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Art World Bares its Soul in Adam Goldberg’s Superlative ‘(Untitled)’

6 November 2009 8:57 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – One of the best and most exciting surprises of the 2009 film year is a smaller, claustrophobic film starring Adam Goldberg and set in the art gallery world of New York City. “(Untitled)” is an honest, uncompromising character study.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Taking its name from the practice of inscribing artwork with no label at all, (Untitled) involves three people, two who are practicing artists and one who owns a small Soho art gallery. Adrian (Adam Goldberg) is a composer of atonal symphonies – think using buckets and chains for sounds instead of harmonics – and although recognized as a significant craftsman he still needs to supplement his living by providing piano atmosphere in a haughty bistro.

His brother Josh (Eion Bailey) is a “successful” artist, having found a niche market selling his works to decorate hotel lobbies and corporate hallways. He is the biggest income generator for Madeleine (a revelatory Marley Shelton), who »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Interview: Adam Goldberg on the Art of Performance in ‘(Untitled)’

4 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – The Adam Goldberg character is well known to fans of TV’s “Friends” and the movie’s “Saving Private Ryan.” With his heart-on-his-sleeve persona, he takes that character to rarified heights in the new film “(Untitled).”

Set in the galleries and small symphony halls of New York City, (Untitled) is a deeply philosophical look at the nature of art, through three characters who each believe they understand the essence of what art is within themselves.

Adam Goldberg plays Adrian, a composer of atonal symphonies, whose work continues to go unrecognized. His brother Josh (Eion Bailey), is a successful painter of hotel decor-style art, who longs to be recognized for more. Rounding out the triad is Madelaine (Marley Shelton), the arty and pretentious gallery owner who strives for the next atmospheric happening.

Adam Goldberg as Adrian and Marley Shelton as Madeleine in ‘(Untitled)’

Photo credit: Parker Film Company/Samuel Goldwyn »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Adam Goldberg: The Hollywood Interview

2 November 2009 10:22 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Adam Goldberg: Shooting To The Music

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Alex Simon

Adam Goldberg first brought his unique brand of manic intensity to Richard Linklater’s ensemble classic Dazed and Confused in 1993 and has since been featured in such varied films as 2 Days in Paris, A Beautiful Mind, Saving Private Ryan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Hebrew Hammer and I Love Your Work, which he also directed. An actor with a talent for mining the neuroses of his character for both comedic and dramatic effect, Goldberg also played recurring roles in “Friends” and “Entourage.” Goldberg's music CD, "LANDy, Eros And Omissions," hit shelves June 23 of this year from Nine Yards Records.

Goldberg’s latest film, (Untitled), is a satirical comedy that has him playing Adrian Jacobs, a brooding avant-garde composer who falls for the gorgeous owner (Marley Shelton) of a trendy New York art gallery. The quirky worlds »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Smokin’ Aces 2 Trailer

31 October 2009 10:19 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has unveiled the trailer for the upcoming “Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball,” a prequel to Joe Carnahan’s kinetic hitman flick.

“Smokin’ Aces 2″ synopsis: Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda), a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favorite Tremor family from the original film, featuring nymphomaniacal gun-nut (Autumn Reeser) and her lethal kinfolk (Maury Sterling, Michael Parks and C. Ernst Harth). Baker (Clayne Crawford »

- Allan Ford

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Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball - Trailer added for the vid release.

29 October 2009 3:29 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Check out the trailer for Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's "Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball," starring Tom Berenger, Tommy Flanagan, Keegan Connor Tracy, Clayne Crawford, Martha Higareda and Sonja Bennett. Also known as the Untitled Smokin' Aces Prequel and "Smokin' Aces: Blowback," the release comes out on January 19, 2010 on Blu-ray and DVD. Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda), a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise... »

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Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball Blu-ray Announced

28 October 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced the direct-to-video sequel Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball has a bullseye of January 19 to blast onto Blu-ray Disc and DVD.

The ensemble tale of hitmen tasked with assassinating the same target stars Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling, Martha Higareda, Christopher Michael Holley, Ernie Hudson, Michael Parks, Autumn Reeser and Vinnie Jones.

An R-rated and unrated cut will be included on a single Blu-ray Disc, each presented in 1.78:1 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio. Extensive bonus features shake out as follows:

Deleted Scenes Gag Reel Behind the Scenes with Joe Carnahan: Executive producer Joe Carnahan, producer Mike Elliott, writers Olatunde Osunsanmi and Olumide Odebunmi and director P.J. Pesce talk about the process of jumping back into the world of Smokin' Aces. Confessions of an Assassin: Director P.J. Pesce and the stars of the movie take us through production, from the ground, »

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‘Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball’ Gets a Trailer

28 October 2009 11:30 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Did you know that there was a sequel in the works for 2006’s Smokin’ Aces, with practically none of the original cast? Neither did we, until this trailer came across The Flickcast desk. It would be an interesting take, if it had any of the same people involved as the original film.

While the film doesn’t look like it will do much justice to Joe Carnahan’s original, the trailer was quite clever. It starts off by making sure we see some of our favorite faces from the original, such as Jeremy Piven, and then it throws a record scratch in to tell us that we won’t see them anymore.

