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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
19 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Grey; Haywire; The Descendants
From the outside, The Grey (2011, Entertainment, 15) looks like just another tired riff on the dreary "man v (his own) nature" theme that in the not too distant past gave us the ponderous tedium of the David Mamet-scripted The Edge. In that self-important dirge-fest, an air crash left Alec Baldwin and (Sir!) Anthony Hopkins to sort out their manly differences in the North American wilds while being pursued by a clumsily symbolic bear. The Grey similarly ditches its mismatched airborne characters into an inhospitably freezing landscape where their interpersonal conflicts will be played out against a background of baying – and occasionally attacking – wolves.
Liam Neeson, who has recently morphed from admired thespian to existential action hero, plays the lone wolf-hunter, a marksman who understands the call of the wild: Le Samourai in snowboots, with a hint of Jim Jarmusch's underrated Dead Man thrown in for good measure. »
- Mark Kermode
After 'The Artist': Berenice Bejo Talks Michel Hazanavicius' 'The Search,' Jean Dujardin To Star With Tim Roth In 'Mobius'
18 May 2012 5:50 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
As Harvey Weinstein crawls on hands and knees up the Croisette, searching desperately for the next film to equal the success of last year’s golden child, “The Artist,” it can be hard to recall just how unique and singular the film seemed when first shown at Cannes, before its subsequent release and obnoxious awards season buzz. The plain fact is, director Michel Hazanavicius & Co. made a tremendous film, and today news has sprung up that the cast and crew will continue to pursue interesting projects, ones that find them in a distinctly different environment than before.
Jean Dujardin’s dazzling smile and comic chops largely dominated “Artist” discussion, but really it was actress Berenice Bejo who truly grounded the film with an emotional center, oftentimes playing the straight performer but owning some fine comic moments herself. She then broke men’s hearts everywhere with news that she was married to Hazanavicius, »
- Charlie Schmidlin
Lindsay Lohan Recruits Top TV Decorator For Home Revamp
16 May 2012 3:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Lindsay Lohan is cashing in on her comeback film and TV roles by redecorating her home - and she's televising the makeover.
The actress was spotted furniture shopping at Beverly Hills' exclusive Kreiss showroom on Tuesday with in-demand interior decorator Kathryn Ireland and a camera crew - and now reports suggest her spending spree will feature on reality TV show Million Dollar Decorator later this year.
An insider tells HollyScoop.com, "The show will air in America this coming fall."
Ireland is not new to celebrity demands - her clients have included Steve Martin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and director/playwright David Mamet.
The website reports Lohan's shopping spree at Kreiss was a big hit and the actress went home with two St. Regis sofas, two St. Regis armchairs, a pair of Venetian table lamps and two cast bronze candlestick lamps and an array of outdoor furniture.
Lohan is currently prepping her new Beverly Hills home after moving out of her former pad in Venice, California, where she spent a period under house arrest last year. »
White House Down Looks To Add Channing Tatum
14 May 2012 9:30 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
This year’s hottest script closes in on leading man.
The biggest deal for a spec script this year was the $3 million that Sony Pictures lavished upon James Vanderbilt for his Die Hard-in-the-White-House regurge, White House Down, due to start shooting later this year.
To the best of my knowledge, which is almost comically limited, there is no database yet in existence to search out what the highest-priced spec script for any given year, much less one that will allow the user to cross reference the script with the eventual gross of the film that was eventually made from that script. If there was, I’m guessing that the upper-echelon scripts in terms of price point don’t reflect anything in terms of a consistency of quality. For example, I’m guessing that the $1 million that David Mamet received for Glengarry Glen Ross was probably not the biggest dollar figure »
- Josh Converse
Extended Thoughts on ‘The Avengers’
12 May 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
I vividly remember a conversation I had with a family friend back in November of 2005. It was Thanksgiving weekend, and my soon-to-be-wife and I had just come from a screening of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For those who have only seen the movie, or who’ve neither seen the films or read the book series, Goblet of Fire was somewhat unique when it was released because it was a far longer book than any of its predecessors. For context, it’s nearly twice as long as each of the three books that came before it. The decision to split up the final book in the series into two films may have surprised some, but considering how much more material is in the last four books, it’s not too shocking. Splitting one book into two films ostensibly means far less of the source material is left out. »
- Josh Spiegel
Danny DeVito Wraps Shooting On New Thriller
11 May 2012 10:11 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
The Complex examines Danny’s potential for success as purveyor of thrills and chills.
