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The Naughts: The Director of the '00s
10 December 2009 7:37 PM, PST
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Steven Soderbergh had a remarkable 12 films in theaters between 2000 and 2009. That includes two shiny Oscar winners, "Erin Brockovich" (which nabbed Julia Roberts a statuette) and "Traffic," and a potential third, "The Informant!"; all three installments of the blockbuster "Ocean's" franchise; three fast-and-loose video experiments ("Full Frontal," "Bubble" and "The Girlfriend Experience"); an anti-period piece period piece ("The Good German"); an anti-biopic biopic ("Che"); and a sorely underrated remake/distillation of a sci-fi classic ("Solaris").
And that's not even counting his contribution to the 2004 omnibus "Eros," or the ten episodes of HBO series "K Street" he helmed. By virtue of unstoppable output alone, Soderbergh's made more of a mark on the '00s than any other working director. But that's not why he's my pick for director of the decade.
Back in 1989, Soderbergh kicked off the giddy golden age of independent film with "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," and while the following
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- Alison Willmore
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Top Ten Tuesday: George Clooney
1 December 2009 3:52 PM, PST
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From humble beginnings in films like Return To Horror High and Return Of The Killer Tomatoes, a two-time “Sexiest Man Alive”, four-time Academy Award nominee (so far), and one-time winner of Best Supporting Actor (so far) was born. George Clooney’s career has been a long and winding road in both film and television. Today, he takes all roles from absolutely serious (Syriana) to comical (Leatherheads) to downright silly cameos (South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over). It is for this eclectic mix of performances and characters that we salute this week the top 10 of George Clooney. Whether it is his performance or the roles themselves he brings to life, each character listed below is memorable in their own right. And, with films like Up In The Air and The American forthcoming, we are sure to see even more memorable characters brought to life by Clooney.
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First Shot From The American
11 November 2009 5:04 AM, PST
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Clooney’s taking aim… at our excitement.
Okay, as lame as that may have been, there’s no denying how cool this first shot is from George Clooney’s upcoming film, The American. It comes to us today courtesy of Collider, who had a man out at the American Film Market last week to snag up images just like this one.
In the film, Clooney plays a skilled assassin. After a botched job, a lover ends up dead, and the assassin vows that his next job will be his last. It could very well be just that, as he finds himself letting his guard down.
To this end, The American could be viewed as a sequel to From Dusk Till Dawn. Actually, I kind of like to think everything Clooney appears in is a sequel to From Dusk Till Dawn with Seth Gecko running around the world trying to change
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George Clooney in Talks to Star in Alexander Payne’s Next Film, The Descendants
2 November 2009 10:03 PM, PST
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While I enjoy poking fun at most actors who never seem to slow down and it feels like I’m announcing a new project for them every week, I never mind it when that actor is George Clooney. Even when I’m not crazy about the film, like “The Good German” or “Intolerable Cruelty”, I still think he’s great in it. You’ll find that there’s no escaping Clooney for the rest of 2009 since he has three movies coming out over the next two months. But since he’s great in “The Men Who Stare at Goats” and “Up in the Air”, I don’t think you’ll mind (I have yet to see “Fantastic Mr. Fox” but I don’t think his voice work is going to let me down).
Even though Clooney is currently in Italy shooting Anton Corbijn’s spy-thriller “The American”, he’s already
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- Matt Goldberg
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House Of The Devil Movie Review
27 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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The House Of The Devil is as perfect an 80's horror film as we'll ever get in this decade. The only thing missing is the giant clamshell VHS case. The look, style, tone, pacing, even the credits nail the feel of a flick your friends would've rented out for a slumber party, but weren't quite sure what it was about. It's fun for fans of the genre (yes, 80's possession horror is a sub-sect) but Add-editing style fanatics should move along to the next defanged crappy remake.
