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Interview With Don Cheadle On Iron Man 3
1 May 2013 9:31 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
This week, the first film in Phase Two of Marvel’s plan for world domination hits theatres. That’s right, folks. Iron Man 3 hits North American shores on Friday and recently, we had the chance to sit down with Don Cheadle, who stars in the film as War Machine, or should we say, Iron Patriot.
During a roundtable interview, we discussed with Cheadle what it was like working with director Shane Black, who took over the franchise from Jon Favreau, what he thinks about a solo War Machine movie, when he first got into superheroes and comic books and much more.
Enjoy!
What do you think Shane Black brought to Iron Man 3 that makes it different and distinct from the last two entries in the franchise?
Don Cheadle: Well, I think this ear for the “buddy cop film” definitely came into play in the relationship between Tony and Rhodes. »
- Matt Joseph
Iron Man 3 – review
29 April 2013 6:02 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The third outing for the Marvel Comics superhero has standout performances from Robert Downey Jr and Ben Kingsley
Shot in 3D, the third blockbuster about Marvel Comics' Tony Stark – inventor, industrial tycoon, bionic man and superhero – is a loud, overlong, oppressively violent tale of saving the world from yet another megalomaniac.
Shane Black, a bright, experienced screenwriter directing his second movie, is an anonymous leader of a vast technical army, and the film's saving graces are Downey's Stark, a charming neurotic; Rebecca Hall, an old flame who seems to have taken a wrong turn but is infinitely more engaging than Stark's tiresome current girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow; and especially Ben Kingsley, a big surprise in every sense as the villainous "Mandarin", his best performance since Sexy Beast.
Action and adventureRobert Downey JrBen KingsleyGwyneth PaltrowRebecca HallPhilip French
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- Philip French
Sir Ben Kingsley explains Mandarin portrayal in Iron Man 3, also talks Ender's Game and Herod
28 April 2013 6:42 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
British actors with a background in classic theatre are known for bringing some gravitas and credibility to comic book movies, whether it's Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Marvel's Thor, or Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen as Professor Xavier and Magneto in the X-Men films (including the upcoming Days of Future Past).
From that same generation of veterans comes Ben Kingsley, stepping into the role of archnemesis the Mandarin in Iron Man 3.
The movie is Marvel's biggest departure yet from the comic books it publishes, with the studio (now under the aegis of Disney) clearly aiming for a much more populist and comedic approach. It certainly worked with the snappy humour in Avengers and now there's more of that in Iron Man 3, though I'd argue the laughs weren't as effective as Whedon's spot-on quippery.
The characterisation of Mandarin has caused much consternation among the hardcore fanboys, though it works within the movie. »
- David Bentley
Watch highlights of the Iron Man 3 red carpet premiere
25 April 2013 3:46 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
While Marvel Studios launches Phase Two of its Cinematic Universe here in the UK with the midnight release of Iron Man 3, our friends across the Pond face an agonising wait until May 3rd, as the cast and crew assemble at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood tonight for the film's North American premiere. Thanks to Yahoo! Movies, we've got all of the action from tonight's premiere as fan favourites such as Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow hit the red carpet to celebrate the third instalment in the Iron Man franchise, and you can check it out the highlights below.
"Marvel Studios’ “Iron Man 3″ pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. »
- Flickering Myth
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin
13 April 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
#19. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin
Gist: Based on Michel Faber’s 2000 novel, this is about Isserley (Scarlett Johansson), an extraterrestrial sent to Earth by a rich corporation on her planet to pick up unwary hitchhikers.