There was a time in the early ’90s that it looked like Danny DeVito was really about to sprout his directorial wings and fly. He’d made two pretty successful comedies in Throw Momma from the Train and War of the Roses before moving directing David Mamet’s epic screenplay for Hoffa.
Interesting film, Hoffa. I was more or less a kid in ’92 when that film came out, and I think I took it in at the theater three times. There was a resurgence of mob-leaning movies in those days after the revelation of GoodFellas, and whatever it was that The Godfather: Part III turned out to be. I loved all that stuff so I absorbed as much of it as I could.
Hoffa looked and felt like a great film, but twenty years later, I »
- Josh Converse
Why the world needs Val Kilmer
11 May 2012 7:38 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He could have been another Brad Pitt. Instead he's doing one-man stage shows. Is it time for a rescue plan?
For some time now, I have belonged to a secret society known as the League of Rueful Val Kilmer Enthusiasts. It consists of men of a certain age who adore Tombstone and Heat, and who also have a soft spot for The Doors and The Ghost and the Darkness. And, of course, Top Gun. What unites the members of the league is our affection for the actor himself, mingled with regret that Kilmer did not become the intergalactically famous star we wanted him to be. We also resent the fact that he did not make more movies like Heat while he was young and athletic enough to pull it off.
Because now it is too late. Kilmer has reached the point in his career where he is performing in a one-man show called Citizen Twain, »
- Joe Queenan
Stuart Gordon's 'Re-Animator' Revived
10 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
Stuart Gordon has two ardent -- and wildly different -- fan bases. Most people are probably familiar with Gordon as the writer-director of such low-budget horror classics as "Re-Animator" and "From Beyond," both based on pulpy stories from beloved cult author H.P. Lovecraft. Then there is Gordon the theater artist, a man who founded Chicago's prestigious Organic Theater Company, worked with Joseph Papp at the Public Theater, and helped bring David Mamet to prominence by directing the world premiere of "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." But recently, Gordon says, the two camps have begun to merge. A large amount of credit for the crossover is due to Gordon's latest incarnation of "Re-Animator" -- a bloody good musical set to travel the world.Slightly revised from the critically acclaimed production that played Hollywood's Steve Allen Theatre in 2011, "Re-Animator the Musical" will run at L.A.'s Hayworth Theatre through July 8, then at the. »
- help@backstage.com (Jenelle Riley)
'Girls' Star Zosia Mamet On Not Being Shoshanna & Famous Parents
7 May 2012 8:18 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Of all the actresses on HBO's “Girls” (Sundays at 10:30 p.m. Et) Zosia Mamet is the least like her character.
“I don’t watch much television,” Mamet, who plays "Sex and the City"-obsessed Shoshanna, told HuffPost TV. “My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he’d send me out on auditions and I’d be like, ‘What’s this show?’ and he’d be like, ‘It’s literally the top show on television.’ I wasn’t allowed to watch TV as a kid.”
About that childhood: Mamet’s mother is, of course, actress Lindsay Crouse, and her father is writer David Mamet.
“I thought about changing my name when I started working,” Mamet said. “But I was like, ‘Fuck that. It’s my name, I don’t want to change it.’” The actress has been working since she was 17, and has appeared on “Parenthood, »
- Christopher Rosen
'Girls' Star Zosia Mamet On Not Being Shoshanna & Famous Parents
7 May 2012 6:28 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Of all the actresses on HBO's “Girls” (Sundays at 10:30 p.m. Et) Zosia Mamet is the least like her character.
“I don't watch much television,” Mamet, who plays "Sex and the City"-obsessed Shoshanna, told HuffPost TV. “My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, ‘What's this show?' and he'd be like, ‘It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.”
About that childhood: Mamet's mother is, of course, actress Lindsay Crouse, and her father is writer David Mamet.