The House of the Devil is the classic story of a nubile young coed Samantha, played by Jocelin Donahue and who could be the younger sister of Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Samantha is enrolled at a sleepy college and has roommate problems. Namely, her roommate is always having raucous sex, distracting from her scholarly duties. Samantha wants out, and has
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The Third Man Remake Rumor - Are Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio Planning a Trip to Vienna?
23 October 2009 4:32 PM, PDT
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Well, you’ve been waiting for a big remake bombshell. One of those major “Don’t you Dare you touch that!!” kinds of licenses. There have been some “relatively” big pictures to receive the remake treatment in recent memory, such as “The Day the Earth Stood Still” but nothing to really stand in disbelief at. Not a “Citizen Kane”-esque level of audacity, but a recent rumor of there being a potential “The Third Man” remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire does tread dangerously close. Luckily, if proven to be true, there may be some talent to pull this off. Click on the jump, and let’s hop on this ferris wheel together.
First and foremost, this is still just a rumor, and as being reported by Chud it’s “still early enough in the game that it could all fall apart, but it’s also late enough in
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- Adam Charles
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Film: Review:Black Dynamite
15 October 2009 12:03 PM, PDT
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Another blaxploitation parody/homage might seem a little redundant after I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and Undercover Brother, but the clever new spoof Black Dynamite justifies its existence with amazing cultural specificity and uncanny attention to detail. Working from a script he co-wrote with star Michael Jai White, director Scott Sanders has created a genre pastiche every bit as loving and meticulous as Far From Heaven or The Good German, though this time it’s in service to a film boom defined by wooden dialogue, terrible acting by models and ex-athletes, and filmmaking that can charitably be called charmingly
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10 Most Overrated Young Actors
13 October 2009 7:18 PM, PDT
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We've listed down our top 50 hottest young actors and would be coming up with the latest updates very soon. Yesterday, we discussed about actors we believed to be quite underrated. How about the young actors we consider overrated? That's what this article is for...
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Who qualifies as overrated? Guys who seem to be getting lots of buzz, but has no real talent at all, or perhaps just a small amount of it. I have no issue if an actor gets the cover of GQ or Details or L'Uomo Vogue every month. They can even strut their stuff on the catwalks of Milan and Paris and gain additional media mileage. But to be considered the hottest actor on the planet with nothing to show yet? That is something totally absurd.
Anyway, here's our list of ten just after the jump!
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- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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Movie Review: The Informant! (2009)
18 September 2009 12:21 AM, PDT
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Matt Damon in The Informant!
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The trailers for Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! are a great example of why I do my best to avoid film marketing. While they don't necessarily spoil the film, they create an impression for a film you just don't get. Sure, there is a jaunty score and a bumbling performance by Matt Damon as the corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre, but it's more than that... while at the same time... it's not. Let me explain...
As much as I would love to place the blame solely on the marketing division at Warner Bros., I really can't. For starters, the trailers are fantastic and hopefully will get people into the theaters to watch this film over the other dogs opening this weekend. On top of that, there really isn't much of a way to sum up The Informant! in a short amount of time.
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- Brad Brevet
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The Ten Greatest Films of Steven Soderbergh
16 September 2009 1:43 PM, PDT
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With Steven Soderbergh's latest slice of cinematic greatness hitting theaters this week in The Informant!, we thought we'd take a look back at the amazing career of one of the most important filmmakers of the last two decades. With as impressive a range of films as anyone working today, what's remarkable about Soderbergh is his ability to go from completely mainstream blockbusters like the Ocean's franchise to much smaller films like Bubble to something in between like The Good German (cast was mainstream but concept was definitely not). He's completely ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com
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The Art Of The Soderbergh One Sheet
1 September 2009 1:47 PM, PDT
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Seeing this poster of Steven Soderbergh's latest film, The Informant!, got me thinking about how much I enjoy the creativity behind his one sheets. There's the ode to the 1940s studio system with The Good German, the pulpy feel of Out of Sight, then there's the fragmented visual style with The Limey and The Girlfriend Experience. In a time when most filmmakers are just happy audiences show up to the theaters, it's nice to see there's at least one who's still nostalgic for the oldest form of movie marketing (though I have no idea if he has a hand in the creation of these, I like to think he does Update: Soderbergh's office says he always has a hand in doing them, and most of the time they're done in house).
