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We're not sure of current exchange rate, but we'll guess that half a million British pounds is worth about a trillion in dollars.
What do you get when you mix a nebbish-y British art curator, a Texas rodeo queen, and a plot to steal half a million pounds from an eccentric millionaire? The plot for Gambit, CBS Films' remake of the 1966 movie of the same name that originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Instead, it's Academy Award–winner Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz who plot to steal money from a rich art collector (Alan Rickman), who, at least in the trailer, prefers a more clothing optional approach to work. The first trailer shows Firth and Diaz plotting their scheme to sell a phoney Monet painting utilizing a unique group of characters played by Cloris Leachman and Stanley Tucci. Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the script, and it has plenty of that Coenesque charm.
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watch the trailer >> Posted 09.21.12 by Ryan -
Since coming to worldwide attention in last year's Alice in Wonderland, Australian actress Mia Wasikowska has been up for a variety of roles, including the lead role in American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Amazing Spider-Man, but didn't end up landing the roles.
According to Twitch, the latest part that Wasikowska could land in the female lead role in director Spike Lee's Oldboy remake, which is being offered to the actress. The role was originally offered to Rooney Mara, ironically, the actress that eventually won the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo role over Wasikowska, but turned down the role in October.
Eva Green first cast in 300; new recruit for Ender's Game >> Posted 12.20.11 by Ryan -
The thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy had its official premiere at the Venice Film Festival, last weekend, and its debut left critics impressed. The Playlist called the movie "incredibly rich and perfectly constructed, sitting with The Conversation and The Ipcress File in the very upper reaches of the genre," while Movieline praised the "uniformly terrific ensemble cast" for their work in a movie that is "notable less for its complex plot than for the emotional context of each of its nested backstories-within-backstories."
Based on the 1974 novel by John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy follows Gary Oldman as George Smiley, a semi-retired British intelligence agent who is tasked with finding a Soviet spy who has infiltrated the upper echelon of the British Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. Coinciding with its premiere, a new featurette for the thriller has been released, which, instead of discussing the popular, 1979 BBC mini-series of Tinker that had Alec Guinness in the Smiley role and that many will compare the movie to, the featurette is more concerned with comparing Smiley to Britain's other famous literary superspy: James Bond. Oldman, LeCarre, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Toby Jones and director Tomas Alfredson all discuss the "anti-Bond".
watch the featurette and clip >> Posted 09.08.11 by Ryan -
The countdown has begun for the opening of the upcoming Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, at least in the U.K., where the movie opens in less than a month. A third international trailer for the movie has now been released, just weeks after a second international trailer earlier this month. While the footage doesn't stray too far from the first two trailers, the latter half of the new trailer offers a few new look at the highly-anticipated thriller.
Based on the 1974 novel by John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was turned into a popular BBC mini-series in 1979, with Alec Guinness in the role of George Smiley, a semi-retired British intelligence agent who is tasked with finding a Soviet spy who has infiltrated the upper echelon of the Secret Intelligence Service. Gary Oldman plays the role in the latest adaptation, which co-stars a "who's who" of popular British actors, including Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior) and recent Academy Award–winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech).
watch the trailer >> Posted 08.25.11 by Ryan -
It looks like it's going to happen. EW reported that a Bridget Jones 3 is in the works. Working Title Films has apparently been considering a third installment since 2009, and has finally decided to go ahead with the project. The London Evening Standard reported in March that author Helen Fielding had been working on the third novel and was in talks for a third movie. At the time she had said that she wasn't sure if the book and movie would be "the same thing." Well, they were barely the same thing for the second Bridget movie, so it seems that the third novel could easily be very different for the third movie.
It's not official, but Colin Firth revealed what the movie could be about in an interview last year.
What did Firth say? Posted 08.12.11 by Mandy -
The international trailer for espionage thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has arrived online. Directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) in his English-language debut, the movie is based on the 1974 novel by John le Carré and follows a retired intelligence agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) as he is asked to return to service to discover a Soviet double agent within the upper ranks of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy co-stars a parade of British actors, including Tom Hardy (Inception, the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises), Mark Strong (Green Lantern, Robin Hood), John Hurt (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and recent Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech). Any of them could be the mole that Oldman is seeking.
