Jake Gyllenhaal & Ben Kingsley.Scans of Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (2010) Visual Guide (Scans). Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com
-FJI: How did you come to cast Jake Gyllenhaal as the titular prince and Gemma Arterton as his love interest, Tamina? -Newell: I know Jake's parents, so I've known him since he was a small child and I've watched him grow up to become a really wonderful, subtle, sensitive actor with terrific emotional range. That's what I wanted for this character, but at the same time I had to have an action hero. So I took a bet! Jake's a strong guy and he's immensely hard-working, so I knew that one of the things that would set him on his mettle was actually performing these stunts. A lot of the fighting in the movie is Jake and a fight routine has to be learned to the inch or people get hurt. What you have is this tremendously energetic and youthful man of action who also has a wonderful sensitive side under the surface. I saw a lot of girls for the female lead; I looked at Iranian actresses, Israeli actresses and was about to go to India to look at Bollywood actresses. But Jerry kept pushing me towards English actresses because he had had such luck with Keira Knightley in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. As soon as Gemma walked in, I fell for her. She's very energetic and very feisty and very intelligent and she's wonderful at being the tough girl who can stand up to Jake's character". Source: www.filmjournal.com
In news related to "Source Code": "The producers of a big-budget Hollywood movie have cancelled plans to film scenes at the Ottawa train station after failing to come to terms with VIA Rail on a fee.
Source Code is a $35-million science-fiction thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain), recent Oscar-nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) and Canadian comedian Russell Peters. The story concerns a soldier who inexplicably wakes up in the body of a commuter who witnesses a train bombing. Jake Gyllenhaal playing with Atticus on the set of "Source Code" in Montreal on 11th March 2010.
"We will not be coming to Ottawa and we will not comment on the situation," Manon Bougie, the film's production manager said Wednesday.
She said a replacement location has been found in Montreal.
News of the cancellation comes a day after officials at Ottawa's Canadian Screen Training Centre announced they will close April 1 after 29 years, a victim of funding cuts by the federal government". Source: www.ottawacitizen.com
Blanksie chats with Kristen Stewart again in the hope he can make her smile.
Floria Sigismondi, Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Cherie Currie attend "The Runaways" New York premiere at Landmark Sunshine Cinema on March 17, 2010 in New York City.
"Kristen Stewart has become the star of her very own comic.
The "Twilight" beauty is the latest celebrity joining Bluewater Productions' Fame series of biography comics - with the release date slated for this June.
Of choosing Kristen, writer Kim Sherman tells, "For Twilight fans, Kristen Stewart is a woman whom fans long to be and love to hate." Miss Sherman adds, "My goal with this biography was to show readers the depth residing in this young woman and the roles she's beautifully tackled through a series of spot shots, pinups and word art." Source: www.gossipcenter.com
Robert Pattinson & Emllie De Ravin at the premiere of their new movie "Remember Me", London, 17 March 2010.
Robert Pattinson wore this Hermès fall 2010 suit at the Remember Me premiere.
Emilie de Ravin wore hobnailed high heels by Brian Atwood: Brian Atwood high heels shoes.
Robert Pattinson talks about Edward Cullen and his other film projects at the Remember Me UK premiere in London's Leicester Square.
"Remember Me" turns out to be quietly charming and coarsely handsome, a sensitively observed story about young people in love seen through a keen eye for the unglamorous side of New York City that we don’t often see on film these days. (If Martin Scorsese had made this movie in 1977, it might look like this, splendidly sated with the dirty, cluttered, human city.) Czech poster of "Remember Me".
Interviewed by SKY NEWS on the red carpet of the LONDON Remember Me premiere.
"Pattinson, 23, joked that he may not be suitable for the secret agent role because he was "not very good at running". In Remember Me, the actor plays a rebellious young man who meets a woman who then helps him heal after a family tragedy". Source: news.sky.com
Diane Kruger and Quentin Tarantino at The 82nd Annual Academy Awards on 7th March 2010.
What Tarantino Owes to 'Greenberg':
Two years later “Pulp Fiction” came out and changed everything and I got a strange phone call -- from the editor at the Times. Turns out she was retiring -- she explained that, after falling on her sword for Quentin, when the movie bombed there were rumblings they wanted to let her go. She refused -- until “Pulp” hit. Now, she felt, she could leave with her head held high.
I asked her one question: Given the heat she’d taken to get the story published (launching Quentin’s career), why?
She told me she had a son in Hollywood who’d been working on his first movie for Trimark (another defunct movie company, like LIVE) and he had assured her (not me) that Quentin was the real deal. His name was Noah Baumbach. And you can look it up". Source: www.thewrap.com
Episode 8: Zach sits down with Ben Stiller, star of the 'Meet the Fockers' series as well as the new movie, Greenberg.
Ben Stiller stars in "Greenberg" (2010).
