The epically awkward, debauched Danish sitcom Klovn , wich is soon coming to the United States as the epically awkward, debauched Danish feature-length comedy Klown , currently has restored an episode online written by the epically awkward , debauched Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. What could go wrong? So much , actually. Have a look and find out. Revived from the series’ second season by the movie’s US distributor Drafthouse Films, the episode (titled “It’s a Jungle Down There”) finds the notorious Frank and Casper “taking interest in a masturbation class and their persistent infiltration of these very private sessions.” It seems safe enough for work, I guess, unless everyone at your work speaks Danish, in which case rally them ’round and kick off early! What the hell, we’re technically passed the midweek point by now. It might as well be Friday. Klown debuts July 27 in limited theatrical release as well as on VOD and digitally.
In Wednesday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, Ed Helms may take a Vacation of his own. 1962 classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane may get a re-make. And casting news for Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Channing Tatum In Talks for Evel Knievel Pic The Magic Mike star is negotiating to star and produce in a film about daredevil Evel Knievel who became a household name in the 1970s for his high-profile motorcycle jumps, THR reports . Ed Helms Negotiating to Star in Vacation Reboot Helms is in talks to star in the reboot of the ’80s original, playing Rusty Griswold who is now all grown up and taking a family vacation of his own. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are directing the project, THR reports . Walter Hill to Take On What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Remake Hill is spearheading a re-make of the 1962 Bette Davis and Joan Crawford classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane . Hill will write the script and direct, Deadline reports . Kirsten Dunst Boards Two Faces of January She joins Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac in the European-produced thriller. Directed by Drive writer Hossein Amini, the story centers on a con man who kills a Greek policeman possibly by accident. His wife (Dunst) and an American tutor (Isaac) help him and the three flee Athens to the Greek islands and then Istanbul, Variety reports . Tobey Maguire Joins Jason Reitman’s Labor Day Maguire has joined the cast of the feature, which Reitman is directing, joining Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, J.K. Simmons, Brooke Smith, Gattlin Griffith, and Brighid Fleming. Based on the book by Joyce Maynard, the story revolves around a 13 year-old boy from New Hampshire who learns important “life-lessons” over a five-day Labor Day weekend. Maguire will play the adult version of the boy, Deadline reports .
Rebooting the Spider-Man franchise just five years after Sam Raimi completed his own $2.4 billion trilogy was a controversial move in itself, let alone the idea of revisiting Spidey’s origin story , one of the most familiar and popular beginnings in comic book lore, yet again. But whatever qualms you might have about The Amazing Spider-Man treading familiar ground — this time with Andrew Garfield as a skate-boarding high-schooler/vigilante nursing abandonment issues — director Marc Webb himself wrestled with the very same issues from the start. Webb rang Movieline to answer a barrage of questions about this week’s Spider-Man re-do, which re-frames the Marvel superhero’s journey as a teenage Peter Parker’s struggle with responsibility — not necessarily springing from great power so much as from choosing between doing good, and doing otherwise. Relationships are key here, not only between Peter and his Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen), but between the orphaned hero and Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), a newfound mentor and scientist with murky ties to the parents who left young Peter behind years ago. But the heart of The Amazing Spider-Man , and that of Peter Parker himself, belongs to Gwen Stacy, Spidey’s first love, brought to life with crackling energy by Emma Stone . Fans of the comics know where Peter and Gwen’s story eventually leads — and while Webb remains amusedly mum on the future of his would-be Spider-Man trilogy, he acknowledges that some parts of Marvel canon cannot be tinkered with. “It’s a very controversial part of the comics,” he teased of Gwen’s fate, “but let me tell you, I’m a fan of the comics.” Read on as Webb addresses criticisms of his reboot, discusses the importance of the Gwen Stacy-Peter Parker relationship, explains why some questions raised in The Amazing Spider-Man were left deliberately unanswered, and talks about that eyebrow-raising post-credits scene. [ Beware: Some spoilers follow. ] The marketing campaign for The Amazing Spider-Man has been attempting to court female audiences, and