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Jason Schwartzman Exclusive Interview Fantastic Mr. Fox
1 hour ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
I absolutely loved director Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The film is his first foray into stop-motion animation and it’s like he brought the genre to him rather than attempting to adapt to the genre. Trust me; if you’re a fan of his previous work like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you’re going to love this movie.
As most of you know, Fantastic Mr. Fox is based on the best-selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach) and it features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson. But unlike some animated movies that cast famous actors to help sell tickets, everyone who provides a voice is perfect in this film. Again, this is a great movie »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made it to a Theatre Near You – For Better or Worse
29 October 2009 3:33 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made it to a Theatre Near You – For Better or Worse David S. Cohen, HarperCollins 2008. From the onset, Screen Plays looks like promising reading material for screenwriters and others interested in how screenplays make it from paper to screen. Cohen’s credits are respectable, and the promise of “valuable insider access to the back lots and board rooms” is tantalizing. The book covers some pretty good ground: from blockbusters such as Gladiator, to Indiewood hits such as Lost in Translation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to more controversial films such as Happiness and A Dirty Shame, it picks up a decent selection of interesting films that appeal to a broad demographic. In other words, he knows what he’s doing. Screen Plays is easy to navigate, and offers juicy little tidbits from the mouths of actors, directors, and screenwriters. The writing is simple and concise, »
- Ricky
Nicholas Cage's Father Dies of Heart Attack
29 October 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news »
Sad news to report in Hollywood today. Nicolas Cage’s father August Coppola has died of a heart attack at age 75. Cage’s rep Annett Wolf released the news, saying that he passed on Tuesday. Coppola was a literature professor and served as dean of creative arts at San Francisco State University. Besides Cage, Coppola is survived by sons Christopher and Marc, and three grandchildren. According to Popeater, Nicholas Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire and the cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, late film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola and... »
Elegantly Bubbly
26 October 2009 1:01 AM, PDT | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »
It should not be surprising that a famous Hollywood star is the face of a luxury brand. They seem to have their face on everything these days, from watches to designer clothing and even European cars. But when quintessential champagne house, Möet & Chandon, for the first time in champagne marketing history elects to use a famous actress to be their ambassador, and that celebrity happens to be Scarlett Johansson, it is a beautiful amalgamation befitting the hype. Since her springboard to worldwide fame with Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation, Johansson has been delighting audiences with a range of roles encompassing gritty dramas, period features and mainstream romantic comedies (A Love Song For Bobby Long, The Other Boleyn Girl, He's Just Not That Into You), and in recent times has been the muse of Woody Allen (Match Point, Scoop, Vicky Cristina Barcelona). »
Johansson Sparkles At Champagne Sponsored Film Event In Tokyo
21 October 2009 7:59 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Actress Scarlett Johansson has put her bubbly personality to good use.
The young actress was the guest of honor for champagne producers Moët & Chandon's Monday gala "Tribute to Cinema." Johansson took on the guise of the Moet Muse at the event, sponsored by the winemakers in Tokyo as part of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The "He's Just Not That Into You" star was originally unveiled as the Moët Muse earlier in the year as part of an international advertising campaign shot by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. While on the red carpet for the event, exuberantly lit with a golden hue, Johansson autographed a Moët Methuselah, which was made available for auction through the charity of her choice.
Held in Roppongi Hills, the Tokyo location for "Tribute to Cinema" was chosen on behalf of Johansson, in honor of her breakthrough role in the 2003 Sofia Coppola film "Lost in Translation, »
'Gossip Girl' Leighton Meester Searches For Robin Thicke In First Music Video
19 October 2009 12:37 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
By Rya Backer
Growing up watching MTV, I was always a big fan of the show "Making The Video." (Favorite episodes: Blink-182's "All The Small Things" and Lindsay Lohan's "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" — so tragic!) Now that I work at MTV and I get to visit the sets of music videos, it's always a real exciting coup.
On Sunday, fellow MTV Newsfolk Lisa Millstein, Saimon Kos and I headed to the SubMercer to check in on Leighton Meester and Robin Thicke's video for Meester's debut single "Somebody to Love." It may not be a Queen cover, but it's some great pop music. (If it played at my little cousin's Bat Mitzvah, I'd be on the dance floor in a big way.) The premise of the video involved Leighton trying to find — you guessed it — somebody to love. Thicke shows up at a hotel, »
- MTV News
It's a Magical Place 'Where the Wild Things Are'
18 October 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
With the help of bestselling author and hipster favorite Dave Eggers, director Spike Jonze has turned a nearly wordless picture book into a full-length feature. Where the Wild Things Are brims with creativity, imagination, and the untamed spirit of childhood—all hallmarks of Maurice Sendak’s enduring creation. With its PG-rating and source material, Jonze’s film might seem like standard children’s fare, but there’s a palpable sense of loneliness, sadness, and unpredictability rarely felt in mainstream family films.