Instead of a well-rounded cast consisting of Piven, Ray Liotta, Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys, and tons others, we now treated to the all-star cast of Vinnie Jones, Ernie Hudson, Tom Berenger, and the guy who had »

- Sebastian Suchecki

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Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball Trailer Starring Vinnie Jones

28 October 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

I still haven't seen Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces, but the high energy hitman flick it seems to have a fair amount of fans out there. (Personally I always thought it looked like a Guy Ritchie knockoff, but maybe I'm wrong on that.) At any rate, the film was apparently popular enough to warrant a direct-to-dvd sequel... er, I mean, prequel. Joe Carnahan obviously has better things to do with his time (like directing The A-Team, for example), but he is still credited as executive producer on Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball. The actual director of this flick, unfortunately, is P.J. Pesce -- the same man behind such memorable Dtv flicks as Lost Boys: The Tribe and From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter. None of the big name original cast members are returning for this film, but Tommy Flanagan will reprise his role as Lazlo Soot, and »

- Sean

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Smokin’ Aces 2: Electric Boogaloo Gets a Trailer

27 October 2009 3:56 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Sure, the title of the direct-to-dvd follow-up to Joe Carnahan's wicked violent Smokin' Aces isn't Electric Bugaloo, but I happen to like it better than Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball. So sue me. This prequel, from director P.J. Pesce (Lost Boys: The Tribe), follows the story of several of the world's greatest, sexiest and most obnoxiously insane assassins -- all looking to kill one man, the criminally pedestrian Tom Berenger. More specifically, the plot goes something like this: Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda), a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favorite Tremor family from »

- Neil Miller

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Smokin' Aces 2 trailer

27 October 2009 3:07 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

The prequel to Joe Carnahan's kinetic hitman flick Smokin' Aces arrives on DVD this January 19th, and looks to have more of the same stylish and excessive violence, courtesy of Vinnie Jones and some different members of the Tremor clan. The synopsis for Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball: Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a... »

- Dave Davis

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Watch the Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball Trailer Right Now!

27 October 2009 10:13 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Fans of Joe Carnahan's 2007 film Smokin' Aces can enjoy an all new action film this coming January. Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 19, 2010. We don't have any cover art images or pricing details as of yet, but you can check out the synopsis and special features below. The film stars Tom Berenger, Vinnie Jones and Autumn Reeser. Check out the trailer below.

Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda), a power-tool wielding psychopath »

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DVD Review: Hell Ride

25 October 2009 11:04 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

As twilight descends on Quentin Tarantino’s contribution to nineties American cinema, fewer filmmakers are writing scripts with a copy of Pulp Fiction’s in hand for reference. A new filmmaker might reason that Tarantino is so successfully parodying himself these days that they’d be making a copy of a copy and it’s hardly worth it. But for those still in thrall to the magpie’s ouveur and determined to make knock off versions of the movies that electrified 90’s audiences, there’s still one man in Hollywood who’s willing to back them – er, Quentin Tarantino.

Hell Ride is such a movie – a low rent affair produced by Tarantino and the Weinsteins and featuring Dennis Hopper, the late David Carradine and Michael Madsen in parts so slight that you can imagine their participation was gained for a modest outlay of girls, grams and glug, probably at a »

- Ed Whitfield

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Review: (Untitled)

23 October 2009 12:19 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

(Untitled) is a satire with its finger squarely on the pulse of the 21st century art world. It’s a film for anyone who’s stood in a modern art exhibit, stared at one of its installations and pondered the age old conundrum, the source of many a freshman lit essay: What makes this art? Director Jonathan Parker, who co-wrote the screenplay with Catherine Dinapoli, expands from that fundamental starting point to consider the types of people that might me driven to make such things and whether, in the end, to dismiss them is to be robbed of a defining component of the age. It’s a sharp movie, pitched at a tone located squarely between archness and sincerity. The combination of its twin settings of blindingly white galleries and garishly designed New York apartments, when blended with an all-around cacophonic feel, lends the picture a surrealistic edge. Starring Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton, two »

- Robert Levin

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'(Untitled)': Not A Pretty Picture, By Kurt Loder

23 October 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton in a bracing indie art-world satire.

Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton in "(Untitled)"

Photo: Parker Film Company

Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg) is a prickly composer on the New York experimental-music scene. His compositions, which he performs with a trio in sparsely populated theaters, are a clamor of kicked buckets, crackling bubble wrap and sudden ensemble shrieks. "I just hate all his work," a critic says, behind his back. But Adrian is intransigent. "Harmony," he says, "was a capitalist plot to sell pianos."

Unlike Adrian, who's forced to take demeaning supper-club gigs to pay the rent, his brother Josh (Eion Bailey) is a roaring success — a painter whose canvasses fetch $10,000 each. True, they're insipidly sunny abstracts that are bought by the yard for indifferent display in hospital lobbies and corporate boardrooms. Still, their endless salability has made Josh one happy artist — or has it?

