Emmy Rossum - Hollywood’s Good Girl Goes Bad photoshoot in "2 Magazine", November 2009.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum in "The Day after tomorrow" (2004).
Amanda Peet at the premiere of "2012" in Germany, on 8th November 2009.
"Amanda Peet is in the middle of her first action movie–and it’s a show-stopper. 2012 gives director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) the chance to recreate every major disaster imaginable as Peet and her ex-husband, played by John Cusack, flee with their kids from the end of the world.Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf discovered that Amanda defines herself as a wimp, but was ready for the ride — even though she doesn’t always work for the perfect action-movie bod. Hedging her bets.“I e-mailed Jake Gyllenhaal, who was in Day After Tomorrow, before I signed on. I said, ‘Is Roland Emmerich great or is he a nightmare? Tell me the truth because life is short and I need to know what’s up’. And Jake replied, ‘He is the most divine, great person to work for ever and you should run and do it’.
What Jake didn’t tell her.“I can’t go on thrill rides anymore because I get physically ill. But we filmed on sets where everything was bouncing around like a roller coaster. The worst was where we’re supposed to nearly crash in a plane that was mounted on a gimbal. It gyrated so wildly that I got really nauseous. Every night I’d go home and be like, ‘Am I still on the gimbal? Did I come down yet? Did I throw up?’ Source: www.pbpulse.com
Anne Hathaway in Mario Testino photoshoot [Vogue USA / January 2009].
New movie poster for the upcoming Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Anne Hathaway is the White Queen.Anne Hathaway as Lureen Newsome in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005). Heath Ledger, Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal at 'Brokeback Mountain' Photocall - Venice Film Festival, on 2nd September, 2005.
Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on Entertainment Weekly cover.Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson at New Moon UK Fan Event, on 11th November 2009. Kristen is wearing an outfit by Proenza Schouler and Sergio Rossi Patent Leather Pumps.
E! Online Sneaky Kristen Stewart Interview.
Robert Pattinson talks About Open Mic Nights and Driving Experience at UK Press Conference.
"Maggie Gyllenhaal attends the Louis Vuitton 2010 Cruise Collection launch at Louis Vuitton Saks Lifestyle on Tuesday (November 10) in New York City. The 31-year-old actress can be seen in the upcoming film, Crazy Heart. The film centers on an aging country music legend (Jeff Bridges) wrestles with his loss of fame at the hands of younger protégé. Struggling to make ends meet playing one small gig to the next in the twilight of his career, he finds unlikely inspiration in a small town reporter (Gyllenhaal) and her young son". Source: justjared.buzznet.com
Emile Hirsch and Olivia Wilde in "Alpha Dog" (2006). Olivia Wilde photographed by her husband Tao Ruspoli.Olivia Wilde in Glamour magazine, November 2009.Olivia Wilde at "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", on 5th November 2009.
Robert Pattinson: The Bruce Weber Portraits (Part Two) for "Vanity Fair" magazine.
"As Twilight’s reluctant bloodsucker, Vanity Fair’s December cover star has made teenage girls (and their mothers) swoon. To accompany Evgenia Peretz’s profile, which addresses Pattinson’s relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart and Hollywood’s doubts about casting him as Edward Cullen, VF.com presents the second of five slide shows featuring outtakes from his epic session with photographer Bruce Weber". Source: www.vanityfair.com
Chuck the Movieguy interviews Robert Pattinson for the movie New Moon from the Twilight Saga. Robert Pattinson strips for you! (well yes and no...)
Chuck the Movieguy interviews Kristen Stewart for the movie New Moon in the Twilight Saga.
Robert Pattinson Admits Sparks With Kristen Stewart
Servizio di vari telegiornali sulle riprese del film New Moon a Montepulciano - TG5 del 10/11/08 - SKY TG del 08/06/09 -TG1 del 28/05/09 - TGLA7 del 18/06/09
Happy 35th Birthday, Leonardo DiCaprio! Another Spanish fan of Leo made this fanvideo dedicated to the blonde blue-eyed heartthrob, enjoy! Leonardo DiCaprio - I got you on my radar video.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Sesame Street Promo #3 (What's The Word On The Street?) Jake Gyllenhaal was nominated to an Oscar in 2006 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for "Brokeback Mountain" (2005).
"No young actor in Hollywood is putting together a more eclectic resume than Jake Gyllenhaal these days. With the news (per Variety and the Hollywood Reporter) that he's negotiating to star in 'Source Code', a sci-fi thriller to be directed by 'Moon' helmer (and David Bowie spawn) Duncan Jones, Gyllenhaal is poised to add science fiction to an already beefy arsenal of roles that spans almost every genre imaginable. Well, before we go over the mounting group of projects to which Jake is attached, let's talk about the Oscars.Now back to Gyllenhaal. In addition to 'Source Code' in which he'll play a soldier who wakes up in the body of an anonymous commuter and is forced to relive the same harrowing train bombing over and over again until he determines who's responsible, he's got a slew of wildly different projects on the horizon. He portrays the buffed-out hero of the upcoming video-game-based epic 'Prince of Persia', giving him an action-adventure chit; plays Tobey Maguire's underachiever sibling in 'Brothers',filling up the drama bucket; stars opposite Jessica Biel in 'Nailed', in which he'll likely nail romantic comedy; and plays a traveling pharmaceutical salesman who falls for Anne Hathaway in 'Love and Other Drugs', which takes care of straight-up romance.
And we know football legend Joe Namath personally approved Gyllenhaal to play him in an upcoming biopic. Indeed, Gyllenhaal has already played real people on screen three times: in 'October Sky', 'Jarhead' and 'Zodiac'. What could be behind the actor doing quite so many flicks? Could Gyllenhaal be aiming for an Oscar by dint of simply overwhelming the Academy with the volume and diversity of his work? We're not saying this is his only motivation. We're saying the opposite -- that he deserves one, and it's possible he may be pushing himself to max out his chances". Source: insidemovies.moviefone.com
We have a brand new exclusive TV spot for the upcoming drama remake Brothers, which will be released in theaters nationwide on December 4. Source: www.movieweb.com
On Monday, November 16, fans of ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ can experience the Los Angeles premiere, exclusively on MySpace. The red carpet arrivals will stream live beginning at 6:00 PM PT. Anya Marina, writer and performer of “Satellite Heart” on the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, will co-host the broadcast with the winner of the Red Carpet Correspondent Contest. Whether you organize viewing parties with your friends or watch it at home, don’t forget to tune in and post your comments! Source: www.myspace.com
"There's Tobey Maguire, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Natalie Portman, BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar nominee Sam Shepard, Oscar nominee Mare Winningham and current awards season "it" girl for "An Education" Carey Mulligan. Carey Mulligan and Maggie Gyllenhaal at "An Education" N.Y. premiere on 6th October 2009.
