This December, experience the profound connection between us all. Watch the official trailer for #CollateralBeauty . pic.twitter.com/6KmEH45wNr — #CollateralBeauty (@CBeautyMovie) September 7, 2016 Starring: Will Smith, Keira Knightley, and Kate Winslet When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) experiences a deep personal tragedy and retreats from life entirely, his colleagues devise a drastic plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way. Continue reading →
Shauna Robertson and Edward Norton are expecting, and soon, reports indicate. The Moonrise Kingdom actor and his fiancee are set to welcome their first child. The baby is coming “any day now,” according to celeb gossip magazine Us! “Ed is really excited for fatherhood . He helped pick out a stroller for the baby!” Norton and Robertson, a Canadian film producer who has worked frequently with Judd Apatow, reportedly got engaged in 2011 after six years of dating. Together, they co-founded the fundraising site CrowdRise, which uses crowd-sourcing and incentives to get people to raise money for various charitable causes. They are extremely private; a rep for the actor had no comment regarding Roberton’s pregnancy, nor was it even publicized that they were expecting. Congratulations in any case to the happy couple!
Zac Efron, Selena Gomez , Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of other huge names have all come together for a great cause: Something. In a new PSA, these A-listers urge the public to Tweet… post on Facebook… film videos… do whatever it takes to bring attention to issues close to their hearts. Vote 4 Stuff Campaign “This is one of the most important elections of our lifetime,” Leonardo says. “We are using the power of social media throughout the Vote 4 Stuff campaign to incite bipartisan conversation around real issues, encourage registration and voting in November.” Others involved in the video include: Tobey Maguire, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Jonah Hill, Sarah Silverman, Edward Norton, and Benecio Del Toro.
The first trailer for the Tony Gilroy-helmed spy sequel The Bourne Legacy has arrived, and it’s got everything you want: Bone-crunching action, fire extinguisher guns, Rachel Weisz as a hot lady doctor, and Jeremy Renner banging around doing his sensitive-strong mooney-eyed thing (and leaping out of rivers half-naked) as secret agent Aaron Cross. Okay, those are all the things I want from The Bourne Legacy , but the trailer gives us one more essential bit: Explanation as to how and why Renner’s been retconned into Bourne lore at all. Renner’s turn at the Bourne wheel isn’t a conventional sequel or reboot but a universe-expanding parallel storyline that seems to take place simultaneous to the events of the previous Bournes, with Matt Damon ‘s face popping up here and there — via photograph, a la Natalie Portman in The Avengers , or Robin Harris in House Party 2 — as the fugitive spy who upturned the Treadstone apple cart and set the spy world a’scramblin way back in 2002’s The Bourne Identity . So Renner’s Aaron Cross — and the comely agency doctor (Weisz) who patches him up between missions, then goes on the run with him — are freed from the singular mission that Jason Bourne was on. They can flee for their own lives, together. He can use his medically-enhanced super soldier skills to leap from buildings into tight alleyways when she calls his name. So romantic! And, also importantly, Renner’s Cross already seems like a much different man-spy than Bourne was. Damon played the tortured amnesiac thing well, but Cross doesn’t seem to be flailing about in some existential crisis; he knows what he is. That confident self-possession is magnetic. HE JUST WANTS TO LIVE, DAMMIT! At least, that’s what I got from these two minutes and change of trailer footage. And let’s not forget what else the trailer promises: Oscar Isaac. Ed Norton. No more shaky-cam! Verdict: In, obviously. From Universal: The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands the Bourne universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films. For The Bourne Legacy, Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles. The Bourne Legacy is in theaters August 3.
