The Sundance Film Festival has always been a great launching ground for careers, as well as a great place to catch some nude debuts and nude return-to-form performances, and 2016’s Festival—which wrapped up last night—has been no exception! Hit the jump for more pics and info…
Ashton Kutcher not only took on Steve Jobs’ persona as a tech magnate, he also adopted the late Apple founder’s alleged fruitarian diet in preparation for the role, which sent him to the hospital, the actor revealed following the premiere of jOBS at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend. [ Related: SUNDANCE WINNERS: ‘Fruitvale’ & ‘Blood Brother’ WIN Top Prizes x 2 ] Often considered a subset of veganism, fruitarianism is a diet that consists of fruit, nuts and seeds, solely without animal products, vegetables and grains. Motivations for fruitarianism range from ethical, health, religious and environmental or other reasons. “First of all, the fruitarian diet can lead to, like, severe issues,” Kutcher told USA Today. “I went to the hospital like two days before we started shooting the movie. I was like doubled over in pain. My pancreas levels were completely out of whack. It was really terrifying…considering everything.” Jobs died of pancreatic cancer in October 2011. Kutcher said he spent hundreds of hours going over tapes of Jobs hoping to master his mannerisms and hunched walk. The actor, who has a massive Twitter following, said he felt close to the late magnate in part because they share an affinity for the “tech space.” “He’s a guy that failed and got back on the horse,” noted Kutcher. “I think we can all sort of relate to that in some place in our life where we are moving forward with something and we fall down. You have to have the guts to get back up and go again. I think I share that as well.” jOBS opens with the period Steve Jobs founded Apple in a garage in Palo Alto, California up to when he launched the iPod in 2001. Oscar-winning writer of The Social Network , Aaron Sorkin, is also planning a Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography. The Sorkin version will reportedly comprise of three extended scenes, according to The Guardian, each leading up to a pivotal product launch. [ Sources: The Guardian , USA Today ]
It’s shaping up to be another great year for skin at Sundance, because our Skin Skout has more breaking nudes from Park City: Two Mothers stars Robin Wright and Naomi Watts as a pair of childhood friends who fall for each other’s sons, and we’re already humming SNL’s Motherlover since Robin bares buns in bed 1 hour and 5-minutes in, and both ladies spend the majority of the film in bikinis. Other SKINdance highlights include multiple full frontal scenes from Manuela Martelli in The Future , breasts and buns from Anna Friel , Tamsin Egerton and a slew of other topless women in The Look of Love , breasts and buns from Robin Weigert and Kate Rogal during a lesbian encounter in Concussion , the topless talents of Mindy Robinson and Hannah Hughes in S-VH S , and the luscious left breast of Shailene Woodley during a sex scene in The Spectacular Now . Shailene even gave an interview to AP implying that her sex scene in the film may not have been simulated. Now that’s spec-rack-ular! Stay tuned for more breaking nudes from Sundance, right here at MrSkin.com!
When frequently nude beauty (and sex scene enthusiast ) Amanda Seyfried was cast as porn legend Linda Lovelace , we knew it was a match made in heaven. Now the official nudity report is in from Sundance, and Amanda gets naked in a skinsational 7 scenes. Details after the jump!
Shia LaBeouf appears to be going full-tilt method acting of late. First, the actor said last summer that he was going “all the way” in Danish director Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac , and at the Sundance Film Festival , currently underway, he said he dropped acid while working on The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman . [ Related: Shia LaBeouf Ready To Perform Sex ‘For Real’ In Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac? ] LaBeouf said at the festival that he took the hallucinogen, not because he “wanted to be on drugs,” but to relate to his character. The Sundance debut revolves around a young man (LaBeouf) who travels to Romania after the death of his mother (Melissa Leo) and falls for a dangerous young woman, played by Evan Rachel Wood. During one sequence in the film, LaBeouf’s character takes L.S.D. “I’d never done acid before. I remember sending Evan tapes. I remember trying to conjure this and sending tapes. And Evan being like, ‘That’s good, but that’s not but, that is,” he told MTV News. “You reach out to friends and gauge where you’re at. I was sending tapes around and I’d get 50 percents from people and that just starts creeping me out. I was getting really nervous toward the end. Not ’cause I wanted to be on drugs — I’m not trying to mess with the set or anything like that. It’s really just fear that propels people.” The trip apparently took place last August. He told USA Today at the time he dropped acid for The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman in order to “immerse himself in the character.” “What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that [electric] chair in Dead Man Walking ,” he told the paper. “These are the guys I look up to.” [Source: Huffington Post ]
It’s shaping up to be another great year for skin at Sundance, because our Skin Skout has more breaking nudes from Park City: Two Mothers stars Robin Wright and Naomi Watts as a pair of childhood friends who fall for each other’s sons, and we’re already humming SNL’s Motherlover since Robin bares buns in bed 1 hour and 5-minutes in, and both ladies spend the majority of the film in bikinis. More after the jump!
