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Damon's Delight At Informant Role

12 November 2009 11:16 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Matt Damon was thrilled to land his starring role in The Informant! in 2001 - because he feared his career was over after a string of flop movies.

Damon saw his popularity in Hollywood plunge in the early 2000s, and was convinced 2002 film The Bourne Identity would be a disaster following a series of problems on the shoot.

He tells Britain's Total Film magazine, "I had two movies that had come out that had tanked and Bourne had all the signals of being a disaster, because we shot so many times and it was delayed like a year coming out.

"The phone had stopped ringing completely. And you could really feel it. In Hollywood, by any measure, I was cold - cold as ice."

So the 39 year old was ecstatic when director Steven Soderbergh contacted him in 2001 to star as bipolar whistleblower Mark Whitacre in the thriller - despite production not beginning on the picture until 2008.

He adds, "Steven was coming off his Oscar for Traffic and two of his movies were Best Picture nominees in the same year. By Hollywood standards, he was as hot as you could get.

"He was really excited and he said, 'I've found something for us to do together.' I literally hadn't had a phone call in nine months. I was dumbfounded. I went home and read it (the script) and thought, 'This is one of those great roles that comes along every seven or eight years.'" »

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The Tortured (2009) Trailer

9 November 2009 11:36 AM, PST | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

"The producers of the Saw franchise" have yet to deliver anything good besides the original Saw movie (Dead Silence anyone), and even that had a lot more to do with luck than anything else. So hopefully for their sake The Tortured delivers, because if not, slapping "from the producers of Saw" on a movie to help sell it, is going to start becoming unproductive. Taken from today’s news headlines (and Law & Order's tagline), The Tortured is about a young mother (Erika Christensen – Traffic, Flight Plan) and her husband (Jesse Metcalf – Desperate Housewives, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) who decide that the criminal justice system hasn’t adequately punished the man who kidnapped their son. »

- Tornado Trailer Ted

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Viola Davis Puts her 'Trust' in Indie Film

22 October 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- I'm wouldn't necessarily call her the Parker Posey indie girl of today, but since Steven Soderbergh's Solaris and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Viola Davis is taking on more supporting cast pinch hitter in independent films. The actress who essentially got her start in film with bit roles in Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Traffic, has just signed up for a pair of indie films. Davis will be featured in Ryan Fleck's adaptation of Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Thing for Focus Features. The story is described as a young-adult One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and centers on a clinically depressed 15-year-old who checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life. Davis will play the psychiatrist who helps him understand his anxieties and provides him with the help he needs. Filming is pegged for sometime soon. »

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Abhishek to play undercover cop in Rohan Sippy's next!

19 October 2009 1:24 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

<div style="text-align: justify;">Rohan Sippy.s untitled film takes a lead from a number of headlines about the alarming crime situation in Goa. According to sources, it.s a gritty film about a cop on a drug-busting mission in Goa - quite unlike the Abhishek Bachchan starrer Bluffmaster, which Rohan had earlier directed.A source said, .Rohan and Abhishek are close friends. When they decided to work together again, they had many options, but they decided to swerve away from drama and romance and instead make a dark film based on real life incidents..The untitled film about drug trafficking in Goa will be largely shot on the beaches of Goa with Abhishek playing an undercover cop.Sridhar Raghavan known for his realistic newspaper-inspired work is said to be heavily influenced by Steven Soderbergh.s Traffic. Meanwhile, Abhishek has been asked to study narcotic neurosis and criminal quirks to master the role of the cop. »

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Middle East International Film Festival: "The Informant!" (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

15 October 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

Let's face it, for the past two years Steven Soderbergh has been making highly politicized cinema in a way no American director would dare to—calmly, methodically, and without baiting either press or audiences with self-important "topics."  It is the steadiness of the filmmaker's vision that has perhaps kept many from seeing just how far his digital works like Che and The Girlfriend Experience—both light years ahead of the superficiality and pretense of Traffic—investigate the current American political landscape.   Those pictures have approached the process of revolutions and capitalist economics with the cerebral cool and exactitude of Michael Haneke filming an Otto Preminger production.  Excersies above all else, the two movies deserve aloof respect rather than aggressive engagement, and it has not been until the filmmaker's new movie and one of his very best, The Informant!, that he has been able to rectify conceptual intelligence with cinematic attack, »

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The Girlfriend Experience Blu-ray Review

13 October 2009 9:07 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

The Girlfriend Experience (2009) covers several days in the life of a high-end escort in Manhattan. Media coverage surrounding this independent effort from director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich) highlighted his choice of adult film star, Sasha Grey, to portray the main character, Chelsea. I had never heard of the aspiring actress (she's done over 100 "movies" to date) before the film's publicity efforts, but a quick Google search returned probably more info and pictures than most straight laced folks would desire. Those familiar with Sasha's oeuvre hoping to get artsy-fartsy Hollywood porn will be sadly disappointed, as there is barely any nudity and no explicit sex on display.

