New stills from "New Moon". Source: www.newmoonmovie.org "Robert Pattinson is having an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment. Inside a soundstage where "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is shooting, the lanky English heartthrob stands in front of a tall, wide green screen murmuring a tender admonition, "You promised me nothing reckless." The plan is to digitally insert Pattinson, who plays swoony good guy vampire Edward Cullen, into a scene that was filmed much earlier -- one in which he appears as a spectral vision to his costar, Kristen Stewart, cautioning her headstrong character, Bella Swan, against hanging out with some unsavory-looking biker types. The team working on this sequel to last year's Catherine Hardwicke-directed "Twilight," which brought in an unexpected $365 million worldwide for Summit Entertainment, is moving quickly to sustain the momentum of the sexy, youth-oriented franchise". Source: www.latimes.com
"As highly anticipated as it is, the trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Michael Sheen's Alice In Wonderland is a bit complicated to watch, it seems. From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. JOHNNY DEPP stars as the Mad Hatter and MIA WASIKOWSKA as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes ANNE HATHAWAY, HELENA BONHAM CARTER and CRISPIN GLOVER.Capturing the wonder of Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871) with stunning, avant-garde visuals and the most charismatic characters in literary history, ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™ on March 5, 2010". Source: www.examiner.com
A musical video featuring some scenes from the film "Thirteen" (2003) directed by Catherine Hardwicke, with Nikki Reed as the teenage temptress Evie Zamora & Evan Rachel Wood as the atribilious Tracy Freeland, and stills from "Jennifers' Body" (2009), written by Diablo Cody and starred by Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried.
"Share the excitement of Elvis Presley's earth-shattering introduction to the nation in this collection of iconic performances from "The Ed Sullivan Show". Appearing on the show Sept. 9, 1956, Elvis sent shock waves through a repressed nation with his soulful singing, wild hip gyrations and raw energy, attracting a record-breaking TV audience of more than 60 million people. Presley returned on Oct. 28, 1956, continuing to provoke ecstatic screams with hits such as "Don't Be Cruel", "Love Me Tender" and "Hound Dog". These exhilarating performances were so explosive that Elvis was filmed above the waist during his final Sullivan show appearance on January 6, 1957".SPECIAL FEATURES: Remembering Ed and Elvis; Why Ed Didn't Host Elvis' First Appearance; Elvis and Ed: Intros and Promos; Caught on Celluloid: The First Moving Pictures of Elvis Presley; Special Elvis Moments; Jerry Shillings Home Movies; Documents from the Graceland Archives; Documents from the Sullivan Archives. Release Date: 8/4/09
Zooey Deschanel with Jake Gyllenhaal, at Sundance Film Festival - Awards Rehearsals, 2004.Zooey Deschanel with Ace Norton in the Making of "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here". Source: www.self.com
Zooey Deschanel posing in GQ photoshoot, August 2009, Feature by Ellen von Unwerth.
"Less a love story and more a meditation on love and how to go about surviving it, (500) Days of Summer tells the story of the romance between Tom and Summer, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Tom, a hopelessly romantic greeting-card writer, falls for wide-eyed Summer, the new girl in the office who happens to love his favorite Smiths' songs. Spectacle Week 11: She & Him, Jenny Lewis, Jakob Dylan: Indie folk duo She & Him, featuring Zooey Deschanel and M.Ward, light up the stage with Jenny Lewis and Jakob Dylan. Together they discuss their experiences growing up in musical families and join Elvis in a rare performance of one of his notable tunes.Deschanel's band, She & Him, a collaboration with singer/songwriter M. Ward, covers a Smiths' track, too. We sat down to talk with her about (500) Days of Summer and how she balances her two careers.
ESQUIRE: How did you get started recording music with M. Ward?
ZOOEY DESCHANEL: Well, he had done music for a film that I was in [The Go-Getter]. The director wanted us to do a duet for the soundtrack for the end of the film. So we got together and recorded it, and we had such a great time, and we had a little extra recording time, and we recorded another song. He kept asking to hear my songs that I had written, because I had been writing songs for a long time and kind of hiding them away. Finally I sent him maybe like six songs to see what he thought, and he e-mailed me back and was like, "I love 'em, let's make a record."ESQ: When you're on stage, is it a similar experience to performing in front of the camera?
ZD: No, not at all, because I write music. I don't just write the lyrics, I write all the music. It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music — my taste in chord progressions and melodies. And when I'm in the studio, I'm collaborating with Matt — it's really only a couple of people I'm collaborating with.In a film, you have writers and a director and a lot of people in the crew, a lot of other actors — you're collaborating with a hundred people. And there's already a story before I get there. I get there and do my job, but the spectrum of creativity that I display in a film is a lot narrower. The music's just a lot more like an actual piece of me. ESQ: In (500) Days of Summer, did the director ever tell you during the filming, "This is a song that's going to play in the background right now?"
ZD: He did. We pretty much knew what was going to be playing, which was helpful, because you don't always know that. Sometimes music is so specific that it can definitely change how you're going to play something.ESQ: Do you have any tricks of the trade to be a convincing lip-syncer?
ZD: I'm really not sure that I'm that good at it — at lip-synching. I don't think I am.
ESQ: What bands are you excited about currently?
ZD: Do you know the band Lavender Diamond? They're great. They sound like... they're sort of like folk-pop, kind of. Really great. But it's also poppy. It's not just like folk. It was one of my favorite records that came out last year. ESQ: Aside from the Smiths song that you covered for the soundtrack, is there one song that makes you think, "Damn, I wish I wrote that song?"
ZD: Oh my god, there are so many songs I wish I had written. "Waters of March," I wish I had written "My Baby Just Cares for Me," I wish I had written "This Will Be Our Year," I mean, there's millions of them. "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" Source: www.esquire.com
"Sir Ben Kingsley as the villain in Walt Disney Pictures' Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, opening in theaters on May 28, 2010.
In the fantasy adventure based on Ubisoft's popular video game, Jake Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Gemma Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman (Kingsley) from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world. Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell co-star in the Mike Newell-directed film". Source: www.comingsoon.net
New stills from "New Moon". Source: www.newmoonmovie.org
"Robert Pattinson is having an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment. Inside a soundstage where "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is shooting, the lanky English heartthrob stands in front of a tall, wide green screen murmuring a tender admonition, "You promised me nothing reckless."
The team working on this sequel to last year's Catherine Hardwicke-directed "Twilight," which brought in an unexpected $365 million worldwide for Summit Entertainment, is moving quickly to sustain the momentum of the sexy, youth-oriented franchise". Source: www.latimes.com
From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. JOHNNY DEPP stars as the Mad Hatter and MIA WASIKOWSKA as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes ANNE HATHAWAY, HELENA BONHAM CARTER and CRISPIN GLOVER.
Capturing the wonder of Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871) with stunning, avant-garde visuals and the most charismatic characters in literary history, ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™ on March 5, 2010".
