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Roman Polanski to Finally Collect Swiss Award

OK, let’s try this again: Two years after Roman Polanski’s journey to Zurich to collect a lifetime achievement award turned into jail stay followed by months of international legal and diplomatic intrigue , the 78-year-old director will return to the city’s film festival to finally receive his honor in person. The Sept. 27 ceremony will precede the world premiere of what has been identified only as a “full-length non-fiction film.” Any guesses? [ Variety ]

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Robert Guillaume Remembers The Lion King and His Struggle to Find Good Roles for African-Americans in Film

On a recent day in Los Angeles the charismatic, now-83-year-old Robert Guillaume recalled with little effort and copious charm the skepticism he initially felt at the idea of a cartoon film about a lion who becomes the king of the animals, for which the filmmakers wanted him to voice a wise mandrill-baboon. “When they first described it to me I wasn’t all that impressed with the idea,” he admitted. “It didn’t make a lot of sense.” Eventually the parts combined into Disney’s 1994 classic The Lion King , and Guillaume saw what made it all so special. “I still think it’s kind of a miracle, that it must have touched people very deeply when they first saw it.”

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About That Time Paul Rudd Met President Obama

“He asked about my character in How Do You Know , and I told him I’m a guy who gets into some hot water, and though his intentions are good he gets indicted by the government for possible violations. And Obama says, ‘Oh, so you’re playing a congressman.’ And I was like, ‘No, actually I work for my dad in this corporation.’ I’m trying to explain, and Obama interrupts me and says, ‘It was a joke.’ I just felt so stupid. Of course it was a joke, and it’s actually a pretty good one. I’m normally pretty good at catching them. If you’re not the fucking President of the United States, I can usually identify when you’re joking.” Now you know. [ Playboy ]

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Renny Harlin and Geena Davis Really Did Not Want To Make Cutthroat Island

“Originally, Michael Douglas was supposed to star in [the movie]. And he walked away. At that point I was left there with my then-wife, Geena Davis and myself, and a company that was already belly-up. We begged to be let go. We begged that we didn’t have to make this movie.” In fact, the couple was so frightened that they sunk their own money into a last-ditch script rewrite. “We felt that a pirate movie with a female lead was suicidal, but we were contractually obligated. I personally spent a million dollars of my own money, I hired Mark Norman, who had won an Oscar for writing Shakespeare in Love .” Even so, Cutthroat Island turned out to be one of the biggest box office disasters of all time and sunk Carolco production company. Lesson learned! [ KCRW via SlashFilm ]

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Win a Warrior Prize Pack Including a MMA Glove Signed by Joel Edgerton!

Gavin O’C onnor’s Warrior earned rave reviews last weekend (including mine, which you can read here ) on the strength of its fine performances and heart-wrenching story of two mixed martial artist brothers (Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton) pitted against each other in and outside of the ring. Now’s your chance to play guest critic and enter to win a prize pack Movieline’s giving away that includes the ultimate Warrior memorabilia: An MMA glove signed by star Joel Edgerton.

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Django Unchained Contemplates Major Dad, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Hollywood remembers the late, great John Calley… God Bless America gets the deal we promised you… Nathan Lane gets close to The English Teacher … and more.

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I Spent 29 Minutes Playing Dirty Dancing On Facebook So You Don’t Have To

Not every Facebook game can be as engaging as that of our sister site Deadline. Take the Hollywood social-media fun-time application unveiled today: Dirty Dancing , a hip-swinging, watermelon-schlepping journey through all the rocking romance of the classic 1987 film. But pixelated! Because, you know, nobody puts Baby in a corner, but apparently putting her in 16-bit animation is totally fine .

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Michelle Williams on Life After Heath Ledger’s Death

“It’s changed how I see the world and how I interact on a daily basis. It’s changed the parent I am. It’s changed the friend I am. It’s changed the kind of work that I really want to do. It’s become the lens through which I see life — that it’s all impermanent.” On the eve of her turn as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn , Michelle Williams opened up to Vogue even more about her career, family, and personal life. Including: “I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.” [ Vogue ]

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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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No, Megan Fox Has Not Seen Transformers 3

If you’ve been wondering whether Megan Fox, the Transformers bombshell who dared to compare director Michael Bay to Hitler, has seen Dark of the Moon after being replaced by pouty pin-up Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, the answer is no. “I haven’t seen it yet, but I will see it,” Fox told Moviefone. “I mean, if they hadn’t been hitting me so hard on the press tour, I would have gone to the theater. I love Shia to death; I love him unconditionally. And I love that crew. I want to see it for them. I know it looked amazing in the trailer.” [ Moviefone ]

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