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Director Matthew Vaughn has assembled a terrific cast for his upcoming X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, that includes James McAvoy as Professor X, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, and Kevin Bacon as the movie's antagonist, Sebastian Shaw. In an interview with Total Film, Vaughn revealed that the role of Shaw was almost played by recent Academy Award winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech).
Vaughn praises Bacon's performance >> Posted 04.12.11 by Ryan -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
After flubbing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, passing out at Jeremy Renner's 40th birthday party, and threatening to fire anyone who suggests she needs help, Christina Aguilera is going Sheen, arrested last night for public intoxication while her boyfriend Matthew Rutler was arrested for DUI.
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While Lindsay Lohan allegedly steals really crappy-looking $2,500 necklaces, Oscar co-host Anne Hathaway was paid $750,000 to wear Tiffany & Co. jewelry for the event, while Gwenyth Paltrow earned $500,000 to wear earrings, a brooch, and ring from Louis Vuitton for her performance of "Coming Home." Helena Bonham Carter, on the other hand, wore charms from a pair of Flip Out flip-flops given away at the Four Seasons hotel.
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Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado tweeted that she's donating $1M of "Qaddafi clan" money to charity. She was paid one million dollars by the family for a 45-minute show in Italy in 2007. No word yet from Mariah Carey, who was paid $1M by the Gaddafi regime for singing four songs at a 2009 New Year's Eve party in St. Barts, nor from Beyonce or Usher, both of whom were paid undisclosed sums — our guess, $1M — by Saif Gaddafi for the 2010 St. Barts New Year's bash.
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Renee Zellweger is set to reprise her role as Bridget Jones for the third Bridget Jones movie, but only after "she found out she wouldn't have to get fat." Reigning Best Actor Colin Firth is also interested in starring in the sequel.
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No fat for supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who showed off her abs — and her spine — during a shoot for V Magazine.
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LATEST CHARLIE SHEEN QUOTES
* Called his current life with his twin boys and two 24-year-old girlfriends "a polygamy story."
* Said he and his girlfriends "win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it's scary. People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view."
* Called Hugh Hefner "an amateur."
Also don't miss: A picture of Sheen with twin boys Bob and Max, alongside his "goddesses," porn star Bree Olson and pot magazine bikini model Natalie Kenly.
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An edited version of Oscar-winning historical drama The King's Speech was first reported to be in the making, with director Tom Hooper responding by saying that he won't re-edit the movie to excise the f-bombs spoken by the movie's protagonist, played by Colin Firth. Executive producer Harvey Weinstein moved forward with creating a more family-friendly rating, with the LA Times reporting that, prior to the Academy Awards ceremony over the weekend, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) approved a PG-13 rating for a version of the movie where the foul language had been muted.
After the Oscars, Hooper, who won Best Director honors, was asked by THR what he thought of the PG-13 version. "I haven't seen it yet," replied the director, who reportedly will watch it today.
Colin Firth "doesn't support" the new version >> Posted 02.28.11 by Ryan -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
This morning Charlie Sheen made the rounds of the non-CBS network news shows, telling ABC's Good Morning America he's going to sue CBS for breach of contract and that he's "here to collect." He also appeared on NBC's Today show saying he's got "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA," and made an offer to return to Two and a Half Men for $3M per episode after CBS apologizes "while licking my feet." NBC teased a second part of the interview, in which Sheen talks about his women — "goddesses," he calls them — on tomorrow morning's show.
On Friday Sheen was banned from Warner Bros. studios and responded by saying, "Doesn't matter too much because after Wednesday they'll have to rename Warner Bros. as Charlie's Bros. I will fire those clowns and bring in my own team."
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Melissa Leo has apologized for dropping an F-bomb at last night's Oscars, adding, "I really don't mean to offend and it's probably a very inappropriate place to use that particular word." Meanwhile, Best Actor winner Colin Firth is disappointed at the muting of several F-bombs for the PG-13 cut of The King's Speech, saying the R-rated version of the newly crowned Best Picture winner "has its integrity as it stands."
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The Vanity Fair Oscar after-party was a hot ticket as usual, and Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez made it increasingly clear that the couple is, in fact, a couple.
Posted 02.28.11 by reelz