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19 August 2008 1:37 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The Dark Knight has held on to the Australian box office top spot for a fifth week. It holds off competition from Liam Neeson's action thriller Taken, which enters at two. Elsewhere, Star Wars: The Clone Wars debuts at four, while Bryan Bertino's horror The Strangers goes straight in at seven. The only other new entry comes from Thomas McCarthy's drama The Visitor at number ten. The top ten in full: 1. (more)

By Alex Fletcher

25 July 2008 12:07 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Step Brothers

Starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly

Directed by Adam McKay

Rated R

Is a smart comedy better than a dumb comedy? There are great examples of both, and even Will Ferrell, the star of Step Brothers, shows up on both lists. Stranger Than Fiction is a smart comedy with a complex premise and an almost poetic ending. Talladega Nights is a dumb comedy in which Ferrell, at one point, learns to face his fear of getting behind the wheel again by driving through a neighborhood sitting inches away from a wild cougar.

Each approach has its merits, although dumb comedies almost always produce bigger laughs and higher ticket sales. There’s a reason people still buy Three Stooges memorabilia, after all: Because at the end of the day, most people just want to see a comedy that can make them laugh and help them forget the reasons

Colin Boyd

3 July 2008 12:24 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Thomas McCarthy has joined the cast of Roland Emmerich's disaster movie 2012. McCarthy, a supporting actor who has recently found success writing and directing indie features The Station Agent and The Visitor, will play the boyfriend of Amanda Peet's character. "As an actor, I've never worked on anything with this scale before, and I always go see these movies," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "And then there's the director part of me. I get really excited about (more)

By Simon Reynolds

1 July 2008 10:17 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Thomas McCarthy, the writer and director behind the season's indie sleeper hit, "The Visitor," is moving into disaster movie territory by booking a role in Roland Emmerich's "2012." He will star alongside John Cusack that includes Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt. McCarthy will play the boyfriend of Peet, who is the ex-wife of Cusack's character. Read on to see what he had to say about his role in the apocalyptic sci-fi thriller... McCarthy said he is driven to roles out of curiosity. "As an actor, I've never worked on anything with this scale before, and I always go see these movies," he tells Variety. "And then there's the director part of me. I get really excited about working with directors like this, who do things that are so wildly different from me. And he really is. He works on a totally different canvas."

1 July 2008 10:10 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Although he’s not the kind of guy you would normally expect to see in a big Hollywood action blockbuster, Thomas McCarthy has signed on to star in Roland Emmerich’s upcoming apocalyptic thriller “2012.”

The film focuses on a little group of people struggling with the large-scale cataclysm ensuing from the end of the world in 2012. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover and Amanda Peet are already on board.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, McCarthy will play Peet’s boyfriend. Peet herself will star as the ex-wife of Cusack’s character, a limo driver who wants to become a writer.

McCarthy’s acting credits include small roles in “Michael Clayton” and “Flags of Our Fathers.” He’s also known for writing and directing “The Station Agent” and “The Visitor,” two of my favorite indie flicks.

Shooting for “2012” will kick off later this summer, with a release

Franck Tabouring

7 April 2008 6:10 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

Prom queens and street kings hold court this week at the multiplexes while the college professors of "Smart People" and "The Visitor" preside at the art houses.

"Body of War"

Talk show legend Phil Donahue hands over the mic to Iraqi war veteran Tomas Young in this hard-hitting documentary that contrasts Young's struggle to re-enter civilian life as a paraplegic and anti-war activist with archival footage of an overeager U.S. Congress and what the filmmakers view as their hasty decision to greenlight the invasion. Although the film, co-directed by Donahue and Ellen Spiro, was named best documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review, "Body of War" has earned equal attention for its soundtrack led by two tracks from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, with all proceeds going to the non-profit organization Iraq Veterans Against The War. (Check out our interview with Spiro and Donahue.)

Opens in New York.

Neil Pedley

10 March 2008 2:15 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Stephen Saito

There's an everyman quality to Richard Jenkins, but not every man (or actor) has had the chops that have led Jenkins to become one of cinema's great scene-stealers. Though his career has spanned over 30 years, Jenkins first broke through with a turn as a gay FBI agent on acid in David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," which was followed up by supporting roles ranging from the deceased patriarch of the Fisher family on "Six Feet Under" to being a regular in films for the Coen and Farrelly brothers. He joins a different fraternity in his latest film, "The Visitor"

Stephen Saito

7 articles from 2008