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[Movie Review] Downloading Nancy

3 July 2009 4:59 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Downloading Nancy is not, just so you know, a movie about the Internet. The online world itself plays little part in the story, save for it being the tool that connects Nancy (Maria Bello) to an intimate stranger named Louis (Jason Patrick), behind the back of her distanced husband Albert (Rufus Sewell). If anything, writers Lee Ross and Pamela Cuming, as well as director Johan Renck—all first-timers—use the term more for its allegorical quality. Nancy's marriage is so devoid of happiness that she's gotten used to cutting, masturbating and chatting online to find moments of short bliss. From that last one she meets Louis, a man she asks to kill her.

It's not as depressing as it sounds, but it is discomforting. Maybe more to some than others, which limits its audience (and apparently the critical appreciation too, as some reviews coming out of its Sundance premiere earlier

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Arya Ponto

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'Phantom' Mini-Series Gets Greenlight

8 June 2009 12:32 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news

Canada's Movie Central and The Movie Network today announced that they have given the greenlight to a four-hour mini-series adaptation of the long-running superhero 'The Phantom'. The series will be a co-production with Sci Fi Channel (soon to be renamed Syfy). It will debut on Movie Central and The Movie Network in spring 2010.

The Phantom was created by Lee Falk and first appeared in 1936 as a newspaper strip. Since then a character with that name has appeared in comic books by numerous publishers throughout the world. The Phantom has also starred in animated and live-action screen adaptations. The latter include a 1940s movie serial, a 1996 theatrical film and a 1961 TV pilot. Another feature film adaptation, The Phantom: Legacy, is also in the works.  Speaking to Moviehole, screenwriter Tim Boyle said that the movie is still at the scripting stage and he believes it will go into pre-production

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3 Sign on to Become Pillars of the Earth

8 June 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

A new mini-series has just landed a trio of new cast members. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland have joined the cast of Pillars of the Earth.

The mini-series was adapted from the Ken Follett novel by John Pielmeier with Sergio Mimica-Gezzan to direct the eight-hour mini-series. The story is set in 12th Century England and deals with two intertwining love stories set against a backdrop of war and religious conflicts.

Sewell, McShane and Sutherland join the cast that already includes Matthew Macfayden, Sarah Parish, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne and Gordon Pinsent. The mini-series starts shooting on June 22 in Hungary and Austria, with a premiere set for the later half of 2010.

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Four Clips from "Downloading Nancy"

7 June 2009 2:27 PM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Here's four clips from Strand Releasing's "Downloading Nancy", directed by Johan Renck and featuring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell and Amy Brenneman, When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in...

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Four Clips from Downloading Nancy

5 June 2009 5:11 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

What better way to start off a weekend than by downloading and sampling a bit on Nancy's psycho-thriller goodness! That's right, folks! Lock up the kids, bolt the doors, and dim the lights! It's time to see what kind of hazards can come from a not-so-innocent cyber affair!

Official Synopsis

When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only

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'Downloading Nancy': Please Kill Me, By Kurt Loder

5 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news

Maria Bello and Jason Patric in a world of pain.

Maria Bello in "Downloading Nancy"

Photo: Strand Releasing

Nancy (Maria Bello) wants to die. Louis (Jason Patric), an S&M creep she met on the Internet, wants to be of service. Albert (Rufus Sewell), Nancy's worm husband, can't figure out what to make of this movie. No, wait — that's us.

"Downloading Nancy," a film about self-mutilation, sexual sadism and dismal fluorescent lighting, features a world-class performance by Bello and an intriguingly spare one by Patric. But the story is so irritatingly jumbled that even the squalid enticements of voyeurism — the wretched Bdsm games involving mousetraps, cigarette burns and jagged glass — are insufficient compensation for the movie's narrative confusion.

Nancy has been married to Albert, a heavily-repressed neat freak, for 15 years, and she's miserable. Because of the violent sexual abuse she suffered as a child, the closest she can come to

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Downloading Nancy

4 June 2009 9:29 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Maria Bello stars as one of those, "Hi, I like to cut myself" women in "Downloading Nancy," an icky S&M thriller.

The plot could be fully told in about five scenes, but the film keeps slowing things down with long, irrelevant flashbacks about the woman's psychotherapy sessions, in which she talks about her habit of slicing herself up and her death wish. There are also endlessly repeated takes on the lameness of her husband (Rufus Sewell) and his obsession with golf.

