The Lord of the Links: The Return of the Link
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 5:38PM whoa. no link roundups in forever. time to catch up on movie news and/or must see web droppings
Yahoo Movies Fine Thelma Adams piece on Prometheus' "foreign object" sequence. [shudder]
24 Frames Noomi Rapace and Sigourney Weavers' Alien franchise screen tests
IndieWire six life saving tips for cinematographers from the great Darius Khondji (Se7en, Evita, Midnight in Paris, and more...)
Empire Penelope Cruz will star in her fifth Pedro Almodóvar movie Fleeting Lovers (title may change) which starts shooting this summer. Yay! Double Yay! All About My Mother star Cecilia Roth is also in the cast.
YouTube if there's anything I hate about YouTube it's the ability to name your videos "official". But this "Official" Les Miserable trailer starring (gulp) Katie Holmes is kind of a good prank... I mean Nightmare!
In Contention production designer J Michael Riva (Django Unchained, The Color Purple) has passed away at 63.
Awards Daily Singin' in the Rain is getting a 60th anniversary rerelease on July 12th. Just in time for the Gene Kelly Centennial. And yes, if I can manage it here at the Film Experience July and August will house a big Gene Kelly retrospective right here at the Film Experience. He's up there with Montgomery Clift in my favorite (male) movie star charts after all.
Life of Pi the tiger growls memorably for the first time on the official website. Also he looks amazing.
Movie|Line Better three years late than never. Xavier Dolan's award winning debut film (and Canadian Oscar submission in its year) I Killed My Mother is FINALLY getting a US theatrical release.
Guardian hears that The Avengers might get a three hour version for theatrical rerelease this fall. Considering Joss Whedon's comments on the deleted material (indulgent, killing the rhythm) and his own feelings about different versions of the same story (no) perhaps this is a very bad idea.
Queerty the red band ass abundant Magic Mike trailer.
filmmaking tips
IndieWire six life saving tips for cinematographers from the great Darius Khondji (Se7en, Evita, Midnight in Paris, and more...)
Movie|Line twenty-two pieces of storytelling advice from a Pixar artist
LA Times offers up awards show tips for the Oscars (hey, that's sorta filmmaking tips) via the Tony Awards though I will continue to hate everyone and especially every writer who suggests very publicly that we don't need to see Costume Designers winning their prizes. A pox on all your craft-hating houses!
casting news we don't have much to say about but we should probably share anyway...
Greer takes over for Buckley in the Carrie remake
- Jean Dujardin is in talks to join Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street
- Amy Ryan and Dane DeHaan may join an upcoming non-documentary take on West Memphis Three currently starring Colin Firth and Allesandro Nivola (my god how many movies will this story inspire by 2020?)
- John Madden's "Exotic Marigold" follow up is a comedy called Murder Mystery and may star Charlize Theron
- Judy Greer (recently interviewed right here) wins the gym teacher role in Carrie, previously played by the great Betty Buckley. I only wish I weren't so dreading the movie.
off cinema
Gawker an alligator eating a croc?
Sound Cloud she may have lost the Tony but Jayne Houdyshell keeps giving it from Follies. She rerecorded "Broadway Baby" as a solo for a compilation. It's wonderful!
Cinema Blend an amusing piece about that George Bush head on spike story from Game of Thrones
Zachary Quinto, Claire Danes, Chris Rock, The Fanning Sisters... and that's just a tiny sample.Finally...
Have you seen the Paramount Pictures celebration? They gathered 116 stars together -- NOT photoshopped, actually there -- for a Centennial Photo.
The photo is so big you have to scroll to get the whole thing on your computer. You can mouse over it to enlarge see who's in the shot but without doing so I spotted George Clooney, Jamie Lee Curtis, George Takei, Julianne Moore, Meryl, Mark & Marty, Jane Fonda and Eddie Murphy straightaway. Watching the video gives you a closer look at the star networking. Watching stars mingle is the best part of starry events... though they never share enough.
It makes you wonder who knows each other and who doesn't. And who really does or doesn't want to be talking to whom. Did the stars who haven't had a good role in decades bee-line to the directors present (Lynch, Fincher, Scorsese, etcetera) or have they given up but for anniversary shindigs to honor their past glories? All I know for sure is that photo events like this make me happy.
Reader Comments (11)
Notice the Streep placement... dead center ... as well she should be!
I'm sure the word speechless was invented to describe something like Magic Mike trailer. Or to describe what the extra who had Bomer's crotch on her face felt.
As for Almodóvar's cast, I love that is a comedy and an ensemble, and that he still manages to include some eye candy.
I believe Penélope's role is almost a cameo. Acccording to El Deseo "Stand-by Lovers" has been dismissed and the new title is "I'm So Excited" which I don't like, but the project sounds so great... a comedy at last!
Oh my lord, just when I think Katie Holmes couldn't be anymore awful, here Nathaniel comes to prove me wrong.
love the Centennial photo. Thanks! Streep looks awesome.
I agree-I would rather see Thelma Schoonmaker, Sandy Powell, or John Williams accept an award any day of the week than watch an Oscar producer try to figure out a way to fit Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber into Oscar night.
I'm guessing that when Tom Cruise auditioned Katie Holmes, he forgot about the singing part. No Oscar nomination for a musical for you Katie, not like the other two ex's.
-Every bit of casting news for Carrie should excite me, Chloe Moretz aside (and even then, I recognize that my dislike of her is based on something very intangible that I can't even communicate). However, I just feel this impending sense of dread about the project and I can't shake the feeling that it's because the whole thing is ill-conceived from jump. Are we really to believe that a teenage boy would ever have to be convinced and pressured by his girlfriend to take Chloe Moretz to the prom? Greer is a goodie, though I would have liked to have seen someone more womanly and stalwart in the part...Christina Hendricks, perhaps.
-Not to be nasty but that Les Miserables prank trailer brings up so many...negative feelings. I was a tween in the late nineties, so I do have a somewhat shame based history with "Dawson's Creek" and I remember thinking that the writers/directors were so mean for making Katie Holmes do that. The song choice was so on the nose. Her singing was so flat on one end and off-key on the other, yet the people in the audience are watching her sing with this rapt attention and awe. It was like that SNL sketch (can't remember the name, they run together) where there's that guy in drag and everyone except one character thinks "she's" beautiful and enchanting. I don't get it. And even back then, I remember preferring Michelle Williams without even really being sure why.
Pretentious-yeah, the whole "pressured to the Prom" thing is bugging me too. Say what you will about Moretz (and apparently, everyone does), but she's most definitely a cute girl. It's hard to believe that she would have so much trouble fitting in in high school that she got a dousing of pig's blood.
I love that the Godfather trio, especially since Caan, Garcia, and De Niro were all in different movies.
Thanks for the Prometheus link. That was literally one of the most unnerving scenes I've seen in several years, and I feel like it's connected to this weird primal fear of carrying something alien or bloodsucking within you, occasionally manifested through the experience of carrying an actual fetus (speaking to an often un-talked about psychological aspect of abortion). It was like the pure visual embodiment of a nightmare. I'm surprised I haven't seen more articles analyzing it. Or maybe I missed all them all.