While Doing Press …
… for his upcoming Greek mythology flick “Immortals” (due 11 November), “Man of Steel” actor Henry Cavil talks about what it was like putting on the iconic red-and-blue union suit. Not surprisingly, he called it “one of the best moments of my life.”
Here’s the video:
(h/t ComicBookMovie)
“Melancholia” actress Kirsten Dunst is the star of R.E.M’s final video. It’s from the Athens, Ga.-based band’s upcoming greatest hits collection (and swan song) “Part Lies. Part Heart. Part Truth. Part Garbage.” The legendary rock band called it a career in October after three decades together.
You can read more about the band’s collaboration with Dunst in this MTV News story.
Splash Newshas put together a new video of “Dark Knight Rises” actor Joseph Gordon Levitt caught on the film’s NYC set.
The former “Third Rock from the Sun” star plays Gotham cop John Blake in the third and final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Bat-Saga. It hits theaters next year,
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Courtesy of The Sun:
Filming for the Dark Knight Rises will shift across the Hudson to Newark, N.J. on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4, according to On Location Vacations.
Here’s the details:
“Today, Newark, NJ distributed a notice about changes in next week’s Newark Light Rail schedule for a movie shoot, which is almost definitely The Dark Knight Rises.
One of our readers, WL, explained that the main Line of Newark Light Rail is an underground subway for the most part, though the Broad Street Extension operates as an above-ground streetcar. So, it sounds like they may be shooting some type of Gotham underground subway action scene.”
The details, which can be found on the city’s website, explain that portions of Newark Light Rail will not operate due to a movie production taking place on Thursday, November 3 and Friday, November 4. Among the closures, the notice stats that Newark Light Rail service will NOT operate both days between Orange Street and Newark Penn stations.
Here’s a complete list of closures for the locals.
OK. So now we know. When they’re stuck in a gigantic blizzard, moviegoers prefer the adventures of an animated cat to those of a drunken and dissolute writer.
The “Shrek” spin-off “Puss in Boots” ruled the box office roost this weekend, while “The Rum Diary,” Johnny Depp’s big-screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s only novel, finished in fifth place in the box office race. Here’s the weekend, by the numbers (courtesy of Widescreen Warriot):
| 1. | Puss in Boots | $34 million |
| 2. | Paranormal Activity 3 | $18.5 million |
| 3. | In Time | $12 million |
| 4. | Footloose (2011) | $5.4 million |
| 5. | The Rum Diary | $5 million |
The New York Times profiles Charlize Theron, whose new movie, “Young Adult,” hits theaters on Dec. 9.
The general thrust of the story is that Theron, while drop-dead gorgeous, is actually, y’know, serious about acting and stuff. Sheesh.
Here’s the nut graf:
“THERE may be women in Hollywood more beautiful than Charlize Theron, though it’s hard offhand to think who might qualify, and even harder to think of one who relies less on her looks. Ms. Theron, whose new film, “Young Adult,” directed by Jason Reitman, opens on Dec. 9, is a genuine star — with an almost Marilyn-like glamour — and yet she goes about her work as if she were a character actress. From one movie to the next she seldom looks the same, and not just in the ones where she has obviously transformed herself. To play the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster” (2003), for example, she put on 40 pounds, shaved her eyebrows and wore prosthetic teeth.”
Read the full story here.
Name: Nowhere Boy
Release Date: 2009
Writer: Matt Greenhalgh (screenplay)
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
Cast:
Aaron Johnson: John Lennon
Kristin Scott Thomas: Mimi Smith
David Threlfall: George Toogood Smith
Josh Bolt: Pete Shotton
Ophelia Lovibond: Maria Kennedy
James Michael Johnson: Stan Parkes
Anne-Marie Duff: Julia Lennon
David Morrissey: Bobby Dykins
Andrew Buchan: Michael Fishwick
James Jack Bentham: Rod Davis
Jack McElhone: Eric Griffiths
Thomas Brodie Sangster: Paul McCartney
Sam Bell: George Harrison
Christian Bird: Jimmy Tarbuck
Colin Tierney: Alf Lennon
Run-Time: 98 mins.
