tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22302830929181665512024-02-19T01:37:19.879-08:00Movie-Loephiloephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-15012309834835015622010-01-27T02:28:00.001-08:002010-01-27T02:28:49.205-08:00AC/DC Provide Iron Man 2 Soundtrack Rock 'n Roll ain't noise pollution<!-- STORY: START --><table width="415" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr> <td class="mediumblack"> <table width="155" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr> <td width="150" height="180"><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/150x180/37858.jpg" alt="AC/DC Provide Iron Man 2 Soundtrack" width="150" border="0" height="180" /></td> <td width="5"><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/point.gif" width="5" border="0" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="smallblack"><br /></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/point.gif" width="1" border="0" height="5" /></td></tr> </tbody></table><p>"Has he lost his mind? Can he see or..." no, wait, wrong band. If you recognised AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill in the <a href="http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?nid=26547" class="newsLink"><strong>Iron Man 2</strong></a> trailer, you won't be surprised to learn it's on the soundtrack. But you may be slightly taken aback to learn that choice cuts from the ageing Australian (apart from Brian Johnston) rockers' back catalogue make up the entire CD.</p><p>The official press release says that, "Jon Favreau's vision and passion for AC/DC's music blend seamlessly into this incredible film... the music really underscores the high energy and excitement..." The band's Back in Black made for a key moment in the first film, so this feels like a natural progression of sorts, although how many of the album's 15 tracks actually <em>feature </em>in <strong>Iron Man 2</strong> remains to be seen. We'd imagine War Machine, at least, will make the cut.</p><p>It's not AC/DC's first foray of this sort: The Who Made Who? album was another greatest hits soundtrack, for Stephen King's sole directorial outing <strong>Maximum Overdrive</strong> in 1986. </p><p>The press release also promises "exclusive footage from <strong>Iron Man 2</strong>" in the Shoot to Thrill video, the band bits of which were filmed in Buenos Aires last month. Looks like identical clips to the original trailer to us, but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMn9Q5GI7fQ" class="newsLink">see if you can spot anything new</a>. We'll be over here, on a Highway to Hell, shaking a leg, saluting you.</p> </td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.empireonline.com/contact/"><strong>Owen Williams</strong></a></td></tr></tbody></table>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-15987752209907313222010-01-27T02:27:00.000-08:002010-01-27T02:28:08.982-08:00GREEN LANTERN Hires VFX Crew: Karen Goulekas, Kent Houston and Jim Berney<div class="entry"> <div class="KonaBody"><p style="text-align: center;"><img title="slice_green_lantern_alex_ross_01.jpg" src="http://www.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Movies/G/Green_Lantern/slice_green_lantern_alex_ross_01.jpg" alt="slice_green_lantern_alex_ross_01.jpg" vspace="5" width="600" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" /></p> <p>With <em><strong>Green Lantern</strong></em> heading into production in the coming months, Warner Bros. has hired the VFX supervisors that will bring him to life. According to <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.variety.com/article/VR1118014317.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=bd_film');" href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014317.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=bd_film" target="_blank">Variety</a>, Karen Goulekas (<em><strong>The Day After Tomorrow</strong></em>) Kent Houston (<em><strong>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</strong></em>) and Jim Berney (<em><strong>I Am Legend</strong></em>) will be the men in charge of making the effects look real. Also, the studio has hired Sony Pictures Imageworks as the lead visual effects studio on the film. They’ve previously done <em><strong>Watchmen </strong></em>and<em><strong> </strong><strong>Superman Returns</strong></em> and both of those films looked great.</p> <p>With the combined experience of the team WB has hired for their next big comic book movie, I’m very confident this thing is going to look great. <em>Green Lantern</em> is scheduled for release June 17, 2011 with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively as the leads.</p> </div> </div>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-18838286327535459202010-01-27T02:26:00.000-08:002010-01-27T02:27:27.784-08:0027 January 2010 New Poster From Paris With Love Travolta + rocket launcher = wheeee!<table width="155" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="150" height="180"><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/150x180/39072.jpg" alt="New Poster From Paris With Love" width="150" border="0" height="180" /></td> <td width="5"><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/point.gif" width="5" border="0" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="smallblack"><br /></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/point.gif" width="1" border="0" height="5" /></td></tr> </tbody></table><p>Ah, Paris. City of lights! City of culture! City of a bald John Travolta blowing up everything in sight with a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher! At least, it is in <strong>From Paris With Love</strong>, the dement-looking new action film from <strong>Taken</strong> director Pierre Morel - and we have an exclusive look at the film's new UK poster here.</p><p>The story sees Jonathan Rhys Meyers play a low-level functionary at the US embassy who is paired with FBI Agent Charlie Wax (Travolta), in town to prevent a terrorist attack by means of lavish use of high explosives (we assume, from the trailer). With scant regard for traffic or seatbelt laws, the two proceed to get the job done (we're guessing).</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-49066020366457549662010-01-24T01:03:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:05:02.529-08:00Box office Friday: 'Avatar' still on top; 'Legion' grabs second slot<div class="storycontent"> <div class="snap_preview"><p>Looks like its gonna be a rough weekend for new releases. Early estimates for Friday show <em>Avatar</em> back on top yet again, adding another $9 million to its cumulative haul. <em>Legion</em>, from Sony’s Screen Gems division, performed best of the new releases, with the sci-fi thriller starring Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid scoring an estimated $6.7 million for the day. Third place belonged to holdover <em>The Book of Eli,</em> which grossed close to $5 million in its second Friday in theaters. And it doesn’t look like kids are buying The Rock as <em>The Tooth Fairy</em>. The PG-rated comedy starring Dwayne Johnson earned only $3.4 million on its opening day for a fourth place slot. Number five belonged to <em>The Lovely Bones</em>, which garnered an additional $2.6 million for the day.</p> <p>Meanwhile, CBS Films looks like its going to be asking for a do-over on their debut film from the new company. <em>Extraordinary Measures</em>, with Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, landed in the sixth slot with only $2 million for the day. Check back tomorrow for a full weekend report.</p> </div> </div>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-12764454579364005862010-01-24T01:01:00.002-08:002010-01-24T01:02:16.391-08:00Thumbs Up For 2 Sundance DocumentariesWhile Sundance buyers try to hook <em>Catfish</em>, two other docus that came with distributors unveil today and tomorrow, and I found them great viewing. Alex Gibney has a 6 PM premiere today for the competition entry <em><strong>Casino Jack And The United States Of Money</strong></em>, about disgraced Washington DC lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Tomorrow, PR mogul-turned-filmmaker Dan Klores unveils <strong><em>Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks</em></strong>, which like <em><strong>Catfish</strong></em> is part of the Documentary Spotlight program. <p>Gibney -- the Oscar-winning director of <strong><em>Taxi To The Darkside </em></strong>and <strong><em>Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room</em></strong> --gave me an early peek at his docu, which makes a compelling case for campaign finance reform. The film bares outrageous abuses and moral corrosion that transformed Abramoff from GOP true believer to fatcat lobbyist who got rich protecting the interests of Asian slave labor-sweat shop owners, murderous third world “freedom fighters,” Russian gangsters, Indian casino operators, and drug companies. Through Abramoff, pols fed at the money trough until they, too, were brought down by the ensuing scandal.</p> <p>Abramoff comes across as a colorful but deluded movie-loving rogue who patterned himself as a Jason Bourne-type character but ended up cast as a villain who is serving four years for corruption and fraud. “Jack started with ideals, but at the end of the day, money becomes the moral universe for all these guys," Gibney told me. “Ultimately, you have to take the money out of the political election system, or we’re done as a democracy.”