Gradually we get around to the crux of the story,

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By KYLE SMITH

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Movie Review: Downloading Nancy

4 June 2009 9:16 PM, PDT | From MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news

Jun 05, 2009 Downloading Nancy is an amazing example of talented actors doing their best to make something genuine of a complex concept but being betrayed by writers and a director who seem afraid to really let the film connect. Maria Bello, Jason Patric, and Rufus Sewell are absolutely fearless in what they deliver as experts in their craft. It's just the way in which that delivery is used that fails to register. Downloading Nancy is a film about raw, emotional issues that is handled like a clinical exam. It's almost worth seeing just because the disparity ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com

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Building a Card House: Johan Renck on “Downloading Nancy”

4 June 2009 7:20 AM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Editors Note: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Johan Renck’s feature film directorial debut, “Downloading Nancy,” follows the titular character (played by Maria Bello), as she leaves her husband Albert (Rufus Sewell) in search of her online soulmate, Louis (Jason Patric).  The film debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and is being released in theaters this weekend through Strand Releasing.  …

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All Hail Maria Bello in Downloading Nancy

1 June 2009 9:09 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Tough women, tortured women, damaged women: Maria Bello conveys so much in these roles that it's oddly pleasurable to watch her work in the hauntingly painful, strangely erotic Downloading Nancy. I say oddly because, at heart, this film by Johan Renck is about a woman in emotional agony, desperately seeking release. Bello plays her as someone who is white-knuckling her way through life, hiding her shame and distrusting anything positive that might come her way. It's a performance both naked and nuanced, as a character who is like a live wire, shocking the men in her life into desperate action or catatonic inertia. Nancy is a lifelong victim: of damaging sexual abuse as a child, then of a chilly, withholding husband as an adult. Fed up with her husband Albert (Rufus Sewell) and his preoccupation with the golf technology that has...

Marshall Fine

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On the Road With Mariah, Maya Rudolph and Zach Galifianakis

1 June 2009 6:43 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

If you're a fan of road movies, then you better call in sick with a case of swine flu, as this weeks sees a lot of them arriving in theaters. For everyone else, there are docs on art and music, some European sunshine and a little smattering of domestic darkness.

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"24 City"

Festival favorite Jia Zhang-ke ("Still Life") delivers a portrait of a culture in flux and a meditation on the ethereal nature of history with yet another of his patented hybrids of documentary aesthetic and name actors. Once a virtually self-contained community with its own accommodations and amenities, the massive 50-year-old munitions factory in Chengdu is undergoing demolition to make way for high-rise apartments. Through the testimony of former inhabitants both real and fictional, Jia offers a take on the growing pains of

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Neil Pedley

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Exclusive Video: Get Your First Look at Downloading Nancy

27 May 2009 2:25 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming indie thriller Downloading Nancy, which hits theaters on June 5. Click below for our exclusive clip, which features Maria Bello and Rufus Sewell.

When Albert Stockwell came home from work one day he found a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she had gone to see friends. It was a lie. After waiting several days Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy had met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Louis's life, like Nancy's, had become a twisted quest for redemption via smutty chat rooms and alternative websites. Both wounded and alone Nancy and Louis take comfort in one another through email, pictures and promises. Now Albert is forced to confront Louis. He hears how Louis and Nancy found one another on-line, started having an affair on-line and how they ended it... together. Albert discovers

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trailer break: ‘Downloading Nancy’

27 May 2009 8:18 AM, PDT | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news

What I hear, this is like Crash -- the Cronenberg one -- but instead of automobile accidents, it’s weird stuff on the Internet that gets these freaky people off. So Maria Bello, who’s into this stuff, leaves her husband, Rufus Sewell, who isn’t into it, for Jason Patric, who is into it. Looks like there’s a whole angle to Internet dating that I’ve never heard of... Downloading Nancy opens in the U.S. on June 5; no U.K. release date has been announced.

MaryAnn Johanson

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Eleventh Hour - DVD Review - BBC

22 May 2009 11:59 AM, PDT | From AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news

The American version of Eleventh Hour apparently only made it one season, though there are rumors of it getting picked up somewhere else. The Rufus Sewell led version was pretty good, and the show seemed a dream enterprise for CBS audiences, but it looks like it's done. While the show was pretty good, and Rufus Sewell really did a nice job, it didn't quite live up to the BBC original with Patrick Stewart. Stephen Gallagher seemed to understand the game a little better, the camerawork was quirky and unique, and Patrick Stewart is Patrick Stewart. For those who aren't in either loop, the show is about Dr. Ian Hood (in America it's Jacob Hood... go figure), who is a former physics professor and general genius. He works for the government now, with his special agent protector following in his wake, investigating science-related crimes.

