Hugh Grant must be a talented actor because when he’s simply being himself, he comes off as a serious a-hole. The source? None other than Jon Stewart , the anchor of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, for my money, a more trusted news source than CNN. The website Third Beat is reporting comments that Stewart made on Friday while being interviewed by his Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert at a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey. During this candid chat, Stewart revealed that his least favorite guest of all time is Grant, who apparently has not been on the show since 2009 thanks to his hostile off-camera behavior. And Stewart vowed to “never” have him on again. A clip of that appearance which ET.com posted is below (via Comedy Central), and what’s remarkable is that on-camera, Grant comes off like the smug-but-charming rake that he often plays in movies (and the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal). He needles Stewart, but the interplay seems good natured. The situation was much more unpleasant behind the scenes, however. Although Stewart explained that Daily Show producers have dealt with “dictators on the show,” Grant was “giving everyone shit the whole time, and he’s a big pain in the ass.” The actor, who was appearing on the show to promote his film with Sarah Jessica Parker , Did You Hear About the Morgans? also angrily complained about the film clip that played during his segment, despite the fact that it had been supplied by the film’s publicist. Stewart told Colbert that Grant groused, “What is that clip? It’s a terrible clip.” It’s unclear whether Stewart said the following directly to Grant or as an aside to Colbert, but the Daily Show anchor’s response was, “Well, then make a better fucking movie.” Reps for Stewart and Grant did not respond by post time. [ Third Beat , ET.com ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The Sundance Film Festival added four more films to its 2013 slate, including titles in its genre-heavy Park City at Midnight, Documentary Premieres and New Frontier sections. It also will feature director Robert Rodriguez ‘s El Mariachi in its “From the Collection” sidebar. [ Related: Sundance Film Festival Reveals 2013 U.S. & World Competition Slate ] With the additions, the 2013 Sundance Film Festival currently rounds out with 119 feature-length films, from 32 countries and 51 first-time filmmakers, including 27 in competition. The final 119 were selected from 12,146 submissions (429 more than for 2012), including 4,044 feature-length films and 8,102 short films. 103 feature films at the Festival will be world premieres. [ Related: Sundance Film Festival Unveils Star-Studded Premieres & Documentary Premieres Lineup ] Commented Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper in a statement: “With the addition of these four films, the 2013 Sundance Film Festival will present an even more well rounded program of independent films. Each adds to the Festival in exciting, challenging and entertaining ways.” [ Related: Sundance 2013 Sets New Matthew McConaughey, James Franco Films & Midnight Pics ] Four additional films follow with information provided by Sundance: PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT Magic Magic / U.S.A., Chile (Director and screenwriter: Sebastián Silva) — An American girl vacationing in remote Chile mentally unravels, putting herself and those around her in danger. Cast: Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Augustín Silva. World Premiere DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES Muscle Shoals / U.S.A. (Director: Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier) — Down in Alabama Rick Hall founded FAME Studios and gave birth to the Muscle Shoals sound. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Gregg Allman, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono and others bear witness to the greatest untold American music story. World Premiere NEW FRONTIER (Film) Wrong Cops / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Quentin Dupieux) — Imagine a Los Angeles where crime is so low that a bored cop sells drugs and harasses a teenager to pass the time. Shot in standalone chapters, as it is being financed, screened and released, watch the 45 minutes of crazy. Cast: Mark Burnham, Marilyn Manson, Steve Little, Eric Wareheim. FROM THE COLLECTION El Mariachi / U.S.A. (Director: Robert Rodriguez, Screenwriters: Carlos Gallardo, Robert Rodriguez) — A mariachi musician arrives in a Mexican border town at the same time as a hit man. Each carries a guitar case, but the mariachi’s contains his beloved instrument, while the hit man’s is full of gadgets and weapons. Cast: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Jaime De Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez. El Mariachi premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. A newly struck preservation print of El Mariachi, created by Sony Pictures Entertainment to commemorate the film’s 20th anniversary, will screen on Saturday, January 19 at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. Director Robert Rodriguez is expected to introduce the film and participate in the Q&A.
A Florida man has been charged with second-degree murder after allegedly shooting his drunken roommate in an argument over a pork chop … seriously. Thomas Hahn, 55, killed one of his three roommates on Tuesday night after the roommate arrived home drunk, according to the Orlando Sentinel . The two had argued about how to cook pork chops and police said the alleged murderer took a .22-caliber Ruger rifle and fired at least three shots. Two shots struck the roommate, killing him immediately . When police arrived at their home, they found Hahn’s 35-year-old victim lying dead on the floor with the alleged shooter sitting nearby. “This appears to be a senseless act of violence stemming from a minor domestic dispute between roommates,” said police Chief Mark Barker in a statement. “There is no clear answer as to why [he] acted with such extreme violence.” Never is. No matter how much views differ on what the best pork chop or pork tenderloin recipe might be, just put the guns down, people. Put them down.
