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Daily Scoop: Billy Corgan Is Too Good for Jessica?!
16 December 2009 6:23 PM, PST
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Friends say Billy Corgan is dating Jessica Simpson for attention.
Speed racer! Justin Timberlake is lending his pretty face to Audi.
Taylor Swift is the Supergirl of the music industry -- and the movies?!
Kings of Leon toasts to being Band of the Year.
AnnaLynne McCord is the latest starlet to emulate Marilyn Monroe.
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Arianna Huffington Shoots with Wachowskis
8 December 2009 9:34 PM, PST
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Two days ago liberal website co-founder Arianna Huffington began Tweeting about a “movie on Iraq from the perspective of the future” she shot with the Wachowskis (of Matrix fame). According to the updates throughout the day, she flew to Chicago and posed in front of a green screen for a day, even posting pictures of herself in a “futuristic” costume.
Huffington’s Twitter posts started a swarm of speculation because to our knowledge the Wachowskis haven’t announced their next film.
Devin at Chud claims it’s only test footage (that explains the single day of filming) and Erik at Cinematical suggests it might be David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas,” which the Wachowski’s optioned last year. Though I’m not sure how Mitchell’s six random narratives fit with the futuristic take on the Iraq war, but maybe we’ll know more soon. I’m surprised they were able
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- Jeff Leins
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Catch A Buzz With "The Green Hornet"-December 22, 2010...
8 December 2009 4:48 PM, PST
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"The Green Hornet" is the classic crime-fighting character of film, television, radio and comic books, returning to the big screen in Columbia Pictures' new feature, starring Vancouver actor Seth Rogen as the disguised vigilante.
Production started in Los Angeles on the Michel Gondry-directed film, produced by Neal "I Am Legend" H. Moritz. Executive producers are Michael "The Accidental Tourist" Grillo, Rogen, Evan "Pineapple Express" Goldberg, Ori "Evan Almighty" Marmur and George W. Trendle, Jr.
"The Green Hornet" also stars Taiwanese actor-pop star Jay Chou as 'Kato', Cameron "The Mask" Diaz, Edward James "Miami Vice" Olmos, David "Revolutionary Road" Harbour, Tom "Valkyrie" Wilkinson and the villain 'Chudnofsky' played by Austrian actor Christoph "Inglourious Basterds" Waltz.
Academy Award-nominee John "Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian" Schwartzman is director of photography, production designer is Owen "The Matrix Revolution" Paterson and Kym "Speed Racer" Barrett is costume designer.
"The Green Hornet
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New Wachowski Brothers Movie Being Filmed?
8 December 2009 4:23 AM, PST
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Ever since completing the Matrix trilogy in 2003, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski have directed only one movie (last year's Speed Racer), leaving many to wonder when they'd next get behind the camera. Ariana Huffington, of all people, may have given us an answer.
The co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post posted some photos on her Twitter account yesterday (along with some tweets) suggesting that she's involved in a new feature movie from the Wachowskis.
The tweets indicate that the movie will be a look at the current war in Iraq from the vantage point of a futuristic society. Check the twitpic photos to see more of Huffington's wild hairdo.
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Wachowski's Testing For Next Film
8 December 2009 1:08 AM, PST
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A photo from Arianna Huffington's Twitter feed is causing a small online stir as the feed claims it's from a film shoot she just did in Chicago with "The Matrix" and "Speed Racer" directors the Wachoskis.
The story? "Iraq from the perspective of the future". Is this a whole new project we've never heard of? Not really. Chud reports that the shoot is part of a few days of camera tests the pair are doing for a new project which is still a while off.
So what is the project? That's unconfirmed though Cinematical speculates that is an adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel "Cloud Atlas" which the pair bought the rights to earlier this year. At last report "The International" and "Run Lola Run" writer/director Tom Tykwer was working on the screenplay.
