Christina Ricci & Emile Hirsch video

A musical video featuring some images of Christina Ricci and Emile Hirsch, together in "Speed Racer" (2008). Songs "Love is a woman", "Meant for you" and "Your summer dream" by The Beach Boys.

Cannes 62nd International Film Festival

Transformers Bumblee - 62th Cannes International Film Festival 2009.

FEATURE FILM JURY
Isabelle Huppert (president), actress, France
Asia Argento, actress, director, screenwriter, Italy
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor, Turkey
Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter, South Korea
James Gray, director, screenwriter, U.S.
Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter, U.K.
Shu Qi, actress, Taiwan
Robin Wright Penn, actress, U.S.

Isabelle Huppert, Cannes Film Festival Jury.
Robin Wright-Penn attends the Jury Presentation Photocall at the Palais des Festivals on 13th May, 2009 in Cannes, France.
Abbie Cornish arriving for the screening of the film "Bright Star" on 15th May, in Cannes.
Elizabeth Banks arriving the Cannes Festival on 14th May, 2009.
Devon Aoki arriving the Cannes Festival on 14th May, 2009.

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert is joined by friend and director Martin Scorsese in a dedication ceremony to rename the American Pavilion's press room in Cannes The Roger Ebert Conference Center.

"On whether the film industry is at a crisis point:
I'm always a little more on the negative side of things, but there has been a crisis for many years now. And whatever we get to do, with your help, and the help of the people who own the rights to these films, is just maybe scratching the surface, ultimately. A lot will be lost. One has to think of history in the past 3,000 years, how much literature was lost. So whatever we can do now, we're going to save something". -Martin Scorsese Press Conference.
Source: www.festival-cannes.com

Emile Hirsch arriving at Nice, France Airport, in route to Cannes Film Festival.
Source: emile-hirsch.org

Whip it! release in October

"According to //Film, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It!, finally has a release date through Fox Searchlight, the same studio that released Diablo Cody's Juno. The roller-derby themed film is set to release on Oct. 9.
Ellen Page posing with one of the L.A. Derby Dolls Axes of Evil
Earlier last year, Barrymore snagged Juno's Ellen Page to co-star along with Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, and Eve. The film is based on the book Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, where the blue-haired protagonist Bliss, played by Page, finds a way to deal with her frustrations after she joins a roller derby team in a nearby city". Source: www.pastemagazine.com

Rian Johnson Interview

"I spoke to Johnson recently and he said the inspiration for BLOOM came not from one or two specific conmen films. "It's not inspired by any one film in the genre though I'm obviously a huge fan of films like THE STING," the Robert Redford/Paul Newman classic. While BLOOM is really nothing like THE STING, or really any other con film before it, it does share a common trait: rather elaborate cons.
It took Johnson a few months to properly develop their characters and their schemes, a process he started while waiting for BRICK to be released.

The script was originally titled PENELOPE named after the character Rachel Weisz plays in the film, so as Johnson explains, "it was extremely important to find the perfect actress for that part." Weisz had just recently given birth to her first child (Henry with director Darren Aronofsky) and Johnson was nervous she wouldn't be ready to ready to jump back into acting. But after meeting with Weisz and discussing the script with her, he "knew she was the one" and lucky for him, she agreed.
While Weisz and Adrien Brody and their eventual romance is certainly the focus of the film, the performance of Mark Ruffalo and the character Bang-Bang (played by Rinko Kikuchi) really help move the film along (I likened their characters to Han Solo and Chewbacca). I enjoyed those two so much, I felt like I wanted to see a spinoff with just them. "They really could star in their own movie, couldn't they?," says Johnson admitting he had to find the right balance to where they wouldn't detract from the central love story.
Rachel Weisz at The Brothers Bloom Screening, N.Y.

THE BROTHERS BLOOM opens in New York and Los Angeles today and in more cities on May 29.
Source: www.joblo.com

"Blame it" - Behind the scenes

TODAY, 15TH MAY 2009, IT'S THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF JAKE WEIRD, AND WE ARE PROUD OF IT!!

Behind the Scenes of "Blame It"

Future biopic movie of Frank Sinatra

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED: Frank Sinatra Photos

"To mark the 11th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death (May 14), LIFE's editors dug into our archives and discovered a gem: a set of never-before-published photos that show the Chairman of the Board, then 40 years old, in a series of TV appearances (including on Steve Allen's show, pictured) on August 19, 1956"
Source: www.life.com

"Martin Scorsese is bringing Ol’ Blue Eyes to the bigscreen.
Universal Pictures and Mandalay Pictures are teaming on "Sinatra" and have brought on Scorsese — who has long flirted with a biopic on singer-actor Frank Sinatra — to direct and produce.

Phil Alden Robinson is writing the screenplay.Although no actor is attached to star in the film, Schulman said Leonardo DiCaprio is an obvious candidate because he has become Scorsese’s go-to actor over the past decade, having starred in the director’s past four features: "Gangs of New York," "The Aviator," "The Departed" and the upcoming "Shutter Island." Because any music in the film will come from Sinatra’s recordings, it will not be necessary to cast an actor who is a proficient singer.
"The responsibility we are taking on to tell his story — that would cause anyone to be very careful about who they grant these rights to," she added. "Everyone knows that Marty Scorsese is a final-cut director. So there had to be a lot of trust that he would tell this story in a way that didn’t destroy (Sinatra’s) memory."

Project marks the first bigscreen pic to be made about the Hoboken, N.J., native, whose life provided endless fodder for the gossip columnists because of his tumultuous love affairs, infamous friendships with the likes of President Kennedy and possible Mafia ties. Schulman described the story as an unconventional biopic that will touch on all phases of Sinatra’s life."My father had great admiration for the talent of the people he chose to work with, and the talented people who worked with my father had great admiration for him," said Tina Sinatra. "It is personally pleasing to me that this paradigm continues with Marty Scorsese at the helm of the Sinatra film."
Source: www.variety.com

Tarantino's inspiration for Inglorious Bastards

Quentin Tarantino and Diane Kruger in the latest issue of New York Times Magazine. Photographes by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

"If Quentin Tarantino’s latest cinematic opus has a direct inspiration, it’s surely Enzo G Castellari’s 1978 Italian war pic Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (AKA That Damned Armoured Train), and released in America as – guess what? – Inglorious Bastards.

The film, along with other movies like The Dirty Dozen and Five For Hell, inspired a young Quentin Tarantino to make a men-on-a-mission pic back in the days when he was still just a video store employee.

The plot finds five American soldiers in World War Two being carted off to answer for various war crimes.
"This will be our “Inglorious Bastards!” he and his friends would laugh as they plotted fantasy versions of the film".
Source: www.totalfilm.com