Amy Adams in David O. Russell's "The Fighter" and in Janis Joplin biopic

"Godfrey talks about making Eclipse and what fans can expect on the DVD/Blu-ray. We also talked a lot about Breaking Dawn including how they’ll be filming it in Louisiana and Vancouver, how long does he expect the movies to be, how did they get Bill Condon to direct them, and a lot more on the next two films".

TWILIGHT Producer Wyck Godfrey TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE, BREAKING DAWN

Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen in "Eclipse"

Producer Wyck Godfrey

* 1:00 – What was the biggest hurdle to overcome on Eclipse
* 1:45 – How involved is he in the IMAX release
* 2:15 – How much talk was there to do Eclipse in 3D. Says they are talking about it for Breaking Dawn. How does he feel about post converted 3D?
* 3:20 – How much got cut out of Eclipse that will be on the DVD/Blu-ray. Says at least 3 scenes that were either cut or cut down* 4:00 – Has there been any talk about doing an ultra box set for all the Twilight movies on DVD/Blu-ray
* 4:25 – Do they have anything that they’re saving for the big box set
* 5:05 – Bill Condon talk. How surprised was he that they got him for Breaking Dawn
* 6:05 – Are they planning on changing stuff out of Breaking Dawn the book versus the movie* 7:20 – How long does he think each Breaking Dawn movie will be? Will they both be 2 hr movies?
* 8:02 – Says they are shooting Breaking Dawn in Vancouver and Louisiana
* 8:25 – What else is he involved with? Talks about his Wizard of Oz project at Warner Bros./New Line. Says his film is a faithful adaptation of the book
* 9:15 – With two competing projects happening does he think whichever one goes first will get made
* 9:45 – Talks about a Channing Tatum 10 year High School reunion movie that he’s working on. Also a Janis Joplin movie with Amy Adams directed by Fernando Meirelles
Source: www.collider.com

Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart for "Night at the Museum 2" (2009)

"During an interview, Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey got to talking about some other projects his production company, Temple Hill Entertainment, is working on. One of them is a Janis Joplin biopic to be directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) starring … Amy Adams. Amy Adams in "Junebug" (2005)

Amy Adams, the lovely, talented, Oscar-nominated actress from Junebug, Enchanted, and Doubt whom it is, nonetheless, absolutely impossible to imagine taking a slug of alcohol, let alone choking on her own vomit? Yes! That Amy Adams!
Amy Adams and Ben Stiller in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" (2009)

IMDb has the movie listed under the title Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can (though it says both Adams and long-rumored-Janis Zooey Deschanel are playing the lead role). While we can definitely imagine actresses less suited to the part by the fact of their total lack of talent, it is hard for us to imagine an actress less suited to the part by the fact of her total non-Joplin-esque vibe.
Has Vulture never heard that fastest route to an Oscar is playing against type? This sounds like a fascinating idea to me, and if Amy Adams can somehow channel Joplin’s raucous raunch it’ll effectively obliterate the notion that she’s the same spoonful of sugar in all her movies". Source: www.awardsdaily.com

Jake Gyllenhaal in USA Today portrait

"Nailed", the upcoming, but much delayed satire starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal will be moving forward without David O. Russell, the film's writer and director.
Jessica Biel in Glamour magazine photoshoot, August 2010

Nailed tells the story of a woman (Biel) who accidentally gets a nail wedged in her head and goes to D.C. to fight for better healthcare. There she meets a young politician (Gyllenhaal) who takes up her case and a romance ensues. Production on the comedy has been delayed numerous times and reshoots are still needed. Speaking to THR, Tutor said, "So we're going to go ahead probably with Nailed and try to hire another director and finish it."
Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams on the set of The Fighter on 20th August 2010

As for Russell, the director is currently in post-production on The Fighter, a boxing flick that will reunite him with Mark Wahlberg for a third time. Christian Bale and Amy Adams will costar in the film about the life of welterweight champion "Irish" Mickey Ward. The Fighter is gearing up for an awards season release this December". Source: uk.movies.ign.com

Kristen Stewart playing insecure and neurotic, but rock solid

The Yellow Handkerchief clips, starring Kristen Stewart, William Hurt, Eddie Redmayne and Maria Bello.

