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WATCH: ‘Side Effects’ Star Rooney Mara Says Steven Soderbergh Was Just What The Doctor Ordered For Her Career

Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones were all on the red carpet for the premiere of Side Effects in New York City, and I asked them what it was like making a modern Hitchcock film. “It pleases me to hear you say ‘modern Hitchcock film’ because that was our hope, to do something like that” said Hollywood mega-producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.  “It’s a tradition that’s been ignored a lot in the last decade.” Rooney Mara plays Emily Taylor, a young woman whose world unravels when the anti-anxiety drug she is prescribed has some unexpected side effects, and the actress told me that signing on for the psychological thriller was an easy decision thanks to Steven Soderbergh’s involvement.  “A director is the most important thing” Mara noted about choosing a project. What side effects can audiences expect after seeing the movie?  Screenwriter Scott Z Burns hopes “the desire to see it two or three times” is one of them.  That’s right,   Side Effects is meant to be addictive. Check out my full red carpet interview below: Follow Grace Randolph on  Twitter . Follow Movieline on  Twitter . 

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WATCH: ‘Side Effects’ Star Rooney Mara Says Steven Soderbergh Was Just What The Doctor Ordered For Her Career

WATCH: Noooo! Did ‘Home Alone’ Inspire The Climactic Scenes Of ‘Skyfall’?

Well played, Honest Trailer people .   Sam Mendes  makes the first James Bond  movie that I’ve ever genuinely cared about, Skyfall , and, with a single four-and-a-half minute trailer you smartly deconstruct the movie in a way that makes me simultaneously laugh out loud and question my sanity. You really rocked my world when you pointed out — and then demonstrated with a comparison clip — that the picture’s climactic scenes at Bond’s ancestral home in Scotland are weirdly reminiscent of Home Alone . I bet that screenwriters Robert Wade and Neal Purvis will be staying indoors for a few days after word gets back to them on that one. The many scenes of Judi Dench frowning and the “absurdly long landscape shots,” as you put it, are also lovely.  You bastards. [ Screen Junkies ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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WATCH: Noooo! Did ‘Home Alone’ Inspire The Climactic Scenes Of ‘Skyfall’?