Leonardo DiCaprio at the "Inception" premiere

Leonardo DiCaprio with Marion Cotillard and Christopher Nolan attending "Inception" premiere in Paris.


Leonardo DiCaprio at the premiere of "Inception."

Jake Gyllenhaal joins Stand Up to Cancer telethon

Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Stand Up To Cancer' Public Service Announcement

"Fox and Jake Gyllenhaal are among the latest to join the upcoming TV fundraiser Stand Up to Cancer.

On Tuesday, Gyllenhaal will appear in a "Stand Up to Cancer" PSA that is scheduled to premiere during the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game on Fox, airing at 8/7c.

CBS Evening News' Katie Couric, NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer of ABC's World News will host Stand Up to Cancer, which will be overseen by producer and cancer survivor Laura Ziskin (Spider-Man).

Major League Baseball and Jake Gyllenhaal Stand up to Cancer. Clip courtesy of Entertainment Tonight and SU2C: http://www.standup2cancer.org/


Jake Gyllenhaal and director Scott Cooper talk about their connection to cancer and why they teamed up.

Ziskin also produced the 2008 telethon, which raised more than $100 million. More than $83 million has since been committed to five "dream teams" of researchers and to 13 scientists working against cancer, the Stand Up to Cancer project said.

"Cancer is a crisis and we want to convey that ALL Americans can play a role in helping the scientists who are working to end it," she said in a statement. "We're delighted that the entertainment community is banding together in such a big way to help us get that word out." Source: www.tvguide.com

R.I.P. Harvey Pekar ("American Splendor"'s hero)
"Harvey Pekar's life was not an open book. It was an open comic book.
Pekar chronicled his life and times in the acclaimed autobiographical comic book series, "American Splendor", portraying himself as a rumpled, depressed, obsessive-compulsive "flunky file clerk" engaged in a constant battle with loneliness and anxiety.Pekar, 70, was found dead shortly before 1 a.m. Monday by his wife, Joyce Brabner, in their Cleveland Heights home, said Powell Caesar, spokesman for Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
Pekar and Brabner wrote "Our Cancer Year", a book-length comic, after Pekar was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1990 and underwent a grueling treatment. He was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, and also suffered high blood pressure, asthma and clinical depression, which fueled his art but often made his life painful."American Splendor" carried the subtitle, "From Off the Streets of Cleveland," and just like Superman, the other comic-book hero born in Cleveland, Pekar wore something of a disguise. He never stepped into a phone booth to change, but underneath his persona of aggravated, disaffected file clerk, he was an erudite book and jazz critic, and a writer of short stories that many observers compared to Chekhov, despite their comic-book form.
Hope Davis and Paul Giammatti in "American Splendor" (2003)

Unlike the superheroes who ordinarily inhabit the pages of comic books, Pekar could neither leap tall buildings in a single bound, nor move faster than a speeding bullet. Yet his comics suggested a different sort of heroism: The working-class, everyman heroics of simply making it through another day, with soul -- if not dignity -- intact". Source: blog.cleveland.com

Interview with the cast of Twilight: Eclipse - Serenading Kristen Stewart

Interview with the cast of Twilight: Eclipse! - Part 3
Singapore Idol Sezairi met the cast of Twilight: Eclipse and serenaded to Kristen Stewart!!!

Fascinated by the phenomenon of amoral climbers

Sight-Seeing of Jake Gyllenhaal with Reese Witherspoon in Rome on 20th October 2007 - New additions from Iheartjakemedia.com

"For Jim McAllister, the Tracy Flicks have to be stopped before they do damage to themselves and others. She is always perfectly dressed and groomed, and is usually able to conceal her hot temper behind a facade of maddening cheerfulness. But she is ruthless. She reminds me of a saying attributed to David Merrick: "It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose." The story, based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, shows McAllister as a dedicated teacher who is simply steamrollered by Tracy Flick. Whatever else, he is fascinated by the phenomenon of Tracy Flick. We're inevitably reminded of Sammy Glick, the hero of Budd Schulberg's Hollywood classic What Makes Sammy Run? , who had his eye on the prize and his feet on the shoulders of the little people he climbed over on his way to the top". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com

"It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York’s East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic—his congenital incapacity for friendship.
Lee Remick, Elia Kazan, Carroll Baker, Budd Schulberg and Eva Marie Saint.

An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening". Source: search.barnesandnoble.com

"Stiller spent years working with "Permanent Midnight" writer Jerry Stahl on an update of a Schulberg script, first at Warners -- which had the rights to the book -- and later at DreamWorks (when DW negotiated a first-look deal with Stiller's production company, it paid Warners $2.6 million just for the rights to "Sammy").
"Stiller and Stahl sat down and wrote an account -- with the two men essentially interviewing themselves -- of what happened, or more accurately, didn't happen to the project. It is refreshingly self-deprecating, opening with this zinger: "I guess you could say that our relationship with Budd Schulberg was typical Hollywood: we met him, we liked each other and in the end, we kind of broke his heart.

Ben Stiller: I read the book and loved it. Ben Stiller playing Jerry Stahl in "Permanent Midnight" (1998)

The financing for the movie I was waiting to play Jerry Stahl in -- "Permanent Midnight" -- was taking a while to come through (if ever, according to my agent/jailer), so I asked Jerry if he wanted to work on re-writing Budd’s script with me in the meantime. Why did I ask Jerry? I knew he was a good writer and I was scared out of my mind to try to do it alone." Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Twilight: Eclipse Clip - Charlie and Bella Talk

In THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between Edward and Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

Film Composer Ryan Collier - showreel for "Jarhead"

Film Composer showreel by Ryan Collier. Movie - Jarhead. from Ryan Collier on Vimeo.

Music and editing by film composer Ryan Collier Let me first stress that I had in no way, anything to do with the actual films production. This is just an easy way to show film makers what I can add to a movie. The piece is largely electronic in style with orchestral textures. It relies on using the beat as the theme for the piece to create tension and suspense. Hope you enjoy it. Also check out the movie, it is fantastic. ryancollier.co.uk

Funny Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of The Day After Tomorrow

New Publicity stills of "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004) starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum.


Jake having some fun with his 'dad' on the set of The Day After Tomorrow