Former Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford has filed for bankruptcy. The actress’ lengthy custody dispute with her ex-husband Daniel Giersch seems to be the cause, according to legal documents from the 44-year-old star. She says she’s spent almost $1.5 million on legal fees. Rutherford says that she owes $350,000 in income taxes for 2012, and has an American Express bill of $25,251. Her debts, in total, are $2,021,832. Her current monthly income? Just $1,279.33. The custody battle over the former spouses’ children, 5-year-old Hermes and 3-year-old Helena, has been difficult for the star, financially and emotionally. In August 2012, a judge ruled that the children should live with German businessman Giersch in Monaco, where he moved after being barred from the U.S. Kelly Rutherford, the judge reasoned, has a flexible schedule and can travel to Monaco. The actress tried in vain to keep the kids in America while she was filming Gossip Girl .
Another American is set to invade Downton Abbey . In a surprising/exciting bit of casting news, TV Line confirms that Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti has been cast on the British sensation as Harold Levinson, the maverick, brother of Elizabeth McGovern’s Cora. Look for the actor – currently filming The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – to appear on the Downton Abbey Season 4 finale. Giamatti is best known for big screen roles such as Sideways and Cinderella Man , but earned an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the title character in HBO’s miniseries John Adams . He also stopped by for a memorable guest-starring stint on 30 Rock in 2010. Downton Abbey , meanwhile, returns to PBS on January 5.
Get out your micrometers. The Amazing Spider-Man sequel doesn’t hit theaters until May2, 2014, but ComingSoon.net has an exclusive peek at the new costume that Andrew Garfield will wear, and, well, unless you’re a Spider-man geek (like me), it doesn’t look all that much different than the old one. I’ve included an “After” and “Before” comparison, but the key changes are two: The webslinger’s face mask has bigger eyes and the leg-span on his spider chest logo isn’t so wide — a look that resembles comic artist Mark Bagley’s take on the webslinger during his record-breaking run on Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man title in the early 2000s. Yeah, I know: not exactly a daring overhaul. THE NEW COSTUME THE PREVIOUS COS What does the new look say about the Spidey brand? This is definitely wishful thinking on my part, but I choose to interpret it to mean that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be more of a visual feast and the “Ultimate” Spider-Man movie. Certainly, a storyline that reportedly will include Electro ( Jamie Foxx ), the Green Goblin (the most excellent Dane DeHaan ) and the Rhino ( Paul Giamatti ) is promising, but it could also end up being as overstuffed as a Subway BMT sandwich. And that puts me in mind of Sam Raimi’s excruciatingly corny Spider-Man 3 . At least that movie had a black costume. Speaking of that last villain, I can’t wait until the first shot of Giamatti as the Horned Hot Mess is leaked. Foxx, not so much. I fear he’ll just end up looking like Static Shock, though I guess I’d prefer that to him wearing a giant cut-out lightning-star on his head. As Count Floyd would say, “Verrry scary, kids!” Here’s the official synopsis: In “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy — between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away — but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past. [ ComingSoon.net ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Filmmaker Don Coscarelli, the genre visionary behind Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep , is finally back with John Dies at the End — just your every day tale of a street drug called Soy Sauce, alien hallucinations, strangers with guns and Paul Giamatti holding it all together as only Paul Giamatti can. Glimpse tomorrow’s imminent cult classic today, and stick around afterward for more Buzz Break.
Whether he is heroically stopping (and then resolving ) New York City street fights, making spooky dioramas for journalists or dispensing cryptic sex advice to paparazzi , Ryan Gosling can do no wrong. This point has never been more clear than in the latest clip for Ides of March , George Clooney’s fall political thriller, in which the actor flirts with a campaign intern (Evan Rachel Wood) whose name he clearly doesn’t remember.
An alternate title for Red Riding Hood might have been “Catherine Hardwicke’s Revenge”: This might have been the director’s chance to restake her claim on the territory of steamy teen fairytales, after New Moon, the sequel to Hardwicke’s enormously successful (and, for my money, effective) Twilight , was removed from her plate and given to Chris Weitz. Red Riding Hood certainly reads like a faux Twilight, only this time a werewolf, not a vampire, is the stand-in for the terrifying unknowability of sex. There’s no reason that little tweak shouldn’t work. One set of fangs is as good as another, right?
Sundance lit up at Win Win , an indie comedy about a failing wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) who works out shady dealings to collect on an old man’s health-care wages. In this new clip from Moviefone , we pick up on the slight cynicism of Giamatti’s character Mike Flaherty — and the fact that he may exhibit less valor than, say, John Adams.
There’s a scene in Barney’s Version in which Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) prepares for his first date with the woman who will eventually become his third wife by downing a few cocktails to kill the nerves. Not surprisingly, by the time Barney shows up for his date, he’s visibly sauced. Coincidentally, Rosamund Pike, who plays the woman who will eventually become Barney’s third wife, had a similar experience with a drunken suitor that, oddly, ended exactly the same way.
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Though it’s wrong to think that curmudgeons are more complex than shiny, happy people are, it’s probably safe to assume they make more interesting movie characters — as long as you don’t have to live with them. In Barney’s Version, Richard J. Lewis’s adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s novel, Paul Giamatti plays the kind of guy most of us wouldn’t want to live with, a grouchy two-bit television exec who’s blown through several marriages and who doesn’t seem to have much use for anyone. But the modest trick of the performance, and of the movie around it, is that a person who seems wholly unbearable at first ends up being someone we can almost care about. That’s the power of art: What does it mean when you find yourself reaching out to a guy you can barely tolerate?
