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Plushies Are Going Nuts for Ted

Ted (2012) is a bona fide hit . But among the millions of people who went to go see Seth McFarland ‘s live-action feature debut this weekend, there’s one group in particular that’s all a-flutter over this flick. Can you guess who it is? (Besdies Mila Kunis fans, of course.) It’s plushies, of course! Not to be confused with furries , plushies get their kicks from dressing up (and getting it on) like stuffed animals, and they’ve already taken on Ted ‘s foul-mouthed, horny stuffed protagonist as their, uh, spirit animal. TMZ reports that McFarland has already been contacted by the XXX website clips4sale.com , where plushies congregate online, about adopting Ted as their mascot: “The site fired off a letter to Seth saying, ‘Not since Alf has there been this kind of excitement over a stuffed animal.’ The letter continues, ‘We are very serious and would like to engage in talks with you at your earliest convenience.’ ” No word yet on whether McFarland will accept. We don’t have any sexy teddy bear pics, but we’ve got lots of content from Ted star Mila Kunis right here at MrSkin.com!

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‘Beyond Thrilled’: My Week With Marilyn Director Simon Curtis On His Auspicious NYFF Debut

The world premiere of your first feature film — in the hypercritical climes of the New York Film Festival, no less — would be nerve-wracking for any director. But Simon Curtis isn’t any director. He’s a BAFTA – and Emmy-nominated television and stage veteran who’s worked with a who’s who of British acting royalty, a noteworthy group of whom appear in Curtis’s feature debut My Week With Marilyn .

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‘Beyond Thrilled’: My Week With Marilyn Director Simon Curtis On His Auspicious NYFF Debut

REVIEW: Characters Can’t Quite Connect Amid the City-Symphony Elegance of Mumbai Diaries

Set amid the stark dualities of the new Bombay, Mumbai Diaries follows four characters whose lives suggest the various ways one can experience what writer Suketu Mehta dubbed the “maximum city,” and the social and economic determinism that closes each of those experiences off from the others. The film, writer and director Kiran Rao’s feature debut, is marked by an ambition as grand as it is vulnerable to classist cliché. Rao’s ultimate achievements — including a balanced, doleful tone and moments of city symphony elegance — are undercut by the arrangement of her characters into narrative castes that cross paths but can’t quite connect.

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REVIEW: Udon Western The Warrior’s Way Mingles Genres to Great Effect

A pain in the ass for someone with a job to do, films that open without screening for critics usually draw one of two responses: 1. Yes, that was probably a wise decision; or 2. Have a little faith, studio chickens! I’m not sure how a system that’s pushing Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford’s upcoming Cowboys and Aliens would assume that critics won’t get a film like The Warrior’s Way ; it’s been a mad, mixed-up genre world for some time now. Yet if writer/director Sngmoo Lee’s feature debut isn’t the first revisionist udon western, surely it will wind up being close to the only one. A shame, in a way, because I suspect a little company would only confirm that it’s also one of the best.

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REVIEW: Udon Western The Warrior’s Way Mingles Genres to Great Effect

Paul Dano: ‘I’m Just a Glutton For Punishment’

As indie-film pairings go, The Good Heart ‘s reunion of Brian Cox and Paul Dano is a fairly provocative one. A decade after their collaboration in the controversial L.I.E. — featuring 15-year-old Dano as a disaffected young man who befriends Cox’s pedophile Big John Harrigan — the duo teams again in the tale of gruff bar owner Jacques (Cox) and his accidental protégé Lucas (Dano). They meet in the hospital where Jacques convalesces after his umpteenth heart attack and Lucas recovers from an attempted suicide. As the older man’s health deteriorates, Lucas’s applies his sensitivity to opening both the bar and its proprietor to a more inclusive manner of existence. Under Icelandic director Dagur Kári (making his American feature debut), Dano and Cox mount funny, bittersweet pas de deux around the clash of new and old, kind and coarse, and a New York City lost and found.

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Jennifer Aniston Desires To Direct Her Feature Debut

topnews Jennifer Joanna Aniston, 41, is  hoping to direct her first feature film. She played Rachel Green from the famous US sitcom Friends which she won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Aniston told London reporters that she was thinking about diversifying her career after making more than six flicks since the end of the hit sitcom in 2004. Aniston was quoted by Britain’s The Sun newspaper last Sunday saying “I have a project in development I’m going to direct. After you get enough movies under your belt you sit back and go, ‘What’s next?’” “It’s getting to a time creatively I want to turn in a different direction,” she added. Aniston’s starred in the “Bounty Hunter” and “Marley and Me” movies are scheduled for release in 2010 and 2011 but her wish for a directorial feature debut however could still be some years away. Aniston’s publicist in Los Angeles said nothing concrete had been decided and that possible projects Aniston might direct are still in the writing stage of development. Aniston has already co-directed the 2006 short drama “Room 10″ with Andrea Buchanan that won a prize at the CineVegas film festival. If she moves into feature film directing, she would follow the likes of Hollywood actresses Drew Barrymore and Helen Hunt. Aniston last week unveiled plans for a new perfume called Lovalie that will be launched in London this summer. She also revealed an ad campaign for the fragrance that shows her sitting on a rock at a beach wrapped only in a large towel. Jennifer Aniston Desires To Direct Her Feature Debut is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading