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Javier Bardem

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Javier Bardem 

Javier Bardem, “Javier Bardem”peut already be an Oscar to his name, but the Academy wanted to call his name, this time for his work in the film” Biutiful. “While the fifth place was planned to go to the veteran actor Robert Duvall for his performance in “Get Low” strong word of mouth (including a campaign by a friend, “Eat Pray Love” co-star Julia Roberts) helped give the final push for appointment Oscar.
Javier Bardem has an unusual souvenir from the first time he met his idol Al Pacino – he took a picture of his own face excited.

The movie legend was impressed by Bardem’s role in the 2000’s “Before Night Falls” and contacted the director Julian Schnabel for a meeting with the Spanish star, and Bardem admits he was overwhelmed by the prospect of speaking to Pacino, reports imdb.com.

He caught the moment before the meeting at the camera, so he would always remember his excitement.

“I remember waiting in the restaurant in Toronto for him to arrive. And Julian called to say that Al would be there in two minutes, “he said.

“I ran into the bathroom and took a picture of my face, just to get that face forever. And I looked like a teenager going to meet the Jonas Brothers. Like, “aaaahhhh! And panting. Of course, he came in was really nice and I could not even pronunciate words … I have met many times since. And it’s always the same, any he added.

“Javier Bardem,”which was nominated for Best Actor for” Biutiful “, said he was” very honored “by the appointment, especially since it is an international player.

“It’s really a great honor to be nominated performance in non-English speaking on behalf of all my colleagues in Spain and I want to show my gratitude to the Academy for support and recognition of this appointment for the Biutiful film, “he said in an official statement.

Fellow Aussie actress Nicole Kidman abroad said the “extraordinary journey”; she stuck with John Cameron Mitchell’s “Rabbit Hole.”

“This appointment reflects the entire heart and soul that these people put into it, and I can not thank them enough,” she said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Best Supporting Actor nominee Mark Ruffalo made his nomination for “The Kids Are All Right” in perspective by talking with the Wall Street Journal.

“One thing I know is I’m doing this for 20 years, and it took me 20 to get here,” he said. “In another 20, I am dead. I was really trying to enjoy it and soak it and really grateful.”

James Franco

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on James Franco 

James Franco, (CP) – “James Franco’’EST aware he has a reputation. In the past year, he became known as the guy who made the choice eccentric. He plays in” 127 hours “and took a role recurring in the soap opera daytime “General Hospital” as an artist with dementia. He has signed to co-host of the Oscars with Anne Hathaway while taking courses at Yale and the Rhode Island School of Design.

His most recent venture is a multimedia project called “Three’s Company The Drama” in which he combines video and art to update the old sitcom starring John Ritter. It is exposed to the Sundance Film Festival, where The Associated Press spoke with Franco’s image, career and the Academy Awards.

AP: Will you be awakened early Tuesday morning for Oscar nominations in case you are a candidate? (Franco is a likely candidate for “127 hours”.)

Franco: I’ll be in school. I will Yale. Fox Searchlight asked me if I wanted to go to New York to be ready … where I was appointed. I said, ‘No (laughs). I will not miss class to go guess I’ll be nominated, but if you want to bring out a film crew at Yale and wait to see if I am appointed, I would be happy to get out of class and say I am very recognizing (laughs). ”

AP: Have you started thinking about co-hosting this year’s Oscars?

Franco: No, it will be my face and right face Anna in the center of everything. But what people do not see everything the camera is behind us who worked on this project as a year, so I trust them. I’m leaving them. I have no desire to make my mark on the concert hosting … I will do as well as I can, but as far as writing my own lines and stuff like that, it’s not my case art, you know, passions are. I do not need to burn my lines in there. I think they do an excellent job and I’m pretty confident I’ll be able to provide everything they give me.

AP: Why did you “Three’s Company” video art project at Sundance?

Franco: “Three’s Company The Drama” is perfect for Section New Frontier, which are all kinds of presentations on various film and video. It’s a bit what I’m interested … Somehow “Three’s Company” is a bit dated so when you watch the reruns you’re giving him much credit because you know he was shot in ’70 or ’80 ‘s. … Jack (Tripper) had to pretend he was gay to be able to live in this apartment with two women. Some of that was flat and not as homophobic funny … It also addresses the interaction of people and TV.

AP: You seem like someone who likes to take risks and not play safe with your career. Why?

Franco: I see nothing wrong with doing something and doing it well. That’s fine. But when I was only an actor there was a ceiling on what I wanted to be able to express.

AP: How was it when you tried to play it safe and just do roles in mainstream cinema?