"Due to his strong performance, Maguire's name undoubtedly will start popping up on Best Actor lists. Oddly, Sheridan says Maguire was doubtful of his own acting in this role, though he remained dedicated to the film's message. Portman is good as well, and 10-year-old Bailee Madison, as their young daughter, Isabelle, is remarkable in every way, one of the most natural and effective child performances in a long while.He also talked at length about two scenes that are sure to be remembered. One is a pivotal moment between Maguire and his friend (Patrick Flueger) after they are captured by the Taliban. The other is an incredibly intense dinner table scene after he returns home. Without giving too much away, let's just say it centers on Madison and a balloon."From my experience growing up with my own family every night, I know a lot about dinners and creating tension", Sheridan said to much laughter in the audience". Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com
A video dedicated to Kristen Stewart, Emile Hirsch, Amanda Seyfried, Nikki Reed, Robert Pattinson, etc.
Songs "Going up the country" by Canned Heat and "I'm not willing" by Moby Grape.
Watch an interview with Robert Pattinson in accesshollywood.com about tabloid rumors: Robert Pattinson sets the record straight on his rumored traffic accident and a falsely reported heroin overdose in New York. Rob says he was able to find anonymity in Tokyo.
Kristen Stewart is wearing Cachet Leather Pumps designed by Sergio Rossi Cruise 2010. Sergio Rossi Cruise 2010 Cachet Leather Pump.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at "New Moon" photocall in Paris, on 10th November 2009.
"Now, Pattinson is revealing plans to return to the city where it all began — and recommending the Portland-based Oscar nominee he wants to direct "Breaking Dawn"."I probably shouldn't say this", Rob revealed to MTV News over the weekend, acknowledging that the wheels are slowly creeping into motion on "Breaking Dawn" getting made. "But I've heard that we're going to shoot it in Portland.
"I think Gus Van Sant would be great to do it," RPattz added, naming his dream director. Emile Hirsch with Gus Van Sant during the shooting of "Milk" (2008).
A double Oscar nominee for "Good Will Hunting" and last year's "Milk", Van Sant went to school in Portland, and has called the city home for many years while filming such movies as "Drugstore Cowboy", "My Own Private Idaho" and the 2005 Kurt Cobain-quasi-biopic "Last Days"."He shoots everything in Portland" reasoned the 23-year-old British heartthrob. "He's good at making it look beautiful."Pattinson, whose long-term plans include starting a production company that would help make the sort of small, indie films that Van Sant has been overseeing for decades, thinks Stephenie Meyer's fourth novel would be a perfect fit for the "To Die For" director. Overflowing with teenage angst, sex and violence, "Dawn" is the sequel that Twilighters are most eager to see. And, with scenes of Edward giving Bella a vampire cesarean, Jacob selecting the pale vampire-human baby as his soul mate and Bella as a vampire, it also promises to quite possibly be the weirdest."It's all about teenage love and obsessions" Rob explained. "I think Gus Van Sant would be great". Source: www.mtv.com
Jake Gyllenhaal - Publicity Still of "Brothers" (2009).
"You’ve done big movies like The Day After Tomorrow and you’ve had some opportunities to do a franchise movie, so what was it about this particular franchise that made you want to be involved in it? Jake Gyllenhaal, on set of "Jarhead" (2005).
Jake Gyllenhaal: I think just on a personal front, it was just so unlikely and so unlike anything I’d ever played really, and any type of movie that I think anyone would expect, that I just kind of wanted to do it. (laughs) It felt like that personally, but also, more than anything, when I talked with Mike Newell about it, it wasn’t just like your normal video game adaptation. It was an actual massive epic that they had in the works. They had a real classic story that was emotional and real and filled with just ridiculous turns and twists, I mean, all over the place. Had you ever played the game before and do you feel any sort of responsibility playing such an iconic character?Gyllenhaal: I feel a responsibility because I think the prince in the video games, he has a personality and you know his story, but I think a lot of video games as an actor, just putting that kind of expression onto a character. You get to make a new path for what the character is as opposed to being nervous you’re going to screw up that’s already there. That to me I like and I think is fun. I’ve played a lot of real people in my life… Actually, there’s equal pressure in real people than video game characters, which is sort of strange. Yeah, I’ve played the game a lot more when I was really young, and I know the game in its Atari-like version. I went online when I first started researching stuff for the role. What was really important was for me personally to bring some sort of realism into this world that is not always fully based on reality. So often you can hide in all that stuff so easily, and to look at what say a real Persian prince would look like and then who the Prince of Persia is in the video game and then a whole slew of inspiration in between there.How did you develop the character or what did you bring to the role?Gyllenhaal: 40 days and 40 nights of misery. (laughs) The most important thing for me always is just somehow playing against what’s there. The development of the character was massively physical at first, just getting in shape and doing all that stuff and learning Parkour, learning how to swordfight, learning how to get into the mentality of a warrior, somebody who as written is someone who can really fight. That was a big part of it for me, and I knew that if I got through that, then I knew I’d be halfway there. And then the rest of it is just being able to… we worked on dialect and I have a British accent in the film and everyday on set, I’m in my accent and I very rarely bring it out only for special occasions, my real accent. All of those things. I could go into really pretentious crap for you, but I don’t like doing that. I’m going to lay off of it, but there’s just a lot of it.What has been the most fun part of making a movie like this? Is it the battles? Is it riding the horse across the desert in 103 degree heat? What’s the best part?Gyllenhaal: The best part of the movie I think is… God, I mean, you play like this when you’re a kid. This is how you play when you’re a kid, and you go outside and I remember specifically many times I would go outside and be like, “I play him and you play him and let’s fight!” And we’re just like doing that every day. (laughs) So the best part of it for me is because I’ve never done a lot of fighting—sword fighting, hand-on-hand, any type of combat that there is and any type of evasion and persuasion. More than that also I find really fun is being able to get humor and performance in the middle of it all, which I find so difficult. I have utter respect for people who can put that kind of thing, a performance or any type of feeling while you’re battling someone, because that’s like chewing gum and walking at the same time and that’s really tough for actors. (laughs) It really is difficult, and it’s a fun mindwork to say, “Okay, at this point, we can put that piece in.” That’s what I enjoyed the most. I actually enjoy the heat, so I did enjoy that and I think Morocco was unreal.So are you looking forward to shooting one or two more of these films assuming the first one does well?
