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These were snapped last night at the 14th Annual Moet British Independent Film Awards held at Old Billingsgate Market in London. The event was hosted by actor and comedian Chris O’
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Scarlett Johansson covers Interview mag: boyish or still a sexy siren?
Scarlett Johansson covers the December issue of Interview magazine to promote her new film, We Bought a Zoo, which was directed by Cameron Crowe and has already drawn the ire of PETA. The film also stars Matt Damon, who, oddly enough, has just rubbed shoulders with PETA over his attendance at a bullfighting match. For [...]
French Films Finish #1 And #2 For 2011 Beating Harry Potter Finale, Tintin, Pirates 4
Here’s a shot in the arm for French cinema: Gaumont’s award-winning crowd-pleaser Untouchable has catapulted to the top of the French box-office heap for 2011 in less than four weeks of release. The studio announced today that the film has now sold over 8.2 million tickets, making it the No. 1 film this year. Another French film, Pathé’s Rien A Declarer (Nothing To Declare), is sitting in the 2nd spot in France for the year with just over 8.13 million tickets sold. The two local pics are running ahead of such fare as the Harry Potter finale, Steven Spielberg’s Adventures Of Tintin and the latest Pirates Of The Caribbean 4.
Gaumont’s Cécile Gaget tells me that Untouchable is experiencing a “Titanic phenomenon” whereby moviegoers are returning to see it multiple times. From directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, pic stars François Cluzet as a wheelchair-bound aristocrat who hires an out-of-the-ordinary assistant played by Omar Sy. The film recently won the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Film Fest with the stars sharing acting kudos. Gaumont says the film is also doing brisk business in Switzerland and Belgium. The Weinstein Co acquired Untouchable in North America, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, South America and China and also took English-language remake rights.
Pathé’s Nothing To Declare, meanwhile, hails from director and star Dany Boon whose Welcome To The Sticks rode a juggernaut locally back in 2008 to become the highest-grossing French film ever and to … Read More
Layoffs Follow ‘Happy Feet Two’ Flopping
It’s bad enough that Happy Feet Two went over budget by $50 million. Or that my sources say Warner Bros plugged it figuring the sequel to the smash hit 2006 Best Animation Oscar winner would be another big earner. But it’s not. 
The holiday pic is tanking. Now comes even worse Christmas news. According to an online article today in IF magazine, the Australian digital production company behind Happy Feet Two is laying off 600 staffers in early December. Sydney-based Dr D Studios is the 2007 joint venture between filmmaker George Miller’s and producer Doug Mitchell’s Kennedy Miller Mitchell, which is Australia’s most successful production company, in partnership with The Mapp family’s Omnilab Media Group, which is Australia’s largest film services company. Dr D Studios was intended to rival Peter Jackson’
More Photos From the Longest Week Set
Photos by Christopher Peterson/BuzzFoto.com
By Reese in LA
We posted some photos from the set of “The Longest Week” with actress Olivia Wilde. Here are some more photos of actor Billy Crudup and Janet Montgomery as well as costume designer and Justin Theroux’s former girlfriend Heidi Bivens, and film producer Neda Armian. Based on a script by Peter Glanz, who will also be making his directorial debut with the project, the project is about a man named Conrad Valmont who has spent his entire life mooching off of his parents, using all of their resources and living in their hotel. Over the course of a week, however, Valmont’s life falls apart completely. The movie is a feature adaptation of Glanz’s short film A Relationship in Four Days, which was screened at both the Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Check out the trailer for the short below:
via Cinema Blend
Sharon Stone Joins Cast Of ‘Lovelace’
Sharon Stone confirmed that she is set to play the mother of Linda Lovelace in Lovelace, a biopic about the porn star from Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Amanda Seyfried is already aboard to play Lovelace, one of the most famous adult film stars whose Deep Throat is the genre’s most iconic movie and one of the all-time highest-grossing indie films. The script centers on Lovelace’s relationship with her husband Chuck Traynor, who steered her into the business; she subsequently quit porn and divorced Traynor. Peter Sarsgaard is in negotiations for the husband. The script is by Andy Bellin and W. Merritt Johnson, based on the book The Complete Linda Lovelace by Eric Danville. Partners on the project are Millennium Films, Eclectic Pictures and Untitled Entertainment. Stone told the Associated Press that she is shooting the Voltage Pictures thriller The Mule before starting work on the Lovelace film, which is expected to begin production in January.
Brad Pitt Gives Acting Career 3 More Years
Brad Pitt dropped a bombshell in a Tokyo interview for the Australian 60 Minutes. When interviewer Tara Brown asked the 47-year-old, “How much longer would you like to do your business for?” Pitt answered, “Three years.” She followed up with “Three years?” And he affirmed, “Yeah.” Brown continued, “And then what happens after three years?” To which Pitt responded, “Hell if I know. I am really enjoying the producing side and development of stories and putting those pieces together. And getting stories to the plate that might have had a tougher time otherwise.” For example the movie he was promoting over there, Moneyball. There’s a good deal more that you can watch or read here, which is where everybody else got this and went crazy, but Deadline likes Brown’s question, “Do you get a lot of kudos making a film like this with your kids, a baseball film?” And Pitt’s answer: “I get more mileage with the zombie film,” referring to World War Z, directed by Marc Forster and targeted to open December 21, 2012 — just after Pitt turns 49.
