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The Weekly Wrap-Up: November 15-21, 2008
21 November 2008 11:51 PM, PST | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news
Let's face it. Teenage girls like looking at hot teenage boys just as much as vice versa. And if they're also hot vampires, all the better. Who are we to begrudge them an outlet for their burgeoning womanhood? Let them shriek and swoon and enjoy this weekend of Twilight while we focus on several of the smaller stories that broke during the week of November 15-21, 2008.
Director Kevin Munroe passed on some info about his interpretation of Italian comic Dylan Dog entitled Dead of Night. It offers a cornucopia of monsters: werewolves, zombies, and vampires - and a few sub-categories of those as well. I'm with Butane; this sounds like something to keep tabs on.
One upcoming project that gives me a very creepy vibe is Mel House's Walking Distance, as evidenced by the disturbing exclusive behind-the-scenes stills Mel provided to us.
By far the best news of the
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The Woman In Black
Timothy Olyphant Goes Crazy
21 November 2008 2:16 AM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
Timothy Olyphant, star of HBO’s Deadwood and 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, has signed on to star in The Crazies, the upcoming remake of the George A. Romero horror flick which Breck Eisner (Sahara) is directing. The story revolves around the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply. Olyphant is playing the town's sheriff. The screenplay was written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright. Kosar previously wrote The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror remakes as well as the Christian Bale flick The Machinist. Wright wrote 2006’s Pulse, which was a remake of the Japanese horror flick Kairo. Michael Aguilar (The Departed) and Dean Georgaris (What Happens in Vegas) are producing, with Romero executive producing. The original Crazies opened in 1973.
James Cook
Wahlberg Laments Lack Of Female Role Models
20 November 2008 8:02 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Actor Mark Wahlberg wants to move his family out of Hollywood - because he doesn't want his daughter to grow up emulating her neighbours Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
The Departed star insists his main priority is providing positive and educational surroundings for his young children - daughter Ella Rae, five, and sons Michael, two, and newborn Brendan Joseph.
And he admits that celebrity-obsessed Hollywood may not be the best place for kids to grow up.
He says, "We won't stay there forever but it's very difficult to raise normal kids in an environment like that. And I was thinking there's no real role models for girls.
"You've got Britney Spears, you've got Paris Hilton; they're nice enough people but I don't want my daughter to aspire to be like that.
"I'm much more concerned with being a good dad and being there for them and teaching them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made."
De Niro, Pitt linked to 'Departed' sequel
13 November 2008 2:20 AM, PST | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Mark Wahlberg has revealed that Robert De Niro and Brad Pitt may star in a sequel to The Departed. The Max Payne actor, who picked up an Oscar nomination for his turn as foul-mouthed cop Dignam in Martin Scorsese's crime drama, told Digital Spy that the Hollywood heavyweights have been mentioned as potential stars for a follow-up. "They were talking about bringing in a couple of new guys like De Niro, maybe Brad Pitt or someone like that playing (more)
By Simon Reynolds
Vera Farmiga: 81st Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Frontrunner
10 November 2008 6:27 PM, PST | From www.actressarchives.com | See recent Actress Archives news
A native New Jerseyan of Ukranian heritage, 35 year-old actress Vera Farmiga is best known to audiences as Madolyn, the curiously fit psychologist caught in a love triangle twixt Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed.” With her new role in the upcoming Oscar bait “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” however, Farmiga may soon be known as the Academy Award nominated actress from 2008’s best holocaust movie. During a recent interview with New York Magazine, Farmiga talked about her work in the film, in which she plays mother to an 8 year-old boy named Bruno, who strikes a friendship with a boy living in a con ...
