Emile Hirsch & Nikki Reed

Emile Hirsch GQ Italy photoshoot, photographed by Alexei Hay, Autumn Winter 2009-2010.Nikki Reed, Smallz & Raskind (2006).Joe Pugliese (2007). Todd Cole (2008)Hellin Kay (2009).Mike Piscitelli (2009)Buy Hollywood (2009).Nikki Reed with Emile in "Day on the Beach" editorial, Movieline Magazine 2005.Nikki Reed and Emile Hirsch play Kathy Alva and Jay Adams in "Lords of Dogtown" (2005).Emile thought that Nikki Reed, wearing a dark-haired wig with bangs towards the end of the film, was HOT.Emile Hirsch with Nikki Reed in a rehearsal - Behind the Scenes from "Lords of Dogtown".

Robert Pattinson talks on his Vanity Fair cover

Robert Pattinson has a interview with Vanity Fair where they ask him what it feels like being chosen as the cover of Vanity Fair, December issue. Rob talks about seeing Brad Pitt laying in a white bed on one of his sister’s old magazines and is incredulous that he should also take such spot.

"Unofficial reports say The Twilight Saga: New Moon has shattered The Dark Knight's $18.4M midnight debut for a 3-day weekend. Sources put the total at $23-24M. This would also surpass Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, whose 5-day weekend began with $22.2M on a Tuesday night. Summit has not yet released official numbers.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon may be on its way to breaking the all-time midnight screening record set by The Dark Knight (for a 3-day weekend). That film grossed $18.4M from 3040 showings. It went on to take in $67.17M that opening day, dropped 29.1% from Friday to Saturday to bring in another $47.65M, and ended with $43.6M on Sunday for an opening weekend total of $158.4M. New Moon played 3514 midnight screenings last night, 474 more than The Dark Knight. This would certainly indicate that it's headed for a new midnight record as it only needs to break $18.4M to do so. It might also be on its way to an all-time opening day record, although the film plays at 4024 theaters this weekend vs. The Dark Knight's 4366 locations. Bella (Kristen Stewart) becomes a thrill seeker after her breakup with Edward Cullen in "New Moon".

Reports from theaters all over the country indicate a mix of tweens and older women, with a decent amount of boys and older men. Males are the key to success for this film to overtake The Dark Knight. The all-time record for midnight showings is held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which took in $22.2M on a Tuesday night on its way to a 5-day weekend total of $158M". Source: www.pronetworks.org

Brothers: falling out of Grace

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, estranged brothers Tommy Cahill and Capt. Sam Cahill in "Brothers" (2009).


"When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. BROTHERS tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace (Natalie Portman), with whom he has two young daughters (Bailee Madison, Taylor Grace Geare). Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail who’s always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sam’s farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie (Mare Winningham) and Hank Cahill (Sam Shepard), a retired Marine". Source: community.iamrogue.com

Fix by Tao Ruspoli

"Unfolding over a single, frantic day, the plot follows the efforts of two filmmakers, Milo (played by the director, Tao Ruspoli) and Bella (Olivia Wilde), to deliver Milo’s junkie brother, Leo (Shawn Andrews), to rehab. The cost is $5,000 — which none of the three have access to — and the deadline is 8 p.m., after which Leo goes to jail. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.Inspired by actual events in the director’s life, “Fix” plays out in a rough-and-tumble, first-person filming style that challenges the eye and the stomach. The movie, however, never strains for hipness, and Mr. Ruspoli displays an aptitude for the play of light and shade that transforms familiar setups into something fresh. Entering a strange netherworld where a Ukrainian cat-toy maker grows weed in the back room and an English bulldog has significant street value, Milo and Bella become unwilling accomplices to Leo’s moneymaking schemes and hostages to his fearless narcissism. Naturally, they begin to enjoy themselves.By turns vivid and grubby, sharp and distracted, “Fix” aligns its mood with the view (the ruins of the South Central Farm are noted with a moment of rueful silence) to deliver a love letter to Los Angeles as well as an ode to fraternal obligation.FIX opens on Friday in Manhattan.Directed by Tao Ruspoli; written by Mr. Ruspoli and Jeremy Fels; directors of photography, Mr. Ruspoli and Christopher Gallo; edited by Paul Forte; music by Dead Prez, Ima Robot, Simon Dawes, Beautiful Girls and Nico Stai; production designers, Erin Eagleton and Sarah Osborne; produced by Nat Dinga. At the Village East, Second Avenue at 12th Street, East Village. Running time: 1 hour 33 minutes. This film is not rated". Source: movies.nytimes.com


Trailer for Tao Ruspoli's new film FIX

Hal Holbrook: the wise grouchy old man

"It’s time to move Hal Holbrook off the Oscar bubble and into the fold. The 84-year-old actor delivers arguably the performance of his career in That Evening Sun, director Scott Teems’s terrific adaptation of the William Gay short story “I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down.” Holbrook plays Abner Meecham, a Tennessean banished by his lawyer son (Walton Goggins) to a nursing home he’ll soon flee in disgust. Hal Holbrook and Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild" (2007).