the romantic element is a significant part of the film. How important did you feel it was to explore and emphasize that side of the Spider-Man story? Spider-Man is of course this huge action film — there’s a boy behind the suit. But one thing that’s different in Spider-Man comics from many other comics is how important the relationships are, in particular female relationships. You can talk a lot about villains, but Spider-Man’s relationships with women are as iconic, if not more iconic, than the villains. You have Mary Jane, and you have Gwen Stacy, and Gwen is very different than what we’ve seen before. One of the reasons why I wanted to use Gwen — first and foremost, she’s his first love in the comics. Let’s just set the record straight, it’s not Mary Jane. But I like the idea of following somebody who is as smart, if not smarter, than Peter Parker. And Emma Stone is the perfect woman to play somebody who is much more proactive, much more intelligent and feisty. I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they’re kind of lovers as rivals, you know? There’s this back and forth that I love, in the laboratory, and there’s just this great bond that you feel between them. She’s not just a prize, she’s not just a damsel in distress. She’s a confidante, and that was a really important thing. And their relationship is so different because of this — it’s like they’re the only two people in the world. I thought that, you’re 17 years old and falling in love for the first time, some part of the thrill of that is openness, and you get to express a part of yourself and confide in somebody the things about you that no one else knows. It’s such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge, that I felt that was an interesting and new foundation to lay for the character. It also raises the stakes of that relationship. So it becomes more meaningful when he has to let it go. For those people who are familiar with Gwen’s fate in the comics, the depth and pull of their emotions makes it even more bittersweet. You even include a shot in the film in which Peter throws her out of a window that seems like foreshadowing of a sort… [Laughs] Well, we’ll have to see. It’s a very controversial part of the comics, but let me tell you, I’m a fan of the comics. But Gwen’s story is kind of one of those things, among other developments and plot specifics, that you kind of have to stay faithful to canon on. Right? Honor, yes. I mean, Marvel has certain hard and fast rules, like about the spider bite — you have to have Peter get bitten by a radioactive spider, and Uncle Ben’s death has to transform Peter Parker into Spider-Man, you know what I mean? He has to learn a lesson by that. But I’m trying to find new inflections and new context so that the story feels new. Because I do think the character is different; you want to honor the iconic elements of Spider-Man but you also want to reinvent the world around him so that it feels interesting and new, and that’s a tricky line to walk. It seems even trickier for you in this instance more than other folks rebooting a familiar franchise, just because it hasn’t been very long since the last Spider-Man movies and you’re also starting with an origin story. It’s tricky. We have seen the origin of Spider-Man, but we haven’t seen the origin of Peter Parker and that was my entrée into it. It does feel like more of a Peter Parker story than a Spider-Man story, which a lot of fans of the comics might get hung up on. How do you respond to those criticisms? For me, I thought about it a lot when I was building this up and I really felt like the Peter Parker that I was creating was a different reflection of the character. And in order for the audience to understand that, I thought I needed to build that from the ground up. To me, the most definitive moment in his life — way more important than the spider bite — is the moment he was left behind by his parents. It had a huge emotional impact on his character. That’s where the narrative begins, but it’s also where the character is defined in a very significant way. I mean, anybody who’s left behind by their parents at that age is going to be distrustful of authority because authority has let him down before – so that’s part of the dramatic texture of his relationship with Captain Stacey, and the conflict he has with Uncle Ben and Aunt May. It’s also that he has this attitude, this sort of trickster, sarcastic quality, which is in some ways a defense mechanism that comes from that moment in his life. He’s an outside, but he’s an outsider by choice; he’s a smart kid but he just wants to keep everybody at a distance. That’s why I think the relationship with Gwen works so well; he can trust her. We look at this as a reboot, so can we assume the story here will continue into at least a trilogy, but there are a number of plot points and questions raised in the film that don’t necessarily get answered within the span of this film. How intentional was it to plant