</p> <p>The only thing missing from Gibney’s superb dissection is an interview with Abramoff himself. Gibney said the rogue gave him plenty of input but the director couldn't get a camera into prison. He blames a rival feature film drama with the same name <em>Casino Jack</em> being made by director George Hickenlooper and starring Kevin Spacey as Abramoff. That film did <a href="http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/exclusive-abramoff-gets-hollywood-visit/">meet</a> with Abramoff in prison. “Hickenlooper said, 'if only Mr. Gibney had bothered to take the trouble to reach out to Jack', but the fact is I spent a lot of time with him ,” said Gibney, who is bitter about the rival film. "I was upset when they appropriated a title we made public early on, and then they did a title search and pounced anyway. But I’ve produced and edited fiction films, and it's an advantage here to show the real larger-than-life subject. Will Smith is a great actor, but he was not Muhammad Ali, and Spacey is magnificent but he’s no Jack Abramoff.”</p> <p>In Klores’ hoops documentary, the surprise for me, a longtime Knicks fan, is how funny it is in retrospect. Because it was agony to watch the 1990s rivalry between the Patrick Ewing-led New York Knicks and Reggie Miller’s upstart Indiana Pacers. I saw the film at a screening with a small group of Gotham journalists and the iikes of Knicks legend Earl Monroe and Spike Lee, and the latter steals this film with a display of disarming humor. That almost makes me forgive him for the infamous time his courtside trash talk during a blowout goaded Miller into a super-human 25-point fourth quarter comeback performance that was soul-crushing to any Knicks fan. Also a surprise is how funny Ewing is: during his playing days the only way to get a smile out of the ferocious competitor was to turn him upside down.</p> <p>Klores smartly traces Miller’s arrogance to an inferiority complex when compared to sister Cheryl, arguably the greatest female player ever. Klores is keeping short the Q-&-A tomorrow so the sports fan audience won't miiss the Jets play the Colts in the AFC Championship game. Miller, now an announcer, will be at the premiere.</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-34805739696301738902010-01-24T01:01:00.001-08:002010-01-24T01:01:42.265-08:00#1 'Avatar' Holds On For 6th Weekend; 'Legion' #2 And The Rock's 'Tooth Fairy' #4; Les Moonves' First CBS Feature Film Flops<div class="post-content"> <p><strong><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-23256" title="legion poster" src="http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/legion-poster-202x300.jpg" alt="legion poster" width="187" height="286" /><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-23257" title="the_tooth_fairy_poster_01" src="http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/the_tooth_fairy_poster_01-202x300.jpg" alt="the_tooth_fairy_poster_01" width="194" height="295" /><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-23258" title="extraordinary_measures" src="http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/extraordinary_measures-202x300.jpg" alt="extraordinary_measures" width="194" height="290" /></strong></p> <p><strong>SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM</strong>: Sources gave me these Saturday early numbers:</p> <p><strong>Top 10 </strong>For Friday and Saturday and weekend (w/ Sunday estimates)<br />1. <em><strong>Avatar</strong></em> (Fox) Week 6 [3,141 Theaters]<br />Friday $9.1M (-12%), Saturday $16.3M (-5%), Wkd $35M, Est Cume $552M<br />2. <em><strong>Legion</strong></em> (Sony) NEW [2,476 Theaters]<br />Friday $6.7M, Saturday $7.0M, Wkd $18M<br />3. <em><strong>Book of Eli</strong></em> (Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,111 Theaters]<br />Friday $5.0M (-57), Saturday $7.7M, Wkd $17M, Est Cume $62M.<br />4. <em><strong>The Tooth Fairy</strong></em> (Fox) NEW [3,344 Theaters]<br />Friday $3.8M, Saturday $6.4M, Wkd $13.7M<br />5. <em><strong>Lovely Bones</strong></em> (Paramount) Week 7 [2,571 Theaters]<br />Friday $2.8M, Saturday $3.8M, Wkd $8.5M, Est Cume $31.3M<br />6. <em><strong>Sherlock Holmes</strong></em> (Warner Bros) Week 5 [2,670 Theaters]<br />Friday $1.9M, Saturday $3.2M, Wkd $7M, Est Cume $191.5M<br />7. <em><strong>Extraordinary Measures</strong></em> (CBS Films) NEW [2,549 Theaters]<br />Friday $2.1M, Saturday $2.8M, Wkd $7M<br />8. <em><strong>Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel</strong></em> (Fox) Week 5 [2,973 Theaters]<br />Friday $1.4M, Est Wkd $6.5M, Est Cume $204.2M<br />9. <em><strong>It's Complicated</strong></em> (Universal) Week 5 [2,301 Theaters]<br />Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.7M, Wkd $6M, Est Cume $98.5M<br />10. <em><strong>The Blind Side</strong></em> (Warner Bros) Week 10 [1,932 Theaters]<br />Friday $1.2M, Saturday $1.9M, Wkd $4M, Est Cume $233.5M</p> </div>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-57347972013396147312010-01-24T00:49:00.001-08:002010-01-24T00:49:50.712-08:00Harrison Ford Talks Extraordinary Measures<p>Harrison Ford was out on the red carpet Tuesday night for the premiere of his latest film, <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/extraordinary-measures/"><em>Extraordinary Measures</em></a>, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. While on his way to the screening, Ford chatted with Comingsoon.net a bit about the film.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.reelmovienews.com/files/harrison-ford-and-brendan-fraser-in-the-lab_385x256.jpg" alt="Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser in the Lab. " width="385" height="256" /></p> <p>"It's a positive humor story about somebody that overcame great obstacles in their life and made a difference in the fate of their children. It's the kind of story that people can go to see and feel good about spending their time... something they can walk out of the theatre and remember rather than a series of car crashes and kinetic events. It's a good positive human story and it's an entertaining couple of hours," Ford said.</p> <p>The film focuses on the story of John and Aileen Crowley, who go to extreme lengths to find a cure for their children when it is discovered that they have been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Ford plays Dr. Robert Stonehill, the man the Crowleys turn to for help in the film.</p> <p>"I was looking to make a part for myself that would add to the drama of the film overall and that was the responsibility I felt towards the creation of that character," said Ford of the frequently crotchety Stonehill.</p> <p>Catch <em>Extraordinary Measures</em> in theaters this Friday, and watch the <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/videos/extraordinary-measures-trailer/"><em>Extraordinary Measures</em></a> trailer in our gallery!</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-88278886143256608632010-01-24T00:47:00.000-08:002010-01-24T00:51:10.909-08:00'Inglourious Basterds' wins SAG film award (AP)<div class="article_photo"> <div class="photo"> <img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100124/capt.b9a8b45378b7492d9b41af00c5c311b4.screen_actors_guild_awards_show_cakj145.jpg" alt="Alec Baldwin accepts the best actor in a comedy series award at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)" /> </div> </div> <p> LOS ANGELES - While <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800011634">Jeff Bridges</a> and <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018970">Sandra Bullock</a>'s chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster "Avatar" may have felt a touch blue.</p> <p>The computer-assisted performances in <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800012402">James Cameron</a>'s "Avatar" didn't make the cut for SAG nominations. But the groundbreaking sci-fi film remains a strong best-picture contender for the Oscars in March.</p> <p>For Bridges of "Crazy Heart," Bullock of "The Blind Side" and for SAG supporting-acting honorees Mo'Nique of "Precious" and Christoph Walt of "Inglourious Basterds," there's reason to suspect the Oscar ceremony will be a happy rerun of Saturday's SAG Awards and last Sunday's Golden Globes.</p> <p>All four were recognized at the Globes, as well, while "Avatar" was named best drama and Cameron won as best director.</p> <p>He will face competition from director <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021942">Quentin Tarantino</a>, whose "Inglourious Basterds" won the SAG Award for best ensemble performance, which can be a precursor to the top Oscar award. Last year, SAG's movie cast award was presented to "Slumdog Millionaire," which went on to win the best picture Oscar.</p> <p>"It was an honor to be part of it, Quentin," "Inglourious Basterds" cast member <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804143104">Eli Roth</a> said in accepting the award for his fellow actors in the off-kilter World War II revenge saga.</p> <p>Bullock declined — strenuously — to look ahead.</p> <p>"Shhhhh. Shhhhh. Shhhhh," Bullock said backstage when she was asked to speculate on her Oscar chances. She won for her portrayal of a tenacious real-life mom, Leigh Anne Tuohy, who helped a youth in need, future American football player Michael Oher.</p> <p>"I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I ever considered myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough," she added.</p> <p>Although respected by his peers, Bridges has largely been bypassed for major awards.</p> <p>"I love being an actor — pretending to be other people and getting into the shoes of other folks," said Bridges, who plays a hard-luck, hard-living country singer in "Crazy Heart."