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2009 | 2008 | 2007
11 articles from 2009
tMF Talkback: Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself?
12 November 2009 9:55 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself? Is there really such a need for that? I mean, the guy is popular and well-respected for his talent - he's good at comedy, drama, action-thriller. Now he's doing soap opera! Is there something going on? Apparently there is. Movieline did an interview with 'Carter', considered Franco's frequent artistic collaborator, to find out what the actor is up to. I'm not too sure what 'artistic collaborator' means really, but I had a bad feeling... Anyway, let's take a closer look...
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Erased James Franco by Carter [ see note below ]
- - - Some of you may already know, Franco is doing a soap opera - General Hospital, aside from six major movies in various production stages. The popular soap is more than 40 years on television and still retains loyal viewers, but why would meone like James Franco be interested in joining the cast? »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself?
12 November 2009 9:55 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself? Is there really such a need for that? I mean, the guy is popular and well-respected for his talent - he's good at comedy, drama, action-thriller. Now he's doing soap opera! Is there something going on? Apparently there is. Movieline did an interview with 'Carter', considered Franco's frequent artistic collaborator, to find out what the actor is up to. I'm not too sure what 'artistic collaborator' means really, but I had a bad feeling... Anyway, let's take a closer look...
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Erased James Franco by Carter [ see note below ]
- - - Some of you may already know, Franco is doing a soap opera - General Hospital, aside from six major movies in various production stages. The popular soap is more than 40 years on television and still retains loyal viewers, but why would meone like James Franco be interested in joining the cast? »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself?
12 November 2009 9:55 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself? Is there really such a need for that? I mean, the guy is popular and well-respected for his talent - he's good at comedy, drama, action-thriller. Now he's doing soap opera! Is there something going on? Apparently there is. Movieline did an interview with 'Carter', considered Franco's frequent artistic collaborator, to find out what the actor is up to. I'm not too sure what 'artistic collaborator' means really, but I had a bad feeling... Anyway, let's take a closer look...
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Erased James Franco by Carter [ see note below ]
- - - Some of you may already know, Franco is doing a soap opera - General Hospital, aside from six major movies in various production stages. The popular soap is more than 40 years on television and still retains loyal viewers, but why would meone like James Franco be interested in joining the cast? »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself?
12 November 2009 9:55 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Is James Franco trying to re-invent himself? Is there really such a need for that? I mean, the guy is popular and well-respected for his talent - he's good at comedy, drama, action-thriller. Now he's doing soap opera! Is there something going on? Apparently there is. Movieline did an interview with 'Carter', considered Franco's frequent artistic collaborator, to find out what the actor is up to. I'm not too sure what 'artistic collaborator' means really, but I had a bad feeling... Anyway, let's take a closer look...
- - -
Erased James Franco by Carter [ see note below ]
- - - Some of you may already know, Franco is doing a soap opera - General Hospital, aside from six major movies in various production stages. The popular soap is more than 40 years on television and still retains loyal viewers, but why would meone like James Franco be interested in joining the cast? »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Ryder 'has no bad feelings towards Jolie'
3 November 2009 4:43 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Winona Ryder has insisted that she has no bad feelings towards her Girl, Interrupted co-star Angelina Jolie. The 38-year-old produced and starred in the 1999 drama based on a true story, for which Jolie won a 'Best Supporting Actress' Oscar. She told Black Book: "I never had any bad feelings about Angelina and I was hurt that people thought that. "Everyone assumed I was really jealous because I thought this would be my vehicle. (more) »
- By Lara Martin
Christian Bale uses Tom Cruise as inspiration for killer in ‘American Psycho’
23 October 2009 9:16 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Tom Cruise is a raging psychopath.
American Psycho director Mary Harron says that Christian Bale, who played the yuppie killer Patrick Bateman in the film, based his performance on Tom Cruise.
In an interview with Black Book magazine, Harron stated that Bale was “trying to work out the right way to behave.”
Nothing says “acting right” like Tom Cruise.
“We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet [and] watching what people did,” Harron says. “And then one day [Christian] called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”
In 2005, Cruise fired his publicist, Lee Anne DeVette, who is also his sister, and replaced her with one of H-town’s veteran PR men, Paul Bloch. The Top Gun »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Is Tom Cruise Really an American Psycho?
22 October 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Almost 10 years after the film American Psycho re-introduced the world to actor Christian Bale in the most devilish of ways, that film's director, Mary Harron, is now opening up about Bale's inspiration for the character in a new interview with Black Book. Now, when playing a nicely dressed, well-to-do serial killer, you'd think one would look for similar real-life killers throughout history for inspiration. Nope, not Christian Bale – because according to Harron, his inspiration was none other than Tom Cruise. Harron says, "We talked about how Martian-likePatrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been...
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Cruise 'was Bale's inspiration for Psycho'
22 October 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
The director of American Psycho has claimed that star Christian Bale based his performance on Tom Cruise. Mary Harron helmed the 2000 adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, which was set during the 1980s and featured a yuppie killer named Patrick Bateman. She told Black Book magazine that the Dark Knight actor struggled in "trying to work out the right way to behave". "We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Tom Cruise News: Balki and American Psycho
21 October 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
It has been four years since the “couch incident” on Oprah, at least a year since he’s publicly praised Xenu, and ten months since his latest movie as a one-eyed Nazi, but Tom Cruise is still making headlines for his wild antics. Of all places, Balki is calling him a homophobe and people are comparing him to the title character in American Psycho.
Bronson Pinchot, the actor best known for playing Balki Bartokomous on television’s “Perfect Strangers,” did a great interview with The Onion’s Av Club titled “Random Roles.” The winding discussion took the 50-year-old actor through his filmography, stopping to tell a behind-the-scenes story or two along the way.
Balki bantered about the show, talked of a depressed Eddie Murphy, claimed Denzel Washington mentally abused him, and said Tom Hanks was a good guy.
When Pinchot reached 1983’s Risky Business, his first feature film, he recalled »
- Jeff Leins
Eerie: Tom Cruise was Christian Bale’s Inspiration for Patrick Bateman
21 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Su-su-Suri. In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale's inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What's more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise's go-getter, '80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman's yuppie, psychopathic shell. After the jump, we have Harron's very candid remark, as well as the actor who so embodies this strange, pop culture duality... Some may recall that in author Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name from 1991, Bateman resides in the same high-status apartment building as Cruise and actually runs into him on an elevator. This detail is not mentioned in Harron's chat, however... How did you and Christian Bale develop his character in American Psycho? Mary Harron: It was definitely a process. [Bale and I] talked a lot, but he was in L. »
- Hunter Stephenson
Halle Berry May Fight Insane Pregnant Woman
1 June 2009 6:59 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Halle Berry is in discussions to headline The Surrogate for 20th Century Fox, a thriller about a couple who discovers their surrogate mother is insane. Think Baby Mama only less funny.
No official deal has been reached, but she’s being considered for the female portion of the couple, according to Variety.
Berry would be returning to the screen after a short hiatus to have a child of her own. The last movie she starred in was Things We Lost in the Fire in 2007. Just in case you forgot, she won an Oscar in 2002, which I can only assume she’s been using to fend off the critics since then with some truly terrible movie choices. Just from personal experience, the best way to deal with a crazy pregnant lady is to threaten to make them watch Catwoman.
Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct) was announced as the director just days before. »
- Jeff Leins
2009 | 2008 | 2007
11 articles from 2009
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