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Dec 19 2011 09:00 AM ET

'Warrior': Nick Nolte on his winning sports drama and his hope for a '48 Hrs.' reunion at the Oscars

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In Warrior, Nick Nolte plays a recovering alcoholic whose destructive addiction cost him his family, including his two sons, played by Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton. In his raging days, Paddy Conlon pushed his boys to be champions — one more than the other, perhaps — and when they enter the world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting, Nolte’s guilt-ridden pop seizes the opportunity to right past wrongs and salvage some sense of family. Characterized by a solemn bearing that masks a volcanic temper, Paddy fits Nolte almost too close for comfort, and it might be the best performance of his career. Last week, the SAG recognized him with a Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Warrior, which arrives on video tomorrow, is the beginning of a career renaissance for the 70-year-old Nolte, who previously earned Academy Awards nominations for The Prince of Tides (1991) and Affliction (1997). He’ll pop up in next year’s star-studded L.A. noir, Gangster Squad, opposite Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, and Josh Brolin. And he plays the mysterious old horse trainer in HBO’s Luck, David Milch’s new drama about life at the racetrack.

Famously garrulous and philosophical, Nolte talked to EW about his latest good fortune and reflected on a career that has had more than its share of ups and downs.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 13 2011 09:00 AM ET

EW Looks Back: Billy Campbell on how 'The Rocketeer' (kinda) cured his fear of flying

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When it debuted June 21, 1991, The Rocketeer was dismissed by many (including EW) as too old-fashioned, too stolid and square. The 1930s period adventure film — about a young pilot (Billy Campbell) who gets pulled into Nazi-era intrigue along with his aspiring actress girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) when he happens upon a human jet pack designed by Howard Hughes (Terry O’Quinn) — ultimately sputtered to a $47 million gross (roughly $88 mil in 2011 dollars). But it was far from forgotten. In fact, looking back at The Rocketeer now, 20 years later, it feels wonderfully old-fashioned for an entirely new reason: Directed by Joe Johnston (who’d go on to helm last summer’s Captain America) just before computer animation began to dominate Hollywood popcorn filmmaking, the film’s deliberate pacing and old school effects give the movie a real don’t-make-’em-like-this-anymore charm.

To commemorate the film’s release on Blu-ray today, we rang up Billy Campbell, currently shooting the second season of AMC’s The Killing, to talk about the film, how it helped him conquer his fear of flying (a bit), and which current Disney superstar is responsible for him landing his first feature film.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 6 2011 09:00 AM ET

'The Help': Emma Stone on Allison Janney's outrageous ad-lib

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The extras on the new Blu-ray of last summer’s Southern-fried hit The Help, out today, are a scant mix of a making-of doc, a featurette, and some amusing deleted scenes. (The anemic DVD has only the latter.) But according to star Emma Stone, one of the movie’s funniest — and dirtiest — moments may have been lost forever on the cutting-room floor.

It happened while she was shooting a scene in which her character, Skeeter Phelan, nervously introduces her new boyfriend (Chris Lowell) to her iron-willed mother (Allison Janney). READ FULL STORY »

Dec 5 2011 06:48 PM ET

Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer on 'The Help,' its impact, and its critics

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As The Help makes its way to DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow, the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel is sure to ignite another round of heated debate and discussion surrounding its subject matter. About a group of black Mississippi maids in the early 1960s (primarily the ones played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, both in performances earning some heavy Oscar buzz) and the young, white reporter eager to tell their story (played by 2011 It Actress Emma Stone), the film’s exploration of race, gender, and class had supporters and detractors voicing their opinions with equal fervor.

While certainly a boon for the film’s box-office — The Help has grossed nearly $200 million worldwide – being in the middle of that kind of cultural contretemps can be rather overwhelming. But when they spoke recently with EW about the film’s home video release, both Stone and Spencer shared some thoughtful insights on what it’s been like for them to witness it from the inside out.

“The interesting thing about the response to The Help is that I get fewer questions than stories,” Stone tells EW. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 2 2011 05:49 PM ET

'The Help': Octavia Spencer on the harrowing alternative ending for Minny -- EXCLUSIVE CLIP

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Readers of the bestselling book of The Help know that the story of outspoken maid Minny Jackson ends quite differently than it does in last summer’s blockbuster film. (SPOILER ALERT for those who don’t want to know either ending.) In the film, we hear in voice over that Minny (Octavia Spencer) took her kids and left her abusive husband Leroy after her employers Celia and Johnny Foote (Jessica Chastain and Mike Vogel) promised her a job with them as long as she wanted it. In the book, however, Minny doesn’t escape Leroy without a final, vicious beating.

