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Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Trailer: Bella Swan is Expecting — And It’s Not Good

Uh-oh! The new full-length trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is out, and trouble is stirring in the womb of Bella Swan. “You did this!” Jacob spits at Edward, who’s all like, ” Ugh , I know, my bad.” And then the wolves are all like, “Raaaahhhrrr.” And then the new baby bump is all like, “Bllerrgh.” And Bill Condon’s all like, “Check out this sweet move I saw last night on Lifetime.”

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Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Trailer: Bella Swan is Expecting — And It’s Not Good

Do Not Mess With Universal: Bruno Bingo Hall Edition

Back in 2007, during the filming of Bruno , Sacha Baron Cohen and his film crew stormed a California bingo hall. They asked the unsuspecting patrons to sign Standard Consent Agreements, alleged that they were filming a “documentary-style film,” and then Bruno was invited on stage to call numbers. Only instead of just calling numbers, the flamboyant Austrian character related each digit to a milestone in his relationship with a former gay partner — a showy extreme that ended in tears, a call to the paramedics, security officers forcibly removing Cohen, a “brain bleed” and a lawsuit against NBC Universal, that we learn today, the studio has won.

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Do Not Mess With Universal: Bruno Bingo Hall Edition

Twenty Cigarettes Might Be the Best Movie Ever

“I wanted to do a portrait film with extended takes. Smoking came into it later, as the ploy to get people to stand still and not be totally conscious of being filmed, although a big part of Twenty Cigarettes is that very self-consciousness of a person in front of a camera and how that changes over time. Cigarettes also have this built-in duration and people will smoke at a different rate, and they’ll smoke the whole cigarette or part of the cigarette. Smoking has such a stigma now, especially in the U.S., so I thought it would be interesting to make a film where I won’t have any value judgment at all on smoking.” Sorry! This has NC-17 written allllll over it . [ NYT ]

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Twenty Cigarettes Might Be the Best Movie Ever

Child Mariachi Concert Sounds Strangely Like Horror-Movie Theme

Not to get down on a bunch of kids, but check out the string parts in this video of a child mariachi ensemble currently making the Web rounds, and tell me this isn’t custom-made for some kind of Shining -esque psychological thriller. Or maybe a Radiohead album. And then there’s a trumpet! All it’s missing is Shia LaBeouf behind the camera . Rock out, freak out and read on for more Buzz Break.

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Child Mariachi Concert Sounds Strangely Like Horror-Movie Theme

Letter from Toronto: Woody Harrelson Disarms in Rampart; Sokurov Gets Wiggy with Faust

Occasionally, a movie is more interesting for where it doesn’t go than for where it does. Oren Moverman’s Rampart , starring Woody Harrelson as a disgraced (and obviously dirty) LAPD cop, is one of those pictures. It’s more of a character study than a conventionally shaped drama — I was taken aback when the end credits started rolling, momentarily left with that “Is that all there is?” feeling. But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed that the movie ended in just the right place, taking us as far as we can go with this loose-cannon cop before he’s left to face his own isolation. Once we, the audience, part ways with him, he’s truly on his own.

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Letter from Toronto: Woody Harrelson Disarms in Rampart; Sokurov Gets Wiggy with Faust

Contagion Spreads to Top of Box Office

Contagion broke out at the box office this weekend, debuting in first place by a wide margin over all other films. The A-list heavy drama, which centers on a global outbreak of a virus, garnered over $23 million on Friday and Saturday. It finally knocked The Help from the number-one perch. Contagion Trailer Below, we’ve listed the latest box office results from a relatively quiet weekend: Contagion : $23.1 million The Help : $8.6 million Warrior : $5.6 million The Debt : $4.9 million Colombiana : $4 million

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Contagion Spreads to Top of Box Office

Friday Box Office: Contagion Spreads Like Wildfire

Don’t let the PG-13s fool you: Adults have taken over the box office. For the fifth consecutive week, a sophisticated film more reliant on story, casting and filmmaking than it is on VFX bloat, franchise bulk and/or superhero ardor has claimed the No. 1 slot. Meanwhile, the late-summer phenomenon that it supplanted came in second, and you don’t even want to know where the puerile Bucky Larson wound up. (Or maybe you do. Hint: Not in the top 10!) This is your Friday Box Office.

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Friday Box Office: Contagion Spreads Like Wildfire

Jane Fonda Biographer Patricia Bosworth on the Actress, Her Movies, and the Horny Prowess of Henry Fonda

At age 74, Jane Fonda still beams with a dogged courage that has fueled her cinematic, political, and entrepreneurial endeavors. Biographer Patricia Bosworth would know firsthand, having met the two-time Oscar winner during their thespian days with Lee Strasberg in New York City’s Actors Studio. For four decades Bosworth has studied the shapeshifting Fonda, and when it came time in the early 2000s to write her biography, Fonda agreed to interview with the woman who had, by that time, written tomes about Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando.

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Jane Fonda Biographer Patricia Bosworth on the Actress, Her Movies, and the Horny Prowess of Henry Fonda

Ron Howard May Count to 364, and 7 Other Stories You’ll be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Michel Gondry returns to France… Inside India’s disappearing softcore porn industry… The 50 Cent/Mickey Rourke Russian roulette movie you’ve been waiting for is coming… George Carlin may get his own street… and more.

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Ron Howard May Count to 364, and 7 Other Stories You’ll be Talking About Today

Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II Kicks Can Soon Be Yours

Back to the Future II director/producer Frank Marshall recently tweeted , “Something big is coming soon. Can’t say anything yet. No one should know too much about their own destiny. #BTTF.” Well, this package from Dr. Emmett L. Brown helps explain: It’s Nike’s upcoming Air Mag shoe, a replica of Marty McFly’s kicks from the first BTTF sequel, that boast self-lacing technology. Put on yer incredulous Crispin Glover bug eyes, because this is pretty wild! More in Buzz Break after the jump.

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Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II Kicks Can Soon Be Yours