‘We were playing cops, ultimately,’ actor says of his role in the upcoming Ruben Fleischer-directed crime drama. By Kara Warner Ryan Gosling in “Gangster Squad” Photo: Warner Bros
Ryan Gosling turns 32 years old today. The ridiculously sexy actor has made headlines over recent weeks for reasons beyond his control or say: he’s atop the list of rumored names to play the lead in Fifty Shades of Grey . Could you picture Gosling with his shirt off, tying a woman up in bed before having his way with her? Would you like to take a few moment and picture this…? All set? Then send in your very best birthday wishes to Gosling right now, along with the following famous people who also turn a year older on November 12: Omarion (28), Anne Hathaway (40), Tonya Harding (42).
While Bieber and Gosling (and Avril Lavigne) may all be related, it turns out there are plenty of other celebs with famous relatives … including Lady Gaga and Madonna. By James Montgomery Justin Bieber and Ryan Gosling Photo: Getty Images
Reincarnated begins, appropriately, with a big cloud of smoke. Over the course of the documentary, which premiered today in Toronto, rapper Snoop Dogg (real name: Calvin Broadus) transitions into his reggae-focused new alter ego Snoop Lion , dropping classic lines left and right. Will Snoop Lion be around for long? “I’m Snoop Motherfuckin’ Dogg till the day I die,” he told reporters , “but at the same time when I’m making my reggae music I’m in the light of the Lion.” Well then! Get to know the Lion a little better with 9 Snoop Lion quotables from Reincarnated . 1. ” Reggae is a form of hip hop and hip hop is a form of reggae .” 2. Sample lyrics of Snoop Lion’s first reggae recording, “Smoke Da Weed”: ” Smoke da weed / Every day / Don’t smoke da seed …” 3. Snoop, after revealing that he stole from his white school friends: ” You all know you shouldn’t have let me in your motherfuckin’ houses .” 4. Snoop’s cousin Daz: ” I’m smoking a blunt in the jungle! ” 5. To reggae legend Bunny Wailer: “W e want to bless you with some California herbs that we have .” 6. ” My songs are too hard…I know Obama wants me to come to the White House, but what the fuck can I perform? ” 7. ” I want to be loved while I’m here. And the only way to get love is to give love. ” 8. Snoop on turning 40: ” I’m wiser, or a bit wiser. Like Budweiser. ” 9. Not a quote, but a fun fact: Snoop’s Rastafarian name is “Berhane,” which means “light.” Stay tuned for more on Reincarnated . check out Movieline’s ongoing coverage of the Toronto Film Festival. Follow Frank Digiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Also making the rounds: Eric Roth will receive an honorary award at the Austin Film Festival, the latest doc from the filmmakers behind Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts makes a deal, and the Sylvester Stallone-Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Tomb gets a 2013 release date. David Gordon Green And Nicolas Cage: Two Great Tastes? THR reports that Nic Cage will star as an ex-con and mentor to a teenage boy in a gritty Southern-set adaptation of Larry Brown’s novel Joe . The versatile David Gordon Green ( All The Real Girls , George Washington , Pineapple Express , The Sitter ) will direct, either reining in or letting Cage’s signature nouveau shamanic acting method run free. Cinema Guild Acquires TIFF Doc Leviathan The documentary by directors Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Véréna Paravel (Foreign Parts) will be distributed in the U.S. by Cinema Guild after screening next week at the Toronto Film Festival and subsequently at the New York Film Festival. The experimental documentary about fishing “captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras — tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker — it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.” Eric Roth To Receive Honors At Austin Film Festival The annual event, held October 18-25 in Austin, TX, will award the Forrest Gump and Curious Case of Benjamin Button screenwriter with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award. The Oscar-winner will also take part in “A Conversation with Eric Roth,” along with a retrospective of his work and screening of 1999’s The Insider . Martin Scorsese, Steve James, and Steven Zaillian To Make Roger Ebert Doc America’s most beloved critic announced via Twitter that he’ll be getting his own (much deserved) documentary, with a trio of heavy hitters behind the camera: Hoop Dreams director Steve James, writer Steven Zaillian, and executive producer Martin Scorsese will join forces on the adaptation of Ebert’s memoir Life Itself . “Whatever they do I will be fascinated,” Ebert wrote to Indiewire. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger Are Coming To A Theater Near You in 2013 The Expendables and Planet Hollywood buddies will hit theaters in their own team-up, The Tomb, which will now be released on September 27, 2013 via Lionsgate, reports THR .