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Wachowski's Testing For Next Film
8 December 2009 1:08 AM, PST
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A photo from Arianna Huffington's Twitter feed is causing a small online stir as the feed claims it's from a film shoot she just did in Chicago with "The Matrix" and "Speed Racer" directors the Wachoskis.
The story? "Iraq from the perspective of the future". Is this a whole new project we've never heard of? Not really. Chud reports that the shoot is part of a few days of camera tests the pair are doing for a new project which is still a while off.
So what is the project? That's unconfirmed though Cinematical speculates that is an adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel "Cloud Atlas" which the pair bought the rights to earlier this year. At last report "The International" and "Run Lola Run" writer/director Tom Tykwer was working on the screenplay.
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- Garth Franklin
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Arianna Huffington And The Wachowskis Collaborating On Futuristic Documentary
7 December 2009 10:12 PM, PST
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Aside from producing Ninja Assassin, the Wachowskis have largely been keeping to themselves lately, presumably not in retirement but also keeping mum on exactly how they would follow up Speed Racer. And while we, the public, may still have no idea what they've got planned, Arianna Huffington sure does.
The founder of The Huffington Post and general political punditry icon was tweeting today from some kind of set in Chicago, where she's taking part in "the Wachowskis' movie on Iraq from the perspective of the future." Slashfilm picked up on the photos and tried to figure out what might be happening, and the best anyone can figure, it's test footage for some new movie they're planning-- possibly the adaptation of The Cloud Atlas, or possibly something completely new.
What may be the most interesting thing about the photos, on a pure human-interest level, is they seem to be among the
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Future Iraq Movie by the Wachowskis?
7 December 2009 9:20 PM, PST
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Are the Wachowskis making a film about Iraq? Does pundit Arianna Huffington appear in it, albeit aged to look 90 years older?
Such questions were raised after these recent tweets from Huffington’s Twitter account:
- It's a wrap! With Andy and Lana Wachowski at the end of a great shoot
- http://twitpic.com/skj0e - Profile shot from the futuristic movie on Iraq.
- http://twitpic.com/skira - Do u want to know what I'll look like in 90 years? Here's a shot from the set of the Wachowskis' futuristic movie.
The Wachowskis are rumored to be adapting "Cloud Atlas", the David Mitchell book containing six stories, two of which are set in either the near-future or a post-Apocalyptic world. However, neither description of those chapters sounds like what Huffington tweeted over.
Chud.com sounds pretty confident that she was participating in test camera shots, not the next sci-fi blockbuster,
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Are The Wachowskis Making An iraq Film?
7 December 2009 3:10 PM, PST
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We've all been waiting to see how the Wachowski Brothers will follow up (and, er, wipe our memories clear of) Speed Racer, and Huffington Post founder/blogger Arianna Huffington thinks she knows, as she's been shooting footage with them for what she describes as an Iraq war-based film set in the future.The lads over at Slash Film uncovered Huffington's tweets on the subject, which's she's dragged out of the murky wold of rumour by posting actual images of her at the shoot and with the Wachowskis (Larry, by the way, is now known as Lana). But while they speculated that it could be for an actual film in production, Devin over at Chud looked into it and quickly shot that idea down, discovering that they were actually just shooting visual tests.Naturally, everything is wrapped in the usual layer of Wachowski-style mystery, but current thinking points towards the pair
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Susan Sarandon at Stockholm Film Festival
29 November 2009 8:14 PM, PST
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Susan Sarandon, the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Client, and one of the leads in Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Lovely Bones, was honored with the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Sarandon, who won an Oscar for Dead Man Walking, was in Stockholm to receive her special Bronze Horse. Photo: Johan Gunnarsson
Among Sarandon’s other screen credits are The Other Side of Midnight, Loving Couples, The Hunger, The Buddy System, The Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham, Twilight (not the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart vampire tale), Elizabethtown, The Greatest, In the Valley of Elah, Enchanted, Speed Racer, and the upcoming Peacock and Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
Sarandon [...]
