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Josh Brolin Talks Men In Black 3, Gangster Squad, Oldboy, Labor Day and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
25 May 2012 9:01 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Today, the third Men in Black movie hits theaters. Barry Sonnenfeld returns as director, and the story finds Will Smith’s Agent J traveling back in time to save Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K. Josh Brolin plays a younger version of Jones’ character, and does an incredible job; you’ll be totally convinced you’re watching a young Tommy Lee Jones. During my interview with Brolin, we talked about his awesome performance, his first day on set, favorite movies, Fahrenheit 451, and future projects like Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad, Jason Reitman's Labor Day, Spike Lee's Oldboy, and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hit the jump to watch the interview. Men in Black 3 also stars Jemaine Clement, Alice Eve, and Emma Thompson. In addition, make-up effects artist Rick Baker returns to the franchise and you can see some of his creature work here. Click on the corresponding links for »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Cannes 2012: We Interview Edward Norton on Moonrise Kingdom & The Bourne Legacy
22 May 2012 10:11 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
A new and welcome addition to ‘The Wes Anderson’s Players’ is Edward Norton, starring as the leader of a Khaki scout troop in Anderson’s latest film, Moonrise Kingdom (Moonrise Kingdom is out in cinemas 25 May).
I was lucky enough to speak to Norton in Cannes this week and he filled me in on what it was like working with Wes Anderson and also provided a few sparse details about the next instalment in the Bourne franchise, The Bourne Legacy.
Working on Moonrise Kingdom as part of an ensemble.
It’s great fun. I came up in the theatre, so it feels a lot like being in a theatre company. I’m still in a theatre company in New York so it’s very familiar and fun.
Wes Anderson’s way of working.
It’s not that much different… Sometimes things get as much dictated by the schedule you’ve got. »
- Craig Skinner
Photos From Spike Lee's Brazil Documentary On Country's Advances, "Go Brazil, Go!"
22 May 2012 10:08 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
A pictorial update on Spike Lee's documentary titled Go Brazil Go!, which will focus on the rise of that country (on the move particularly politically and economically) on the international scene, as one of the Bric countries, an acronym that refers to Brazil, Russia, India and China, all gradually shifting global economic power away from the so-called long-dominating developed G7 economies. It is estimated that Bric economies will overtake G7 economies by 2027, as the balance of power shifts. In the last year, in terms of Gdp (gross domestic product), Brazil overtook both France and the UK, making it the world's 6th largest economy. To be included in the documentary, »
- Tambay
Sheril Antonio: Vintage Spike Lee on HBO
20 May 2012 10:44 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Last month HBO was showing Spike Lee's Girl 6(1996) and this month (until May 28) Crooklyn (1994).
I have been encouraging folks to take a look at the films and report back on how it compares to their first viewing -- if they have seen it before and if they have not, how it aligns with their "understanding" of the auteur's style. I am currently writing about his contributions to American cinema and not only was I surprised at the results, but, so were the individual spectators. The truth is that Lee's films are far more complex than people remember or are conscious of when watching them. Here are some of the things I called attention to in our post viewing conversations about Crooklyn and Girl 6:
1: They each have women at the center of the narrative.
2: The director appears in both films.
3: They have elements that »
- Sheril Antonio
Malcolm X Was Born Today; Watch Orlando Bagwell's Comprehensive Doc "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" Now
19 May 2012 9:46 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Today in history... May 19, 1925, Malcolm Little/Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the 4th of 7 children to Earl Little and Louise Norton. Of course, I'm sure we all know of Spike Lee's 1992 epic film based on the life of the man - a film that will rest among the nation’s treasures in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings; just over a year ago, it was inducted for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. And by the way, it's now officially on Blu-ray, finally released in that format earlier this year. So you can pick up a copy if you haven't yet. I have! »
- Tambay
Shadow Of The Monarch - A Thriller with a Message
17 May 2012 4:57 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By Dawna Lee Heising, MoreHorror.com
Shadow Of The Monarch is an upcoming film that shows the power of Mind Control; “Entertainment with a Warning,” says John Luksetich, writer, director, and producer.