Franco: He was dead. I did not want to do more. It was death to do the things I should do. I could not make these movies more. … I mean maybe no one believes me, but I had a conversation with my manager like, “if that’s what it’s gonna be, I can not do more.” So it was not like the response was: “Hey Have a bunch of crazy stuff! I had to find a way to change what I was doing. I had to understand that I must believe in my own tastes. Do not believe in what you should do. Believe in what I liked and that’s OK.

AP: Are you concerned now that you have the reputation of a guy who will take risks just because it’s different?

Franco: Some people say, “Yeah, this guy will do anything. What will he do next? But that does not mean I do not believe in the projects I’m doing? . . You can do crazy projects. Simply smarter.

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Winter’s Bone

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Winter’s Bone 

Winter S Bone, Bone winter is a 2010 drama film, adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Debra Granik, and stars Jennifer Lawrence. It explores the interrelated themes of close and distant relatives, the power and speed of gossip, patriarchy, self-sufficiency, and rural poverty in the Ozarks as they are affected by the ubiquitous underworld of illicit methamphetamine laboratories. The film has won numerous awards including the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film Festival 2010 Sundance Film. He received four Oscar nominations in the categories between Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

After the release of the first film by Debra Granik Down to the Bone, Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini were looking for another project. Granik Rosellini and informed the author Daniel Woodrell of interest in her yet unpublished material. They comment that he was receptive to their interests based on their previous work “He had seen our previous film, which let him know how we work and the kind of disjointed film that we do, what would be small budget. He had a very distinct and marked it informed us that he loved this film, which also had the “bones” word in it. It was called “Down to the Bone. And when we given that trust, he knew what we were doing, if expectations were appropriate, you know. “[2]

Granik also noted that the topic of methamphetamine and its impact on the Ozarks region was troubling for both players and the team. “I think the topic of methamphetamine for everyone involved – for local people and the crew – it was extremely overwhelming there is not one aspect of the research meth that is soft or benign. This it is a body of human beings, their faces, and their teeth. Everything is so vicious and so dramatic and so unrelenting. Basically, there is no solace in this representation all actuality of it. “[2]

Granik comments that the filmmakers Lawrence “obstacles” to create a spectacle more authentic and detailed. “I think Jennifer Lawrence received these very real settings in which the function and very real obstacles. She really had to run the hill. She really had to play her on screen brother and sister in something. It is beads and different types of animals to fight. And the fact that she had these real-life tasks, I think we started to feel that whatever the actress would have been more strictly to it and you the impression that she was not breathing only through experience.

The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film and Best Screenplay Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 [12] He also received two awards at Film Festival 2010 Berlin, Germany. At the 2010 Stockholm International Film Festival, he won the Best Film, Best Actress (Lawrence) and FIPRESCI Prize [13].

The film won Best Picture and Best Ensemble Performance Gotham Awards 2010. [14] He won seven nominations at Independent Spirit Awards 2010, including best film, best director and best actress.

Bone winter: Jennifer Lawrence plays a teenage girl who defies Ozark Mountains code of their clan to hunt down her father’s crystal meth-making after he jumped bail and the family home is on the line. With a mother, brothers and sisters disabled youth facing poverty, she redefines family loyalty and confronts her parents to take home the father.
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Lloyd Bridges

March 8, 2010 by · Comments Off on Lloyd Bridges 

Lloyd BridgesLloyd Bridges:Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American star, who was excellent starred in the television screen and also performed in nearly 150 films. He is well known as Lloyd Bridges as well. The great actor was born on 15 January 1913 in San Leandro in California and died of natural causes on 10 March 1998.

Lloyd Bridges was not only a star but was also a businessman who suffered a movie theater and a hotel owner. He completed his graduation from Petaluma High School and studied political science and was also a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at UCLA. Lloyd Bridges found Dorothy Bridges, who was also an actress of her time and married her in New York in 1938.

Besides all this, was also a person who was involved in environmental issues and was on the view that man should not polluting the environment. Lloyd Bridges, once said, war creates great amount of destruction of the environment and should have a department of government that can take effective measures to control such devastation. Lloyd Bridges was also an active member of Heal the Bay and American Oceans Campaign.

Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Bridges is much loved and had a wonderful understanding, the couple remained together until the death of Lloyd Bridges. Lloyd Bridges is survived by four sons Garrett Myles Bridges who died when he was a child, Beau Bridges, a daughter Lucinda Louis Bridges and Jeff Bridges.

Recently, his son Jeff Bridges won Golden Globe and was nominated for a best actor award in 2010. Jeff Bridges earned this excellent title for her role in his successful film only Cray Heart, in which Blake played the role of evil. When your best player in the announcement of the Year, Jeff Bridges thanked his parents, friends and members of his team.

