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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Vote for Jamie King!

VOTE for Jamie King for BEST ACTRESS in A HORROR FILM for MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D and BEST FANTASYACTRESS for THE SPIRIT FOR THE SPIKE SCREAM AWARDS and SPREAD THE WORD!!
Source: www.spike.com

Jennifer's Body - Official TV Spot # 1


New 30-second TV spot as seen on MTV of "Jennifer's Body".

Credit to Megan-Fox.net



"Apparently a song was submitted for the soundtrack that was intended to be used for the end credits. Once again in the 1980's vein, it actually contained the title of the film and had been dubbed the JENNIFER'S BODY "Anthem". After being well-received by the filmmakers, ultimately FOX decided to assign total control of the soundtrack to Fueled by Ramen and the song ended up as a lost submission. After speaking with a friend of mine that does quite a bit of work in the television side of things in Vancouver, she told me that the song had definitely been making the rounds and that word on the street was a local band called THE MYSTERY SCHOOL was the source of the track". Source: fangoria.com

Natalie Portman buys castle home

"Natalie Portman just purchased this “rustic castle-like” historic estate in an exclusive, secluded enclave of LA, reports In Touch. “Natalie wanted a property that had character and integrity, something that was special,” says Richard Stanley, a Coldwell Banker real estate agent in LA who specializes in architectural and historic properties.“This house is perfect for her,” he says of the gorgeous 1930s-era home that the 28-year-old actress paid more than $3 million for. “It’s a beautiful home and truly is something special. It’s the trophy home of the neighborhood.”It has four bedrooms and a private courtyard. It also includes two guest houses, perfect for visiting friends from back East, as well as her parents — her father, Avner, a fertility doctor, and her mother (and former agent), Shelley, to whom she credits much of her success. “If my career stops, if I do badly in a role or if one of my movies is a total failure, I know I’ll still have my parents. It helps me not to be afraid and to take risks,” Natalie says".Natalie’s decision to leave her family, sell her trendy Manhattan condo (it fetched nearly $7 million last November) and move to LA surprised her friends. But for the actress and Harvard grad, the timing is perfect, as she’s now ready to take on Hollywood. She’s started a filmmaker-friendly web site, makingof.com, and has launched an LA-based production company named after her dog, Handsomecharlie Films. Plus, she’s set to play the female lead in "Thor". Source: justjared.buzznet.com

Jake Gyllenhaal bike riding in Malibu, on 4th July 2006.Natalie Portman, an elegant bicyclist.

Let's re-read another excerpt from "Interview" magazine with that blaring chit-chat between Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman (talking about cities and environment, observatories...):
PORTMAN: "Well, right now, I’m very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization—like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture—what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. I actually felt like I was in a time machine last week when I went with Jay-Z to the Laserium in Los Angeles (click here to learn more about the Laserium). Have you been there?

GYLLENHAAL: Is that the laser show that was at the Griffith Observatory?

PORTMAN: There’s a new one now at Hollywood and Vine. I think it’s the one that was at the observatory and it moved down there. But, dude, watching this display is like you’re in the ’70s. There were all these lasers, and out of the lasers, this man emerged with a noose. The lights were just going up and down, and side to side . . . It was like a Zeppelin show. You could just see how these lasers were once the peak of technology and why everyone was so stoked about them".
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant at Fantastic Festival



"Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" has just been added to the lineup for Fantastic Fest, September 24 - October 1 in Austin, Texas".
Source: www.pronetworks.org

Release Date: October 23, 2009
Starring: John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Ray Stevenson, Patrick Fugit, Orlando Jones, Willem Dafoe, Salma Hayek
Plot Summary: "Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend Steve (Josh Hutcherson), got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That's the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty.

