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Anne Thompson Moves from Variety to indieWIRE
One of the film industry's most revered journalists, Anne Thompson recently announced that her popular blog, "Thompson on Hollywood," will moved from Variety.com to indieWIRE.
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Bryce Dallas Howard Looks Into Eclipse
Just when you thought you knew everything about the Twilight films, the producers have gone and made a switch: For the third film in the series, Eclipse, the role of Victoria, a member of James' coven, will no longer be played by Rachelle Lefevre. Although Lefevre will be appearing in the upcoming New Moon, scheduling conflicts have forced her to pull out of the third film.
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Judd Apatow Loves Funny People
In case you've somehow missed the billboards plastered on every piece of available real estate in America, Judd Apatow's Funny People, on which he serves as a triple-threat writer-director-producer, is being released this Friday, July 31. Apatow has been behind some of the most successful comedies in the past five years, including The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. So what's the secret to this comedy guru's success?
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My Golden Rules: Eli Roth
Although I’ve only directed three features (and a bunch of short films, including a fake trailer and a fake Nazi propaganda film), I have worked in one capacity or another on nearly 150 different film productions. Even when I was the guy getting coffee or standing on the street in zero-degree weather, asking homeless crack addicts to please keep their voices down, I was always learning.
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The Private Lives of Zoe Kazan
Butterflies in the stomach rarely plague Zoe Kazan who, unlike many actors, looks forward to the auditioning process. “I’m a very ‘take the bull by the horns’ type of person,” says the 25-year-old California native. “There’s so much about this business that’s out of your control. Auditioning is the time when you do what you can do, how you want to do it. Nobody else is in charge.”
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Bad Seeds, Devil Children & Orphans: Cinema’s Creepiest Kids
Children are supposed to be innocent, guileless and, well, childlike. But what happens when they are not? When they are, instead, threatening, malicious and evil. For years, moviemakers have explored and exploited the creepy underside of childhood, by returning again and again to the "evil child" sub-genre.
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Sneak Peek: Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes
The new Sherlock Holmes has got amazing acting (Rachel McAdams) pretty things to look at (Jude Law) and the biggest star power in Hollywood (Robert Downey Jr.), which should be enough to make Guy Ritchie's period piece about the adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional sleuth a sure thing. Here, several months before its Christmas Day release, MM offers a sneak peek at some photos, courtesy of Warner Bros.
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Clifton Collins Jr. is a Master of Disguise
It has been a busy year for Clifton Collins Jr., acting in almost a dozen movies set for a 2009 release (including Star Trek and Crank: High Voltage), but somehow he managed to pull it off. He is known for his talent of taking on different roles and audiences can look forward to what he will bring to upcoming movies like Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day and Jim Sheridan's Brothers. He also juggles his time writing screenplays and directing award-winning music videos.
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From Borat to Brüno: Sacha Baron Cohen is Back!
Sacha Baron Cohen was called vulgar, shocking, brilliant, horrifying and ballsy for his role as Borat. Now, one can only imagine what he will be called for his new persona, Brüno.
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MM Remembers: Farrah Fawcett
My condolences to the family and friends of Farrah Fawcett, who lost her long battle to cancer today. I know the obits will emphasize her heyday as a '70s sex symbol—thanks to the indelible impact of "Charlie’s Angels," from which she alighted after only a single full season, and a revealing poster that graced the bedroom walls of hormonally inflamed teen boys everywhere. But I have much fonder memories of her sporadic appearances as the elusive object of David Janssen’s bemused desire in "Harry O" (1974-76), a cult fave TV series (and, trust me, I'm a proud member of that cult) that is long overdue for an authorized DVD reissue.
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AFI Honors Clint Eastwood with Honorary Degree
While honorary degrees seem harder to come by—with Arizona State University electing not to confer one upon their commencement speaker, President Barack Obama—the powers that be at The American Film Institute (AFI) was happy to bestow a Doctorate of Fine Arts, honoris causa on speaker Clint Eastwood during their 2009 commencement ceremonies.
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50 Best Websites for Moviemakers 2009
The Internet offers moviemakers a unique opportunity for sharing their work with the world. But distribution is not the only way the Web can assist aspiring and seasoned auteurs alike. From pre-production through post, millions of Websites help today’s cinema artists further their careers. How can you separate the best from the rest? For starters, you can use our second annual roundup of the 50 Best Websites for Moviemakers.
