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Anne & Jake high on “Love and Other Drugs” 0

Posted on August 31, 2010 by kankan

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway previously left jaws dropped in the adult movie “Brokeback Mountain.”  Years later, after both leaped from one box-office hit to another, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway reunite in the upcoming romantic comedy “Love And Other Drugs” for a slap of the awe-stunning realities in adult relationships.

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“Wall Street 2” director Oliver Stone shocked at institutionalized sharks 0

Posted on August 31, 2010 by kankan

Michael Douglas is back in his Oscar®-winning role as Gordon Gekko whose iconic “Greed is good” mantra and daring corporate raids made him a rock star of financial titans.  No longer the king of Wall Street, Gekko emerges from Federal prison after serving eight years.   While away, his wife has divorced him, his son has died, and his one remaining family member, his daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan), won’t speak to him.

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Jenn Proske – very Bella in every way 0

Posted on August 09, 2010 by kankan

There’s a new Bella in town – a.k.a. Becca in the upcoming spoof comedy “Vampires Suck” from geniuses Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer who gave us the laugh-out loud parodies “Scary Movie,” “Date Movie” and “Meet the Spartans.”

Becca, played by Jenn Proske stars in the all-tangled love triangle opposite Matt Lanter , Chris Riggi and Ken Jeong (“Hangover”).  In a recent interview with buzzbox.com, Proske revealed that she’s Team Edward but she still has strong feelings for Jacob.  “I kind of feel a little bit of pressure because I play Becca, the Bella character. Plus, Matt Lanter who plays Edward looks good on set!  Matt was amazing. I had never been on camera before and was nervous that whoever I was working with would judge me. He was so willing to teach me tips and was so friendly. We hang out all the time but we’re just friends,” Proske gushes.

Jenn definitely nailed every bit of Bella’s character such that after one major audition, she immediately got called in for “Vampires Suck.”  This is by far her first major audition after graduating from Boston University at 2009, though Jenn relates that she was I originally got called in for Alice Cullen, but knew that she wasn’t quite right for the role.  “I knew I felt the Kristen Stewart role more so I had to go in 7 or 8 times,” recalls Jenn.

Asked what’s in store for the Twilight fans and Twi-haters in “Vampires Suck” – “There’s something for everyone in this movie! Everything is done in a very funny way and I think it’s hysterical!” Jen says.

“Vampires Suck” opens August 25 in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

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Laurence Fishburne up against “Predators” 0

Posted on June 21, 2010 by kankan
Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez presents a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, “Predators,” shot on location under Rodriguez’s creative auspices at the filmmaker’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, directed by Nimrod Antal. The film stars Oscar®-winner Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”) as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey.  With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.
In addition to Brody, “Predators” stars award-winning actor and filmmaker Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix” movies), Topher Grace (“Spider-Man 3”), Alice Braga (“I Am Legend”) and Walton Goggins (“The Shield”).  Also taking on key roles are Rodriguez stalwart Danny Trejo, plus UFC champion Oleg Taktarov (“National Treasure”), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), and Louis Ozawa Changchien (“Fair Game”).
One of the most celebrated actors worldwide, Laurence Fishburne, portrays Noland, a recluse human found surviving on the planet.  His hidden cave contains numerous artifacts and weapons.  Noland’s very existence on the alien planet provides hints of a rich off-world history of the Predators.  “Once you’ve set up this planet, there’s a lot that can happen there, and once you’ve seen characters like Noland, you know there’s a lot of potential stories to tell,” says Rodriguez.
Screenwriter Michael Finch adds, “Noland is a guy who can give us a whole bit of the history and can perform a very specific function and that function is this: demonstrate to these guys that dying on this planet may not be the worst thing that can happen to you. Living on it might be.”
Fishburne responded strongly to the direction the filmmakers were taking with the material.  “What’s nice about this movie is that it really is a throwback to the old ‘Predator,’” comments the actor.  “The structure of it is very much the same and the archetypes of the characters are similar.  They’re different, but they’re similar enough that you get a feeling of the old movie.  My character is one of those pieces that connect to the old movie.  I think the character of Noland is a great sort of wink at the audience.
“Noland lets them in on what’s going on and why everybody’s here, but it also lets the audience in on the inside joke of the movie. When ‘Predator’ came out, we had never seen this [creature] before, and it was a really cool boogie man,” adds Fishburne.  “This is a real return to the tension and the excitement of the first movie.  We do have a new breed of Predator in this movie, but they’ve really taken the time to look at the first film, take the best elements, and try to enhance them, and to honor them in any way we can.  I think that’s been done really effectively with respect to the script and with the casting of the ensemble and the archetypes that these characters represent.”
“Predators” opens July 8 (Thursday) in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

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Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez presents a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, “Predators,” shot on location under Rodriguez’s creative auspices at the filmmaker’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, directed by Nimrod Antal. The film stars Oscar®-winner Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”) as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey.  With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

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“Knight and Day” world premiere in Spain 0

Posted on June 21, 2010 by kankan
Seville, Spain –Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s action-comedy “Knight and Day” held its global gala last June 16 at Spain’s southern metropolis which capped the globe-trotting hopping publicity tour and press junket of the on-screen duo.
In “Knight and Day,” a woman (Diaz) learns a secret she was never meant to know when she becomes the reluctant partner to a covert operative (Cruise) on a mission he was never meant to complete.  As their globetrotting adventure erupts into a maze of double-crosses, close escapes and false identities, they come to realize that all they can count on is each other.
Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma), “Knight and Day” also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace, and Marc Blucas.  The screenplay is by Patrick O’Neill and James Mangold, from a story by Patrick O’Neill. The producers are Cathy Konrad, Steve Pink and Todd Garner.
20th Century Fox releases “Knight and Day” on June 24 (Thursday) in theaters across the Philippines.
One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world.  These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE:  Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox International, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.

