Remember that folk music movie Joel and Ethan Coen were working on back in June? It has co-financing and a title. Variety reports that StudioCanal will co-finance the film, now titled Inside Llewyn Davis , with Scott Rudin set to produce. The film — which will reportedly feature “live music” — is inspired, in part, by the life of famed musician Dave Van Ronk, an important figure in the growth of the folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s. [ Variety ]
Ready or not, the Oscar Equinox is upon us: The Venice Film Festival is underway, the Telluride Film Festival launches this weekend, and the Toronto International Film Festival commences a week from tomorrow. Amid that crop of movies will be the bulk of this year’s awards-season contenders, which will compete against an elite class already having opened in theaters and another fistful yet to come this winter. Same game, new players. And Movieline’s redoubtable Oscar Index has the preliminary breakdown of who to watch.
Up-and-coming star Jessica Chastain appeared on Conan last night to promote her new movies The Help ( for which Jessica brags she supersized her sweater meat with a soy diet) and The Debt (where she gets nipply as a sexy secret agent).While on the couch, the redhead hottie shared a story about a special person in her life who always encourages her to be sexy. Her boyfriend? Nope. Her sister? Guess again. It’s her grandma! Turns out Nana Chastain doesn’t stay home and knit- she’s a motorcycle-riding, chain-smoking firebrand who thinks her granddaughter ought to play up her sexuality on screen: Conan: Does [your grandma] want you to cover yourself up? Jessica: No, no she wants the opposite! My grandma- she wants me to show, like, skin skin skin skin…She’s always been like, “you need to be more sexual, Jessica.” You know, obeying your elders is a virtue… See Jessica Chastain make her grandmama proud after the jump!
Up-and-coming star Jessica Chastain appeared on Conan last night to promote her new movies The Help ( for which Jessica brags she supersized her sweater meat with a soy diet) and The Debt (where she gets nipply as a sexy secret agent).While on the couch, the redhead hottie shared a story about a special person in her life who always encourages her to be sexy. Her boyfriend? Nope. Her sister? Guess again. It’s her grandma! Turns out Nana Chastain doesn’t stay home and knit- she’s a motorcycle-riding, chain-smoking firebrand who thinks her granddaughter ought to play up her sexuality on screen: Conan: Does [your grandma] want you to cover yourself up? Jessica: No, no she wants the opposite! My grandma- she wants me to show, like, skin skin skin skin…She’s always been like, “you need to be more sexual, Jessica.” You know, obeying your elders is a virtue… See Jessica Chastain make her grandmama proud after the jump!
Up-and-coming star Jessica Chastain appeared on Conan last night to promote her new movies The Help ( for which Jessica brags she supersized her sweater meat with a soy diet) and The Debt (where she gets nipply as a sexy secret agent).While on the couch, the redhead hottie shared a story about a special person in her life who always encourages her to be sexy. Her boyfriend? Nope. Her sister? Guess again. It’s her grandma! Turns out Nana Chastain doesn’t stay home and knit- she’s a motorcycle-riding, chain-smoking firebrand who thinks her granddaughter ought to play up her sexuality on screen: Conan: Does [your grandma] want you to cover yourself up? Jessica: No, no she wants the opposite! My grandma- she wants me to show, like, skin skin skin skin…She’s always been like, “you need to be more sexual, Jessica.” You know, obeying your elders is a virtue… See Jessica Chastain make her grandmama proud after the jump!
Movies have become so technically sophisticated, so hyper-real, that there’s almost no such thing as a cheap pulp entertainment anymore: So many movies set out to wow us, which isn’t the same as giving us pleasure. Yet even within those dispiriting parameters, you couldn’t come up with a more mediocre wow than Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian , which is perhaps less a remake of John Milius’ 1982 crowdpleaser than an attempt to honor the spirit of Robert E. Howard’s original novels, though it’s hard to tell exactly what effect Nispel is going for. I wanted to giggle when Ron Perlman, as Conan’s dad-to-be, performed an emergency mid-battle C-section on his dying wife. But the Conan birth scene, so epic in its epicness, is played totally straight. When Perlman holds that tastefully blood-streaked CGI newborn aloft to the mighty heavens, he seems to be angling for a few gifts of frankincense or myrrh, or at least a gift certificate from Land of Nod.
We’ve already discussed how Taylor Lautner might not be a believable protagonist in an action film , especially one where Sigourney-effing-Weaver is relegated to a supporting role. Now we have to wonder if Abduction is believable as a film at all, since its new poster takes a page out of a very-effing-popular movie franchise from the past decade. Run like Tay-tay, and click through for comparison.
Like the killer in a Texan massacre tale, this Jessica Chastain person keeps coming back! In every possible supporting role! With the new movie Texas Killing Fields , the Tree of Life lumberjill co-stars alongside Sam Worthington (who looks a lot like Nathan from The Real World: Seattle these days, in case you were wondering) and Chloe Moretz in a tale of serial murder and Southern accents. Director Ami Canaan Mann is Michael Mann’s daughter, which officially makes this film a hotbed for a new school of talent. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan is like the principal of that school.
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden movie finds a potential distributor… Keanu Reeves talks Ronin 47 … the planned Harry Houdini biopic gets a screenwriter… and more ahead.
The worst-kept secret (or most obvious development, however you want to read it) of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival was confirmed today: Terrence Malick’s long-delayed The Tree of Life will debut on the Croisette in May. The film joins Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris as the only selections officially set for this year’s fest, though its status in or out of competition remains unknown. Tree of Life opens Stateside in limited release on May 27. [ Thompson on Hollywood ]