Here's some of my favorite
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- Jason Guerrasio
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Steven Spielberg Interested in Directing a Matt Helm Movie? Updated!
30 July 2009 3:51 AM, PDT
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An interesting story about the one-and-only Steven Spielberg has popped up today on Variety. They're reporting that Spielberg is "seriously considering" directing a project tentatively called Matt Helm. Helm is based on a series of 27 novels written by Donald Hamilton about a government agent whose mission is to take down enemy agents. While the novels were set in the post-wwii Cold War era, the current script is set in the present. The latest draft of the script, written by Paul Attanasio (Sphere, The Sum of All Fears, The Good German), was what sparked Spielberg's recent interest in the project. I like the sound of it so far.
The reason why Spielberg isn't confirmed for this yet is because Matt Helm is one of the (many) projects that were left behind at Paramount when DreamWorks split from the company late last year. Therefore, if Spielberg were to come on and direct,
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- Alex Billington
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Soderbergh Directing Play in Australia, Pessimistic About Film
15 July 2009 3:08 PM, PDT
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Yesterday a tipster wrote in to Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere to say that Steven Soderbergh is going to direct a play for Cate Blanchett's theatre company in Sydney, Australia. And, indeed, on the Sydney Theatre Co website there's a small printed exchange between Blanchett and Andrew Upton, the co-creative directors for the company, announcing an untitled stage project. Details and more after the break.
Here's the cute announcement:
Andrew: Steven Soderbergh?
Cate: He made Sex, Lies, and Videotape when he was about seven. He made the Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen capers. He was nominated for an Academy Award for two films in the same year: Traffic and Erin Brockovich. We met him when I made The Good German.
Andrew: Just because you can make a good film doesn’t necessarily mean you can direct a play, does it?
Cate: Not necessarily, but trust me, this guy could direct the phonebook.
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Tobey Maguire Starring in The Details with Elizabeth Banks
7 July 2009 10:35 PM, PDT
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Whenever I see Tobey Maguire playing a character that's not Peter Parker, it's always seems a bit odd to me, like in Seabiscuit and The Good German. Maguire is now set to star in an indie black comedy called The Details written and directed by Jacob Estes (of Mean Creek previously). Shooting begins August in Seattle, which means he'll get to this before reprising his role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man 4. Elizabeth Banks stars alongside of Maguire; the two play a struggling married couple. In addition to those two, the cast includes Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Anna Friel, with Laura Linney also playing an eccentric neighbor.
The lives of this married couple are further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing in their back yard. A disagreement over how to kill the rodents creates a chain reaction of mishaps that includes a murder by bow and arrow. Maguire is replacing
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- Alex Billington
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A Trailer for Gyllenhaal and Maguire's 'Brothers'
6 July 2009 9:03 AM, PDT
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You'll have to dip a bit back into the memory banks for this project. Back in 2007, well before Jake Gyllenhaal got buff for the Prince of Persia, he and Tobey Maguire were circling an English-language remake of Susanne Bier's Brothers. No longer rivals for the web of Spider-Man, the two would play brothers that get torn apart by war, assumed death, and familial drama. The film will finally get released this year, and there's a solid first trailer over at Et Online.
Maguire plays Sam, a marine off on his fourth tour of duty while Gyllenhaal plays Tommy, his charming bad-boy brother, fresh out of jail. When Sam's copter is shot down, he's assumed dead and his wife Grace (Natalie Portman) tries to pull her life back together. Tommy helps, the line blurs, and in true Hollywood fashion, just as she starts to fall for Tommy ... it turns out Sam is alive.
