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‘Inglourious Basterds’ Co-Star Eli Roth Wants To Know: How Does Brad Pitt Go To The Bathroom?

6 July 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

If you had a few hours alone with the most famous actor in the world, what would you ask him? That was the thought process driving director/actor Eli Roth when he appeared alongside Brad Pitt in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino flick, “Inglourious Basterds.” Naturally, Roth asked something we all might want to know: how does the dude go to the bathroom?

“I was wondering: ‘You’re at a baseball game and you have to take a p-ss,” Roth said with a laugh, remembering his query on the set of “Inglourious Basterds.” “What do you do?”’

Credit Mr. Angelina Jolie with an open-book answer, as Pitt told Roth that it happens to him all the time. “It’s a real problem,” Roth recalled Pitt’s response. “[He told me] ‘you go into a bathroom at Dodger Stadium, and everyone is looking at you. It’s kind of weird… you have to wait until the Dodgers are up,

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Larry Carroll

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Imagine this! 11 Minutes Ago Review

26 June 2009 4:43 PM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

What do you get when you mix “Twelve Monkeys” with “Four Weddings and a Funeral”?  If you are a director without a budget and you liked the structure of “Memento” you might end up with something like Bob Gebert’s “11 Minutes Ago”.

 

His film is a romantic comedy with a time travel twist, which shows the blossoming love between two people who meet each other in a series of eleven-minute-long segments. The order of these segments differs for each of them yet this doesn’t hinder the development of their relationship.

In fact, this accelerates it…

 

Shot chronologically and in a single day but shown out-of-order through the eyes of a time traveler, “11 Minutes Ago” could be anything from convoluted comedy, pretentious arthouse experiment, ugly no-budget sci-fi or just incomprehensible dreck.

But instead the film cleverly focuses on its main characters, and becomes a pleasant little affair that is mostly successful and quite charming.

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Ard Vijn

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Futuristic Movie Timeline

16 June 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

Dan Meth, who has posted several charts that visually display TV and movie facts, has now put together a new chart that shows a list of thirty two futuristic movies. Each movie has a bar that stretches from the time of release to when the "future" in the movie will actually take place. "Back to the Future 2" took place in 2015, while "Twelve Monkeys" was in 2028. But there are also movies like "2001" and "Escape from NY" that take place in the not-too-distant future. In fact, since we are in the year 2009, those flicks don't seem that futuristic anymore. And then there are films like "Planet of the Apes" and "Logan's Run," which are set so far into the future that we won't be able to reach those years in our lifetime. Image: (click to enlarge)

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Eli Roth: Working Like a Basterd

2 June 2009 9:04 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Part One

Eli Roth is going back to doing what he does best: writing, producing and directing quality genre fare. Taking a career break after Hostel: Part II to enjoy his well-earned success and reassess his career position in the light of that sequel attracting undeserved negativity, Roth decided to do what no one expected. And that was act.

He put his toe in the water with Death Proof, part of Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse exploitation extravaganza, and now returns with a more substantial role in his executive producer/close friend’s Ingourious Basterds. For this two-part interview, Roth talked candidly to Fango about this WWII fairy tale, his new production Cotton, an epic sci-fi project, a remake of The Funhouse and his future plans at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where he was attending the Basterds world premiere.

 

“Everything changed when Hostel hit the number-one box-office spot in America,

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no-reply@fangoria.com (Alan Jones)

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River Runs Through it on Bluray

31 May 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

I love the film A River Runs Throug it and Sony is releasing it on Bluray. A River Runs Through It, the stunningly beautiful and moving family drama set against a background of fly fishing and the Montana wilderness, debuts on Blu-ray Disc July 28 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Directed by Academy Award® winning director Robert Redford, the film won high praise for bringing to the screen the lyrical and spiritual splendour of Norman Maclean’s much-loved autobiographical novella. Two-time Oscar® nominees Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Twelve Monkeys) and B...

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[DVD Review] Eden Log

25 May 2009 9:47 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

I once spent a summer during which I watched about 250 films, and have been watching films steadily throughout the better part of my twenty-three year life. That may be pitiful to many of you (I know that there are many people who have bested whatever claims to film-watching glory I have made here), or you may think that I’ve all but totally wasted my life. But the point is, I’ve seen a lot. Not everything, but a lot. And I can state beyond the shadow of a doubt that Eden Log is in the bottom five five films I have ever seen in terms of watchability, coherence, and entertainment value. I hate this movie. I hate it.

The plot, as best as I could tell, involved a man (Clovis Cornillac) waking up in the middle of a cave, breathing heavily into the soundtrack in a way reminiscent of

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Anders Nelson

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12 Monkeys Gets Wild on Blu-ray on July 28th

18 May 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

You can bring home Terry Gilliam's intriguing vision of the future home in high definition this July. 12 Monkeys will be released on Blu-ray on July 28th. We have no cover art or pricing details as of yet, but we'll be sure to keep you posted as soon as we have more information. The film stars Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and Madeline Stowe.