Gyllenhaal: Yes, the truth is after doing this it’s going to be hard… well, I don’t know if it’s going to be hard, but it’s definitely going to be a different mentality to go back and do much smaller types of movies. There’s type of high when you make a movie like this, a type of excitement every day that is infectious. There are days that you get tired and some of the people I work with say to me, I’m like, “Man, I’m going to be exhausted. I’m going to need rest when I get done with this movie,” and they’re like, “You’re going to rest for two weeks and you’re going to want to make another one like it.” (laughs) And it’s kind of true. On my days off, I worked out twice on my Sunday off, because that’s where my head is. I’m prepared for whatever comes our way.Gyllenhaal: I remember there’s a whole scene with ostriches in the movie and there are real live ostriches, not CG ostriches. There’s not a CG’ed ostrich in this movie. They’re all real ostriches, highly paid, and we were all briefed on them for weeks before like “They’re these massive destructive creatures that can tear your heart out with their claws.” (laughs) I swear to God I never thought of an ostrich this way! And I was shaking in my boots when they finally brought them out and they’re (does an ostrich impression) and I walked up to it and one of my stuntmen was in the ring with them, and finally, I was like, “When am I going to be in a f*cking cage with ostriches again in my life? I gotta get in here!”Is it inspiring or intimidating to work with so many experienced actors like Daniel Craig and now Ben Kingsley?
Arterton: Absolutely inspiring. I tend to go into things head first, not really thinking about what I’m doing, which is sometimes better, then going, “Oh My God, I’m about to act with Ben Kingsley!” because then you’re all yourself, and that’s what they want ultimately anyway, and you’re just another actor working with them on this film ultimately, so that is brilliant, but I don’t really get to worry about it. I probably should. (laughs) I probably should when I’m being all cheeky and campy with Sir Ben Kingsley, but no, it’s brilliant and an honor.Were there any particular kind of skills you had to learn for this film, like any type of fighting?
Arterton: Yeah, I, well I had to learn how to horse ride ’cause I’d never done it before in my life, and it’s kind of become a real new sort of passion for me. Pretty much the whole cast went to Spain and learned to horse ride for 2 weeks, which was incredible to have that opportunity and then we all kind of continued it. Then I have to do loads of fighting but there isn’t a particular style to my fighting. It’s quite wild ’cause she’s never really been trained to fight so it’s just kind of go “aaaagh!” like that, but just doing it with some sort of skill. Where I went to drama school I trained in stage combat quite heavily so I had quite a bit of experience before.What’s your favorite part of shooting the film so far?
Arterton: Oh, God… I love all the action stuff. I think I should have really been a stuntwoman. I really enjoy it even though sometimes you think, “Oh, God, there are actually people that are trained to do this and they’re trained to get battered and bruised” but I’ve loved doing all of that and the fighting. It’s gobsmacking the sets and the costume and the sheer scale of this film and then you’re kind of put into into this completely different world and that is really, really fantastic. You don’t have to really imagine much ’cause it’s there designed right in front of you, and so that’s been brilliant as well.Can you talk about the relationship between your character and Jake’s character?Arterton: Yeah, so I play Tamina, who’s the princess of Alamut, which is a city that the Persians invade. I’m kind of kidnapped so I hate the Persians, although my character doesn’t really feel hate. She’s very spiritual so she just dislikes them (laughs) and they have this real kind of love-hate kind of relationship. It’s very full of banter and I like to compare it to Beatrice and Benedict in “Much Ado about Nothing.” Obviously, they fancy each other but they don’t show it. They find out all this stuff about the bad things that are happening in Persia, and so they kind of join forces and learn from each other and the film kind of like a journey. It follows them a lot, mainly Dastan, but she’s kind of like his right-hand girl and they have their own journeys which is to find themselves in a new light through each other’s upbringings. So there’s a lot of wit and banter, there’s also a romance there, there’s a lot of comedy but also a real seriousness as well, which is a really great thing about this film. It’s not just an action-adventure, it’s not just a romance, it’s not just this or that. There’s loads of drama, and it takes you in loads of different directions all the time. You think it’s gonna be like this and then it completely changes and becomes really dark or really light. So the relationship between Dastan and Tamina has got all of that. Do your powers involve a lot of special effects and did they have to explain to you what they would look like later?It seems like there might be some political undertones to the story, because there’s an invasion, which might be… suspect. Can you talk about that?
Arterton: Yeah, there’s kind of a looking for weapons that don’t exist kind of thing. (laughs) With the target audience, it’s not to make that a huge thing, but it’s definitely there which makes it an interesting tale to tell and I think it’s fairly relevant for the times that we’re living in now, but there are lots of things like that so I think it’s interesting for many, many different sorts of audiences.What are you gonna do next?
Arterton: Well… at the moment, I feel like I wanna go and do some theatre, because I’ve been doing quite a lot of film work and big films as well, but there’s lots of new doors that have opened, which is very exciting so we’ll see but I wanna do something completely different ’cause I try and do that with every part, do something completely different so maybe I’ll play some fat old drug addict or something next". Source: www.slashfilm.com
Robert Pattinson spotted on the balcony of his hotel room in Los Angeles on 8th November 2009.In the book, even though you leave Bella, you are very present in her thoughts. It is difficult to represent it on the screen? How did you manage?Rob: In the book, she hears the voice of Edward, but we used another method in the film: she has hallucinations, fleeting appearances of Edward. Would have been a bit corny to do it with only my voice. Kristen: Everything is in the suggestion. It’s the memory she has of him, not necessarily what he really is.Can you tell us about the transformation of Jacob and the transformation you had to go through for the role?Taylor: I knew the character changed a lot and if I wanted to continue to play the character, I knew I would have a lot of work to do … So, when I had finished working on Twilight, I got into sports, I had a private personal trainer, I started to eat healthier: less sugar, protein and good carbohydrates, etc. In short, it was a lot of work, but it really was worth the shot.Bella’s character developes more in this new movie. What is difficult preparing for this role?No, I wouldn’t say it was harder to prepare for this movie than it was for the first. It’s a film full of emotions, that’s the big difference. We talks about the discovery or falling in love, a moment of intense emotions, then we talk about its ups and downs, the fact that basically she is a bit manic-depressive.Kristen: Yes, it’s not an easy story. Twilight was all about the internal conflict of two people who threw themselves at each other so very impulsively. But we had much more to think about this time, like it had much more to do with instincts in this movie. This film is much more intense. In here, people are not just sad. They’re so sad they want to die. Of course these things exist in real life, but in the film we made it seem stronger, harder.Does the fact that the public is divided into groups, Team Edward, who wants him to stay with Bella, and Team Jacob, which prefers the couple of Bella-Jacob, influence your performance?Taylor: Everything is crazy, about this franchise, that’s why we love so much, and