</p> <p>Waltz was honored for his role as an enthusiastically ruthless Nazi. Mo'Nique's trophy came for her searing portrayal of an abusive mother in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire."</p> <p>On the TV side of the SAG Awards, the cast of AMC's 1960s Madison Avenue saga "Mad Men" won the trophy for best drama series ensemble for the second year in a row, while 19 cast members of Fox TV newcomer "Glee," about misfits in a high school singing club, accepted the award for best comedy series ensemble.</p> <p>"Glee" claimed the best comedy series award at the Golden Globes.</p> <p><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019239">Alec Baldwin</a> and <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1807539611">Tina Fey</a> of NBC's "30 Rock" won for best acting in a comedy series, allowing Fey to get in a sly joke about NBC and its bitter late-night battle with <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800405470">Conan O'Brien</a> in her acceptance speech.</p> <p>"I just wanted to take a moment to say to everyone at NBC, we are very happy with everything, and happy to be there," she said. Both she and Baldwin won the awards last year.</p> <p>Golden Globe winner <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804736570">Michael C. Hall</a> of Showtime's "Dexter," wearing a cap because of treatment he's receiving for Hodgkin's lymphoma, won best actor in a drama series. The award for best actress in a drama went to Julianna Margulies of CBS' "The Good Wife."</p> <p><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019403">Kevin Bacon</a> won as best actor in a movie or miniseries for the war-themed drama, "Taking Chance," while <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800016287">Drew Barrymore</a> received best actress honors in the category for "Grey Gardens," about eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Onassis. </p><p> Betty White, 88, accepted a lifetime achievement award from Bull+ock for an enduring career that included "The <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800045928">Mary Tyler Moore</a> Show" and "The Golden Girls," and showed her sharp comedic chops. </p><p> When Bullock joked that she finds White annoying, White shot back, "Isn't it heartening to see how far a girl as plain as she is can go." </p><p>"I should be presenting an award to you for the privilege of working in this wonderful business all this time. And you still can't get rid of me," White told the audience. </p><p> Actors in two highly critically acclaimed films went home empty-handed, including "Up in the Air" star <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019715">George Clooney</a> and the film's supporting actresses, <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800354486">Vera Farmiga</a> and <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800020267/info/">Anna</a> Kendrick. The cast of "The Hurt Locker" also lost out. </p><p>Clooney, however, was lauded by SAG President Ken Howard for helping organize Friday's telethon to raise money for earthquake-devastated Haiti, a rare reference to the tragedy. </p><p> Two honors not shown in the telecast went to stunt ensembles for the film "Star Trek" and the TV show "24." </p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-62488460953481401992010-01-24T00:45:00.000-08:002010-01-24T00:46:39.364-08:00<div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/2312/macgruber-stills"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/blog_macgruber.jpg" alt="Photo: Carlos Alvarez, Getty Images" width="134" height="200" /> </a> </div> <p> "<a href="http://tv.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live/show/194">Saturday Night Live</a>" has been on the air for 35 years, and it has been inspiring movies based on its sketches for nearly as long. It makes sense, since the show's recurring characters can quickly become hugely popular and instantly recognizable. Still, a concept that is hilarious in a three-minute long skit doesn't always hold up when it's stretched out to an hour and a half.</p> <p> But while SNL has spawned more than its share of cinematic trainwrecks -- "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800221029/info">It's Pat</a>," "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800019427/info">Superstar</a>," "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1802956640/info">The Ladies Man</a>," and "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800019927/info">A Night at the Roxbury</a>" are the chief offenders -- it has also been the starting point for some truly funny flicks. With "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810105591/info">MacGruber</a>," the inventive, mullet-sporting hero played by Will Forte, headed to the big screen in April, here are the five best movies to come out of "Saturday Night Live," including some you might not know got their start there.<br /></p><ul><li><div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800340965/info"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/80_bluesbrothers.jpg" alt="The Blues Brothers" width="80" height="80" /> </a> </div> <p> <b><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800340965/info">The Blues Brothers</a></b> (1980)<br />The first feature film spun off from SNL is still considered to be the best. The characters of "Joliet" Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) were never in a sketch on the show, but they were the musical guests in 1978. The movie is not only wildly funny with some of the best car chases ever filmed, but it also preserves some wonderful performances by music legends like James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and John Lee Hooker. </p></li><li><div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800171299/info"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/80_waynesworld.jpg" alt="Wayne's World" width="80" height="80" /> </a> </div> <p> <b><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800171299/info">Wayne's World</a></b> (1992)<br />After Mike Myers and Dana Carvey helped revitalize SNL in the early '90s, it was only logical to bring their signature characters to the big screen. The movie was so popular it put Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" back on the Billboard top 10 singles chart nearly two decades after it was first released. "Wayne's World" was a surprise smash, taking in $121 million in the U.S., but the sequel in 1993 made less than half that amount. </p></li><li><div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800180455/info"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/80_bobroberts.jpg" alt="Bob Roberts" width="80" height="80" /> </a> </div> <p> <b><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800180455/info">Bob Roberts</a></b> (1992)<br />Tim Robbins wrote, directed and stars in this mockumentary about a folk-singing, far-right politician who will do anything to win a Senatorial election. The character first appeared in a short film Robbins made for "Saturday Night Live" in 1986. Robbins and his brother wrote all of the movie's ironically conservative songs, but he refused to put out a soundtrack because he worried listeners would take them seriously. Robbins was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role. </p></li><li><div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800023786/info"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/80_officespace2.jpg" alt="Office Space" width="80" height="80" /> </a> </div> <p> <b><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800023786/info">Office Space</a></b> (1999)<br />Milton, the mumbling, bespectacled cubicle drone from this cult classic, first appeared in an animated short that Mike Judge created before he made "Beavis and Butthead." The series of cartoons were featured on SNL in 1993. In the original, Judge provided the voice of both Milton and his boss, and much of the dialogue was re-used in the movie version, including Milton's threat to "set the building on fire." </p></li><li><div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808412294/info"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/80_amightywind2.jpg" alt="A Mighty Wind" width="80" height="80" /> </a> </div> <p> <b><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808412294/info">A Mighty Wind</a></b> (2003)<br />When Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer were cast members in 1984, they teamed up with their "Spinal Tap" bandmate Michael McKean to become the musical trio, The Folksmen. They would revive the characters from time to time, occasionally as the opening act for Spinal Tap (some fans didn't realize they were the same guys and booed them). Nearly 20 years after their first performance, the group appeared in this movie directed by Guest that earned Oscar and Grammy nominations. </p></li></ul>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-69310943762263613842010-01-24T00:42:00.001-08:002010-01-24T00:42:43.579-08:00Johnny Depp Sets Sail on Fourth 'Pirates' Movie<span class="date"></span> <div class="bd"> <div class="article_body"> <div class="article_photo"> <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809791042/info"> <img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/pseudoblog_jacksparrow135.jpg" alt="Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow" width="135" height="200" /> </a> </div> <p> Captain Jack Sparrow will soon take to the seas again, and this time he is after the most sought-after treasure imaginable: the Fountain of Youth.