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Tetro Review

8 June 2009 10:33 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news

“What has happened to our family? We were so promising!” So ponders one elder member of the artistic clan at the center of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro –– and so, one imagines, the film’s detractors will be eager to snark about the director and his filmmaking progeny. Ffc is oft-mocked for having whored himself out to studios in the 90s, only to squander the generosity of an indie arm with his pretentious “return to personal filmmaking,” 2007’s Youth Without Youth. As for the younger Coppola generation, Roman went from making highly-cinematic music videos to directing the promising mod homage Cq, but has since apparently done little but shoot second until for his dad, sister and Wes Anderson. After winning an Oscar for the beyond-slight Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola made a personal gesture of her own with the masterfully stylish Marie Antoinette — which s ...

Karina Longworth

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Brutal Murders birth Headless Historicals...

27 May 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

History can be scary. Beheadings, burnings, and torture fill our history books, and now collectors of the macabre can have another piece of horrific history; historic, headless dolls. Although historic, these dolls are not for the child’s' play as HeadlessHistoricals.com states on their site, "Headless Historicals are reworked dolls that were inspired by people throughout history who died in rather horrible ways. Each doll is dressed according to how they might have appeared during the peak of their success, while their bodies display the manner in which they died." With just a brief glimpse on their website and immediately you can feel the dedication that owner and creator Shiva Rodriguez has put into this educational line of horrific dolls.

Begun in 1998, Shiva Rodriguez developed the doll after working at a Florida haunted attraction in the wardrobe department. After noticing the benefits of designing outfits on dolls, Rodriguez decided

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Ignoring The Disclaimer, Sofia Coppola Will Play With A Jackass

20 May 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

This is definitely going to end up being the strangest news I hear this week, if not this month or this year. Sofia Coppola, writer/director/producer of “Lost in Translation” and “Marie Antoinette,” is deep in the prep stages for her next effort, entitled “Somewhere.” Now here’s where things get weird: joining the already confirmed Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in the cast is none other than “Jackass” and “Wildboyz” alum Chris Pontius.

Whaaa…? The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Pontius will join the cast of Coppola’s “Somewhere” as the best friend of Stephen Dorff’s protagonist. Dorff plays a popular Hollywood actor who is forced to re-examine his public persona when his daughter (Elle Fanning) shows up for a surprise visit. Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” partner Focus Features will release the film, which is currently planned for a 2010 release.

I’ve always had a fondness

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Chris Pontius Boards Somewhere

19 May 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

Chris Pontius has signed on for a role in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Jackass trouper will play Sammy, best friend of the character played by Stephen Dorff, a decadent, bad-boy actor living at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood who begins to re-examine his life after a surprise visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning).

Coppola, who wrote, directed and produced Marie Antoinette and Lost In Translation, is doing the same for Somewhere. Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos and Paul Rassam are executive producers on the American Zoetrope/Focus Features production.

No production date has been set.

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2009 Oscar Update #1: 'Tetro,' 'Bright Star,' 'Taking Woodstock' and More

18 May 2009 12:11 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Last year I began covering the Oscar Contenders in September, which was about three months earlier than I ever had in the past. It brought a lot of conversation and made predicting the Oscars, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards that much more fun. So, this year we will start even earlier. While I haven't had the chance to update the RopeofSilicon Contenders section with this year's crop, I will be getting to that very soon. For now, let's get into this. It's been less than three months since Slumdog Millionaire took home 8 Oscars and we are now ready to see what film will stand above the rest in 2009 and the Cannes Film Festival has offered up our first topics of conversation. We will begin with a title not included in the headline in Pixar's Up, a movie I may be seeing this Wednesday, but the screening is in 2-D,

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Brad Brevet

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Seventy-Two

15 May 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Dustin O'Halloran Virtuoso classical pianist/composer Dustin O'Halloran, also half of '90s art-rock duo Devics with Sara Lov, was born in Los Angeles in 1971. O'Halloran's music training started at the age of 7. Uprootedness and early sorrow stole him from his piano, which remained untouched for over a decade, until he met Lov and formed Devics in 1996. O'Halloran's collaborations include Spoon, Soulsavers, Dustin Hoffman, and most recently William Olsson. With rushes of style and mystique, O'Halloran's work represents a sound that wraps itself into the future and the past in one breath. A truly elegant artist. Start with "Opus 23," from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Buy: iTunes Genre: Classical/Experimental Artist: Dustin O'Halloran Song: Opus 23 Album: Marie Antoinette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Big Maybelle Soul songbird Mabel Louise Smith, a.k.a. Big Maybelle, was born on May 1, 1924, in Jackson,...

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

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Danny Huston to Play Poseidon in Clash of the Titans

29 April 2009 12:40 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Although principal photography started earlier this week, there are still more casting announcements to be made. The latest to join Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans remake is actor Danny Huston, who can be seen as William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine this weekend. Huston has previously appeared in 21 Grams, The Aviator, Marie Antoinette, Children of Men, The Number 23, and 30 Days of Night as well. In the original film, Poseidon was played by Jack Gwillim. I always remember him as the rather unexciting god who just swam around in slow motion underwater. I hope Hudson brings some more thunder this time. In Clash of the Titans, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to

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Alex Billington

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Soffia Coppola’s next film Somewhere with Stephen Dorff

17 April 2009 3:11 PM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

Focus Features joined Sofia Coppola to make Lost in Translation, and now they’ll do it again with Somewhere. But she’s decided on Stephen Dorff instead of someone like Bill Murray … I just don’t see it.