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Interview: James McTeigue, 'Ninja Assassin' (Part 1)
27 November 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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Director James McTeigue has been working on films since the late 1980s, back in his native Australia. He was second assistant director on Dark City and first assistant director on Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. He started working with Andy and Larry Wachowski as an assistant director on The Matrix, and they've been collaborating on projects together ever since. The Wachowskis wrote the first feature film helmed by McTeigue, V for Vendetta, and he provided second-unit direction on their most recent film, Speed Racer.
Ninja Assassin, which opened this week, is the latest movie McTeigue has directed, with the Wachowskis on board as producers. You can read William Goss's review for more details about the action/fantasy film. Cinematical sat down with the director in late September during Fantastic Fest, just after the movie played the festival. He was very pleased with the fest screening and happy to talk about the film.
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Buzz Break: Into the Wild Eyes
27 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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· Any guesses on what command this Italian GQ Style photographer gave Emile Hirsch to get his cover shot? Click for bigger.
· Thor apparently has roughly ten thousand speaking parts, because it still isn't done with casting. This time, Hurt Locker breakout Jeremy Renner is being whispered about for Hawkeye, who'd appear in The Avengers as well.
· Popeater's got a list of the most forgotten Playboy celebrity centerfolds of all time.
· How did Susan Boyle celebrate her performance on Today this week? By retreating to a cafe to suck her thumb and start crying. Ooof.
· While dissecting the state of the Superman franchise, Anne Thompson investigates the rumor that the Wachowskis and protege James McTeigue were once attached: "It's hard to imagine such hard-r types taking on what one blogger described as the 'Big Blue Boy Scout.'" Yes, except that they made Speed Racer?
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Ninja Assassin Movie Review: Cutting All the Fun out of Martial Arts
27 November 2009 1:44 AM, PST
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I'm not going to over-simplify and proclaim that making a good ninja movie is the easiest thing in the world. But I never would have guessed that doing so is as difficult as James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin makes it appear. This is a big-budget movie with a top-flight crew and a star blessed with undeniable magnetism, not to mention the R-rated freedom to provide the copious blood and gore that so many genre fans crave. Yet it plays no better than a cheap direct to DVD feature. Ninja Assassin is a forgettable throwaway, a waste of creative talent and the audience's time.
Like a relic from old Hollywood, only with a lot more blood, the film exists as a would-be star-making vehicle for the Korean actor/pop star Rain, who impressed the Wachowskis and producer Joel Silver while working on Speed Racer. The biggest surprise of this film is that,
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James McTeigue Interview, Ninja Assassin
26 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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We sat down recently with director James McTeigue to talk about his new film, “Ninja Assassin,” based on a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, and starring Korean pop star Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune and legendary martial arts performer Sho Kosugi.
As a boy in Sydney, McTeigue was exposed to a variety of world cinema and television and was heavily influenced by ninja television shows like "Shintaro" and "Phantom Agents," and by films such as "Shinobi No Mono." He graduated from Sydney University, where he studied art and film.
McTeigue made his directorial debut helming the iconoclastic screen adaptation of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." He came to the project through his relationship with the Wachowski brothers, for whom he served as the assistant director on all three "Matrix" films. His other previous film credits as an assistant director include "Speed Racer" and "Dark City.
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Ninja Assassin Review
25 November 2009 9:06 PM, PST
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Short Version: Ninja Assassin has many flaws; however, the ninjas are not one of them. All of the ninja action in this film is awesome, and for fans of the genre that’s probably enough.
Screen Rant’s Paul Young reviews Ninja Assassin
Ninja Assassin is the first action movie this Fall that delivers on what it promises: Lots of ninja action.
I’m a sucker for a good ninja fight, no matter how choreographed it is. The silent-but-deadly ninja was a huge part of the 80’s action movie sub-culture; since I grew up in the 80’s, I have seen every one that I can get my hands on (yes that includes American Ninja, I, II, III, IV And V). Ninjas doing what they do best (being sneaky) have slowly crept into popular culture over time. Mythbusters did an entire episode on ninja myth and lore and the website AskANinja.