</p> <p> It was <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/aloha-matey-4th-pirates-filmed-hawaii-ap">announced this week</a> that the fourth installment of Disney's highly successful "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809791042/info">Pirates of the Caribbean</a>" franchise will begin filming in Hawaii this summer. <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019485">Johnny Depp</a> once again plays the flamboyant Captain Jack, and Geoffrey Rush reprises his role as his adversary, Barbossa. However, costars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are not expected to return. </p> <p>The film's story is loosely based on the 1987 pirate novel, "On Stranger Tides" by award-winning fantasy author Tim Powers. The book tells the story of a young man -- coincidentally named "Jack" -- who is captured by the pirate Blackbeard and forced to join in the search for the Fountain of Youth. </p> <p>Ted Elliott, the co-writer of the first three "Pirates" movies, said that the story of the novel just happened to align with where they wanted to take the fourth film. He told <a href="http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26004" target="_blank">Empire magazine</a>, "We wanted to do a story about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, and Tim Powers wrote a book about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth... it just turns out that to do that story you would need that book." </p> <p>Johnny Depp signed on to appear in the fourth movie in 2008, before there was a script. It was announced at the same time he would also be playing Tonto in a film version of "The Lone Ranger," but that project has been delayed until after "Pirates" is finished. </p> <p> Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom have both said they had no desire to return for a fourth movie. Knightley said in an <a href="http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/03/12/keira-knightley-interview/" target="_blank">interview</a>, "It was a completely fantastic experience, and it was an amazingly large portion of my life, but I don't think I need to go there again. I think that it's done." Also, the director of the original trilogy, Gore Verbinski, will not be coming back. He is being replaced by Rob Marshall, the director of "Chicago" and "Nine." </p> <p> "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809791042/info">Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides</a>" is scheduled to dock into movie theaters on May 20th, 2011. Johnny Depp will next be seen as the Mad Hatter in director Tim Burton's new version "<a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810078365/info">Alice in Wonderland</a>" coming this March. To see why he says the role is "a dream come true," watch the exclusive interview with him in the player below. </p></div></div>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-8875097895109077202010-01-24T00:41:00.001-08:002010-01-24T00:41:33.226-08:00Ghostbusters 3... Now in 3-D!<div class="entry"> <p>Sources at <a href="http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/exclusive-ghostbusters-going-3d.html">MarketSaw </a>are reporting that Ivan Reitman's third installment of the <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/ghostbusters/"><em>Ghostbusters</em></a> franchise is proceeding as planned... but in 3-D!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.reelmovienews.com/files/gb3-logo-2.jpg" alt="GB3 Logo 2" /></p> <p>Clearly, <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/avatar/"><em>Avatar</em></a> has tipped the scales when it comes to stereoscopic filmed entertainment, and every other studio in town is clamoring to catch up to what James Cameron has done. Every major studio seems to be picking up on the 3-D releases, from Disney's <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> and <em>Tron Legacy</em>, to Sony's new <em>Spider-Man</em> reboot. Many studios are making last-minute choices to convert or add 3-D to some of their more immediate releases, like Warner Bros. with <em>Clash of the Titans</em>.</p> <p>Either way, this isn't an official announcement, but you can probably put money down that we'll see our favorite paranormal investigators in 3-D. It just makes sense, what with all the slimers and marshmallow men.</p> </div>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-45678990677684951252010-01-24T00:39:00.001-08:002010-01-24T00:39:32.554-08:00Driector Joseph Kosinski Talks Tron Legacy<p>We won't be seeing <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/tron-legacy/"><em>Tron Legacy</em></a> in theaters until December, and director Joseph Kosinski recently talked to <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1630055/story.jhtml">MTV</a> about why this is.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/gallery/first-image-from-tron-legacy/"><img src="http://static.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/first-image-from-tron-legacy_398x226.jpg" alt="First Image from Tron Legacy" width="398" height="226" /></a></p> <p>"I'm about two and a half years in on this, with about another year still to go. We still have a tremendous amount of work still to do, because there are a lot of visual effects on a movie like this, and we're also doing it in 3-D, which doubles up everything."</p> <p>"Our approach is not like "Avatar," which I think is 3-D from the first shot to the last. Ours is sort of a "Wizard of Oz" approach. Ninety-eight percent of the 3-D is in the world of "Tron." The 3-D really starts once we get into the Tron world"</p> <p>Kosinski did note that <em>Tron Legacy</em> used a newer version of the <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/gallery/james-cameron-with-the-virtual-camera/">virtual camera system</a> developed for Cameron's <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/movies/avatar/"><em>Avatar</em></a> to capture performances in the digital realm, and that the <a href="http://www.reelmovienews.com/videos/tron-legacy-trailer/">Comic-Con teaser footage</a>, while exceptionally cool, will not appear in the film.</p> <p>"The teaser, at least tonally, represented the direction I wanted to take it. That sequence actually doesn't appear in our film at all. It represents a period of time before our film begins. We were able to refine the design of the light cycles, the characters, the world and kind of flesh it out to a much higher level of detail than we were able to do for the test," Kosinski said.</p> <p>"What we're going to see in the film will feel a lot more photorealistic. They did that test with eight or 10 people in a matter of months. We have thousands of people working on the film. It's a whole different scale."</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-39847327157978720862010-01-24T00:30:00.000-08:002010-01-24T00:37:36.768-08:00The New Spiderman : The New Director<img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/KOMC%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/KOMC%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/KOMC%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/KOMC%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.png" alt="" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=iwanbz"></script> <!-- AddThis Button END --> <img alt="" src="http://21cineplex.com/data/image/spiderman%20head.jpg" width="250" align="left" height="343" hspace="7" /><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Setelah Sam Raimi memutuskan untuk tidak duduk di kursi sutradara untuk Spiderman 4 yang konon kabarnya ada selisih pendapat dengan pihak Sony Pictures, kini pertanyaan yang muncul sekarang adalah siapakah yang akan membesut film ini?" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">After Sam Raimi decided to not sit in the director chair for Spiderman 4 which is said there is a difference of opinion with the Sony Pictures, is now question that arises now is who will refine this movie? </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Pihak Sony Pictures tak mau menunggu lama, mereka akhirnya mengumumkan bahwa sutradara film komedi romantis 500 Days of Summer, Marc Webb, akan berada di belakang lensa di The New Spiderman." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Parties Sony Pictures did not want to wait long, they finally announced that the director of romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer, Marc Webb, will be behind the lens in The New Spiderman.<br /><br /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Marc Webb yang pernah juga mengarahkan video musik beberapa musisi terkenal seperti Green Day dan Three Doors Down akan bergabung di tim baru Spiderman." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Marc Webb who also directed the music video a few famous musicians such as Green Day and Three Doors Down will be joining the new team Spiderman. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Sutradara berusia 34 tahun tersebut telah mengkonfirmasi kesediaanya untuk menangani film ini." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">34-year-old director has confirmed the willingness to handle this movie. </span><span title="Lalu kenapa Webb yang terpilih?" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">So why Webb is elected? </span><span style="background-color: rgb(235, 239, 249);" title="Ternyata fakta selain dirinya sangat menyukai Spiderman pihak Sony juga diyakini sangat suka dengan karya terakhir Webb di 500 Days of Summer." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">It turned out that besides the fact he was very fond of Spiderman party Sony is also believed to be very happy with the work of Webb in the last 500 Days of Summer.