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Johnny Depp: His 50 best moments for his 50th birthday
9 June 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
He might not look it, but Johnny Depp turns 50 today. And while he hasn’t spent all 50 of those years in Hollywood, he has given us countless memorable moments since exploding on the scene in the ’80s.
The tatted superstar with very interesting taste in movie roles is as pretty as he is mysterious, so in honor of a great actor (and his remarkable cheekbones), here are 50 of his best moments, from his many words of wisdom to his best characters and everything in between:
1. In Don Juan DeMarco: “There are only four questions of value in life … What is sacred? »
- Samantha Highfill
Casting Net: Kristen Stewart joins two indie projects; Plus Keira Knightley to star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, more
4 June 2013 7:50 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Kristen Stewart is lining up more projects for life after Twilight. She has signed onto two indie films that will shoot this summer, political drama Camp X-Ray and the Olivier Assayas-directed film Sils Maria. In Camp X-Ray, Stewart will play a young soldier who escapes her small town by joining the military, and, instead of getting a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped, she ends up being sent to Guantanamo, where she encounters abuse and hatred from her superiors. For Sils Maria, Stewart joins Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) and star Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) in the film about »
- Emily Rome
Helen Mirren rumoured for 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'
4 June 2013 1:07 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Helen Mirren is expected to take on the lead role in The Hundred-Foot Journey.
Chocolat director Lasse Hallström has signed on for the adaptation of Richard C Morais's novel, reports Deadline.
Set in France, the tale centres around the rivalry between a three star Michelin restaurant and a nearby Indian eatery.
Mirren is rumoured for the role of the high-class restaurant's chef Madame Mallory, who takes a shine to the son of the family of her enemies.
DreamWorks has said that a casting has not yet been made.
Swedish director Hallström has also worked on What's Eating Gilbert Grape, My Life as a Dog and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
Mirren will next be seen reprising her role as Victoria in Red 2. She has also lent her voice to Monsters University.
The Hundred-Foot Journey will begin shooting in the autumn.
Watch a trailer for Helen Mirren's forthcoming movie »
Lasse Hallstrom to Direct The Hundred-foot Journey; Helen Mirren May Star
3 June 2013 5:49 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Movies about chefs seem to be all the rage at the moment. Bradley Cooper and Jon Favreau are currently prepping two separate films about professional cooks, both called Chef, and now Chocolat director Lasse Hallstrom has been tapped to direct an adaptation of the Richard C. Morais novel The Hundred-Foot Journey for DreamWorks. The story centers on the rivalry between an Indian restaurant that is 100 feet away from a three-Michelin-star restaurant in France, with the eccentric French chef reluctantly forming a bond with the young Indian boy whose family owns the quaint Indian restaurant. Casting has yet to be confirmed, but Deadline reports that Helen Mirren will be playing the French chef Madame Mallory. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) wrote the screenplay adaptation and the film boasts Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Juliet Blake as producers. Hallstrom most recently helmed the Nicholas Sparks adaptation Safe Haven, but the Cider House Rules »
- Adam Chitwood
Helen Mirren May Take The Hundred-Foot Journey
3 June 2013 5:09 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
How do you follow up when you win an Empire Award? Well, besides playing the Queen on stage, voicing a Pixar film and showing up for more Oap-driven carnage in Red 2, it appears Helen Mirren might be working with Lasse Hallstrom on The Hundred-Foot Journey.Though it sounds like the world’s shortest travelogue, Journey will actually be based on Richard C. Morais’ novel about a rivalry between a posh eaterie and an Indian restaurant 100 feet away.Mirren is in talks to play Madame Mallory, chef at the three-Michelin-star joint who is none too pleased about the competition. She takes a shine to the young lad whose family owns the Indian place, however, and their friendship with his quest to learn more about cooking, fuels the film.DreamWorks has this one on the front burner with Hallstrom on board to direct and a shoot pencilled in for the autumn. »
Johnny Depp will not do your little gangster movie for anything less than $20 million
30 May 2013 1:37 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Disappointing all who were looking forward to Boston’s favorite son, Johnny Depp, finally making another movie for all his fellow Sullies like he did with Chocolat, Johnny Depp has dropped out of starring in Black Mass, the biopic of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. The film—one of three Bulger projects announced in the wake of his capture, while ignoring the fact that The Departed kind of already covered this ground—reportedly had trouble selling at Cannes, despite having Barry Levinson in the director’s chair, and Johnny Depp in the chair reserved for tough, South Boston Irish guys. As »
Populaire success: the Weinsteins' ambiguous magic
29 May 2013 10:26 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Unbeatable salesmen of foreign-language films to English-speaking audiences, have they added unhealthy levels saccharine in the process?