Roger, a failed musician recently released from a psychiatric hospital and still holding on to an image of himself as a young rebel while his peers have grown up and settled down, is so self-involved that his wallowing plays as aggression. Florence, searching for an honest connection but stuck in a self-destructive pattern of "doing things just because they feel good", is drawn to what seems like vulnerability in Greenberg, hooked by his wild vacillation between neediness and cruel disinterest. "Hurt people hurt people", she tells him, wryly, resigned to this vicious cycle. Ben Stiller and Jennifer Jason Leigh in "Greenberg". Jennifer Jason Leigh and husband Noah Baumbach.
Baumbach says elements of Greenberg "kept popping up" in his writing, but a long gap between the wrap of his last film, Margot at the Wedding, and its fall 2007 release gave Baumbach time to flesh out a script. "I wasn't even sure who this guy was, but I knew he was so actively his own worst enemy. I see this in myself and I see it with a lot of people, but with Greenberg it's much more overt." Greta Gerwig plays Florence Marr in "Greenberg".
The Florence character has tones of what's come to be known as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) — a young, eccentrically costumed sprite who saves a lovable loser from himself. Think Natalie Portman in Garden State, or Zooey Deschanel in anything. But while most modern indies use their MPDG as a catalyst for fairy tale–perfect romance, Greenberg offers up how such a character would function in real life.
"Clearly she had talent, but they're all making these lines up, and I didn't know how much of that was her doing herself. Could she do this with scripted stuff?" An audition in Baumbach and Leigh's New York apartment confirmed that she could. "She'd memorized the whole thing." Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig in "Greenberg".
Gerwig's performance is short on actorly flourishes, and with her imperfect skin and unsculpted physique, her appearance on-screen is unlike that of the standard starlet. It was Baumbach's intention to present Florence as a realistically awkward young woman, somewhat out of place in the capital of superficiality, but perhaps he and his actress did too good a job. The Variety review published after Greenberg's Berlin Film Festival premiere described Gerwig as "a big young woman who's attractive enough," and expressed skepticism as to whether or not Gerwig was acting at all". Source: www.laweekly.com
"As for women, Fowles says the first step in confronting the MPDG is realizing, like all the scary creatures hiding under your bed, that she doesn’t exist.
“As long as you understand that this is entertainment, it’s OK to watch these movies, step back and think, ‘Why do we need these characters?’ I have no problem with escapism. I just have a problem with people watching these films and believing that the stereotypes are real.” Natalie Portman and Zach Braff in "Garden State" (2004).
"The harsh truth of indie-mixtape cinema like Garden State is that terrified men and amazing girls are meant for each other. Everyone wants to be able to give and receive love, no matter how unready or undeserving they think they might be — and they want to do it minutes to boarding a flight, your name called over the airline speaker as your previously clueless boyfriend tells all those flying to Wichita that he’s made the “biggest mistake of his life.” (See Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming for a nice reversal of this fantasy — the man too traumatized to bring his passport.)" Source: www.eyeweekly.com
Kirsten Dunst as Claire Colburn in "Elizabethtown" (2005).
1. Elizabethtown (Kirsten Dunst) Ah, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, that sentient ray of sunshine sent from heaven to warm the heart and readjust the attitude of even the broodiest, most uptight male protagonist. In his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures." In Elizabethtown, Kirsten Dunst plays the archetypal Manic Pixie Dream Girl, a flirty, flighty chatterbox stewardess who razzles and dazzles brooding sensitive guy Orlando Bloom. Coked up, or merely high on life? You be the judge. Though Dunst in Elizabethtown and Natalie Portman in Garden State epitomize the contemporary Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the strangely resilient archetype has its roots in the nutty dames of screwball comedy. For every era, there's a Manic Pixie Dream Girl perfectly suited to the times". Source: www.poormojo.org
Jake Gyllenhaal & Ben Kingsley.
Scans of Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (2010) Visual Guide (Scans). 
-FJI: How did you come to cast Jake Gyllenhaal as the titular prince and Gemma Arterton as his love interest, Tamina?
-Newell: I know Jake's parents, so I've known him since he was a small child and I've watched him grow up to become a really wonderful, subtle, sensitive actor with terrific emotional range. That's what I wanted for this character, but at the same time I had to have an action hero. So I took a bet! Jake's a strong guy and he's immensely hard-working, so I knew that one of the things that would set him on his mettle was actually performing these stunts. A lot of the fighting in the movie is Jake and a fight routine has to be learned to the inch or people get hurt. What you have is this tremendously energetic and youthful man of action who also has a wonderful sensitive side under the surface.
I saw a lot of girls for the female lead; I looked at Iranian actresses, Israeli actresses and was about to go to India to look at Bollywood actresses. But Jerry kept pushing me towards English actresses because he had had such luck with Keira Knightley in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. As soon as Gemma walked in, I fell for her. She's very energetic and very feisty and very intelligent and she's wonderful at being the tough girl who can stand up to Jake's character". Source: www.filmjournal.com
Jake Gyllenhaal playing with Atticus on the set of "Source Code" in Montreal on 11th March 2010.