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Rob Dyrdek Holds On to His Street Dreams
Rob Dydrek is best known for being the smaller, skateboarding half of MTV's reality TV duo "Rob and Big," but now Dyrdek is making his debut as a moviemaker with a project that's close to his heart and sure make waves in the skateboarding community. Street Dreams tells the story of an underdog skater who strives to keep his passion alive while everyone around him undermines it, all while shedding light on the very real hostility between skateboarders and cops.
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MM Remembers: David Carradine
David Carradine worked with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Quentin Tarantino, Charlton Heston to Chuck Norris, Paul Bartel to Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby to Walter Hill, in movies and TV series of wildly uneven quality, in just about every conceivable genre, during a screen acting career that spanned five decades. But it’s the role that made him a '70s icon—Kwai Chang Caine, the mystical martial artist adrift in the Wild West of "Kung Fu"—for which he remains, now and likely forever, best known.
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Nia Vardalos' Life in Ruins
Prior to 2002, Nia Vardalos was best known as a television character actress with one-off appearances on such shows as “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place.” But all that changed in the spring of 2002, when My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the family comedy she wrote and starred in, began a box office domination that lasted well into the next year and culminated in total grosses of more than $350 million worldwide.
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Michael Haneke Wins the Palme d’Or at Cannes
World War I epic The White Ribbon was the big winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which ran from May 13th to the 24th. Directed by controversial moviemaker Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Cache), The White Ribbon nabbed the fest's top prize--the coveted Palme d'Or. Grand Prix, the second-place award for best film, went to Jacques Audiard's (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) French prison tale, A Prophet. Brillante Mendoza was named best director for Kinatay and Feng Mei nabbed best screenplay for Spring Fever.
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Christina Murphy Has All the Right Moves
Dance Flick is just the beginning for this rising star
Christina Murphy is an actress headed for a breakthrough year. Before starring in the upcoming dark indie comedy Forgotten Pills, she'll play Nora, the "bitchy" dancer out to ruin the heroine's chance at success in the Wayans brothers' Dance Flick, in theaters Friday.
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Rian Johnson Fakes It for The Brothers Bloom
Sometimes being a good writer-director requires being a great actor
There’s a machine which, in the back of my mind, I always assumed existed. It’s called “The Legitimizor.” Housed in a lead casing, tangled in rubberized wiring and tesla coils askew, kept in the basement of an unassuming restaurant in New York, The Legitimizor hums with a solid low-range frequency and waits for its one purpose. Each year, sometime after Sundance, a new crop of moviemakers is invited by a mysterious engraved postcard to this restaurant. They are met by (for some reason) Peter Bogdanovich, who makes small talk over drinks, then leads them downstairs and feeds them, one by one, into The Legitimizor.
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Meanest Movie Moms
This weekend, children young and old will buy flowers, send cards and pay tribute to the woman who brought them into this world. Mother’s Day is a time of celebration and gratitude toward the lady dearest to our hearts. And while turbulent times with mom are a natural part of growing up, this year you should be extra sweet to your creator, because she could be a whole lot worse. Don't believe us? Then take a look at this list of cinema's meanest mothers. From the psychotic to the just plain nasty, these moms make us glad that making our beds and taking out the garbage were the most ever asked of us.
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Gerard Butler: Law Abiding Citizen
Arriving on the Philadelphia set of Law Abiding Citizen, I’m ushered into a small, out-of-the-way room where a Catholic priest in full canonical dress is waiting. Luckily, I’m not in need of last rites; this priest is actually producer Alan Siegel, in costume for his cameo as a clergyman who attends the execution of a prisoner in today’s scene. Siegel is the longtime manager of actor Gerard Butler (300, P.S. I Love You) and the film is the first under their new production banner, Evil Twin.
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The Zen of Rodrigo Santoro
Actor Rodrigo Santoro,a native of Rio de Janeiro, exudes peace. Despite his pacifist aura, Santoro masterfully played sadistic Persian king Xerxes in Zack Snyder’s intensely violent 300. Though Santoro seems to believe that serendipity has catapulted his career, the truth is his own preternatural intuition, talent and dedication to his craft (not to mention good looks and charm) have blasted him to the pinnacle of Brazil’s film and TV industry and landed him on a rapidly expanding career track in Hollywood.
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Steve Zahn Takes 10
After more than 50 roles, Hollywood's iconic funnyman wants a do-over (are you listening Steven Spielberg?)
