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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Twilight's chemistry and fanatical fans

"There’s a natural chemistry going on with Kristen. Even doing this sequel, it’s so easy…""He’s always talking in the first one. “I need to make the right decision. I need to do stuff for you, for you, for you.” And he makes a decisive move, which is to leave her, and he completely believes it’s for her own good.But in his heart, he obviously realises it’s completely wrong. And it takes him the whole movie to realise the profundity of his mistake. So that’s what his arc is.
The world forces him to realise he needs to be with Bella, and there’s no way around it".

The Twilight fans are like… I don’t even think ‘devoted’ is the right word. They’re fanatical"."I don’t really care. Everybody in my life knows what’s real and what isn’t. Apart from my mother, who seems to believe every negative thing that’s written about me! Source: www.totalfilm.com

Happy 27th Birthday: Patrick Fugit!


Patrick Fugit as Evra the snake boy in "No parents" clip from "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" (2009).

Patrick Fugit as Corey in "Horsemen" (2009).Patrick Fugit and Shannyn Sossamon as Zia and Mikal in "Wristcutters: A Love Story" (2006).Shannyn Sossamon, Patrick Fugit and Leslie Bibb at "Wristcutters" Hollywood premiere on 9th October 2007.

Patrick Fugit and Olivia Wilde in bed together in "Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas" (2006).Emile Hirsch and Olivia Wilde as Johnny and Angela in Glen Capri motel's bed in "Alpha Dog" (2006).

Alison Lohman and Patrick Fugit as Astrid Magnussen and Paul Trout in "White Oleander" (2002).
Patrick Fugit with Jena Malone in "Saved" (2004).

-Mary (Jena Malone): Well, thank you for the ride, Patrick.

-Patrick (Patrick Fugit): Any time. Do you wanna go out sometime?

-Mary: What--are you gonna take me out on your scooter?

-Patrick: Come on. I'm, like, totally adorable.

Jena Malone and Jake Gyllenhaal as Gretchen and Donnie in "Donnie Darko" (2001).-Donnie: Well look, um... uh... you wanna go with me?
-Gretchen: Where do you wanna go?
-Donnie: No, I mean like go with me, like you know... like, that's what we call it here... going together...
-Gretchen: Sure

Twilight Cast talks between takes video


The cast of "New Moon" talks about the best way to pass time hanging out in Vancouver.



MTV: What was your favorite “New Moon” scene to shoot?
Ashley Greene: Of course, the Porsche was incredible, the whole experience of filming [that scene]. Working with Michael Sheen, it was just really funny how he created this whole atmosphere out of the scene and could switch it up. Everything that he did was a little bit inspired, and so the whole Volturi scene with him was really fun to do. [I also love] the whole Cullen scene, when Bella gets a paper cut and Jasper goes crazy — you haven’t seen that side of him yet. The performances are great, and the whole dynamic is really great. That was one of my favorite scenes to watch.

MTV: You guys have become such good friends and have so much downtime between takes. What sort of things do you talk about when the cameras aren’t rolling?Greene: Between takes? Gosh, everything. YouTube was a big topic of conversation; we were sharing YouTube videos. Which was kinda funny, because [we’d be filming a] really intense situation, and then they would yell, “Cut!” and we would have 20 minutes and we’d break out “Kittens Inspired by Kittens.” It’s this little girl reading a kittens book. [Laughs.]
Source: twilightersanonymous.com

Richard Kelly - Going back to Virigina suburbs in The Box

"At the beginning of Richard Kelly’s new film, “The Box” a mysterious parcel is delivered to a suburban family’s doorstep. Inside is a device with a button, which Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) soon learn will earn them $1 million if pressed. It will also cause the death of someone they don’t know.Mr. Kelly, a University of Southern California film school graduate, earned cult status with his first feature, “Donnie Darko”, a 2001 psychodrama about a sleepwalking teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal, then unknown) who receives messages of the pending apocalypse from a man in a giant bunny suit. In person Mr. Kelly comes across like a former fraternity guy, his torn jeans and gelled hair complementing a T-shirt that reveals an obsessive weightlifter. “My dream is to be able to have thought-recognition software that, as I’m exercising, will just write the script,” he said.
His Twitter feed (with more than 5,000 followers) has revealed his love of University of Southern California football, beer pong and the Coen brothers’ movie “A Serious Man.” (“Oy vey! This goy is beyond smitten!” he tweeted.)