that’s why fans love it so much. It’s true that many fans are split and take sides with one or the other. I happen to be a little nervous about this idea because I try to live up to expectations and defend Team Jacob the best possible. I do not want to disappoint, so I worked hard intellectually but also emotionally and physically for the role.With a new director at the helm of this sequel, did you feel like working on very different a film from the first? Rob: It wasn’t just he change of director that made things very different this time. There’s also the fact that this time we knew the beast, we knew a little bit more what we were dealing with.In your opinion why is it that so many people enjoy this story? Is it because the themes, the characters, the subject of darkness, the sentimental story? Kristen: The reason is the same with other movies, people identify themselves with the characters. I often say that because it is a narrative in the first person, so it’s like being inside this person’s head and they feel even closer to that person. It almost feels that it’s happening to us. What do you guys think?Rob: I think we’re the last persons you should be asking. But I don’ know. The thing is, I never saw the story as a vampire story to begin with. When I play the character, I try to eliminate the vampire element as much as possible and not to see a tool to make their relationship a little more intense. Immediately after passing the audition, I felt strangely invested in this story when I did not even read the books before, and I am more and more attached. In recent weeks, talking about the scenario of Eclipse to friends, I realized that I was very argumentative, which is not like me much. This story has real power.As readers, what book do you prefer, and as actors, on which movie are you most looking forward to work? Kristen: I liked New Moon because it allowed me to push my limits. I feel that after this, everything else is piece of cake for Bella, she is very, very strong, satisfied and happy. But in the second book, she’s nothing, she is literally, totally lost. But yes, without a doubt, it’s my favorite. Rob: I think I also prefer New Moon. Edward is such an extreme character that everyone sees as a romantic hero and suddenly, in New Moon, at least is the impression I had while reading it, he receives a lesson in humility. He says he loves her too much to stay with her and deliberately destroys their relationship. I think this is very painful, which I can identify with. Source: en.twilightpoison.com
With The Twilight Saga: New Moon getting ready to hit theaters on November 20th, Summit Entertainment has released an EPK for the media to use. If youre not familiar with the term EPK, it stands for Electronic Press Kit. An EPK is where the studio puts movie clips, trailers, and behind the scenes footage from whatever movie theyre promoting.
Heres the synopsis:
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyers phenomenally successful Twilight series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of-only to find herself in greater peril than ever before. Following Bellas ill-fated 18th birthday party, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleepwalks through her senior year of high school, numb and alone, she discovers Edwards image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. Her desire to be with him at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks. With the help of her childhood friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella refurbishes an old motorbike to carry her on her adventures. Bellas frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob, a member of the mysterious Quileute tribe, who has a supernatural secret of his own. When a chance encounter brings Bella face to face with a former nemesis, only the intervention of a pack of supernaturally large wolves saves her from a grisly fate, and the encounter makes it frighteningly clear that Bella is still in grave danger. In a race against the clock, Bella learns the secret of the Quileutes and Edwards true motivation for leaving her. She also faces the prospect of a potentially deadly reunion with her beloved that is a far cry from the one shed hoped for.
Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood at Toronto Film Festival - ATU Press Conference (September 10, 2007).Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood at "Across the Universe" LA Screening (September 18, 2007).Jim Sturgess and Natalie Portman in "The Other Boleyn Girl" (2008).Jim Sturgess as Ben Campbell in "21" (2008). Jim Sturgess with Kate Bosworth in "21" (2008).Jim Sturgess Arena Homme magazine, photoshoot by Alasdair McLellan (2009).
"Upside Down" is a project currently sitting in pre-production, due to be helmed by Argentinean director Juan Diego Solanas and to star Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess.We first meet with Adam (Sturgess), a Below resident who’s also an inventor and spends his days hanging out with friends Albert and Pablo who run an electrical repairs shop on the Below planet. Their life is fairly grim, fixing old mixers and getting beers at the local bar after hours. It’s here that Adam sees The Lottery on television, a show in which people from their world are offered the chance to live Up Top, in relative luxury and safety. Adam sees the girl announcing the winner and realises it’s his childhood sweetheart, an Up Top called Eve (Dunst). We’re then given a flashback of how they met one day when Adam was climbing trees at his aunt’s cabin in the forest and saw Eve up in the sky, running from her abusive father. He reaches out to her and it’s love at first sight, but Eve’s father, and his mustachioed business partner, Lagabullin, don’t want her corrupted by a lowly Below like Adam, and separate them as best they can. Eve falls into a coma and wakes with amnesia, forgetting the love she felt for Adam… Adam’s literal opposite is a friendly Up Top called Bob Boruchowitz, a programmer who’s been with Transworld most of his long years and warms to the young man, especially when offered a few stamps from his collection in return for some borrowed equipment that Adam can use to access the Up Top world and defy gravity by using powerful inverse matter rods that will allow him to walk, somewhat, normally in their world, and to find Eve.The descriptions of the Below world evoke a communist-era East Berlin, with bombed out building sites, crumbling masonry and an air of despair among the denizens. The writers set-out immediately to establish this, with Adam walking the streets and observing the depression:There is some attempt at an allegorical storyline in which the oppressed Below world represents Latin America and Up Top is clearly North America, the script even mentions apartheid South Africa and (weirdly) ‘England’. As Adam strolls, looking around wide-eyed at all the new sights, a PASSERBY asks for the time. Adam glances at his watch: it droops upward, the wristband too large. He adjusts it briskly with his other hand as if to get a better look.So, what’s left to say? There are a few glaring errors in logic to address. Planets turn on their axis, so any joining tower would simply be torn to pieces by the orbit (although to be fair, in a story this fantastical, I can’t really gripe about this). Any object traded from one planet to the other becomes untouchably hot after an hour (!) of contact with the opposite world, so how the hell to they trade oil without it bursting into flames? So much of the story goes unexplained. What was ‘the war’ about? What’s it like on the other sides of these two planets? Do the inhabitants there even know about the existence of the opposite world?" Source: www.quietearth.us
KRISTEN STEWART (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse) and Sugar Ray Leonard as the 2009 Celebrity Walk Ambassadors for the JDRF'S Annual 'WALK TO CURE DIABETES' at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Ca USA November 8, 2009 For more information on JDRF visit Source: www.jdrf.org
I think this is a good cause. Diabetes currently affects 246 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 380 million by 2025. My mother is diabetic type 1 and although she isn't very fond of vampire movies, she likes Kristen Stewart too.