Josh's paintings »

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(Untitled) Movie Review (2009)

23 October 2009 6:20 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

What is art?  Can a thumbtack on an otherwise blank wall be a picture?  Can someone kicking a bucket filled with chains be music?  Most of us, with good reason, would say no.  It takes more inherent talent to make art; more then just sticking a tack up on a wall or just making seemingly random noise.  If that’s you, go listen to Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.  Go on, we’ll wait.  It was considered the 58th best album in Rolling Stone magazine’s “Top 500 albums of all time.”  As you listen to it you may think there’s a lot of improvising going on.  On the contrary, these songs were notated and practiced, in order to be played the exact same way every time.  Crazy, huh?  If that’s not enough, go into any modern art gallery and you will, more often then not, »

- Marco Duran

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Exclusive Interview: Adam Goldberg is Candid About '(Untitled)' Movie

21 October 2009 9:15 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Fans of HBO’s Entourage know Adam Goldberg as Nick Rubenstein, the spoiled coke-addicted son of a famous movie producer who agrees to fund Medellin, Vince's ill-fated dream project. To others, he is Julie Delpy’s lover in the romantic drama 2 Days in Paris, or the "stereotypically Jewish" guy in films like Dazed and Confused and The Hebrew Hammer.  Over the last decade or so, Goldberg has worked with a slew of top-drawer directors including Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) Tony Scott (Déjà vu), David Fincher (Zodiac), Richard Linklater (Waking Life) and Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), predominantly in supporting roles. He is also an accomplished musician and filmmaker.  

Now, in the satirical spoof on New York’s Chelsea art scene (Untitled), Goldberg steps into the lead role as Adrian Jacobs, a brooding and sullen composer of esoteric discordant musical works that feature — among other sounds produced by ready-made everyday »

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Year One Blu-ray Review

21 October 2009 1:16 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

It has often been said that a film is not simply the sum of its parts. Well in “Year One”, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, featuring a slew of star cameos, and directed by Harold Ramis, this is proven true. This not very funny comedy is not simply the sum of its parts. It’s much less. We know Jack Black can be funny. We know Michael Cera can be funny. We know Harold Ramis can write, direct And be funny. However, these talents just fail to add up and as a consequence, “Year One” is not only a bit of an incomprehensible mess, it’s also not funny. Hit the jump for the rest of my review.

Film begins in a small prehistoric village where Black and Cera are a frustrated hunter and a passable gatherer (respectively) and both fancy female tribe members that have their eyes on more potent men. »

- Jackson Bishop

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Michael Madsen’s The Bleeding Trailer

21 October 2009 8:11 AM, PDT | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

Michael Madsen takes on Vinnie Jones in the new vampire movie, The Bleeding, on November 10th. The film also stars Dmx, Kat Von D, Michael Matthias (he kind of looks like Vin Diesel) and Armand Assante. Hopefully this won't be as bad as Steven Seagal's Against the Dark When ex-us Army Ranger Shawn Black searches for the brutal killer of his parents, he discovers a terrifying family of vampires led by Cain, The Vampire King. Tipped off by a friendly cop and fortified with blessed weaponry supplied to him by a boozy priest, Black must infiltrate the vampire's lair - a former chemical weapons factory turned night club where he will finally meet the creature that has changed his life forever. »

- Tornado Trailer Ted

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The Bleeding with an Official Release Date

20 October 2009 9:49 PM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »

The Bleeding, which comes out next month looks like a B-movie from the past with Vinnie Jones donning the vampire make-up and Michael Madsen the priest outfit. Not likely to make too many theatres in three weeks The Bleeding will nonetheless be released this November 10 with Armand Assante, Dmx, Rachelle Leah and others starring in a vampire apocalypse. Is the film just a paycheck, or something more? It is too hard to answer this question at this point, but the trailer is just passable as the narration fades in and out while the best parts of The Road Warrior are replayed onscreen. But stay tuned for more info' as it is too soon to tell whether The Bleeding is a wolf in sheeps clothing, or a disasterpiece waiting to happen.

Release: November 10, 2009.

Director: Charlie Picerni.

Writer: Lance Lane.

Cast: Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen, Armand Assante, Dmx, William McNamara, Krista Ayne, »

- Michael Ross Allen

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'Lobo' Casting Poll Names James Preston Rogers Fans' Favorite Czarnian

20 October 2009 7:46 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

The poll results are arriving a day late this week due to yesterday's glut of comic book movie news, but we're not ones to complain about a good thing when it comes to updates on projects like "Thor," "Iron Man 2" and "Spider-Man 4." However, it's an entirely different sort of comic book movie that we asked fans to cast last week—and much like our Wonder Woman poll from a while back, the winner of our "Lobo" casting poll has a loyal fan following that played no small part in determining the winner.

In the end, former "Thor" hopeful James Preston Rogers was named MTV readers' favorite choice for the role of DC's Main Man, Lobo. The musclebound actor is probably best known for his role as a hulking barbarian in the vikings-vs-aliens film "Outlander," but he was also the subject of an extremely active fan campaign to cast him »

- Rick Marshall

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