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[Interview] Rain on Ninja Assassin
25 November 2009 3:52 PM, PST
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When I was offered to participate in a roundtable with the (overseas) famous pop star Rain I didn’t really know anything about him. Didn’t know he was a musician or the fact that he has some intense fans. To me, he was just the minor character in Speed Racer and the upcoming star of Ninja Assassin. That changed a little bit when Rain arrived at the screening I attended. It became obvious that he was quite popular due to the plenty of rabid fans that were there, which all came off as quite creepy. With all that said, here’s what Rain had to say about Ninja Assassin, which is now in theaters.
I believe you were at comic-con last year, was that fun?
Rain: Yes, it was fun. It was [a] great experience. I love comic-con.
Since you worked with James on Speed Racer was that were
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Review: Ninja Assassin
25 November 2009 2:15 PM, PST
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By: William Goss, reprinted from Fantastic Fest '09
One can't ask too much of a film called Ninja Assassin -- that's a given -- but James McTeigue's proper directorial follow-up to V for Vendetta does its damnedest to take that insta-pulp title and weave around it a worn-out tale of forbidden love, family betrayal, and government conspiracy. Complete with some hard-to-see fight scenes and some harder-to-hear dialogue, all delivered with a poker-straight face and capped off with some super-splattery kills, it's like a graphic novel adaptation with comic book punctuation, a film so flagrant in its fakery that it almost forgets to have any fun.
Raizo (Korean pop star Rain, of Speed Racer and "Colbert Report" fame) was once an orphan, raised by a secretive clan to, um, assassinate as, well, a ninja would. One forbidden fling and one shamed father later, and our pariah protagonist is off to
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Rain and James McTeigue Talk Ninja Assassin
25 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Our thanks to Diva Velez for the following interviews with Ninja Assassin star and director Rain and James McTeigue.
Rain
The Lady Miz Diva: Ninja Assassin is a really violent, bloody film. Were you concerned that so much of your fan base, which consists of younger kids and people who might not usually go to this type of movie, wouldn't be able to see your big Hollywood film?
Rain: Yeah, I know, but it's gonna be huge. I believe they will like my movie. I am a little bit worried, but it's something different from what I've done, so it's interesting that way. And I believe more male fans will be interested in this movie.
Lmd: Raizo is a full of a lot of rage. What did you find inside yourself to create that constant anger he feels?
R: Well, before the shooting the Wachowskis and James McTeigue always
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Restricted Ninja Assassin Trailer
25 November 2009 7:02 AM, PST
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We have added a new restricted trailer for upcoming “Ninja Assassin“
The martial arts extravaganza follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.
The film stars Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune, legendary Sho Kosugi (Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja), a Japanese martial artist with training in ninjutsu, as the ruthless leader of the Ozunu Clan.
“Ninja Assassin” is produced by the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix, Speed Racer) and directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta). It is scheduled to hit theaters November 25, 2009.
For more movie info, trailers, photos and
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Ninja Assassin Movie Review
25 November 2009 4:41 AM, PST
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After experiencing a too-brief period of popularity in the late 70’s and early to mid-80’s, the ninja is returning to the movies. And why not? If vampires can make a comeback, surely these shadowy warriors can do the same. Unfortunately, James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin, produced by the action-loving Wachowski brothers, is not the kind of film likely to put them back on top.
It all starts well enough. The film’s opening scene, featuring an arrogant Yakuza youth discovering an envelope of black sand in a tattoo parlor and being subsequently taken out, is visceral and exciting. Flashes of shadow and light play exquisitely across the screen, and for a few brief moments the film behaves like horror, with unknown assailants striking with bloody accuracy from the darkness. I was excited; after following all those cheesy ninja pictures from my youth, could this one have gotten it right?
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