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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
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Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Love Actually - Blu-ray Review
13 November 2009 6:42 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A little bit of something for everyone, especially romantics, is found in this hilarious comedy. I.m just an old softie, but I greatly enjoyed the storyline about platonic love that features Bill Nighy as a boozy, burnt out rock star. It.s an anthology film with each story turning up in the other and they.re all lovely. Both Christmas and love are in the air in jolly old England. The film covers various stories of love. Aging rocker Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) is promoting his latest single, a Christmas variation on the Trogg.s Love is all Around, and playing havoc on his long suffering manager Joe (Gregor Fisher). Juliet (Kiera Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) have just been married »
- Jeff Swindoll
Hollywood should stop making films about our great writers | Tanya Gold
11 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bright Star, the new movie about Keats, has ruined him for me. It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last
On Sunday I did the bad thing again. I bought a ticket to Bright Star, the biopic about John Keats. I have always liked Keats, despite the line, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" But I had forgotten what I call the Impromptu Law – after the George Sand biopic, Impromptu (1991), which stars Judy Davis as Sand and Hugh Grant and a handkerchief as Chopin.
My "Impromptu law" states: don't watch films about writers. Die of tuberculosis. Stick your head in the oven. If you are a writer, stick your life's work in the oven as well – then maybe they won't get you.
As soon as Keats appeared with his quill, I knew it was bad. Ignore the applauding critics; they have been blinded by the Shrek franchise. »
- Tanya Gold
Mulligan: 'Knightley Is My Best Friend'
11 November 2009 12:16 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Carey Mulligan counts Keira Knightley as one of her dearest pals - even though she fell for her Pride & Prejudice co-star's beau Rupert Friend on the film's set.
Mulligan met Knightley when they were cast as sisters in the 2005 re-telling of Jane Austen's classic love story - a film which also introduced the Pirates of the Caribbean star to her future partner Friend.
The newcomer admits making her first film was full of new experiences, including a crush on Knightley's boyfriend.
She explains, "I fell in love with everybody on that film. I was in love with Rupert Friend for like a month. He's one of my good friends now. It was like, 'Oh, boys! You, you, you and you' - the boom, the sound guy, lighting, yes, everyone. I'd not really been around! I didn't end up with any of them. I had very romantic crushes. Being on a film set was mad."
But the 24 year old insists her infatuation didn't prevent her from befriending Knightley, who she now calls her role model.
Mulligan adds, "She's done bigger films than I have done. Obviously - she's massively famous. But, yeah, she is (a role model). She has a lot of bad stuff to deal with. She gets a really hard time from the press sometimes, and she deals with it really gracefully. Also, she's one of my best friends, so it's hard to talk about her really. We're really close. Keira and I are very tight." »
Pixar Looks 'Up,' 'Watchmen' Gets Ultimate And More In The DVD Report For November 10
10 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
After last week's jam-packed release schedule led by "G.I. Joe," we're given an opportunity to breath today with only two new theatrical titles coming to market, along with an assortment of action-filled catalog offerings making their way to Blu-ray. This is your DVD Report for Tuesday, November 9.
Disney's Pixar was flying high after the critically and commercially acclaimed "Wall-e," so naturally they looked to the skies for their next animated outing, "Up." The film focuses on Carl Fredricksen, an elderly shut-in who aims to pay homage to his late wife by relocating to the top of a South American paradise the couple had always dreamed of visiting. Equipping his home with hundreds of helium balloons, the house lifts off its foundation and floats away, inadvertently taking with it a young wilderness scout who grows attached to the grumpy septuagenarian at the start of a grand adventure.
Like most Pixar films, »
- Brian Jacks
Rupert Grint to attend Variety Club Charity Gala!
9 November 2009 8:02 AM, PST | Rupert-Grint.us/ | See recent Rupert Grint - Ice Cream Man news »
According to Spoonfed.co.uk, Rupert Grint has been confirmed to attend the Variety Club’s 57th Annual Showbiz Awards 2009 this weekend in London. The Awards will be a live broadcast on Five, and the ceremony is held to celebrate the world of showbiz and to raise the awareness Variety Club's work to provide transport and facilities for disabled children. Previous stars honoured include Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Michael Caine. We are awaiting confirmation from Rupert’s team on this. On another note, Rupert’s film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has won at the BBC’s Switch Awards in the category Favourite Flick of 2009! Congrats to Rupert and the entire Harry Potter team! »
- Karo
A Single Man trailer
9 November 2009 3:32 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Surely you, the average high-stylin’ JoBlo reader will know who Tom Ford is. The world famous fashion designer responsible for the turnaround of Gucci in the ‘90s who is biting Keira Knightley's ear on that Vanity Fair cover? Yeah I thought so. Well anyway, the man is now expanding his life’s ambitions into directing, and this is a trailer for his first feature film, A Single Man, which is alredy garnering praise at the few festivals it’s shown at. The... »
- Paul Tassi
Has 'Prince of Persia' Nailed What It Means to be a Video Game Adaptation?
