Rachelle Lefevre was replaced for Bryce Dallas Howard -who will be playing Victoria in "Eclipse" “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” will officially be a Cullen family reunion. Robert Pattinson plays Edward Cullen in Twilight saga "Eclipse"
After weeks of reported salary negotiations for some of the supporting cast, Summit Entertainment confirmed to Access Hollywood on Wednesday that the Cullens — Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser and Nikki Reed — are all set to return for the vampire series’ final installment.
Billy Burke, who plays Bella’s father Charlie Swan, will also return. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in USA Today Photoshoot.Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in EW (outtake)
Prior to the official announcement, Deadline reported on Wednesday that Ashley and Jackson were wrapping up their deals and other members of the Cullen family had already signed on. The news meant avoiding another casting shake-up for the series, which replaced the villainous Victoria with Bryce Dallas Howard for this summer’s “Eclipse” after Rachelle Lefevre played the role in “Twilight” and “New Moon.” “Breaking Dawn” remains rumored to be potentially split into two films, with Summit’s Wednesday announcement careful to name it as a “project.” An installment – whether the blockbuster franchise’s finale or part one of two – is slated for release on November 18, 2011, with third film “Eclipse” arriving this summer on June 30".
"Eisenberg plays a much smaller role in Brian Koppelman and David Levien's drama Solitary Man, as a college student mentored in the ways of women by Michael Douglas' crafty car salesman.
We were originally going to speak with Jesse and Holy Rollers director Kevin Asch paired together, but due to timing issues, we ended up getting Jesse with his co-star Justin Bartha, a terrific comic actor in his own right going by his work in The Hangover and the "National Treasure" movies. Although we clearly hadn't prepared any questions for Bartha, he had a lot to say about the movie, and Eisenberg certainly didn't seem to mind taking a backseat in the interview. ComingSoon.net: Justin, what was your jumping on point for the movie and into this character? I'm not sure if you have any sort of New York Jewish background at all?
Bartha: The first thing I thought of, where the script was, I lived above a Hassidic family in Los Angeles for a year or two and they had this kind of son that was having, it seemed, behavioral problems. The family themselves were a bit eccentric and were always fighting and always seemed to have a lot of turmoil and would keep me up at night, and I always thought that the son was a fascinating character. The whole family was fascinating, and I had always wanted to do something with that. Jesse sent me this script, and I immediately thought of that and after we shaped the project over a couple years and did more and more research, the characters, both of them, seemed to come really clear. I think they're both very dependent on each other. Since I know have such a familiarity with Jesse and we developed these character together, the development of my character was dependent on the development of his character so it helped quite a bit knowing him. Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor and Jesse Eisenberg at "Holy Rollers" New York Premiere on 10th May 2010.
CS: Can you guys talk about doing something a little more serious, like a Scorsese-type movie? Bartha: We always had "Mean Streets" in the back of our mind when it came to... obviously, it's not as great as that movie, but we did have that archetype of two characters that are very specific in an insular community.
Eisenberg: How much worse is it?
Bartha: How much worse is it? It's a little bit worse.
CS: Can I quote you on that? "Not as good as 'Mean Streets'?
Bartha: But almost as good. (returns to what he was saying)... but that '70s American filmmaking in the vein of two male characters who very much have an effect on changing each other's lives, that was very much an inspiration for the development of a character-driven drama. CS: Jesse, for some reason, people think of you more as a comedic actor though a lot of the movies you've done have been dramas that put you in funny or awkward situations. Do you see yourself as a comedic actor? Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in "Adventureland" (2009).
Eisenberg: I think it's irresponsible as an actor to put yourself in a genre, because you're seeing the final product not the path of it. It's up to the Blockbuster video clerk to put me in a genre, but for me, I don't see any difference between this movie and a "Zombieland." The final product may look different but for me, it's the exact same thing. You're acting in the scene every day and trying to make it real and coming from a place where if the final product is funny, it often has less to do with my intention than the producer's intention. CS: Jesse, you've worked with a lot of first-time filmmakers, it's really quite impressive. Is there just having the freedom of collaboration or is there anything in particular that draws you to first-time filmmakers?
Eisenberg: Well, no, I just read the script. I didn't even know Kevin was directing. I just sign on to scripts that I think are good and characters that I think I can play. I don't have a technical knowledge of film enough to know that a first-time director has the learning curve to make a movie because I don't understand what it's like to make a movie..." Source: www.comingsoon.net
"Andre Allen Anjos, better known as RAC, had some big news to share with us recently — he had signed on to score the upcoming Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland and Zombieland) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover) film, Holy Rollers, about a group of Hasidic Jews smuggling 1 million ecstasy pills into the US in the late 90’s.
You can stream the entire soundtrack below — watch out for single and soundtrack standout “If You Forget Me”. Source: prettymuchamazing.com
Jesse Eisenberg at The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on 30th September 2010
"Eisenberg — who speaks rapidly and is both droll and self-effacing — apparently doesn’t view himself as the “hot nerd” that Rolling Stone has proclaimed him to be. In fact, initially he wasn’t even sure he could pull off his leading role in “Holy Rollers”: “I didn’t think I would seem authentic”, said Eisenberg, who was raised Reform in Queens and New Jersey. “I thought the character should be played by a real Chasidic Jew, not an actor from other movies like me,” he said in a phone interview from his Manhattan home. “It takes place in a very insular Jewish community, and it would be somewhat distracting to watch an actor you’ve previously seen shooting up zombies in an amusement park.” Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone in "Zombieland" (2009).