Prediction: Glazer’s films aren’t as ostentatious, sweeping, or grand as a PTA or Malick film, but they come around just as often (we’ll just ignore Malick’s hyperactivity of late for the sake of this point), and in their own ways are just as accomplished – Glazer was, after all, earning Kubrick comparisons before Anderson ever did. So there was a hushed chorus of agonized #TeamGlazer members last year when the 2012 fall festival circuit came and went with no sign of Under the Skin. There’s still a discomforting lack of news on the film save for its high placement on everybody’s Cannes prognostications, and nobody knows where it is in its production stage. »
- Blake Williams
More new footage in the latest Iron Man 3 TV spots
5 April 2013 9:36 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Despite hitting cinemas in just a few short weeks, Iron Man 3 has taken a bit of a back seat this week as Disney and Marvel Studios provided a sneak peek at the rest of their upcoming slate with a 'Phase Two' (and brief 'Phase Three') preview, which included some behind-the-scenes images from November's Thor: The Dark World, concept art from next year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, and a few crystal clear stills from Edgar Wright's Ant-Man footage (if you're yet to see any of this stuff, then feast your eyes).
Anyway, just so Ol' Shellhead doesn't feel left out, a couple of new Iron Man 3 TV spots have surfaced, which feature even more snippets of new footage from Robert Downey Jr.'s latest solo adventure. At this rate, it's probably possible to edit together a decent cut of the film from »
- Flickering Myth
Clip joint: films that feature yelling
28 March 2013 3:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Modern recording gear means movie actors don't have to shout to be heard. So those moments when actors roar from the bottom of their lungs are to be treasured
This week's Clip joint is by Guardian reader Brogan Morris. If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Things have come a long way since fledgling recording technology meant film performances had to be big and bold. Movie actors were forced to give theatrical displays for the benefit of clunky, insensitive equipment, but today even the most basic camera and sound kit can pick up the subtlest actorly inflection. Screen thesps are thus not required to operate at a high volume – making a performer such as Nicolas Cage something of a rarity, and loud acting – beyond the stage or opera house – a dying art.
Of course, certain cinematic moments may »
- Guardian readers
Watch the Iron Man 3 Tcl trailer
19 March 2013 9:34 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
As part of its partnership with Marvel, the China-based consumer electronics company Tcl has debuted a new 30-second trailer for Iron Man 3, which features snippets of new footage from Marvel Studios' first post-Avengers offering.
Iron Man 3 sees Robert Downey Jr. donning the armor once again as Tony Stark faces his greatest threat yet in the evil terrorist leader The Mandarin, portrayed by Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast). Downey is joined by fellow returnees Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes / War Machine and Iron Man and Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, while newcomers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe include Guy Pearce (Prometheus), Rebecca Hall (The Town), James Badge Dale (The Lone Ranger), Stephanie Szostak (Dinner for Schmucks), Ashley Hamilton (Sunset Beach), Xueqi Wang (Bodyguards and Assassins), Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption).
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- Flickering Myth
Ben Kingsley Remarks On Approaching ‘The Mandarin’ For Iron Man 3 And What To Expect
16 March 2013 1:56 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
About his initial approach to playing Tony Stark’s greatest nemesis, The Mandarin, in Marvel’s third Iron Man installment, Sir Ben Kingsley admitted to Total Film that, “I had peripheral vision of the universe. Kevin Feige came to my house in Oxfordshire. After Sexy Beast, he’d realized I could be really unpleasant on screen. We sat down and had a nice conversation. My garden looked splendid, which I think helped...” Quickly watching both previous Iron Man films and The Avengers with “all those glorious layers,” Kingsley adds, “I didn’t have any template to copy. I’m undereducated as far as Marvel comics are concerned, and that can be a good thing, like coming to a Shakespeare play fresh rather than having done it 20 times.” Although we shouldn’t expect Iron Man 3 to focus on The Mandarin’s Ten Rings and their unknown abilities, Sir Ben Kingsley »
Ian McShane: rogue trader
16 March 2013 1:59 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
From Lovejoy to Deadwood, Ian McShane has made a career out of playing rogues. He tells us about his drink- and drug-fuelled past, and how he's given it all up to make blockbusters for his grandchildren
On a breezy spring afternoon in Santa Monica, Ian McShane and I are hauling furniture around a hotel room. The suite has been used recently for a photo shoot, and McShane has decided he wants everything back the way it was. I pull one of the sofas towards the fireplace, dragging the rug with it. He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70. "Seventy years old!" he rages in his distinctive Lancastrian burr, like syrup on sandpaper. "How did that happen? »
- Ryan Gilbey
Ian McShane: rogue trader
16 March 2013 1:59 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Lovejoy to Deadwood, Ian McShane has made a career out of playing rogues. He tells us about his drink- and drug-fuelled past, and how he's given it all up to make blockbusters for his grandchildren
On a breezy spring afternoon in Santa Monica, Ian McShane and I are hauling furniture around a hotel room. The suite has been used recently for a photo shoot, and McShane has decided he wants everything back the way it was. I pull one of the sofas towards the fireplace, dragging the rug with it. He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70. "Seventy years old!" he rages in his distinctive Lancastrian burr, like syrup on sandpaper. "How did that happen? »
- Ryan Gilbey
Is Ray Winstone's rant about tax justified?
