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Director Steven Knight Says David Fincher Suggested Jason Statham For 'Redemption'
21 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Here's a fun fact that you might not realize -- there's a new Jason Statham movie coming to theaters and VOD next week. You might not know that because there doesn't seem to be any marketing campaign at all behind it. Anyway, once titled "Hummingbird" it has been given the far blander name "Redemption" stateside (something that only guarantee to make it sound even more generic than it actually is), but the main selling point around this one is that it's the movie where Jason Statham Actually Acts (but yes, he does punch things too). And to thank for that? David Fincher it seems. "Eastern Promises" writer Steven Knight, who is making his directorial debut on the film, recently chatted with The Independent, and revealed that Fincher originally tossed out the idea for Statham to lead this movie. "I've always admired his work and thought he's got a great physical presence, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Top 10 Tuesday: Brad Pitt Films
18 June 2013 10:38 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
By Melissa Thompson and Michelle McCue
First man ever to be named “Sexiest Man Alive” twice by People Magazine (1994 and 2000), thrice nominated for acting Oscars for Moneyball, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Twelve Monkeys, producer of The Tree Of Life and The Departed, and family man to the children he shares with actress Angelina Jolie, versatile actor Brad Pitt latest endeavor is this week’s wildly anticipated World War Z.
Starring in, as well as producing Wwz, Pitt’s other starring vehicles have ranged from Greek hero Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy to George Clooney’s forever-eating friend Rusty Ryan in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’S 11, as well as superhero “Metro Man” in the animated Megamind and Death in Meet Joe Black.
Gee-whiz, we even have a soft spot for his dead-beat – “Don’t condescend me, man” – Floyd in True Romance.
Presently Pitt is working on his next project, »
- Movie Geeks
Emmy Hopeful: Corey Stoll - 'House of Cards'
18 June 2013 9:52 AM, PDT | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
The excitement of "discovering" Corey Stoll through his particularly powerful performance as Rep. Peter Russo in Netflix's House of Cards quickly evaporated after the requisite IMDb trip accompanying all new actorly obsessions since I'd previously searched him out after equally impressive turns in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and NBC's short-lived Law & Order: La.
Aside from underscoring his chameleon-like abilities, this repeated discovery process reinforces the fact Stoll has been delivering attention-grabbing performances for years, simply waiting for the day when one role would break him out. Well, that day arrived this past February when Netflix unleashed 13 episodes of David Fincher & Beau Willimon's masterful House of Cards and Stoll could no longer be ignored; his turn as the self-sabotaging civil servant all-but-eclipsed everyone else in the star-studded production.
The Emmy frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama recently rang up ETonline to talk about embarking on such a unique filming experience, why this massive »
Does ‘Man of Steel’ Exploit Disasters Like 9/11?
17 June 2013 2:32 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Spoiler Alert: This discussion reveals key plot details from “Man of Steel.”
Justin Chang: Several weeks ago, writing about “Iron Man 3″ in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis noted that the film, with its bombastic explosions and references to terrorism, underscored “just how thoroughly Sept. 11 and its aftermath have been colonized by the movies.” A similar thought occurred to me repeatedly during the last hour or so of Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel,” which, as our colleague Scott Foundas pointed out in his review, strongly resembles the likes of “The Avengers” and “Transformers” in its cinematic shock-and-awe. I’d say Snyder goes even further than those movies in the way he channels the specific terror and chaos of 9/11; you see it in those brief scenes of small planes hitting skyscrapers, and in the lingering shots of ash-covered Metropolitans being pulled, traumatized but hopeful, from the rubble.
As I noted about two years ago, »
- Justin Chang and Peter Debruge
DVD Review - The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
17 June 2013 12:04 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Kid Stays in the Picture, 2002.
Directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen.
Synopsis:
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans' famous 1994 autobiography).
Robert Evans was once the most revered man in Hollywood. Throughout the late 60s and most of the 70s, Evans’ role as producer on such hits as Rosemary’s Baby, The Godfather and Chinatown made him the real star.
Or not – the truth is that, during Robert Evans’ stint as influential head of Paramount, the director reigned as king in Hollywood. But you’d not take that fact away from The Kid Stays in the Picture. Telling the story of Evans’ time as a Big Deal Producer, adapted from Evans’ book of the same name and narrated by Evans himself, Kid is out to glorify its man.
You’d think Robert Evans was the producer by which they’re all measured, »
- Flickering Myth
DVD Review - Parks and Recreation - Season Two
17 June 2013 6:33 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Parks and Recreation - Season Two
Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.
Starring Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Rashida Jones, Rob Lowe, Aziz Ansari, Paul Schneider, Nick Hofferman and Aubrey Plaza.
Synopsis:
Leslie Knope, Pawnee of Indiana's most enthusiastic public servant, solves all of her town's problems- hosting a telethon, ridding the golf course of possums and getting unhealthy energy bars out of park vending machines.