The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99 percent of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface uninhabitable, and mankind's destiny uncertain.

In order to preserve their fate in this grave new world, survivors must rely on time travel as their only hope. Desperately hoping that the resources of the past might help them reclaim and rebuild the future, a group of scientists living beneath the once populous Philadelphia, secure a volunteer to embark on an experimental trip back to the year 1996. There,

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Gilliam Revives 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'

14 May 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Terry Gilliam will finally reveal his Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus at Cannes, a film most notable at this point as being the final screen performance of Heath Ledger. But even though we're still several months away from Parnassus being released in the U.S. and foreign territories, Gilliam is already talking about his new project. Which is an old project.

The Brazil and Twelve Monkeys filmmaker is headed back to La Mancha, resurrecting his troubled production, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. "I'm not so much a filmmaker as someone who gets possessed by an idea and it doesn't leave me until I make the film," Gilliam told Variety. "I commit myself to it so fully."

He tried making a Quixote movie about ten years ago, and his failures became the documentary Lost in La Mancha, which chronicled how the film was beset with tons of problems that effectively backrupted

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Colin Boyd

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Jackman to Rescue Weisz in Stowe’s Unbound Captives

13 May 2009 8:18 AM, PDT | From Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news

Wow, two gunslinger movies in one day? I must be in heaven! Okay, so maybe Madeleine Stowe’s “Unbound Captives” doesn’t really sound all that much like a gunslinger movie, but it’s got bloodthirsty Commanches, a mysterious cowboy badass, and it’s got a damsel in distress. Sounds pretty good to me. The film will star Hugh Jackman as the (probably) dashing cowboy who comes to the rescue of Rachel Weisz, whose husband has been killed and her children abducted by a Commanche war party. The film will be set in 1859, cause, well, Commanche war parties in 2009 would be kind of weird. The film will mark the directorial debut of Madeleine Stowe. Yes, Madeleine Stowe. You know, the actress? She was in a ton of movies in the ’90s, including “Unlawful Entry”, “Twelve Monkeys”, “The Last of the Mohicans”, and the “Stakeout” films. She was also in “Revenge” with Kevin Costner.

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Jackman, Weisz, Pattinson for 'Captives'

13 May 2009 6:13 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson have joined the cast of Madeleine Stowe's period drama Unbound Captives. Stowe, who has starred in films such as The Last Of The Mohicans,, Twelve Monkeys and Short Cuts, will make her directorial debut on the drama. The movie, set in 1859, revolves around a woman (Weisz) whose husband is murdered and her children kidnapped by a Comanche war party. Jackman will play a frontiersman who rescues Weisz and her son (Pattinson). Stowe wrote the Captives script with her husband Brian Benben in (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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Tom Waits Has Something For the Kids on Easter

12 April 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

It's called "Chocolate Jesus"

Remember when Tom Waits was actually a part time actor and not just a world class musician? Good times... especially the Lily Tomlin coupling in Short Cuts and the bug eating in Dracula.

One of my favorite film books, With Nails: The Film Diaires of Richard E Grant, has a few bits on Waits. Grant, like Waits, was a frequent supporting player in interesting / storied movies of the early 90s and he lived to write about it.

The cast of Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula gathers at the Coppola estate for a week long bonding / rehearsal session before filming. Gary Oldman looks sad and tells Grant that his 11 month marriage to Uma Thurman (Grant's co-star from Henry & June) is over -- he wonders if he'll be one of those people who marries a lot. The actor/diarist notices that Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves

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NATHANIEL R

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Heath Ledger's Music Video to be Released Soon

16 March 2009 7:40 PM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

Modest Mouse band has revealed to Spin magazine that it will release the animated video for their "King Rat" song, which a bonus song off 2007's "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" album. What's special about this video is that it was directed by Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) before his death in January 2008. What's more is that it was animated by helmer Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys). During Ledger's death, he and Gilliam were also filming the "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" movie. Back in 2007, frontman Isaac Brock explained to VH1 how the collaboration came together. "Heath and I have a mutual friend and when we were in Australia, my fiance and some of us in the band went out on a boat with him and his family and friends and talked about the idea," he said. "The idea sort of dropped, but then he just sent me an

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Heath Ledger's Last Unfinished Film Struggles To Find Distributor

2 March 2009 1:55 AM, PST | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

The late Heath Ledger's last unfinished film is struggling to be released in theaters. "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" is in trouble of going straight to DVD after producers failed to secure a U.S. distribution deal.

The million fantasy film, directed by Terry Gilliam ("Twelve Monkeys"), wrapped up in August last year, but still has no distribution deal from film studios.