Before you strain your eyes trying to see through Chloe Moretz ‘s shirt, I just wanted to remind you that she’s only 15. So look away, it’s a trap! Related Articles: Chloe Grace Moretz Seems Like A Nice Young Woman Chloe Grace Moretz At Some Party Chloe Moretz Is Still Underage Emma Roberts Rocks The Short Shorts
Before you strain your eyes trying to see through Chloe Moretz ‘s shirt, I just wanted to remind you that she’s only 15. So look away, it’s a trap! Related Articles: Chloe Grace Moretz Seems Like A Nice Young Woman Chloe Grace Moretz At Some Party Chloe Moretz Is Still Underage Emma Roberts Rocks The Short Shorts
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has a distinctively aggressive relationship with his audience that ranges from the provocation of Caché and The Piano Teacher to the outright antagonism of Funny Games and Benny’s Video . Amour , his latest work and the winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival , might be considered Haneke’s version of a love story, and its grimness is of a much quieter but no less impactful sort. It is, more than any of Haneke’s previous work, infused with compassion, but of a sort that cuts like a knife. For all that it is, as promised, about love, it’s also a subtly punishing affair that grinds you into the ground as you watch an elderly couple deal with one member’s slow deterioration of health and sanity. Amour starts with firemen breaking into a beautiful Parisian apartment. The bedroom door has been taped up, and inside is the corpse of Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), lying on the bed, scattered with flowers — and it’s here that Haneke inserts the title card, to ensure you know that this will not be a syrupy tale. We cut back to when Anne was alive and living with her husband Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), both in their eighties. They attend a concert being given by one of Anne’s former students — a trip that, with the accompanying streetcar ride home, marks the film’s only venture out of the apartment, a location that becomes confining until it shifts into a sort of hiding place to dwell on the misery that life must end, and sometimes does so in messy, undignified failings of the flesh. Riva and Trintignant are the latest in a long line of Annes and Georges that Haneke’s presented over the years (the names have recurred in his films from 1989’s The Seventh Continent through 2009’s The White Ribbon ) and perhaps the most fully realized — they are a couple with a deep connection and a long history together, one that includes moments of chilliness as much as devotion. They’ve been spending a comfortably bourgeois late life together, their middle-aged daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert), a mother herself, periodically visiting from London where she lives with her British husband Geoff (William Shimell). Anne and Georges surely have some awareness that death is closer than it was when they were young, but when a first brush with mortality arrives, it does so in a frightening way that catches them unaware. Anne has a stroke or a fit, one that leaves her temporarily frozen — it passes before Georges can get help, but it’s a sign of what’s to come. Haneke approaches the story with characteristic unflinching austerity that makes all the more difficult the unadorned scenes of Georges, frail himself, struggling to help Anne off the toilet after a surgery meant to help her instead leaves her unable to walk. Anne, afraid of doctors, extracts a promise from him that he will not bring her back to the hospital, and not long after asks for death. “There’s no reason to keep on living,” she tells him. “Why should I inflict that on you or me?” In the moment, it feels harsh and defeatist — at that point Anne is suffering only from manageable mobility problems, and while life will be different, it’s still open to many of the same experiences. But Anne is not naturally suited to optimistically soldiering on, and prefers not to talk about what’s happening to her to a visiting student or to welcome her son-in-law on a visit. And as things get worse from there, every intrusion into their increasingly difficult existence seems like an invasion, from the nurses who arrive to help care for Anne after another stroke leaves her paralyzed and unable to speak beyond nonsensical phrases. In one of the film’s most wrenching scenes, Georges tries to lock Anne away when Eva comes to visit, not to protect his daughter but to protect Anne from her well-meaning but terrible child who sweeps in and demands to know what else can be done, having no real grasp of her parents’ day-to-day of diaper changes, peach porridge and compulsive crying out (“Hurts! Hurts!” Anne yells), or that some things cannot be fixed, only endured. “Life… so long,” Anne mutters at one point in what may or may not be a moment of clarity. And the prospect of the days stretching out and only getting worse is heavy on this film, as the flesh fails and all that’s left is the promise of waiting out the undignified end of existence. Haneke’s dry-eyed, unsentimental approach makes what would have been, in someone else’s hands, an agonizing ordeal a little more bearable, allowing for moments of relief when a semi-symbolic pigeon finds its way into the house, or a jolt of horror in a nightmare sequence. But the clinical distance Haneke manages so well also makes the film feel like a beautifully crafted but calculated exercise, one gentler and touched with more warmth than his earlier films, but still meant to be a shrewdly knowing knife to the viscera. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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With a pretend baby on the way , Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are reportedly planning the next logical step: A big wedding! According to nonsense made up by OK! Weekly , the famous couple is set to make its relationship “permanent” and “legal.” “They’re split between doing it in England or somewhere totally remote and tropical,” an insider alleges of a Robert/Kristen wedding . Of course, the Stewart and Rupert Sanders affair is putting a damper on the plans. “Before the cheating scandal, the plan was always a wedding near Rob’s home in the U.K. But now some of his family and friends are not so keen on Kristen, so she’s not really into that. “Still, his mom always wanted him to have a very traditional church ceremony with a big fancy reception and Rob and Kristen have agreed that they’re willing to do it to make her happy – as long as the family can truly forgive Kristen.” And therein lies the question for all Twihards: Should Robert Pattinson forgive Kristen Stewart? Weigh in now: Yes, they are still meant to be! No, there’s no excuse for cheating! View Poll »
In an exciting bit of TV and movie news , the nominations for the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards, airing January 27 on TNT, were unveiled this morning. Oscar bait Lincoln and Silver Linings Playboook , starring Bradley Cooper and Most Desirable Woman of 2012 Jennifer Lawrence , led the way in the movie space. Both films earned four nods; Les Miserables earned three. Modern Family, Downton Abbey and Homeland were the most celebrated TV shows, along with other critical favorites. Who else was nominated and snubbed? Check out the full list of SAG Awards nominees below … Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture “Argo” “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” “Les Miserables” “Lincoln” “Silver Linings Playbook” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper — “Silver Linings Playbook” Daniel Day-Lewis — “Lincoln” John Hawkes — “The Sessions” Hugh Jackman — “Les Miserables” Denzel Washington — “Flight” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain — “Zero Dark Thirty” Marion Cotillard — “Rust and Bone” Jennifer Lawrence — “Silver Linings Playbook” Helen Mirren — “Hitchcock” Naomi Watts — “The Impossible” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin — “Argo” Javier Bardem — “Skyfall” Robert DeNiro — “Silver Linings Playbook” Philip Seymour Hoffman — “The Master” Tommy Lee Jones — “Lincoln” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Sally Field — “Lincoln” Anne Hathaway — “Les Miserables” Helen Hunt — “The Sessions” Nicole Kidman — “The Paperboy” Maggie Smith — “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series “Boardwalk Empire” “Breaking Bad” “Downton Abbey” “Homeland” “Mad Men” Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series “30 Rock” “The Big Bang Theory” “Glee” “Modern Family” “Nurse Jackie” “The Office” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Steve Buscemi — “Boardwalk Empire” Bryan Cranston — “Breaking Bad” Jeff Daniels — “The Newsroom” Jon Hamm — “Mad Men” Damian Lewis — “Homeland” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Claire Danes — “Homeland” Michelle Dockery — “Downton Abbey” Jessica Lange — “American Horror Story: Asylum” Julianna Marguiles — “The Good Wife” Maggie Smith — “Downton Abbey” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Alec Baldwin — “30 Rock” Ty Burrell — “Modern Family” Louis C.K. — “Louie” Jim Parsons — “The Big Bang Theory” Eric Stonestreet — “Modern Family” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Edie Falco — “Nurse Jackie” Tina Fey — “30 Rock” Amy Poehler — “Parks and Recreation” Sofia Vergara — “Modern Family” Betty White — “Hot in Cleveland” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Kevin Costner — “Hatfields & McCoys” Woody Harrelson — “Game Change” Ed Harris — “Game Change” Clive Owen — “Hemingway and Gellhorn” Bill Pullman — “Hatfields & McCoys” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Nicole Kidman — “Hemingway and Gellhorn” Julianne Moore — “Game Change” Charlotte Rampling — “Restless” Sigourney Weaver — “Political Animals” Alfre Woodard — “Steel Magnolias”
NBA action. It’s fantastically insane, 24/7/365. Toronto Raptors forward Amir Johnson was ejected from Monday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers after getting into an unusual argument with a referee. Amir Johnson Throws Mouthpiece at Ref As Portland’s J.J. Hickson swished the first of two free throws late in the third quarter, both Johnson and referee David Jones went to retrieve the ball. Jones grabbed it off one bounce but all of a sudden, Johnson began arguing with him and tried to grab the rock. Jones said something back, then ejected Johnson. Then Johnson walked toward Jones and – after he was physically restrained by teammates – threw his mouthpiece at the ref in a moment of very bad judgment. He will certainly be fined and probably suspended as well. Following Toronto’ fifth straight loss, Johnson spoke to reporters about the incident and explained it was out of character of him to lose his composure like he did. Maybe so, but David Stern will not likely be moved. In other awesome NBA news this week: Stephen Jackson threatened Serge Ibaka on Twitter Chris Wilcox flipped off the Kiss Cam for no reason Evelyn Lozada told Kenyon Martin to f–k off LeBron told Charles Barkley to shut up
