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Film review: Christmas in Wonderland

19 November 2009 3:20 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

What could be behind the rescue of this elderly yuletide turkey from the shelf, asks Catherine Shoard?

Is it too Scroogeish to suggest that had Patrick Swayze still been with us this elderly yuletide turkey (filmed in 2007) might have stayed on the shelf? Certainly the note of morbidity lends faint interest to a film that's like spending an hour and a half inside an Argos catalogue. Swayze plays Wayne, long-suffering father to hormonal Danny (Cameron Bright, who had a bath with Nicole Kidman in Birth), bike-mad Brian, and cutie-pie Mary - big on giggles, mad for Santa, with a faint resemblance to Linda Blair. The smaller two go wild in the aisles of a shopping mall after they find a holdall of counterfeit cash mislaid by dopey conmen. Tim Curry co-stars as a Canadian mountie; Carmen Electra as an evil genius. Ahem.

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- Catherine Shoard

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The Week in Film: Bateman and Bullock, battlin' John Greyson, and the hottest new trailers

3 September 2009 2:43 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Sandra Bullock: Is it a bad thing we're opening Labor Day Weekend?

Bradley Cooper: Whatever. It's not like we were ever an Oscar contender.

An editor of mine recently observed how odd it is that Memorial Day weekend is such a big-deal launching pad for summer movies while the three-day Labor Day holiday is generally where the mediocre (and the downright awful) go to die.

Let it be known that 2009 doesn't deviate from that formula with this weekend's big nationwide releases.

If you thought Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Ugly Truth were as witless and inane as movies were going to get this summer, you clearly haven't seen All About Steve, a ramshackle rom-com so blisteringly stupid and off-the-rails that you find yourself wondering if anyone in the production has ever met a human being.

Sandra Bullock (who also produced, so she can't blame anyone else) stars as Mary Magdalene Horowitz, »

- ADuralde

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Buzz Break: Rabbit, Run

31 August 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

· The Nyt has stills and a report from the upcoming John Cameron Mitchell film Rabbit Hole, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. Mitchell is a "want to love but don't" filmmaker for me, but at least Kidman invokes Birth about eight thousand times when discussing the new movie.

· Seth Rogen's The Green Hornet has been pushed back five months to December 2010.

· New Moon wolfcake Alex Meraz decided that to better play his role, he would forego sleep, grab Kristen Stewart by the throat, and scream at her during their scenes. Alex, all you need to do is your ab workouts. Relax.

· Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen both wore tulle animal ears to a party in Tokyo this weekend. "Furry" websites are all atwitter!

· Demi Moore has never had plastic surgery, she tells Marie Claire. If she can forget we all saw Striptease, then so can I. »

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Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart In “Rabbit Hole” – First Images

31 August 2009 11:05 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

“Rabbit Hole,” starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, is an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer prize-winning drama about a fraying family.

Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart In Rabbit Hole

The story traces the life of a happily married couple that is disrupted by an unexpected tragedy and the emotional journey they must undertake to regain happiness.

Kidman plays a suburban mother dealing with the loss of a child. Eckhart will play Kidman’s husband, who is trying to hold on to the memory of his dead son while dealing with his emotionally removed wife.

With a budget of less than $10 million, a brisk 28-day shoot “Rabbit Hole” is more like an indie than a Hollywood production.

“This is a passion project for Nicole,” Eckhart said, “The reason why I’m in the movie is Nicole. If she wants to work with somebody, then that’s what happens.”

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- Fiona

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The ReBirth (?) of Nicole Kidman

28 August 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

I'm trying not to place 2010's Rabbit Hole, the stage to screen story of a grieving family, on a pedestal of unrealistic expectations. Acclaimed plays can make brilliant movies but there are no assurances. They can be tricky beasts to cage in two dimensions. So I'm trying to lower my expectations but Nicole Kidman is not making it easy for me.