Studio: Ecosse Films
There’s three kinds of movies about rock bands and musicians: The ones that catch them at their very beginning (“Backbeat“), their very end (“The Last Waltz“) or at some pivotal moment in-between (“I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” “Rattle & Hum“).
This 2009 biopic by director Sam Taylor-Wood straddles the line between the first and third camps, as it recounts a pivotal year in the life (pardon the pun) of proto-Beatle John Lennon.
The film opens with the teenaged Lennon (Johnson) on the cusp of one of those great leaps in growth and maturity that come upon so many young people as they walk that blurred line between youth and adulthood.
The 17-year-old Lennon here isn’t the bad-boy or revolutionary the wold would come to know. Instead, he’s a quiet and bookish kid who lives a surprisingly respectable suburban existence with his Aunt Mimi (Thomas) and Uncle George (Threlfall). This young Lennon has to be admonished to wear his glasses as he sets off each morning to a school where coat-and-tie make up the uniform.
As was the case in real life, Mimi and George are surrogate parents who dote upon the young Lennon with a mix of classic English discipline (Mimi) and light-hearted fun (Uncle George).
Lennon’s life changes all at once with the shocking and heartbreaking death of Uncle George; the sudden reappearance of his estranged mother Julia (Duff) and his discovery of rock-and-roll.
The latter of the two conspire to put young John in conflict with Mimi — who exhibits a tragically stereotypical English stiff upper lip when Uncle George dies. Julia is everything her sister is not – a free-spirit, a partier, a lover of music and dance. But her very free-spiritedness also conceals a secret that nearly tears the two sisters apart.
Music fans will appreciate the catalytic meeting between Lennon and Paul McCartney (Sangster) and the attention to detail that shows the two young musicians holding their guitars and singing in exactly the same way they’re depicted in period photographs. A young George Harrison (Bell) joins the duo not long after, setting into motion a story that even the most casual of fans now knows by heart.
The script by Greenhalgh perfectly captures the uncertainty of youth and the liberating effect that rock can have on those teenagers who give their lives over to it. And he should know. Greenhalgh also wrote the screenplay for “Control,” the 2007 biopic of the tragic Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
In her feature debut, Taylor-Wood (whose previous credits include “Love You More,” a 2008 short about two teens drawn together in 1978 by their mutual love for the eponymous single by post-punk band The Buzzcocks) brings color and light to postwar Liverpool, a place that exists in popular memory only in the black-and-white of the Fab Four playing the legendary Cavern Club. Be sure to look, by the way, for an absolutely hilarious scene involving Lennon and the club that was to make his future.
At its heart, “Nowhere Boy” is a love story — but not a romance. It’s a story about the love between Lennon and the two powerful and strong-willed women who shaped him; the transfomative effect that a love affair with music can have on those it seizes and the love between three intensely creative people who went on to change the history of popular music.
But it’s also a survivor’s tale, about the traumas that shaped Lennon and his struggle to overcome them. Some allow themselves to be swallowed by their tragedies. But others turn around and make great art. And both, the love story and the survivor’s tale, are stories that resonate — no matter what the era.
Here’s an intriguing piece of news.
In an interview with Brazilian site CinePop, American actress Olivia Wilde says she’s playing Lara Croft in a reboot of the “Tomb Raider” franchise. You’ll recall that the role was originated by Angelina Jolie, who played the video game archaeologist with the pneumatic curves for two flicks during the last decade.
Via ShockYa, here’s a bit more:
“Olivia Wilde was interviewed for the Brazilian film website CinePop, and she said that she has been a big fan of the character and is happy portray the character in the new film version, which is set for 2013 .
So far, she is the only confirmed cast member. The director of the film is Mark Fergus, who also wrote another film Wilde has starred in, “Cowboys and Aliens.” He’s also written “Iron Man.” Fergus and Hawk Ostby have written the screenplay for the new “Lara Croft” film, and Graham King and Ted Hedington will produce.”
Undeterred by the weather, filming continued in Manhattan this weekend. Here’s a ton of set videos.
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And here’s some set photos:
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Warning: Some serious spoilers ahead here of “Dark Knight” actor Joseph Gordon Levitt on the NYC set of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
You’ve been warned.
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