Here’s the press release.

New York, April 16, 2009 – Reuniting with the film company with which she made the Academy Award-winning hit Lost in Translation, writer/director Sofia Coppola will make her next movie, Somewhere, with Focus Features. Somewhere will star Stephen Dorff (soon to be seen in Public Enemies) and Elle Fanning (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

Ms. Coppola is also reteamed with Pathé, which will have rights to the film in France, Benelux, and Switzerland; and Tohokushinsa, which will hold rights to the film in Japan and select Asian territories. Medusa Film will have rights to Somewhere in Italy, where a portion

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Jeff Bayer

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Sofia Coppola Heads Home For Her Next Project

17 April 2009 9:32 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Maybe she was burned by the critical reception of Marie Antoinette, or maybe she's just spent the last three years gallivanting around in those luscious costumes. But we haven't heard much from Sofia Coppola since that movie came out in 2006, so it's very good news to hear that she's setting up her next project at Focus Features, and a homegrown one at that. Her film Somewhere, which she wrote and will direct, will star Stephen Dorff as a troubled actor and Elle Fanning as his 11-year-old daughter. Variety reports that Coppola got special permission to film at the Chateau Marmont, the Los Angeles hotel infamous for the troublesome celebrities who find their way there. Regardless of your feelings about Coppola and Marie Antoinette or Lost in Translation or even her performance in Godfather III, it's impossible to view this news with anything but excitement. Coppola is one of a tiny

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Sofia Coppola is "Somewhere" on her next project.

17 April 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Sofia Coppola will be using the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood as the setting for her next film called "Somewhere." Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning are set to star in the Focus Features' dramedy which tells of a bad-boy actor living an excessive live at the Chateau Martmont who, after an unexptected visit from his eleven-year-old daughter, is left to reexamine his life. Coppla said that she was looking for "an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles" and received permission to shoot at the Cheateau which of late is notorious as being a plae for tabloid-popular celebrities. Shooting will take place in Italy and Los Angeles in June and July.    Coppola's other credits include "Lost in Translation," which earned her an Oscar® for best screenplay and "Marie Antoinette," her last project back in 2006.  

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Sofia Coppola's Next

17 April 2009 1:54 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

After taking some time off after the disappointment that was Marie Antoinette (it actually wasn't a terrible film, it was more a perceived disappointment), writer/director Sofia Coppola is back. Coppola has set up the dramedy Somewhere at Focus Features and set Steven Dorff and Elle Fanning to star. Set at the infamous Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, the film will follow a "bad boy" actor (Dorff) who's been staying at the hotel, getting drunk, getting high and getting laid. He's...

Mike Sampson

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Female Uprising: Coppola and Stephen Dorff are Heading 'Somewhere'

17 April 2009 1:29 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

I realize I was one of the few that thoroughly enjoyed Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, but I think I am safe in saying most enjoyed Lost in Translation and I expect that same group will be interested in her upcoming film Somewhere for Focus Features. Variety reports Coppola's first film since Antoinette in 2006 will finally get underway with filming scheduled for June and July in Los Angeles and Italy. The film is titled Somewhere and will star Stephen Dorff (Blade) as a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), he is forced to reexamine his life. 2009 is already shaping up to be a great year for female directors as Kathryn Bigelow has already received a lot of good buzz surrounding The Hurt Locker, Nora Ephron is directing Julie and Julia, Mira Nair brings us Amelia,

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Sofia Coppola Checks Into The Marmont

17 April 2009 1:15 AM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news

The Coppola clan are back. While pa Francis preps black-and-white Italian immigrant opus Tetro for its Cannes bow next month, Sofia is checking into La's iconic Chateau Marmont hotel as the setting for her fourth directorial project, comedy/drama Somewhere.Somewhere, Coppola's first film since Marie Antoinette in 2006, tells the story of a hell-raising, Marmont-dwelling actor (Stephen Dorff), who is forced to re-evaluate his life when he's unexpectedly visited by his 11 year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). After shooting much of the Lost In Translation in Tokyo's Park Hyatt, Coppola clearly has a thing for hotels (the free shampoo? the dressing gowns?), although Chateau Marmont is dripping in Hollywood lore and gives her a setting closer to home, as well as the opportunity to tell what she describes as "an intimate story set in contemporary La".Somewhere is a family affair for the Coppolas, with Sofia co-producing with brother Roman, and Francis Ford Coppola exec-producing.