"America for business. France for love," proclaims one of the characters at the end of Populaire, one of the latest batch of foreign-language releases snapped up for the Us by the Weinstein Company. It's like the chap is parroting the business credo – use ruthless Us commercial nous to identify and exploit passionate film-making from overseas – that helped Bob and Harvey Weinstein climb to the top of the independent pile in the 1990s with their first company, Miramax, then do it all over again.
Not much work was required to make Populaire, which started life with several French production companies, fit for purpose: this glassy-eyed tale of a plucky typist (Deborah François), with its mechanically aspirational plot, cute retro rhythms and New York finale, is pleading to be exported. Its eagerness to please is »
- Phil Hoad
Blu-ray Review: Even Nicholas Sparks Fans Will Be Annoyed by ‘Safe Haven’
20 May 2013 4:34 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – At its best, Lasse Hallstrom’s “Safe Haven,” based on the book by the insanely popular Nicholas Sparks, is merely safe, Lifetime Channel TV Movie junk. At its worst, it’s pretty offensive and exploitative of women actually stuck in abusive situations and men forced into single parenthood after losing a spouse. As he has done before, Sparks takes real-world issues and turns them into manipulative devices. Hallstrom (“Chocolat”) has enough filmmaking skill to keep it from getting too boring despite the attempts on the part of the two remarkably dull leads to put you to sleep.
Rating: 1.0/5.0
Julianne Hough has yet to find that breakout role that convinces me she’s more than a reality TV star and this certainly doesn’t make the case as she’s incredibly flat and unbelievable as a woman on the run from an abusive husband. Hough’s Katie jumps a bus »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Oscar Alert: Julia and Judi, and Meryl Too
20 May 2013 11:30 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County: Duel of the Oscar winners [See previous post: "Oscar 2014 Watch: Harvey Weinstein Cannes Film Festival Coming Attractions."] More Oscar 2014 bait: August: Osage County, directed by John Wells, and starring three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, The Iron Lady) and Oscar winner Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich). Is it mere coincidence that Streep’s seventeenth Oscar nomination and third win was for her portrayal of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady — distributed by The Weinstein Company two years ago? Either way, Streep’s Oscar 2014 competition should be fierce, as Julia Roberts doesn’t seem to be wearing any makeup in the family drama. (Photo: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County.) Adapted by Tracy Letts from his own play, besides Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, August: Osage County also features Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Dermot Mulroney, Star Trek Into Darkness‘ Benedict Cumberbatch, »
- Andre Soares
Safe Haven Review
1 March 2013 6:05 PM, PST | www.themoviebit.com | See recent TheMovieBit news »
Based on the novel by The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks, and directed by Lasse Hallström, who has successfully gone down this road before with Dear John and Chocolat, Safe Haven opened in Ireland today, targeting the wallets of every couple in the country. While The Notebook may have it's fair share of haters, it is a very good example of the romance genre, with a well told story and a fantastic cast. Sadly, sharing an author is where Safe Haven's similarities with that movie end. The movie follows Katie (Julianne Hough), a young woman on the run, doggedly pursed by police detective Kevin (David Lyons). Finding herself in the small town of South Port, North Carolina, she tries to make a new life for herself, with her falling for widower Alex (Josh Duhamel) being a happy side effect. But, as is always the case, her old life catches up with her. »
- noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
'Safe Haven' review: Nicholas Sparks romance will make your heart sink
28 February 2013 5:01 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Director: Lasse Hallström; Screenwriters: Leslie Bohem, Dana Stevens; Starring: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons; Running time: 115 mins; Certificate: 12A
What starts out as a pleasingly old-fashioned romance eventually spirals into realms so far off the planet it would make Professor Brian Cox blow a fuse. Josh Duhamel smiles his way through the chaos as a nice guy widower living in a sleepy coastal town whose eyes brighten at the sight of a new arrival - even though she's played by the curiously charmless Julianne Hough.
