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17 items from 2012
DVD Review: Criterion Offers Great Insight Into ‘Being John Malkovich’
9 May 2012 8:52 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Only The Criterion Collection can do a film like “Being John Malkovich” justice. Not only has the film held up remarkably well since its 1999 release (and even somes somewhat ahead of its time given our ability to invade the privacy of celebrity more than ever) but Criterion has assembled a stellar collection of special features that display that unique sense of personality that Spike Jonze’s debut film embodies for its fans.
DVD Rating: 4.5/5.0
One of the highlights of these special features is a half-hour interview with Malkovich conducted by the great John Hodgman. Not only do both men offer fantastic insight into what the film is about and why it still resonates but the great actor drops some incredible history about the film, including the fact that he approached Charlie Kaufman about directing it himself before Jonze was involved but there was a catch — they had to change who it was “about. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
DVD Playhouse--May 2012
7 May 2012 3:57 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse – May 2012
By Allen Gardner
Shame (20th Century Fox) Director Steve McQueen’s harrowing portrait of a Manhattan sex addict (Michael Fassbender, in the year’s most riveting performance) whose psyche goes into overload when his equally-troubled sister (Carey Mulligan) visits unexpectedly. Exquisitely-made on every level, save for the screenplay, which makes its point after about thirty minutes. While it tries hard to be a modern-day Last Tango in Paris, this fatal flaw makes it fall somewhat short. The much- ballyhooed sex scenes and frontal nudity are the least-interesting things about the film, incidentally, which is still a must-see for discriminating adults who seek out challenging material. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Being John Malkovich (Criterion) Spike Jonze’s madcap film of Charlie Kaufman’s script, regarding a socially-disenfranchised puppeteer (John Cusack) who finds a portal into the mind of actor »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Zac Efron vs. Zach Galifianakis (As Moderated by Zack Morris)
17 April 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
There's been a long line of distinguished, accomplished men named "Zechariah" (Zac, Zach or Zack, for short) throughout the course of American history: 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor, Most Popular Student at Bayside High Zack Morris, um…
Ok, so there haven't actually been that many. But today Zac/h/ks are changing history everywhere in Hollywood. Just look at Zach Galifianakis and Zac Efron, two of the biggest stars on the planet.
With the intention of establishing who claims Zechariah Superiority – we've pitted the two against one another in a series of categories, and asked our old friend Zack Morris to provide some commentary on the debate.
Full Name
Zac Efron: Zachary David Alexander Efron
Zach Galifianakis: Zacharius Knight Galifianakis
Zack Morris Says: "Well allow me to recommend Zack Morris. He's cute, warm and affectionate."
Advantage: Galifianakis
Education
Efron: Accepted to USC, but deferred his enrollment to »
- Kevin Polowy
Chevy Chase Has Got "Modern Problems"
10 April 2012 4:14 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Anchor Bay Entertainment is re-releasing writer/director Ken Shapiro's 1981 sci fi comedy "Modern Problems", starring Chevy Chase, on DVD :
"...'Max Fielder' (Chase), a high-strung air traffic controller has a bad day that is about to get worse. His girlfriend (Patti D’Arbanville) moves out, his ex-wife falls in love with an old friend and a splashing truck full of toxic waste makes him glow a very odd green.
"But when Max discovers that the radioactive sludge also gives him the power of 'telekinesis', he sets his mind –and various other flying objects – to winning back his girlfriend and getting some wildly outrageous revenge..."
Also starring are Dabney Coleman, Mary Kay Place, Brian Doyle-Murray and Nell Carter.
Music is by Dominic Frontiere ("Star Trek").
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Modern Problems"...
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- Michael Stevens
Sony Classics Gets Smashed
6 March 2012 8:30 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have acquired all worldwide rights to Smashed. The film, directed by James Ponsoldt (Off The Black), is produced by Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy) and Andrea Sperling (Like Crazy) of Super Crispy Entertainment, who were honored at Sundance this year with a Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing, as well as Jennifer Cochis. The film is executive produced by Audrey and Zygi Wilf. Spc previously worked with Sperling on the 2005 feature, The Quiet.
Smashed premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World), Emmy Award® winner Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer (The Help), Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation), Emmy Award® winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Emmy Award® winner Mary Kay Place (Big Love; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).