<br /><br /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Aktor James Franco yang bermain di tiga film Spiderman sebelumnya sebagai Harry Osborn juga berkomentar tentang sang komando baru di film ini." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Actor James Franco who plays in the three previous Spiderman films as Harry Osborn also commented on the new command in this movie. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="“Saya tidak punya masalah dengan itu, film ini saya rasa bisa berhasil walau tanpa Sam Raimi dan Tobey Maguire,” ujarnya seperti dikutip dari imdb.com." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">"I have no problem with that, I think this movie can succeed even without Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire," he said as quoted from imdb.com.<br /><br /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="The New Spiderman sendiri akan mengangkat tema ketika Peter Parker saat remaja." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">The New Spiderman theme itself will lift when Peter Parker as a teenager. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Dan dikabarkan Marc Webb akan menggarap Trilogi baru pahlawan laba-laba ini." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">And Marc Webb will reportedly working on a new trilogy hero of this spider. </span><span title="Columbia Pictures selaku pihak distributor akan merilis film ini pada musim panas 2012." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Columbia Pictures as the distributor will release the film in the summer of 2012. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Dan diharapkan The New Spiderman akan kembali membawa sang pahlawan Peter Parker kembali bergelantungan di gedung-gedung tinggi kota New Yor" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">And The New Spiderman is expected to be back with the hero Peter Parker back to hanging in the tall buildings of New Jordan</span></span>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-41121909137699290222010-01-24T00:19:00.000-08:002010-01-24T00:23:15.094-08:00New Planet of the Apes Film Still in the Works<img src="http://comingsoon.net/nextraimages/thadeplanetoftheapes.jpg" align="left" /><i>Vulture</i> is reporting that 20th Century Fox has not given up on rebooting the "Planet of the Apes" franchise despite reports that the project was scrapped. The site says that Peter Chernin has come on board to produce the film, code-named "Caesar."<br /><br />Scott Frank (<b>Minority Report</b>) was previously attached to write and direct for producer Scott Rudin. The studio has now hired writer Jamie Moss (<b>Street Kings</b>) to rework Frank's version, and the original writers, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, were recently brought back to polish the dialogue.<br /><br />According to <i>Vulture</i>, Frank's script "showed how genetic experiments on apes led to their evolutionary eclipse of humans. 'Caesar' refers to the genetically altered leader of the simian rebellion, so dubbed because the ape was capable of grand strategic thinking on par with Julius Caesar. The 'Caesar' code name also foreshadowed the script's plot: Like the actual Julius Caesar, the ape begins a (wait for it ... ) guerrilla war and emerges the emperor of the known world."<br /><br />The studio, however, wanted to pursue a different take than Frank, and the writer/director was unwilling to change direction. A new director is expected to be hired soon.<br /><br />What's interesting is that Chernin, after he became head of Fox Filmed Entertainment in 1992, tried to revive the "Planet of the Apes" franchise. He hired Oliver Stone to executive produce a <b>Return of the Apes</b> film that would center on a geneticist (Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered) who time-travels back to the Paleolithic Era, where he must help humans win a war against highly evolved apes and protect a young girl whose genes will ultimately save mankind from a plague.loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-8944300247508970422010-01-24T00:18:00.001-08:002010-01-24T00:18:47.969-08:00Districk-9<div> <img src="http://www.realmovienews.com/newsimages/2304/2419/2419_newsarticle_f.jpg" alt="" class="NewsArticleImage" /> </div> <p> "The Boldest, Most Thrilling Jolt of Pure Adrenalin you’ll Experience" * * * * * THE TIMES<br /><br />From Academy Award®-Winning Producer Peter Jackson And Rising Star Director Neill Blomkamp, Comes the $199+ Million Global Box-Office Smash The Action-Packed, Critically-Acclaimed Sci-Fi Thriller Debuts on Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD on December 28, 2009<br /><br />Blu-ray Features include movieIQ and “Joburg from Above” Interactive Map<br /><br />From producer Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) comes the critically-acclaimed sci-fi thriller District 9, debuting on Blu-ray and DVD on the 28th December, 2009 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Director Neill Blomkamp (Crossing the Line, Tempbot) enlists a cast of relative newcomers, including Sharlto Copley and Jason Cope (Doomsday), and a host of groundbreaking special effects for the enthralling allegorical story of aliens stranded in South Africa.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Blu-ray™ and DVD include commentary with Director/Co-Writer Neill Blomkamp, deleted scenes and the three-part documentary “The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log.” The first part of the documentary explores the pre-production process and creation of the world of District 9, Peter Jackson’s role in producing the film, and the unorthodox approach to using South Africa as the setting for this film. The second part delves into the shooting style of the film utilizing small handheld cameras to tell the tale, the difficulties of shooting in Johannesburg, the challenges of shooting scenes that would include visual effects later in the process, and the overall challenges encountered during the production process. The third chapter of the documentary investigates the task of designing and editing the film's sound effects, and the general challenges encountered during the editing process.<br /><br />The Blu-ray versions also exclusively features four featurettes: “Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus” looks at the practical effects employed by filmmaker Blomkamp and the artists at WETA to create Wikus’ metamorphosis into an alien; “Innovation: The Acting and Improvisation of District 9” shows Blomkamp’s direction of the actors, his encouragement of improvisation, and the actors’ process for working together under these guidelines; “Conception and Design: Creating the World of District 9” depicts the amazing design and theory behind the world of District 9, including Alien Design, Alien Technology, Space Travel, MNU and The First Reaction Force Battalion; and “Alien Generation: The Visual Effects of District 9” offers an in-depth look at the process of shooting visual effects scenes and incorporating CGI aliens realistically into the scenes in post-production.<br /><br />Bonus features exclusive to the Blu-ray Disc™ include the Interactive Map feature “Joburg from Above: Satellite and Schematics of the World of District 9,” that allows users to explore alien technology and weaponry, MNU mercenary armory, and more from the film through a series of satellite maps, schematics and photo-real files.<br /><br />The Blu-ray Disc also exclusively features movieIQ—which allows viewers to immediately access continuously updated information on the cast & crew and explore relevant trivia such as production facts, music and soundtrack information all tied to scenes within the movie via BD-Live™—and cinechat, where viewers can send on-screen instant messages to their friends while watching the movie.<br /><br />SYNOPSIS:<br /><br />From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that "soars on the imagination of its creators" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.<br /><br />District 9 was directed by Neill Blomkamp from an original screenplay by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Paul Hanson and Elliot Ferwerda co-executive produced. Bill Block and Ken Kamins executive produced. Philippa Boyens co-produced with Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham as producers.<br /><br />DVD Special Features Include:<br /><br />Filmmaker's Commentary<br />Deleted Scenes<br />The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log – Three-Part Documentary<br />Blu-ray Special Features Include:<br /><br />Includes all the added value on the DVD:<br />Featurette: “Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus”<br />Featurette: “Innovation: The Acting and Improvisation of District 9”<br />Featurette: “Conception and Design: Creating the World of District 9”<br />Featurette: “Alien Generation: The Visual Effects of District 9”<br />Joburg from Above: Satellite and Schematics of the World of District 9” – Interactive Map<br />Cinechat<br />movieIQ<br />5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio </p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-6908600658376578852010-01-23T23:31:00.000-08:002010-01-23T23:32:02.472-08:00Review: Big Mystery—Why Isn't Sherlock Holmes a Better Movie?<div class="entry_img_top" style="width: 427px;"> <img src="http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090112/425.sherlock.holmes.011209.jpg" alt="Sherlock Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes" width="425" height="315" /> <span class="photo_credit"> Warner Bros. Pictures</span> </div> <!-- internal videos / html on top --> <!-- external videos / html on top --> <!