Terry Gilliams talks about Dr. Parnassus

"And after the death of his star Heath Ledger last year, Gilliam came very close to giving up on his latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. A lesser man would have crumbled into retirement by now. So what is Gilliam’s secret? “We were devastated,” Gilliam says. “We spent the whole day — Amy, Nicola Pecorini, the director of photography, and myself — lying flat on the floor. He’s dead, and you don’t quite get over that".
Gilliam’s initial reaction to the news was that he would have to call a permanent halt to the production. “I thought, ‘There’s no way I can make this film without Heath’.” “Ideas are floating around. Then finally we decided, ‘OK, let’s get three other people to take over the part’. And we were lucky because we have a magic mirror in this movie. Not every movie has a magic mirror. So you can very genuinely say that these other actors are different aspects of the character that Heath plays. And it works. The point was, we’ve got to keep going. It was a bit like half being there, but apparently on autopilot I can still do a few things.”

In casting the actors who would step into the role, Gilliam says that a key considerations was that they had to have been close friends of Ledger. Fortunately, Ledger’s friends included Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, names that no doubt helped to persuade the film’s financiers that Doctor Parnassus was still viable. He has no doubt that Ledger fully deserved the Oscar for his chilling portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight. “But wouldn’t it have been nice if they had noticed before? Even before Brokeback Mountain he was doing brilliant work. Everything he has done has been solid, even the earlier silly things. I first saw him in The Four Feathers and he just takes over the screen. He was what, 21 years old?”

The planned release date for Doctor Parnassus is in the autumn. “We want to be in that last third for the Academy Awards! Maybe we’ll get another award for Heath. We’re going to get as many awards as possible for him, long after he’s gone.”

Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Michael Cera talks about The Year One

"-Yeah, for a few days after that my skin was really just in pain. Especially under my armpits because I guess they hey put this gold powder on which is kind of this metal base. So, it was really sharp. Wiping it off was like sandpaper. It was just crazy. And then like your armpits all day are sort of like this (holding up his arm). And the were on fire for like a week after. I couldn’t lift my arm higher than this or it was excruciating.

 

-Why are you painted in gold?

-Kyle Glass paints me gold in the movie. He plays an Eunuch in the movie paints me gold to be a gold statue. I heard you use compulsory to the slave driver in the scene…

-Compare Jack’s style to say Jonah Hill’s. How are they similar or different?

-Um, I dunno. I mean. Different approaches I guess. I think Jack really studies the script and really knows it. If a new scene comes up every day, I think he really just knows it. I think he’s spent time with the script whereas Jonah plans on kind of working on his feet, his toes. I think that’s kind of a major difference. 
-Similarities?

-They are both funny. Um. Nice, fun guys to hang out with. So are you the guy who always gets the bad end of it in the movie?

-Yeah. Get whipped. I guess so. It’s not too far off. What kind of research did you do for this? Did you crack open the bible or?

-No, no, I was just more afraid of it not being funny. Harold, there are a lot of people thinking about that stuff. Do you like dressing up with a wig and crazy hair?

-Yeah, it’s fun. This isn’t my main wig. In the second have of the movie they cut my hair, but I normally have a long wig and it was custom made and looks just like my hairline. It’s really insane. It’s weird when you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and forget you’re wearing it. What’s been your favorite scene so far?
-Uh, I dunno. Any of the scenes where Jack has a big speech are always kind of fun. I can just stand there and watch him go. He’s really great with those great, epic speeches. There are a lot of those in the movie that he makes. 

-Is there a lot of physical humor I the movie?

-Kind of. Would you call body paint physical humor? There’s not too much falling down. There is a cougar that attacks us. Jack falls down a few times. I fall down a cliff. So, yeah, it’s all funny I guess. We heard the cougar went through the torture scene?
-I just kind of stand there while me and Jack are kind of in the middle of it while it happens. It’s a funny scene. Which of the guys in this movie would you consider to be your heroes growing up? Your comedy heroes?

-Well, “Ghostbusters” is kind of the reason I wanted to be an actor. When I was four I really liked “Ghostbusters” and wanted to act from a young age because of that.-So, it’s great working with David Cross who also loves “Ghostbusters.” Um, it was really amazing getting to listen to Harold all day. 

-Do you harass him about stories about the movie?

-He’s really great about telling stories and he just volunteers stuff and is just great. He told me one today because we were in this freezing mud and he told me this scene that he had to do for “Ghostbusters II.” He told me it was the worst night of his life. They were freezing, it was really cold in New York and they had to have slime on them and it was like, freezing. Miserably cold. So, that was really cool".

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Happy Birthday, Robert Pattinson!

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Happy 23th Birthday, Robert Pattinson!

This party was held by Twilight Nusantara Production, a group / community of Twilight events from Twilight Indonesia.

Kristen Stewart, Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter of "New Moon" and Robert Pattinson.

Robert Pattinson out celebrating his 23rd birthday, on 13th May, 2009.

Anton Yelchin is Kyle Reese

"Anton Yelchin is on the brink of stardom and featured in the pages of VMAN magazine’s actor portfolio for its summer 2009 issue, on stands May 14.

The 20-year-old actor is set to be featured in what’s sure to be two of the summer’s biggest blockbusters. In Star Trek, he plays young Russian space cadet Pavel Chekov. In Terminator Salvation, he steps into the role of Kyle Reese, a character who is both the father and protégé of future-savior-of-humanity John Connor (Christian Bale).
“I hope these movies do well,” he frets. “They cost a s***-ton of money.”

Anton observes, “The opportunity to be an actor is the opportunity to experience so many things. You’re selling yourself short if you don’t don’t try as many characters as possible.”
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Terminator Salvation Interview

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More than shoes

Foster Soles Celebrity Shoe worn by Jake Gyllenhaal for Charity Auction, Date: April 30, 2009.
Event: To help raise funds in aid of the children in foster care in Los Angeles.
As a Pasedena foster care charity founded in 1913, Hillsides creates safe places for children at risk and their families by providing residential care, mental health services, special education and advocacy. For more information, visit www.hillsides.org
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Penélope Cruz in "Los abrazos rotos" (2009), directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
"If you have the chance to be in Madrid these days, up until October 29 there will be a special exhibition in relation with the Film Festival October Short. It’s “Zapatos Rodados”! Shoes worn by stars in the movies! And not just any star! You can see the shoes worn by Penelope Cruz or Marilyn Monroe. Or James Dean.Zapatos Rodados Exhibition Madrid There’s also a special section of replicas, but the 23 original shoes tops the 13 replicas from this very special Spanish exhibition. Come to think of it, do you imagine an exhibition with Carrie Bradshaw’s shoes?
Source: stylefrizz.com

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Anne Hathaway sporting Pour La Victoire silver high heel sandals with straps.
Balenciaga high heel shoes worn by Reese Witherspoon in the premiere of "Monsters vs Aliens" in Universal City, on 22th March 2009.

Taking Woodstock in Cannes

"It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbour's farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever".

Taking Woodstock production notes kit (download)

CREDITS

Ang LEE - Director
James SCHAMUS - Screenplay
Eric GAUTIER - Cinematography
David GROPMAN - Set Designer
Danny ELFMAN - Music
Tim SQUYRES - Film Editor

ACTORS

Dan FOGLER - Devon
Henry GOODMAN - Jake Teichberg
Jonathan GROFF - Michael Lang
Emile HIRSCH - Billy
Eugene LEVY - Max Yasgur
Demetri MARTIN - Elliot Tiber
Liev SCHREIBER - Vilma
Imelda STAUNTON - Sonia Teichberg

Source: www.festival-cannes.fr