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Monday, January 04, 2010

Zooey, Natalie & Maggie's next films


Zooey Deschanel / Ms Independent videoclip.

Zooey Deschanel in The Book Fahsion by Taschen.New film with Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel, "Your Highness":

Your Highness (October 1st)
Thadeous (McBride) has spent his life watching his perfect older brother Fabious (Franco) embark upon valiant journeys and win the hearts of his people. Tired of being passed over for adventure, adoration and the throne, he's settled for a life of wizard's weed, hard booze and easy maidens. But when Fabious' bride-to-be, Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel), gets kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the king gives his deadbeat son an ultimatum: Man up and help rescue her or get cut off.Joined by Isabel (Natalie Portman)-an elusive warrior with a dangerous agenda of her own-the brothers must vanquish horrific creatures and traitorous knights before they can reach Belladonna. If Thadeous can find his inner hero, he can help his brother prevent the destruction of his land. Stay a slacker, and not only does he die a coward, he gets front row seats to the dawn of an all-new Dark Ages.

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Mrs. Green and Rhys Ifans as Uncle Phil on the set of Universal Pictures' Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (TBA)A sequel to the popular Mary Poppins-esque tale.
In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Oscar®-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she's needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world.
In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she's arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green's children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave.Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons". Source: www.examiner.com

"Brothers" in NPR's Top 13 Films List

1. Summer Hours The premise is simple: A matriarch who inherited the estate and collection of her artist uncle dies, and two of her three children vote to sell it all instead of keeping the house and work in the family. The next hour is mostly about inventory, pricing, discussions of tax deductions, and an auction. But director Olivier Assayas evokes the sadness of the passing of the Old World and its indigenous forms of culture, the rise of globalization, and the weakening of family ties.2. Everlasting Moments Jan Troell's entrancingly beautiful drama centers on a turn-of-the-century woman who finds an old camera in a cabinet and discovers that she has what another character calls "a gift for seeing." Troell uses surfaces — light, texture, faces — to hint at another world, a shadow realm.3. Brothers Jim Sheridan's melancholy drama (with superlative performances by Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Sam Shepard), explores not just the horror of the "war on terror," but the chemistry of families — the connections that shape our actions even when separated from loved ones by continents.4. The Fantastic Mr. Fox In this stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's book, Wes Anderson's ultra-composed frames are magically, mischievously alive.6.A Serious Man A Jewish joke with a sting, Joel and Ethan Coen lampoon traditions and folklore, along with the sanctified notion of moral "seriousness." Underneath, another note creeps in — existential dislocation and dread, and the impossibility of discerning divine motives.10. The Hurt Locker Director Kathryn Bigelow's adrenaline-soaked Iraq film evokes both the charge and the terrifying disorientation of a war in which death can come from any direction at anytime from anyone.12. Where the Wild Things Are With some computer work but largely with live action, Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's wondrous world of giant beasts and bestial little boys to life — with all its rage and longing and even depression intact.
13. Avatar With the help of a brontosaurian budget, James Cameron creates a pantheistic virtual world with such thrilling, vertigo-inducing depth that as you watch you barely notice it's a dumb, guilt-assuaging parable in which Native Americans and their living ecosystem best their capitalist-imperialist invaders". Source: www.npr.org

Sunday, January 03, 2010

New stills of "Inception" & "Shutter Island"

Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Christopher Nolan filming "Inception" in Paris.
New still of Leonardo DiCaprio in "Shutter Island".

“Shutter Island” by director Martin Scorsese (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The Departed) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road, Body of Lies), Mark Ruffalo (Blindness, Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Number 13, The Love Guru), Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen).

Synopsis: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Source: www.shockya.com

Michael Angarano reading "An American Dream"

Michael Angarano and Kirsten Stewart on 1st December 2008.

"Michael Angarano looks too young to buy the cigarettes he smokes. And the 22-year-old actor, star of the recent Gentlemen Broncos, admits it’s not just his fresh face that makes him appear underage.
Mike White and Michael Angarano in "Gentlemen Broncos", September 2009.

“As a kid, I was able to distract myself and not have work take over my life completely,” says Angarano, who found himself splashed across tabloids when he was still dating his ex-girlfriend, actress Kristen Stewart. “If I didn’t have that experience growing up, I don’t know that I would be able to keep work from taking over now.”
Eddie Redmayne, Kristen Stewart and Michael Angarano at Sundance Film Festival Entertainment Weekly 17th Year on 19th January 2008.

“If I wasn’t acting, I’d just be coming out of college,” he says. “I would already have had four years of being on my own, but now I’m kind of just starting.” Anganaro is successfully making the transition from child to adult actor (he’s been working since he was 5, and his résumé includes supporting roles in Almost Famous, Lords of Dogtown and Will & Grace). Michael Angarano as Sid in "Lords of Dogtown" (2005).