Like Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Where the Wild Things Are boasts an undercurrent of darkness that might surprise children and any unwitting parents unfamiliar with Jonze’s past work in Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. However, despite its sometimes melancholy mood, this adaptation is often buoyant with moments of joy and gleeful abandon.
Max (Max Records) is a terror of a child »
Frankenweenie Feature Film Rolls Forward
13 October 2009 10:27 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
I know what you’re probably thinking…’Frankenweenie’ sounds like the title for a really sketchy, Halloween themed, -ahem- adult film, right? In reality, it is just one more family-friendly piece of brilliance from the mind of director Tim Burton.
One of Burton’s first projects, Frankenweenie is a black and white short film about young Vincent, whose dog Sparky dies after being hit by a car. Vincent is, of course, saddened by the death of his dear pet, but luckily, soon after, his science class is shown how to reanimate a dead frog with the use of a battery and some wires. Vincent digs up Sparky, and applies the principles learned in science class to bring Sparky back to life.
If you are fortunate enough to own the 2000 Special Edition DVD set of The Nightmare Before Christmas, then you’ll likely have seen Frankenweenie in the Bonus Features section. »
- Carly
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Anton Corbijn starts shooting The American with American George Clooney
28 September 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
We loved the film Control. You know, that Joy Division film from last year. So much, despite its doom and gloom. Former photographer Anton Corbijn was always destined to go on to fry much bigger fish, and here's the news that he has just literally kicked off shooting his new film with non other than A-listed gorgeous George Clooney.
The film is The American and is based on the 2005 book A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth. Clooney stars in the lead role as an assassin. Roland Joffe adapted the novel. All of the info can be found via the lengthy press release, which we have posted after the jump.
New York, September 28, 2009 - Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of The American for director Anton Corbijn (Control). Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the suspense thriller, which begins production this week on location in Italy. »
- Paul
In-Depth Interviews with Director Jane Campion and Paul Schneider for "Bright Star"
25 September 2009 11:29 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Not to sound cliche but it was truly a delight meeting Jane Campion, one of the three women directors to be ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar (the other two were Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for "Seven Beauties" and Sofia Coppola for 2003's "Lost in Translation").
Borrowing from the great romantic poet, John Keats, the subject of the director's "Bright Star," interviewing Campion was a thing of beauty and will definitely be a joy forever.
Campion was smart, provocative, brilliant. She hinted on quitting making movies right after 2003's "In the Cut." That would have been a tragedy.
So thank you to my friends at Palm Springs International Film Society for making these interviews happened. Actor Paul Schneider, who perfected a Scottish accent to play Keats' confidante, Charles Armitage Brown, was also a pleasure to talk to.
To read my review of "Bright Star," click here.
Here's my interview with Campion. »
- Manny
Mirror/Mirror — “There’s Room For Only One Genius in This Family”
19 September 2009 6:52 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
What is it about the Coppola family that makes the substance of Francis Ford Coppola’s films so often driven by what happens behind a family’s closed doors?
It’s never exactly a positive situation, either: his Godfather trilogy is about the implosion of a family, the fall of a son and an effort to sustain a lineage. The final famous frame of The Godfather is of a door closing Michael Corleone from view of his loving wife, sealing his own doom.
Then there’s the behind the scenes element of his films — the casting of family members such as Talia Shire and Sofia Coppola in her much derided performance in The Godfather Part III (which, if I may go on record, isn’t half as bad as it’s usually said to be). Then there’s Carmine Coppola, Francis’ father, who composed much of the scores for the »
- John Cooper
Michelle Monaghan Joins “Due Date”
19 September 2009 11:28 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Michelle Monaghan has been confirmed to star in the upcoming comedy “Due Date.”
She will join Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in the movie which will be directed by Todd Phillips (”The Hangover“).
Monaghan will portray the pregnant wife of a guy (Robert Downey Jr.) who races home in hopes of arriving before she delivers their first child. He takes on a mismatched traveling companion (Zach Galifianakis).
“Due Date” was written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, with a revision by Adam Sztykiel.
Production on the film begins this month in Atlanta, Arizona and Los Angeles.
Monaghan next stars in “Trucker,” a film that opens October 9, 2009. She most recently completed “Somewhere” for director Sofia Coppola.
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- Fiona
Michael Cera: How would you break his hipster-nerd pattern?