-- audio player --> <!-- gallery preview--> <!-- custom polls --> <!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --> <div class="movie_review_grade_wrapper"> <!-- movie review grade --> <div class="movie_review_grade grade_C_plus">C+</div> </div> <p><strong>Review in a Hurry:</strong> <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c116079_Robert_Downey_Jr.html">Robert Downey Jr.</a></strong> and <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c112593_Jude_Law.html">Jude Law</a></strong> are effortlessly charming as a more action-oriented Holmes and Watson than we're used to. They belong in a better movie than the one <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c111326_Guy_Ritchie.html">Guy Ritchie</a></strong> has actually made.</p> <!-- internal videos / html on top --> <!-- external videos / html on top --> <!-- audio player --> <!-- gallery preview--> <!-- custom polls --> <!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --> <!-- movie review grade --> <p><strong>The Bigger Picture: </strong>For the first half hour or so of this new big-screen adventure featuring the literary world's most famous detective, all seems to be going right. <strong>Hans Zimmer</strong>'s score is so perfect you'll think it has always been Holmes' theme, Downey's take on Sherlock as annoyingly obsessive-compulsive is a perfectly valid interpretation and a Satanic cult scenario, featuring a seemingly supernatural scoundrel by the name of Lord Blackwood (<strong>Mark Strong</strong>) is awesomely gothic.</p> <p>Yes, director Ritchie arguably overemphasizes the martial artist/bare-knuckle boxer side of Holmes—not to mention a decidedly modern set of six-pack abs—but does so in an entertaining fashion, and technically doesn't violate literary canon by doing so.</p> <p>But the gaggle of credited screenwriters, one of whom boasts a producer credit on the infamous <strong>Vanilla Ice</strong> vehicle <em>Cool As Ice</em>, are no match for <strong>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</strong>. They give a pretty good set-up, though: Dr. Watson is on the verge of getting married and leaving his semi-dsyfunctional partnership with the supersleuth behind. But he can't resists the lure of one last case with Holmes, especially since, in his capacity as a surgeon, he's already involved. After declaring the executed Lord Blackwood dead, he learns that the villain has apparently risen from the grave to commit new murders.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Irene Adler (<strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c115554_Rachel_McAdams.html">Rachel McAdams</a></strong>), well-known to Holmes fans as the only woman capable of outwitting their generally misogynist hero, returns to town with an agenda of her own, in the service of a mysterious malefactor who strongly resembles DC Comics' Gentleman Ghost. This puts her in conflict with both Holmes and Blackwood—or perhaps in a position to play both sides.</p> <p>It's a story with more potential than your typical big-event, action-hero movie, but unfortunately the way it plays out is less than satisfactory. Practically every scene resolves the dilemmas of the previous one by suddenly introducing brand-new characters and the discovery of yet another hitherto unknown potion that caused whatever mysterious thing it was that happened last.</p> <p>At one point, Blackwood even utilizes a death trap straight out of the <em>Saw</em> movies! (No kidding—you'll know it when you see it).</p> <p>Not to mention, the danger of turning Holmes into a master of ass kicking in addition to being a genius somehow takes the suspense out of things. The only person who seems to be a danger to him is himself, and this is probably the principal reason Downey was given the role.</p> <p>There's nothing wrong with this Holmes that a good story couldn't fix, and plenty of those already exist; chances are few of the moviegoers this is aimed at are intimately familiar with the original Doyle books, so why not actually adapt one properly?</p> <p><strong>The 180—a Second Opinion: </strong>As an oversized henchman, 7-foot former wrestler <strong>Robert Maillet</strong> (aka "Kurrgan") shows some potential. If they ever sequelize or remake <em>The Princess Bride, </em>he'd be a worthy successor to Andre the Giant.</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-10363665243323586312010-01-23T23:30:00.000-08:002010-01-23T23:31:18.106-08:00Review: Move Away from The Spy Next Door<div class="entry_img_top" style="width: 427px;"> <img src="http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20100113/425.spynextdoor.chan.jackie.lc.011310.jpg" alt="The Spy Next Door, Jackie Chan" title="The Spy Next Door, Jackie Chan" width="425" height="315" /> <span class="photo_credit"> Colleen Hayes/Lionsgate</span> </div> <!-- internal videos / html on top --> <!-- external videos / html on top --> <!-- audio player --> <!-- gallery preview--> <!-- custom polls --> <!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --> <div class="movie_review_grade_wrapper"> <!-- movie review grade --> <div class="movie_review_grade grade_C_minus">C-</div> </div> <p><strong>Review in a Hurry: </strong>Someone must have told <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c111851_Jackie_Chan.html">Jackie Chan</a></strong> that part of being a Hollywood action star is that you eventually have to do a family movie in which precocious kids make you appear totally hapless. Somebody evidently forgot to inform him that you should probably hold out for one that's better than this.</p> <!-- internal videos / html on top --> <!-- external videos / html on top --> <!-- audio player --> <!-- gallery preview--> <!-- custom polls --> <!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --> <!-- movie review grade --> <p><strong>The Bigger Picture:</strong> Never mind Chan, this is a comedown for even director Brian Levant, who's no noob in the sucky filmography department (<em>Snow Dogs</em>, <em>Problem Child 2</em>). Levant's smart enough to open with a montage of footage from some of Chan's older films, thereby trading on audience goodwill for a moment or two. But then the real movie begins, and it depicts our hero (who's named Bob Ho, tee hee) as a spy living in a suburban secret identity, under Clark Kent glasses and dorky façade. He has a romance going with single-mom-next-door Gillian (<strong>Amber Valletta</strong>), but her kids hate him.</p> <p>Things get wacky when Gillian has to leave town and Bob volunteers to watch the kids. They prove a handful, so Bob installs surveillance equipment and spy weaponry to keep them in line. Charming. Don't try this at home, parents.</p> <p>When Levant actually has the sense to pull back the camera and just let Chan be Chan for a few fight sequences, <em>The Spy Next Door</em> manages to entertain well enough, even if some of these moments are rather blatant—and pale—imitations of his signature moves from older movies. And as lame as the kid stuff is, at least obvious gross-out humor is eschewed.</p> <p>Still, when it comes to American partners for Chan, we've gone from <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c109520_Chris_Tucker.html">Chris Tucker</a></strong> to<strong> <a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c115120_Owen_Wilson.html">Owen Wilson</a></strong> to <strong>Billy Ray Cyrus </strong>in a hairdo that resembles "the Rachel," circa 1994? He's not terrible, but considering that his character hates being caricatured as a hick, it seems ironic that all he gets to do is spin faux-country witticisms like, "He's so twisted he could eat nails and poop corkscrews."</p> <p>If you're a religious fundamentalist with a curiosity about martial arts but a nagging fear that such movies are family unfriendly, you are the target demographic. Otherwise, literally anything else starring Chan is a better bet.</p> <p><strong>The 180—a Second Opinion: </strong>Brooding 13-year-old Madeline Carroll (<em>Resident Evil: Extinction</em>) may have a decent future in acting if she can get some better projects.</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-50965945601456219492010-01-23T23:29:00.001-08:002010-01-23T23:30:26.861-08:00Review: The Tooth Fairy Not Painful, but Lacks Bite<div class="entry_img_top" style="width: 427px;"> <img src="http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20100119/425.2tooth.fairy.lr.011910.jpg" alt="Dwayne Johnson, Tooth Fairy" title="Dwayne Johnson, Tooth Fairy" width="425" height="315" /> <span class="photo_credit"> 20th Century Fox</span> </div> <!-- internal videos / html on top --> <!-- external videos / html on top --> <!-- audio player --> <!-- gallery preview--> <!-- custom polls --> <!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --> <div class="movie_review_grade_wrapper"> <!-- movie review grade --> <div class="movie_review_grade grade_C">C</div> </div> <p><strong>Review in a Hurry: </strong> It smells like The Rock is cooking a warmed-over <em>Game Plan</em>, as <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c110549_Dwayne_Johnson.html">Dwayne Johnson</a> </strong>plays a second-rate hockey player working night shifts as an actual tooth fairy and managing a suspicious girlfriend (<strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c108554_Ashley_Judd.html">Ashley Judd</a></strong>) and her kids. It's less painful than getting an incisor pulled, but you must be less than four feet tall to truly enjoy this movie.</p> <!-- internal videos / html on top --> <!-- external videos / html on top --> <!-- audio player --> <!-- gallery preview--> <!-- custom polls --> <!