Eisenberg views “Holy Rollers” not so much as a Jewish story as one about a misguided youth trying to find his place in the world and to integrate contradictory aspects of himself. Kevin Asch on the set of "Holy Rollers"
“Holy Rollers” draws on director Kevin Tyler Asch’s memories of the New York rave culture of the 1990s (see sidebar); Eisenberg is perfect as the fictional Chasid, he said, “because he exudes the kind of innocence Sam has coming from such an insular culture. I was so impressed by Jesse’s nuanced performance as he builds the transformation in the character — which is even more impressive given that we shot the whole movie in 18 days in the dead of winter.” Source: www.jewishjournal.com
"So why did Asch choose to make his protagonist, Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a Chasidic Jew? About five years ago, he explained, “Holy Rollers” producer Danny Abeckaser told him about an Israeli who had employed Chasids to smuggle drugs into the United States. “Danny wanted to turn the story into a Jewish kind of ‘GoodFellas’, but I was immediately struck by the image of a naïve Chasid lost in the bright lights of a nightclub,” Asch said. “I thought, ‘What a journey,’ and I related to it. I personalized it right away.”
"Eisenberg was Asch’s first choice to play Sam: He had identified with the actor’s turn as a teenager braving his parents’ divorce in “The Squid and the Whale” and as a virgin overwhelmed by Manhattan nightlife in “Roger Dodger.” “You’ve played me in a couple of movies,” he quipped to Eisenberg the first time they spoke". Source: www.jewishjournal.com
Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha attending "Holy Rollers" New York Premiere on 10th May 2010
Holy Rollers Clip - Family Business
I just interviewed briefly director Kevin Asch about his opera prima "Holy Rollers". Mr. Asch thanked me for my support of his film and he was very kind of replying a couple of questions I sent him via Facebook.
My questions were:
-How much of an autobiographical experience was reflected in your main characters Sam & Josef?
-Kevin Asch: It's not autobiographical, except running on the brooklyn bridge on E and going to nightclubs...wait yeah some of it is kinda autobiographical, but really everything about the film is deeply personal. I was instantly invested in the true events that Danny A. told me about 5 years ago and wanted to tell an honest and emotional story.
-Was Jesse Eisenberg your first choice for the casting of Sam in "Holy Rollers" and why?
-Kevin Asch: Jesse was my first choice. I was a fan from his earlier films and felt like his sensibilities would be in line with mine and I was right, but you need luck making these films and landing Jesse was by far the luckiest. Not only does he attract other talented actors, but he is wonderful to be around and made me into a better filmmaker over the two years we spent together developing the character and script.
All the best, Kevin
"Holy Rollers", an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, opens on May 21st in New York, on May 21st in Los Angeles at The Landmark 10850 West Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles, and on May 28 at various Laemmle Theatres. For more information, visit landmarktheatres.com and laemmle.com.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Cruise at the Prince of Persia premiere in LA on 18th May 2010
Gemma Arterton and Jake GyllenhaalLegendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer had his hands and feet cast in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater Monday in LA. Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage and wife Alice Kim, Jon Voight, Billy Bob Thornton and 'Prince of Persia' stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley (with wife Daniela Lavender) and Gemma Arterton all turned out to support him. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
"Tom Cruise, Jake Gyllenhaal, Nicholas Cage and practically every other male A-list star attended producer Jerry Bruckheimer's hand and footprint ceremony outside of the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Cruise (going casual in jeans and a button down), who shot to superstar status in Bruckheimer's Top Gun said of the diminutive producer, "He certainly stands very tall in the pantheon of producers in Hollywood." Bruckheimer produced practically every testosterone-driven blockbuster in recent history, including Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, the Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure franchises and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which premiered after the ceremony". Source: supawesome.com
"More women flirted with me", laughs Jake Gyllenhaal, "when I shaved my head as a marine in Jarhead than when I got big muscles and had long hair in Prince of Persia." Jake Gyllenhaal attending Jerry Bruckheimer Hand and Footprint Ceremony in Hollywood on 17th May, 2010
"Do you like my new teeth?" he mugs, showing me his over-white Hollywood gnashers. "Well, it's all done now." He pauses. "I really am proud of Prince of Persia and think it's really great. And I really honestly never say shit like that. I am legitimately excited about the movie and to me that does bring a sense of ease. But I've experienced all different types of things from all different movies I've made and I just don't know what to expect." The last couple of years have not been especially kind to Gyllenhaal. In 2008, his close friend and Brokeback Mountain co-star Heath Ledger died and, later that year, his godfather Paul Newman, too ("I don't think I've met a more decent human being", he says). His manner in previous interviews has been not unfriendly, but subtly defensive. I ask if he feels different. "I do feel more comfortable with myself," he smiles, his guard dropped. His hair is short (in the film it's almost shoulder length), he's wearing a beige T-shirt, black jeans and Converse All Stars. Even