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" short trailer:
"I was in Morocco. I was seeing some of these things get shot. But the first time I saw a rough assembly of [Jake Gyllenhaal] as Prince Dastan running on the rooftops with arrows being shot at him and swinging, I just got this big smile on my face that wouldn't go away, because I just felt like it was ... like what I saw in my imagination when I played the game, back when the character was 40 pixels high and his face was four pixels square, but seeing it like real in visceral in the best way."The reason the movie won't be following the plot of the game exactly is to make it friendlier to people who have never even heard of the parkour platformer - "a movie that can stand on its own even if there never was a video game", said Mechner, "and Prince of Persia is that ... [the film] captures the spirit of the gameplay, but it also really goes beyond it. It is more visceral, more exciting". Source: www.escapistmagazine.com
"Jake Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to star in sci-fi thriller "Source Code" for Vendome Pictures and the Mark Gordon Co.
Duncan Jones with his father David Bowie at the premiere of "Moon", Sundance Film Festival on 23rd January 23, 2009.
Duncan Jones will direct and Mark Gordon will produce with Vendome's CEO Philippe Rousselet and Jordan Wynn. Production is slated to begin during the first quarter. Jake Gyllenhaal as Marine Anthony Swofford in "Jarhead" (2005), directed by Sam Mendes.
"Source Code" centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown commuter and is forced to live and relive a harrowing train bombing until he can determine who is responsible for it.
Project had originally been set up at Universal in early 2007 when the studio bought Ben Ripley's screenplay and attached Topher Grace to star. Universal tapped Shane Abbess to helm last year. Current script includes revises by Billy Ray ("State of Play").Gyllenhaal is currently filming "Love and Other Drugs", helmed by Ed Zwick, and will next be seen in Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" and Disney's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time".
Jones is currently writing the screenplay of the upcoming film "Mute", which he will also direct. He has previously directed "Moon", starring Sam Rockwell. Source: www.variety.com
"Mute still in the plans, just slightly delayed. It’s a hard sell... whereas Source Code came with an offer hard to refuse".
First paragraphs of "Source Code" script: Synopsis: Guy with amnesia wakes up on a train. The train may or may not be a target in a terrorist attack. Sci-fi.Source Code is very much like the Denzel Washington vehicle "Deja-Vu". But, you know, actually good. Writer: Ben Ripley.
Denzel Washington and Kimberly Elise in "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004), directed by Jonathan Demme.
"Every time I watch the original "Manchurian Candidate", I'm teased by the possibility that there may be another, deeper, level of conspiracy, one we're intended to sense without quite understanding. It involves the character of the woman named Rose or Rosie, who Marco meets on a train; she was played in 1962 by Janet Leigh and this time by Kimberly Elise". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com
"Source Code" never gets old. There are a couple of key devices the writer uses to keep us interested. First, he creates an extremely likable female character. She sits across from the seat our hero is always warped into. And so amidst all this terrorism chaos, you're intrigued by their relationship". Source: scriptshadow.blogspot.com
“I’ve absolutely thought I’ve been sure of something and then been told that I was just dead wrong so I can totally relate to that” Kristen told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson of a past real-life break-up at the “New Moon” junket in Los Angeles on Friday.And while she wouldn’t discuss the status of her relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson, she did answer a question on who would make a better spouse — Robert or Taylor Lautner.“I’m sure they would both be great husbands”, she said. “Taylor is like one of the most steady [people] — he’s really just a good guy. And then if you’re into…Rob is really a more, sort of analytical, thoughtful, like wishy-washy intellectual so it depends.”Kristen, however, wouldn’t reveal what she herself was into. “If I give the answer away, it’s not like it would make my life easier”, she said. “People want [to know], and I understand, especially when you have two characters that are so coveted like this. But I’m going to protect myself.” Source: www.accesshollywood.com
Robert Pattinson - "New Moon" Press Conference, on 6th November 2009.
Q: Appearing in most of the movie as only a series of visions, did you feel disjointed from your cast mates at all? Did you wish you were in more of the film?Rob: Those scenes were the hardest scenes. They weren't really, at the time, but after I saw the first cut of the movie, they changed them quite a bit in the edit and ADR. It's not Edward. It's a manifestation of Bella's loneliness and desperation. It was always very difficult. I asked Kristen, "How would you play it?" It's her opinion, so that was hard. As for being alone, I've always felt a little bit aloof as the character, throughout the whole series. I think that's how he is, so I didn't feel any different.Q: What was it like to film that break-up scene between Edward and Bella?Rob: There's something weird about it. One of the main things I felt doing that and what really helped was people's anticipation of the movie, and the fans of the series' idea about what Bella and Edward's relationship is and what it represents to them. It's some kind of ideal for a relationship. And so, just playing a scene where you're breaking up the ideal relationship, I felt a lot of the weight behind that. Also, it took away a fear of melodrama. It felt seismic, even when we were doing it. It was very much like the stepping out into the sunlight scene, at the end. You could really feel the audience watching, as you're doing it. It was a strange one to do.Q: Have you ever had your heart broken, like Edward does when he leaves Bella? Rob: No, I don't think so.Q: What were your thoughts while you were filming that scene in Italy, where Edward reveals himself in the sunlight?Rob: I just came to a realization about that scene. It was one of the closest moments I really felt to people's emotional attachment to the character because there were so many extras there who were just Twilight fans, who had flown in to be in the town square. Just taking that one step into the light, it's been the one moment, since the first Comic-Con, where I've felt the whole weight of anticipation and responsibility to all the people who are so obsessed with the stories. It was a good moment. It was very nerve-wracking, but I probably felt the most in character that I've ever felt, throughout the whole series, at that moment.Q: If there was a fight between Edward and Jacob, who would win?
Rob: I don't know. I think it's actually a fact that Edward would win, if I read the books correctly. So, I guess I can hold onto that, for my ego.Q: What personality traits do you share with Edward?Rob: I guess stubbornness, in some ways, about some things. He's pretty self-righteous. I get quite obsessive about things, and possessive as well". Source: www.reelempire.com
Q: Have you heard of a start date on the fourth film, Breaking Dawn? Is there any truth to the rumor that it might be two films?
Kristen: I don't know.
Q: How do you relate to the idea of being immortal?Kristen: I can only relate to that as Bella can, because she is still human. The way that I consider immortality, from both my perspective as Kristen and my perspective as Bella, is that it's so completely unknown, but given the right motivating factor, I'd be willing to explore it. Bella is very willing to acknowledge that she doesn't know, but that she's willing to give it a chance because of Edward, and because she's willing to sacrifice anything for him. A big thing for Bella is change. She's so terrified of change because she's been thrust into this world. Basically, if you're facing something that is completely unknown, but you're willing to take everything that is hard about it because of what you might get, that's hope. That's people. That's why we get up, every day. Immortality is almost more scary, in our story, than mortality. To live forever seems like a really cool thing on the surface, but in our story, it's terrifying and it means taking your soul, at least to Edward. It's about the lines of personal belief, theology and your faith, and what you think is going to happen after you die. These are things that we think about incessantly in the movie, and they're things that Edward and Bella argue about.Q: How did you balance playing Bella with playing a character like Joan Jett?