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Warner Bros. gets rights to "Tales from the Gangster Squad"
6 November 2008 11:31 PM, PST | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news
Warner Bros. has acquired rights to "Tales From the Gangster Squad," an L.A. Times series in seven parts. Paul Lieberman wrote the series which focused on the creation in 1946 of the Gangster Squad, an Lapd formed group to keep the East Coast Mafia out of the corrupted city. Their "anything goes" way of tackling things, went on through the 1950s. Dan Lin of Lin Pictures will produce the feature adaptation and Jon Silik will act as a co-producer. Lin has been involved with other crime-based films - "The Departed" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and the upcoming "Sherlock Holmes" film
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Wahlberg Impressed With Scorsese's Gangster Movie Knowledge
19 October 2008 7:04 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Movie star Mark Wahlberg has developed an unlikely friendship with his The Departed director Martin Scorsese because they share a passion for gangster movies and mobster fashion.
The odd couple is working on a new TV series, Boardwalk Empire, set in the 1920s, and Wahlberg reveals his pal knows everything there is to know about gangster culture - and he's very impressed with his "encyclopaedic knowledge".
He says, "Every time you talk to the guy it's like a history lesson. I mean he's talking about movies that were made in the 1930s. He knows what year they were made based on how the hairstyles are.
"Even if they're supposed to take place in, like, 1830, he's like, 'Oh, they shot that in 1932 because they have such-and-such a haircut'."
Movie Marriages: Four Actor-Director Duos Who Are Joined at the Hip
17 October 2008 4:06 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Matt Singer
If it feels like Russell Crowe is in every movie Ridley Scott directs these days, that's because he is. After winning a Best Actor Oscar for "Gladiator" in 2000, Crowe reeled off three Scott pictures in three years: 2006's "A Good Year," 2007's "American Gangster" and this year's "Body of Lies." And the two are already at it again: Scott recently announced that "Nottingham," his long-stalled adaptation of the Robin Hood legend, will move forward with Crowe taking on both roles of the legendary archer and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Most of the greatest directors in history have important collaborations with actors who come to be synonymous with their work. Though each partner has had careers apart from one another, they come to represent a single creative entity in our minds: when we imagine a John Ford movie, we think of John Wayne in Monument Valley; when you say Toshiro Mifune,
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Matt Singer
Movie Review: Max Payne (2008)
17 October 2008 3:43 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Photo: 20th Century Fox The best way to describe Max Payne is to say that if it was a better movie it wouldn't be called Max Payne and need a video game association to gain attention. Video game adaptations continue to prove they are not a viable option for a good movie, just a movie to be sold to 14-year-old gamers willing to leave their Playstation long enough to watch a movie that isn't far from the digital world they spend the majority of their lives in; lifeless and without reason. Max Payne is by no means an awful movie, but it gives new meaning to mediocrity and sub-standard filmmaking. This is a flick geared for style without substance and on that note it succeeds gloriously. Mark Wahlberg stars as our title character, a cop that has lost his wife and young daughter in what
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Brad Brevet
Robert De Niro Inks Deal with CBS as Executive Producer
16 October 2008 9:11 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
Academy award winning, Robert De Niro, has inked deal with CBS network to work on three projects. He will play a role on those, not as an actor, but as an executive producer along with his Tribeca productions' partner, Jane Rosenthal.
CBS guarantess that at least one of the three projects will be produced as a series pilot. The first upcoming project that will be produced soon is a partnership between Tribeca productions and Media Rights Capital. The script writer to build up the story is the Oscar winning writer for "The Departed", William Monahan. It is a debut for Monahan in taking his writing into a television.
There are no detailed information yet about the title and the air date. Rosenthal only could say the definite place for the drama setting, "It's right in his wheelhouse, though, and set squarely in New York."