“I thought about changing my name when I started working,” Mamet said. “But I was like, ‘Fuck that. It's my name, I don't want to change it.'” The actress has been working since she was 17, and has appeared on “Parenthood,” “The United States of Tara” and »
- Christopher Rosen
Catching Up With the Tony Nominees
4 May 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Getty Images David Alan Grier during curtain call at ‘The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ Broadway opening night in January.
Nominations for the Tony Awards were announced this week, and Speakeasy caught up with some of this year’s nominees to discuss their roles, how they’re celebrating with fellow cast members, and what the nomination means to them.
Below is the first part of the interviews, listed by nominee’s name, the category for which they received recognition, and their show. »
- Barbara Chai
Mad Men: "At the Codfish Ball"--An Expert Opinion
1 May 2012 10:25 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Mad Men: "At the Codfish Ball"--An Expert Opinion
"Don't Ever grow up to be like me."
I have settled into a habit this season, one that I suspect is not unknown to fellow viewers, but certainly is unknown to viewers of any other show—I don’t look up the title of a Mad Men episode until long after the show is over.
The importance of titles to Mad Men is another facet of Matthew Weiner’s literary leanings. Sure every television series’ episodes are titled, but few carry the same kind of weight, provide deeper insight, or allow for profitable rumination than this one—similar post-episode homework on a show like The Big Bang Theory may yield passing wisdom into certain strains of scientific supposition, none more eye-opening than the paradox of a show about “smart” people that is so staggeringly stupid (And cartoonish. And vapid. Don »
- Jesse McLean
Netflix Shares Big Plan For 'Arrested Development' Release
19 April 2012 7:57 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Ladies and gentlemen, make sure you have a sick day to spare in 2013, because it looks like the new season of "Arrested Development" -- yes, all ten episodes -- are going to premiere all at once next year on Netflix.
Yes, there are going to be a lot of A.D. fanboys and fangirls calling in sick with Tba (or perhaps Graft vs. Host?) when the cult favorite comes out. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos confirmed the plan to release all ten episodes of the fourth season of "Arrested Development" at a National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas.
Vulture reported on the plans and also added that "Arrested" creator Mitch Hurwitz is open to doing a season 5 and season 6 of the show on Netflix and that Bob Loblaw, the attorney-at-law with the eponymous law blog, will make an appearance in season 4.
The biggest news from the Nab convention, »
- The Huffington Post
Netflix Shares Big Plan For 'Arrested Development' Release
19 April 2012 7:57 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Ladies and gentlemen, make sure you have a sick day to spare in 2013, because it looks like the new season of "Arrested Development" -- yes, all ten episodes -- are going to premiere all at once next year on Netflix.
Yes, there are going to be a lot of A.D. fanboys and fangirls calling in sick with Tba (or perhaps Graft vs. Host?) when the cult favorite comes out. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos confirmed the plan to release all ten episodes of the fourth season of "Arrested Development" at a National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas.
Vulture reported on the plans and also added that "Arrested" creator Mitch Hurwitz is open to doing a season 5 and season 6 of the show on Netflix and that Bob Loblaw, the attorney-at-law with the eponymous law blog, will make an appearance in season 4.
The biggest news from the Nab convention, »
- The Huffington Post
Signature Theatre Honors Patti LuPone With Stephen Sondheim Award
15 April 2012 10:32 PM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
The Signature Theatre will honor Patti LuPone with the third Stephen Sondheim Award, according to Broadwayworld.com.The award, created in 2009 in honor of one of the most influential American contemporary musical theater writers, will be presented at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC at a black-tie gala on Monday.LuPone, a two-time Tony award winner has a close working relationship with Sondheim’s works after her roles in “Sweeny Todd,” “Gypsy,” “Company,” and “Passion.” Her portrayal of Rose in the musical “Gypsy” in 2008 earned her Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League awards."There are few performers who can play both Mrs. Lovett and Fosca, Evita and Reno Sweeney, Nancy in “Oliver!” and Cora Hoover Hooper in “Anyone Can Whistle,” and still create roles for David Mamet,” said Sondheim to Broadwayworld.com. “In fact, there's only one. Versatility of such a high caliber is rare indeed, and therefore it couldn't be. »
- help@backstage.com (Briana Rodriguez)
Don't call HBO's 'Girls' a younger 'Sex and the City'
15 April 2012 5:00 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Get ready for television's radically new view of the secret lives of "Girls."