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Seville, Spain –Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s action-comedy “Knight and Day” held its global gala last June 16 at Spain’s southern metropolis which capped the globe-trotting hopping publicity tour and press junket of the on-screen duo.

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Brazilian stunner Alice Braga in “Predators” 0

Posted on June 15, 2010 by kankan
Brazilian beauty Alice Braga who appeared opposite Will Smith in the doomsday hit “I Am Legend” stars anew in the nerve-wracking, all-new “Predators” movie with Academy-Award Winner Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”).
In the story, ex-military man Royce (Brody) plummets through the void at terminal velocity, his parachute deploying only seconds before certain death.  Destined to be the reluctant leader of the humans in the Predators terrain, Royce initially has no idea of where he is or the circumstances that brought him there.  The group becomes unsettled on the alien planet and don’t know that they are being preyed upon.   As the mystery and terror unfold, the members of the thrown-together team of killers begin to discover their bitter selves. The human ‘monsters’ face off with one another, only to learn that there’s a bigger [alien] monster in the jungle waiting for them.
Braga plays the group’s solo female, Isabelle, a central figure among this unholy alliance of killers.  Isabelle, like her new cohorts, is on a journey to find out why they’ve been brought together on this massive killing ground. “As a sniper in the Israeli Defense Force, I’ve never played this type of character before,” says Alice Braga.  “Isabelle is really a tough woman, but isn’t harsh with everyone.  I think she has some things in her life that make her stronger, but at the same time she’s soft and is just trying to survive.  She’s figuring out a lot about herself in this situation.”
“In my opinion, each character discovers why he or she was chosen,” Braga continues. She wonders if they are being punished for past crimes?  We were always the ones that are killing people and now we are the ones that are being hunted.”
Braga’s research led to a kind of “guidebook” for snipers. “I learned that snipers must be precise, methodical, organized, and you cannot have different feelings,” relates Braga.   “You need to be really specific about what you want, what you do, and what your mission is.  She’s a tough cookie and in that gang, Isabelle is a really important piece because she knows a lot about wind movement and everything else in the jungle. Her skill is really needed.”
Producer Robert Rodriguez was thrilled to have Braga in the movie.  “I love really strong females in my movies. I have five sisters!  I wanted the female character to have real strength, not just movie strength, where they would just write it as a male character and then change the name.  And I was ecstatic at the possibility of having Alice Braga grace our set, she’s such a tremendous talent. When she did her audition, I just looked at (director) Nimrod and said, ‘Could we just hire her, please? Do we even need to see anyone else?’  She was so terrific, you could feel the movie’s quality jump ten notches with that single choice.  You could feel what she would bring, that she’d be the real heart of the movie. Nimrod said, ‘Absolutely. Let’s get her.’”
“Predators” opens July 8 in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

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Brazilian beauty Alice Braga who appeared opposite Will Smith in the doomsday hit “I Am Legend” stars anew in the nerve-wracking, all-new “Predators” movie with Academy-Award Winner Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”).

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Latest trailer to beat – “Knight and Day” 0

Posted on April 23, 2010 by kankan
20th Century Fox releases the latest trailer of “Knight and Day” that tracks Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in a superlative of stunts as they play a fugitive couple racing across the globe.
“Knight and Day” was briefly introduced to the movie viewing public months back when its first trailer played in theaters and on the blogosphere depicting Tom Cruise as a mysterious man clad in jeans, shirt and a jacket stalking the panic-stricken Cameron Diaz who had been thrown in a cycle of cutthroat events that threaten her life.
An action-comedy that begins when a small-town woman (diaz) has a chance encounter with a mysterious man (cruise).  He is either the man of her dreams or perhaps, her nightmares.  Also starring in “Knight and Day” are Peter Sarsgaard (“An Education”) as a federal agent relentlessly pursuing the couple; Viola Davis (“Doubt”) as a CIA director trying to decipher the true purpose of their high-wire activities; Paul Dano (“There Will Be Blood”) as an eccentric genius behind a revolutionary technology; and Olivier Martinez (“Unfaithful”) as a ruthless arms manufacturer.  Co-starring are Maggie Grace (“Taken”) and Marc Blucas (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).
The movie is directed by James Mangold (“3:10 to Yuma,” “Walk the Line”) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Frank (“Minority Report,” “Out of Sight”). The film’s executive producers include blockbuster makers Joe Roth (“The Great Debaters”), E. Bennett Walsh (“Kill Bill”) and Arnon Milchan (“Mr. and Mrs. Smith”).
One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world.  These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE:  Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.
“Knight and Day” opens in the Philippines on July 7 from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

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20th Century Fox releases the latest trailer of “Knight and Day” that tracks Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in a superlative of stunts as they play a fugitive couple racing across the globe.