MoreHorror in Hollywood had a chance to sit down with with Lord Kayson, who plays (Dh), a psychopath in "Shadow of the Monarch". Kayson was in Clockers with Spike Lee.
You can watch the video interview with Lord Kayson conducted by Dawna Lee Heising below the full article.
Go Nuts Films and Dreyluca Productions have announced the start of filming of the company’s most ambitious undertaking, Shadow of the Monarch. The film, which is said to have its story roots in actual mind control attempts and experiments perpetrated over the years, has been in the development stage for the better part of a year. John Luksetich, writer, producer and director of the film, did extensive research on »
- admin
Battleship: How to Get a Sinking Feeling at the Cinema
17 May 2012 2:32 PM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
If Ed Wood had a budget of a $100 million to throw around, even he might not have been able to direct a film as godawful as Battleship -- or as in poor taste. This cheesy exploitation of our men in uniform, including those who lost their limbs overseas in the belief they were fighting to preserve democracy, makes you almost cringe at the hubris of the Hollywood types who pulled this fiasco together.
There is basically no plot. The direction is nil. The acting is uneven. (Brooklyn Decker is clearly up for a Razzie this year.) The screenplay is truly one of the worst of the year so far, and that’s saying a lot. If you can sit through the film’s first half hour without wondering if anything is ever going to happen, you are either brain dead or an eleven-year-old boy.
Brian Goldner, the president and CEO of Hasbro, »
- Brandon Judell
Marvel’s Next Avengers Film #3: Luke Cage and Iron Fist
16 May 2012 3:30 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
With “The Avengers” sequel officially confirmed by Marvel/Disney, comic book fans the world over will be contemplating which of the publisher’s other heroes could be added to the line-up, potentially getting their own solo movie as soon as 2014 – filling the popularly acknowledged gap in the schedule alongside Captain America 2 that summer.
Of course, we have to bear in mind that Marvel Studios do not own the film rights to characters as key to their comic book universe as Daredevil, Spider-Man, Wolverine or the Fantastic Four – all of whom have allied with or become members of the Avengers at one time or another – but with that consideration in place, here is another suggestion for Marvel’s Next Avengers Film:
Power Man (Luke Cage) and Iron Fist (Daniel Rand)
Why?: Because they are an awesome pairing and, whilst both characters could easily sustain their own solo movie, a »
- Robert Beames
Demystifying Cannes Film Festival: India at Cannes 2012
15 May 2012 11:03 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Breaking myths and telling you everything that you should know about Indian films at Cannes Film Festival 2012
Which are the Indian films at 65th Cannes Film Festival?
Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia in Un Certain Regard
Peddlers by Vasan Bala in 51st Cannes Critics Week
Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & 2 in Directors’ Fortnight
Kalpana by Uday Shankar in Cannes Classics
Project ‘The Untold Tale’ by Shivajee Chandrabhushan in L’Atelier
Are Cannes Critics Week and Directors’ Fortnight official selections?
No. They are parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival.
Then what is official selection?
Cannes Film Festival official selection comprises of Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Classics and the Cinéfondation.