Imagine his celebrated character in Into the Wild soaked in vinegar and hung out to dry in the sweltering Tennessee sun, and that’s Abner Meecham. He’s quite the marvel.
-Scott, I’d read you were uneasy about casting Hal because he was perhaps best known for playing Mark Twain, and you needed someone a little rougher. Is that true?
ST: I guess the reason I hadn’t initially thought of him is that I had been kind of programmed by Hollywood to think of Hal as the “guy in the suit.” Or the mustache. Or as the lawyer, the judge, Mark Twain. So he wasn’t initially on my radar five years ago in the conception of this. It wasn’t until we saw how Sean Penn reimagined Hal to be this physical specimen — this outdoorsman, this man of the land — as he did with Into the Wild that we thought, “Aha! That’s who we’ve been looking for.”
Hal Holbrook and Emile Hirsch at Breakthrough of the year Awards (2007).

-What I was searching for was this really searching for was this really specific combination of strength and fragility. You believed that he believed that he had the strength to work this farm; he’s convinced himself he could do it. And we would stand up to this interloper on his land. And it wouldn’t be surprising to you that he’d do this. At the same time, I want you to say, “Please be careful! You’re an old man.” -The first shot of you in That Evening Sun — staring out the window of a nursing home — is kind of devastating. How did you react to seeing yourself like that?-HH: Well, first I react as an actor watching himself act and say, “Enh, I should have done that better.” But I get caught up in this film. I get caught up early on. I have a very strong connection with this man. I like this guy. I like the way he is, and I wonder sometimes if I’m that tough with people. I guess I am; my wife tells me I am sometimes. But she’s so kind to everybody all the time. She says, “You’re so grouchy!” I guess I am. But I hate deception. I hate lying. I cannot stand lying. That’s what makes me so angry about things I see going on around us, behind us, all these Wall Street and political people deceiving us. People are deceiving themselves all over the country. They’ve got one idea, they don’t want to listen to anybody else, on and on. That feeds me. It feeds me up onstage with Mark Twain, because then I get the machine gun out and start really leveling it. It keeps me going". Source: www.movieline.com

Twilight producer talks about videogames screen adaptations

"There was some promise in "Halo," which Peter Jackson was going to produce and "District 9" helmer Neill Blomkamp was going to direct. Until it fizzled out, that is. The next great hope on the horizon is "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", which hits theaters next May.Jake Gyllenhaal, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Promotional Artwork.

Both of these games have rich, well-developed stories. "Twilight" producer Wyck Godfrey, who has his hands on adaptations of "Gears of War" and "Dead Space", argues that the big problem with game adaptations thus far is related mostly to the source narratives.
"I feel like the video games are getting more sophisticated in terms of the storylines," he said in a recent interview with Collider. "Both 'Dead Space' and 'Gears of War' are games that have great storylines". Source: moviesblog.mtv.com

Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn't get nervous

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, GQ photoshoot, December issue.

"-So help me understand Uncertainty a little better. Do you think this dual-existence thing is a regular pastime for these characters, or just a way to spend this particular Fourth of July?
-That’s a funny way to phrase it. I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.-So these are two stories actually taking place at once? Or is one imagined and the other real, it’s just up to us to determine which is which?
-My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.-So what intrigued you about making a movie about this concept?
-Well, look — I love a good love story, and this, to me, is one of the most in depth and honest stories about love between two people that I’ve personally had the chance to act in. Lynn is a fabulous actress, and the process of Uncertainty itself is just based on improvisation and emotional authenticity as opposed to technical precision. You know, hitting your marks and saying your lines. I think it really allowed us to push the envelope of playing with those feelings of love. So… yeah. It makes for a good date movie."For me, my emotional state can go from one pole to another in the span of no time at all. I think that’s kind of what Uncertainty is about."-(500) Days of Summer has had such a long tail coming out of Sundance earlier this year. It made a killing, people love it, it’s still in theaters. What do you make of the sustained popular reaction to it?-I love that movie. You never have control over how the rest of the world is gonna feel about anything you make. I love other movies of mine that didn’t get as much attention, but it doesn’t mean I love them any less. I don’t know. It’s a funny dichotomy. To be a creative person I think you have to stick your guns and, in a certain way, not care what people think. But on the other hand I’m a citizen of the world, and I care very much what people think. There’s a less solid line between “us” and “them” than we’d like to believe. We’re all sort of made up of each other. What we think is largely affected by what everybody else thinks — no matter how strong we are. [Pause] Anyway. I don’t know why, but I’ve chosen you to be my esoteric interview for the day or something.
-(500) Days of Summer took an equally radical approach to a narrative about a relationship. What specifically were you trying to say or express about love in these films?-It’s the whole of it, really. The juxtaposition. Isn’t that how love is? It’s never only one thing. For me, my emotional state can go from one pole to another in the span of no time at all. I think that’s kind of what Uncertainty is about. I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you’re always you. These are all useful concepts if what you’re trying to do is go down to the grocery store and get a gallon of milk. I guess I’m getting far out, but what I look for in a movie is something that will fuck with my mind and unrest some of those stable building blocks that make up my consciousness. I think Uncertainty does that — it plays with those notions of time and space, and who are you? Are you sure you’re not other things, too? Yes, this seems to be happening right now, but what else is happening?-Are you nervous?
-You know what, man? I am. And I don’t get nervous. So that’s exciting. I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare — about work, anyway — I always take that as a really good sign". Source: www.movieline.com