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Jon Ronson Talks Goats, Frank, McKinnon and Them
1 hour ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
A few weeks ago HeyUGuys spoke with Jon Ronson, author of the book The Men Who Stare at Goats, which was the basis for the recently released film of the same name.
Our conversation started with a discussion of Let The Right One In. Ronson had met Thomas Alfredson the night before, and was understandably excited. As it turns out, Let The Right One In is Ronson’s favourite film.
After our initial geek-off, which also led to the revelation that Ronson had disliked 500 Days of Summer so much that he walked out, we got onto the subject of Men Who Stare at Goats.
There are a number of events in the in the film that weren’t in the book. While explaining how these came about, Ronson also gave an insight into the adaptation process.
“Peter [Straughan, the screenwriter] deliberately distanced himself from me while he was writing it. Just took whatever »
- Ben Mortimer
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
'The Men Who Stare at Goats' Soundtrack and Poster Contest!
19 hours ago | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
For all of you George Clooney fans, enter here to win a copy of the The Men Who Stare at Goats original motion picture soundtrack and poster, courtesy of Abkco Records. The CD for the Overture Films movie starring Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey, features music composed by Rolfe Kent. How to enter? All you have to do is post a comment to this blog post [one comment per entrant, please] with your answer to the following question - who is your favorite character in the movie, Clooney, Bridges, McGregor, Spacey or the Goat, and why? Enter one comment from now until end of day on November 20th, 2009, and then we'll randomly select the ten winners, and send you all the goods!
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'A Christmas Carol' Defeats 'This Is It' At Box Office
9 November 2009 7:01 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Michael Jackson documentary moonwalks into second place behind big-budget retelling of classic Christmas story.
By Josh Wigler
Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey) in "A Christmas Carol"
Photo: Disney
Box-Office Top Five
#1 "A Christmas Carol" ($31 million)
#2 "Michael Jackson's This Is It" ($14 million)
#3 "The Men Who Stare at Goats" ($13.3 million)
#4 "The Fourth Kind" ($12.5 million)
#5 "Paranormal Activity" ($8.6 million)
Despite the first-place finish of Robert Zemeckis's 3-D representation of "A Christmas Carol," yuletide cheer seemed halfhearted at the weekend box office. Given Jim Carrey's star power, the movie's $200 million budget and the potential family-crowd draw, the $31 million debut from "A Christmas Carol" is a disappointing result for the Disney version of the Charles Dickens classic.
Second place went to "Michael Jackson's This Is It," which earned less than half as much as the first-place finisher. Winding down Friday evening in fourth place, "This Is It" wound up in the #2 slot thanks »
The Men Who Stare At Goats
8 November 2009 6:29 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Grant Heslov
Cast: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey
Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Plot: While searching for a good story in Iraq, Bob (McGregor), a reporter from Michigan, learns about an era in the United States Army’s history that’s stranger than fiction. His guide is Lyn Cassidy (Clooney), an expert “psychic spy” who has to the ability to burst clouds with only his mind. Cassidy guides Bob through a legacy about group of “warrior monks” called the New Earth Army as led by Phil Django (Bridges) and later Larry Hooper (Spacey).
Who’S It For? A silly film for the slightly mature audiences who can appreciate a wacky scenario in what is usually such a serious environment.
Expectations: With Grant Heslov and George Clooney working together on this project, I expected this to »
- Nick Allen
Box Office Beat Down: Disney's a Christmas Carol Celebrates the Holidays Early with $31 Million
8 November 2009 1:55 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Weekend Box Office
1) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $31 million
2) Michael Jackson's This Is It - $14 million
3) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $13.3 million
4) The Fourth Kind - $12.5 million
5) Paranormal Activity - $8.6 million
6) The Box - $7.8 million
7) Couples Retreat - $6.4 million
8) Law Abiding Citizen - $6.1 million
9) Where the Wild Things Are - $4.2 million
10) Astro Boy - $2.5 million
Robert Zemekis' 3D performance capture retelling of the classic Charles Dickens' story, Disney's a Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carey as the immortal villain Scrooge took the top spot this weekend in it's first week of release grossing an estimated $31 million at the box office. The film, which cost an estimated $200 million to make, was released on 3,683 screens for an average of $8,417 per screen. While last weeks number one film, Michael Jackson's This Is It, fell nearly 40% earning an additional $14 million this week in the box office. Playing on an estimated 3,481 screens, the »
What's Left in 2009?