With just one week to go until the 2013 Sundance Film Festival kicks off next Thursday, images are trickling in of the many films to debut. Beginning next week, M.L. will begin publishing short interviews with this year’s Competition and NEXT section filmmakers. But to whet that Sundance whistle, here is a poster debut for Halley , directed by Sebastian Hofmann. [ Related: Sundance Film Festival Unveils Star-Studded Premieres & Documentary Premieres Lineup ] Screening in the festival’s New Frontiers section, insiders noted it plays more like a genre pic, from the producer of Post Tenebras Lux . The film centers on Alberto who is decomposing and can no longer hide it, so he decides to withdraw from the world. Before yielding to his living death, Alberto forms an unusual friendship with Silvia, the manager of the gym where he works as a guard. Sebastian Hofmann’s Director’s statement follows (with Poster Below): Halley is an essay on the anguish experienced when the illusion of control over our bodies disappears. It is a contemporary gothic story that casts a compassionate look at the life of a zombie; a helpless witness to the decomposition of his own body. Alberto’s condition offers a reflection of our mortality and the solitude of decay. Halley seeks to reassert the temporality of our bodies in a culture engaged in its collective denial. By means of fictional infomercials, and the gym culture Alberto lives in, the film will explore how we conceal the frailty of our condition as living beings underneath a pathological idealization of beauty. We will see human beings running, though never escaping, the more disquieting facts of their existence. Halley is the name of the famous comet which orbits the sun every 75 years; the only short-period comet plainly visible from Earth. Records of its existence can be found in Ancient Greek and Chinese writings. Halley has been an enduring witness of our cyclical history. The time that spans each of its visits is the average length of a human life.
Writer/director Chad Hartigan scored a coveted spot at the Sundance Film Festival with his sophomore effort This Is Martin Bonner . The festival is just under a month away, but images are trickling in including the debut of this poster for the drama screening in Sundance’s NEXT section. [ Related: Sundance Film Festival Reveals 2013 U.S. & World Competition and NEXT Slate ] NEXT is officially set for films that “stretch limited resources to create impactful art,” according to the festival. Only time will tell how these ten titles will do after they premiere, but some early word has been positive for this year’s crop… Official This Is Martin Bonner description follows. Who can guess what land mass that is? The striking sophomore film of writer/director Chad Hartigan, This Is Martin Bonner is a warm and perceptive meditation on friendship, human connection and getting a second chance at life. Fifty-something Martin Bonner (Paul Eenhorn) leaves his old life behind and relocates to Reno, where he finds work helping released prisoners transition to life on the outside, while trying his hand at speed dating and passing time as a soccer referee on weekends. Meanwhile, Travis Holloway (Richmond Arquette) has just been released from prison after serving 12 years. Surprising both of them, Travis and Martin form an unlikely friendship that offers them reciprocal support and understanding. Quietly observational and naturalistic, the film features noteworthy breakthrough performances from Eenhoorn and Arquette who approach their characters with a lived-in sense of low-key restraint.