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40 year-old virgin Steve Carell gets smart in “Date Night” 0

Posted on March 31, 2010 by kankan
After catapulting to international fame as the “Forty-Year Old Virgin,” Steve Carell offers more funny smarts on marriage in the upcoming “Date Night” movie with the equally multi-talented Tina Fey.
In “Date Night,” the Fosters couple Phil (Carell) and Claire (Fey) are a suburban New Jersey couple who are stuck in the day-to-day drudgery of family life. When they hear the news that friends are divorcing, they decide to take positive action to reignite the passion in their own relationship and set off on a romantic ‘date night.’ They have however failed to make a reservation in a posh Manhattan restaurant. Discovering that   another couple has not turned up for dinner, Claire and Phil Foster decide to take their table and become the Tripplehorns for the evening  - never expecting the tumultuous events that are about to unravel.  The Tripplehorns are in fact criminals involved in a complicated web of intrigue and what follows is a case of mistaken identity. As the evening progresses, they find themselves in deep trouble. Everything is suddenly at stake: their marriage and even their very lives.
The enormously talented Steve Carell in the following q&a discusses comedy and the joys of married life.
Q:        What appealed to you about the script?
A:         “I like the idea of a comedy revolving around a married couple; it is something you do not see very often. Then on top of that, these two develop a greater understanding of each other in the process, so it is both funny and moving and with any luck, it will also be relatable.”
Q:        Can you talk about the chemistry between you and Tina?
A:         “Tina is the one of those people who I believe makes anyone a better actor. She is an incredibly smart person and I think so much of her humor stems from that intelligence. I have admired her for awhile and was very excited to get the chance to work with her.  Not only is she funny but she is a really good person too, and that shines through.”
Q:        What was it like working with Mark Wahlberg?
A:         “He was incredibly funny. I had never met him before, and I honestly did not know what to expect because he seems to be a very quiet, introspective person and I think he brought that to the movie. He had a great sense of humor about himself and about the character.  I think he has drawn a very amusing and intriguing character for DATE NIGHT as being shirtless all throughout.”
Q:        How do you think people around the world will relate to the film? Is the concept of DATE NIGHT international?
A:         “Couples all over the world understand the need to have special time with each other. Date Night is a generational thing though, but these days parents are so immersed in their kids’ lives. So you tend to lose those special times with your spouse in the midst of life.”
Q:        Can you talk about your own family; do you take the time for date nights?
A:         “We don’t have any structured date nights. We truly enjoy staying in a lot when the kids are in bed. Tina and I were talking about this earlier. Sometimes the best part of a date night is just coming home and just being alone together. I think date nights do not necessarily have to involve going out anywhere fancy. I think it is really a matter of connection. The simpler the better is what works for us.”
Q:        How much are you enjoying the massive success you have experienced over the past few years?
A:         “It is great and I think that having it a little older when you have a little more maturity is a good thing because you just take it for what it is. My life is much the same as it was before. It is about my wife and my kids, and that’s what is important to me and what defines me as opposed to my work. So becoming more successful has not shifted the focus of my life.”
Born in Massachusetts, the talented and versatile Steve Carell studied at the Second City Theater Group inChicago.  He is the Golden Globe winning star of the US version of the popular TV show THE OFFICE. His film roles include “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Bewitched,” “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Dan In Real Life.” He starred in “Bruce Almighty” with Jim Carrey and the sequel, “Evan Almighty.”  His acclaimed starring film “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” was nominated for Best Original Screenplay  from the Writer’s Guild Association which he co-wrote with director Judd Apatow.  Carell went on to star  in “Get Smart” opposite Anne Hathaway. He provided the voice   for The Mayor of Whoville in the huge animated hit, “Horton Hears A Who.”
Mark your “Date Night” when it opens April 9 (Friday) in Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cagayan De Oro, Bohol, Baguio and Pampanga theaters nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

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After catapulting to international fame as the “Forty-Year Old Virgin,” Steve Carell offers more funny smarts on marriage in the upcoming “Date Night” movie with the equally multi-talented Tina Fey.

In “Date Night,” the Fosters couple Phil (Carell) and Claire (Fey) are a suburban New Jersey couple who are stuck in the day-to-day drudgery of family life. When they hear the news that friends are divorcing, they decide to take positive action to reignite the passion in their own relationship and set off on a romantic ‘date night.’ They have however failed to make a reservation in a posh Manhattan restaurant. Discovering that   another couple has not turned up for dinner, Claire and Phil Foster decide to take their table and become the Tripplehorns for the evening  - never expecting the tumultuous events that are about to unravel.  The Tripplehorns are in fact criminals involved in a complicated web of intrigue and what follows is a case of mistaken identity. As the evening progresses, they find themselves in deep trouble. Everything is suddenly at stake: their marriage and even their very lives.

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