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This week's new film events
25 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Tyneside 75, Newcastle upon Tyne
What better way to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the cinematic medium than with a 75-hour film marathon? And what better value in the land can there be this weekend than 75p a film? The selection here has been chosen by cinemagoers, who were asked last year to vote on their favourite films of the past 75 years, so they're all movies you'd gladly watch again and again, from Annie Hall to Chasing Amy, The Princess Bride to The Great Dictator, Evil Dead II to The Third Man. The 75 hours is divided into 25 hours on each of the three screens, in case you were wondering. Being a marathon, some films still start at three in the morning. But come on! 75p!
Tyneside Cinema, Sat & Sun
Warren Beatty & Shirley MacLaine, London
Who knows what Kathlyn Corinne MacLean and Ira Owens Beaty did in the 1930s to produce not »
- Steve Rose
News Nuggets: Meryl Streep to present Shirley MacLaine with AFI Life Achievement Award
23 May 2012 1:31 PM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Meryl Streep will present Shirley MacLaine with AFI Life Achievement Award. From the press release: "The private black tie gala will be held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City on June 7 and will air on TV Land on Sunday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt ... 'The world loves Shirley MacLaine,' said Bob Gazzale, President and CEO of AFI. 'AFI's challenge will be how to fit it all into one evening because hers is a life that spans from movies to television to Broadway, books and beyond. Perhaps more than any other recipient, with Shirley I would underline the word life in Life Achievement Award,' he said. 'Hers is a story more than just movies. It’s an epic journey, and she has invited all of us to come along for the ride.'" Matt Roush sings the praises of "The Middle": "I haven't seen a »
Meryl Streep to Present AFI Life Achievement Award to Shirley MacLaine
23 May 2012 8:45 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Shirley MacLaine will be presented with the American Film Institute’s 40th Life Achievement Award by former AFI honoree Meryl Streep. The private black tie gala will be held on Thursday, June 7 at the historic Stage 15 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. The ceremony will air on TV Land on Sunday, June 24 at 9pm Et/Pt. The Life Achievement Award is the highest honor for a career in film. Streep, who played MacLaine’s daughter in ‘Postcards From the Edge,’ was honored with the award in 2004. Streep will be joined by various film luminaries to celebrate MacLaine’s career as an actress, singer, author, director and producer. Bob Gazzale, [ Read More ] »
- Karen Benardello
Meryl Streep Will Present Shirley MacLaine With American Film Institute.s 40th Life Achievement Award
22 May 2012 9:26 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Meryl Streep will present Shirley MacLaine with the American Film Institute.s 40th Life Achievement Award . America.s highest honor for a career in film. The private black tie gala will be held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City on June 7 and will air on TV Land on Sunday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt.
Streep, who was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, played MacLaine.s daughter in Postcards From The Edge (1990). Both actresses are multiple Academy Award recipients. Streep, nominated a record 17 times, including for Postcards From The Edge, won for The Iron Lady (2011), Sophie.S Choice (1982) and Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979) while MacLaine, nominated six times, won for her portrayal of Aurora Greenway in Terms Of Endearment (1983).