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- Monika Bartyzel
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News: Clooney Leaving Warner Brothers / Soderbergh Abandons Moneyball / Details Emerge on American Remake of Let the Right One In / Adams to Star in The Fighter? / Jones to Follow Up Moon with Mute
6 July 2009 8:45 AM, PDT
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George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s production company Smokehouse Entertainment have left their longtime friends at Warner Brothers and have signed a two year contract with Sony. It kind of feels like strange timing after Sony just screwed over longtime collaborator Steven Soderbergh and his baseball docu-drama Moneyball.
It kind of feels like the end of an era with this announcement. This was one of the great actor studio partnerships of the past 20 years. It began with the Clooney / Soderbergh company Section Eight. It included such intelligent adult fare as Good Night and Good Luck, Michael Clayton, Syriana, Far From Heaven, Insomnia, Criminal, and A Scanner Darkly. They would recoup their losses through The Ocean’s Eleven Trilogy. Whatever you thought about these films they took risks and tried to inject some originality and intellect into Hollywood. Their critical successes did outweigh the honorable failures (The Good German, Leatherheads). Section
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- Anthony Nicholas
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George Clooney sets up shop at Sony Pictures
30 June 2009 7:40 PM, PDT
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Movie studios are a lot like individual people. Some develop a reputation as being thrifty and don't want to spend a lot, some are known for being more open to taking chances on arthouse projects while others make their bread on mainstream movies filled with lots of explosions. Over the past decade one of the studios that proved itself to be willing to take equal chances on big budget, high concept tentpoles and smaller dramatic fare is Warner Bros. For the past decade WB has been the place that George Clooney has developed his personal projects, first with director Steven Soderbergh under their Section 8 production company banner and then later with writer/director Grant Heslov under the new company Smokehouse Pictures.
Now, after three years working with Warners, Smokehouse is now cutting a deal to develop new movies for Sony Pictures. A press release went out today from Sony announcing
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George Clooney hires swine psychic
18 June 2009 11:41 PM, PDT
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George Clooney has hired to psychic to help him contact his dead pig. The 'Leatherheads' star is still mourning the loss of his beloved potbellied pet Max, who died in 2006, and asked a medium to get in touch with the swine. George reportedly told a friend: "The psychic told me Max had a great life with me. He is very happy in spirit and still hangs out with me sometimes. "I am not sure she was telling the truth but I do want to believe her." The handsome actor was left devastated after 300lb Max passed away at home while the actor was promoting his movie 'The Good German'. Max, who had suffered from partial blindness and arthritis, had
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George Clooney Hires A Psychic To Talk To His Dead Pig
18 June 2009 11:28 PM, PDT
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George Clooney has hired to psychic to help him contact his dead pig. The "Leatherheads" star is still mourning the loss of his beloved potbellied pet Max, who died in 2006, and asked a medium to get in touch with the swine.
George reportedly told a friend: "The psychic told me Max had a great life with me. He is very happy in spirit and still hangs out with me sometimes."
"I am not sure she was telling the truth but I do want to believe her."
The handsome actor was left devastated after 300lb Max passed away at home while the actor was promoting his movie 'The Good German'.
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Weekend Reading: Color in Black-and-White
5 June 2009 9:13 PM, PDT
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Sam Riley and Samantha Morton in Control
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I finally watched Anton Corbijn's Control last night based on the life of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis and on top of being a good film, it is a beautiful film to look at, but one I am sure most general audience members wouldn't even give a chance. Why? It's in black-and-white, but there's a slight twist to this story and it's the only reason I bring it up.
Control was actually shot in color and then converted to black-and-white in post. In the special features on the DVD Corbijn explains he originally considered shooting the film on black-and-white film stock, but he said the tests "were so grainy, which was one thing, but the grain also moved around and it became just another element you had to look at and I didn't want that in the film.
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- Brad Brevet
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