5 November 2009 1:19 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Jake Gyllenhaal puts on his sexy face in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Photo: Walt Disney Pictures I'm not much of a gamer, and that may in fact be an understatement considering in the last few years the only games I have played and finished are "Gears of War," "Burnout," "Uncharted," "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and just a couple of days ago "Uncharted 2." I don't know where that places me in the gamer revolution, but considering that's about 6 years of gaming outside of playing a little "Tiger Woods," "NBA Street" and "Hot Shots Golf" I would say I am on the outside looking in. However, I'd like to think I know enough to at least open up a discussion concerning the growing trend of adapting video games into feature films, primarily based on the recently released trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a film »
- Brad Brevet
Sally Hawkins Finally Getting Cast In More Roles
5 November 2009 6:18 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Since she first came to the attention of many moviegoers (like myself) with her completely loony and lovable performance in Happy-Go-Lucky last year, Sally Hawkins has been pretty much missing from the movie scene. She has a tiny, tiny scene in An Education, and will be in Never Let Me Go with Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley next year, but thus far hasn't done that post-buzz overexposure-- and thank God for that. In keeping with her tendency to take roles in tiny indies, Hawkins is moving on to Dirty Girl, the directorial debut from Abe Sylvia about two teenagers-- a trampy girl and a overweight gay boy-- who team up to find the girl's real father. Variety writes that Hawkins and William H. Macy have signed on, though it doesn't say how they'll fit into the story. The movie already stars Lisa Kudrow along with Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier, »
Wright Dismisses My Fair Lady Reports
2 November 2009 4:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Director Joe Wright has laughed off reports he is set to head up the remake of My Fair Lady, insisting he is not connected to the picture.
Daily Variety claimed Wright would be reteaming with Keira Knightley for a new version of the 1964 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw's comedy of manners, Pygmalion.
But the Atonement filmmaker has shot down the rumours, revealing he turned the project down.
He says, "It's not happening! It's all a lie. I thought about it for a couple of minutes and decided not to do it, and then suddenly it got into the press that I was doing it." »
Joe Wright Is Not Directing My Fair Lady
1 November 2009 9:55 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Well, we can't be right all the time. Last week we brought you the news from the trades (it was in Variety! It's not our fault!) that Joe Wright, director of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice, would be reteaming with Keira Knightley for a new version of My Fair Lady, scripted by Emma Thompson.It turns out that at least 33.3% of that story is completely untrue, as discovered by Screenrush when they asked Joe Wright about it at the London Film Festival."It's not happening! It's all a lie!" opines Wright. "I thought about it for a couple of minutes and decided not to do it, and then suddenly it got into the press that I was doing it." And his motives for turning it down? "No reason really. You get a lot of scripts and you read them and..."So that's Danny Boyle and Joe Wright out of the director's chair. »
Joe Wright Not Directing 'My Fair Lady'
30 October 2009 3:33 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Well, here's a spanner in the works: Joe Wright directly contradicts reports from this past weekend that he'll be directing My Fair Lady. For the better part of two years, Keira Knightley has been the odds-on choice to update Eliza Doolittle, and we wrote that she had beaten out Scarlett Johansson for the role just a few days ago. As part of that announcement, Wright's name was dropped as the new director. But not according to him.
You can see in the video below (from Screenrush) that Wright isn't making the movie, plain and simple. It's a natural connection, though, because his first two films - Pride and Prejudice and Atonement - both starred Knightley. Plus, after the disappointing returns of The Soloist, Wright might have been reaching for a sure thing.
No such luck, though: »
- Colin Boyd
Joe Wright Definitely Not Directing My Fair Lady Remake
30 October 2009 8:57 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
When we reported earlier this week that Keira Knightley would star in a Joe Wright-directed remake of My Fair Lady, we were already getting conflicting reports that neither Knightley nor Wright had a thing to do with the movie. Now we have confirmation from one participant, at least. Screenrush caught up with Wright on the red carpet at the London Film Festival, and he assured them that the reports of him directing My Fair Lady are "all a lie." Interestingly, he couldn't say much about Knightley's participation-- "Keira might well do it"-- which probably mean the years-old reports about Knightley being in the film are still valid. Below you can see Wright's rebuttal for yourself, including what seems to be utter bewilderment that anyone would make up this story to begin with. »
Exclusive! Joe Wright Is Not Directing My Fair Lady Remake
30 October 2009 4:53 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
When Screenrush grabbed two minutes with Joe Wright on the red carpet for the London Film Festival's Closing Gala film Nowhere Boy, there was really only one thing on our mind to ask him about - My Fair Lady.
