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Alec Baldwin: 'I'm quitting acting'
1 December 2009 8:34 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The 51-year-old actor, who is co-hosting the Oscars ceremony in February, tells a Us magazine that he plans to retire in 2012
Alec Baldwin has told a Us magazine that he considers his entire film career to be a failure and that he plans to retire from the industry shortly.
In a startling interview published in the December issue of Men's Journal, the 51-year-old actor said, "I don't have any interest in acting anymore."
Baldwin, who was Oscar-nominated for his role in Wayne Kramer's offbeat 2003 romance The Cooler, is no stranger to critical and box-office kudos: he was praised for his performances in films such as Martin Scorsese's The Departed and The Aviator, and David Mamet's State and Main. Recently, he has been a huge hit in the award-winning TV comedy 30 Rock.
He is also being tipped for another bite at the Oscars cherry next February, for his »
- Ben Child
Thomas Jane Travels Deep Into Dark Country
30 September 2009 6:18 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
This thrilling new neo-noir masterpiece hits DVD on October 6th
Get ready to enter Dark Country on October 6th, when Thomas Jane's directorial debut hits store shelves nationwide. Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman and Lauren German star in this thrilling neo-noir masterpiece, which takes us deep into the depths of human depravity. When two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert, their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable. The mysterious blood-faced stranger unexpectedly turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. In a blur of paranormal chaos, the couple must take drastic measures to cover up their actions from the local police, ultimately leading them to an inescapable fate. We recently met up with Thomas Jane to find out more about this exceptional film. Here is what the maestro had to say:
Dude, what do you have against country music?
Blu-Ray, DVD Round Up, June 16, 2009: ‘Crossing Over,’ ‘Woodstock,’ ‘The Cell 2’
16 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It’s time to dig a little deeper at HollywoodChicago.com and pull out a standard and HD edition of the Round-Up, our regular column that gives you the synopsis, features, and technical details on several titles that we either couldn’t get around to full-length reviewing or we didn’t think deserved the time.
“Crossing Over” and “Woodstock: 40th Anniversary Edition” were released on June 9th, 2009.
“The Cell 2” and “Nature’s Most Amazing Events” were released on June 16th, 2009.
“The Cell 2” (Blu-Ray)
Photo credit: WB Synopsis: “Imagine a serial killer who flatlines his victims and then brings them back to life over and over again, until they beg to die. Beautiful psychic investigator Maya Casteneda (Tessie Santiago) was his last victim and swore vengeance on her tormentor before she escaped. Now The Cusp is back, and the FBI taps Maya to help capture the elusive monster. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
[DVD Review] Crossing Over
11 June 2009 10:11 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Crossing Over begs the audience to take it seriously. It wants to make an impact on you so badly despite its hollow shell of a narrative. Obviously inspired by the immigration “crisis” which had the United States broiling with racial discomfort, Crossing Over tries to capitalize on all of the stirred emotions still floating about – only to find the waters cooled and tempers no longer quite so high. The audience the film needed in order to succeed no longer existed; its opportunistic theme staled before Harrison Ford’s laughably clichéd first lines of dialogue rolled out. Perhaps that’s why the film feels like a mixed bag of preaching and shock and awe instead of a rational argument for or against strict immigration control.
Crossing Over spends its time divided between five connected narratives and attempts to ply its messages of cultural integration, manipulation and corruption with each one. Max »
- Lex Walker
Dimension and Chucky producer to terrorize Kristy
21 April 2009 8:42 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Variety reports that Dimension Films has nabbed the psychothriller spec script Kristy by Anthony Jaswinski, and has set it up to be made by David Kirschner Productions. Kirschner (pictured), whose credits include the Child's Play/Chucky film series and Bill Paxton's directorial debut Frailty, will produce the movie with Corey Sienega; a director has yet to be signed.
The story centers on a female college student fighting for her life against intruders who attack her on a deserted college campus. Jaswinski previously wrote and directed 2002's Killing Time, and his road-chiller script Westward has had directors including Paul Hunter, Horsemen's Jonas Akerlund and Running Scared's Wayne Kramer attached to it at New Line. »
Movie Review - 'Crossing Over'
20 March 2009 1:39 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd
Directed by Wayne Kramer
Rated R
Immigration is a thorny issue with no quick, easy, or perfect solution. How do you juggle talk of a wall along our border with the promise of America? How do you keep everyone out when the Statue of Liberty asks for your tired, poor, and huddled masses? How do you stop immigration in a nation of immigrants?
