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9 items from 2012
Stallone 3-Disc DVD & Blu-Ray of ‘Cop Land’, ‘Lock Up’ & ‘Rambo: First Blood’ out in August!
24 May 2012 8:22 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Three of Stallone’s best films are about to be into one explosive package on DVD & Blu-Ray! James Mangold’s under-appreciated Cop Land, John Flynn’s Lock Up and the classic Rambo: First Blood will be in a 3-Pack DVD and Blu-Ray set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment in August! Read below for all the fine details!
From the Press Release:
The world’s favorite action superstar, Academy Award® nominee Sylvester Stallone (Best Actor in a Leading Role, Rocky, 1976), is back with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the Stallone 3-Film Collector’s Set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Just in time for the theatrical release of his highly anticipated action film, The Expendables 2, this collection features three of Stallone’s most memorable hit films Cop Land, Rambo: First Blood and Lock Up, together for the first time. A must-have for Stallone fans of all generations, the collection »
- Andy Triefenbach
Rodrigo Santoro Talks What To Expect When You’Re Expecting, Love Actually, the 300 Sequel, Possibly Playing Ayrton Senna in a Biopic, and a Lot More
19 May 2012 2:01 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
While not as well known in America as some of his counterparts in What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Rodrigo Santoro is absolutely the bigger star in places like Brazil. That's because while Santoro has acted in some Hollywood movies and TV shows like Love Actually, 300, I Love You Phillip Morris (which is severely underrated) and Lost (he played Paulo), in Brazil he's acted in countless movies and he's a big time movie star. At the recent Los Angeles press day for What to Expect When You're Expecting (he plays Jennifer Lopez's husband), I landed an extended interview with Santoro. During our wide ranging conversation we talked about how he got into acting, his favorite movies, how he got cast in What to Expect, the success of Love Actually, and the 300 sequel/spin-off 300: Battle of Artemisia . In addition, Santoro addresses the rumor of him playing famed Brazilian Formula One racer, »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Adriane Lenox on Robert De Niro in 'Awakenings'
8 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
I've seen so many brilliant performances, it's hard to pick just one. Recently, I saw again Robert De Niro in "Awakenings," and he just knocked me out. Specifically, there's a scene in the movie where De Niro's character is meeting the young girl played by Penelope Ann Miller in the cafeteria of the hospital where he is staying. He has had a treatment to cure his catatonia that was initially successful but now is causing grotesque muscular tics. He's twitching uncontrollably. They finish their conversation, and he's getting up and leaving. She takes his hand and puts it around her. They slowly start to dance together; gradually the twitching stops. That moment just breaks me down, it's so moving and beautifully done. I had to turn off the television because I couldn't watch anymore.It can be difficult to watch that kind of truth. The role was physically demanding, and the. »
- help@backstage.com (Adriane Lenox)
Penny Marshall on Whitney Houston: 'She was a great girl'
3 April 2012 5:26 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Penny Marshall deems the recent death of Whitney Houston a "very sad" loss.
"She was a great girl, and we got along fine," the television star turned movie director tells Zap2it about guiding the singer-actress through the 1996 musical drama "The Preacher's Wife" opposite Denzel Washington. "She sang beautifully, but like a baseball player doesn't pitch every day, you had to schedule certain things at certain times. You have to take the actors into consideration."
Marshall also took the use of Houston's vocal talents seriously: "I went to her mom's church in Newark [N.J.] and I went to Denzel's church out here [in Los Angeles], and we auditioned choirs. I had never done anything with music of the current time, because most of the movies I did were period pictures. 'Awakenings' was, certainly 'A League of Their Own' was, and so was 'Riding in Cars With Boys.'"
With »
- editorial@zap2it.com
'Laverne & Shirley's' Cindy Williams: Ron Howard, Penny Marshall were destined to direct
28 March 2012 3:10 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Cindy Williams didn't doubt two of her best-known co-stars would become well-known filmmakers.
The actress played Ron Howard's girlfriend in the 1973 movie classic "American Graffiti," then worked with him again on the ABC sitcom "Happy Days" ... which yielded the hugely successful spinoff "Laverne & Shirley," teaming Williams with Penny Marshall. Still good friends, the women will reunite when their enduringly popular show gets the Fan Favorite honor at the TV Land Awards, to be televised by the nostalgia-driven network Sunday, April 29.
"Ron kept jumping out of the car during 'American Graffiti' and talking to Haskell Wexler, the cinematographer," Williams recalls to Zap2it about making the George Lucas-directed ode to teen life circa 1962. "He'd get back in the car -- we had no dressing rooms, so we'd sit in the car between takes -- and I'd ask him, 'What are you doing?' And he'd say, 'I'm »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Inside the Best Picture nominees: A deep dive into 'Moneyball'
22 February 2012 1:00 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
There are a whopping nine films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. And between your work, family, and constant USA marathons of Law & Order: Svu (when will those ever stop being addictive?!), you simply do not have time to catch all nine in the theaters or on DVD. But never fear, dear PopWatchers — that’s why we’re here! Each day leading up to the Academy Awards Feb. 26, we’ll be providing you with a deep dive into one of the nine Best Picture nominees. Fear showing up to your Oscars party unprepared to discuss the year’s most notable films? »
- Aly Semigran
Blu-ray Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’
23 January 2012 6:59 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – I worry that future generations will only know Robin Williams for his late-career missteps like “Old Dogs,” one of the most truly reprehensible excuses for a film in the last ten years. Believe it or not kiddies, there once was a time when the man formerly known as Mork was one of our most interesting actors, a guy who spoke for creative freedom and starred in a string of critical hits, two of which were recently released on Blu-ray.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
Barry Levinson’s “Good Morning, Vietnam” was a true breakthrough for Williams, an actor who had been reasonably respected for (in films like “The World According to Garp”) but still looked like he could go either way — more Steve Guttenberg than Tom Hanks. “Vietnam” gave us an actor willing to take chances, a larger than life personality with a mission. It clearly involved a subject matter and freedom »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Moneyball, The Descendants: Scripter Awards
12 January 2012 3:38 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method The 2012 finalists for the USC Scripter Awards, honoring both screenwriters and the original authors of adapted screenplays, are the following: Christopher Hampton for A Dangerous Method, adapted from John Kerr's nonfiction book A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein and Hampton's own 2002 stage play The Talking Cure; Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash for The Descendants, adapted from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ novel (itself an expansion of her short story “The Minor Wars”); Moira Buffini for Jane Eyre, adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel; Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin for Moneyball, from Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game; Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan for their adaptation of John le Carré's thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Notably absent from the Scripter Award shortlist are Steven Spielberg's War Horse (adapted by Lee Hall and, »
- Steve Montgomery
Why Make Another Dragon Tattoo? The Screenwriter Explains...
3 January 2012 1:44 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"He operates by the rules and she operates by her own code of what's right and wrong. I don't think that makes her vengeful, it makes her a realist in her own world, it makes her consistent."
Screenwriter Steven Zaillian is musing on what is at the heart of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and why millions of readers, and now cinema-goers, are so drawn to the stories.
"He becomes less civilised and she becomes more so. There's a point in the story, where she asks permission - 'May I kill him?' That’s a huge change for her, and a huge change for him to say, 'Yes.'"
If the ghost of fabled author Stieg Larsson is weighing heavily on the shoulders of the man charged with bringing his words to the big screen, he's not showing it. Zaillian's only concern right now is getting a decent, very strong coffee. »
- Caroline Frost
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