Last week, Hollywood Reporter detailed the conclusion of the negotiations between the film's production company and major buyers, saying the talk had been futile.

The trades said, "That has fueled all sorts of rumors in indie circles, ranging from dissent over finances on the producers' side to outsized expectations on the part of the filmmakers."

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The Morning After: Upcoming Projects For 2009 Oscar Winners

26 February 2009 9:56 AM, PST | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – The legacy of Oscar winners following their wins with horrible career choices is long and well-recorded. Perhaps the best piece of news about this year’s Academy Award winners is that they are unlikely to produce a “Snow Dogs,” “Gothika,” or “Aeon Flux” any time soon. The upcoming projects for 2009 Academy Award winners is a more promising slate than most years.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Photo credit: Reel Movie News Of course, the most well-documented post-Oscar career choice for this year’s winners is that of “The Dark Knight“‘s Heath Ledger, who will have only one more film released, Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”. From the visionary director of “Brazil” and “Twelve Monkeys,” “Parnassus” will be the epilogue for Ledger’s filmography, another brief glimpse at this excellent actor who left us far too soon.

Ledger was midway through filming the fantasy movie when

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Heath Ledger's last film is in danger

24 February 2009 1:22 PM, PST | From ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news

American viewers may have to wait a while to see Heath Ledger's last performance captured in Terry Gilliam's art-house feature The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the late actor's final role is taking much longer than expected to entice a Us distributor. Thanks to the odd and quirky tones of Gilliam's films (see Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for details) which have a hard time appealing to the mainstream pallet, Ledger's Imaginarium could be in danger of never seeing the light of day here in the States.

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Gilliam honoured with BAFTA fellowship

3 February 2009 3:52 PM, PST | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Terry Gilliam will be awarded a BAFTA fellowship this Sunday for his contribution to cinema. The 68-year-old filmmaker, whose work includes Brazil, The Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys, said that he was surprised to receive the honour. "I keep asking myself, why me? It was quite a surprise when they said we'll give you the Fellowship, as I don't expect these kinds of things. I just get on and do what I do," he said. BAFTA's Finola Dwyer called Gilliam "one of the most original, imaginative and innovative directors working in the industry today". (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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Gilliam Lands BAFTA Fellowship Award

3 February 2009 8:10 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam is to be honoured with a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTAs) fellowship at the upcoming ceremony on Sunday. The comic-turned-director, whose films include 12 Monkeys and Time Bandits, will follow in the footsteps of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg when he is handed the prestigious prize.

The Oscar-nominated star admits he was shocked when he was told about the honour - as he believes he is still best remembered for his on-screen role in comedy TV Monty Python's Flying Circus, rather than his directing skills.

He says, "Awards and honours I've kind of shied away from, but this one I'm happy to take. I keep asking myself, why me? It was quite a surprise when they said we'll give you the Fellowship, as I don't expect these kinds of things.

"I'm recognised more as a Python than I am a filmmaker I suppose. And it'll probably be the thing that goes on the gravestone."

Gilliam's latest picture, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, was actor Heath Ledger's final film. Gilliam brought in Hollywood actors Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp and Jude Law to help complete the film following the star's tragic death last January.

The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday.

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Angelina and Brad React to His and Hers Oscar Nods

22 January 2009 9:50 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may want to dust off the mantle and make room for matching his and her Oscar trophies after picking up Best Actor and Best Actress nominations Thursday. Pitt, whose film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button collected 13 Oscar nods, including Best Picture, called the nominations "a great honor for the movie," while giving props to his director. "I'm especially happy for David Fincher, for without him there would be no Ben Button," said Pitt, who was last nominated for a supporting role in Twelve Monkeys in 1996. Oscars aside, Changeling star Jolie also had words of

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Christina Tapper

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Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire Are Oscar's Big Boys

22 January 2009 6:00 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Hollywood's biggest battle will pit a time-challenged hero, a political war of wits, a gay activist icon, a woman with a Nazi past and a rags-to-riches survivor. With The Curious Case of Benjamin Button vying for Best Picture along with Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire, the 81st annual Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning – two days later than usual, on account of a little historical pageant that occurred in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. Benjamin Button led the field, with a total of 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Director and Screenplay. It was followed by Slumdog Millionaire,

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Stephen M. Silverman

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Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire Are Oscar's Big Boys

22 January 2009 6:00 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Hollywood's biggest battle will pit a time-challenged hero, a political war of wits, a gay activist icon, a woman with a Nazi past and a rags-to-riches survivor. With The Curious Case of Benjamin Button vying for Best Picture along with Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire, the 81st annual Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning – two days later than usual, on account of a little historical pageant that occurred in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. Benjamin Button led the field, with a total of 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Director and Screenplay. It was followed by Slumdog Millionaire,

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Stephen M. Silverman

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