The most important of the official selection are the Competition and Un Certain Regard. Films that are representative of “arthouse cinema with a wide audience appeal” are presented in Competition, and Un Certain Regard »
- Nandita Dutta
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky to be Honored at Silverdocs
15 May 2012 1:15 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The 2012 Guggenheim Symposium at AFI-Discover Channel Silverdocs will recognize the work of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, best known for the "Paradise Lost" films. Previous honorees include Barbara Kopple, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and Frederick Wiseman. Full press release reprinted below: Joe Berlinger And Bruce Sinofsky Honored At AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Charles Guggenheim Symposium Past Honorees Include Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Barbara Kopple Silver Spring, MD, May 14, 2012 – AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival, the American Film Institute’s annual recognition of excellence in documentary film, announced that it will honor Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky on June 19, 2012, at its Charles Guggenheim Symposium for their collective and individual contributions to the documentary genre. The symposium, named after the late, four-time Academy Award winner Charles »
- Austin Dale
Watch: First Trailer for Michel Gondry's Peculiar 'The We and the I'
15 May 2012 11:36 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
For awhile we've heard various details about Michel Gondry's newest film The We and the I, which will be making its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month (stay tuned right here for all of Alex's coverage). Previously we heard that the film would follow a group of unknown actors as a group of school kids who travel into the future by mistake and discover a machine that keeps people younger. Sounded like a Gondry film to us, but with the first trailer just revealed, this looks like a Spike Lee movie, but a bit more uplifting and with a coming-of-age charm at the heart of it. At the very least, it seems refreshing. Watch it! Here's the first trailer for Michel Gondry's The We and the I via Bleeding Cool: Michel Gondry directs The We and the I from a script that he wrote with Jeffrey Grimshaw »
- Ethan Anderton
On The Rise 2012: 10 Directors Who Look To Be Bright Sparks Of The Future
15 May 2012 11:33 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Like it or not, filmmaking is undeniably a director's medium. It wasn't always like that, of course: it was only the coming of the auteur theory in the 1950s and 1960s that popularized the idea of the director as the person responsible for all that was great and terrible about a picture. And while anyone who's worked in film knows that it's a collaborative medium, there's still no better way of seeing where the form might be going in the next few years than by looking at the directors who've been making splashes of late.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 14th May
14 May 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Continuing on from the start of our new weekly feature last week, rounding up the new releases coming to DVD and Blu-ray each Monday, we have a brilliant line-up of films making their way to the shelves of your local stores today, and of course the virtual shelves online.
We’re treated to a fantastic set of new films this week – some of the finest of last year – a few excellent TV shows, and a handful of classics that are being given the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time.
We’re big fans of the Blu-ray format here at HeyUGuys, and can’t recommend it enough to you. If your television has the means to play Blu-rays and you don’t yet have a player, I thoroughly encourage you to treat yourself to one at the nearest possible opportunity. I made the upgrade about two years ago, »
- Kenji Lloyd
Dark Shadows or Who Stole My Fangs?
12 May 2012 11:52 AM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
In Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, a white-faced, put-upon vampire, Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp), is unwittingly released into the modern world of 1972 after having been encased in a coffin for nearly two centuries. Immediately, the very thirsty bloodsucker sips the blood of the dozen construction workers who had unwittingly let him loose.
Refreshed, Collins uncomprehendingly walks through the town named for his family, amazed at the sights of graveled roads, automobiles, traffic lights, bulldozers, and folks eating ice cream sundaes in diners. Unsettled, he heads for his once-glamorous homestead, Collinwood Manor, to discover if any of his bloodline is still alive. "Family is the only real wealth," he notes.
Well, yessiree! By golly, the Collins clan has survived, although only by the skin of their teeth. There's the steely family matriarch (Michelle Pfeiffer), her widowed, negligible brother Roger (Jonny Lee Miller) , her rebellious teen daughter Carolyn (Chloe Grace Moretz), and »
- Brandon Judell
Review: ‘Tonight You’re Mine’ Is Thin, One-Note and Hard to Sit Through
12 May 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
David Mackenzie’s Tonight You’re Mine offers an adequate travelogue depiction of Scotland’s T in the Park music festival, with a minuscule, tired story mixed in. Shot amid the real event, the movie’s best and most noteworthy moments are the montages, wide shots and other scenic depictions of the throngs cavorting around the various stages, tents and camping areas. The rest of it is flagrantly ridiculous junk, about feuding rockers Adam (Luke Treadaway) and Morello (Natalia Tena), who are handcuffed together by a black musician bent on teaching the white protagonists a lesson, fulfilling all the requirements of what Spike Lee calls the “magical Negro.” Yet, in one of the great all-time cinematic surprises, Adam and Morello grow fond of each other and begin to relish being chained together. Their significant others, who are also at the festival, struggle to make sense of things. This leads to a lot of spectacular tedium, as »
- Robert Levin
Ester Bloom: Stumbling Toward Diversity
11 May 2012 3:12 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Pop culture doesn't reflect the diversity of day-to-day life in America, especially in urban centers. Lena Dunham's new series Girls on HBO -- so wonderfully, awkwardly realistic when it comes to depicting bad job interviews, the vagaries of friendship, and bad sex -- flails like a dying fish when dealing with race. Its world is so homogeneous that the show would be more accurately titled White Girls. NBC's The Office, set in Scranton, Pa., is more ethnically-mixed than Dunham's Brooklyn; so is the Seattle of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, which led the charge with color-blind casting in 2005. According to the New York Times:
Grey's Anatomy has differentiated itself by creating a diverse world of doctors -- almost half the cast are men and women of color -- and then never acknowledging it. ...