-- movie review grade wrapper (can't think of a better way to do this) --> <!-- movie review grade --> <p><strong>The Bigger Picture:</strong> <em>The Tooth Fairy </em>also feels an awful lot like director <strong>Michael Lembeck</strong>'s previous efforts, <em>The Santa Claus 2...</em>and<em> 3</em>! Here's a regular Joe who doesn't "believe," and he finds himself in over his head in a world of children's fantasy. Sure, The Rock is more macho than <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c116821_Tim_Allen.html">Tim Allen</a></strong>, but aside from a few bouts on the ice, Derek (Johnson) doesn't engage in a whole lot of ass kickin'.</p> <p>Derek's stint as a tooth fairy, see, is punishment for discouraging his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter's dreams of getting moola for a loose baby tooth. And as a magical temp, he's gotta enter a sleeping child's room, grab the tooth and leave a buck. You know how it works, but a seemingly endless amount of gadgetry is on display: The molar snatchers have access to potions that make you small, keeps household pets away and just in case a kid does see you, "amnesia" dust.</p> <p>This leads to such gags as Derek shrinking down to action-figure size, jumping on a finger skateboard and leaping over a cat. (Wouldn't be surprised if a take with The Rock yelling, "Cowabunga, dude!" that was left on the cutting room floor.)</p> <p>The story of a hockey grump who learns the meaning of fairy-ness is strictly by the numbers, and for a while, thanks to a strong supporting cast, that's enough. But eventually, the plot overtakes Johnson's dimples and things get, uh, long in the tooth.</p> <p><strong>The 180—a Second Opinion: </strong>Some funny-enough<strong> </strong>bit parts include <strong><a onclick="'s_objectID="" class="name" href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c109184_Billy_Crystal.html">Billy Crystal</a></strong> as a prankster fairy, <strong>Stephen Merchant</strong> as a witty, wingless sidekick and <strong>Julie Andrews</strong> as—who else?—<em>the</em> Fairy Godmother.</p><img src="file:///C:/Users/DEWANET/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/Users/DEWANET/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" />loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-61611800875430653832009-12-10T17:05:00.000-08:002009-12-10T17:06:17.125-08:00Early Buzz: James Cameron's 'Avatar'<img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/12/avatarmain1-%282%29.jpg" vspace="4" width="450" align="middle" border="1" height="275" hspace="4" /><br /><br />While the official Avatar Day took place back in August, the unofficial Avatar Day is today, as critics from across the country (and in London) will be seeing James Cameron's <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/avatar/26982/main"><em>Avatar </em></a>for the first time, one week before its official debut. As I write this, the film's premiere is getting underway in London and the first press screenings are letting out. The London critics had to sign a piece of paper promising not to review the film until Monday, but with so many screenings here in the states, it's a bit sketchy as to what precautions are being taken here. Needless to say, reactions are beginning to pour onto the web. Will <em>Avatar </em>really change the way we watch movies? Let's take a look ...<br /><br />"... the terrible film that some had been anticipating had not materialised. It was good ... There is, though, a certain amount of suspension of disbelief needed when watching Avatar. Cynics might sneer at the plot ... There is more shock and awe in this movie than almost any other." - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/10/james-cameron-avatar-preview">The Guardian</a><br /><br />"Everything feels real. It's as if Cameron has happened upon this alien world and got his camera out ... It is overwhelming, and that is because you are emotionally tied up in the characters and the story ... James Cameron has described his new filming process as "emotion capture". And it's a boast he lives up to." -- <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/2765598/We-get-first-look-at-3D-blockbuster-Avatar.html">The Sun</a><br /><br />One critic who wished to remain anonymous for now: "Was not as thrilled by <em>Avatar </em>as my colleagues; eye-popping visuals, but story is<em> Dances w/Wolves</em> + <em>District 9;</em> I preferred District 9."<br /><br /><strong>From Twitter:</strong><br /><br />@petershall: "The AVATAR buzz is an understatement. That movie was unbelievable."<br /><br />@dmann11: "Holy effing crap!!! Avatar was FREAKING AWESOME KICK ASS SWEET!!!!!"<br /><br />@TheGate: "For the record 'Avatar' was worth the $400 million, and no it is not even remotely "vomit inducing".<br /><br />@gholson: "Spectacular. A visual feast and the new benchmark in cinematic world building."<br /><br />@chasewhale: "Just finished AVATAR. Special effects were top notch. The movie ran a little long for my likings but I liked it!"<br /><br />@comingsoonnet" "Okay, about Avatar?.... WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! Unbelievable... amazing."<br /><br />@MikePereira21: Was blown away by Avatar! For 150 minutes, I was a kid again. Thank you James Cameron! BTW, the groundbreaking 3D was mindblowing."<br /><br />@rejects: "I'm not supposed to talk about Avatar... That said, it was a spectacular experience. Like nothing I've seen before."<br /><br />More after the jump ...<br /><br />@markwalters74: "Just saw AVATAR. Not allowed to talk about it yet. Not allowed to say how it's an amazing visual feast, or that Jimmy C's still got the gift."<br /><br />@massawyrm: "So I just got back from a movie. It was pretty great...if by pretty great I mean OMFGHOLYF**KINGSH*TOMGOMGOMG. Because that's what it was ... Oh, and if I hear one more "Dances with Wolves" joke I'm gonna throw up in my mouth. Has no one seen DUNE? Because this was DUNE. In a good way ...You have officially been to your last Con in which blue people, spoken Navi and the word "hometree" were absent."<br /><br />@firstshowing: James Cameron is a freakin' genius! I can't say much but wow, I loved it. #Avatar was phenomenal, pretty much blew me away<br /><br />@DrewAtHitFix: I think the most accurate way to say it would be OMFGOMFGOMFG. Or words that effect. #avatar<br /><br />@EDouglasWW: I'll take my chances with Fox legal.... Avatar was amazing, I loved it!<br /><br />@rejects It's impossible to say that something is a "gamechanger" or that it will "redefine" movies. But I can say that I've seen something I've never seen before. And that I've seen something that shows the potential for the craft of filmmaking in this new century.<br /><br />@sizemore So *that* was James Cameron's AVATAR. Holy f**king f**k.<br /><br />@JonTT Avatar = outstanding. Really. Truly. See it. Soon.<br /><br />@slashfilm I'm not allowed to say anythng about what I thought of Avatar, but saw it in a screening room with neill blomkamp, who didn't sign an NDA. He loved it... I will say this, it's hard to disagree with Neil :)<br /><br />@LarsenOnFilm First Impression: Avatar. Stronger story than I expected, amazing visuals. Still no need for 3-D though. Full review next week.<br /><br />@simonpegg Avatar ........................ tweetless. Just tweetless in the best possible way.<br /><br />@johndollin Such a small word to describe a huge film 'EPIC', I entered a dream and didn't want to return. 3D just made it all the more real.loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-16593147660363260972009-11-24T16:48:00.000-08:002009-11-24T16:49:26.583-08:00DVD Review Up (2009)<div class="photoboxImage"> <img src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/091104/UP_L.jpg" alt=" BALLOON BOY Ed Asner gets a lift as Up\'s grumpy hero Up" width="320" height="240" /> </div>It's getting a bit repetitive saying ''Pixar has done it again.'' But here goes: Pixar has done it again. The 10th film off the animation powerhouse's assembly line, <b>Up</b> is a lighter-than-air fable about a crotchety old widower (Ed Asner in gruff Lou Grant mode) who floats to South America in a rickety house tethered to thousands of balloons, with a chubby little stowaway along for the ride. Like most Pixar features, the setup is the best part. But really, that's splitting hairs — the entire movie's a gem. <b>EXTRAS</b> include a wonderfully nerdy commentary from directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, and a new original short starring Dug, <i>Up</i>'s lovably dumb mutt. <b>A-</b>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-84278077070995183172009-11-24T16:47:00.002-08:002009-11-24T16:48:34.981-08:00Movie Review The Road (2009)<div class="insert"> <div class="photobox"> <div class="photoboxImage"> <img src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/091124/road_mortensen_l.jpg" alt=" LONESOM HIGHWAY Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee huddle up together on their journey in The Road The Road, Viggo Mortensen" width="320" height="240" /> </div><br /><p>Here's a tip: If you see one austerely hopeless movie this year about a father and son wandering through a junk-strewn postapocalyptic wilderness as they struggle to fight off demons of fear, madness, and starvation, not to mention roving bands of cannibalistic killers, then by all means make that movie <b>The Road</b>. In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's revered 2006 novel, Viggo Morten-sen, caked in grime, plays the father with a fierce physicality and tremulous woundedness. The film has one other thing going for it: Visually, it's one of the most spookily convincing, least ''movieish'' visions of a bombed-out wasteland future I've ever seen. (It's never stated that there was a nuclear war, a meteor, or whatever, but there's an ashy deadness to everything on screen.) The wreckage and twisted clutter, some of it spectacular, doesn't seem as if it was planted there by a set designer; it's an organic part of the landscape. This debris has integrity, almost the way the ruined city in <i>Full Metal Jacket</i> did.