The Descendants , the much-anticipated collaboration between George Clooney and director Alexander Payne, was announced today as the closing-night selection of the 49th New York Film Festival. The movie will join 26 others in this year’s program, an intriguing blend that includes apocalypse films from both Abel Ferrara and Lars von Trier, a doubly oversexed Michael Fassbender and Martin Scorsese’s latest musical documentary. Read on for the full slate.
You’ve already seen the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s 3-D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret , and now Paramount has released the first official photo from the movie that will give Jason Segel’s Muppets reboot a run for its money (maybe) this Thanksgiving. Click ahead to check out the artwork and more importantly, rate the creepiness of the robot that holds Asa Butterfield and Chloë Moretz’s attention.
Sixty-eight years ago today, a Hirschfeld caricature named Mick Jagger was born. In addition to inventing our current perception of rock stars, the Rolling Stones frontman has produced some of the darkest material ever to permeate the mainstream. While you could revisit the harrowing Altamont doc Gimme Shelter or Martin Scorsese’s 2008 concert film Shine a Light to celebrate Mick’s special occasion, Movieline is instead turning back to Mick’s performance in the once-abhorred, now-revered 1970 movie Performance . Check out the slickest Mick ever ahead!
As reported on Wednesday night , Disney is moving full-steam ahead on a film adaptation of the famed Matterhorn ride at Disneyland. Tentatively called The Hill , the new project will focus on five young adventurers who wind up tangling with some fairly upset Yetis atop a large mountain. Spooky, scary, etc. Instead of getting on your soapbox to complain about yet another Disney ride being co-opted for big screen doubloons, though, why not embrace the obvious and help Movieline suggest some other Disney rides that should become movies.
The legendary British director Michael Powell ( The Red Shoes , The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ) had been friends with Martin Scorsese for over a decade by 1988. Scorsese idolized Powell, and it appears that reverence was reciprocated in a letter Powell sent regarding an epic Scorsese-penned script that would be released two years later as Goodfellas , the same year Powell died. Dig this amazing find.
Rumor control: Was Sean Paul all up in Beyonce’s cakes during a break with Jigga man? ! When the check stops coming in… Sean Paul starts spillin’. “Word on the street is that Reggae star Sean Paul is writing a biography, and he admits he dated Beyonce when she was taking a break from Jay-Z. The insider explained, “Jay-Z was very jealous . . . to this day he has a problem with Sean Paul.” Oh the shade… We smell beef! Could this be the reason why Jay Camel banned Sean Paul from performing “Baby Boy” with Beyonce at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards?! Source
This New Orleans-bred actor is the first Black actor to be featured in nearly a decade on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue. Anthony Mackie changed the game by landing on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 17th annual “Hollywood Issue” ; and admits he realized the weight he carries by gracing the highly coveted glossy cover! Mackie opens up: “The magazine came out and it’s interesting how the conversations have changed, which is surprising to me,” “When my publicist told me they got me for the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition I didn’t know what it meant. Looking at it now it was a monumental step in the course of my career. I want to be 70 or 80 like an Anthony Hopkins or Morgan Freeman and look back at a body of work instead of getting one or two jobs and trying to overcome the idea of just being an actor instead of being an artist. It’s been amazing. Every day I tell people that I don’t want you to overlook my race. I don’t want you to look at me as something different than what I am. When you look at me I don’t want you to like me in spite of being a Black male. I want you to include me because of who I am, that being a Black male. It’s been funny from both the Black and White perspective; from the everyday perspective and the Hollywood perspective. Everyone has an opinion so I try to put it out there and let it be what it is.” “The last Black man to be on the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition was Omar Epps and that was over 10 years ago. I think it’s good for right now, but it definitely does not solidify in my path in Hollywood history.” Despite having starred in films like ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Notorious’ and ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ Mackie, like many Black actors, has a face people know even when they can’t remember his name. “I get mistaken for one of my closest friends, Jamie Hector who was on ‘The Wire,’” he laughed. “Literally every day someone stops me and asks me for my autograph and if they can take a picture with me for being on ‘The Wire.’” Though Hollywood recognized Mackie’s value by including him in the Vanity Fair issue, the Obie Award winner does feel that the recent Black-out during this past award show season was disturbing. “It’s frustrating, but not for the reason of not having the representation. I think we’re at a point where we need to start making our own movies. I think there are enough stories out there that we should be telling those stories. I think in the early 90′s we had the opportunity to make our own movies and we got complacent. If you go back and watch ‘Love Jones’ and ‘Love and Basketball’ or ‘The Brothers,’ they were great movies and they represented us. ‘Boyz N The Hood’ and ‘Juice’ represented us. We made those movies and everybody just got lazy. It’s no reason that the people who made those movies shouldn’t still be making movies. Martin Scorsese didn’t stop after his first movie. James Cameron didn’t stop after ‘Titanic’ so why is it that the people who represent us and tell our stories just don’t exist anymore. They’re out there living in LA writing. They’re making movies; they’re just not making the movies that represent us. That’s what frustrates me because I feel like you have an entire new crop of young talent and they have not only no one to work with but they don’t have any material to work on. You can’t say we don’t have the money or the opportunities because White people are doing it. If you look at what Judd Apatow is doing, he’s shown us how to go out and take our ideas, put them on a page and make it. Ben Affleck made ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and ‘The Town’ because he couldn’t get cast as an actor. I think it’s about time that we as Black Hollywood stop talking about what people aren’t giving us and get up off our ass and start making the movies that we want to make.” With all this chit chat about making black movies, will Mackie make a move from actor to producer?! Or is he all talk?! Source
This New Orleans-bred actor is the first Black actor to be featured in nearly a decade on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue. Anthony Mackie changed the game by landing on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 17th annual “Hollywood Issue” ; and admits he realized the weight he carries by gracing the highly coveted glossy cover! Mackie opens up: “The magazine came out and it’s interesting how the conversations have changed, which is surprising to me,” “When my publicist told me they got me for the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition I didn’t know what it meant. Looking at it now it was a monumental step in the course of my career. I want to be 70 or 80 like an Anthony Hopkins or Morgan Freeman and look back at a body of work instead of getting one or two jobs and trying to overcome the idea of just being an actor instead of being an artist. It’s been amazing. Every day I tell people that I don’t want you to overlook my race. I don’t want you to look at me as something different than what I am. When you look at me I don’t want you to like me in spite of being a Black male. I want you to include me because of who I am, that being a Black male. It’s been funny from both the Black and White perspective; from the everyday perspective and the Hollywood perspective. Everyone has an opinion so I try to put it out there and let it be what it is.” “The last Black man to be on the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition was Omar Epps and that was over 10 years ago. I think it’s good for right now, but it definitely does not solidify in my path in Hollywood history.” Despite having starred in films like ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Notorious’ and ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ Mackie, like many Black actors, has a face people know even when they can’t remember his name. “I get mistaken for one of my closest friends, Jamie Hector who was on ‘The Wire,’” he laughed. “Literally every day someone stops me and asks me for my autograph and if they can take a picture with me for being on ‘The Wire.’” Though Hollywood recognized Mackie’s value by including him in the Vanity Fair issue, the Obie Award winner does feel that the recent Black-out during this past award show season was disturbing. “It’s frustrating, but not for the reason of not having the representation. I think we’re at a point where we need to start making our own movies. I think there are enough stories out there that we should be telling those stories. I think in the early 90′s we had the opportunity to make our own movies and we got complacent. If you go back and watch ‘Love Jones’ and ‘Love and Basketball’ or ‘The Brothers,’ they were great movies and they represented us. ‘Boyz N The Hood’ and ‘Juice’ represented us. We made those movies and everybody just got lazy. It’s no reason that the people who made those movies shouldn’t still be making movies. Martin Scorsese didn’t stop after his first movie. James Cameron didn’t stop after ‘Titanic’ so why is it that the people who represent us and tell our stories just don’t exist anymore. They’re out there living in LA writing. They’re making movies; they’re just not making the movies that represent us. That’s what frustrates me because I feel like you have an entire new crop of young talent and they have not only no one to work with but they don’t have any material to work on. You can’t say we don’t have the money or the opportunities because White people are doing it. If you look at what Judd Apatow is doing, he’s shown us how to go out and take our ideas, put them on a page and make it. Ben Affleck made ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and ‘The Town’ because he couldn’t get cast as an actor. I think it’s about time that we as Black Hollywood stop talking about what people aren’t giving us and get up off our ass and start making the movies that we want to make.” With all this chit chat about making black movies, will Mackie make a move from actor to producer?! Or is he all talk?! Source
The Maysles Brothers and the Rolling Stones. Martin Scorsese and the Band. Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads. Davis Guggenheim and Justin Bieber . Some of cinema’s most important collaborations have served as pop music milestones as well, a collision of sound, light, vision and performance better known as the concert film. And finally — finally — we can add David Lynch and Duran Duran to their ranks. Wait, what?