19 September 2009 11:04 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Oh that Michael Cera. He's such a chameleon on the big screen! I'm kidding, of course. We've all been reading/hearing/saying for months now that Cera has been playing pretty much the same nerdy-awkward-hipster since breaking out in Arrested Development six years ago. New York magazine's "Same Dude, Different Hoodie" piece from August is a hoot. And the New York Times Arts Beat blog recently posted a quick video interview with the actor in which he (awkwardly, natch) posits that it's all just a question of what roles he's offered. In any case, with yesterday's news that his latest movie, Youth in Revolt, has been pushed to next year, Cera's habit of playing uncannily similar characters has cropped up yet again. In Youth in Revolt, Cera plays Nick Twisp, an intellectually sophisticated, yet unlucky-in-love high schooler with the hots for a pretty girl he meets over the summer. To »
- Missy Schwartz
Michelle Monaghan joins Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in 'Due Date'
17 September 2009 9:23 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Michelle Monaghan has joined Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in the Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' comedy "Due Date." Todd Phillips directs and produces the film that has Robert Downey Jr. as a man who rushes home to get there before his wife delivers their first child and ends up taking along a mismatched travel companion in the likes of Galifiankis' character. Monaghan can be seen next in the limited release "Trucker" and just completed Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere." »
Thomas Mars of French Band Phoenix to Contribute Original Music to Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere"
16 September 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Boombox Serenade | See recent Boombox Serenade news »
A few weeks ago sound designer Richard Beggs mentioned that Sofia Coppola's significant other, Thomas Mars, will be contributing original music to her upcoming film, "Somewhere," to be released in 2010. This continues Coppola's track record of tapping leading edge pop/rock musicians to provide the original music for her films, rather than traditional film score composers. On "The Virgin Suicides" she collaborated with the French downtempo electronic band, Air. On "Lost in Translation" it was Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine who provided the original music. Brian Reitzell is usually her go-to music supervisor, although it's not clear yet whether... »
- Shannon Coulter
Film-Music Moment of the Day: The Peyote Song at the Center of Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" (1996)
14 September 2009 12:01 AM, PDT | Boombox Serenade | See recent Boombox Serenade news »
Thanks to the San Francisco Film Society I recently had the pleasure of sitting at the feet of master sound designer Richard Beggs for an evening. He talked about his work with directors like Alfonso Cuaron, Spike Jonze, and Sofia Coppola, and showed a few clips of some of his best known films. We sat rapt at the famous opening montage of Apocalypse Now and he explained how Francis Ford Coppola was fascinated with the role technology played in the Vietnam War and how this affected his own approach to the soundtrack, like his idea to use a Moog to... »
- Shannon Coulter
Italian costume exhibition boasts Oscar-winning outfits
4 September 2009 6:36 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Although we rave about the effortless chic of modern films such as 500 Days of Summer it’s often the period dramas that have the most impressive costumes. Italian designer Umberto Tirelli began creating film clothing and accessories in 1964 and although he died in 1990, his atelier has continued his work to this day. When he began making film and theatre attire he started out with “two sewing machines, five seamstresses, a milliner, a secretary and a driver-storeman.” He’s come a long way since then as his work is currently being shown in an Italian exhibition named “The Oscars’ Atelier: Costumes from the Tirelli Workshop for the Big Screen”.
During the 1960s many Italian directors believed that period costumes needed to look more authentic and recruited Tirelli to create their wardrobes. Making the outfits rigid and uncomfortable might have been bad for the cast but the directors wanted to capture the reality of wearing these clothes, »
The Three Musketeers To Get The 3D Treatment
2 September 2009 10:18 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Will anything be safe from the 3D makeover? With the way things are going, it doesn’t look like it. We learn today that Paul W.S. Anderson (Death Race, Event Horizon) will direct a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers - in 3D no less. He has co-written the script with Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’s Diary), a script which is said to “modernize” the musketeers.
Whether justified or not, “Oh dear…” is my first thought…
This new adaptation of The Three Musketeers can be assumed to have nothing to do with the one we heard about last June, which was planned at the time by Millenium Films. This one is being produced by Impact Pictures’ Jeremy Bolt and Constantin Film’s Robert Kulzer (both companies are financing the project), with Anderson himself co-producing.
There has been many-an-adaptation of The Three Musketeers over the years, with cinematic visions »
- Ross Miller
Dorff's Late Mother Is Guiding His Career
28 August 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Stephen Dorff credits his late mother with his career resurgence, insisting her energy is helping him win movie roles.
Nancy Dorff lost her battle with brain cancer last February, leaving the 36 year old devastated.
After nursing her in her final months, Dorff admits he found it tough returning to Hollywood - but now he's back and insists he can feel his mother's spirit urging him on.
And he's convinced she helped him land his big new movie role, in Sofia Coppola film Somewhere.
In a chat with pal Owen Wilson for the new issue of Interview magazine, Dorff says, "It's been an intense year for my family. I lost my mom last year, but I feel like she's really been with me and with us, guiding us. I'd never really lost anybody before in my immediate family. Your mom is the person you don't ever want to lose, but in losing her, I had all these great things that started happening. I think she was part of me getting the whole Sofia (Coppola) movie.
"She was the ultimate mom. It kills me that she's gone, but at the same time, I think she's given me strength. I think my mom will be up there, hopefully smiling." »
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