Kristen: I can only play characters that I feel like are real people, in a complete way, and in such a whole way that, if I fake any aspect of it, I will have failed them and, literally, they're slaughtered. It's like they don't exist anymore, unless I do it. So, in terms of approaching parts, it just happens.Playing Joan Jett had nothing to do with Bella. It was a small period of time that I had to do it, but it was an opportunity that I jumped on because it was going to go away if I hadn't. I would've liked more time.Q: You talked about Bella being a good role model for young girls, and yet she seems willing to sacrifice everything for Edward. She gets depressed about a love affair that ends and becomes an adrenaline junkie who's trying to kill herself, in a way. Are you worried about 12- or 13-year-old girls watching this and getting a terrible idea of what that's like?Kristen: It's a very extreme story. I think people take to this story who are more mature than that. The only way that I can justify that, and maybe I'm an immature girl as well, is that I really feel like, if you feel like you need to do it, then do it, with anything. After you're told that you've made a mistake and that you're wrong, if you're willing to say that you made a mistake and that you were wrong, and that you're going to try the next thing, there's nothing to be ashamed of, at all. Be extreme. Go for it. I think that's the point. I know this is a movie about immortality, but you only live once". Source: www.reelempire.com
Do you remember when I compared Jake Gyllenhaal with singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy here? Actually, I just compared both's style more than their physical appearance (Jake doesn't look like Jeff at all). Seeing this recent cover of Emile Hirsch in GQ Style Italy: I think he's so similar to Wilco's lead in this picture!Jeff Tweedy (Wilco in concert).
Jeff Tweedy: "I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not alone. And ultimately that's what everybody wants to know".
There are two films with Jake Gyllenhaal in the Best Films of this Decade list!100. The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) Meryl Streep begins her own populist career reinvention (soon to be followed by Mamma Mia!) by playing a tyrannical and thinly disguised version of Vogue editor Anna Wintour in this satirical yet soft-centered account of life among the fashionistas.68. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) Formally intricate and expertly executed, Memento is a devious brainteaser of a film. Guy Pearce is a haunted man doomed by short-term memory loss to live forever in the present, who carries clues to his past in the tattoos on his body. 53. Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) “Best Actor” winner Sean Penn, surrounded by firebrand talent including Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin, stars in a timely movie that brings the selfless (and ultimately fatal) activism of gay campaigner Harvey Milk to the mainstream. Released, ironically, just as California passed the anti-gay-marriage bill Section 8. 20. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) Head-tripping sci-fi goes to high school in an Eighties-set psychological thriller with dark Lynchian overtones. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the titular teen — a possible paranoid schizophrenic who may just have the key to time travel.17. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) This achingly sad love story gave Heath Ledger a chance to explore hitherto unsuspected depths. It’s a hugely powerful performance — his inarticulate yearning is almost painful to watch.16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) Testing the limits of narrative convolutions and visual technique, Gondry directs an ingenious script about memory-wiping. A central tempestuous romance between Jim Carrey’s Joel and Kate Winslet’s Clementine, however, is never once overshadowed. Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman in "The Danish Girl"
Jake Gyllenhaal and Gwyneth Paltrow at "Proof" TIFF premiere, on 12th September 2005.
Jake Gyllenhaal with Kate Bosworth at MTV Movie Awards, on 1st June 2003.
"I’ve finally got the full Star Magazine article about Chris Martin cheating on wife Gywneth Paltrow with Kate Bosworth. The news of this alleged affair came out on Tuesday, and it’s been simmering ever since. While both Gwyneth’s and Chris’s reps are out there, giving “this is so ridiculous” quotes to anyone who will listen, most of the gossip sites are running with “insider” quotes about how Chris and Gwyneth’s marriage is totally on the rocks. X17 even ran this hilariously exquisite bitchy quote from a source: “Chris is totally Kate’s type, she loves the Brits like Orlando and James Rousseau. And she’s Chris’s type too. A blonde bore, just like Gwyneth! Gwyneth and Chris are definitely done. Their marriage is over!” Source: www.celebitchy.com
"Gwyneth Paltrow will join Nicole Kidman in “The Danish Girl” an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel that tells the story of a relationship between the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, and his wife Greta. Einar Wegener (left) underwent sex-change surgery in 1930. After the surgery she adopted the name Lili Elbe.One afternoon in 1920s Copenhagen, Greta, a portrait painter, asked her husband to stand in for an absent female model. Slipping on a dress, stockings and woman’s shoes began a metamorphosis into Lili. When the photos became wildly popular, Greta encouraged her husband to do more, but a harmless game evolved into something deeper that threatens their marriage. Kidman had already been attached to play Einar, and Paltrow will play Greta, who stood by her partner through the sex-change operation, finally letting go when she realized the man she married no longer exists. Source: weblogs.variety.com
Robert Pattinon and Kristen Stewart at 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' cast tour in Hollywood & Highland on 6th November 2009.
New clip of Robert Pattinson during his interview talking about ‘New Moon’.
Q: Do you appreciate Edward more, with each movie? What are your favorite things about him?Rob: When I read New Moon, it gave me ideas about how to play him in the first film. It's the one I connected to the most, and the one that humanized Edward for me the most, as well. In the first one, he still does remain, from beginning to end, an idealistic character. But, in the second one, he makes a mistake that's acknowledged by everybody, including himself. Also, he is totally undermined by more powerful creatures, and he's undermined emotionally by people as well. That's what humanized it.Q: Love plays such a major part of these films, and so many fans want what happens on the screen to happen in your real life. How do you separate falling in love in real life with the women that you're cast opposite?Rob: You've always got to remember that you're being paid. There's a lot of connotations that come with that. That's one of the major separations. Q: This franchise has made you a bankable leading man. How has that changed your career, and where do you want to be in five years?Rob: I don't know. I've only done one movie outside of the series, which was Remember Me. That's going to be out sometime next year. But, even that, I did with the same studio. I'm still a little bit blind, as to what my actual economic viability is, outside of the series, but it's definitely different. You get offered stuff that you never would have dreamed of getting offered before, but that's scary as well 'cause you don't have to audition for anything. You're just like, "I don't want to do a movie just 'cause it gets made'.Rob: It is just a blur. There are random moments which stand out, but I've been working so much this year that it's almost like living in an alternate reality. The hours on a film set are so long that you're doing doctor hours, and every doctor that I've ever spoken to says the same thing, that you have no idea what's going on, other than working. You're away from your family and friends, and all that stuff.Q: When you are shooting the more romantic things, what goes through your head?Rob: It's weird. I keep getting told by people, "Pump up all the stuff about the action, so the guys will go and see it," but it's ridiculous. It's like saying that guys can't appreciate romance. I don't think you can say that about Gone with the Wind. I've watched Titanic and I didn't think, "Oh, this is a girl's film." Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in "Titanic" (1997).