Conversely, an approach that takes all comers has at least as many problems as the one that wants restrictions. Jobs, crime, medical care and costs, insurance, and overpopulation are some of the concerns that America faces after living with a fairly lax immigration policy.
Crossing Over tries to tackle the problem in two hours, which would be difficult to pull off if writer-director Wayne Kramer had kept his new film limited to one or two stories of »
- Colin Boyd
Movie Review: Crossing Over
13 March 2009 7:24 AM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Mar 13, 2009 One of the best actors of all time, Sean Penn, was once in Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over. The story behind why he's no longer in the film reportedly goes that he saw the final product and disapproved of a subplot involving an Iranian honor killing. Now, having seen the final film, I can tell you that this is no small subplot. It's not something he might have easily missed with even one read of the screenplay or asking someone on set, “Hey, what’s this movie about?” So, we have two possibilities – either he ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Review: Crossing Over
28 February 2009 8:03 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over is a bad movie, but it's not bad in the usual ways. The camerawork doesn't shake, boom mikes don't dip into the frame, and the actors tend to remember their lines. The story moves forward in a reasonably cohesive way. On most levels it even resembles a good movie. In fact, it very closely resembles something that once won an Oscar for Best Picture: Crash (2005). Like that movie, It tells the story of a cross-section of characters in Los Angeles, all of whom are connected in some way to a sticky issue, immigration this time, rather than racism. Harrison Ford leads the way as Max Brogan, an Ice agent whose colleagues often tease him for being a softie. During a raid on a sweatshop, his heart goes out to a woman, Mireya Sanchez (Alice Braga), who claims to have a young son at home. He nearly lets her go, »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Harrison Fords Big-Screen Return in 'Crossing Over'
28 February 2009 5:30 AM, PST | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
After reprising his beloved role playing Indiana Jones last Spring in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,' Harrison Ford returns to the big screen in Wayne Kramer's 'Crossing Over.' "The Insider" gives you a sneak peek at the new drama, which also stars Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd. In the new drama, Ford plays immigration agent Max Brogan, Judd plays immigration defense attorney Denise Frankel, who is married to Liotta's character Cole Frankel. The film follows immigrants from all walks of life -- a single mother deported without her child, a high school student who draws FBI attention for an essay she writes, an actress who works as a prostitute to obtain a green card, among others. Watch the video to learn more about the new film, which hits theaters Friday on a limited release.
[Read full story on The Insider]
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- TheInsider
Film: Review: Crossing Over
27 February 2009 2:50 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
If such a thing as the socially conscious exploitation movie exists outside of Samuel Fuller’s filmography, writer-director Wayne Kramer may yet master it. In 2006’s frantic Running Scared, Kramer offered up a healthy dose of red-state paranoia, with self-sufficient New Jersey types discussing the virtues of hamburgers and John Wayne while disdaining the wealthy. (They’re all child molesters, it seems.) Crossing Over, an expansion of a 35-minute short Kramer made in 1996, is another tack on what it means to be American, offering a cross-section of people involved with immigration and deportation. While the film contains enough »
Now Playing: Slumdog Crosses Over and the Jonas Bros Do Whatever It is That They Do
27 February 2009 12:40 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
In case you've been tied up with Oscar mania and are ready to go back to the actual movies, there are new ones. Whether or not it's safe to go back (yeah, that time of year) is another issue entirely. Links go to trailers.
The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire are taking their highly publicized Oscar wins to their highest screen counts yet and asking for the public's stamp of approval. Kate Winslet is a Time cover girl and Slumdog is on the cover of EW. How much more money does Slumdog have in it? It recentl cracked 100 million.
This isn't really about the theater counts but I'd love your opinion on what's going on with Entertainment Weekly these days? If you ask me they're phoning it in now that they have almost zero real competition. They skipped both pre-show Oscar covers this year which is, I guess, neither here nor »
- NATHANIEL R
Crossing Over
27 February 2009 7:45 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: Feb. 27
Director: Wayne Kramer
Writers: Wayne Kramer
Cinematographer: Jim Whitaker
Studio/Run Time: The Weinstein Company, 140 mins.
Crossing Over, the new film from writer-director Wayne Kramer, highlights what was good and what was bad about Paul Haggis’ 2006 Oscar winner Crash. Haggis told us that Los Angeles is a haven for racists, and Stacy Peralta told us, in Crips and Bloods, that it’s essentially a gang town, and Kramer gives us a third version: Los Angeles is the land of illegal immigrants. You’d think that since these views overlap a fair bit, they might all acknowledge worlds beyond their own myopic perspectives, but Kramer’s sweeping aerial shots imply that he’s giving us a total picture, just like Peralta’s carved up maps and Haggis’ recurring ironies wove dubious Californian quilts of their own. »
Someone To Alien On
26 February 2009 8:28 PM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
Just when you thought it was safe to avoid "message" pictures and Oscar hopefuls, here comes Wayne Kramer's "Crossing Over," a bid to create the "Crash" of illegal-immigration dramas.
