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In the film, Depp plays itinerant 1950s journalist Paul Kemp, who flees the madness of New York for the relative calm of Puerto Rico, where he goes to work at a San Juan newspaper. Kemp soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman (Amber Heard) and her fiancée Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. READ FULL STORY »
Earlier this year, Tara Reid was widely mocked for incorrectly stating that work would soon begin on The Big Lebowski 2. (Those who had a little fun at Ms. Reid’s expense included Lebowski auteur Ethan Coen, who declared ”I’m glad she’s working on it. We’ll watch it when it comes out.”) Now the American Pie actress has turned that frown upside down (and really tied her mistake together) by making a fake Big Lebowski 2 trailer for FunnyOrDie.com. Reid plays every important character from the original classic comedy, except for her actual role of trophy wife and nail polish enthusiast Bunny Lebowski.
“We just thought it was the perfect opportunity to do something,” says Christopher Farah, who directed the clip (below) which, we feel obliged to point out, echoes the Coens’ movie by featuring both an expletive and excreta. “It was a really great experience. I honestly had no idea what to expect with someone who has a name and also maybe a reputation. But Tara was well grounded and very enthusiastic. I talked to all of my friends about this as soon as it was done. I was like, ‘Wow, you wouldn’t believe how incredibly cool Tara Reid is!’”
But why exactly did she claim there was going to be a Big Lebowski sequel? “I never asked,” laughs Farah. “You’re certainly more than welcome to ask her yourself.”
Which is just what we did. After the jump, Tara Reid herself talks about her gaffe, making the Lebowski 2 clip, and the forthcoming American Pie 4 (which, unlike Big Lebowski 2 is, apparently, real).
No summer film has been as cloaked in mystery as J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Super 8, about a group of amateur teen movie-makers in 1979 who accidentally capture footage of a train wreck carrying a large, angry creature from Area 51.
But now Abrams is reluctantly pulling back the curtain. He showcased the key crash scene for theater owners at their annual CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, along with some of the more intimate scenes featuring the young kids who make up the cast. “The key today really is to show the people who some of our characters are,” Abrams said backstage before Monday night’s Paramount presentation. “Most people don’t even know what Super 8 is. But the whole evolution of the movie was about the characters first.” READ FULL STORY »
Sony Pictures Classics has announced it plans to release Violet Wister’s Damsels in Distress worldwide. The Whit Stillman comedy stars Greta Gerwig (Greenberg), Adam Brody (The O.C.), and Analeigh Tipton (America’s Next Top Model) and centers around three women “who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy East Coast university.” Gerwig plays the leader of the trio, while Tipton plays a transfer student welcomed into the group, which attempts to help depressed students with “musical dance numbers.” “We’ve long admired Whit’s films and Violet Wister’s Damsels in Distress marries his unique sensibility with the kind of acerbic comedy audiences love,” Sony Pictures Classics says in a release. “That Martin [Shafer] and Liz [Glotzer] are producing the film alongside Whit makes this the perfect partnership for Sony Pictures Classics.”
“I’m going to get in my underwear in front of all of you guys,” announced Rainn Wilson, one night after the SXSW premiere of James Gunn’s new film, Super. “I hope you don’t mind.” The Office star, who plays an endearingly unhinged everyman-turned-superhero, invited EW up to his hotel suite as he crammed himself back into his sweat-coated Crimson Bolt costume. To help promote the film, he then unleashed his Crimson sense of righteousness — “Shut up, crime! — on the streets of Austin. Come along for the ride with this exclusive video. READ FULL STORY »
Antonio Banderas stole the show in the Shrek movies as a smooth, swashbuckling cat, but now that Puss in Boots is its own feature film, he faces a formidable scene-stealer of his own: Zach Galifianakis as Humpty Dumpty.
The entire opening of the film, set to debut Nov. 4, was previewed by DreamWorks Animation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Monday, revealing a comedy-adventure that is more of a straight-up fantasy than a mash-up spoof of pop culture and fairy tales, like Shrek. The biggest revelation in the footage was The Hangover star Galifianakis as the rotund, thin-shelled former partner of the wily cat.
“I smell something … familiar,” Puss says, drawing breath. “Something … dangerous. Something … breakfast-y!” before whirling to stab his sword at his old friend turned nemesis. READ FULL STORY »
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Disney is bringing Agatha Christie’s venerable detective Miss Marple back to the big screen, but this won’t be your father’s — or your grandfather’s — Miss Marple. EW has confirmed that, as first reported on Deadline, Jennifer Garner will play the amateur sleuth in a new take on the character. In Christie’s 12 Miss Marple mystery novels, which she began publishing in 1930, and numerous television, film, and radio adaptations over the decades, Miss Marple has always been depicted — most famously by Margaret Rutherford in four films in the 1960s, Angela Lansbury in the 1980 movie The Mirror Crack’d, and Joan Hickson in a string of BBC TV movies — as an elderly spinster in a small English village who, underneath her sweet-old-lady exterior, is a flinty and formidable crime solver. (Christie said she based the character on her own grandmother.) But in casting Garner — and hiring Mark Frost, who co-created Twin Peaks with David Lynch, to write the screenplay for a Miss Marple reboot in a contemporary setting — Disney clearly intends to blow the dust off the character and give her a youthful and modern spin.
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Ah, Paris. City of love. Home of Pepé Le Pew. Meet Woody Allen, whose often fatalistic ideas about human behavior can inspire sweet romance or pulverize naive notions of l’amore in his films. Midnight in Paris, due May 20, is Allen’s latest painting of a fabled European city — after London, Barcelona, and, coming soon, Rome. The trailer starts by practically framing Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams in a Monet painting, but their love is about to be tested. But of course! There’s a bearded pseudo-intellectual who’s in the way. There’s a bevy of beautiful belles — including Carla Bruni. McAdams tells her blond beau that he’s “in love with a fantasy,” and she doesn’t realize just how right she may be, after he discovers a magical, mysterious after-hours locale, full of Parisian delights. It might not be the Moulin Rouge, but it’s on the same block. Regardez le video. READ FULL STORY »
The answer to the above headline is “no.” Using the psychic-movie-poster powers of premonition granted to me by the gods of movie advertising, I have cast my mind forward through the next nine months of 2011, and have concluded that there is no conceivable way that any upcoming movie will have a poster as beautiful, strange, engrossing, or mysterious as the just-released one-sheet for The Tree of Life, the upcoming movie by art-film hero Terrence Malick that stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. It’s still unclear exactly what The Tree of Life is all about (though check out the trailer here if you want to play detective), and the joy of the poster is how it simultaneously seems to show us so much — showing 70 scattered images from the film — while not really revealing a darn thing. Don’t believe me? Check out the full-sized image after the jump…
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