It comes from Lena Dunham, a young writer-director-actress whose unique creative voice has made marks at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Festival in Austin, Texas. After big receptions there for her films "Creative Nonfiction" and "Tiny Furniture," she returned last month to unveil her newest project: the often stunningly frank HBO series "Girls," which premieres Sunday, April 15.
With filmmaker Judd Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") as an executive producer, the serio-comic show revolves around several 20-something New Yorkers struggling to balance their careers and love lives ... and, frequently, their friendships with one another. If that sounds like a younger "Sex and the City," Dunham purposely sets her edgier "Girls" apart by referencing the earlier series in the first episode.
"I'd heard that writers and independent filmmakers could make a living writing or directing for TV, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Blackthorn – review
14 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sam Shepard excels in Mateo Gil's elegiac sequel imagining further adventures in Bolivia for the Wild Bunch leader
Back in 1969 George Roy Hill brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a self-consciously stylish western in which two notorious bandits were celebrated as forerunners of the outlaw sensibility of the 1960s. A decade later, Richard Lester, one of the film-makers credited for shaping the artistic expression of the 60s with The Knack and two Beatles films, made his only western, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Featuring two young actors, Tom Berenger and William Katt, with uncanny resemblances to Newman and Redford, the film took a quirky but generally realistic look at frontier life as it related to the pair's early criminal life and friendship, ending in the 1890s at the point where they were becoming aware of being legends, leaders of a gang called the Wild Bunch. »
- Philip French
TV Review: Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ is Next Great HBO Comedy
14 April 2012 9:29 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Lena Dunham’s brilliant new HBO series is called “Girls” and not “Women” for a very distinct reason. She’s capturing a rarely-chronicled aspect of the iGeneration, that period where we are definitely not children but also not yet quite adults. And there’s something about the current wave of recession era twentysomethings that’s particularly unique. They grew up in a time in which they were told they were special only to have the real world show them otherwise. If these sound like heady themes for an HBO comedy, they are, but you should know that “Girls” is no ordinary comedy. It’s smart, raunchy, daring, and so well-written as to feel unlike anything else on TV. It’s not perfect (despite what some critics may have you believe) but it’s close enough that it could be so by the end of its first season.
TV Rating: »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Holly Cara Price: Lena Dunham's HBO Series Girls Premieres Sunday, April 15
12 April 2012 2:41 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Sunday, April 15 is a momentous day on the calendar this year. Not because of taxes. Not because we appear to be trembling on the precipice of spring. Because a program called Girls premieres on HBO that night at 10:30 p.m. written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham, that tells the honest truth about female friendship when we're in our 20s; a truly unvarnished look at all the blood, sweat, and tears incumbent in such relationships. Make no mistake -- all three bodily fluids are there.
Judd Apatow (whose producing credits include Bridesmaids, Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Jenni Konner (In the Motherhood, Help Me Help You) are co-producers. Bruce Eric Kaplan (writer and co-executive producer on Six Feet Under) and Ilene S. Landress (executive producer of a little show called The Sopranos and also of Mildred Pierce) are co-executive producers. In addition to Dunham herself, »
- Holly Cara Price
Famous Film Debuts: The First Roles Of Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson And More
9 April 2012 1:48 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Let's rewind the clock (and some very old video) to the glorious, often unsung moment when future superstars made their film debut. This star-studded video essay, created by Flavorwire, digs up some obscure cameos from your favorite actors and actresses. For example, who knew that future "Office" leading man John Krasinski appeared briefly in David Mamet's "State and Main?" Or that Zach Braff's first role was in "Manhattan Murder Mystery?" Speaking of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone was the "pretty girl on train "in his 1980 movie "Stardust Memories," and Woody himself made his acting debut opposite Peter O'Toole in 1965's "What's New Pussycat?" You can check out their debuts, as Robert De Niro's, Sylvester Stallone's and more, in the video above. (On a film nerd note: Jack Nicholson's first role was actually in 1958's "The Cry Baby Killer," but since he's so much fun as an eager, »
- Sharon Knolle
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