those seeds here? I wanted a universe that could sustain a larger story, and the broader arcs I worked out with Jamie Vanderbilt early on. Obviously you want the movie to work on its own, but because so many of these movies typically have sequels, I wanted us to do a little bit of groundwork that could pay off in later movies. The mystery that surrounds Peter Parker’s parents is the long shadow that’s cast over all of the story, and there’s a relationship between Peter’s parents and Norman Osborne, and Oscorp, all that stuff… so much of the story is in and around Oscorp; Oscorp is the place from which all crazy shit emerges in this universe, and I like that idea, that simple notion that this obelisk, this Tower of Babel, is like a splinter in the side of the universe. All of the stories come out of there. NEXT: Webb on Gwen’s future, his stars’ chemistry, Curt Connors and that post-credits scene
No home training. BBW Nia Crooks Tells Her Side Of The Story …Ok , ok, that’s not REALLY what she said. Nia sat down with VH1 for a quick Q & A on the smack heard around the world. Here’s what she had to say: What’s life been like for you since you appeared on the show? Hell. I could never imagine being in this predicament over something like that. And a person that I used to love is now just somebody I knew. It’s hell. Have people been mean, how have you been treated? Yeah, they don’t know me and I get that, I’m part of this story, but I’m just a person that walked in a room and sat down and said something to a person and got up and smacked her. So it looks like I’m bullying someone who welcomed the smack. She said “I wish you would.” She cut the conversation off because she doesn’t want anyone to know wh she really is. She’s a total different person outside of this. Being a celebrity is not for everyone, some people’s heads get inflated, some don’t. And if you have new people around you in your life, and it’s not the people you’ve been around forever, that says a lot about a person. If you could do this over, would you have never appeared on the show? I just wish my reaction wouldn’t have been that. I can’t take that back now, but that’s the way I was raised, that’s how I grew up, that’s a normal reaction of mine. Evelyn: Can I just say I have known Nia for years, and I have never in all those years seen Nia cry — you know I cry at the drop of a hat — and ever since all the negativity and the lawyers and everything, I have never seen her cry like this until now and it’s tough. Nothing can ever prepare you for being in public and having a million people have an opinion about you on a daily basis. She’s just been thrown into this. Nia : It’s not easy. Poooor Nia. Who knew it hurt so bad to smack someone else. Our condolences. Source
Fans of pioneering Marvel Comics character Black Panther have been anticipating a big screen adaptation of the story of the African warrior and chief of the technologically advanced Wakanda nation ever since Wesley Snipes announced plans to make a live action film almost twenty years ago… Continue
Fans of pioneering Marvel Comics character Black Panther have been anticipating a big screen adaptation of the story of the African warrior and chief of the technologically advanced Wakanda nation ever since Wesley Snipes announced plans to make a live action film almost twenty years ago… Continue
‘There’s a kid battling one of the toughest diseases in the world, yet he’s courageous enough to talk about it in his music,’ Miller tells MTV News of Yung Ka. By Rob Markman Mac Miller Photo: MTV News At the open of his 2010 track “The Spins,” Mac Miller urges kids to follow their dreams, but the Pittsburgh MC does more than just give sound advice. Recently the Blue Slide Park rapper and his producer E. Dan linked up with aspiring MC Bobby Stewart, a.k.a. Yung Ka, to show him the ropes around the studio. Stewart, who is suffering from a form of cancer called T-cell lymphoma, first met Miller at Mac’s December 2011 homecoming concert in Pittsburgh after the rapper presented the Make-A-Wish Foundation with a check for $50,000. “It’s cool what I did, but the story here is him; the story is that there’s a kid that’s battling one of the gruesomest, toughest diseases in the world, yet he’s courageous enough to talk about it in his music,” Mac told MTV News when we caught up with him at the Bamboozle Music Festival in New Jersey on May 18. “This is someone who really talks about his sh– in his music, like all the stages of cancer, to the point where it’s uncomfortable for some to listen to because it’s that much real, it’s too real, it’s that painful.” Miller served as a mentor for the 18-year-old rapper, but he didn’t want to muddle the moment by guest-rapping on Ka’s personal track. “I just wanted to do what I could do to mentor him and help him put a song together and give him what I know,” he said. “I didn’t want to step in on the song because to be real, he did a whole song about cancer, and then what am I gonna come in with on the third verse?” The song hasn’t been released yet, but last week Pittsburgh’s WTAE Action News paid a visit to ID Labs , the studio where Mac, E. Dan and Ka recorded the track, and caught up with the up-and-coming MC. “To be with Mac is a blessing,” Ka said. “His lyrics are amazing. Hip-hop is my passion. To be able to be with Mac Miller … he is a Pittsburgh legend. Wiz Khalifa shout-out.” What’s your favorite Mac Miller track? Tell us in the comments! Related Videos Back To The ‘Burgh With Mac Miller And Wiz Khalifa
