Most anticipated 2010's entertainments

Terry Gilliam Interview.
What has been his experience promoting this film. He’s been at Comic-Con and Dragon Con
Tells a great story of how Heath Ledger came to this movie
Heath seemed really alive on camera. What was he like on set
Are there any special editions of his previous movies coming to Blu-ray Don Quixote talk

"Mr. HEATH LEDGER (Actor): (as Tony Shepherd) You know, forgive me, but I have a couple of solutions to your problems. One: I was thinking of, you know, changing the style of the show; and two: I would change the audience, perhaps.

Unidentified Man: Change?

Mr. LEDGER: (as Tony Shepherd) Yeah. You know, but in my opinion, I'd change both but, you know, that's just me.

RAZ: That's the voice of Heath Ledger. "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" turned out to be his last film. Three days after the first round of filming wrapped, Heath Ledger died.Mr. TERRY GILLIAM (Director, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"): And I don't think in the entire history of motion pictures anything like this has actually happened where the lead actor dies literally in the middle of production and managed to get three A-list actors to come in and continue his part.

RAZ: That's director Terry Gilliam. And as he mentioned, three A-list actors, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, all stepped in to play little bits of Heath Ledger's role that were incomplete at the time of his death - the parts that took place inside the mirror, the imaginarium.

And to make it work, Terry Gilliam came up with a rather ingenious solution.

Mr. GILLIAM: We'd already established in the script the principle that if you go through the mirror with somebody else, their imagination may be stronger than yours and you become what they want you to be. And with a bit of fiddling a few bits of dialogue, I just made that clearer. And so the initial one was this lady who looks and it's Johnny and she says, ah, I always dreamed you would look like this". Source: www.npr.org

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"Model Lily Cole and her boyfriend, Enrique Murciano, cuddle together on the Caribbean island of St. Bart’s on New Year’s Eve (December 31)!
Lily Cole and director Terry Gilliam attending "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" N.Y. premiere at the Crosby Street Hotel on 7th December, 2009.

The 21-year-old beauty, who can be seen in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (out now in New York and L.A. and in more theaters January 8), spent time with her 36-year-old boyfriend relaxing in the sunny weather and ringing in the new year!Lily recently told the UK’s Daily Mail that she’s hoping to act more than model in the future! “I’d like to act and not really model so much. I wouldn’t want to treat acting as a convenient thing to do now and again”, she said.

“I’ve been doing modeling for years…I’m ready for new things.” Source: justjared.buzznet.com

3. The Killer Inside Me
(premières at Sundance in January; wide release TBD)
Jim Thompson’s famous noir novel about a psychopathic small-town sheriff who hides behind a mask of banality was adapted once before, in a largely disastrous 1976 version starring Stacy Keach. But you can’t hold down a story this great; now, Michael Winterbottom—who’s shown himself capable of directing great work in almost every film genre—is tackling it, with an eerily calm Casey Affleck in the lead. (The rest of the cast is hit-and-miss; the two female leads being handled by Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson doesn’t inspire confidence, but the supporting roles are rounded out by reliable pros like Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, and Bill Pullman.)7. Shutter Island (February 19)
The ’09 fall movie season became a lot less exciting when Paramount decided not to spend Oscar-campaign money on Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the Dennis Lehane thriller Shutter Island. This February, we’ll finally get to see whether Scorsese has succeeded in turning Lehane’s novel into an amped-up homage to horror movies past and present (and foreign and domestic), or if Shutter Island’s odd plot twists and thick Boston accents have defeated the best efforts of an American master.9. Alice In Wonderland (March 5)
Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s story has been adapted for the big screen countless times, but none of those adaptations (not even the pornographic one) captured the spirit of the original book. Given the trailers and production art that’s been released so far, Wonderland looks like a good match for Burton’s pop-art gothic style, with a cast of excitingly familiar faces. The movie isn’t a straight adaptation of the source, but that could work in Burton’s favor as well; one of the reasons Alice In Wonderland has resisted traditional movie structure is that the novel is basically structure-free, and each new story gives Burton a chance to inject some much-needed momentum. Nightmare fuel, whimsy, and Johnny Depp mad as a hatter?

10. Greenberg (March 12)
A new film by Noah Baumbach (The Squid And The Whale, Margot At The Wedding) is always cause for anticipation: No one else is currently as adept at milking comic misanthropy and abrasion for all it’s worth. But Greenberg promises more than usual, if only for the number of flashpoints it brings together: Ben Stiller exploiting his squirmy self-deprecation for pathos rather than annoying attempts at getting laughs opposite Greta Gerwig, break-out It Kid of the mumblecore scene (Hannah Takes The Stairs, Baghead) and seemingly a potential legit Hollywood star. Plus an original score by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. Given his prowess in the wordless realm as shown by 45:33, it’s about time this happened. Fingers crossed.
22. The Green Hornet (December 22)
A svelte Seth Rogen is the titular lead.
Michel Gondry is going to direct so the film’s visuals might blow some minds.
Edward James Olmos is making an appearance, hopefully with Battlestar Galactica-like stoic intensity.
The band Anvil is in there, too.
Christoph Waltz from Inglourious Basterds plays the villain who tries to get every crime boss in Los Angeles to work together.
Cameron Diaz, who actually wasn’t all that bad in The Box.25. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (TBD)
It’s a pretty safe bet that Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series will make an easy transition to film, what with the comic books’ relatable twentysomething slacker milieu and a youthful pop-culture sensibility that draws heavily on indie-rock and videogame references. But factor in director/co-writer Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz), who has shown a remarkable aptitude for the comedy-action hybrid that characterizes the books, and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World has the potential to be something more than a likeable adaptation. Michael Cera as the tweaky, bumbling lead, and Jason Schwartzman as the “big bad”; a rumored mix of live-action and animation done by O’Malley himself; and glowing early buzz from directors Jason Reitman (Juno, Up In The Air) and Greg Motola (Superbad, Adventureland) after seeing an early cut.Jake Gyllenhaal on the Set of 'Nailed' in Columbia, South Carolina on 17th April 2009.

29-30. Nailed/The Fighter (TBD)
After the notoriously difficult shoot of I Heart Huckabees resulted in screwball comic triumph, David O. Russell was deep in purgatory. Nailed—a D.C. satire—was set to bring him roaring back, but production shut down after Capitol Films imploded financially with the film nowhere close to done. Jessica Biel claimed there wasn’t enough footage to bring it together in post, but now the money’s been raised and the movie’s allegedly on track for the 2010 Cannes market.
Meanwhile, Russell managed to shoot a whole other movie—The Fighter, a boxing movie starring the perfectly cast Mark Wahlberg—that’s also on track for release soon. Assuming the currently all-shook-up indie market can get its act together and buy/distribute the movies quickly, 2010 should give us not one but two Russell movies—even as the man himself prepares to do Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.32. The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace
(TBD, now maybe 2011?)
Posthumous releases always represent a moral quandary for an artist’s fans. There’s the understandable interest in seeing new work from someone who won’t be producing anything new ever again, but it’s a ghoulish feeling, like going through the pockets of a corpse that’s still warm. When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, he left behind an unfinished manuscript called The Pale King about a group of IRS workers struggling to deal with the massive boredom of their jobs. But Wallace’s fractal-like attention to detail makes for surprisingly compulsive reading, profound in its minutiae, beautiful in its tedium. The Pale King will, at best, be a depressing reminder of an abbreviated life, but at worst, it should have at least a little of Wallace’s insight and level-headed passion. And it will also have footnotes, and they will be excellent". Source: www.avclub.com