If there are any criticisms to level at season two of Parks and Recreation, it's that certain characters already run the risk of becoming caricatures. Andy Dwyer is given the Joey Tribbiani treatment, the writers apparently keen on transforming him from series one's fool into a goofy, unbelievable idiot, despite Chris Pratt's valiant attempts to humanise him. Rashida Jones, meanwhile, continues to struggle at making much of any kind of impression as Ann, especially in the face of her half-baked relationship with Mark »
- Flickering Myth
Falling Skies season 3 episode 3 review: Badlands
17 June 2013 12:22 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Review Ron Hogan 17 Jun 2013 - 08:15
Falling Skies delivers a slower episode than last week's action-heavy two-parter. Here's Ron's review of Badlands...
This review contains spoilers.
3.3 Badlands
When you look at the television landscape, you see period dramas (Mad Men), expensive costume dramas (Game of Thrones), police procedurals, teen supernatural romances, and every other basic genre of film covered. In Falling Skies, you get a nice weekly dose of PG-13 sci-fi action with a positive, humanity-can-rise-above-our-differences message. It's a fun bit of television, but you can't rise above your differences if you don't have differences.
Thus far, the show has done a good job of keeping the antagonists somehow different from our heroes. Between harnessed kids, Pope back when he was a bad guy, and various potential collaborators (Karen in particular), there has always been a strong potential for human antagonists, but until this season, it has rarely been blatant. »
- louisamellor
Kevin Spacey Deals on ‘House of Cards’
14 June 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Kevin Spacey lives with “House of Cards” through a stack of his own cards, which are peppered with lines and directions. “My cards are my routine,” Spacey explains after another 12 hours on the set of the Netflix series, which shoots in Baltimore.
At a certain point in production, Spacey ditches his script in favor of the more mobile notecards, allowing him to wander restaurants, elevators, stores, anywhere he wants, and absorb Francis Underwood.
“I like to live with the material two weeks ahead. … My cards, they’re my compact little bible.”
As production shifts back into overdrive on the Netflix streaming series, Spacey is, in a way, only now beginning to understand his character — the conniving, power-hungry House majority whip from South Carolina hellbent on rising to America’s highest office.
Living with the likes of Underwood, who — carved with the sharp pen of scribe and showrunner Beau Willimon — is “relentless, »
- AJ Marechal
Big Fox Sports 1 Ad To Air During Mlb All-Star Game
13 June 2013 3:03 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
News Corp‘s new 24-hour national sports network launches August 17 with plans to become the main rival to Disney’s Espn. Fox Sports 1 has revealed it will be making its biggest marketing push yet beginning with a 90-second ad to air during Fox’s coverage of baseball’s All-Star Game on July 13. The network has enlisted major names to star in the commercial, according to USA Today, including Nascar drivers Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne, NFL players Joe Flacco and Patrick Willis, baseball’s Bryce Harper, U.S. women’s soccer star Alex Morgan, Mike Tyson and coaches like USC’s Lane Kiffin. Fox has enlisted David Fincher’s Jeff Cronenweth as cinematographer and music video director Joseph Kahn to helm, the paper said. Pics from the Gordon-Kahne shoot are cropping up the network’s Twitter feed, with more than 150 crew members on that Concord, Nc set alone. “In every »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Go Behind the Scenes of Alien 3
13 June 2013 12:02 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Speaking completely for myself, I have a lot of love for Alien 3, and it stands amongst one of my favorites in the entire franchise. Especially David Fincher's director's cut. Today a couple of videos have come to our attention that showcase some behind-the-scenes goodies from the flick! Dig it!
Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for diggin' these things up!
Alien 3 stars Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton, Sigourney Weaver, and Lance Henriksen.
Synopsis
In the third chapter of the most terrifying saga in sci-fi history, Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) crippled spaceship crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. But an Alien was aboard her craft... and soon the body count begins to mount!
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- Uncle Creepy
The Blu-ray/DVD One Where ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Battles ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ for the Title of Most Mediocre
11 June 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. House of Cards: The Complete First Season Congressman Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is as ambitious as they come, but his drive to succeed includes more than simply doing the best job for the American people that he can. Instead he uses every opportunity to manipulate those around him towards outcomes favorable to his career. His wife (Robin Wright) shares a similar trait in her dealings. Together and separately the pair use their influence to shape their world, and while many other people are swept into their narrative only one will meet a tragic fate. Netflix officially entered the TV production game with this 13 episode redo of the classic UK series, and the result is a solidly entertaining, wonderfully acted look at our political animals at work. It has far less bite than its UK »
- Rob Hunter
Kickstart This Project (through Indiegogo): ‘Where Is The Sun?’
10 June 2013 12:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Editor’s Note: This project is raising money through Indiegogo, a site very similar to Kickstarter
Hey Sound on Sight readers. I’m Ryan Clagg, the host of Sketchy, Sound on Sight’s cartoon podcast. I know you’re busy listening to Sketchy right now, but I urge you to take a break and check out the video below. I’m making a vampire movie, and it’s going to be awesome. But first I need help. Your help. And by that I mean money, baby. Sweet green.