Both Tribeca production founders, Robert and Rosenthal,
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Max Payne
16 October 2008 1:06 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
Two cardinal rules for the proper care and maintenance of Mark Wahlberg: Never let him play a humorless badass, and never cast him in the lead role. Under the right circumstances, when just a spark in a larger ensemble (even Boogie Nights, an exception, surrounds him with a lot of people), he can be thrilling to watch, especially when his masculinity looks more like boyish petulance, as it does in I Heart Huckabees, The Departed, and Three Kings. But ask him to carry a movie like The Truth About Charlie, Planet Of The Apes, or the joyless new videogame-to-movie adaptation Max Payne, and he's a block of wood in need of Geppetto. While it's asking too much for him to save a fashionably bleak, derivative, nonsensical film like Max Payne, his tight-lipped, inaccessible performance as a detective-turned-vigilante certainly doesn't help. Wahlberg stars as Max Payne, a maverick detective...
Scott Tobias
Int: Mark Wahlberg
16 October 2008 12:28 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news
To say that Mark Wahlberg.s career has been fairly impressive is an understatement. There are a whole lot of young punks that start off in some Top 40 rap/rock/pop band and are not able to transcend and continue their career. But Mr. Wahlberg did. I won.t even bother to mention Mark.s former .personality. because after his terrific performance in Boogie Nights, he was able to continue and grow as an actor. After his Oscar nominated supporting turn in The Departed and a chance to work with...
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De Niro Signs TV Deal
15 October 2008 12:00 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Robert De Niro has landed the chance to develop at least one new television series after signing on to make a string of shows with a U.S. network.
De Niro and his Tribeca Productions partner Jane Rosenthal have made a deal to develop and executive produce three shows for CBS network - with a guarantee that at least one of projects will be produced as a series pilot.
The first project will mark the TV-writing debut of Oscar-winner William Monahan - who scripted Leonardo DiCaprio's latest film Body of Lies and his 2006 movie The Departed.
Rosenthal will not elaborate on the subject of the show, but tells Daily Variety of the deal: "It's right in his wheelhouse, though, and set squarely in New York. Bob (De Niro) and I are huge fans of his movies and the characters he writes.
"We wanted to stretch into television, and I worked at CBS and have a long friendship with (CBS President) Les Moonves. It felt like home."
Movie Review: Body of Lies
14 October 2008 4:51 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe Director: Ridley Scott Release Date: October 10, 2008 Running Time: 128 min MPAA Rating: R Distributor: Warner Bros. - - - Yes, you've seen it before. It was only a couple of weeks ago that Eagle Eye, the Shia Labeouf flop, used the same device to drive its plot to hell, but unfortunately not back again. That movie’s characters had insight on how to defeat the odds of their fate thanks to people who could see them but they couldn’t see where their help was coming from. Body of Lies is a more complex, grown-up version of that movie - and that isn’t a good thing. Their only differences are found in the actors and directors, which Body of Lies holds a superior command over any movie this year for that matter. Using this device in an intelligent film, director Ridley Scott doesn’t
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Mark Wahlberg Takes Wait-And-See Approach...To Everything
13 October 2008 4:42 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Mark Wahlberg sat down with the press recently to talk about Max Payne, and Coming Soon took the opportunity to address all the rumored films he has in the works, from Cocaine Cowboys to Darren Aronofsky's The Fighter to sequels for The Departed and The Italian Job. With each film on the agenda, Wahlberg revealed less and less but added some variation of "so we'll see."
Of The Fighter, Wahlberg said he's frustrated by training for two years for a role in a film that might not happen. "I keep on training and I don't know. We'll wait and see. Hopefully we'll get a start date one of these days and we can make the movie. "
Apparently, "a bunch of things" are holding the production up, but Wahlberg will meet with Aronofsky this week about the project. "(S)o we'll see," he adds.