With $6.4 million at stake for UNICEF, some of the world’s best footballers faced off in England over the weekend with some of the sport’s most enthusiastic celebrity hobbyists. The good news: Charity won big! The bad news: Celebrities did not, with one even landing in the hospital. The annual Soccer Aid benefit packed Old Trafford, the home of the Manchester United, where the team from England beat the “Rest of the World” team — comprising the likes of Will Ferrell, Edward Norton, Mike Myers, Gerard Butler, James McAvoy, Woody Harrelson and shouty TV chef Gordon Ramsay — by a score of 3-1. And since no soccer tilt would ever be complete without some poor bastard writhing on the pitch in hyperdramatic anguish, this match was no different — at least until, in the second half, things got really ugly : Ferrell limped off the field in considerable pain with a leg injury late in Sunday’s annual Soccer Aid game at Manchester United’s Old Trafford but will have counted himself more fortunate than Ramsay, who earlier was hospitalized following a heavy challenge. The foul-mouthed Hell’s Kitchen star was stretchered off the field while receiving oxygen, after being flattened by former England international Teddy Sheringham midway through the second half. He later was released from the hospital. Let us relive the moment in pictures! Observe Ferrell above right, shortly before he wound up on the turf with a leg injury that ended his day: So were any actors not hurt during this very intense exhibition match? Surprisingly many, if the rest of the photo record is to be believed! Nevertheless, Edward Norton and Woody Harrelson took every fluorescent precaution available to them… …while Mike Myers competed with swanlike finesse and grace… …along with flying Scotsmen Gerard Butler and James McAvoy (as seen alongside teammate Harrelson)… Here’s to a swift recovery for Ferrell, Ramsay and all the rest convalescing after the match. Charity hurts. [Photos: Getty Images]
The easiest way to start an interview is to ask someone, “Was there a cock sock or not?” Take Jason Ritter, who plays Wally, the sub-par musician friend of Jillian (Jess Weixler), in Free Samples — which premiered last weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Spotlight program. “It was cock sock,” Ritter said, marking the second time Ritter appeared pantsless in a Tribeca film costarring Jesse Eisenberg. “[Before] was The Education of Charlie Banks , but this one was the first time I’ve been bare-assed for an entire scene.” Meanwhile, the new film’s plot is simple enough: Jillian gets roped into handing out free ice cream samples from a truck as a variety of characters weave in and out of the scene. Samples acts as a counter-point to the classic indie slacker story, as the characters deal with having plans that fall apart — Jillian was in law school and had a fiancé before deciding to “become an artist” — as Ritter plays “Jason Ritter” in Mark Webber’s Sundance film The End of Love , portraying an established, mature version of his actor persona. “I feel like there are a lot of movies about late 20s, early 30s being directionless and you wonder, ‘How are any of these people surviving?'” Ritter said. “What do they do? I really like that there does seem to be more thought put into this character Jillian. It’s been fun to jump in and do a day here and a day there on each of their films.” Just when it seemed like we were getting to the heart of the film’s subject, alas, Ritter complicated things by revealing how he’d blacked out the memory of Weixler slapping his ass. “Did you?” he asked. “I did smack you on the ass, it’s in the movie,” Wexler replied. “I barely remember doing it either. It just went into some black hole. I’m sure it was great at the time.” “Just like Levar Burton on the slave ship in Roots ,” Ritter said. “He doesn’t remember it at all. That’s true, by the way. He doesn’t remember shooting the slave ship sequences in Roots ,” “It’s the same thing as Roots then,” Weixler concurred as her castmate and confidante was shuttled off to another interview. So Free Samples is the food truck of equivalent of Roots then? “I guess so, according to Jason Ritter,” she said. While that could be taken any number of ways, it’s just as well to ignore it. Although being in a single location for the 12-day shoot gave Weixler the mood for being hungover, she kept a clear vision of the character’s overarching traits in mind. “What I made very clear to myself when I went into the role that it wasn’t a slacker role,” she told Movieline. “This is somebody who has been very ambitious her whole life. She was really on course and now she doesn’t know why she was doing what she was doing.” It’s the type of role that’s weird to see, since — as both Ritter and Weixler alluded — hungover slackers have been the film festival norm for the better part of two decades. Say what you want about Free Samples overall, but there seems to be an obvious tonal shift among indies when it comes to growing up and moving on. (Other Tribeca 2012 films like Consuming Spirits and Any Day Now investigate this as well.) But there are more functional questions for director Jay Gammill and co-star Jocelin Donahue — like why does Upright Citizen’s Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh appear to condemn food trucks that can’t give him stamps? And what’s up with the vignette nature of the film that continues on until Tippi Hedren appears to console Weixler? It ultimately comes down to the whims of shooting and editing. “As a director, I’m concerned with how we’re going to pull that off every time,” Gammill said. “What could be a weakness we have to make our strength. It was fun to cast a wide variety of people from different backgrounds. I think every person had their own unique performance.” The same duality lies in art vs. practicality, since both sides are shown to be equally screwed up in Jim Beggarly’s script. “I think that’s one of the major themes,” said Donahue. “How do you choose your path when you desire to do something more creative than the more conventional path?” “What do you base your choices on?” asked Gammill. “Does your family push you into it?” That’s getting a little heady over uneven ensemble comedy, but the sentiment resonates: Free Samples represents a shift that may end the days of freewheeling indies in favor of growing up. Especially if it includes a cock sock. Read all of Movieline’s Tribeca 2012 coverage here . John Lichman has written for The Playlist , Washington City Paper and does a fine Armond White impression. He tweets here .
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