Aaron Eckhart co-stars in Rabbit Hole"The reason why I’m in the movie is

Nicole. If she wants to work with somebody, then that’s what happens"

First she offers the directorial job to the brilliant John Cameron Mitchell who I've loved since I saw him tear it up on stage as Hedwig when I first moved to New York. Now in the NY Times she brings up Birth, one of her very best, as comparison to Rabbit Hole.

When I first responded to [Rabbit Hole], it was because I read it, »

- NATHANIEL R

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'New Moon' photo reveal: Cameron Bright as Alec. We like.

27 August 2009 1:50 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

MTV.com nabbed the first look at Cameron Bright as Volturi guard Alec, red-eyed brother of Dakota Fanning's Jane, in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Bright was sufficiently creepy in Birth, so I've been a fan of this casting from the beginning. His sleek frame and (albeit safe) wardrobe, combined with just the hint of a smirk, would appear to put him right in line with what director Chris Weitz tells MTV he admires about Michael Sheen's performance in the upcoming film: "No matter how strange one of the characters is in a work of fantasy, I think you have to approach them as people and then so you start to think, 'They've been around for 2,000 years. How would they interact with one another?' The conclusion was that after 2,000 years, you'd probably be more than mildly insane. No matter how cultured or gracious you appear on the surface. »

- Mandi Bierly

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Meet the Volturi Clan from 'New Moon'

29 July 2009 4:35 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

The Twilight Saga: New Moon hit Comic Con last week and between now and its theatrical release this November, we'll probably be inundated with commercials and cross-promotions for the film, not that you can blame Summit for trying to exploit its big franchise.

Here's a look at some of the film's newest cast members, the Volturi clan, courtesy of Oh No They Didn't. Michael Sheen and Dakota Fanning are more recognizable, but we've also got less familiar names Chistopher Heyerdahl, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Cameron Bright, perhaps best known as the creepy kid in Birth with Nicole Kidman.

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- Colin Boyd

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Hump Day Hotties: The Cast of Nine

29 July 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Hello, all. Kieran here (aka the Know nothing Know it All) filling in for Nathaniel with another edition of Hump Day Hotties. Okay...so I have a problem with Nine. I'm a little obsessed, but I'm trying to be guarded about my excitement. We've heard the famous “The Musical is Back!” tune many times (and to no avail) over the aughts, that one has must be guarded. For every Chicago and Moulin Rouge!, there are several Rents, Producers, Dreamgirls, Hairsprays and Sweeney Todds (in ascending order of achievement), failing to land that elusive best picture nod. A plus: Nine is helmed by the man who last took a musical all the way to the win, and is sometimes credited for bringing the musical back (even though he didn't). Regardless of how the film fares, you can't deny that the talent has talent...and hotness in spades.

Marion Cotillard

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- The Know Nothing Know It All

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An Education's Staccato Buzz

17 July 2009 7:04 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Oscar buzz is a funny customized thing. For some films it simmers continually, sauteeing the film until it's golden. Other films ride choppy waves feeling alternately like very big deals, empty threats or troubled half successes. More often than not, especially for the small film without marquee names, the buzz tends to be intermittent, giving off staccato sparks fueled only by those traditional pit stops on the road to Oscar: festival premiere, early reviews, trailer, actual release, precursor trophies. It's this track that An Education, the story of a teenage girl eager to begin her adult life in 60s London, will obviously be working since its star, Carey Mulligan, is currently "unknown" in the larger sense (but probably won't be by the end of the year).

One gets the sense that people will keep forgetting about this movie, or shoving it to the minor buzz side as each of the »

- NATHANIEL R

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The Dead Weather to Premiere New Song on Cinemax

2 July 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Consider it a collaboration on top of a collaboration: Director Jonathan Glazer, responsible for major feature films like Sexy Beast and Birth as well as award-winning Radiohead music videos, has joined forces with supergroup The Dead Weather to direct the band's newest short. The Dead Weather already boasts an all-star lineup, including Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age), Jack White (The White Stripes/The Raconteurs), Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes/The Raconteurs) and Alison Mosshart (The Kills).

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Trueba 'Models' new film after Rochefort and Folch

2 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- I can't say that I've been following Fernando Trueba's career as a filmmaker, I've only seen his 1992 Oscar winning Belle Epoque (which along with Jamón, jamón launched Penelope Cruz's career) and I missed his much adored jazz documentary Calle 54. Variety's article reveals that the Spanish filmmaker has been extremely busy as of late with The Dancer and the Thief (Fall 2009), the animated Chico y Rita (2010) and is mounting the French-language L'Artiste et son modele which stars Aida Folch and Jean Rochefort (I can't remove the image of him not being able to mount a horse as witnessed in Terry Gilliam's meltdown Lost in La Mancha). The screenplay for The Artist and his Model was written by Trueba and prolific scribe Jean-Claude Carriere (Birth) and is set in occupied France in 1943, it turns on an ageing hedonist painter and his relationship with beauty and with beautiful women. »

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Jonathan Glazer To Give ‘Birth’ To ‘Under The Skin’

19 May 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

There must be some sort of cosmic connection here. This is the second news break of the day to involve one of the directors from Palm Pictures’ Director’s Label series. This time it’s “Birth” and “Sexy Beast” director Jonathan Glazer, who will next tackle an adaptation of Michael Faber’s novel “Under the Skin,” according to a report from ScreenDaily. [via /Film]

“Skin” follows an alien — the proper kind, from outer space — who is sent to Earth to collect hitchhikers. Why? To harvest their sweet, juicy meat of course! Human meat is considered a rare treat on the alien protagonist’s homeworld. I guess hitchhikers just make for easy pickings. There’s more to it than that, but I’d hate to spoil the surprise.

Glazer is an interesting choice. I’m not so sure how I feel about the guy. “Sexy Beast” is a great flick, one of those uniquely British gangster flicks. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Jonathan Glazer’s Next Sexy Beast Wants to Get Under The Skin

19 May 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Sexy Beast and Birth director Jonathan Glazer is working on a feature film adaptation of Michel Faber’s sci-fi horror novel Under the Skin. It seems that aliens must be really hot with production execs right now as some of the most interesting upcoming projects seem to revolve around otherworldly thingimajigs, from Greg Mottola’s Paul, through Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block and on to this one which, according to Film4 is “a groundbreaking story about aliens in Scotland looking for human prey”. Screen Daily reported on the film in 2005, when it was apparently on the fast track, and also again today. The new story gave fewer details than the last one, and it is entirely possible some of the details would have changed since then. At that time, however, Milo Addica had written the screenplay. You can read the first chapter of the original novel online, courtesy of The Guardian. »

- Brendon Connelly

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Nicole Kidman is a "A Beautiful, Resonant Instrument"

16 May 2009 1:55 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Hedwig himself is making another movie. John Cameron Mitchell's cinematic take on stage hit Rabbit Hole begins filming on June 1st in New York. Here, via Screen Daily, he's talking about why he's directing someone else's material for the first time and the humor that attracted him to this very sad story about a mother (Nicole Kidman) who has lost her young child.

He's really forthcoming about the different approaches required to work with untrained actors (Shortbus) versus stars (Rabbit Hole). He had never worked with stars before and I love this bit on Nicole Kidman and his cast... There's a different kind of pleasure with working with virtuosic actors --working with the Stradivarius... There's a thrill with working with a beautiful, resonant instrument that can respond to gentle guidance.

And there's nothing Hollywood about this experience which has been fantastic... I'm surprised at how smoothly it's going. This is very pure. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Nicole Kidman Exits Woody Allen's Next Movie

14 May 2009 1:31 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

You know who could use a good movie? That Nicole Kidman. Kidman is - or was - a movie star. She did great work for about three years straight. She won an Oscar. And then, suddenly, she had worse instincts than Kate Hudson.