The young starlet from Rock of Ages and Footloose has a bit of a hard edge, which is presumably why director Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) was drawn to her for the part of Katie. She blows into town like a storm after a briefly glimpsed scuffle in Boston that leaves her clothes stained with blood. At first, the sunnier climes of North Carolina »
Juliette Binoche In Talks For Godzilla Remake
26 February 2013 2:03 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
When you think of French thespian Juliette Binoche, you think of her stirring turn in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy, or maybe her Oscar-nominated performance in Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat, or her Oscar-winning portrayal in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient. You don't think of monster movies. But how dare you put Binoche in a box. If she wants to be in a monster movie, she'll be in the biggest monster franchise of them all! Variety reports Binoche has entered into negotiations to co-star in Legendary's Godzilla reboot. Directed by Monsters helmer Gareth Edwards, the movie will of course focus on the iconic radioactive reptilian behemoth who is destined to cause earth-shattering collateral damage as he tears around some unfortunate cityscape. However, details on the plot and its characters are currently being closely guarded. What we do know is that Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, Anna Karenina), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, »
Juliette Binoche in Talks to Join Godzilla Reboot
26 February 2013 12:29 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The cast for director Gareth Edwards’ (Monsters) reboot of Godzilla continues to grow as we move closer towards production. Aaron Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen are already in talks to topline the pic, and now Variety reports that Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Chocolat) has entered negotiations to join the cast. Plot details are being kept firmly under wraps, but rumors have swirled that the story centers on a soldier and involves at least two monsters in addition to the titular creature. Bryan Cranston was previously reported as being in talks to sign on as well, but this latest report from Variety makes no mention of the actor. Hopefully this was simply an oversight and not a signifier that Cranston is no longer circling the pic. Though Warner Bros. and Legendary are keeping a tight lid on all things Godzilla, it’s clear that they’re roping in some high »
- Adam Chitwood
A Good Friday opening for Die Hard as Bruce Willis pic tops strong Safe Haven
16 February 2013 2:06 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Box office sees Die Hard sequel eyeing $40 million weekend gross 20th Century Fox's A Good Day to Die Hard got off to a strong start on Friday, but received some stronger-than-anticipated competition from Relativity Media's Safe Haven drama. The fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise directed by John Moore, also with Jai Courtney and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, pulled in around $8.5-9 million on Friday after losing Thursday's debut date to Safe Haven. Pic should turn in around $39-41 million come Sunday weekend estimates. The adaptation of Nicholas Sparks romantic thriller directed by Chocolat and Dear John's Lasse Hallstrom starring Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel and Marvel's The Avengers' Cobie Smulders, is looking at $7.5-7.8 million on Friday, and heads for a pull of $37 million, thanks to romance lovers. Universal's last weekend top-spot-holding Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, added $5.3 million for another solid run, looking at over $26 million. »
A Good Friday opening for Die Hard as Bruce Willis pic tops strong Safe Haven
16 February 2013 2:06 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Box office sees Die Hard sequel eyeing $40 million weekend gross 20th Century Fox's A Good Day to Die Hard got off to a strong start on Friday, but received some stronger-than-anticipated competition from Relativity Media's Safe Haven drama. The fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise directed by John Moore, also with Jai Courtney and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, pulled in around $8.5-9 million on Friday after losing Thursday's debut date to Safe Haven. Pic should turn in around $39-41 million come Sunday weekend estimates. The adaptation of Nicholas Sparks romantic thriller directed by Chocolat and Dear John's Lasse Hallstrom starring Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel and Marvel's The Avengers' Cobie Smulders, is looking at $7.5-7.8 million on Friday, and heads for a pull of $37 million, thanks to romance lovers. Universal's last weekend top-spot-holding Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, added $5.3 million for another solid run, looking at over $26 million. »
Film Review: Hey Lovers, ‘Safe Haven’ is a Decent Date Movie