Monday, September 07, 2009

Maggie feels sorry for Jake's stalking

"Maggie Gyllenhaal "feels sorry" for her brother.The 'Dark Knight' actress is saddened her younger sibling Jake Gyllenhaal is constantly followed by paparazzi and admits his celebrity lifestyle has changed him as a person.
She said: "Of course, everybody does change as they grow up, but I think it's really hard for anybody who has to figure out a way to manage it. Like in Los Angeles, I don't always know where to avoid going - sometimes you just walk right into a paparazzi nest.
"I get so angry, really upset. They chase him in their car and it's just different for him. More than anything I feel sorry for him that he has to deal with that."
Maggie, 31, and her family - actor husband Peter Sarsgaard and their two-year-old daughter Ramona - split their time between America and Britain to avoid the intrusion into their private lives.
She explained to Britain's Marie Claire magazine: "When Ramona was born, it was bad. We were living in the West Village in New York, where all the paparazzi are, and it got frenzied."They never bother us in London. We were at Wimbledon, walking around with sausages and champagne, and we thought, 'We are so lucky we can do that - I don't want to give it up".
Source: www.contactmusic.com

The next Meryl Streep?

Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep on the Spanish poster of "Rendition"/"Expedient Anwar".

"But it seems a good time to ponder who might be the next Meryl Streep, as the season features a number of leading roles for up-and-coming young women. Some names are familiar; some less so; all have the potential to make a Streep-like impact.
Emily Blunt
I first noticed this young British actress in "My Summer of Love" four years ago and she was mesmerizing, playing a cool, glamorous teenager sophisticated beyond her years — sometimes. And then I saw Blunt doing a note-perfect comic turn opposite Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada," holding her own as an eye-rolling assistant, and I didn't recognize her. And I saw her in "The Jane Austen Book Club", "Dan in Real Life," "Charlie Wilson's War" — ditto. Like Streep, she disappears into her roles, changing her voice, her carriage, her presence. (She seems taller in some movies than others; the mark of a true chameleon.) This fall, she'll star in "The Young Victoria" (opening Nov. 13), playing the British queen in the early years of her reign.

Abbie Cornish
"A Good Year", the inheriting-a-vineyard-in-France Russell Crowe vehicle from a few years back, is looking more interesting by the day. Appearing in it as Crowe's love interest was a then little-known French actress, Marion "La Vie en Rose" Cotillard. And, in a featured role, was an even-lesser-known young Australian named Abbie Cornish. She's since turned up in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and doing a soft Texas accent in Kimberly Peirce's "Stop-Loss", making an underwritten character into something warm and urgent. Her breakthrough role comes this season, as Fanny Brawne in Jane Campion's "Bright Star" opening Sept. 18. Brawne was the young neighbor of the poet John Keats and fell in love with him, despite opposition to their relationship. In a quietly lyrical performance, she shines — yes, like a star.

Carey Mulligan
I know — you're asking "Who?" Soon, you won't be asking. But trust me, you've seen this Brit before: Mulligan was a young Bennet sister alongside Keira Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice" and has a small role in "Public Enemies". But she'll make her name with the upcoming "An Education" (opening in November), as a teenage girl in '60s London growing up a little too fast. Though 23, Mulligan effortlessly becomes 16 on the screen, in that one-minute-mature, one-minute-giggly way of all 16-year-olds. She'll make you think of Audrey Hepburn — and she'll make you think you've seen someone completely new. Remember this name.

Ellen Page
She's the only name on this list who already has an Oscar nomination next to it — for her sweetly sardonic work in "Juno." Like Kristen Stewart and Zooey Deschanel, Page's performances tend toward a coolly quirky deadpan, but there were moments in "Juno" and "Hard Candy" where her composure broke just a bit, letting us see the vulnerable character within. Talented, poised and just 22, Page seems ready to challenge herself — if her signing on for the title role of a big-screen BBC production of "Jane Eyre" last year is any indication. This fall, we'll see her falling in love with roller derby in Drew Barrymore's "Whip It" (Oct. 2).

Amanda Seyfried
You want versatility? Just look at three roles for this ethereal-looking blonde: "Mean Girls" in which Seyfried delivers a masterful comic performance as a dimwit; TV's "Big Love" hauntingly uncertain as the teen daughter in a polygamist family, feeling her way into adulthood; and a sweetly natural singing ingénue in "Mamma Mia!" — Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried, at "Mamma Mia!" premiere afterparty, Central Park Boathouse on July 16, 2008, New York.

playing, let us note, Streep's daughter. This fall she's tackling horror in "Jennifer's Body" (Sept. 18) — written by Diablo Cody, whose "Juno" made a star of Page — and drama in the title role of Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" (no release date yet set).