When [Shonda] Rhimes wrote the pilot [of Grey's Anatomy], she didn't specify the characters' ethnicities, so her casting process was wide open: Mr. »
- Ester Bloom
Josh Brolin Excited To Play 'Funky' Hunchback Of Notre Dame
11 May 2012 11:48 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Josh Brolin is a busy man these days, with his scene-stealing and spot-on performance as young Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in "Men In Black 3," chasing baddie Sean Penn with Ryan Gosling in the buzzy ensemble crime flick "Gangster Squad," and getting "gnarly" in Spike Lee's "Oldboy."
Would you believe he's also got a dark and dramatic adaptation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in the works with a possible assist from Tim Burton?
Brolin recently told MTV News how the project suddenly came together. "'Hunchback' will happen for sure, for sure," he said. "I woke up one morning and said, 'I want to do 'Hunchback of Notre Dame.'"
The actor also spoke about Burton's involvement with the project, which is currently unclear. "[I] talked to Tim [Burton] for awhile, talked to the studio, all that yeah. Tim's involvement might be direct. It might be indirect, but it's going to happen for sure. »
- Kara Warner
Robert De Niro Joins Michael Douglas In ‘Last Vegas;’ Joe Drake Brokering Offshore Deals At Cannes
10 May 2012 4:24 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
CBS Films has formalized its deal for Robert De Niro to join Michael Douglas in Last Vegas, the Jon Turtletaub-directed comedy about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one among them who hasn’t married. Douglas plays the lifelong bachelor finally taking the plunge and De Niro plays his party-averse friend who reluctantly flies to Vegas to see his pals. Dan Fogelman wrote the script. CBS Films is making the film with Good Universe, the new company that is launching its offshore sales operation at Cannes, headed by former Lionsgate executive Joe Drake. Laurence Mark and Amy Baer are producing and Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane and Nicole Brown are executive producers. Drake and Kahane kick off their Cannes operations with Last Vegas and Oldboy, the Spike Lee-directed remake of the Chan-wook Park film. Josh Brolin stars. »
- MIKE FLEMING
Will Smith Offers Up An Update On Hancock 2; Josh Brolin Comments On Oldboy Remake
10 May 2012 1:38 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Talking to MTV Splash Page at the Us press junket for Men in Black 3 (released April 25th), both Will Smith and Josh Brolin were asked about two other projects they're attached to. For Smith, that's a sequel to Peter Berg's Hancock, while Brolin was quizzed on his role in the planned remake of Oldboy from director Spike Lee. As you can see below, their responses differ greatly and with the one project no more than a rumour while the other begins filming in October, it's pretty obvious which we'll see first! Check out the interviews below and be sure to sound off with your thoughts in the usual place. Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog "This is a world where entertainment is consumed on so many different levels that sequels and all those ancillary products and that stuff are always in the working. There are so many outlets »
Josh Brolin Promises 'Oldboy' Remake Will Get 'Gnarly'
10 May 2012 11:25 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Everyday is a good day to talk more about the upcoming English version of "Oldboy," right? Particularly when we have word from star Josh Brolin that the Spike Lee-directed adaptation is going to be plenty "gnarly" and that even Korean fans of Chan-wook Park's version are psyched to see it.
“A lot of people are bringing it up, which I love," Brolin told MTV News about the genuine interest in the film during the "Men In Black 3" junket. "Chan-wook Park’s version was, his original version of 'Oldboy' was fantastic. And I emailed him recently, and asked him for his blessing, that we do our version of the movie. And he was absolutely for it, actually really kind of happy that it was being done again and he was honored."
"He said that in Korea, people are very jazzed about the prospect of it being done here, »
- Kara Warner
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