12 March 2013 1:58 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The British actor has 'had enough' of pot-holed roads, and the closure of hospitals and fire stations, he has said in a radio interview. So what are his tax-and-spend ideas?
Actors and musicians tend to look like spoilt brats when they moan about tax, but Ray Winstone may not actually be the worst offender.
The actor's threat to quit the country because of the way the government spends our taxes is a familiar gripe. Less familiarly, the 56-year-old put it in language that might have come straight from the lips of his numerous geezer turns, from Sexy Beast to those lucrative bet365 adverts (which must have particularly delighted the taxman).
"I can see myself leaving here quite soon. I love this country but I've had enough of it. I don't see what we're being given back. I just see the country being raped," he announced rather incongruously when invited to »
- Patrick Barkham
Ray Winstone: Britain Is 'Being Raped' by High Taxes
11 March 2013 4:18 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
London - British actor Ray Winstone, known for tough-guy roles in such movies as The Departed, Sexy Beast and, most recently, The Sweeney, has criticized Britain's high taxes, saying people in the country were "being raped" by them. Story: Ray Winstone Rounds Out Cast of Dwarfs in 'Snow White and the Huntsman' (Exclusive) In an interview with U.K. radio station talkSport, the actor, who also appeared in Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Snow White and the Huntsman, said he could see himself moving elsewhere. "I can see myself leaving. I love this country but I’ve had enough," the Independent
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- Georg Szalai
Interview: 'The Sweeney' Star Ray Winstone Talks Rappers, Filming Aronofsky's 'Noah' & How Much Fun He Had On 'Indiana Jones'
2 March 2013 10:20 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Ray Winstone is one of those brilliant actors who has a chameleonic ability to totally lose himself in his characters (whether it’s the retired thief in Jonathan Glazer’s brilliant “Sexy Beast” or the Bostonian gangster in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed”), while remaining 100% Winstonian. In his new film, “The Sweeney,” an adaptation of a hugely influential '70s British cop series, Winstone plays Jack Regan, a morally nebulous leader of a crack crime force. We got to talk to the actor about adapting such an iconic series, what it was like working with British rapper Plan B, and how he goes about choosing his roles. We also bugged him about motion capture animation, the fate of Nick Cave’s “The Death of Bunny Munro,” what “Noah” was like, and if he had any dirt on filming the infamous “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (yes »
- Drew Taylor
The Sweeney review
28 February 2013 9:34 PM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
"Feels like an introduction in the form of a two-hour pilot, setting us up for the squad's weekly adventures, a la CSI or Miami Vice" Ray Winstone has made a damn good living for himself, playing tough guys on the wrong side of the law. Think Sexy Beast and The Departed,for instance. In the new film The Sweeney, it could be said that once again, he's on the wrong side of the law, but in this case, it's because he's playing a cop. I say that it's wrong because this is little more than a feature-length Law & Order episode, a procedural that's gritty and grotty by turns, but nothing particularly special. »
The Sweeney review
28 February 2013 9:34 PM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
"Feels like an introduction in the form of a two-hour pilot, setting us up for the squad's weekly adventures, a la CSI or Miami Vice" Ray Winstone has made a damn good living for himself, playing tough guys on the wrong side of the law. Think Sexy Beast and The Departed,for instance. In the new film The Sweeney, it could be said that once again, he's on the wrong side of the law, but in this case, it's because he's playing a cop. I say that it's wrong because this is little more than a feature-length Law & Order episode, a procedural that's gritty and grotty by turns, but nothing particularly special. »
Exclusive Clip: Ray Winstone is Looking Up Your Skirt in Nick Love’s The Sweeney
28 February 2013 9:00 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
We’ve come to associate the raspy Ray Winstone to antagonist/villain-like roles of corruption, the underground and outlaws (favorites include Sexy Beast, The Proposition), but here, the actor from East End of London takes on an updated Jack Regan (detective character is based on a Brit show from the 70′s that I’ve never heard of). eOne Films has provided us with an exclusive clip for The Sweeney, featuring Winstone, Steven Mackintosh and Hayley Atwell in work place comradery. This will be out in theaters and on VOD in the Us tomorrow.