Sofia Vergara Shoots A Pepsi Commercial, Almost Got A Breast Reduction
J. Edgar: Film Review
J. Edgar is this year’
AFM: Foreign Deals Speedy For ‘Rush’
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Red Band Trailer: ‘Goon’
This red band trailer for the R-rated hockey comedy Goon is as rowdy as the rating suggests. Magnolia/Magnet picked up the movie directed by Michael Dowse with Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel at the Toronto International Film Festival and according to the Magnet website plans a March theatrical release preceded by video-on-demand in February.
AFM: Image Acquires ‘Blair Witch’ Helmer’s Toronto Thriller ‘Lovely Molly’
EXCLUSIVE: Image Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Lovely Molly, the thriller directed by Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez. The deal is high six figures and the plan is to release theatrically next spring. Lovely Molly made its debut in the Midnight Madness section of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival. Newcomer Gretchen Lodge plays the title character, a newlywed who returns to her long abandoned family home and is his with scary reminders of her nightmarish childhood that quickly color her new life. She descends into an evil that is part psychosis and another part obsession. Haxan Films’ Robin Cowie and Gregg Hale produced with Amber Entertainment’s Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky.
The deal comes as Content Film sells international territories at AFM. Image acquisitions vice president Mark Ward called the film “a return and evolution to the genre that [Eduardo] created” with Blair Witch. “We look forward to partnering with Haxan and Amber to maximize the truly robust transmedia marketing campaign they’ve put together to make the film a huge success.” It’s the second significant AFM-timed deal for Image, which on Friday launched a distribution relationship with Alamo Drafthouse.
“Image’s entrepreneurial thinking and robust infrastructure give us the perfect platform to bring our film to the widest audience possible,” said the producers. The deal was brokered by WME Global’s Graham Taylor and BHDRL’s … Read More
Nikki Reed Shows Off A Plunging Neckline At The Rome Film Festival [PHOTOS]
Who should be cast as Grace Kelly in a new Hollywood film?
People have been talking about this for days now, and I apologize that it’
The Rum Diary: Film Review
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Your opinion of The Rum Diary will largely hinge, I believe, on your opinion of the man whose life story is the basis of the movie’
Eva Longoria’s lesbian scene banned in Spain
Oh yeah baby, just like that I don’t know what got up Spain’s ass, but they need to chill the fuck out. This is 2011, not 1611. Via 411 Mania:Eva Longoria has a new film coming out called Without…
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‘Silent House’ Set For March 9, 2012 Bow
Silent House will be released by Open Road Films and Liddell Entertainment on March 9, 2012, the companies announced today. This is the horror thriller that was part of newcomer Elizabeth Olsen’s coming-out doubleheader at this year’s Sundance Film Festival; her other film there was the critical darling Martha Marcy May Marlene. It was in Park City where Liddell made the deal for Silent House, which is co-directed by Open Water helmers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau; Open Road came in over the summer to help distribute it. The film centers on a woman (Olsen) who finds herself sealed inside her family’s secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around her.
L.A.: Megan Fox & BAG Took Their Son to the “Puss in Boots” Premiere
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The delicious Megan Fox & her lucky bastard hubby Brian Austin Green took his son Kassius to “Puss in Boots” premiere over the weekend in Los Angeles. The film, which features voices by Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek, will hit theaters this Friday. For those of you who know anything about the “Shrek” series, the latest film takes place before Puss met Shrek and Donkey, when he was a swashbuckling hero who protected the innocent (film’s Wiki).
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Kim Kardashian To Co-Star In Tyler Perry’s ‘The Marriage Counselor’
EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to her most substantial acting role so far, Kim Kardashian has signed on to costar in The Marriage Counselor, the Lionsgate film Tyler Perry will next direct, based on his stage play. Shooting begins October 26 in Atlanta. The film tells the story of Judith, an Ivy League-educated relationship expert who makes her living dispensing marital advice, but is so bored with her own marriage that she breaks her professional code and cheats with a smooth talking client only to realize she has made a huge mistake. Jurnee Smollett plays the marriage counselor and Kadashian will play Ava, a co-worker who gives Judith a big city makeover and new confidence as she struggles with her personal issues. Kardashian previously played roles in the films Deep in the Valley and Disaster Movie.
‘A Million Colours’ From South Africa To Kick Off Hollywood Black Film Festival
The always interesting Hollywood Black Film Festival this year for the first time opens with a foreign film, the South African drama A Million Colours. Running October 27-30, the event encompasses 53 films — 11 features, a dozen documentaries, 27 shorts and 3 student films — selected from entries from more than 300 filmmakers worldwide, according to fest executive director Tanya Kersey. There will also be 13 panels and workshops with more than 50 industry speakers.
A Million Colours is a mixture of Slumdog Millionaire and Romeo and Juliet, says director Peter Bishai. It’s the story of the fall from grace and redemption of South Africa’s onetime most famous teen black movie star, Muntu Ndebele. Co-written by Bishai and Andre Pieterse, A Million Colours stars Wandile Molebatsi, Jason Hartman, Stelio Savante and Masello Motana.
Also taking place opening night, the Food Network’s The Cupcake Wars will be shooting final scenes of an hourlong episode featuring the Hollywood Black Film Festival in which contestants compete for the honor of showcasing their cupcakes at the festival’s opening night. Antwone Fisher serves as the guest celebrity judge. Opening night festival guests get to feast on the winning cupcakes.
The opening night gala presentation begins at 7 p.m. at the L.A. Film School, 6363 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood across from the Arclight-Cinerama Dome complex. Festival headquarters are farther west at the … Read More