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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Prince of Persia - A Look Behind The Scenes

Jake Gyllenhaal - Prince of Persia: Behind The Scenes With Dastan screencaps, courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com


"This short featurette features interviews with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Mike Newell, actress Gemma Atherton, actor Jake Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal's abs". Source: kotaku.com

Sources confirm Jake & Reese's break-up

Reese Witherspoon, Gavin Hood and Jake Gyllenhaal at 'Rendition' Photocall - Rome Film Festival, on 21th October 2007.

"Sources confirm to Gossip Cop that Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal “are no longer together.” Gossip Cop is told that the split was “amicable and mutual.”

The couple met on the set of “Rendition”, and began dating in the spring of 2007. They briefly broke up once before only to get back together. This time, however, the break up appears to be permanent".
Source: www.gossipcop.com

"The relationship was at the point where they either got engaged or broke up," a friend of Jake's tells me. "There is no doubt that they love each other very much, but Reese wasn't ready to say 'I do.' And if she wasn't ready after two years of dating, Jake wondered if she ever would be." Source: www.popeater.com

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Golden Globes Nominations Revealed

"The Golden Globes will be presented on January 17 at a big old starry do at the Beverly Hilton in LA, with Ricky Gervais being all cheeky and British as host. Here's the full list of nominees:

Best Motion Picture -- Drama
Avatar
The Hurt LockerInglorious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last StationCarey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sadibe, Precious

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Drama
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire & Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam and Tommy reunited in "Brothers".

Tobey Maguire, Brothers

Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Sandra Bullock, The ProposalMarion Cotillard, Nine
Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia
Julia Roberts, Duplicity

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Matt Damon, The Informant
Daniel Day Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock HolmesJoseph Gordon Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo-Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single ManAnna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz, Nine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion PictureMatt Damon, Invictus
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the FrogUp

Best Foreign Language Film
BarriaBroken Embraces
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
The Maid

Best Director -- Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the AirQuentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds

Best Screenplay -- Motion Picture
Up in the Air
It's ComplicatedDistrict 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds

Best Original Score -- Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino, Up
Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant
James Horner, Avatar
Abel Krozeniowski, A Single ManKaren O. and Carter Burwell, Where the Wild Things Are

Best Original Song -- Motion Picture
"I Will See You," Avatar
"The Weary Kind," The Crazy Heart

The slideshow features images and promotional material from U2 in 2009 and Brothers.

"Winter", U2, Brothers
"Cinema Italiano," Nine
"I Want to Come Home," Paul McCartney Everybody's Fine
Source: www.empireonline.com

Jake and mom Naomi out for dinner

"After watching sister Maggie's new movie Crazy Heart, Jake Gyllenhaal and mom Naomi grabbed dinner together at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills. "They seemed to enjoy their soup [since] it was cold outside," a fellow diner says, adding, "Jake was looking good and super-attentive to his mother."
Source: www.people.com

Time Travel: Donnie Darko and Looper

"Different temporal parts of the same occurrent can overlap. If we hear a concert delayed in time and the concert itself we accept them as equally real. We notice naturally that there is a difference between the entanglement of meeting a younger ego and the experience of hearing simultaneously a concert and its former replica, only delayed in time. If a wave is sufficiently coherent it can annihilate itself in a region of space or time by interference. We can delay occurrents in time but cannot delay continuants in time. To record the moving image of a person means to access information about a temporal part of him and this record is less real than the continuant itself because it is ontologically dependent on it: an object in time can be delayed in time only as image and by this process the original reality of the object is lost. We cannot accept that two different temporal parts of an object could stand in almost the same space and have the same degree of reality. One of them have to be less real. It is clear that a time journey is itself an occurrent, as it has temporal parts, it is a process and it has phases.A clear four-dimensionalist tendency affects the scientific description of time travel".

- Extracts from "Time Travel and theories of Time" (2000),
written by Ioan Lucian Muntean.

The Terminator: The main timeline is set, and traveling back in time cannot change anything. Indeed, traveling back in time to change the present will sometimes cause the very thing you're trying to avoid, as happens in The Terminator (for obvious dramatic reasons). This is among the more plausible time travel theories, as it avoids those messy paradoxes.Back to the Future: There are, I suppose, many ways to interpret time travel in this movie, but in this theory, there is still only one timeline, but you can change the past (and thus the present). In this theory, it's possible to go back in time and kill your father (before he had you), and in such a case you will "disappear." This is also a common theory, but the presence of paradox makes it less plausible.
The End of Eternity: In Isaac Asimov's novel, a group of people known as Eternals develop time travel and decided to improve upon history by introducing carefully calculated changes in the timeline. There is more to it than that, but the concept of a society using time travel to manipulate history is an important concept that is relevant to DD.Lightning: In Dean Koontz's novel, time travel is only allowed in one direction: to the future. This takes care of the "kill your father" paradox rather neatly. You can, however, change the future. There is a catch though, which is probably more for dramatic effect, but which bears importance in the Donnie Darko discussion - essentially, fate doesn't like it when you attempt to change something in the future: "Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be." Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up disoriented at the edge of Carpathian Ridge' cliff.