8 November 2009 1:48 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Look out! A lazy Sunday afternoon post hurtling at'cha. I was looking for an excuse to post the A Single Man poster. It's just the first still released blown up but what a still it is!
That's not really deserving of an entire post all its own so herewith, stealing an idea from my buddy Nick how about... My 20 Most Anticipated Year End Movies in descending order of how impatient I am to see them (links to trailers). I've already seen Broken Embraces, The White Ribbon, The Last Station, Dr. Parnassus and Red Cliff or they would have made the list.
Give Me Now
Nine -because... duh. Duh times 99!
A Single Man -the trailer screams beauty and I'm always ready for Julianne Moore in dramas
Avatar -James Cameron LoyalistCrazy Heart -Jeff Bridges Loyalist
Up in the Air -Clooney + two actresses I like = yes. Plus, I liked Juno a »
- NATHANIEL R
Weekend Box Office - Disney’S A Christmas Carol Takes $31 Million; Precious Boasts Biggest Limited Release Opening of All Time
8 November 2009 11:21 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
You know it’s the end of the year when there are more new releases per week than any one person could reasonably care about. Or maybe I should just speak for myself. The first full weekend of November featured four new wide releases all boasting some major star power: “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” with Jim Carrey (times four), “The Box” with Cameron Diaz, “The Fourth Kind” with Milla Jovovich and “The Men Who Stare at Goats” with George Clooney. And though no one film can be said to be a total washout this weekend, the A-listers fell short compared to the stunningly successful debut of Lee Daniels’ “Precious”. The indie sensation opened in just 18 theatres, taking in an estimated $100,000 per screen to make it the most-lucrative limited release of all-time.
Title Weekend Total 1 Disney’s A Christmas Carol $31,000,000 $31 2 This Is It $14,000,000 $57.8 3 The Men Who Stare at Goats $13,309,000 $13.3 4 The Fourth Kind »
- Nicole Pedersen
Good Morning, Oscar: November 8
8 November 2009 8:10 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
In this weekend’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, France comes on strong, “A Christmas Carol” divides the critics, and biopics both good and bad are scrutinized.
Anne Thompson and Kris Tapley spend their weekly podcast approving of the choice of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, lauding Jeff Bridges and “Crazy Heart,” and looking at the potential animated-feature nominees. Kris loves “Disney’s A Christmas Carol.” Anne, who hasn’t seen it, is skeptical. (In Contention) (Thompson on Holly... »
- Steve Pond
A Christmas Carol sings in $31 million opening. Precious most impressive with a massive per-theatre average.
8 November 2009 7:14 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "A Christmas Carol" topped the box office charts with a strong $31 million estimate from 3,683 venues. The Robert Zemeckis-directed animated family adventure featuring the voice talents of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Robin Wright Penn, averaged $8,417 per theatre. Just in IMAX theatres alone, pic earned $4.5 million or 14.5% of thr weekend tally. Second placed Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" continued well in its sophomore weekend with around $14 million grossed. Sony Pictures-distributed film now easily covers the amount of $60 million paid for the film with a global gross of $186.4 million. In third, Overture Films' oddball flick "The Men Who Stare At Goats" finished about $13.3 million. Comedy starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey opened in 2,443 locations at an average of 5,448 per theatre. »
Review: ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’
7 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
“More of this is true than you’d believe” –opening credits for The Men Who Stare At Goats. Irreverent, sarcastic, and funny as hell, The Men Who Stare At Goats is based on a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson. Ronson is a journalist who stumbled upon a secret military group that was formed in 1979 specifically to harness paranormal and psychic powers to use in warfare. The men in this group were training to become “psychic warriors” who could walk through walls, read thoughts, and kill someone just by staring at them.