What makes Chelsea's services unique is that for $2000 per hour she provides what is alluded to in the title, time with a significant other. She gets wined and dined, for the most part, by high earning businessmen while making conversation about their daily »

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Clifton Collins Jr. Talks the Future of Southland

13 October 2009 7:19 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

It's been quite a whirlwind few weeks for perhaps the hardest working man in the biz - and one of my favorite actors - Clifton Collins Jr. After it was announced that he landed a role in the NBC Southland, I got a chance to speak with the actor, who was incredibly excited for such a creative opportunity like this on the small screen ( for my exclusive interview with Collins Jr. about the show). Surprisingly, not long after that interview, NBC canceled the series and, not surprisingly, a few days after that, it was reported that the show could possibly have a new home at TNT.

With all of these new developments, I put in another call to Collins Jr. to find out his thoughts on what has happened over the last few weeks. Here's what he had to say.

First of all, can you talk about your first reactions »

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Soderbergh Hopes More Realistic Spy Thriller will be 'Knockout'

9 October 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Steven Soderbergh wants to bring a sense of realism back to the action/spy genre, starting with the casting of mixed martial artist Gina Carano as his leading lady in his upcoming film, Knockout.

In Knockout, Carano will play a woman with incomparable hand-to-hand fighting skills, who gets hired by the government and subsequently involved in a globe-trotting plotline. Although the project may sound similar to James Bond or Jason Bourne’s exploits, there will be more logic involved, especially with regards to high-speed pursuit, Soderbergh told MTV.

"Very, very few people escape high-speed pursuit," he said. "It happens, but it's very rare. So I’ve already researched the six times in history it's happened, so if we do that and she gets out of it, she’s going to get out of it one of the ways they did. It's that kind of thing. It drives me nuts when »

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"Predators" Announces Its Cast

7 October 2009 3:17 PM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »

Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Louiz Ozawa are set as the main cast of Fox's reboot of the "Predator" franchise reports the trades. The story of "Predators" follows a group of elite warrior-types who are being hunted by members of a race of merciless alien trackers. Brody ("The Pianist", "King Kong") inherits the mantle of leader and is a skilled tracker and hunter of men. Grace ("That 70's Show","Traffic") would play an unassuming accountant-type who's actually a dangerous serial killer. Braga ("I Am Legend", "Redbelt") is the tough female killer, while Trejo ("Con Air", "From Dusk Til Dawn") is a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back. Ali ("The 4400", "Curious Case Of Benjamin... »

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Adrien Brody and Topher Grace Join Predators

7 October 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Well if you were impressed with some of the A-list talent [1] that signed on for Robert Rodriguez's Machete feature film, you're going to continue to be impressed with a couple of the big names in talks to headline his Predators sequel/reboot as well. According to THR's Heat Vision Blog [2], Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal have apparently selected Adrien Brody for the lead role in the film, while Topher Grace is also in negotiations to join the cast. Other slightly less familiar faces already signed on include Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Walt Goggins, and Ufc fighter Oleg Taktarov. The casting breakdown is as follows: Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer. Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die, »

- Sean

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Benicio Del Toro's Monkey Business

2 October 2009 9:29 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Benicio Del Toro isn't monkeying around. The Oscar winner is urging Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuño to halt construction of a massive primate-breeding facility in the city of Guayama. Bioculture's monkey-making factory would be supplying the animals to laboratories to be poked, prodded and tested upon. "[Bioculture] plans to breed thousands of these intelligent animals and lock them in cages before sending them off to laboratories around the world to be used in painful, deadly experiments," the Traffic star writes in a letter to the governor. "Won't you please use your influence as governor to stop this from happening on our beautiful island?" Then come the... »

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Clifton Collins Jr. Exclusive Interview

30 September 2009 12:54 PM, PDT | Movie Cultists | See recent Movie Cultists news »

The busiest actors in Hollywood are never the A-list stars -- they're the character actors, habitually turning in standout roles in ensemble casts.  Clifton Collins Jr., who's made a splash in films like Capote, Traffic, and Babel, is currently the best of the busiest: in the past year, he's appeared in Sunshine Cleaning, Horsemen, Star Trek, Crank: High Voltage, and Extract...and you can soon see him in the long-awaited Boondock Saints 2 as well as Jim Sheridan's Brothers.  We had the chance to talk with Collins recently via e-mail, through which he ruminated about why most CGI movies fail, his ... »

- Michael Dance

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Tim Roth Gets Truthful with Lie to Me

28 September 2009 12:21 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

The actor talks about his role as Cal Lightman on the new season of this Fox series

While actor Tim Roth has certainly made a name for himself in the film work he's done throughout his successful career, the veteran actor switched over to the small screen with the Fox midseason hit Lie to Me, which comes back for its second season on Monday, September 28 at 9 Pm Et on Fox. Roth recently held a conference call to discuss the second season, and here's what he had to say.

Let's see, is there anything you can tell us, that you're allowed to tell us, this season about what's coming up, people can look forward to?

Tim Roth: Well, it's a much more character-based scripts that are coming forward, and so you're going to find out a little bit more about the history of the characters and Lightman's connection to them and so on. »

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Review: Did You Ever See... Innerspace?