Especially in New Moon, and actually in the whole series, I've never played it thinking, "Oh, I'm in a series of girls' films and I'm doing something just for girls." I don't feel like I'm doing an animated Tiger Beat, every week. I like doing romantic scenes. I felt like a lot of the storyline in New Moon is very heartbreaking and true. I didn't think I was doing something, just for the sake of romance. I thought, in a lot of ways, that it was a really sad story. Q: Are you a romantic person, in real life? What is the most romantic thing you've ever done?
Rob: I haven't done that many romantic things, in my life.Q: Have you ever given anyone flowers?
Rob: Yeah, I did. I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it was from someone else, and the other guy claimed it as well, which was just great.Q: What has it been like to develop the romantic triangle?
Rob: It was weird because I hardly did any scenes with Taylor. We just did the scenes at the beginning and the scenes at the end, and he had his entire storyline develop without me being around, which is interesting because I had no idea where his performance was going. It wasn't really a competition or anything. It was independent. Whereas, in Eclipse, we did scenes together, all the time, with Bella. It really shows the dynamic in that film.
Q: Who is your favorite movie vampire of all time, and why? Rob: I don't really know. I always think of the wrong people. I'll be like, "Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire", and someone will say, "He's not the vampire." There's a bunch. I actually really like Wesley Snipes (in Blade). I think he's great.Q: How do you maintain the balance of letting your fans and the public know who you are, outside of just being Edward, but also keep your private life private?Rob: I think you just do it through doing jobs. It's such a risky thing, doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews I do. No one is that interesting, especially when you're not really saying anything. And, I don't particularly want to be some kind of character in society. So, I guess the only thing you can do is do jobs and see if people respond to that.But, I'm always holding onto the fact that I don't really know who I am, so hopefully I won't compartmentalize myself because of that. I'm just completely ignorant of the whole thing. I've never really struggled with anything, up until recently. I've got to stop being so self-depreciating 'cause people are starting to believe it. They'll be like, "That guy is an idiot" so I've tried to stop doing that.Q: Is James Dean one of your favorite actors?
Rob: One of, yeah.
Q: Are you going to have to learn Comanche for your role?
With only days left until 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' rises in theaters, ET is sitting down with the cast for a series of revealing interviews!
Today, we have a sneak peek of our interviews with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Then, come back starting on Monday for new extended interviews with everyone from Rob, Kristen and Taylor, to the Cullen clan, to the Volturi, and even the Wolf Pack!
Come back every weekday until 'New Moon' premieres in theaters on Friday November 20 to see a new ET video with the cast!
In 'New Moon,' Bella Swan (Kristen) is faced with a separation from her one and only, vamp Edward Cullen (Rob), and embarks on a new friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor) -- who develops some rather strange abilities of his own.
"The mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's upcoming thriller Inception has been extremely hard to penetrate. Along with the earlier trailer revelation that it contains airborne hallway battles, there's the photographic "reveal" this weekend that the movie will feature a sharply dressed Leonardo DiCaprio sitting dangerously on a window sill.In addition, Nolan favorite Michael Caine has offered up a small tidbit about his role: "I play a professor who's teaching a guy science", Caine told Empire. "It's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's going off to do a science project and he speaks to me before he goes." Caine couldn't reveal more because he was only handed his one scene, but another Nolan regular, Cillian Murphy, has seen the entire script and still wouldn't reveal much about the movie to MTV". Source: www.reelzchannel.com
Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond" (2006).Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Departed" (2006).Leonardo DiCaprio in "Shutter Island" (2010). Emile Hirsch in "Imaginary Heroes" (2004). Notice the resemblance there is sometimes between Emile Hirsch and DiCaprio: Leonardo DiCaprio in "Catch me if you can" (2002).
Leo DiCaprio in Shutter Island coming on Feb 19, 2010. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow
Shutter Island is the story of two U.S. Marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the islands fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.
Marion Cotillard in the balcony in "Inception" (2010).Ellen Page with Leonardo DiCaprio filming "Inception".
“I love you!” screamed a girl seated in the buzzing crowd when James Franco made his way to the small stage in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday afternoon.
The giggling din grew even louder as Yale’s own paparazzi — students armed with camera phones and digital cameras — snapped away before Franco’s talk began. Approximately 80 percent of the audience was female.Yale Film Society president Taylour Chang ’11 called the event “a good opportunity to catch Franco on the cusp of doing much more than just acting.” Indeed, though he is best known as an actor, Franco spoke Thursday about his newer roles as a director, screenwriter and student.Franco, who visited Yale last April to sit in on Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare lecture, is currently enrolled in both the film program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Master of Fine Arts program in writing at Columbia University. “I enjoy film, but I’ve been doing it for 12 years now,” Franco said. “I went back to school because, for me, acting wasn’t enough.”Franco admitted that he sometimes feels a bit “schizophrenic” straddling the worlds of school and stardom. But he added that the workshops in creative writing courses have forced him to improve his screenwriting abilities and, in turn, his acting.
