once when I was 12 years old in Palm Springs. We were at a crossroads and this car stops, I think it was a Rolls Royce convertible, and it was a great Palm Springs day and between the gold on his neck and rings, »
- Jessica Kiang
Cannes Film Festival 2013: 'Behind the Candelabra'
16 hours ago | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★☆ Władziu Valentino Liberace was a phenomenal success, his recording and performing career spanning four decades. A flamboyant showman and housewives' favourite, Liberace fought long and hard to keep his homosexuality a secret until his death in 1987. Thus, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra (2013) arrives at Cannes with a lot of baggage. Is it his last film? Did the topic of homosexuality really condemn the film to television in the Us, where it will only be shown on HBO? How will Michael Douglas fare in a leading role which sets up so against type? And, the most important question of all - is it any good?
We meet Liberace through Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), a bisexual young man with an unstable family background and ambitions to be a vet. In Liberace (Douglas), Scott finds a lover, a best friend and also a father figure. He takes up the role of the iconic pianist's chauffeur, »
- CineVue UK
Review Roundup: Critics Go Ga-Ga for Soderbergh's Outrageously Mesmerizing 'Behind the Candelabra'
18 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Critics are over the glittering, bedazzled moon for Steven Soderbergh's Cannes competition entry "Behind the Candelabra," set to premiere on HBO on May 26 and starring a no-holds-barred Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as the famed pianist Liberace and his younger lover, Scott Thorson. The Telegraph refers to it as a "gay Pygmalion myth: call it My Fair Laddie," while the Guardian raves that "the film is mesmeric, riskily incorrect, outrageously watchable and simply outrageous." Roundup below. The Hollywood Reporter:Behind the Candelabra is fabulous -- so much so that, were it not for the fact that it reveals everything about his private life that he worked so hard to conceal, Liberace himself might well have loved it. The big screen’s loss is HBO’s gain in what is billed as Steven Soderbergh’s farewell to the cinema, at least for the time being. Superbly scripted, brilliantly directed, smart but »
- Beth Hanna
What Critics Are Saying About 'Too Gay' Movie
18 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"Behind The Candelabra" may very well become one of the best reviewed movies of the year. Too bad it's not an actual movie movie: Steven Soderbergh's final film -- which focuses on the relationship between Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his young lover, Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) -- debuted to raves from attendees at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, just a few days before "Behind the Candelabra" airs on HBO.
"Nobody would make it," Soderbergh told The New York Post earlier this year. "We went to everybody in town. They all said it was too gay. And this is after 'Brokeback Mountain,' by the way, which is not as funny as this movie. I was stunned. It made no sense to any of us."
Indeed. What's more perplexing is that Soderbergh's last hurrah could have been an Oscar film. That was the thinking, at least, when it was first announced. »
- The Huffington Post
Cannes Review: 'Behind the Candelabra' is Steven Soderbergh's Glamorous, Garish and Great Goodbye (For Now)
19 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
"Behind the Candelabra," which premiered at Cannes today before heading to HBO on Sunday, May 26th at 9pm, is Steven Soderbergh's virtuoso swan song to filmmaking (at least for now), his final feature before stopping to focus on his painting. Soderbergh recently and famously expounded on his frustrations with the studio system in a speech at the San Francisco International Film Festival, which, while not the cause for his break from cinema, certainly didn't dissuade him from it. It's fitting both that his announced final film was produced by and made for cable television after he couldn't find backers for it in Hollywood, and that it's a piquant, strange, funny-sad tale of a love affair that slowly sours and grinds to an end. It's about Liberace (Michael Douglas), his glamorous, ridiculous life and his relationship with a young man named Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), but it also feels like »
- Alison Willmore
Cannes Review: 'Behind the Candelabra' is Steven Soderbergh's Glamorous, Garish and Great Goodbye (For Now)
19 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
"Behind the Candelabra," which premiered at Cannes today before heading to HBO on Sunday, May 26th at 9pm, is Steven Soderbergh's virtuoso swan song to filmmaking (at least for now), his final feature before stopping to focus on his painting. Soderbergh recently and famously expounded on his frustrations with the studio system in a speech at the San Francisco International Film Festival, which, while not the cause for his break from cinema, certainly didn't dissuade him from it. It's fitting both that his announced final film was produced by and made for cable television after he couldn't find backers for it in Hollywood, and that it's a piquant, strange, funny-sad tale of a love affair that slowly sours and grinds to an end. It's about Liberace (Michael Douglas), his glamorous, ridiculous life and his relationship with a young man named Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), but it also feels like »
- Alison Willmore
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