Tuesday February 9, 2010
The cast of
Green Lantern has expanded by one.
The Hollywood Reporter says Tim Robbins has signed on to play
Peter Sarsgaard's father in the action film based on the DC Comics. Martin Campbell, director of
Edge of Darkness,
Casino Royale, and
The Legend of Zorro, is set to helm the film which is heading into production next month.
According to
THR, Robbins will play Senator Hammond, father of Dr Hector Hammond (Sarsgaard), the main villain of
Green Lantern. When asked recently about the rumor there will be two villains,
director Campbell told me, ""No, no, no, no, no. Don't listen to that nonsense." Campbell went on to explain the basic storyline: "I'll tell you what. Get the origin story, read that, and you'll be pretty much on target. Well, you know, it varies slightly. But it's pretty much the origin story of
Green Lantern."
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Emily Blunt says she wouldn't have taken on a starring role in Universal Pictures'
The Wolfman if she'd just had to scream and run from a beast throughout the film. It was the relationships between the main characters - Gwen (Blunt), Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), and Dr John Talbot (Anthony Hopkins) - that attracted Blunt to this most recent take on the classic tale of a man who changes into a wolf when the moon is full.
Blunt plays the fiancée of Lawrence's brother, Ben. When Ben goes missing, she calls on Lawrence to return to his family home and help her find her lost love. But there's someone (or something) killing the villagers of Blackmoor, and Gwen and Lawrence get caught up in the horrific goings-on that have the people of Lawrence's hometown fearing for their lives.
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The 37th Annual Annie Awards were held on Saturday, February 6th at UCLA's Royce Hall and, as expected,
Up took home the top prize for Best Animated Feature film.
Up beat out
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,
Coraline,
Fantastic Mr. Fox,
The Princess and the Frog, and
The Secret of Kells. Pixar's animated tale of a senior citizen who sets off on one last great adventure will be competing against all of those films, except
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, in Oscar's Best Animated Film category. And
Up's Oscar chances just increased as whichever film wins the Annie normally goes on to win the Academy Award.
Up's director,
Pete Docter, also earned the Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production. Docter won out over his competition which included Wes Anderson (
Fantastic Mr. Fox), Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs), Hayao Miyazaki (
Ponyo), and Henry Selick (
Coraline).
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Garry Marshall was in charge of getting his cast set for the
Valentine's Day press conference at the Beverly Hilton, and after directing the star-filled film, getting them to just sit where they were supposed to was probably a walk in the park. Before his big-name stars entered the room, Marshall warmed up the media, joking around and setting the mood for the press conference.
"I haven't directed this many stars in one picture," said Marshall, the director of
Pretty Woman,
Runaway Bride, and
Princess Diaries. "You know what it's like? It's like when you're in high school and suddenly you're with all those popular kids in school. They're all with you and they all know you. It's a very exciting thing. It didn't happen for me in high school.
Bradley Cooper is here. Here comes
Jennifer Garner,
Jessica Alba. I know them all personally!..."
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