Kenneth Lonergan has finally finished Margaret , his long, long, long delayed follow-up to You Can Count on Me , which stars Anna Paquin as a flirtatious teen who may or may not have caused a fatal bus accident. Allison Janney, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo and Matthew Broderick (who reportedly fronted Lonergan $1 million to finish the project) co-star. Let’s take a look at the trailer for the drama and decide whether it was worth the six-year wait.
Diablo Cody has her own movie to anticipate with the release of her third feature Young Adult this December (featuring a thoroughly unamused Charlize Theron ), but the Academy Award winner took time out tell Movieline which three films she most looks forward to seeing. What will make the cut? The Iron Lady ? Carnage ? A Dangerous Method ? Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip Wrecked ? Click through for her adroit (and quite cheeky) observations.
Because it’s Friday and you deserve it, here’s the latest newcomer in the world of the artistic pop culture food art wars: Watermelon Optimus Prime, forged from the flesh of a juicy, juicy watermelon. But how does the edible Autobot leader compare to the nefarious design of delicious darkness that is Carrot Darth Vader?
Word just over the Movieline transom reports that the 49th New York Film Festival will open Sept. 30 with Carnage , Roman Polanski’s screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage .
Just when you thought you’d never think about Oksana Grigorieva’s damning tapes of Mel Gibson’s pyromaniacal requests for oral sex again, the Braveheart star’s brother is here to echo Jodie Foster and Whoopi Goldberg : Mel’s not a racist, y’all! He’s not even racist. Or aggressive. Or a litterer. Here, let’s allow Andrew Gibson to explain it all.
Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat of “Politics of Love” runs into Jodie Foster at the Hollywood Reporter Party in Cannes, France. Jodie tells Mallika a touching personal story about India!
The Mel Gibson Comeback Tour begins in earnest on May 6 when The Beaver opens in limited release after months of delays and date changes. In the lead up to that moment, however, Gibson has broken his long-time silence for a lengthy and in-depth interview with Movieline sister site Deadline that covers everything from his legal troubles to The Beaver to whether he’ll act again to not being in The Hangover Part II .
The Mel Gibson Comeback Tour begins in earnest on May 6 when The Beaver opens in limited release after months of delays and date changes. In the lead up to that moment, however, Gibson has broken his long-time silence for a lengthy and in-depth interview with Movieline sister site Deadline that covers everything from his legal troubles to The Beaver to whether he’ll act again to not being in The Hangover Part II .
While Jodie Foster the actress has a rich and varied resume — horror! science fiction! childrens’ adventure! whatever Flightplan was! — but as a director, she’s stuck to smaller, family-based dramas, including SXSW’ s sweetheart, The Beaver . But speaking to the Los Angles Times , Foster says she’s ready to direct a sci-fi thriller. Promising that it’ll have her usual Fosteresque “family element” as well as plenty of “genre moments,” Foster is still chewing over the details of the script with an unnamed writer. And of course, she still has to finishing shooting Roman Polanski’s Carnage as well as Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 follow-up, Elysium before she can turn her eyes sci-fi-ward. But let’s just hope that her next leading man isn’t also an unrepentant racist, anti-Semitic, wife-beating raging homophobe . It’ll make the press junket a lot simpler, I would think. [ LAT ]
Janet Jackson, whose biggest feat in recent years was a dance single with the lyric, “I’m heavy like a first-day period,” just upped the ante: She landed a deal with Lionsgate to develop and produce a film : Exciting! Especially since Ms. Jackson’s music video oeuvre has enough cinematic flair to inspire her film if need be. Let’s look back at Janet’s music videos and pick the five that deserve silver screen adaptations. Don your golden nosechain and come along!