In the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film, out Dec. 6, director Tate Taylor reveals he in fact shot a different ending for Minny that incorporated the book’s dark turn of events, but ultimately felt it was too much of a gloomy conclusion for Minny’s ultimately hopeful storyline. That scene is available as an extra on both discs, but you can watch it exclusively below now, and then read EW’s interview with Spencer about the scene, and how she prepared the non-professional actors playing her kids for it. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 18 2011 04:36 PM ET

J.J. Abrams talks Blu-ray-bound 'Super 8,' Amblin movies, and why he's so secretive

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Super 8 was J. J. Abrams’ mash note to the early work of Steven Spielberg, and, on that front, it hits all the right notes: Aliens, child-like wonder, the small-town experience, directorial economy, ominous caravans of military vehicles, etc., etc. But Abrams also managed to make the movie his own, and, in anticipation of Tuesday’s release of the movie on DVD and Blu-ray, we asked the director about the difficulties in reconciling the two styles, as well as his uncanny knack for keeping a lid on spoilers.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Looking back, what was it like working on Super 8 with Spielberg?
J.J. ABRAMS: To work with Steven, which was something I always wanted to do, and have it be as educational and rewarding and fun as it was, I feel like I just dodged the biggest bullet in my life. Working with your hero, if it ends badly, it’s a scar for life. So the fact that it ended well was a real relief. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 14 2011 02:19 PM ET

Sneak peek at Blu-ray extras from Sam Raimi's 'Evil Dead II' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Sam Raimi’s gooey, 1987 cult horror/comedy hybrid, Evil Dead II, is the movie that keeps giving. You could also argue that with the slew of special edition DVDs of the film already on the market, it’s the movie that keeps taking, too. After all, I lost track a long time ago of how many hundreds of dollars I’ve forked over buying all these damn things. Either way, the new 25th Anniversary Blu-ray (which comes out tomorrow, Nov. 15!)  is worth your time and money if you’re a fan of giddy gore, the Book of the Dead, and Bruce Campbell’s impossibly chinned alterego, Ash. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 14 2011 12:54 PM ET

'Blue Velvet' Turns 25: David Lynch discusses what's cool (and uncool) about lost footage -- EXCLUSIVE

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It was a quarter century ago that David Lynch scored one of the greatest comebacks in cinema history by rebounding from the epic fail of Dune with the art house neo-noir that was Blue Velvet. The creepy crime flick — starring Kyle MacLachlan as a peeping tom amateur detective and Dennis Hopper as a gas-huffing, F-bomb hurling deviant — earned the then 41-year-old Eraserhead auteur an Oscar nomination (the second nod of his career; The Elephant Man gave him his first) and set the stage for the pop culture phenomenon of Twin Peaks. Blue Velvet is full of offbeat, seemingly gratuitous choices, from the celebrated shot of ants grappling with each other in the suburban soil to Dean Stockwell serenading Hopper’s Frank Booth with a licentious lip sync of Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams.” (“Here’s to your f—, Frank.”) And yet, Blue Velvet casts a mesmerizing spell; everything feels essential to the hypnotic whole, nothing feels grossly indulgent… unless you hate the movie. And a few people do, most famously, Roger Ebert. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 3 2011 02:16 PM ET

A clip from the new 'Return of the Living Dead' documentary, 'More Brains!' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Very few comedy-horror movies are quite as much fun as director Dan O’Bannon’s demented, 1985 zombie opus, Return of the Living Dead. And no others feature the sight of scream queen Linnea Quigley cavorting around on a tombstone wearing nothing but leggings, a punk-rock wig, and some serious choreographic attitude.

In fact, as the new documentary More Brains!: A Return to the Living Dead details, Ms. Quigley was also sporting a specially made prostheses-cum-merkin on the orders of a concerned producer. Alas, the now-available-on-DVD doc does not reveal whether this item is safely housed at the Smithsonian. But Return of the Living Dead fans will have all their other questions answered in this comprehensive cinematic autopsy, which features on-camera contributions from all of the production’s surviving principals and, amongst its bonus extras, the last-ever interview with O’Bannon, who died in 2009.

You can check out a clip from the documentary and the trailer for Return of the Living Dead itself, below. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 1 2011 08:24 PM ET

'Harry Potter': J.K. Rowling on why Hagrid was spared, and what sealed Lupin's fate

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J.K. Rowling is in a dishy mood. Or at least she was last year when Harry Potter‘s creator sat down with the character’s big screen portrayer Daniel Radcliffe for a conversation filmed for the Blu-ray edition of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2, on sale next week. By now you’ve probably heard about one provocative excerpt — how Rowling considered killing Harry’s red-headed best bud Ron Weasley while writing the seven novel series. The disclosure comes after Radcliffe asks if the author considered killing any of the big three: Harry, Hermione, and Ron. “Funnily enough, I planned from the start none of them would die,” Rowling says. “Then, midway through [writing the series] — which I think was a reflection of the fact that I was not in a very happy place – I started thinking about polishing one of them off. Out of sheer spite!”

But there’s more.

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