“The accountability enforced by having peers read my writing has been very valuable,” Franco said.Franco’s love for literature and the English classes he took as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles continue to affect his work on and off screen and, now, from behind the camera, Franco said.“All the shorts I’m directing [at Tisch] are based on poetry that I’ve read and adapted”, he said. A number of these short films were screened Thursday night at the Loria Center, followed by a question-and-answer session with the actor.One student in the audience — a fan of Franco’s work on the television series “Freaks and Geeks” — said the tea was “totally worth missing section for.” But collaborating with producer Judd Apatow on “Pinapple Express”, Franco said, was one instance of a working dynamic between director and actor in which he felt “incredibly free.” Franco then answered questions about his acclaimed portrayal of a gay character in last year’s “Milk,” a project he said he pursued because of his love for both the film’s director, Gus Van Sant, and actor Sean Penn. Franco said working on ‘Milk’ inspired him to direct with “an anti-normative approach towards film.”Franco cited James Dean, Marlon Brando and directors like the Belgian Dardenne brothers as professional inspirations, in addition to his “love affair with books.”Franco remained after the tea to take photos with fans and sign autographs". Source: www.yaledailynews.com
"In this special collaboration with the Castro Theatre, we present Erased James Franco, artist Carter's new video homage to Robert Rauschenberg's iconic Erased de Kooning Drawing, starring local favorite James Franco. Three films screened over the course of the day prepare you for the main event at 8:00 p.m. In a double-feature matinee at SFMOMA, watch Todd Haynes's Safe, the inspiration for some of the scenes in Erased James Franco, and episodes of the cult-favorite TV show Freaks and Geeks hand-picked and introduced by Franco, who starred in the series. In the evening, head to the Castro for John Frankenheimer's Seconds, which is also revisited in Carter's new film, followed by Erased James Franco and a discussion with both actor and filmmaker". Source: www.sfmoma.org
"Kelly has taken his penchant for logic-bending science fiction from Indiewood to the Big Show, as Warner Bros. has produced "The Box", his enigmatic adaptation of Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button".In Kelly's 1976-set thriller, a NASA engineer (James Marsden) and his high-school teacher wife (Cameron Diaz) are financially strapped Virginia parents who have been gifted with a curious wood box, topped by a cherry-red button. Soon after, a man named Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) arrives unannounced, missing half his face due to a burn and some killer CGI, and imposes a moral dilemma on the couple: push the button, and they'll earn a million dollars in cash, tax free. The catch, however, is that a complete stranger will also die as a consequence. -Come on, admit it. You'd push that button.-[laughs] Listen, it's easy to be self-righteous and say, "Oh, I would never push it." I look at it more from the logical point of view of a scientist. I'd see this little contraption and be like, "Okay, this thing has no technology in it. Whoever built it is playing a trick. If they want to give me a million bucks to come into my life, annoy me, and freak out my wife, I'm going to push it as an act of defiance, to call their bluff." The violence isn't on me unless this thing has some sort of computer chip that's going to shut down someone's pacemaker, you know? I'd push it out of curiosity.-It's appropriate that this is a period piece. In this age of instant gratification, it seems like people are far more inclined to push a button for the sake of ease today.-Absolutely. Now we have all this technology that we didn't have in 1976, the way computers and the internet have transformed our way of life. We're so much more cynical today. That was one of the reasons why I couldn't set the movie in present day. I didn't want to have that scene where Norma goes onto the computer and Googles Arlington Steward. For half the movie, the characters would be sitting in front of laptops. That wasn't really dramatic for me, and it made it implausible. It's an absurd premise. Part of what I love is that it's mischievous.
-So you want to continue working within the studio system? -Yeah, I would very much love to stay in the studio business. At the same time, I would love to be able to expand and branch out. I've got my new script and I feel like it's very, very commercial, probably the most accessible thing I've ever written. So maybe I'm trying to make things a little easier. [laughs] But I'll never forget "Donnie Darko", which is a movie that people continue to appreciate and revisit. When it was released at Sundance, everyone was like, "This is a mess. It makes no sense. No one will ever see this movie. It's unreleasable," and it barely got released. Almost nine years after we made the film, people are still talking about it, and that makes me remember where I came from. Maybe that's why I still try to push the envelope in terms of experimental narrative, ideas or technique.
Jake Gyllenhaal in the opening sequence of "Donnie Darko" (2001).
-Although it's relatively minor, I believe you've committed a crime against cinema. How could you have changed the opening sequence in your "Donnie Darko" director's cut by replacing Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon" with an INXS song?
-That was the song that we had at Sundance. It was always originally supposed to begin with INXS, and the Echo & the Bunnymen is my favorite song of the movie. It got moved to the end of the party, and [Donnie's] coming down the stairs in that big emotional moment. I was trying to utilize Echo & the Bunnymen there to give it more punch. Some people prefer it at the beginning. There's always the theatrical cut. Some people give me shit for it, but there are other people who saw the movie at Sundance for the first time, and they're like, "Oh my god, that INXS song at the beginning is so great!" Sometimes it's what you see first that you hold onto". Source: www.ifc.com
Nikki Reed shooting a scene from "New Moon" (2009).Nikki Reed wears Browns ID Black Patent Leather Oxfords laced shoes:Browns ID Black Patent Leather Oxfords. Nikki Reed in Nylon magazine - November 2009. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in "New Moon" (2009). Kristen Stewart wears a Swarovski Crystal Skull Cocktail Ring designed by Alexander McQueen (see below): Swarovski Crystal Skull Cocktail Ring by Alexander McQueen.Dress by Alexander McQueen.Alexander Wang Resort 2010 Dress.Kristen wears a Black Open-Back Dress by Gucci: Gucci Resort 2010 Black Open-Back Dress.Elizabeth and James Onyx Snake Cameo Pendant:Kristen wears Givenchy Gold Cuffs, designed by Riccardo Tisci 2010:
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Emmy Rossum - Hollywood’s Good Girl Goes Bad photoshoot in "2 Magazine", November 2009.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum in "The Day after tomorrow" (2004).
Amanda Peet at the premiere of "2012" in Germany, on 8th November 2009.
"Amanda Peet is in the middle of her first action movie–and it’s a show-stopper. 2012 gives director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) the chance to recreate every major disaster imaginable as Peet and her ex-husband, played by John Cusack, flee with their kids from the end of the world.
Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf discovered that Amanda defines herself as a wimp, but was ready for the ride — even though she doesn’t always work for the perfect action-movie bod. Hedging her bets.
“I e-mailed Jake Gyllenhaal, who was in Day After Tomorrow, before I signed on. I said, ‘Is Roland Emmerich great or is he a nightmare? Tell me the truth because life is short and I need to know what’s up’. And Jake replied, ‘He is the most divine, great person to work for ever and you should run and do it’.
“I can’t go on thrill rides anymore because I get physically ill. But we filmed on sets where everything was bouncing around like a roller coaster. The worst was where we’re supposed to nearly crash in a plane that was mounted on a gimbal. It gyrated so wildly that I got really nauseous. Every night I’d go home and be like, ‘Am I still on the gimbal? Did I come down yet? Did I throw up?’ Source: www.pbpulse.com
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So, what’s left to say? There are a few glaring errors in logic to address. Planets turn on their axis, so any joining tower would simply be torn to pieces by the orbit (although to be fair, in a story this fantastical, I can’t really gripe about this). Any object traded from one planet to the other becomes untouchably hot after an hour (!) of contact with the opposite world, so how the hell to they trade oil without it bursting into flames? So much of the story goes unexplained. What was ‘the war’ about? What’s it like on the other sides of these two planets? Do the inhabitants there even know about the existence of the opposite world?" 
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