In Smashed, Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. »
- Michelle McCue
Sony Pictures Classics Confirmed for ‘Smashed’; IFC Nabs ‘Grabbers’; Cinedigm Fights ‘Invisible War’
5 March 2012 11:42 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
One month after we reported that Sony Pictures Classics were “on the verge of picking up” Smashed, Deadline has come in with a press release confirming this acquisition. As you may already know, the film at hand is a drama about the perils of alcoholism, which stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, and Megan Mullaly, and is directed by James Ponsoldt. Our reaction out of Sundance was one of all-around positivity, with special notice going to Winstead‘s peformance; that’s the primary hook, as far as I’m concerned. Hearing that everything else works alongside it is icing on the cake, if you will.
Read the full press release below:
New York (March 5, 2012) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all worldwide rights to Smashed. The film, directed by James Ponsoldt (Off The Black), is produced by Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy) and Andrea Sperling »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Smashed Confirmed for Distribution by Sony Pictures Classics
5 March 2012 8:10 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all worldwide rights to Smashed. The film, directed by James Ponsoldt (Off the Black), is produced by Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy) and Andrea Sperling (Like Crazy) of Super Crispy Entertainment, who were honored at Sundance this year with a Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing, as well as Jennifer Cochis. The film is executive produced by Audrey and Zygi Wilf. Spc previously worked with Sperling on the 2005 feature, The Quiet.
Smashed premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World), Emmy Award winner Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (The Help), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Emmy Award winner Mary Kay Place (Big Love; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).
In Smashed, Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. »
- MovieWeb
Sony Pictures Classics Gets Sundance Pic ‘Smashed’
5 March 2012 7:10 AM, PST | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
New York (March 5, 2012) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all worldwide rights to Smashed. The film, directed by James Ponsoldt (Off The Black), is produced by Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy) and Andrea Sperling (Like Crazy) of Super Crispy Entertainment, who were honored at Sundance this year with a Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing, as well as Jennifer Cochis. The film is executive produced by Audrey and Zygi Wilf. Spc previously worked with Sperling on the 2005 feature, The Quiet. Smashed premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World), Emmy Award® winner Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer (The Help), Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation), Emmy Award® winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Emmy Award® winner Mary Kay Place (Big Love; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman). In Smashed, Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. »
- MIKE FLEMING
Sony Pictures Classics gets Smashed
5 March 2012 3:00 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Smashed picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Octavia Spencer. In Smashed, Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter . . . and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie. Also in the cast of the James Ponsoldt (Off the Black) film are Aaron Paul, Megan Mullally and Mary Kay Place. Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling and Jennifer Cochis produced Smashed, which won the Special Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) »
Sony Pictures Classics gets Smashed
5 March 2012 3:00 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Smashed picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Octavia Spencer. In Smashed, Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter . . . and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie. Also in the cast of the James Ponsoldt (Off the Black) film are Aaron Paul, Megan Mullally and Mary Kay Place. Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling and Jennifer Cochis produced Smashed, which won the Special Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) »
Casting Net: Nicole Kidman replaces Rachel Weisz, Bruce Willis lands action role with a 'Bullet'
2 March 2012 9:39 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Nicole Kidman joins The Railway Man, stepping in for Rachel Weisz. She plays opposite Colin Firth, who will portray an older version of real-life World War II P.O.W. Eric Lomax. War Horse’s Jeremy Irvine depicts young Lomax when he was taken prisoner in Japan. Shooting begins next month. [Variety]
• Bruce Willis gets some action as a bodyguard to a Mexican politician whose father was murdered by a drug cartel in the new popcorn flick Five Against a Bullet from Alex Litvak (Predators). [Variety]
• Scarlett Johansson goes behind the shower curtain as Janet Leigh in The Terminal scribe Sacha Gervasi »
- Lanford Beard
Mila Kunis Latest for ‘Hell & Back’; Lineup Filled for ‘Claire’s Cambodia’
2 March 2012 5:30 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Having already accumulated quite a lengthy animation resume through countless episodes of Family Guy, Mila Kunis‘ latest job can’t be too much of a creative stretch. As Deadline reports, she’s climbed aboard the stop-motion animated Hell & Back, joining a group that already consists of T.J. Miller, Nick Swardson, Brian Posehn, Rob Riggle, and Kumail Nanjiani.