Everyone interviewed for this article mentioned the dissonance within Mr. Kelly.
“A contradiction would imply something that would be understood”, Mr. Gyllenhaal said, “two things that would be a yin and a yang. He’s not that.” Mr. Gyllenhaal then took a moment to formulate an accurate description. “I sometimes feel like he’s out of the mind of John Hughes. He’s like the missing character in ‘The Breakfast Club’.
Though “The Box” is intended to be a crowd-drawing thriller, it returns Mr. Kelly to the setting and some of the themes found in “Donnie Darko”: Both are set in upper-middle-class Virginia suburbs (Mr. Kelly grew up in Newport News and Richmond) and pose questions through tales of a traditional family in an unusual circumstance. “The suburbs are emblematic of the life we pretend to enjoy”, he said. “All those houses that look like a gigantic machine just squirted them out. Obviously some people do enjoy that life, others do not, but they all try to pretend to.”“I decided to take this gift of a short story and make it about people I care about and respect,” he said. “I’m not interested in telling a story about a couple of selfish jerks who push a button.”“Richard has really commercial taste,” said the producer of “The Box” Dan Lin, a former production executive at Warner Brothers, which has a tradition of making mainstream movies with artistic directors, like Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Oceans Eleven” series. “He can elevate the material without selling out. He still has his own style.”Getting the go-ahead for the movie was helped along immensely by Ms. Diaz, the star of “What Happens in Vegas” and “In Her Shoes”, among others, agreeing to sign on. A close friend of Drew Barrymore, who produced and had a supporting role in “Donnie Darko”, Ms. Diaz was dating Justin Timberlake while he was shooting “Southland Tales,” so she was familiar with Mr. Kelly’s work. “I loved ‘Donnie Darko,’ ” she said. “Richard is an artist; he has such huge ideas.”
And having Ms. Diaz on board helped ground Mr. Kelly. “Cameron would police me,” he recalled. “She would say, ‘Richard, now you need to keep this focused, you need to explain this because this logic doesn’t work.’ Mr. Gyllenhaal has his own take on Mr. Kelly’s willingness to work inside the studio system. “I think what Richard’s saying is, ‘I kind of have to wake up every once in a while, live in reality and not just explore my dreams.’

“I’m amazed by Richard’s courage by how he really believes in something and even when he’s doing something for the studio, he can’t do something not from who he is.”
“I would like to stay in the studio business,” he said, naming Christopher Nolan, who’s moved from “Memento” to “The Dark Knight” as a model. “Because having to depend upon a film festival and trying to get a distributor, having acquisition executives hem and haw over this and that — I’ve done it, it’s scary and I just don’t want to do it anymore.” Source: www.nytimes.com

Monday, October 26, 2009

Matilda Ledger's first school day

Michelle Williams and her daughter Matilda, who turns 4 on Wednesday, were spotted arriving at JFK airport in New York City on Saturday (October 24). Source: celebritybabyscoop.com

Michelle Williams and her daughter Matilda Ledger before taking a flight at LAX airport, on 23rd October 2009. Pictures by celebrity-gossip.net

"And dating with a kid? "I obviously don't know how to do it." But she's not complaining. "I'm falling more and more in love with her," she says of Matilda, "and I think she deserves the bulk of my attention. We're lucky. I can work. She can go to a good school. There's a lot there for her. And she can know her dad in so many ways, and so many of his friends who will be able to tell her so many stories. His friends, his family—they were a big part of his life, and they will be a big part of her life". Source: abcnews.go.com

Michelle Williams still misses Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams Showbiz Report video

Kristen Stewart (Into the Wild/New Moon) video


A musical video dedicated to Kristen Stewart featuring stills from "Into The Wild" with Emile Hirsch and from "Twilight" and "New Moon" with Robert Pattinson.
Song "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan.


"Not Dark Yet" lyrics:

"Shadows are falling and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

Well, I've been to London and I've been to gay Paree
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there

I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there".


Copyright ©1997 Special Rider Music

Emile Hirsch - Enough Project LA screening

Emile Hirsch, actress Sonya Walger and John Prendergast, co-founder of Enough Project, attend the Hollywood Film Festival's screening of "End Violence Against Women in Congo Symposium" at the ArcLight Cinemas on 24th October, 2009 in Los Angeles.

"The Hollywood Film Festival along with The Enough Project, will host a human rights symposium on October 24th at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, CA to address the issue of violence against women in Congo. Some of the talent present will include Emile Hirsch and Sonya Walger (Lost, Flash Forward)".
Source: screencrave.com