Over the last few days the rumour mills have been churning out stories that the Atonement director and Keira Knightley will be reteaming on a remake of the classic George Bernard Shaw adaptation, which was released in 1964 starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison and has been delighting family audiences ever since.
So we were more than a little taken about when Wright flatly denied any involvement in the project, saying that he had mulled over the idea for a couple of days after the script was sent to him, as he would do with any other project, but decided to pass on the opportunity.
Unfortunately he could not tell us which »
Wright is not Fair
30 October 2009 3:46 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Just the other day, we brought you news from a British newspaper that was reporting Keira Knightley had officially singed on to star in My Fair Lady with Joe Wright (Atonement) directing. It all seemed a little shaky and at the time I noted, "I'm always wary of article that include 'we hear....' before they talk about an upcoming scoop." Turns out it was more than a little shaky. It was completely false. Screenrush caught up with Wright last night on the red carpet for Nowhere... »
- Mike Sampson
Introducing Carey Mulletigan
29 October 2009 4:50 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
The Playlist has a first look at Never Let Me Go, the upcoming Mark Romanek adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel that's got a host of British talent attached, including including Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, and screenwriter Alex Garland. And then there's white-hot An Education ingenue Carey Mulligan, who definitely appears to be working the "business up front, party in the back" look in the film. We're not sure who she's playing, but based on that hairstyle, we have a hunch: »
[DVD Review] My Fair Lady
27 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The ever-loverly Audrey Hepburn is back as Eliza Doolittle in the latest release of My Fair Lady on DVD. I wasn't sure why — it had to have been put out on DVD at least once before. In fact, it was released by Warner Bros. in 1998 and then again as a "Two-Disc Special Edition" in 2004. Paramount obtained the rights last year and put out a new edition earlier this month, complete with its own set of special features.
My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, follows Ms. Doolittle, a poor flower girl with a strong Cockney accent which, due to the time period and setting, puts her at a strong social and vocational disadvantage. Looking to better her situation, she approaches Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a phonetics expert, about speech lessons. Higgins, intrigued, bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he can pass »
- Jess Goodwin
By George, I think Keira Knightley's got "My Fair Lady"
27 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
We all already know that Keira Knightley is a fair lady, but now she is the Fair Lady. The 24-year-old English actress has landed the role of Eliza Doolittle in the new remake of the Academy Award-winning 1964 musical, My Fair Lady.
The original film, based on the Broadways smash, starred Audrey Hepburn as Cockney flower girl Eliza and Rex Harrison as the prickly, precise professor Henry Higgins. Keira reportedly beat out Scarlett Johansson for the iconic role. Other than Natalie Portman, it’s hard to think of another young actress who could possibly attempt to take Audrey’s place.
And this news just keeps getting better. The script is being written by — get this — Oscar-winner Emma Thompson. Yes, that Emma Thompson. Directing will be Joe Wright, who grew accustomed to Keira’s face when he directed her in 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. And James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, is being »
- dorothy snarker
Bifa Nominees: Abbie Cornish, Michael Fassbender and More
27 October 2009 5:29 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Oh, agony! The British Independent Film Award nominations have arrived (in October? Damn that’s early) to serve up the dread reminder that there is no such thing as ‘day and date” releases outside of rare mega blockbusters. I suppose I should thank the celluloid cosmos. In a way the erratic nature of film distribution helps me to continue living my blissfully delusional life wherein I pretend that people would actually flock to more challenging higher quality international cinema if they only had access to it and could see it and talk about it at the same time. Isn’t this one reason that television is so popular? It’s communal. Movies are supposed to be communal but it doesn’t work out that way so much.
Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank
I have no idea when I’ll ever have a chance to see Fish Tank for example, which »
- NATHANIEL R
Keira Knightley is My Fair Lady
27 October 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Keira Knightley has been confirmed as the lead in 'My Fair Lady'.
After months of speculation, the British actress - who is known for her glowing performances in period blockbusters 'Atonement' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - will definitely play Eliza Doolittle in the remake of the 1964 play 'Pygmalion' by George Cukor.
The 24-year-old star will portray the lead character's journey from rags-to-riches in the big-screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's book.
The role was originally played by legendary actress Audrey Hepburn, while Julie Andrews appeared in the stage show.
Emma Thompson is writing the script and James Bond actor Daniel Craig is rumoured to be portraying Higgins. The film will be directed by 'Slumdog Millionaire' filmmaker Danny Boyle.
It is believed Keira has been practicing her singing voice for a year in the hope she would secure the role. »
- Paul
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