Here’s the synopsis: Tearing up the streets of London, The Sweeney is a stylish, exhilarating action thriller proving sometimes you have to act like a criminal to catch a criminal. Armed and dangerous, the Sweeney Flying Squad are old school crime fighters enforcing the law. Led by legendary detective Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and his loyal partner, »
- Eric Lavallee
The Week in Spandex - Iron Man 3, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Man of Steel, Daredevil, Green Lantern 2, Arrow and more
25 February 2013 2:47 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Man of Steel, Green Lantern 2, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Kick-Ass 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Arrow, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Young Justice, Superman: Unbound and Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United...
After releasing a character poster for Don Cheadle's War Machine earlier this month, Disney and Marvel Studios turned their attention to the bad guys of Iron Man 3 this week with two new posters, one of which gave us our first real look at Guy Pearce (Prometheus) as Aldrich Killian, and the other providing us with our best look yet at Ben Kingsley's (Sexy Beast) evil terrorist leader The Mandarin, who kind of reminds me of a bizarre blinged-up Osama »
- Flickering Myth
The Mandarin gets an Iron Man 3 character poster and description
23 February 2013 1:21 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Over the past week or so we've seen Iron Man 3 character posters for War Machine (Don Cheadle) and Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), and now Disney and Marvel Studios has released another, this time featuring Iron Man's (Robert Downey Jr.) arch-nemesis The Mandarin, who is portrayed by Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast):
In addition to the poster, Disney has also unveiled a new character description for the terrorist leader:
"Mandarin is the sinister head of the terrorist organization known as The Ten Rings, from which all the acts of extreme terrorism plaguing the world appear to emanate. Although he is reclusive, Mandarin wields great power and makes his presence known by striking fear in the government and the populace through his brazen plans of attack."
And thanks to Empire, we have a wider shot of The Mandarin, revealing what's under his foot:
Now, perhaps we'll get our first look »
- Flickering Myth
"Iron Man 3": The Rings Of 'The Mandarin'
22 February 2013 7:13 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
From Marvel Studios "Iron Man 3", Sneak Peek an official poster of the super-villain 'The Mandarin', as portrayed by actor Sir Ben Kingsley ("Sexy Beast"), as well as details about the character's Marvel Comics' origins and powerful 'alien rings'.
"...in 'Iron Man 3", brash-but-brilliant industrialist 'Tony Stark'/'Iron Man' comes up against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds.
"When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible."
' 'The Mandarin' debuted in Marvel Comics' "Tales of Suspense" #50 (February 1964), written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Don Heck.
"...the Mandarin's father was one of the wealthiest men in pre-revolutionary mainland China, as a descendant of 'Genghis Khan', while his mother was an English noblewoman. Their son was born in an unnamed village in mainland China before the Communist revolution.
"Both of the boy's parents died soon after his birth, »
- Michael Stevens
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