The night began with a little celebrity-fueled silliness. As Ryan Gosling arrived at the Princess of Wales Theater in Toronto for the premiere of his latest picture, The Place Beyond The Pines , a crowd of eager fans barged across traffic-stalled King Street to swarm the object of their affection. But once Gosling’s second film with filmmaker Derek Cianfrance — they made the remarkably pure heartbreaker Blue Valentine together — got started, it was clear that the two friends and a remarkable cast that included Bradley Cooper , Eva Mendes and Ben Mendelsohn had made a seriously good movie. [ GALLERY: The Place Beyond The Pines And More TIFF Films Likely To Succeed ] As Cianfrance told the crowd afterward, the movie “is about legacy — about being a father.” Gosling plays a stunt motorcyclist who turns to bank-robbing out of sense of responsibility to a child he fathered; his performance is so indelible that you don’t forget him once he’s left the screen. The remarkable thing is that Cianfrance — who said during the Q&A that the structure of the film was inspired by Psycho — gets Bradley Cooper, who plays a Schenectady, NY cop with adjustable morals, to pick up the baton and carry the movie before handing it off to Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen, who both give memorable performances as the sons, respectively, of Gosling’s and Cooper’s characters. Indeed, there are so many strong performances in this movie — Mendelsohn is also a standout — that the Academy could have a tough time figuring out who to honor with a nomination. Cianfrance told the crowd that he actually began writing the film before Blue Valentine in 2007 when he was in the process of becoming a father for the second time. “I was thinking a lot about becoming a father again [and remembering that] I had a fire in me.” Sometimes, Cianfrance said, “it had helped” and “sometimes it destroyed things.” Thinking about the son he was expecting, the director said: “I didn’t want him to have the fire.” The Place Beyond The Pines is all about that fire and it leaves a searing impression, though there were some light moments during the Q&A. At the very end of the evening, after Gosling politely brushed off compliments about his sexiness and the tattoos he wears in the film, a woman in the balcony screamed, “Ryan I’m pregnant!” Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The Toronto International Film Festival annually boasts one of the deepest and glitziest line-ups of the year, and while there are many under-the-radar discoveries to be made, TIFF can be a very effective launching pad for upcoming studio releases and Oscar hopefuls alike. With Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck , Ryan Gosling , Paul Thomas Anderson , Kristen Stewart , Jake Gyllenhaal , Spike Lee , Keira Knightley , Bill Murray and more bringing films to Toronto, which films and A-listers are set to make the biggest splash at the fest starting tomorrow night? [ PHOTO GALLERY: The 15 Toronto Titles Most Likely To Succeed ] Argo , Ben Affleck Headed to theaters in October via Warner Bros., Ben Affleck ’s third directorial effort is also his most ambitious to date following his strong crime thrillers Gone Baby Gone and The Town . Based on the true story of a joint Hollywood-CIA plot to rescue six diplomats during the Iran Hostage Crisis, Argo boasts a stellar supporting cast – Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Philip Baker Hall, Alan Arkin, Clea Duvall, and Kyle Chandler among them – anchored by Affleck himself as real life CIA operative Tony Mendez. Oscar buzz began last weekend at Telluride , where Affleck earned kudos for his work in front of and behind the camera. The Master , Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-anticipated drama has navigated its own unorthodox course of promotion through secret screenings and teaser trailers ahead of its September 14 bow in limited release. ( Read Movieline’s sneak review here .) A highly successful official bow at the Venice Film Festival before a stop in Toronto only shored up more critical support for the period drama, about an ex-seaman (Joaquin Phoenix) drawn into the inner circle of an L. Ron Hubbard-esque figure (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Expect Anderson’s latest to keep riding the wave all the way through awards season and pique interest beyond the art house with its parallels to Scientology . The Place Beyond the Pines , Derek Cianfrance In The Place Beyond The Pines Ryan Gosling – tattooed, blond, and a biker – reunites with director Derek Cianfrance, who captured one of Gosling’s finest and most wrenching performances in Blue Valentine . Here Cianfrance pits Gosling’s vagabond-outlaw motorcyclist against an ambitious young cop (Bradley Cooper) in what Toronto Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey calls “a study of vengeance, memory and fate.” Rose Byrne and Eva Mendes (who’s been dating Gosling, ZOMG) also star. If you loved the Baby Goose in Drive , how can you resist? On the Road , Walter Salles Despite mixed reviews out of Cannes , Walter Salles’ adaptation of the Beat generation classic is primed to make a splash upon release this December – mostly thanks to the star power (and, let’s be real, the tabloid power) of Kristen Stewart , whose turn as the wild Marylou marks the beginning of a departure from her well-known Twilight alter ego. But On the Road could also boost the profile of Garrett Hedlund ( TRON ) – and the additional wattage of Kirsten Dunst , Viggo Mortensen , and Amy Adams doesn’t hurt, either. Looper , Rian Johnson Rian Johnson ( Brick , Brothers Bloom ) is back with a sci-fi tale with a twist: Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars underneath a prosthetic Bruce Willis nose as Joe, a “looper” – a hitman who offs targets sent back in time from the future. When he encounters his future self and fails to finish the job, Joe finds himself both hunter and hunted as time runs out. After premiering on opening night of the Toronto Film Festival, Looper will hit theaters on September 28 – a surprising must-see for sci-fi fans.