Ewan McGregor plays Ronson in the movie. His wife has just left him (for his one-armed boss), and he has no sense of purpose. He goes to interview a man who claims that he used to be in a psychic military unit. His story is so crazy that Ronson writes him off as being a kook. He decides to »
- Shannon Hood
Movie Reviews: “The Men Who Stare At Goats”
6 November 2009 10:23 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
We get more paranormal activity this week in The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Stephen Lang about a reporter's efforts to reveal the story of an Army unit (supposedly real) seeking to harness the parapsychology for the benefit of the U.S. The movie, writes Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "has a glorious good time satirizing the extravagant lengths to which the military and intelligence establishments will go if they think there's a payoff at the other end." That's especially true in the case of Clooney, several critics observe. Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel, for example, observes that "'Wacky' isn't George Clooney's strong suit as an actor. But it's always at least amusing to watch the suave, silky leading man let his freak flag fly." In the San Francisco Chronicle Mick Lasalle writes that the movie shows just how far Clooney has come in his acting ability, "building a screen identity that's as specific and engaging as that of any classic film star. Like a James Stewart or a John Wayne, Clooney represents something just standing there - integrity, shrewdness, irony and self-deprecation. Or, to put it simply, today's American man." But Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times writes that although the movie may have initially been conceived as a showcase for Clooney, "more or less stealing the picture from Clooney is Jeff Bridges, an actor you can never see often enough." »
The Men Who Stare At Goats Review
6 November 2009 6:52 PM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Seven out of ten times, I’m going to come out enjoying a film that operates on its own terms. It’s the first and best thing I can say about Michael Mann, which just adds to my fanboy nature when it comes to his work. As a more recent example, the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man just acts as its own entity from beginning to end, and never makes any apologies for it. While not as brilliant or as great as that picture, The Men Who Stare at Goats is that kid we all knew in high school. You’re not really sure who he is or what he’s about, but you know that when you spend time with him, you’re going to be entertained.
So why won’t this appeal to the masses? Very simply because of the script, which goes off the rails midway through the picture. »
- Philip Barrett
Kurt Loder Reviews 'The Men Who Stare At Goats'
6 November 2009 12:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: What went wrong with this movie? The subject — the U.S. military's apparently actual flirtation with paranormal warfare — has rich comic promise. And the cast — George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges — couldn't be much stronger. But while the trailer for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" suggests a quirky, Coen-esque romp, the picture itself lacks the Coen brothers' sardonic intelligence and deft pacing. It wanders and wilts and very quickly falls apart.
The story begins in 2003, with aspiring combat reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) waiting in Kuwait for clearance to cross over into Iraq. Biding his time, he encounters Lyn Cassady (Clooney), a man with a strange tale to tell. Cassady says he's a "Jedi warrior" (wink, wink) in the New Earth Army, a sub-rosa military unit dedicated to psychic battle strategies — mind-reading, "remote viewing," the whole new-age imaginarium. He says he's been reactivated to locate »
- Kurt Loder
Movie Review: “The Men Who Stare at Goats”
6 November 2009 11:38 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: November 5, 2009
The players: Director: Grant Heslov, Writer: Peter Straughan, Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Rebecca Mader, Stephen Lang
Facts of interest: Inspired by Jon Ronson's book.
The plot: A journalist may finally find his big story when meets a man who claims he is a psychic soldier with paranormal powers.
