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After winning an Oscar for Black Swan and giving birth to her son, actress Natalie Portman is going back to work. She will start with two back-to-back movies with director Terrence Malick, who was recently nominated for an Oscar himself for last year's drama The Tree of Life.
According to Deadline, Portman will first appear in Knight of Cups alongside Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Isabel Lucas (Immortals). Shooting on Knight of Cups begins this summer, and then Portman will move on to Lawless alongside Bale and Blanchett again, as well as Ryan Gosling (Drive), Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon tattoo) and Haley Bennett (Marley & Me). Lawless starts production in the fall.
Statham to feel the Heat >> Posted 02.08.12 by Ryan -
Christian Bale is currently working on his third outing as Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman, in The Dark Knight Rises, and has a hefty decision to make once he's finished shooting.
Variety reports that Bale has five upcoming projects to chose from once The Dark Knight Rises wraps in November, including Warner Bros.' remake of A Star Is Born, which has Clint Eastwood at the helm, and Beyonce Knowles as the female lead. The story, about an alcoholic star on his way down who falls for a younger, female artist on the way up, has been made three times already, the first as a drama in 1937, and later as a musical in 1954 and, most recently (and infamously), in 1976. It would seem that Eastwood would be trying again for a musical version, hence Beyonce's involvement, and it would be Bale's first musical since 1993's Newsies, which reportedly Bale is not a fan of. "Time healed those wounds," Bale told EW in 2007. "But it took a while." We'll count A Star Is Born as a maybe then.
what are the other roles? >> Posted 08.25.11 by Ryan -
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Patty Baena may be the equivalent of Rachel Uchitel. Arnold Schwarzenegger biographer Ian Halperin claims he's interviewed no fewer than six other women who claim to have love children fathered by the Sperminator. Meanwhile, the increasingly likely Schwarzenegger-Maria Shriver divorce, prenup notwithstanding, could cost Arnold more than the $100M Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren received after their split last year.
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While he's certainly no Schwarzenegger, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino has been spotted together with two different sets of women on two straight days while Jersey Shore shoots in Florence, Italy.
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Last night Justin Beiber won the "Fan Favorite" award at the Billboard Music Awards, just one day after announcing the launch of a new perfume, amusingly called "Someday." The Biebs told Women's Wear Daily, "Let's be real, the way a girl smells is very important to a guy."
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Ashton Kutcher may not be Charlie Sheen's Two and a Half Men replacement for long as the Wall Street Journal reports he's only signed a one-year deal. Kutcher will make $20M (around $750K/episode) for the season.
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Princess Beatrice's infamous Royal Wedding hat sold on eBay yesterday for $130K yesterday. The buyer has not yet been identified.
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Brad Pitt's movie Tree of Life, directed by the mercurial and unprolific Terrence Malick, took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Russell Brand flew to Japan to see wife Katy Perry perform but was deported due to prior arrests there. While in detention Brand tweeted, "Planning escape from Japanese custody. It's bloody hard to dig a tunnel with a chopstick."
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A new trailer and poster have finally debuted for writer/director Terrence Malick's latest movie, The Tree of Life. Starting in the 1950's, The Tree of Life follows the journey of Jack (Hunter McCracken), a young boy who's complicated relationship with his strict father (Brad Pitt) continues into adulthood (where Jack is played by Sean Penn).
Watch the trailer >> Posted 12.15.10 by Ryan -
Writer-director Terrence Malick's (The New World) new movie, The Tree of Life, has been shrouded in mystery since it was first teased way back in August 2005. The project has gone through many changes since then, including several casting changes, with Colin Farrell, Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger all attached at one point or another before Malick settled on Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
The first trailer for the movie premiered last night with the debut of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, but it has yet to be released online. However, a detailed synopsis of the movie was released at the 2010 American Film Market, the annual production and distribution convention that screens upwards of 800 movies over an eight-day period, and you can get a look at the stars of the movie in a pair of still images recently published online by the L.A. Times, featuring Pitt as Mr. O'Brien, the strict father of the main character, Jack (played by Hunter McCracken) and Penn as adult Jack.
read the official synopsis of the movie >> Posted 12.04.10 by BrentJS -
Since winning the Oscar for co-writing 2007's Good Will Hunting, Ben Affleck has had a career filled with highlights (Shakespeare in Love), lowlights (Gigli), and, with movies like Armageddon, arguably both. Sometime after the Gigli debacle, Affleck decided to reinvent himself as a director, striking critical success with 2007's Gone Baby Gone. His latest, the Boston-set crime drama The Town, saw Affleck not only direct but star as well and was another critical success that also won its opening weekend in September (earning $141 million worldwide). In an interview with Deadline, Affleck explained what attracted him to the project.
My first thought was, I really wanted to play the role. But I was concerned that the overlap between this and the other movie I directed would be too much, and that I ran the risk of getting pigeonholed for making crime movies in Boston... I felt intimidated and daunted by that challenge, but felt, if I could execute it right, I’d put myself in a position to be able to make movies that I am really interested and attracted to. That is a rare thing in Hollywood. Mostly we’re just schmucks limited by our options.
Affleck has learned the "pros and cons" of temptation >> Posted 11.29.10 by Ryan -
It's a big deal when word gets out about a Terrence Malick project. The press-shy director, who studied philosophy as a Rhodes Scholar before turning to movies, made his debut in the '70s with Badlands and Days of Heaven. He then went on hiatus for 20 years before helming The Thin Red Line, and it was then another seven years until The New World.
Since Malick has given us only four movies in roughly 35 years, it seems worth noting that he has not one but two movies currently on the horizon. The Tree of Life, already in post-production, is due out sometime later this year. The movie stars Sean Penn as a young man growing up in the '50s who wrestles with the pain and suffering of human existence after experiencing personal hardships. Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain portray his parents.
Already, Malick is at work on another project, according to Deadline Hollywood. Characterized as a romantic drama, the movie has some high-profile names attached: Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams, and Olga Kurylenko have all agreed to star.
Further details about the project are unknown, including not only the story and the characters, but also the financial backers.
Posted 02.04.10 by reelz