Sunday November 15, 2009
Imagine Entertainment announced filming has just begun on Gus Van Sant's as yet untitled film starring Mia Wasikowska (
Alice in Wonderland) and Henry Hopper (the 19 year old son of Dennis Hopper and Katherine LaNasa). Based on the stage play
Of Winter and Water Birds, written by and adapted for the screen by Jason Lew, the latest love story from Van Sant is being shot in Portland, Oregon. Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are producing along with Howard's daughter, actress
Bryce Dallas Howard, and Van Sant.
According to Imagine Entertainment's start of production press release, the film is about "two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, [who] forge a deep and lasting love."
First time feature film producer Bryce Dallas Howard stated, "This film is a quietly epic coming of age story. It captures the profoundly defining turning point of a young person's life with stark realism, irreverent humor, and intense emotion. I think that Gus was drawn to this story because he has an uncanny ability to convey the complexities of youth and outsiders. For this is, above all else, the journey of an outsider."
Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, and Jane Adams co-star in the film. The behind the scenes crew includes director of photography Harris Savides, production designer Anne Ross, editor Elliot Graham, and costume designer Danny Glicker.
(Pictured: Mia Wasikowska by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
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Friday November 13, 2009
A mere 40 years ago rock and roll was all but banned on British airwaves. Other than a few hours a week on the BBC, the only way to hear tunes from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, and other trailblazing artists on the radio in the mid-'60s was to tune in to pirate radio. Bunked in a ship off the coast of England, a batch of rebel deejays served up rock and roll 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to listeners who would otherwise have had to go without.
Now writer/director Richard Curtis (
Love Actually,
Notting Hill) has taken that era of pirate radio and used it as fodder for a music-filled tale of sex, almost no drugs, and rock and roll in
Pirate Radio (also known as
The Boat That Rocked).
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Jamie Campbell Bower (
Sweeney Todd) says the ruling class of vampires in the
Twilight series, the Volturi, are not evil.
Twilight fans may beg to differ with Bower who plays Caius, one of the three leaders of the Volturi, alongside Michael Sheen (
Frost/Nixon) as Aro and Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus. And Dakota Fanning and Cameron Bright are the enforcers of the group, playing Jane and Alec, twins with frightening powers. The Volturi - for those not up on their
Twilight trivia - keep the peace in the vampire in the world, punishing any vamps who step out of line. And it's to the Volturi's headquarters in Italy that Edward Cullen (
Robert Pattinson) goes in order to find a way out of this world when he believes he's lost Bella (
Kristen Stewart), the love of his life, forever.
Sheen, Fanning, Bright, and Campbell Bower teamed up to talk about playing these fearsome vampires at a press conference in LA in support of
New Moon:
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Friday November 13, 2009
Two-time Oscar nominee
Samantha Morton (
In America,
Sweet and Lowdown) plays a woman whose husband is killed in Iraq in the dramatic film,
The Messenger, written and directed by Oren Moverman. Moverman's directorial debut follows Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (
Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), two officers assigned to the Casualty Notification service. Their job: notify the next of kin of deceased soldiers. Will finds himself inappropriately drawn to Olivia (Morton) after he's given the task of telling her her husband is dead.
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