Like that Oscar winner, this film is set in a Los Angeles where the characters in several story lines handily keep running into each other - although in this case they're all stereotypes who spout tin-eared dialogue.
This is a movie with the courage to examine the pressing issue of whether hot blond Aussie starlets are sleeping with government agents - whom they meet »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Feb. 27
26 February 2009 6:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
It's a terrible weekend for movie fans, as the only two new wide releases are a Jonas Brothers concert movie and a film based on the Street Fighter video games. So basically, if you're not a 13-year-old girl or an 18-year-old guy (or whoever the target audience is for a Street Fighter movie), you're hosed -- unless you venture to the art houses and independent theaters, where you'll find some diversity. The Indie Spotlight has the lowdown on what's opening in limited release today. Let us begin!
Crossing Over (pictured), a multi-story drama about immigration from The Cooler writer/director Wayne Kramer, stars Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd, among many others. The critics are comparing it to Crash and Babel, and not in a good way. It's opening on about a dozen screens in New York and L.A., and will expand in the coming weeks. An American Affair »
- Eric D. Snider
Harrison Ford's Crossing Over Clip
24 February 2009 4:30 PM, PST | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
A clip from the upcoming Harrison Ford drama "Crossing Over" has been released, featuring the police rounding up illegal immigrants. Click on the link below to check it out. Plot: "Crossing Over" is a multi-character story about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures. The new movie is written and directed by Wayne Kramer, the man behind "The Cooler" and "Running Scared." It is scheduled to hit theaters on February 27th, in limited release. Click here to read more about "Crossing Over." »
Philosophers, Street Fighters and the Jonas Brothers
23 February 2009 11:18 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
This week's offerings include an art film about the biblical, a documentary exploring the philosophical, a thriller espousing the dangers of the technological and a film about a badass dude with claws that kills people. We know which one we're going to see.
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We're a country enamored with the marvels of our great democracy while also continuing a nasty habit of cultivating political dynasties, the thrall of which we continue to find irresistible, and there is no finer example of that than the Kennedy family. Put out by tiny indie distributor Screen Media Films, this feature from director William Olsson charts the coming of age of a young boy named Adam (Cameron Bright) who watches and wonders about John F. Kennedy's affair with a woman (Gretchen Mol) living across the street in 1963.
Opens in limited release. »
- Neil Pedley
Spring Preview: A Guide to the Season in Indie Film
18 February 2009 2:25 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months. »
- Stephen Saito
Crossing Over poster
3 February 2009 4:09 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
The drama Crossing Over revolves around the hot-button subject of immigration, and does so with a high-profile cast that includes a digitally de-aged but still cranky Harrison Ford, judging by the new poster. The movie comes from Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, The Cooler) and arrives on February 27th, just in time to remind you that the Weinstein Co. didn't consider it worthy of Oscar contention. You can see the uninspired one-sheet and previous trailer below. »
- Dave Davis
Harrison Ford Gets Younger in 'Crossing Over' Poster
1 February 2009 1:50 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
The poster for Crossing Over has been released, and there's one thing I really like about and a couple things I don't. The movie comes from director Wayne Kramer, whose Running Scared was not really a hit, although it certainly had a few interesting scenes.
Something about that (and his previous film, The Cooler) has made him an in-demand director, because he's grabbed Harrison Ford, Jim Sturgess, and Ashley Judd for Crossing Over, not to mention a certain current Best Actor nominee who is going unbilled, although his stunt double gets credit.
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- Colin Boyd
Posters for 'Wolverine,' 'Watchmen,' 'Crossing Over'
31 January 2009 12:44 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Picked up three new one-sheets on my poster radar today, and here they are:
The first one is the new poster for Gavin Hood's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," due in theaters May 1, 2009. It's simple, but it looks good nonetheless.
Next up is the final poster for Zack Snyder's "Watchmen," which opens March 6. Definitely something I would put up on the wall.
Finally, the last one-sheet is for Wayne Kramer's "Crossing Over," a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.
It's an excellent poster, by the way. "Over," with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta ans Ashley Judd, opens Feb. 27. »
- Franck Tabouring
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