Dear John bumps Avatar with $32.4M debut (AP) | UssPost

February 7, 2010 by · Comments Off on Dear John bumps Avatar with $32.4M debut (AP) | UssPost 

Box OfficeDear John bumps Avatar with $32.4M debut (AP) | UssPost:A sci-fi love story has given way to an earthbound romance at the box office, livening up typically slow times at theaters over Super Bowl weekend.

Released by Sony’s Screen Gems banner, “Dear John” debuted as the No. 1 movie with $32.4 million, knocking off “Avatar” after seven weekends in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday.

“It is very cool to know that it was our movie that audiences just totally embraced and made No. 1 for the weekend,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution at Sony. As for runaway blockbuster “Avatar,” he quipped, “I think they’re going to be fine in the long run.”

Avatar” slipped to No. 2 with $23.6 million, raising its domestic total to $630.1 million. Directed by James Cameron, 20th Century Fox’s “Avatar” surpassed his own “Titanic,” which had held the domestic revenue record at $600.8 million.

With a record $2.2 billion worldwide, “Avatar” also has soared past the $1.8 billion “Titanic” took in globally.

Factoring in today’s higher admission prices, however, “Avatar” has sold fewer tickets than “Titanic.”

Avatar” had been No. 1 domestically longer than any movie since 1997’s “Titanic,” which held on at first place for 15 weekends. The studio was unconcerned that “Avatar” finally fell out of the top spot.

“It had to happen sometime,” said 20th Century Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston. “There’s nothing that could disappoint me with this movie.”

By the eighth weekend, most Hollywood movies have long since dropped out of the top 10 rankings.

Avatar” still is going strong after eight weeks, with the added luster of a monthlong buildup to the Academy Awards on March 7. Following the example of Oscar champ “Titanic,” “Avatar” tied for the lead at the Academy Awards with nine nominations and is a front-runner to win best picture.

Fox executives would not speculate what number “Avatar” eventually might hit at the box office.

“Who knows what that is? It just keeps on going,” Livingston said.

The weekend’s other new wide release, Lionsgate’s spy story “From Paris With Love,” opened at No. 3 with $8.1 million. The movie stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as CIA men trying to crack a terrorist plot.

Fox Searchlight’s acclaimed country-music tale “Crazy Heart” expanded from narrow release and broke into the top 10, coming in at No. 8 with $3.7 million. Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal have acting Oscar nominations for the film, which follows a boozy country star trying to turn his life around.

While “Avatar” features a human-alien romance light-years away, “Dear John” centers on a long-distance love story between a soldier (Channing Tatum) and his sweetheart (Amanda Seyfried) back home.

Dear John” had a record opening for Super Bowl weekend, topping the $31.1 million debut for “Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert” in 2008.

The movie was based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose Hollywood adaptations such as “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” have been steady draws for women. Female crowds made up 84 percent of the audience for “Dear John,” according to Sony.

Sparks “creates these stories that really pull at your heartstrings, and certainly that may be first and foremost for women rather than men, though I think a few of us have hearts, too,” Bruer said. “But his stories really resonate and are very compelling for women.”

That bodes well for the movie over Valentine’s Day weekend, said Geoffrey Ammer, head of marketing for Relativity Media, which produced “Dear John.” Valentine’s weekend draws big date crowds, with women often picking which film to see.

Business on Sunday was predictably slow as football fans watched the Super Bowl instead of going to the movies. But “Dear John” already exceeded industry expectations with $26.2 million on Friday and Saturday.

“Super Bowl weekend isn’t about men. It’s about women,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “This counter-programming strategy just absolutely works, the female audience propelling a movie to unprecedented heights.”

Hollywood could use more fresh hits like “Dear John” if it hopes to match 2009’s record box office pace. The first couple of weeks this year, “Avatar” had revenue and attendance running well ahead of last year.

But revenues have now declined for four straight weekends. So far in 2010, domestic revenues are at $1.2 billion, 1.5 percent ahead of last year’s, according to Hollywood.com.

Factoring in higher ticket prices this year, though, movie attendance is down 0.5 percent.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. “Dear John,” $32.4 million.

2. “Avatar,” $23.6 million.

3. “From Paris With Love,” $8.1 million.

4. “Edge of Darkness,” $7 million.

5. “The Tooth Fairy,” $6.5 million.

6. “When in Rome,” $5.5 million.

7. “The Book of Eli,” $4.8 million.

8. “Crazy Heart,” $3.7 million.

9. “Legion,” $3.4 million.

10. “Sherlock Holmes,” $2.6 million.

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On the Net:

http://www.hollywood.com/boxoffice

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney’s parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.

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