The Batman finale was the most watched movie trailer on YouTube, though it actually placed only third overall. Also in Thursday’s round-up of news, the Palm Springs International Film Festival sets its lineup including opening and closing titles; Sundance unveiled its competition juries; and release dates are set for Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s Ten and Paramount’s Anchorman sequel. The Dark Knight Rises Most Watched Movie Trailer in 2012 The film ranked highest of any film related trailer, placing third followed by Skyfall (4th), Ted (5th) and Hunger Games (6th). The top two spots in the rankings, based on how many times a cop was viewed, how long people stayed on the clip and how many times people searched for a clip instead of clicking on an ad, were two video games: Activision’s Call of Duty Black Ops 2 , Deadline reports . Blancanieves to Open Palm Springs Film Festival The film, directed by Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger, is a re-imagining of the Snow White fairytale, will open the Palm Springs fest January 3. The festival will close out January 13 with Paul Andrew Williams’ Unfinished Song starring Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave. As usual the festival will host a large number of Best Foreign Language Oscar contenders. In all the event will screen 180 films from 68 countries, Deadline reports . Sundance Film Festival Sets Juries Sundance Institute named its 19 members in five separate juries for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Former Fox head Tom Rothman, filmmaker Ed Burns, Waiting for Superman filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, 1998 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Liz Garbus ( The Farm: Angola, USA ), director Brett Morgen ( Crossfire Hurricane ) and Participant Media exec Diane Weyermann. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Action Thriller Ten Set for January 2014 Schwarzenegger stars as the leader of an elite DEA task force that manages to neutralize a cartel safe house, but after the raid, the ten members of the group start getting eliminated. End of Watch ‘s David Ayer will direct, THR reports . Paramount Sets Anchorman Sequel Release Date Anchorman 2 is the follow up to the 2004 cult comedy that grossed $85 million domestically. Paramount will bow the pic December 20, 2013. The feature stars Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner and Christina Applegate with Adam McKay directing, THR reports .
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is heading to the Sundance Film Festival next month with his directorial debut Sound City and he’s wasting no time getting the pic out there. The film’s website is now taking pre-orders for the documentary that will be released via HD digital download and stream February 1st. It will also be released theatrically February 1. Sound City is the brainchild of Grohl who conceived the story after purchasing a custom-built 8028 recording console from Sound City Studios last year. The board was built in 1972 and considered to be a “crown jewel of analog recording equipment,” having recorded such artists as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Guns and Roses, Fear, Grohl’s former band, Nirvana as well as Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica and others. Grohl’s personal connection to Sound City began with the 1991 recording of Nirvana’s breakthrough album, “Nevermind”. Selling over 30 million copies worldwide. Grohl is getting personal with the feature, sending customers who pre-buy Sound City for $10 a letter, which follows: Hey there…. Thanks for scraping up your hard earned dough and buying the movie direct from our site! We’re stoked! Hope you love it as much as we do…. Ummm………Holy shit! I made a movie! I started this project a little over a year ago with ONE of my good old friends (Jim Rota from the band Fireball Ministry). That’s right….just me, my drinking buddy, and a crazy idea that we should tell the story of a studio we had loved hanging around for years, and our heartbreak to see it close. It soon blossomed into something truly epic! I don’t think either of us ever imagined our little project would become what it is now. Like all the best things in life, it just…….happened. From day one, it was the most incredible experience of my life. I swear. Sitting down with Neil Young talking about recording guitars, John Fogerty telling me about the day he decided to become a musician, Stevie Nicks telling me the story of how she joined Fleetwood Mac, Trent Reznor schooling me on the world of computers and digital technology, etc etc etc…..can you imagine? All I had to do was listen…I am the luckiest man on earth. And, being a completely independent film, no one told us how or what to do! Me and my crew of under 20 people did it OUR way. It was like a keg party with a camera. WE got to tell the story of a place we all held so dear. WE wanted to do it justice. And I think we did. But, SOUND CITY is only part of the story….. What is it that happens when 4 people turn on, plug in, and really play that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up? What is it about those moments when you hear something and it immediately puts its hooks in you, and you feel…..understood? What is it that will inspire the next generation of kids wanna do what I did when I was a little punk growing up in Springfield, Virginia? That feeling like, “Wait……I can do this too….. That’s what I’m talking about. That human connection. That human feel. That human sound…that isn’t perfect…but it’s sooooo good. I really feel like SOUND CITY is my life’s most important work. I hope you do too. Psyched that you get to see it! Show it to your friends! Get together, start a band, sound like shit, and change the world. GO! Thank you, thank you, thank you………Dave [ Sources: Sound City , THR ]