Whether he’s losing 40 pounds to play a POW for Werner Herzog in Rescue Dawn, plotting against George Clooney as an ex-con/stoner in Out of Sight or voicing a wise-cracking bear in Dr. Dolittle 2, Steve Zahn knows how to make an audience laugh. (And an editor, too.) As he continues the leap from comedic sidekick to leading man as Jennifer Aniston’s mismatched love interest in Stephen Belber’s Management, the Minnesota native opens up about his introduction to Hollywood—and why he’s not ashamed to admit he’s never seen Citizen Kane.
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Sneak Peek: Star Trek
As audiences await JJ Abrams' big-screen update of Star Trek, crashing into theaters May 8th, MM readers can get a sneak peek behind the scenes in these two pages of set photos, courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
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Tom Bastounes Is One Merry Gentleman
When Tom Bastounes trained with The Second City's touring company he hoped the famed improv institution would give him the same sort of career boost it has for people like Dan Aykroyd and Tina Fey. Instead, Bastounes ended up establishing a multimillion-dollar produce business. Never giving up on his dream of acting, though, Bastounes turned his business acumen into producing savvy and starred in and produced two features, including the Michael Keaton-directed The Merry Gentleman, which premiered at Sundance and is in theaters now.
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Eric Bana Loves the Beast
In Love The Beast, premiering at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, audiences get to see the 25-year-long relationship Eric Bana has maintained with his pride and joy, "The Beast"—much more than just a car.
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Dan Fogler: Comedy Genius or Hysterical Psycho?
Throughout his decade-long career, Dan Fogler has done many things. Like winning a Tony Award for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and making short shorts, ping pong and pandas cool with Balls of Fury. And though he's directed plays in the past, he's never stepped behind the camera to direct a feature film. Until now.
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Singer-Turned-Actor… For What?
With Obsessed opening in theaters April 24th, and Beyoncé continuing this "acting career" of hers, MM presents the five best and five worst singers-turned-actors.
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Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter fans may have to wait another three months to see David Yates' latest magical installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, on the big screen. But all it takes is a few clicks here to get a sneak peek behind the scenes at some of the franchise's favorite actors—along with some new faces.
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Adrienne Shelly Foundation on eBay
In January 2007, a non-profit organization was created in honor of the late actress and moviemaker Adrienne Shelly, whose life was tragically cut short November 1, 2006. The Adrienne Shelly Foundation exists now with a mission to support female moviemakers, like Shelly herself.
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Jenni Baird Vs. Alien Trespass
Australian actress Jenni Baird first hit it big as a recurring cast member on the popular, award-winning Aussie TV drama, "All Saints." Now she's moving up to the big-screen with R.W. Goodwin's Alien Trespass, a funny, affectionate homage to cheesy sci-fi movies of the 1950s. Baird stars as Tammy, a waitress who spots an alien spaceship. Unfortunately, the creatures aboard the ship are not the benevolent kind—their arrival on Earth could mean the end of civilization. So Tammy joins forces with an astronomer ("Will and Grace"'s Eric McCormack) in order to save the human race from the destructive, deadly aliens.
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Colin Hanks Bucks the Trend
Was Buck Howard based on a real celebrity? How did finances appear for the movie? Is it challenging to create a sweet, character-driven comedy in the age of superhero epics and torture porn? After the “record” button is pushed on my prehistoric cassette recorder, Colin Hanks, star of The Great Buck Howard, reveals all of this and more in the following exchange of questions and answers.
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Video Views Pick: Milk
This week's Video Views pick is Gus Van Sant's Milk, starring Josh Brolin, James Franco and Sean Penn in his Oscar-winning performance.
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Mary Stuart Masterson Lets Cinemonde Eat Cake
“Acting is a spring, a dive into a cold pool. Directing is a marathon,” muses Mary Stuart Masterson from the back of a cab on her way to the airport for an early flight to L.A. to promote her directorial debut, The Cake Eaters. “There are a lot of forces that be along the way that want to pull you off your path. It’s a very different rhythm to acting. I’m still running,” she laughs easily.
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Behind the Scenes at the Spirit Awards
The champagne and expletives flowed freely at Film Independent’s 24th Annual Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 21st. Held in a massive white tent in a parking lot adjacent to the Santa Monica beach, the Spirit Awards honor films that were made for under a $20 million dollar budget.
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Slumdog Millionaire is Top Dog at 2009 Oscars
As predicated, Danny Boyle's little-indie-that-could, Slumdog Millionaire, took home the most awards at last night's Oscar ceremony, claiming eight Golden Guys in all, including those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography for Anthony Dod Mantle, Best Editing for Chris Dickens and two nods for its music, one for Best Original Score and the other for Best Original Song.
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