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Director Jacques Audiard (right), Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts in Cannes Thursday . It’s perhaps much too early to prognosticate on Palme d’Or contenders, but Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone has at least a decent shot at the festival’s top prize if initial audience reaction following Thursday’s press screening is any indicator. Starring Marion Cotillard and Bullhead actor Matthias Schoenaerts, the film follows Ali (Schoenaerts), who is suddenly put in charge of his 5-year-old son whom he barely knows. Without money, he makes his way to the south of France, where his sister lives. Though she and her husband are short on cash, they take them in and Ali finds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub. There, a brawl leads to a chance meeting between Ali and Stephanie (Cotillard), a self-confident beauty whom he takes home after she’s injured. While at work as an orca trainer in the days following, Stephanie suffers a life-changing accident and reaches out to Ali. “I was very excited after reading the script,” Cotillard said at today’s press conference for the film. “When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.” Cotillard said she asked Audiard, who wrote the script with Thomas Bidegain (based on short stories by Craig Davidson), for help. “But he said he didn’t fully understand her either, so we were going to get to know her together…” [ OK, spoiler alert… ] While working at Marineland, Stephanie suffers an accident that results in her legs being amputated. Ali, who has only passed through life taking things as they come, helps Stephanie through her depression. To make money and exploit his natural physical prowess, he takes her with him to illegal fights where he’s a champion and the two grow a bond. “Matthias is like working with DiCaprio or a Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s of that ilk,” Cotillard said as her co-star smiled nervously. “There are no words to explain it. There’s this desire to explore which is something he very much has.” Indeed, if Rust and Bones is any indication, Schoenaerts may very well follow Cotillard’s career path to studio gigs. “There’s a lot of stuff moving. There’s stuff moving in the States, but I’m not in a hurry,” he said. Screen reported Thursday he is in talks to star in Hans Herbots’ thriller The Treatment . And Cotillard is teaming with fellow Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi ( A Separation ) on his next untitled film, spearheaded by Memento Films International. Audiard also offered up his critique of both actors saying Schoenaerts’ part almost went in a different direction. “When we finished the screenplay, I immediately thought of Marion,” said Audiard, who last screened at Cannes in 2009 with his Palme d’Or front-runner A Prophet . “As for Matthias’ character, we had originally thought of getting a non-professional actor — a boxer — but somehow it didn’t work. It was too realistic. But then I was shown Bullhead , and it was so great.” Despite the presence of violence throughout his film work, Audiard confessed a distaste for brutality — though there are most definitely some raw fight sequences in Rust and Bone . “I have a problem filming violence honestly which is strange because all my films contain violence,” Audiard said. “For this film we wanted the violence not to be too gory. I wanted Stephanie to admire [Ali’s] courage during the fighting and if it was too gory, I think it wouldn’t have worked.” Added Schoenaerts: ” Reconciliation is the biggest theme in this film — man and woman, father and child.” “The characters in this story are going undergoing tremendous changes,” Audiard continued. “Stephanie was an arrogant princess in the beginning of the story, but her misfortune causes her to re-examine herself. And Ali is going through a transformation too. He has a problem with words and relies only on his physical strength, but he learns simply to say, ‘I love you.'” Read more of Movieline’s Cannes 2012 coverage here .
What is it about famous couples that makes them want to burst out into song when promoting movies on German television? Or is it just Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield who do that to promote The Amazing Spider-Man ? More » Post from: Crushable Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Crushable Discovery Date : 17/05/2012 11:23 Number of articles : 2