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Sofia Coppola to Direct Somewhere Starring Stephen Dorff

16 April 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

I won't lie... I'm pretty freakin' excited to finally see an announcement about a new Sofia Coppola film in the works. It appears that after the lukewarm reception given to Marie Antoinette back in 2006, she has decided to return to a scenario similar to that of her massive indie hit Lost in Translation -- you know, the one that made Scarlett Johansson a star. It also finds her reteaming with Focus Features. The new project is called Somewhere and once again it will take place primarily at a hotel, only this time in Los Angeles at the Chateau Marmont. The movie will star Stephen Dorff (Blade, Cecil B. DeMented) as a "bad boy actor stumbling through a life of excess" who is forced to sober up when he receives a visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). Described only as "an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles", it will

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Sofia Coppola’s back on the scene

16 April 2009 10:53 PM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news

Three years after bringing the world Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola is back on the filmmaking beat with Somewhere, a comedy drama –sorry, “dramedy” – set at La’s famous Chateau Marmont. The film will star Stephen Dorff (below, likely hoping for a little career reinvention) as a listless bad boy actor wandering through a life of excess who gets a surprise visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Dakota Fanning). Naturally, this makes him re-examine his life. Hang on, wasn’t this the basic plot of... .

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Almost Official: Stephen Dorff is the Next Mickey Rourke

16 April 2009 10:08 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Three years after she premiered Marie Antoinette at the Cannes Film Festival, Sofia Coppola is returning to cinemas with a new film she wrote and will direct called Somewhere. Much like her 2003 film Lost in Translation, Somewhere will be set in a hotel -- though this time she's returning to the States and bringing her cute, angsty Fem Anderson-ish style to the iconic Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood.

Wanting to make (in her words) "an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles," Somewhere will follow a "bad-boy actor" who's forced to reexamine his life after a surprise visit from his 11-year-old daughter. Possibly looking to capitalize on the new born-again-actor trend, Coppola has cast Stephen Dorff, a guy who's just trying to come back to acting in movies people have actually heard of); one of his last roles was as Ross Tanner on two episodes of Xiii last year. Opposite Dorff will be Elle Fanning,

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Sofia Coppola Checks In To The Chateau Marmont -- Her next film Somewhere will be set at the Hollywood hotel

16 April 2009 | From Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news

Written by Nicole Pedersen I don’t live in La but I am of course familiar with the Chateau Marmont. Here’s what I know from watching TMZ: the hotel is a Hollywood landmark. It has bungalows and it is the destination of choice for troubled young stars like Jim Morrison and Britney Spears. The A-listers seem to check into the Marmont when they are just sick to death of all the harassment from the paparazzi – which is funny because if there’s one place the press are sure to follow you it is to the threshold of the Chateau Marmont. It’s not exactly a low-profile place to crash. Here’s something else I know about The Chateau. Sofia Coppola is setting her next film at the famed hotel. The writer director of “Lost in Translation” and “Marie Antoinette” has been granted permission to film inside the Marmont for

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7 Sexy Starlets In Imaginary Movies

6 April 2009 3:59 AM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news

Emily Blunt has tugged on a series of preposterously elaborate dresses for Vanity Fair, making her look like she fell face-first from Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. She looks incredible. To celebrate, we’ve collected some of our favourite shots from a variety of Vanity Fair shoots. And we’ve also come up with a bunch of imaginary flicks the shots could be stills from.  Because we’re fun like that.   The Star: Eva Green The Imaginary Film: Black Widow (2010) Green is the titular Black Widow, a girl... .

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Get to Knowing Rose Byrne

20 March 2009 10:47 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

In the last few years, Rose Byrne has proven herself an actress fond of unconventional choices. Unafraid of horror, sci-fi and related genre material, her recent outings to the dark side have ranged from Danny Boyle’s Sunshine to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s better-than-anyone-expected sequel 28 Weeks Later to the jet-black comedy Just Buried. Her latest film—and venture into the paranormal—is Knowing, directed by fellow Australian Alex Proyas of The Crow and Dark City fame.

Knowing finds Byrne playing Diana Wayland, the daughter of a disturbed little girl from 1959 who penned cryptic numbers that foretell horrifying present-day disasters. Now a single mother, she’s called on by astrophysics professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) for assistance in figuring out what it all means.

“I don’t know, I guess you get cast in one thing, and then it’s pretty straightforward,” says Byrne, discussing her recent streak of gloom-and-doom projects.

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Vanity Fair's Hollywood ~ Episode 10 (2004)

2 February 2009 5:20 PM, PST | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Missed previous episodes? The Hollywood Historian in me was busy last year. See: 1995 , 1996, 1997, 1998 , 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

With the annual Vanity Fair "Hollywood" issue about to debut for 2009 -- I'm guessing we see the new cover in less than two weeks (Update: the new cover has been leaked and Vanity Fair has chucked their traditional photo shoot *sniffle* for the millionth magazine cover featuring President Obama), let's briefly return to our Vanity Fair retrospectives. "Send in the Gowns" was the title of 2004's photo shoot and they returned to the first year's game plan of glamour girls. The cover was more crowded though, bringing us an unlucky 13. But who was this cover unlucky for?

Maybe all of them, with the exception of Maggie Gyllenhaal (hurrah) and Hilary Swank (known affectionately around these parts as Beelzebub), who was just 11 months away from her second Oscar. Vanity Fair had gotten less daring in their cover

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