casually clad, something in his demeanour means business, suggests seriousness, or perhaps he's just ready for some serious levity after little of it, on-screen anyway, these past five years. Films about torture (Rendition), the military (Jarhead, Brothers) and a serial killer (Zodiac) ensured that. "And I do feel comfortable being a little funny in this film", he admits. "Delivering humour with a British accent is so different. I mean, you have to do very little. Dry humour, particularly. I could say something with an American accent that wouldn't be funny but all of a sudden was witty and wry with a British one. And I loved that Dastan [his character in Prince of Persia] was funny, and cool and fun. There was a clear character here. He got to do fun stuff, but he was a bad-ass." Jerry Bruckheimer tells me that he wanted Gyllenhaal for the very reason that "he's a real actor". "I did take a photo of myself after this big 35ft jump. I was pretty nervous. I put on the harness and looked over the edge, about five times. After I did it I took a photo that I still have. Maybe one day I'll show you. That's when I felt proud."Reese Witherspoon, Jake's ex-girlfriend and Avon's Ambassador
He never discussed his relationship with Witherspoon and went to quite lengthy ends to hide it while promoting the film on which they met (2007's Rendition). Jake Gyllenhaal with Ben Kingsleyh at 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time' Premiere - After Party
Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst as Peter Parker and Mary Jane in "Spiderman 2"
And though Gyllenhaal was apparently the standby Spider Man when Tobey Maguire's back injury threatened production on Spider-Man 2, he speaks in a way which suggests he was not especially enamoured of that project. "A lot of other movies you have a lot of spectacle going on but the characters [in Spider-Man] are sort of, 'stamp this one in, stamp that one out'. There's not a lot of opportunity." When I ask Gyllenhaal which film-research experience has been most affecting, he says it was for Brothers. "I worked with boys in juvenile hall and the difference between what happened with their life and what happened with my life, well, it does make me believe in some kind of destiny. It makes me believe in what is the order of things. What lessons we've learned. Yeah, my parents were in the movie business and I got involved and said, 'I'm going to do it,' but you've got to have something else besides that." Gyllenhaal's sister, Maggie, evidently said the same thing as her younger brother. But did he decide early he had a natural aptitude for acting worth truly investigating? He laughs. "It's a balance between knowing you have it and really feeling like you may not." Donnie Darko attracted a manic following on DVD and retains an effortless sense of cult coolness today. Even back then, almost a decade ago, famed American reviewer Roger Ebert said Gyllenhaal was "able to suggest an intriguing kind of disturbance" while Variety noted "the actor's knack for glib humour suggests a very young Robert Downey Jr." Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in "Iron Man 2"
With Downey Jr now the toast of Hollywood (his Iron Man 2 had America's fifth-biggest opening of any film ever), the parallel is prescient. Downey Jr too was acclaimed early on, as far back as 1987's Less than Zero and, at 27, was nominated for an Oscar for Chaplin. Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (2008)
"Who's to say? I usually make choices based on film-makers and stories, but no matter how good the stories, if you don't have faith in the film-maker it's hard to deliver and give your heart. Ang Lee was a no-brainer but really, whether it's a sort of totally obscure film about two sheep-herders who end up falling in love in Wyoming or a movie like this, it's the people involved who ultimately give you the confidence to do your best work." And if awards do not come Gyllenhaal's way thanks to his Prince, rewards must. But he is not cashing in his chips just yet. Instead he is currently filming Source Code, Duncan Jones's follow-up to the acclaimed Moon, and recently finished a low-budget romantic comedy with Anne Hathaway for director Ed Zwick. There's also a left-of-mainstream comedy in the can – Nailed, with Jessica Biel, directed by the resolutely unconventional David O Russell, whose next film is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.Jessica Biel, Revlon's new face and Ambassador
For Gyllenhaal anyway, Prince of Persia is much more conventional. "This kid doesn't know who his family is. He does something because his heart is good, and that heart is seen by someone else. Being seen really deeply is what being part of a family is. When someone sees you and they really see you for who you are, you become family with them in whatever way that is."Does Gyllenhaal believe in real-life happy endings? 'Happy' is a funny word. How am I supposed to know? But yes, I guess I do." Source: www.independent.co.uk
Rachelle Lefevre was replaced for Bryce Dallas Howard -who will be playing Victoria in "Eclipse"
“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” will officially be a Cullen family reunion.
Robert Pattinson plays Edward Cullen in Twilight saga "Eclipse"
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in USA Today Photoshoot.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in EW (outtake)
The news meant avoiding another casting shake-up for the series, which replaced the villainous Victoria with Bryce Dallas Howard for this summer’s “Eclipse” after Rachelle Lefevre played the role in “Twilight” and “New Moon.”
“Breaking Dawn” remains rumored to be potentially split into two films, with Summit’s Wednesday announcement careful to name it as a “project.” An installment – whether the blockbuster franchise’s finale or part one of two – is slated for release on November 18, 2011, with third film “Eclipse” arriving this summer on June 30".