"The car's driver is a painfully insecure teenager named Gordy (Eddie Redmayne), who doubts most of what he does and seems to apologize just by standing there. At a rural convenience store, he encounters Martine (Kristen Stewart), running away from her life. He says he's driving to New Orleans. No reason. She decides to come along. No reason. They meet a quiet, reserved man named Brett (William Hurt), and she thinks he should come along. No particular reason.

The formula is obvious, but the story, curiously, turns out to be based on fact. It began as journalism by Pete Hamill, published in the early 1970s. In the movie's rendition, Brett fell in love with a woman named May (Maria Bello), then spent six years in prison for manslaughter charges, although his guilt is left in doubt. Martine slowly coaxes his story out of the secretive man.
You don't need an original story for a movie. You need original characters and living dialogue. "The Yellow Handkerchief," written by Erin Dignam, directed by Udayan Prasad, has those, and evocative performances. William Hurt occupies the silent center of the film. In many movies we interpret his reticence as masking intelligence. Here we realize it's a blank slate, and could be masking anything. Although his situation is an open temptation for an actor to signal his emotions, Hurt knows that the best movie emotions are intuited by the audience, not read from emotional billboards.
Stewart is, quite simply, a wonderful actress. I must not hold the "Twilight" movies against her. She played the idiotic fall-girl written for her, as well as that silly girl could be played, and now that "Twilight: New Moon" has passed the $300 million mark, she has her choice of screenplays for her next three films, as long as one of them is "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse." Kristen Stewart as Bella in "Eclipse" scene Jacob Brings Bella Back Home

In recent film after film, she shows a sure hand and an intrinsic power.
I last saw her in "Welcome to the Rileys," where she played a runaway working as a hooker in New Orleans. In both films she had many scenes with experienced older actors (Hurt, James Gandolfini). In both she was rock solid. Playing insecure and neurotic, yes, but rock solid". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Interview on David Letterman - INCEPTION

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Interview on David Letterman - INCEPTION

Diablo Cody Interviews Adam Brody at Red Band Trailer

Actor Adam Brody stops by the trailer to talk about "Captain Oats", fame, and Diablo's astonishing weight gain

Adam Brody and Kristen Stewart in "In the Land of Women" (2007)
Kristen Stewart as Mallory in "Welcome to the Rileys" (2010)

"Kristen Stewart may be one of the most sought after and hounded celebrities around these days, but she is not getting an sympathy from former costar Adam Brody! Adam gave an interview to Diablo Cody for her new online talk show, Red Band Trailer, where he said of Kristen’s notorious complaining: “It’s only gotten worse, I’m sure, being a celebrity. At the same time, I don’t have a lot of patience for people who moan about it too much. Because there are many things you could do. It’s like, quit … you don’t need to be an actor, so it’s like if it’s that much of a problem … there’s the door.” Wow!
Adam Brody and Courteney Cox on the set of "Scream 4" (2011)

Adam was himself a hounded young celebrity when he was one of the breakout stars of the hit show The OC, so he has been through a somewhat similar experience as Kristen. He also choose to take time off following his time on the show and now opts for smaller independent films. His next film, The Oranges, will team him up with Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester! Source: www.hollywoodlife.com

Internet is giving everybody a voice

Lindsay Lohan, photoshoot by Scott Nathan (2008)

"Lindsay Lohan to shill for their products. Now she's warning her fans not to Google her or their computers could fall victim to viruses. The company issued a press release earlier which included a quote from LiLo about how clicking on links to strange websites boasting of info on Lohan could ultimately infect your computer with a virus. Here's what Norton—and LiLo—had to say:Lindsay Lohan in Markus Klinko Indrani photoshoot (2010)

"I know I am very newsworthy, especially with everything going on and I'd hate to see my current situation cause frustration or damage to my fans," says Lohan. "If my friends and fans want to know what's going on with me, they need to stick to reliable news media outlets and not click on just any link in a search result. Better yet, please follow my Twitter feed and get the news straight from me!" Source: gawker.com