Marc Eastman

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Edgar Allan Poe's Usher to the Big Screen

21 May 2009 6:42 AM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Green Knight Ventures will produce a contemporary adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story "The Fall Of The House Of Usher"," says The Hollywood Reporter. Claire Forlani, Dougray Scott and Rufus Sewell will star in the film, which will be titled "The Ushers" and be shot in 3-D. Stephen Kay is attached to direct. Originally published in 1839, "Usher" tells of the mysterious goings-on in the house of Roderick Usher, who has recently buried a sister whose presence still haunts the house. "Ushers" will look at a grown brother and sister who have lived in the same Martha's Vineyard house for a long time but begin to feel trapped there, and who then bring in a real-estate broker to help them resolve their crisis. Gian Marco Masoni wrote the screenplay....

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Without A Trace Axed

20 May 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Missing persons drama Without A Trace is about to disappear - the show has been cancelled.

The U.S. series, featuring Aussie stars Anthony Lapaglia and Poppy Montgomery, is the latest in a slew of CBS shows to be axed as part of cost-cutting measures.

British actor Rufus Sewell's new drama Eleventh Hour has also been cut by the network.

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Eleventh Hour: CBS Cancels Paranormal TV Show, No Season Two

19 May 2009 5:56 PM, PDT | From TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news

Time has run out for CBS' science-based drama. Based on a British series of the same name, the network has cancelled Eleventh Hour after 18 episodes.

Eleventh Hour revolves around a team of scientists and FBI agents who work to solve strange crimes that involve science and paranormal activity. The drama stars Rufus Sewell, Marley Shelton, and Omar B. Miller.

Debuting on October 9, 2008, the show started out with an audience of 11.37 million viewers and a 3.2/9 rating/share of the 18-49 demographic. The season ended up averaging about 12 million. While that looks fine on its own, the series consistently lost a large percentage of its CSI lead-in.

The show's been "on the bubble" for awhile and now, the network has decided to cancel it. All of the show's episodes have aired and there's been no word on a DVD release.

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Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' Coming in 3-D

19 May 2009 3:37 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

For years, the work of Edgar Allen Poe has been adapted into motion pictures, and there's a new 3-D version of his The Fall of the House of Usher on the way. MTV reports that the title of the new film will be shortened to The Ushers, and will star Claire Forlani, Dougray Scott, and Rufus Sewell.

This short story in particular has been a popular one for Hollywood to tackle, especially for Roger Corman, who has made, like, half a dozen Poe-inspired films. House of Usher is certainly one of Poe's best, and like most of his work, it lends itself to being a film...a very, very dark film with an oft-imitated ending.

Colin Boyd

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New ‘Fall Of The House Of Usher’ Film ‘The Ushers’ To Be Shot In 3-D

19 May 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Hollywood loves Edgar Allen Poe, and they love his story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” They love it so much that they’re going to make yet again, despite the story having a silver screen legacy that spans more than 10 variant adaptations. On the heels of a new Poe-inspired “Tell-Tale Heart” movie starring Josh Lucas, the latest adaptation of “The House of Usher” will be shot in 3-D bearing a simplified title: “The Ushers.”

Produced by Green Knight Ventures, “The Ushers” will star Claire Forlani, Dougray Scott and Rufus Sewell, with Stephen Kay attached to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Green Knight is thus far best known for their Colin Firth crime thriller “The Meat Trade.”

The vast library of “Fall of the House of Usher” movie adaptations most famously includes Vincent Price in the lead role of Roderick Usher for Roger Corman’s 1960 film. As

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Brian Warmoth

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Dougray Scott Enters The House Of Usher

19 May 2009 4:21 AM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news

Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale The Fall Of The House Of Usher is getting the update treatment as The Ushers, courtesy of indie banner Green Knight Ventures. The cast has a very British look with Claire Forlani, Dougray Scott and Rufus Sewell are attached to appear in a modern-day updating of the classic Gothic short story.Poe's 1839 tale is set in the cobweb-shrouded ancestral home of the Roderick Usher, who is haunted by the lingering presence of his recently-buried sister. The Ushers will see the setting shift  to modern-day Martha's Vineyard, where the Ushers are grown-up siblings who feel trapped by their long-time home and bring in a real-estate broker to help them resolve their situation.Stephen Kay, who directed Stallone's less-than-brilliant Get Carter remake, will helm from a script by Gian Marco Masoni.Poe's classic short story has already been treated to an almost-as-classic 1960 Roger Corman

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