Centered on “two guys (Miller and Swardson) who must rescue their friend after he’s dragged into hell,” Hell & Back will have Kunis voicing “a [half-human] female demon whose ability to navigate the underworld makes her the toughest rogue demon in Hell.” (Her birth can be accounted for an instance in which “Orpheus of myth traveled down the River Styx, nailing everything in sight.”) Tom Gianas and Ross Shuman are currently shooting (or whatever you would call the process), with a 2013 release expected.
There’s another, much more crowded story from Deadline, wherein we »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Casting News: A.C.O.D., Viagra, Claire
1 March 2012 9:34 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim," "The Thing") has joined the cast of Stuart Zicherman's indie comedy "A.C.O.D." (Adult Children of Divorce) as the long-time girlfriend of the lead character played by Adam Scott.
Scott stars a grown man still dealing with the ramifications of his parents' divorce and who must do what he can to bring the family together when his younger brother decides to get married. Richard Jenkins and Jane Lynch also star. [Source: Deadline]
The Viagra Diaries
Goldie Hawn is off HBO’s comedy pilot "The Viagra Diaries", her first acting gig in a decade. HBO and the actress have "mutually agreed" to part ways.
Hawn was to star as Claire, who, after her husband has a “mid-life crisis” at 65 and leaves her, struggles with being single for the first time in 35 years. [Source: Deadline]
Claire’s Cambodia
Mary Kay Place, Sarah Paulson, Mamie Gummer and India Muenez, Wendi McLendon-Covey, »
- Garth Franklin
Paulson, Place and Gummer Head For 'Claire's Cambodia'
1 March 2012 7:10 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Who is Claire and how come she gets her own Cambodia?
We have a feeling that "Claire's Cambodia" is a film with more of a metaphorical title than a literal one, and one that has attracted a cast that includes Sarah Paulson, Mary Kay Place and Mamie Gummer, according to Deadline.
"Cambodia" revolves around three sisters whose estrangement, resentment and envy of one another knows no bounds -- even upon the news that their father is terminally ill. The film is set to be directed by Stacy Sherman ("God Sleeps in Rwanda"), who says the city of Los Angeles, where the story is set, will become a character in and of itself as its sprawling size and diverse neighborhoods will illustrate the sisters' differences in a "comedic way."
L.A.'s going to have trouble upstaging a cast this good, though. Sarah Paulson's understated performance as Elizabeth Olsen's »
- Bryan Enk
Smashed Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics
5 February 2012 1:49 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the critically-acclaimed Sundance drama Smashed for theatrical distribution. It isn't clear when the studio plans to release the drama.
Smashed centers on Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an alcoholic school teacher who decides to try and get sober. Aaron Paul also stars as her husband, Charlie, with Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Mary Kay Place, Kyle Gallner, Bree Turner also star.
James Ponsoldt directed Smashed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Susan Burke. Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling produced Smashed, and received a Grand Jury Prize and Sundance for producing both Smashed and Nobody Walks.
Smashed comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Mary Kay Place, Kyle Gallner, Bree Turner. The film is directed by James Ponsoldt. »
- MovieWeb
Sundance 2012: Sony Classics Gets 'Smashed' for About $1 Million
28 January 2012 11:33 AM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
James Ponsoldt's Sundance competition drama Smashed is being acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, a source close the deal confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. The source pegs the sale price at about $1 million. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul star as a married couple whose relationship is tested when she decides to quit her excessive drinking. Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and Mary Kay Place co-star in the film, which Ponsoldt wrote with Susan Burke. Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling and Jennifer Cochis produced. Schwartz and Sperling produced Like Crazy, which won the narrative grand jury prize at the
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- Jay A. Fernandez , Daniel Miller
Sundance 2012: 'Shadow Dancer,' 'Smashed,' 'Nobody Walks,' the pleasures of second-half festival-going, and the sadness of losing a Sundance stalwart
26 January 2012 10:12 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
For party animals, star gazers, hungry movie-acquisition teams, and Twitter fiends, diving in at the halfway mark of Sundance has definite drawbacks: The celebrity-circus caravan has left Park City, and that starting-gate itch, both for acquisitions types and critic types, to be first to weigh in on hot titles has been scratched. Fine with me! I arrived in Park City on Tuesday afternoon to already thinning crowds, and with pretty reliable input (not necessarily from Twitter fiends!) into hits, misses, and curiosities. The downside: I missed a sighting of Richard Gere. The upside: I missed a public harangue by Spike Lee. »
- Lisa Schwarzbaum
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