Switching gears to Cocaine Cowboys, which
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Colin Boyd
Leonardo DiCaprio Has Been Solid for Six Straight Years
13 October 2008 1:10 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
I read Erin Nolan's "Leonardo DiCaprio: Top Five/Bottom Five" at Film.com (yes, that's me over there as the first commenter) and I started thinking about how a top ten Leonardo DiCaprio films may be a good list to make, and one I could hammer out relatively quick. Then I took at look at DiCaprio's filmography and realized I couldn't make a list of ten films. I had eight, but not ten. You may be thinking, "Just throw two you think are just okay at the bottom and call it good." Negative, I don't do that. There's no chance I am throwing The Man in the Iron Mask, Romeo + Juliet, The Basketball Diaries or The Quick and the Dead on any list of mine just to fill space. Sorry, those films aren't good enough (or at all) and to put them on a top ten list would be to recognize them as such,
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Brad Brevet
Review: Body of Lies
10 October 2008 8:03 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
I found myself asking one simple question during Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, a well-shot, big-name intelligence thriller that sees Leonardo DiCaprio's CIA man caught up in action in the Middle East -- namely, what is Body of Lies for? I don't mean that in the sense of asking what it supports or believes in -- although, with the film's mix of Hollywood heroics and sneering cynicism, you're certainly left with that question -- but rather in the sense of asking what it is that Body of Lies means to accomplish or communicate. Part of the film feels like an attempt at a sprawling, globe-trotting story of realpolitik and moral complexity, in the mold of Syriana or Scott's own Black Hawk Down; other parts feel like Dolby-pumped slam-bang action, in the mold of Tony Scott's Spy Game or the Bourne Films. And some of Body of Lies feels like a weird,
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James Rocchi
Movie Review - 'Body of Lies'
10 October 2008 12:11 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, and Mark Strong
Directed by Ridley Scott
Rated R
The first time I remember seeing somewhat believable spy satellites in movies was Enemy of the State, directed by Tony Scott. Now his older and more revered brother, Ridley, uses a more believable variation of that technology to follow CIA agent Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) through scorching equatorial deserts in Body of Lies. Ironically, in the first film, the spying is to know too much, while in Body of Lies, too little is known in spite of it.
The film is based on a novel by David Ignatius - adapted for the screen by The Departed screenwriter William Monahan - about a search for a high-ranking terrorist that involves the incompatible methods of the intelligence communities of the United States and Jordan.
Ferris is on the ground doing the dirty work of Ed
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Colin Boyd
Body Of Lies
9 October 2008 1:06 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
Has any other great director seemed as content to make merely good movies as Ridley Scott? Visionary at his best, workmanlike at his worst, Scott has a bad habit of making films whose handsomeness almost, but doesn't quite, hide their shortcomings. Like last year's American Gangster, Body Of Lies has elements of greatness in it but never quite performs the alchemy needed to convert them, settling instead for mere goodness. Still, it's not like the screens are so flooded with decent movies that we couldn't use another, particularly a timely, clear-eyed thriller about the Middle East and the role of the U.S. therein. Screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) adapts a novel by journalist/novelist David Ignatius and the results play like a more comprehensible and explosion-filled Syriana. Body Of Lies opens with a terrorist incident in Manchester, shifts to Iraq, then expands to reveal a web of decisions and deceptions.
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Keith Phipps
Box Office: Lies of Ember in the Quarantined City
8 October 2008 3:32 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Despite having six new wide releases last week, only Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist cracked the top five. In its third week of release, Appaloosa expanded into an additional 1,031 theaters, allowing it to take the number five spot. Here's the top five.
1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua: $29.3 million
2. Eagle Eye: $17.7 million
3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: $11.3 million
4. Nights in Rodanthe: $7.3 million
5. Appaloosa: $5 million
Body of Lies
What's It All About: In this Ridley Scott film, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a CIA agent tracking terrorist activity in Jordan, with Russell Crowe playing the veteran agent who helps him infiltrate the terrorist underground.
Why It Might Do Well: This film reteams DiCaprio with William Monahan, the screenwriter behind The Departed, and the flick is sporting a 70% fresh rating at rottentomatoes.com.
Why It Might Not Do Well: This being an election year, there are already enough lies kicking around.
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Matt Bradshaw
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