Gosling reunites with Emma Stone in the star-studded, Tommy gun-packed clip. By Kevin P. Sullivan Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in “Gangster Squad” Photo: Warner Bros. One of the fall’s most anticipated releases, ” Gangster Squad ,” packs an all-star cast, old-school vibe and a bunch of Tommy guns. Needless to say, we’re interested. The film from “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer just got its first trailer, so we’ve broken it down for you into these five keys scenes. “Every kingdom comes up bloody” A centerpiece of the trailer, it’s hard to miss Sean Penn even under all of that makeup. In “Gangster Squad,” Penn plays Mickey Cohen, an east coast gangster who has come to Los Angeles to become “a god.” Cohen is the ultimate evil that the Gangster Squad is going to stop at nothing to put out for good. The trailer gives lots of screen time to Penn, and when you also consider the prosthetics on his face, it’s not hard to imagine that Warner Bros. would make a Best Supporting Actor push for him come Oscar season. Mackie, Gosling and Pe
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Robert Pattinson, Ian Somerhalder, Ryan Gosling are fan favorites to play the dark and mysterious character in E L James’ novel. By Christina Garibaldi Robert Pattinson Photo: MTV News People just can’t stop talking about “Fifty Shades of Grey.” E L James has set the literary world on fire with as erotic novel that explores the relationship between a dark and mysterious guy named Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, an innocent college graduate. The guilty-pleasure book features characters that James created in her “Twilight” fan fiction, and it’s now being made into a feature film . That, of course, has had Hollywood buzzing with casting rumors about who could play the role of Christian Grey. Fans of the trilogy already have strong opinions about the part, so MTV News caught up with some experts for their take. “Christian definitely needs to be clean-cut, but extremely sexy when disheveled,” Alison Genet of Twifans.com told MTV News. “I wouldn’t choose a man that is overly chiseled. No juicehead gorillas need apply. Hair that can be neatly brushed, but when playing, it’s loose and wild like Johnny Depp hair. Not super short.” Of course, the physical look of the actor has to fit, but Christian is also a complex individual, and most fans want an actor who can pull off all his many dimensions. “I just think that the actor needs to be able to portray being so intense,” Mags Vazquez from , “But also showing that vulnerability that he has in reality.” Casting rumors for the part of Christian have been heating up as of late, with names like “Twilight’s” own Robert Pattinson coming up. So, do fans want to see Pattinson make the transition from Edward Cullen to Christian Grey? “There’s the side that first fell in love with the characters as part of ‘Twilight’ fan fiction and can only see Robert Pattinson as Christian and/or Kristen Stewart as Ana,” Lisa Parker from FiftyShadesFilm.com explained. “Would we be disappointed if he/she/they were cast? Absolutely not.” Others disagree, however. “In regards to Robert Pattinson, I would like to see them move away from ‘Twilight’ so it can get its own identity,” Crissy Maier of Laters, Baby! said. Well, if Pattinson doesn’t land the role, there’s a chance another vampire could step in: “Vampire Diaries” star Ian Somerhalder. “I think Ian seems like a good fit visually, I haven’t watched ‘Vampire Diaries,’ but what I hear about his acting skills there, I’m hearing good things,” Maier said. Parker agreed, revealing that her readers have been backing Somerhalder since he expressed interest in the role during an interview with Ryan Seacrest. “We’re excited to see actors step up and say they would be interested in playing the leading man,” Parker said, adding, “With Ian Somerhalder being the first and a popular candidate judging from our Twitter timeline.” These super fans have suggestions of their own though, ranging from Matt Bomer to “Man of Steel” star Henry Cavill . Not surprisingly, Ryan Gosling is also a favorite. “We are fans of the love story too, so we know exactly what qualities ‘FSOG’ fans see in different actors and actresses that make them appealing for the roles,” Parker said. “Have you seen the Dunhill London ads featuring Henry Cavill? Do they not scream ‘Fifty’? Have you seen Ryan Gosling’s GQ photo shoot? Grey silk tie anyone?” Genet of Twifanscom agreed, saying Gosling’s undeniable charm could make him the perfect Christian Grey: “Ryan Gosling, Ryan Gosling, and Ryan Gosling. Imaging him in jeans hung low on the hip.” “The one thing we know for sure is that with E L James as a collaborative partner in the casting process, we are confident that she will do what’s in the best interest of her famously loved characters.” Parker said. Who do you think should play Christian Grey in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie? Let us know in the comments! Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: Robert Pattinson Related Photos ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Rumored Cast