Audrey TautouBetter known than many others mentioned here, this Frenchwoman (whose looks inspire comparison to another famous Audrey) has been quietly amassing some impressive credits since charming moviegoers in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's enchantingly quirky "Amélie." She's done a romantic comedy ("Priceless"), a crime thriller ("Dirty Pretty Things"), a big Hollywood blockbuster ("The Da Vinci Code"), a historical drama ("A Very Long Engagement"), each time with conviction and skill. So why do we still think of her only as the doe-eyed, love-struck Amélie of eight years ago? Perhaps soon we'll think of her as Chanel: She stars this fall in "Coco Before Chanel" (opening in October), a tale of the great French fashion designer's early years". Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Overcoming fakeness with melodics

Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore: SONIC YOUTH.

Sonic Youth and Wilco are two of my favourite indie rock bands, I own practically all their existent discography, and I've had the immense luck of having contacted some of their members in the past. I had sent Sonic Youth's former fanclub Sonic Death a letter, rambling poetry and a few drawings of mine made with Manleys.
Lee Ranaldo sent me a postcard from Italy, with a graffiti design writing me on it: "I hope you have a great life". Glups!


Sonic Youth - "Bull in the Heather"
Album "Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star"


Actual Wilco formation: Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline, Jeff Tweedy, Pat Sansone and John Sirratt.

I've seen Wilco live twice in Spain, Zaragoza, (Sala Oasis), in 2005 and 2007. Jeff Tweedy sort of winked at me. I've been an user in Wilco Message Board Via Chicago, Jeff Tweedy's wife Sue Miller is registered there and posts from time to time and thanked me for my videos of Youtube I've made using some of Wilco's tunes as soundtrack.

As examples: "Wristcutters" video, Patrick Fugit video, Nora Zehetner (A Princess featuring "My darling"), Michael Cera -"I'm always in love", Emile Hirsch ("Alone"), "California stars" video, Lately, that's impossible since Youtube doesn't allow me using Wilco's songs anymore. Ironic, since Jeff Tweedy is a known spokesman for peer to peer music sharing and internet free downloading.
Anyway, Jeff has been one of my most laid-back crushes, and I loved him so much in Sam Jones' documentary "I'm trying to break your heart" (2002).

Sam Jones says of "Sunken Treasure" verses in the DVD booklet: "I'm not ashamed of rock & roll"... "Tweedy told me about how he ended up with those lines: "In the end, that was the punch line: the music is important".


Tribute to Jay Bennett. Jay Walter Bennett (November 15, 1963 - May 24, 2009) was an American guitarist, multiinstrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Wilco. On May 24, 2009 Bennett died unexpectedly in his sleep. Note from Weirdland: My favourite Wilco album is "Summerteeth", and Bennett's contribution in it was notable in its intoxicating sound.Sparklehorse is other of my fetish indie groups, and I included some of their most memorable tunes in my cherised homages to Kirsten Dunst ("Sunshine"), Michael Cera collage ("Sick of goodbyes", "Sad and beautiful world"), Michael Cera ("Comfort me"), Emile Hirsch ("Gold day") in youtube. Sparklehorse sent me via Myspace a message: "thank you for your support".
I worship Mark Linkous!


Nikki Reed attending a concert of her friends The Dills.
Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale in "New Moon".
"The M&Ms in her hand drop to the floor like marbles, her soft face crumples and she starts to cry. 'I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.'
Nikki Reed with her best friend Kristen Stewart, they love "not in a weird way" each other.

'With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them', Reed says".
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Sean Penn & Robin Wright's home on sell

"Hollywood couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have put their San Francisco-area home on the market for $15 million.The house is in the small Marin County town of Ross, about 18 miles north of San Francisco. The Penns bought the 2.2-acre property in 1996 for $2.1 million and spent more than two years rebuilding the 1933 Spanish-style house, says Coldwell Banker broker John McGeough, who has the listing". Source: www.sanfranciscosentinel.com