14 February 2013 10:36 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It’s Valentine’s Day, and along with the impossible to get dinner reservations, the decision of which movie to see has probably spoiled this holiday as much as Walgreen roses. But the romantic drama ‘Safe Haven’ is a well performed, well paced narrative that won’t make you gag, and that includes you wishing-to-see-Die-Hard dudes.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Credit for this probably goes to director Lasse Hallström (“Chocolat,” “Casanova”) who knows a thing about romantic canoodling, and the earnest cast that includes Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel. Based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks (“The Notebook”), the story itself has an air of well established mystery, which adds some depth to the characters that make them more interesting. Hallstrom also adds some touches that are unexpected, with a nod toward Hitchcock. Also Hough and Duhamel’s characters are seeking some sort of redemption, which makes a love story more motivated and savory. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Safe Haven (2013) – The Review
14 February 2013 8:14 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Before you head out to the multiplex be sure and pack up the tissues because it’s time for another heart-tugger from the pen (or keyboard) of Nicholas Sparks (whose The Notebook was a huge box office smash). Almost a year ago the screen adaptation of his work The Lucky One hit the cinemas with attractive young actors deciding whether to give love another chance. And now with Safe Haven he presents us with a story of attractive young…you get the drift. If that were the only similarity! So is this the perfect date flick for the most romantic of holidays (too bad there’s not heart-shaped popcorn)?
Haven doesn’t start with images of hearts of flowers. We’re hit with the sight of a young, attractive long-haired brunette (Julianne Hough) barefooted, blood-splattered (not her own), clutching a pillowcase and dashing about a Boston suburb at twilight. A »
- Jim Batts
Exclusive: Lasse Hallstrom Talks Safe Haven
13 February 2013 8:45 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Director Lasse Hallstrom discusses his new romantic thriller Safe Haven, in theaters February 14
Director Lasse Hallström has had as long and diverse a career as practically any director working in and out of Hollywood today. He has been nominated for three Oscars, two for his work as a writer and director on My Life as a Dog and another for directing The Cider House Rules. He has also directed beloved films such as What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, and, more recently, the Nicholas Sparks adaptation Dear John and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The director returns to the world of author Nicholas Sparks for his latest drama Safe Haven, opening in theaters nationwide February 14. I recently had the chance to speak with the filmmaker over the phone about finding such a talented cast (Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons), shooting in the actual North Carolina town of Southport, »
- MovieWeb
New Featurette for Safe Haven with Josh Duhamel & Julianne Hough
30 January 2013 10:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Safe Haven marks the latest adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ bestselling original novel, following on from last year’s The Lucky One, starring Zac Efron.
This time around, Josh Duhamel (Transformers) and Julianne Hough (Rock of Ages) will be taking the leading roles, and all we’ve seen so far suggests it’s heading to be another hit over the Valentine’s weekend.
With the film’s Us release date fast approaching, Yahoo Movies have debuted a new featurette, taking us behind the scenes with Hough.
“Safe Haven is an affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films The Notebook and Dear John. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, »
- Kenji Lloyd
SAG Awards: More stars present… Rose Byrne, Bryan Cranston, James Marsden, Alfred Molina, Dev Patel, Amy Poehler and Noah Wyle
24 January 2013 7:46 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
Rose Byrne, Bryan Cranston, James Marsden, Alfred Molina, Dev Patel, Amy Poehler and Noah Wyle will be presenters at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today. They join a growing roster of actors who will honor their colleagues at the SAG Awards that already includes Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Jessica Chastain, Bradley Cooper, Jeff Daniels, Viola Davis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Taye Diggs, Peter Facinelli, Sally Field, John Goodman, Neil Patrick Harris, Anne Hathaway, SAG-AFTRA Co-President Ken Howard, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Damian Lewis, Julianna Margulies, Julianne Moore, Busy Philipps, SAG-AFTRA Co-President Roberta Reardon, Carl Reiner, Liev Schreiber, Justin Timberlake, Kerry Washington, Naomi Watts, Sigourney Weaver and Alfre Woodard. In 2012, Rose Byrne earned her first SAG Award nomination as a member of the ?Bridesmaids? cast. She will next be seen in the comedies ?I Give It a Year? »
- hnblog@hollywoodnews.com (Hollywood News Team)
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