Our thoughts: Grant Heslov’s “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is a bizarre little film, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it’s as funny as it’s awkward, and that’s certainly a good thing. This light comedy may not be very meaningful, but it’s filled with a solid dose of witty moments and a bunch of excellent acting performances. »
- Franck Tabouring
The Reject Report Sings a Christmas Carol, Stares At Goats
6 November 2009 9:51 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Welcome to another Reject Report! As you can tell it's November, Halloween is now over and Christmas is right around the corner. How do we know this? Because the Christmas movies have started with A Christmas Carol. We also have the horror flick The Box, the thriller The Fourth Kind, and the Oscar season movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. So let's get on with it. We start this week with The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Robert Patrick . It's freaky stuff about a journalist who ends up going to Iraq and meeting up with this former member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battallion, a military unit that uses psychic and paramilitary powers in their missions. This flick rolled out to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and I expect it to do good business over a number of »
- John Cairns
The Hollywood Links - 11/6/09
6 November 2009 9:27 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Bridges and Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart, above.)
- Some very valid questions about why the hell Robert Zemeckis keeps making these motion-capture films. At Hollywood-Elsewhere.
- Interesting thoughts from David Poland on Precious. At The Hot Blog.
- Drew McWeeny takes on the "Best Worst Movie," of all time, aka Troll 2. At HitFix.
- Kristopher Tapley gives major kudos to Crazy Heart and the performances of both Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the same. At In Contention. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Men Who Stare at Goats, The | Review
6 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Grant Heslov Writer(s): Jon Ronson (book), Peter Straughan(screenplay) Starring: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is a small-time newspaper reporter from Ann Arbor, Michigan. When Bob finds out that his wife Debora (Rebecca Mader) plans to leave him for his editor, he decides that he needs to prove his manhood – and what better place to prove your manhood than Iraq in the mid-aughts. But when Bob finds himself stranded in Kuwait, with no valid excuse to cross the border, he meets a guy by the name of Lyn Cassady (George Clooney). Bob recognizes Lyn’s name from an interview he did earlier in his career with a seemingly self-proclaimed psychic spy, Gus Lacey (Stephen Root). Bob realizes that it is his destiny to learn more about Lyn – who Gus previously cited as one of the foremost psychic spies. Next thing we know, »
- Don Simpson
'The Men Who Stare At Goats': Destination Nowhere, By Kurt Loder
6 November 2009 7:57 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
George Clooney bogged down on an impossible mission.
George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare At Goats"
Photo: Overture Films
What went wrong with this movie? The subject — the U.S. military's apparently actual flirtation with paranormal warfare — has rich comic promise. And the cast — George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges — couldn't be much stronger. But while the trailer for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" suggests a quirky, Coen-esque romp, the picture itself lacks the Coen brothers' sardonic intelligence and deft pacing. It wanders and wilts and very quickly falls apart.
The story begins in 2003, with aspiring combat reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) waiting in Kuwait for clearance to cross over into Iraq. Biding his time, he encounters Lyn Cassady (Clooney), a man with a strange tale to tell. Cassady says he's a "Jedi warrior" (wink, wink) in the New Earth Army, a sub-rosa military unit dedicated to psychic battle strategies — mind-reading, »
Jeff Bridges Entering The Oscar Race With Crazy Heart
6 November 2009 6:34 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Just when it was looking like Fox Searchlight wouldn't be a major part of the Oscar season at all, in comes The Dude to save them. The studio has decided to release the Jeff Bridges vehicle Crazy Heart on December 16, just a few days after screening it for a handful of journalists in Los Angeles, almost all of whom immediately declared Bridges' role "this year's Oscar-winning lead actor turn." Below is the press release that Fox sent out yesterday, which tells you everything you need to know about the movie that's being described as "a country music Wrestler." Regardless of how good the movie is, or even if Bridges' performance doesn't turn out to be better than some of the others this year, there is this fact: Jeff Bridges has never won an Oscar. Maybe this is finally the year we can fix that heinous oversight. Four-time Academy Award® nominee »
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