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The Keeping Score Interview: Music Supervisor Randall Poster

11 March 2010 5:15 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Away We Go. The Hangover. Up in the Air. Jennifer's Body. Whip It. Gentlemen Broncos. Fantastic Mr. Fox. What do these 2009 films have in common? Randall Poster.

Poster, for folks who don't pore over the below-the-line folks who are as much if not more responsible for the artistry that goes into the films we watch and love, is a music supervisor. The producer and developer of the musical backdrops, if not backbones, of countless films over the past two decades, he's responsible for pairing some of the movies' most indelible images with its most unforgettable songs, from Kids to Rushmore to School of Rock to virtually any scene in the above films in which music is played. He's worked with Wes Anderson and Todd Haynes; Harmony Korine and Martin Scorsese; Todd Phillips and David Fincher.

Two of Poster's most acclaimed films from last year arrive on DVD and Blu-ray this »

- Todd Gilchrist

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New Old News: Olivia Williams on Her 'X-Men 3' Cameo

10 March 2010 10:45 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

On Thursday morning of last week, I spoke to actress Olivia Williams about her participation in Roman Polanski's film The Ghost Writer. Although I would have been happy to digress into a lengthy discussion on the finer points ofher performance as Miss Cross in Rushmore, this writer's favorite film of all time, we mostly spoke about the new film, Polanski and her career in general. Towards the end of our time, however, I did take a moment to ask about her cameo in X-Men: The Last Stand, which she explained she did as a favor for director Brett Ratner.

"Brett Ratner was a big Rushmore fan growing up," she explained.

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- Todd Gilchrist

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Portrait of the artist: Wes Anderson, film director

1 March 2010 2:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

'What have I sacrificed? I'm 40 and I don't have children. Perhaps I would if I wasn't so involved in these movies'

What got you started?

Filming thrillers and jungle chases on Super 8 when I was about 10. I was trying to imitate Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and, above all, Hitchcock. Watching The Man Who Knew Too Much made me realise that there was such a thing as a director.

What was your big breakthrough?

Making my first proper short, Bottle Rocket, with Owen Wilson on 16mm film when I was 23. Nobody was interested in it except [director and producer] James L Brooks, who picked it up and let us turn it into a full-length movie.

What have you sacrificed for your art?

Well, I'm 40 and I don't have children yet. I do want to have them: perhaps I already would, if I wasn't so involved with these movies.

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- Laura Barnett

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Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

1 March 2010 3:32 AM, PST | Pure Movies | See recent Pure Movies news »

A review of Fantastic Mr Fox (directed by Wes Anderson, starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Gambon, Jarvis Cocker, Wallace Wolodarsky and Eric Chase Anderson). Wes Anderson is back with a loose adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic; Fantastic Mr Fox. Although the first animated feature from Anderson, Fantastic Mr Fox employs a decidedly Anderson aesthetic. It uses a style he’s been honing on films such as Rushmore, The Royal Tenebaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and features his hallmark of sibling rivalry and flawed paternal figures which we’ve seen throughout his work. »

- Mark Leach

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Possible Ghostbusters 3 Spoiler: Bill Murray is a…

8 February 2010 8:08 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Let me preface this by saying that the following topic may or may not be considered to a Ghostbusters 3 spoiler for some readers and if you are one of those readers then you might just want to back out of this article slowly without reading any further down. You have been sufficiently warned.

Bill Murray is probably one of the best comedic actors of the past 30 years. He’s right up there with Dan Akyroyd, Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop Murphy not Pluto Nash Murphy). Most of the comedy films in the 80’s can contribute their success to the fact that Murray was in it. His role of groundskeeper Carl Spackler in Caddyshack is by far the most memorable character from the film and in fact, Murray and his brother have opened a restaurant at the World Golf Village Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Florida called Caddy Shack. »

- Paul Young

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Bruce Willis Leads Award-Winning Red Cast

20 January 2010 5:30 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Academy Award® winners Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine joined Bruce Willis (Sin City), Mary-Louis Parker (“Weeds”), Brian Cox (Rushmore) and Academy Award® nominee John Malkovich in Toronto as they began production of the big-screen adaptation Red based on the graphic novel of the same name by Warren Ellis. Its hard to hear about a graphic novel adaptation starring Willis along side a lot of A list actors and not think of Frank Miller’s Sin City — alas, the City casts a large shadow. Rumors of a City sequel make this an especially interesting project for Willis to take on. I hope that Red finds a unique onscreen style and feel to stand out in whats become a rather big graphic novel crowd. Production moves to New Orleans before wrapping in late March. Look for Red in theaters October 22, 2010 and watch Willis and Freeman in Lucky Number Slevin on DVD today! »

- creth

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If More Funny Men Took a Cue from Bill Murray...

18 January 2010 9:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

On Friday, word hit The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog that Bill Murray was joining the little love fest of Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke in Passion Play. No, he wouldn't add an additional May-December element to the story of a "winged beauty" who forms a bond with a "down-on-his-luck jazz trumpet player." Instead, Murray will play the villain -- a gangster named Happy who wants to keep the two apart.

Thinking of this gig brought to mind the last two films I saw him in -- Get Low and The Limits of Control -- and ultimately led me to the question: What sort of careers would Murray's comedy co-stars have if they'd taken a cue from ol' Bill? For Murray, nothing really has changed over the years -- the actor has always used his humor to grace both large and small productions, mainstream and quirk fare. This is the »

- Monika Bartyzel

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'(500) Days Of Summer' Director Marc Webb Being Eyed To Helm 'Spider-Man' Reboot?