24 September 2009 2:10 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

This week Pandorum is released in the Us. Directed by Christian Alvart, it’s a sci-fi thriller about two astronauts who wake from a cryogenic sleep on a ship, with no memory of who they are or why they are there.

One of the stars of Pandorum is Dennis Quaid. Quaid’s career has been rejuvenated over the last eight or nine years, beginning in 2000 with Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, and culminating this year with the big budget GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. At 55 years old, he’s finally becoming an in demand A-list star. But it wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Quaid was supposed to take his big step up to the A-list over 20 years ago.

I’ll see you on the other side, and we’ll see that 22 years before he went to outer space in Pandorum, he was sent… Innerspace. »

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A 'Highlander' Remake For The 'Fast & Furious' Director And 'The Wrestler' Director Finds His Next Project In Today's Dailies

22 September 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

-- Darren Aronofsky may be busy with "Black Swan" -- which sounds a lot like "Fight Club" with ballerinas to me -- but he's going to need something more grounded as a follow-up to 2008's Oscar-nominated "The Wrestler." And here it is. The filmmaker has partnered with Time Inc. Studios and Xyz Films to direct/produce an "indie heist thriller" based on the 2006 robbery of the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge, England, in which thieves made off with roughly $85 million. (Variety)

-- Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to Lucy Prebble's stage play "Enron," which chronicles the high-profile fall of the Texas energy concern. Prebble will adapt her script for film and Laura Ziskin will produce, though no additional cast or crew players have yet been revealed. (Variety)

-- Racehorse Secretariat wasn't the last to win the illustrious Triple Crown -- awarded for finishing first at the Belmont Stakes, »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Lionsgate Buys Stephen Gaghan’s Action Crime Thriller

22 September 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Stephen Gaghan made a splash with his Oscar-winning screenplay for Traffic, then made a notable directorial effort with 2005 with the ambitious political oil drama Syriana. Despite a few deals in development, he's been quiet in the few years since. Now Lionsgate is getting behind his next directorial project, which Gaghan is also co-writing. Variety reports that the studio has bought "an untitled action-thriller" that Gaghan is co-writing with Shannon Burke. The logline sounds more standard than I'd expect, but I suppose you could also write really dull, one-note loglines for Traffic and Syriana as well. This film's protagonist "is an elite deep cover operative whose attempt to take down a global organization costs him everything. He resurfaces as a beat cop in Brooklyn, only to discover that the bad guys he was fighting are also operating in his new backyard." This could be contrived, goofy crime stuff, or ... »

- Russ Fischer

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Gaghan Film Goes Under Cover at Lionsgate

22 September 2009 11:55 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Amy Kaufman

Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the latest film by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, the studio announced Tuesday. 

 

The film -- an action thriller about a deep-cover operative who loses everything and disappears into Brooklyn to start over -- will be both directed and produced by the "Traffic" screenwriter and "Syriana" director. The script is being co-written by Gaghan and Shannon Burke and the project is being executive produced by Allyn Stewart and Kipp Nelson.

 

“We are very excited to be in bus... »

- Amy Kaufman

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Stephen Gaghan's Untitled Action Thriller Goes to Lionsgate

22 September 2009 10:14 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar winning screenwriter behind Traffic, has sold the distribution rights to his upcoming untitled action thriller to Lionsgate. According to , the writer will direct the film next spring.

Gaghan will pen the script with Shannon Burke. The story follows an elite undercover operative who loses everything when he attempts to take down a global organization. He disappears, reemerging years later as a Brooklyn street cops. He soon finds out that the bad guys are operating out of his own back yard, and must finish what he started.

The film will find its way into theaters in early 2011.

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Lionsgate Picks Up Stephen Gaghan's Next

22 September 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »

Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the latest film by Academy Award®-winning writer and director Stephen Gaghan ( Traffic , Syriana ). Gaghan will direct and produce the film, a character-driven action thriller that he is co-writing with Shannon Burke. Allyn Stewart and Kipp Nelson are executive producers. The announcement was jointly made today by Joe Drake, Lionsgate Co-Chief Operating Officer and Motion Picture Group President, and Alli Shearmur, Lionsgate President of Motion Picture Production. The film is described as follows: All global activities are local somewhere... an elite, highly trained, deep cover operative loses everything, ultimately disappearing into Brooklyn, where he must start over. He washes up as a beat cop, only... »

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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – DVD

22 September 2009 4:46 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

DVD Review

Ghost of Girlfriends Past

Directed by: Mark Waters

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas

Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins

Rating: PG-13

Due Out: September 22, 2009

Click Here To Buy The DVD

Plot: A successful photographer (McConaughey) who scrooges women for a hobby is visited by three … Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

Who’S It For?: The dating crowd – particularly those who share the on-screen ages of Garner and McConaughey. Of course, this really just means anyone desperate for an easily digestible romantic comedy.

Movie:

While I have the seemingly rare opportunity of being able to say I have never had sex with Matthew McConaughey, I can hang my head in “morning after” shame by acknowledging I was another player in his flirtatious brain games. In the beginning of the film, my repulsion towards his overtness turned into an ironic intrigue. A few legitimate laughs from the movie had me »

- Nick Allen

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