In his next film, Ceremony, Angarano plays a young Turk intent on destroying an older crush’s wedding (Uma Thurman plays the object of his desire).
Uma Thurman in "Ange ou Demon, Le Secret de Givenchy".

“It’s a coming-of-age story about a boy realizing he’s a boy,” Angarano says, “Instead of a boy realizing he’s a man.”
-Do you feel like a part of “young Hollywood?”
-I just do what I like doing. And that sounds very arrogant, but in a way it’s all I can do. I have no thoughts about being anything.-But it’s good to be you.
-Of course it is. Acting is like a trade, like any other trade, so when people appreciate it for what it is and understand what you’re doing and what you’re going through, that’s what you do it for. Of course you like being acknowledged but at the same time it means nothing really.
Michael Angarano as William Miller at age 11 in "Almost famous" (2000).

-Can you talk about making the transition from child to adult actor?
-It gets harder as you get older. The roles get harder. Life gets harder as you get older. As a kid I always had distractions, even when I was on set I was always worrying about school. My mind was always very busy. But as an adult when I’m on set it’s all I have to do and when I’m off set that’s also all I have to do. As a kid it’s easy not to have work take over your life completely. And it’s very important to live outside of your career.
-What do you do for fun?
-I like traveling a lot. And I’ve been doing a lot of reading. The second I stopped going to school, I started reading exponentially more. I never read and now I read a lot. I’m reading a book called An American Dream by Norman Mailer and it’s really good. I’ve read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and it changed my life completely. I love those books so much.
-Tell me about Ceremony. -In Ceremony my character is kind of a complete sociopath. The kind of person who really doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings except his own. The plot of the movie is that he tricks and manipulates his best friend into coming on this vacation with him for a weekend. But unknown to his friend, the only reason he wants to go is to break up the wedding of an older woman. The guy is maybe 22 years old, but just by the way he dresses and talks you would think he’s like 35 yeas old. He’s one of those people that, the major elephant in the room is how this person is acting. You feel like if you say something about what they’re doing, how false it is, it would pull the rug out from under them completely. That’s the kind of line that he walks.-Forbidden Kingdom was a success in the box office. Did you think it would be?
-I think a movie like that is really rare, because you know it’s going to be somewhat successful. You know what you’re doing is going to get at least some kind of default profit because of the people involved, like Jackie Chan and Jet Le. You know it’s going to do semi-fairly well. But by no means when I signed on to that movie did I do it because it was going to be a big movie or anything. It was just like anything else; an incredible challenge. Independent movies are character driven and really simple and no special effects, but they can still be so ambitious, with the story they’re trying to tell. But a movie like that, that’s like the most ambitious movie you can make, because you’re really trying to make something people will revere and be surprised and entertained with".
Source: www.blackbookmag.com

Jake wants to go back to College

Jake Gyllenhaal choosing a book at Borders Bookstore with friends, on 4th May 2007 in Hollywood.

"Jake Gyllenhaal is planning to go back to college.
“I dropped out of Columbia University in 2000 after two years of studying Eastern religions and philosophy to concentrate on acting”, The Mirror quoted him, as saying.

He added: “But I have always wanted to finish my degree.”
Source: blog.taragana.com

"Yet here is Joseph Gordon-Levitt — actor, Francophile and recent Columbia University dropout — rhapsodizing on the sacred geometry of the Helix aspersa Müller during lunch at a SoHo brasserie". Source: www.nytimes.com

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Kristen Stewart, listed to play in "Millenium"

A few pictures of Kristen Stewart for starting the New Year.


Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson make Access Hollywood's Top 9 jof 2009 Silver Screen Studs.

"Sony Pictures is negotiating to buy the rights to the series Millennium, and now there is news for the project. In addition to highlighting the star George Clooney as the character Mikael Blomkvist, the actress who will interpret the Lisbeth Salander has no name.
Well, Kristen Stewart, Bella of the Twilight series, is listed to play the hacker in the trilogy Millennium. Kristen, like Clooney, is considered the only option of Sony, which already holds the rights to adapt.

Ellen Page in "Inception" directed by Christopher Nolan.Natalie Portman in "Another" magazine photoshoot.

Also revealed two actresses who would like to interpret the hacker. Ellen Page and Natalie Portman have said they are interested in the role". Source: community.livejournal.com

Leonardo DiCaprio & Bar Refaeli together in Mexico

"Leonardo DiCaprio and Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli couple up again while vacationing together in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on New Year’s Day Friday (January 1).Bar, 24, and Leo, 35, had been an item and called it quits earlier in the year, however, the pair was seen earlier in the week down in Mexico vacationing together". Source: justjared.buzznet.com

Brittany Murphy in 8 Mile


Brittany Murphy talking to Eminem in 8 Mile. She will be badly missed. RIP Brittany