The last good movie she made may have been The Interpreter but more than likely it was Cold Mountain. Fur, Birth, and Dogville were all honest efforts that backfired through no real fault of her own, and anything with a budget made in the last five years has been met with apathy at best. That's a Detroit Lions-esque nine-movie skid. For someone earning over $10 million a movie for her studio work and with an Oscar in the last decade, that's a terrible track record.

So Kidman has lined up some potentially great project, like the upcoming musical Nine and a new Woody Allen movie. Nope...sorry, scratch that. »

- Colin Boyd

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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button DVD (Two-Disc Special Edition)

5 May 2009 10:37 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

DVD Review

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Directed by: David Fincher

Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond

Running Time: 2 hrs 45 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: May 5, 2009

Plot: The story of a man (Pitt) who ages backwards.

Who’s It For? Any person who has felt the joy of love and the (very-human) loss of it could experience this film and identify with the not-so-odd life of Benjamin Button. Those who are deterred by the film’s length are only cheating themselves out of making a special new friend.

Movie: Benjamin Button’s story reminds us that the most basic human beings are extraordinary. But as a film, its existence rightfully disagrees with this truth. This is a movie that is more than just a a movie - or, an amalgamation of such parts like a good story and presentation. It is an »

- Nick Allen

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Danny Huston Joins Clash of the Titans

28 April 2009 9:47 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Danny Huston has joined the cast of Clash of the Titans, Warner Bros. big-budget remake of the 1981 film of the same name that Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) is directing. Huston joins Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen, Jason Flemyng and Alexa Davalos Huston will play Poseidon. Worthington stars as Perseus, the mortal son of Zeus, king of the gods. Neeson takes on the role of the mighty Zeus, and Fiennes plays the role of Hades, god of the underworld, who feeds on human fear. In the film, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous »

- James Cook

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$100 Million. No Questions Asked.

26 April 2009 6:47 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Twitch asked a great question on Friday that has been dancing around in my head naked all day: which auteur would you like to see handed a huge pile of money ($100 mil') and complete freedom to make whatever the hell kind of picture they wanted to make with it? Our pal Ja answered (always worth a read) and I should, too.

My five.

Jonathan Glazer. Birth and Sexy Beast are both so well directed and imagined with limited budgets. They're also the kind of features that scream 'this director will have trouble getting his films financed!' Imagine how pissed the cinephiles of 2050 are going to be if his feature career ends with Birth, only his second, a movie that will undoubtedly be revered by then.

Terry Gilliam. He makes every list like this... and that's out of more than pity. Even when he doesn't have a lot of money, »

- NATHANIEL R

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‘New Moon’ Starts Shooting, Finishes Casting, Makes Video

16 April 2009 5:27 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has officially started principal photography today according to Erik Feig, Summit Entertainment’s President of Production. The Chris Weitz directed film will be in theaters November 20, 2009.

All of the original actors from the box office hit Twilight have returned, including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.  There was some minor outrage over the exclusion of Billy Burke from an early press release, but MTV has confirmed Bella’s father Charlie Swan will be returning. I guess he just wasn’t important enough for Summit to remember.

New to the cast is Cameron Bright, who will play Alec.  The character is another member of the Volturi, a powerful coven of vampires based in Italy.  He’s also the brother of Jane who is being played by Dakota Fanning.  Alec’s powers allow him to cut off the enemy’s senses, rendering them unable to hear, see, or feel anything. »

- Jeff Leins

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Final 'Twilight Saga: New Moon' roles cast

16 April 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

Summit Entertainment has officially announced the beginning of production on "Twilight Saga: New Moon" and revealed the casting of several key remaining roles. While "Twilight" stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will return for "New Moon," much has been made of the casting additions on two fronts, Italy's Volturi vampire coven and the members of the Quileute Indian Nation. While previously revealed Volturi casting includes Michael Sheen as Aro, Noot Seer as Heidi, Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius and Dakota Fanning as Jane, Summit has expanded that group.  Cameron Bright ("Birth") will play Jane's brother Alec, while Charlie Bewley, David Cudmore... »

- HitFix Staff

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