Luminaries from across the film community will join Streep to celebrate the career of Shirley MacLaine, one of America.s treasured motion picture artists. »
- Michelle McCue
Meryl Streep to Present Shirley MacLaine With AFI Life Achievement Award
22 May 2012 4:54 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Shirley MacLaine will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award from Meryl Streep at the AFI Gala Tribute this year, the organization said Tuesday. MacLaine and Streep co-starred in the 1990 Mike Nichols film "Postcards From the Edge." Streep received the award in 2004. Also read: Shirley MacLaine to Receive AFI's Life Achievement Award “The world loves Shirley MacLaine,” AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale said. “AFI's challenge will be how to fit it all into one evening because hers is a life that spans from movies to television to Broadway, books and beyond. Perhaps »
- Tim Kenneally
Deborah Kerr: What Lies Beneath
22 May 2012 2:02 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity. With Deborah Kerr, it’s not the bare shoulders that matter. It’s the eyes. Deborah Kerr, who died at the age of 86 on Oct. 16, 2007, has usually been labeled the cinematic embodiment of the English Rose: ladylike from coiffure to pedicure, perfectly enunciated English, a distinctive coolness, poise and class. I won’t argue with that description (except to point out that this English Rose was born in Scotland), but all the same I wonder if any of those labelers have ever watched Deborah Kerr on screen other than the "Shall We Dance?" sequence in The King and I. Then there are those who have seen two Deborah Kerr scenes: "Shall We Dance?" and the kissing-on-the-beach bit in From Here to Eternity. Shocking! Who would have guessed that the cool, red-headed British lady could be so fiery? Well, anyone who has paid »
- Andre Soares
Film Review: Tour de Force for Jack Black in Fact-Based ‘Bernie’
18 May 2012 3:34 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Jack Black is a smart and interesting actor. Not content to ride on the modern day John Belushi-type roles that might have pigeonholed him, Black portrays “Bernie,” a convincing conniver in Texas, based on a true story. Veterans Matthew McConaughhey and Shirley MacLaine add spice to the brew.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Proving again that truth is stranger than fiction, director Richard Linklater (“Me and Orson Welles,” “Dazed and Confused”) goes back to his native Texas and creates a dark comedy based on the memorable personalities that are involved in this true story of a rich widow and her caretaker named Bernie. Jack Black establishes the Bernie character early, and precisely delivers all of the permutations that makes the circumstance so unbelievable. The story is driven by Black, and he makes the character both sympathetic and clearly off-kilter.
Bernie (Jack Black) is a mortician, looking for a new town in Texas to ply his trade. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
We Interview Jack Black for Richard Linklater's Bernie!
18 May 2012 12:53 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Jack Black talks Millennium Entertainment's Bernie, also starring Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine Jack Black is, of course, known for being a wild and crazy guy. So you can expect a lot of eyebrows to be raised over his new film, "Bernie," in which he plays the title role, Bernie Tiede, a fussy gay man who becomes the personal assistant to an octogenarian widow until he gets so fed up with her that he shoots her in the back with a hunting rifle. The movie, which reunites Black with his "School of Rock" director Richard Linklater, is a dark comedy, based on real events, and though Black has played several dramatic roles over the years, it's definitely a change in direction for him. Black actually met with the real Bernie Tiede, who is currently spending a life sentence in prison, to prepare for the role, and he spoke to Upcoming-Movies. »
Linklater's "Bernie" Turns A Fascinating Murder Story Into A Shallow Romp
18 May 2012 10:20 AM, PDT | Filmology | See recent Filmology news »
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Bernie, Richard Linklater's newest film, is an odd, disjointed, always fascinating but ultimately shallow movie about Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), a mortician and town vivant in Carthage, Texas, who inexplicably takes up with a nasty widow twice his age and then just as inexplicably murders her. The film is based off a Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth (who shares screenwriting credit here), and has all the elements of drama except the drama itself.
Two enigmas swirl about the film, the first Black's Tiede, a gregarious, Christian, possibly gay and certainly eccentric assistant funeral director for whom the entire town of Carthage swoons. He sings like an angel at church, dispenses tax advice to his blue collar buddies, and goes above and beyond for the widows whose husbands he prepares for the afterlife.
Bernie meets his biggest challenge in Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine »
- Evan McMurry
Bernie – The Review
18 May 2012 5:09 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
A True Crime story – In 1997, in the town of Carthage, Texas, the body of wealthy, epically bitchy widow Marjorie Nugent, 81, was found in her freezer, shot four times in the back. Beloved local funeral director Bernie Tiede soon confessed to the murder so the District Attorney took him to trial and won a conviction. Director/writer Richard Linklater’s comic take on this story is the new film Bernie.
Bernie (played by Jack Black) is well-regarded by his boss not only for his skill in dressing up the deceased, but in subtly pushing more expensive coffins on their families. He’s a pudgy, effeminate man who sings with a church choir and is the director and leading man in a local production of The Music Man. Is Bernie gay? One Carthagian notes: “He just loves hugging and kissing the old ladies, but a woman his own age he wouldn’t »
- Tom Stockman
Casting: Bean, Pinto, Sarandon, Black
18 May 2012 1:01 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Sean Bean, Sean Pertwee, Tom Savini and Craig Conway have all signed on for Shaun Robert Smith's WW2 action-horror film "The 4th Reich" at Mann Made Films. Shooting will take place this Summer.
