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"Russia, what a f*cking mess! God, I miss the cold war."
The year was 1997 and actor George Clooney's star was on the rise in a big way. The former TV star had made the jump to the big screen the year before as the charismatic criminal Seth Gecko in Robert Rodriguez's vampire splatterfest, From Dusk till Dawn, and now he was People's Sexiest Man Alive, the new Batman in Batman & Robin and the headliner in DreamWorks' first feature, The Peacemaker. Clooney would take a drubbing for the schlockfest of a superhero movie that's biggest contribution to the franchise was bat-nipples, but The Peacemaker's success proved that he was leading man quality.
An action-thriller based on the book One Point Safe by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Redlich Cockburn, the plot of The Peacemaker revolves around the theft of ten SS-18 ICBM nuclear warheads from a facility in Russia. White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) and US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (Clooney) are assigned to track down the missing nukes and they immediately become the target of both the Russian mafia and the terrorists behind the theft, whose ultimate goal is to blow up the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
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And you thought your family was weird.
There are those that might think that a movie titled Stoker might be a biopic about Dracula author Bram Stoker, but such is not the case with the upcoming horror thriller. Instead, Stoker centers on young India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), who, after the death of her father, lives with her emotionally-distraught mother (Nicole Kidman). When her uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) arrives to live with them, India becomes obsessed with her eccentric relative, who has eyes for her mother and deadly tendencies for anyone that gets in his way.
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Director Joel Schumacher made his mark in the 1980s with "Brat Pack" movies like St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys, before almost destroying the Batman franchise with the widely panned sequels Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Lately, Schumacher has been directing mostly thrillers and horror movies like Town Creek, The Number 23 and Phone Booth, and his latest movie, Trespass, is no exception.
Starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as an affluent couple whose home is broken into by extortionists, Trespass is a reunion between Schumacher and Cage, who worked together on 1999's 8mm. While Cage was cast as the husband, once on set, the actor tried to convince Schumacher to let him play the role of the villain instead. "I know Nic would have been brilliant as the bad guy, but I wanted him to play the hero," Schumacher told EW in January. "It went back and forth and finally ended up where it should be."
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Ben Affleck is becoming as comfortable behind the camera as he is in front of it. Having decided only to direct 2007's Gone Baby Gone, Affleck signed himself up for acting duties as well on last year's highly lauded, and commercially successful The Town.
With the political thriller Argo, it seemed like Affleck was just in director mode again, first casting Alan Arkin and, later, John Goodman. Now Variety reports Affleck has cast himself in the lead role of CIA exfiltration expert Tony Mendez, the man behind the plan to pose as a fake Hollywood movie in order to rescue six American hostages trapped in the Canadian embassy in Iran. As they say in Hollywood, it's all about who you know.
Chris Terrio (Heights) wrote the screenplay, based on the 2007 Wired article "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran". Arkin plays a Hollywood producer named Lester Siegel, while Goodman plays makeup artist John Chambers, who won an Academy Award for his work on the Planet of the Apes series.
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With Insidious currently playing in theaters and quietly becoming a huge box office success ($50.3 million on a $1.5 million budget), director James Wan has already lined up his next project.
According to Variety, Wan will direct the supernatural thriller Spectre as his next project. While it should come as no surprise that the director of the original Saw would stay within the horror genre for his next movie, the report surprisingly claims that Nicole Kidman is in talks to star in the movie (Her involvement is unconfirmed at present.)
Further details on Spectre are unknown, including whether Wan will reunite with his Saw and Insidious screenwriter Leigh Whannell, though it is likely since Wan and Whanell have collaborated in some way on every project the two have been associated with since the original Saw.
Paranormal Activity 3 also on its way >> Posted 05.09.11 by Ryan -
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In Charlie Sheen's first comments since being hospitalized for excessive partying, he thanked his supporters and compared himself to Errol Flynn, the infamous womanizer/partyer/brawler who died at 50. Sheen is 45. Meanwhile, what was originally thought to be a 3-month stint in rehab has been shortened to about a month, with the Two and a Half Men star scheduled to return to the set by the end February.
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The Halle Berry-Gabriel Aubry custody battle is turning ugly (and comical) as RadarOnline.com has acquired an email from Berry thanking the Canadian model ... for his sperm donation. Two days ago Berry abruptly dropped out of the ensemble comedy New Year's Day and was replaced by Katherine Heigl, who arrived on the set yesterday and was photographed still learning her lines.
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Kristen Stewart playing Snow White in Universal's take on the fairy tale moved one step closer to reality as an offer has been made and "both sides want it to happen." Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron are already cast. Shooting starts this summer and the pic is set for a December 21, 2011 release.
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In an interview with Marie Claire UK, Nicole Kidman opens up about her marriage to Tom Cruise, calling the relationship "great," but that it "ran its course" and the divorce left her "really damaged." Her ex's new wife, Katie Holmes, grabbed Starbucks yesterday with daughter Suri. We're pretty sure that's hot chocolate and not a triple-shot latte!
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
John Travolta and Kelly Preston show off their 6-week-old son Benjamin to People.
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Upon winning Variety's Indie Impact Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival, The Fighter star Mark Wahlberg joked that the trophy resembled a bong, but then quickly explained he stopped smoking pot after his daughter complained about the smell. Walhberg told her it was a skunk, and she said, "Sometimes Daddy smells like that!" While Wahlberg is off grass, The Fighter co-star Christian Bale is back on food as he's regained the 30 pounds he lost to play drug-addled trainer Dickie Eklund in the boxing drama.
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Charlie Sheen is the very definition of professional. After spending a Vegas weekend with porn stars Bree Olson and Bombshell McGee — yes, Jesse James' ex-mistress — Sheen was back on the set of Two and a Half Men on Tuesday and "doing great."
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History Channel pulled the plug on the highly anticipated The Kennedys miniseries, starring Katie Holmes as Jackie, but we'll still see her. She's the new face of Ann Taylor.
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After years of denying it, Nicole Kidman finally admits the obvious: She uses Botox.
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There's Oscar buzz for Nicole Kidman's performance in Rabbit Hole, a movie she also helped produce, which opens in limited release December 17. She plays a wife and mother in the drama based on a Broadway play who is struggling to come to terms with the accidental death of her young son. We need you to help us pick Kidman's top movie roles for Hollywood's Top Ten, the show where movie fans control the countdowns.
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Lionsgate has officially fired the Oscar race starting pistol for Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart and their performances in the first trailer for director John Cameron Mitchell's drama Rabbit Hole. David Lindsay-Abaire adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play which focuses on a married couple's struggle to come to terms with the death of their son.
Rabbit Hole co-stars Dianne Wiest and Sandra Oh.
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The list of celebrities scheduled for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief continues to grow. Recent additions to the actors there to present include Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Nicole Kidman. Today, MTV announced that President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, and Muhammad Ali have also signed on.
Additionally, Madonna will perform live from New York and Haitian artist Emeline Michel in Los Angeles. They join a lineup of musical performers that includes Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Sting, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.
Proceeds from the George Clooney–organized telethon will be split evenly between The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, United Nations World Food Programme, Oxfam America, Partners in Health, The Red Cross, UNICEF, and the Yele Haiti Foundation.
The Hope for Haiti Now telethon airs Friday at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT on ReelzChannel, followed by an encore showing at 11 PM ET / 8 PM PT. Get details about the telethon and our special editions of Hollywood Dailies.
Posted 01.21.10 by reelz