In all honesty, I’m crowd sourcing this project, and I’m looking to raise about $5,000, which is actually really low budget for a feature-length project. Now, a little about the movie. It’s a drama inspired by Michael Crichton sci-fi with a David Fincher feel. There’s a little comedy and a little more gore. The story follows a woman who »
- Ryan Clagg
DVD Review - Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
10 June 2013 9:17 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Zero Dark Thirty, 2012.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kinney, Mark Duplass, Frank Grillo, Stephen Dillane, Edgar Ramirez, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Scott Adkins and John Barrowman.
Synopsis:
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.
Zero Dark Thirty opens with the sound of real 9/11 recordings, between victims and emergency services, played over a plain black background. We’re faced with echoes of the dying head-on, nowhere for us to hide. It’s harrowing, but this isn’t manipulation. The genuine screams of terror aren’t placed front and centre of Zero Dark Thirty to justify the investigation that comes after – it’s just fact, director Kathryn Bigelow is saying. This is just what happened, »
- Flickering Myth
Trailer Watch: Netflix's Summer Series 'Orange Is the New Black'
6 June 2013 10:58 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Here's the deal on Netflix. We ran into chief content officer Ted Sarandos last night at a Sundance Institute benefit, and he made it clear that the David Fincher $100-million investment in "House of Cards" sent a signal that it was Ok for anyone to jump on board a Netflix production. If it was good enough for Fincher... But the company isn't going to spend those dollars every time out--if ever again. Sarandos was a tad peeved that the New York Times jumped all over "Arrested Development" based on the first 8 episodes out of 14. (They didn't send out advance screeners because they weren't ready.) That's interesting, because while Netflix has changed viewing options so that you can binge on an entire series, that means they've also thrown out the one-week-at-a-time rules of reviewing. I'd say you can't have it both ways. As for not taking the Viacom deal that went to Amazon, »
- Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
Trailer Watch: Netflix's Summer Series 'Orange Is the New Black'
6 June 2013 10:58 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Here's the deal on Netflix. We ran into chief content officer Ted Sarandos last night at a Sundance Institute benefit, and he made it clear that the David Fincher $100-million investment in "House of Cards" sent a signal that it was Ok for anyone to jump on board a Netflix production. If it was good enough for Fincher... But the company isn't going to spend those dollars every time out--if ever again. Sarandos was a tad peeved that the New York Times jumped all over "Arrested Development" based on the first 8 episodes out of 14. (They didn't send out advance screeners because they weren't ready.) That's interesting, because while Netflix has changed viewing options so that you can binge on an entire series, that means they've also thrown out the one-week-at-a-time rules of reviewing. I'd say you can't have it both ways. As for not taking the Viacom deal that went to Amazon, »
- Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
Exclusive First Look at Tom Woodruff's King of Miseries
6 June 2013 9:30 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
You want badass? You've Got badass. Special effects legend and Academy Award-winning creature designer Tom Woodruff, Jr., is getting ready to slide into the director's chair for a project you're hearing about here for the very first time!
Below you'll find the first artwork and a sneak peek at the short film King of Miseries directed by Woodruff as a stand-alone film that will set the stage for his feature length directorial debut, Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs.
Woodruff brings 20-plus years of experience and dozens of big-budget studio projects under his belt as well as his creature effects house, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. with partner Alec Gillis. Adi’s movies include X-Men: First Class, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Alien 3, Alien vs. Predator, and most recently Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
After years working under Stan Winston, the godfather of special effects, known for everything from Aliens to Terminator to Avatar, »
- Uncle Creepy
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
Massive, 50% Off Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale at Amazon
6 June 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir. »
- Brad Brevet
'The Internship' Review: 10 Things to Know About the Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson Comedy
6 June 2013 4:03 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
This weekend, "The Internship" hits theaters nationwide, just in time to scare a new crop of college graduates into thinking that their lives are going to be really, really different if they don't find a top tier job right out of the gate. The film stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of out-of-work watch salesmen (wait, what?) who decide to bluff their way into an internship at the most prestigious place ever: Google. They soon learn that getting hired at Google isn't going to be a walk in the search engine park, and have to band together with a team of ragtag outsiders to complete a series of tasks.
Full disclosure: "The Internship" is easily one of the most excruciatingly painful moviegoing experiences this writer has had all year. Even though it's about a high-tech company, every joke feels like it's been sitting on a shelf for years, »
- Drew Taylor
Win! House Of Cards: Season 1 On Blu-Ray!
6 June 2013 3:41 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Just in time for Father’s Day, all 13 episodes will be available on the four-disc Blu-ray or four-disc DVD set for House Of Cards: The Complete First Season with stunning collectible packaging on both releases, mirroring the series’ brilliant stylistic quality. You know what’s even better? We’ve got Three on Blu-ray to giveaway!
Witness the power plays, sex and greed that motivate some of Washington’s most powerful decision-makers when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases Media Rights Capital’s House Of Cards: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray™ and DVD with UltraViolet™ June 10th. This smart, dark and hard-edged thriller tells the story of political revenge, starring two-time Academy Award® winner Kevin Spacey as ambitious and ruthless Democratic Congressman Frank Underwood, and Robin Wright as his equally focused wife, Claire. Based on the classic ‘90s British mini-series, the first season in this modern-day political series also »
- Dan Bullock
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