The story follows a brigade of British soldiers sent into occupied mainland Europe who find themselves up against an enemy created by Nazi scientists as an all-powerful fighting force for what would be the 4th Reich. [Source: Risky Biz Blog]
Desert Dancer
Freida Pinto, Alfred Molina and Reece Ritchie have joined Richard Raymond's UK biopic "Desert Dancer" about the life of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian.
Set against the backdrop of the 2009 election protests in Iran, Ritchie plays a young man willing to risk his life to fight for his dream to become a dancer. Shooting begins this summer in Turkey and Jordan. [Source: Variety]
Ping-Pong Summer
Susan Sarandon is set to star in Michael Tully's "Ping-Pong Summer »
- Garth Franklin
Jack Black to Star in Wild Oats Alongside Shirley MacLaine, Jacki Weaver, and Alan Arkin
17 May 2012 3:17 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Though the two just starred together in Richard Linklater’s Bernie, Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine are already planning a reunion of sorts. It was announced today (via ScreenDaily) that Black and MacLaine will star in the comedy Wild Oats alongside Jacki Weaver and Alan Arkin. The caper follows two fugitives who are forced to outwit a trio of conmen and the law, with Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink) onboard to direct from a script by Gary Kanew and Claudia Myers. The cast is impressive, but Deutch’s recent filmography (My Best Friend’s Girl, The Whole Ten Yards) isn’t exactly up to par with his earlier material. Production on Wild Oats is set to get underway in mid-July, but Black is also attached to star in Charlie Kaufman’s incredibly promising Frank or Francis. That film has a solid cast, but producers are still firming up financing before production can begin. »
- Adam Chitwood
Jack Black Reunites With Shirley MacLaine on ‘Wild Oats’; Alan Arkin and Jacki Weaver Also Starring
17 May 2012 1:05 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Maybe Jack Black is getting his career back into shape. Right in the wake of Richard Linklater‘s (reportedly amiable) Bernie getting a tiny release, ScreenDaily reports that he and Shirley MacLaine will collaborate once more on Wild Oats, an independent comedy that Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink) is directing; Alan Arkin and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) are also locked to star.
ThePlaylist have some finer points on the story, informing us that Oats (written by Gary Kanew and Claudia Myers) is the story of two women (Weaver and MacLaine) who go to Las Vegas after one is sent a Social Security check for $900,000; there, the friends encounter three criminals who try to swindle the money from their grabs. And, although it’s not confirmed by any means, I’m guessing Arkin and Black will play two of those three fellows, if only because I like to make assumptions based on little-to-no proper information. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Jack Black To Sow 'Wild Oats' With Shirley MacLaine, Alan Arkin And Jacki Weaver
17 May 2012 11:50 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Clearly, Jack Black made one too many "Gulliver's Travels" or "A Big Year" -- in the last twelve months or so, the comic star (who just released a new record under his Tenacious D guise) has veered mostly away from big studio comedies to more interesting sounding indie-type projects, like Richard Linklater's recent, and very charming "Bernie," prospective Michael Winterbottom project "Bailout," and Charlie Kaufman's "Frank or Francis." And now, there's another one on his dance card that sounds pretty promising, all in all.