"We positively had goosebumps over the first part of the trailer, which uses a rendition of Radiohead's "Creep" by the Belgian girl's choir Scala over a series of chats and status update screens on a Facebook page. The second half of the trailer finally puts faces to the dialogue we've been hearing in teaser spots, and wow, we're impressed. Jesse Eisenberg looks like he has the part nailed, we're loving the brown color palette Fincher is using in those early Harvard scenes and it looks like the cast is firing on all cylinders". Source: theplaylist.blogspot.com

Microsoft this week announced the addition of Facebook and Windows Live to its social network plugin for Outlook. Once installed, it will include the social data available about the sender, visible to the recipient from her latest Facebook updates.

Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010)

Bourdieusian concepts offer a means to explain daily uses of social tools (social networks/fields), animated by flows of information. They further provide an explanation for how micro-level processes relate to macro-level phenomena. It would appear that socialization is what makes the Internet so "addicting". A British psychologist, Mark Griffiths, is studying "Internet addiction" and he defines "technological addictions" as "non-chemical (behavioural) addictions which involve human-machine interactions".
"Talking on the Internet, people regress. It's that simple", says expert Normand Holland. We access to Internet via different technologies including dial-up, 3G, ADSL, WiMax, Wi-Fi, etc. The main benefits of broadband is that the connection is always on, so access to the Internet is a a lot faster than the old dial up connections.

The government’s plans for implanting broadband in UK promises access to 2Mbps speed by 2012. Many homes and small businesses in rural areas are struggling with slower connection speeds, and the super-fast broadband projects couldn't not reach rural areas if they are not backed by public funds. Rural markets (defined as having a population less than 10,000) in the U.S. experienced a 16-percentage point increase in broadband penetration from 2007 to 2009, the fastest growing geographic market segment.
Jake Gyllenhaal attending "Teach For America Week" - Dominguez High School, Compton on 29th October, 2002

Broadband penetration was a topic highlighted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President Obama earlier this year. The Recovery Act provided a total of $7.2 billion to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

You can compare internet service by entering your address, clicking in your area, checking the cheapest high speed internet providers.

New York, the largest local market, reached 96 percent broadband penetration in Q1 2009. Communities in every U.S. state but Delaware have applied to become test markets for Google's planned high-speed broadband network.

Google announced plans to deliver 1 gigabit-per-second fiber connections to 50,000 to 500,000 people. End users will pay a "competitive price" for the access, Google says. The company plans to choose where to build the network by the end of this year.
This map displays where the responses were concentrated. Each small dot represents a government response, and each large dot represents locations where more than 1,000 residents submitted a nomination.

Jake Gyllenhaal incites man-crushes, inspires toy figures

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nick (Italy) magazine.

MTV Shows

Kris Allen Has A 'Man Crush' On Jake Gyllenhaal
Source: www.mtv.com

My hubby has actually a man-crush with Jake too! (partially enhanced by my perseverant fondness, and he never declared any of these same-sex crushes before), my brother... not yet (he's not much the man-crushes guy type, lol)


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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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Series: It's Movie Time From: It's Movie Time
Length: 00:05:00
This week on It's Movie Time, John and Kristin journey to the desert to cover Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Sex and the City 2.
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MakingOf Interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page attending "Inception" - Paris Press ConferenceEllen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt attending Inception Premiere in Los Angeles

"MakingOf recently sat down with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to discuss how he goes about choosing his projects, and what advice he has for aspiring filmmakers who want to break into the industry. The up-and-coming star opines that it’s important to take advantage of the exposure that the Internet and other technological advances have afforded us versus more traditional methods.
“If you want to move to L.A. and get an agent, I’m not going to say ‘don’t do that,’ but, to be honest, if what you really care about is making things and being creative and getting your art seen by people… it’s not really the way to go. Nowadays, I’m working with a special effects guy from Scotland and a writer from Ireland, and they don’t have to live in L.A., they don’t have agents, and their work is going to screen at Sundance. I think that’s the future of how things are going to go.” Source: blog.makingof.com