Donnie Darko sort of contains elements of all four, and since it includes the Back to the Future theory, it also sort of includes a paradox".
Source: kaedrin.com

“Looper is set in a present-day world in which a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future,” although Johnson assured fans that there was much more to the film than that.My full /Filmcast interview with him (where we discuss symbolism in Bloom, as well as that film’s ending) will be going up on the site shortly, but in the meantime, hit the jump for some details about the next script he’s working on, a sci-fi film called Looper.

It should be noted that Johnson is still working on the second draft of the script and thus, any and all of these details may be different by the time the film goes into production. Among the elements of the film that Johnson revealed:

The film will be set roughly thirty years in the future.

The film will depict a dystopian society that has gone to “hell”.

A disruptive element will have traveled back in time from even further in the future. The time travel element is part of the setup, much like in The Terminator, but not an active ongoing part of the story".
Rian Johnson with Rachel Weisz at "The Brothers Bloom" TIFF Press Conference on 9th November 2008.

Looper will be “very dark, very violent. It’s the exact opposite of Bloom.”
Rian Johnson on the set of "The Brothers Bloom" in Prague.

Source: www.slashfilm.com

The Brothers Bloom (Feather in your Cap)


A musical video featuring some scenes from "The Brothers Bloom" directed by Rian Johnson, starred by Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi and Nora Zehetner.

Song "Feather in your Cap" by Beck, album "Stray Blues".

The Hurt Locker: Front Runner in the Oscars

"On director Kathryn Bigelow's success (achieved in part by getting funding outside of Hollywood, detailed in Dargis's June profile of her): Something like a woman winning best director for directing an action movie and not a romantic comedy is symbolically important. Whether it then leads to a lot of women doing things outside of the pathetic comfort zone of romantic comedy – and I say that as someone who loves romantic comedy – we'll see. We know that because women are allowed to make romantic comedies that they can make romantic comedies. That's in everyone's comfort zone. The idea that a woman can be a great action director is not is everyone's comfort zone. That's [Bigelow's] exceptionalism". Source: jezebel.com


The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the militarys unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the worlds most dangerous places. Three members of the Armys elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and each other as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike.
Their mission is clear—protect and save—but its anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the effects of combat and danger on the human psyche is based on the first-hand observations of journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. These men spoke of explosions as putting you in the hurt locker. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad battle insurgents and each other as they seek out and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad.

Remember Me trailer 2 - Questions to Rob in Facebook

Robert Pattinson & Emilie de Ravin filming "Remember me"


Remember Me Trailer - Shorter and a little different version.

"Ask Rob" Facebook Exclusive!! Rob Pattinson wants your questions for REMEMBER ME! Exclusive to the Facebook page, Rob will answer select questions from you via video. Submit your question about his upcoming romantic drama REMEMBER ME in the comments below. Questions will only be accepted by fans of the REMEMBER ME Facebook page.
Source: www.facebook.com

Leonardo DiCaprio: Inception and Viking movie with Mel Gibson

"Mel Gibson will direct and Leonardo DiCaprio will star in an untitled period drama set in the world of Viking culture. William Monahan is writing the script.

Graham King will produce with Gibson and Tim Headington in a co-production between King’s GK Films and Gibson’s Icon Productions. Shooting is expected to begin fall, 2010, meaning that if everything falls into place, it would be the next directing effort for Gibson.
The principals confirmed the project but would not divulge many details. DiCaprio, who has long been fascinated by Viking culture, will play one in a storyline that will be as unsparing as Gibson’s other period directing efforts “Braveheart”, “The Passion of the Christ” and “Apocalypto.”

The connective tissue is King.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan in "The Departed" (2006).

The producer teamed with DiCaprio and Monahan in the Oscar-winning drama “The Departed”, and just worked with Gibson and Monahan in the Martin Campbell-directed drama “Edge of Darkness.”
Leonardo DiCaprio with Christopher Nolan and Ellen Page filming a scene for 'Inception' in Los Angeles, on 19 October, 2009 - Photos by Photo Agency.

DiCaprio will likely take a film before putting on the Viking horns. He just completed the Christopher Nolan-directed “Inception” for Warner Bros., and will next be seen in the Martin Scorsese-directed “Shutter Island”, which Paramount releases February 19. Gibson just completed the Jodie Foster-directed “The Beaver.”
Source: weblogs.variety.com

Prince of Persia - ET Online Interview video

Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan in "Prince of Persia: Sand of Times" promotional artwork.

"Jake Gyllenhaal holds the fate of the world in his hands in 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time' from blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in theaters May 28, 2010, and only we've got an exclusive look at new footage of a ripped Jake from the movie!

Much of the film was shot in the baking Moroccan desert and in London, and Jake trained for months to build and maintain his action-hero physique.
Jake Gyllenhaal - Entertainment Tonight: Prince of Persia (TV) screencaps by Iheartjakemedia.com.

"I over-prepared myself because I never knew how much they were going to ask me to do, so I just made sure I'd be hopefully able to do anything," Jake told ET, saying with a shrug, "I guess I've gotten buff."

He added that when filming finally wraps, "It's going to turn into fat and I'm going to be happy."
Source: www.etonline.com