Screen Daily report that the actor is in talks to join Howard Deutch's "Wild Oats," which would see him reteam with his "Bernie" co-star Shirley MacLaine, as well as the great Alan Arkin and "Animal Kingdom" Oscar-nominee Jacki Weaver. The film stars MacLaine and Weaver as two best friends who leave their small Ohio town for Las Vegas after MacLaine's character accidentally receives »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Jack Black to Join Shirley MacLaine in 'Wild Oats'
17 May 2012 11:38 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Jack Black must have really enjoyed working with Shirley MacLaine on the recent indie comedy "Bernie," because he's already planning a cinematic reunion with his brassy co-star. The "School of Rock" funnyman is in talks to join MacLaine in "Wild Oats" for director Howard Deutch ("Pretty in Pink"). Also read: Animated Jack Black & Jason Siegel Sing 'Little Drummer Boy' (Video) The film's cast also includes Jacki Weaver, who earned in Oscar nomination for her villainous turn in "Animal Kingdom," and Academy Award winner Alan Arkin ("Little Miss Sunshine"). "Wild Oats" is billed as a »
- Brent Lang
Set Photo Round-Up: First Look at Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh in Hitchcock; Ben Stiller and Adam Scott Face Off in Walter Mitty
16 May 2012 9:29 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
We’ve got a couple of set photos to share this morning. First up is Scarlett Johansson in Hitchcock. Last month we got our first look at Anthony Hopkins in his full, uncanny makeup as legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock for the film. Directed by Sacha Gervasi, the pic follows Hitchcock through the troubled production of Psycho, and we now have our first look at Johansson as the film’s “star” Janet Leigh. It’s not the best image, but Johansson does certainly look the part. This project is incredibly high on my most anticipated list, especially with a stacked cast that includes Helen Mirren, Jessica Biel, Toni Collette, Danny Huston and more. Additionally, we’ve got our first images of Ben Stiller and a fake beareded-Adam Scott fighting over a Stretch Armstrong doll for some reason in the remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Stiller is directing the project, »
- Adam Chitwood
Abundance Of New Shots From Stiller’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
16 May 2012 6:47 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Check out these curious new images from Ben Stiller’s upcoming film, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, which also stars Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn (allegedly), Adam Scott and Shirley MacLaine. Co-written by Steve Conrad and James Thurber, the story takes us on a journey with the eponymous character, who is, initially, just a mild-mannered magazine photo manager, until he is forced to answer the call to adventure when an important negative goes missing.
Ben Stiller also directs the film – his first feature since Tropic Thunder in 2008 – and with a cast like this, we might be forgiven for expecting nothing less than pure comedy gold from the prolific actor, producer, writer… well, he has too many previous job roles to list, but you get the idea!
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is due for release in 2013.
Source: IMDb
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- Martin Daniel McDonagh
First Look: Ben Stiller on the set of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
15 May 2012 8:41 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Get your first look at Ben Stiller and co-star Adam Scott on the set of Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. Stiller directs the film, about a timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through awesome daydreams where he always beats the bad guys and gets the girls, but must embark on a true-life adventure when an important negative goes missing in the real world. Apparently that “adventure” involves fighting over a Stretch Armstrong toy with Adam Scott. It looks like Stiller is losing, if all those bumps and bruises on his face are any indication. Wonder why he’s hooked up, though. Going flying, perhaps? “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” co-stars Kristen Wiig, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt, Shirley MacLaine, Josh Charles, and is due sometime in 2013. Get more images and videos in our “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” preview page »
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Juliette or Guilietta?
10 May 2012 8:33 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Have you heard that Juliette Lewis will be starring in a film called The Days of Mary (2013?) loosely based on Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning Nights of Cabiria (1957)? It feels like her first lead role in ages so we hope it actually happens.
poll by twiigs.com
It's now in Reno -- practically Rome's twin ! (kidding) -- and Juliette is a girl looking for love in, we presume, the wrong places. Bad things tend to happen in movies where Juliette is entangled romantically: mass murder (Nbk), end of times chaos (Strange Days), thumbsucking (Cape Fear) but this project doesn't feel as shocking / sacrilegious when you remember that Nights of Cabiria has already been reimagined once as Sweet Charity (1969) starring Shirley Maclaine.
Okay, wait, we need to remake reboot reimagine that poll now...
poll by twiigs.com
Have you seen Nights of Cabiria and Sweet Charity? If not, get on that, will ya? »
- NATHANIEL R
Director Laurie Collyer’s Sunlight Jr. Shines With Hyde Park International At Cannes; Stars Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus & Matt Dillon
9 May 2012 3:13 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The gritty, inspirational drama Sunlight Jr. will be unveiled to international buyers by Hyde Park International at this year.s Marche du Film. Written and directed by the award-winning Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby) and starring Naomi Watts (J. Edgar, King Kong), Matt Dillon (Crash, There.S Something About Mary) and Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints, The Walking Dead). The film is produced by Original Media.s Charlie Corwin (Half Nelson, The Squid And The Whale), Freight Yard Films. Andrea Roa and Ariel Elia, who is producing on behalf of Empyrean Pictures. Joshua Skurla and Dan Klabin are executive producers for Empyrean, which fully financed the film, and are joined by Simon Fawcett (How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, In The Loop) as executive producer.
Sunlight Jr. is currently in post production and a promo will be shown at Cannes. Shot on location in southern Florida, the story spotlights hard-working convenience store »
- Michelle McCue
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