Although Albert Nobbs has made the festival rounds and has long been generating awards-season buzz — particularly for star and co-writer Glenn Close — the film only had its Hollywood coming-out party of sorts over the weekend.
If you’ve been wondering whether Megan Fox, the Transformers bombshell who dared to compare director Michael Bay to Hitler, has seen Dark of the Moon after being replaced by pouty pin-up Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, the answer is no. “I haven’t seen it yet, but I will see it,” Fox told Moviefone. “I mean, if they hadn’t been hitting me so hard on the press tour, I would have gone to the theater. I love Shia to death; I love him unconditionally. And I love that crew. I want to see it for them. I know it looked amazing in the trailer.” [ Moviefone ]
Child actors all grown up, Oscar-winning directors popping their collars, stars going silly for the camera — anything goes when you stick actors and filmmakers in the studio for some good, old-fashioned family-style portraits. See who came to town for the 2011 Toronto Film Festival and gave good face for the camera, uberdramatic, super goofy, and otherwise, in Movieline’s TIFF 2011 Photo Booth .
A tribute to vibrators and the women who love them, Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria is a jaunty little entertainment that’s almost plowed under by its early-suffragette arguments for women’s equality. But like the little motorized whatsit that is its subject, the movie’s charms are ultimately irresistible.
The new international poster of Tower Heist positions Brett Ratner’s vindictive ensemble atop a skyscraper where they pose like cool TJ Maxx models. Confession: I can’t wait to see this movie (and, particularly, Alan Alda’s bastardly turn in it), and I think it’ll be the breakout hit of November. I apologize, Albert Nobbs !