14 January 2010 8:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

From Splash Page: It looks like we were relatively spot-on with our picks for a "Spider-Man" director, as three of our five suggestions are now being rumored as top contenders to bring your friendly neighborhood webslinger back to the big screen. However, one of them — "500 Days of Summer" director Marc Webb — looks to be the favorite.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony's current director wishlist includes Webb, James Cameron ("Avatar"), David Fincher ("Zodiac"), and Wes Anderson ("Rushmore"). The site claims that Webb has already met with producers and studio execs about the "Spider-Man" reboot, and the plan is to get the film into production this year for a 2012 release. The long production time will allow the studio to film in 3-D.

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Has 'Spider-Man' Found A Director?

14 January 2010 7:31 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

It looks like we were relatively spot-on with our picks for a "Spider-Man" director, as three of our five suggestions are now being rumored as top contenders to bring your friendly neighborhood webslinger back to the big screen. However, one of them — "500 Days of Summer" director Marc Webb — looks to be the favorite.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony's current director wishlist includes Webb, James Cameron ("Avatar"), David Fincher ("Zodiac"), and Wes Anderson ("Rushmore"). The site claims that Webb has already met with producers and studio execs about the "Spider-Man" reboot, and the plan is to get the film into production this year for a 2012 release. The long production time will allow the studio to film in 3-D.

"What has Sony execs excited is the fact that (500) Days of Summer introduced a director with a grasp of how to depict the way young people think and feel," reports the site. "This »

- Rick Marshall

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UTA Loses Helmer Wes Anderson To Wme

8 January 2010 6:01 PM, PST | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »

UTA has been Wes Anderson’s longtime home ever since the agency's chairman Jim Berkus signed him off of that cult classic 1994 short, Bottle Rocket. Two years later, Anderson turned the short into his breakout feature debut with Berkus’ help. In fact, Berkus helped the infamously quirky filmmaker put together all of his films, including Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, and his current The Fantastic Mr. Fox. I’m told the motive Anderson's exit was Anderson’s unhappiness with that pic's performance at the box office -- which may have little to do [...] »

- Nikki Finke

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Check Out The Trailer For Ian Dury Biopic 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'

8 January 2010 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Kids today may not remember who Ian Dury was, but like many British music legends, he's something of a national treasure over in the UK. And he's got a great-looking new biopic titled "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," directed by Mat Whitecross ("The Road to Guantanamo"), which opens across the pond this weekend.

It stars Andy Serkis, who you should definitely know as the actor behind Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and King Kong in Peter Jackson's remake, as well as Ray Winstone ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"), Olivia Williams ("Rushmore"), Toby Jones ("Frost/Nixon") and Naomie Harris and Mackenzie Crook (both of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy).

Our friends over at The Playlist take a look at some stills and a trailer for the film today, and I have to agree that I wish Dury was popular enough in America to »

- Christopher Campbell

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Cinematical Seven: Pretentious Teenagers We Love

7 January 2010 7:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Pretentiousness is a universally-loathed quality in the movies, as in life, but in Miguel Arteta's Youth in Revolt, it's fully embraced in the form of 16-year-old hero Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) and his Francophile gal pal, Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). Their pretensions come from their own personal tastes (he loves Frank Sinatra, she Jean-Paul Belmondo) but they're also the tools with which the teens get what they want out of life - Nick uses his alter ego, Francois Dillinger, to win Sheeni's love, and Sheeni obsesses over running away to Paris as a way out of the rural California trailer park she calls home. Still, their self-serious discussions of Tokyo Story, Serge Gainsbourg, futurist percussive poetry, and Camus made my head ache with hipster overload. I already live in L.A., home of American Apparel and, I'm sure, one of the biggest per-capita consumers of Pbr in the nation, »

- Jen Yamato

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Jp’s Top 10 of 2009

7 January 2010 11:50 AM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

2009 was a great year for going to the movies-regardless of if you were a 12 yr old girl, or an awkward man in your late 20's like myself. Long anticipated movies like Avatar, Where The Wild Things Are, and Fantastic Mr. Fox came and delivered strongly, along with some unexpected suprises like District 9 & The Brothers Bloom. I'm still beating myself up over a few films that I missed in the year: namely Moon (which Dave and Don swear by), Precious, The Road, and The Hurt Locker. But overall-this has been an awesome year for movies. I'm excited to see what the Acadmey Awards hold, as well as what is coming in 2010. 10. The Brothers Bloom With The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson skillfully took the next step in his cinematic career. Leaning on the character development patterns he used in Brick, he also managed to inject humor and fun in this go round. »

- JP Chapman

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Don’s Top 10 of 2009

3 January 2010 8:50 PM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

The most difficult part of creating Top 10 lists for me is the top and the bottom of the list. For a majority of the calendar year, Sam Rockwell and Moon were alone in solitary seclusion safely at the top of my list and I really didn’t expect anything, not even the latest Wes Anderson vehicle, to dislodge it. But then I saw Fantastic Mr. Fox and I immediately realized that there was no longer any chance for Moon to remain at the top of my list. (Sam Rockwell still deserves to be awarded Best Actor for his transcendental performance in Moon though.) Toward the bottom of the list, it was difficult to not have any space left for other fantastic 2009 films such as Goodbye Solo, The Road and Paper Heart. It is worth nothing that I purposely did not include films that were not released theatrically in Austin, Texas during 2009 (The White Ribbon, »

- Don Simpson

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