</p> <p> Yet <i>The Road</i>, for all its vivid desolation, remains a curiously unmoving experience — or maybe not so curious, given that nothing really happens in it. In the novel, McCarthy played off postapocalyptic Hollywood thrillers, and so he gave you the heady feeling that you were seeing a movie unfold on the page. Yet he brought off that feat without much action; the backdrop was grand, the emotions interior and refined. That's a problem when <i>The Road</i> is done as a movie: It's like a zombie thriller drowning in tastefully severe art-house gloom. The darkest note in the story — it's what no conventional sci-fi blockbuster would dare to include — is the Mortensen character's despairing realization that he must be prepared at any moment to fire a bullet into his beloved son should they be captured, since the bandits who roam the land would rape and kill the boy if he didn't. That's a haunting thing to live with, and saucer-eyed Kodi Smit-McPhee plays the son with touching half-aware innocence. But that's not enough to save the movie from its creeping inertness.</p> <p> <i>The Road</i> was originally set to come out last year, and in one sense the decision to delay its release was karmically right, since (like <i>2012</i>) it addresses the current mood of nerve-jangling anxiety and doom. Yet the timing also works against the film. There's enough foreboding in America right now to make sitting through a movie such as <i>The Road</i> seem like one more heavy burden that, frankly, no one needs. <b>B-</b></p></div></div>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-84400093618191257382009-11-24T16:47:00.001-08:002009-11-24T16:47:47.484-08:00DVD Review Star Trek (2009)<div class="photoboxImage"> <img src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/091111/star_trek_pine_quinto_l.jpg" alt=" RISKY ENTERPRISE? Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine head up the Star Trek relaunch Star Trek, Chris Pine, ..." width="320" height="240" /><br />Rebooting the mothballed <i>Star Trek</i> franchise was never the no-win scenario (''Kobayashi Maru,'' for the nerd herd) that J.J. Abrams & Co. describe on this two-disc set's back-patting commentary. After all, fans already ate up <i>Next Generation</i> and <i>Deep Space Nine</i>. Still, Abrams' turn at the helm of the <i>Enterprise</i> is a triumph. <b>Star Trek</b> is exciting, the cast is terrific, and the cameo by Leonard Nimoy is done with both love and smarts. If there's a nit to pick, it's Eric Bana's villain, Nero. He's no Khan. A bounty of <b>EXTRAS</b> includes outtakes and cool deleted scenes like Spock's birth. The only thing missing is a drool bib. <b>A-</b><br /> </div> <b></b>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-47086920242117705502009-11-24T16:42:00.001-08:002009-11-24T16:43:23.045-08:00Biography for Christian Bale More<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7u5QGmhYGXoAj79-Y_TeIe3mMNy6HcFHMM51f24GlpcvU5PJLP3VACKssI2PTBPX7GfVD1FdUAgR8JpJ6J8MxvSmdB3YMB5tsdWkg6EUY88YPgHkgqlHepxHLVySyKdoiulBWNXDB7W8/s1600/christian-bale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7u5QGmhYGXoAj79-Y_TeIe3mMNy6HcFHMM51f24GlpcvU5PJLP3VACKssI2PTBPX7GfVD1FdUAgR8JpJ6J8MxvSmdB3YMB5tsdWkg6EUY88YPgHkgqlHepxHLVySyKdoiulBWNXDB7W8/s320/christian-bale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407835292408442674" border="0" /></a><br /><div id="tn15adrhs"> <!-- begin TOP_RHS --> <div id="top_rhs_wrapper"> <script type="text/javascript"> ad_utils.queue_ad('3','top_rhs'); </script></div></div> <h5>Date of Birth</h5> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/OnThisDay?day=30&month=January">30 January</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/BornInYear?1974">1974</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/BornWhere?Haverfordwest,%20Pembrokeshire,%20Wales,%20UK">Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK</a><br /><br /><h5>Birth Name</h5> Christian Charles Philip Bale<br /><h5>Height</h5> 6' (1.83 m)<br /><h5>Mini Biography</h5> <p>The 10th Anniversary issue of "Entertainment Weekly" crowned Christian Bale as one of the "Top 8 Most Powerful Cult Figures" of the past decade, citing his incredible and legendary cult status on the Internet. EW also calls Bale one of the "Most Creative People in Entertainment" after his brilliant turn as the psychopathic yuppie serial killer in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/">American Psycho</a> (2000). And "Premiere" lauded him as one of the "Hottest Leading Men Under 30". Christian Bale has garnered a huge international audience ever since he wowed critics with his devastating performance in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/">Steven Spielberg</a>'s WWII epic <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092965/">Empire of the Sun</a> (1987).<br /><br />Bale made his professional <a href="http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?debut">debut</a> opposite British comedian <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000100/">Rowan Atkinson</a> on the London West End stage. He auditioned with 4000 other kids for the coveted role of James Graham in Spielberg's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092965/">Empire of the Sun</a> (1987). Bale received a special citation for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor from the National Board of Review -- an <a href="http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?award">award</a> specially created for his performance in "Empire". In the following decade, Welsh-born Bale has appeared in Shakespeare, dramas and comedies demonstrating a versatility, depth and range that has made him one of the best reviewed actors today and one of the most popular actors on the Internet. Bale is the youngest in a family of 3 older sisters (Erin, Sharon, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050040/">Louise Bale</a>).</p> <b>IMDb Mini Biography By: </b> <a name="ba" href="http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?Harrison%20Cheung%20%3C%20hcbfc@christianbale.org%3E">Harrison Cheung <></a><br /><br /><h5>Spouse</h5> <table border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088023/">Sibi Blazic</a></td> <td valign="top"> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/OnThisDay?day=29&month=January">29 January</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/MarriedInYear?2000">2000</a> - present) 1 child</td> </tr> </tbody></table><br /><h5>Trade Mark</h5> <p>Often portrays obsessive characters.</p><br /><h5>Trivia</h5> <p>Hand-picked by director/writer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366004/">Mary Harron</a> and author <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254735/">Bret Easton Ellis</a> to star in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/">American Psycho</a> (2000). Consequently, was noted by the media as the first star of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/">American Psycho</a> (2000), only to lose the part to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> and then win it back again.</p><p>Is an excellent horseman and an avid reader.</p><p>He trained for 10 weeks in dancing and martial arts for the dance sequences in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104990/">Newsies</a> (1992) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/">Swing Kids</a> (1993).</p><p>He has an uncanny ear for accents - he has used a different accent for each of his films to date.</p><p>Bale was handpicked by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000213/">Winona Ryder</a> for the coveted role of Laurie (Theodore Laurence) in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110367/">Little Women</a> (1994).</p><p>His father, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1186739/">David Bale</a>, married feminist icon <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825887/">Gloria Steinem</a> on September 3, 2000.</p><p>A devoted animal lover, Christian has two dogs [Mojo and Ramone] and three cats [Miriam, Molly, and Lilly], which are all strays that he found.</p><p>Christian is active in many organizations, including Ark Trust, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Foundation, the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287638/">Dian Fossey</a> Gorilla Fund, the Redwings Sanctuary, and the Happy Child Mission, and a school for street kids in Rio De Janeiro.</p><p>His grandfather doubled for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/">John Wayne</a> in two movies, in Africa.</p><p>His first on-screen role was in 1983 at age 9 in a British commercial for Pac-Man cereal.</p><p>He replaced <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> for the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/">American Psycho</a> (2000).</p><p>Stepson of feminist author <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825887/">Gloria Steinem</a></p><p>His father, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1186739/">David Bale</a>, died on 30 December 2003, from brain lymphoma at the age of 62.</p><p>He was raised in England, Portugal and California.</p><p>His great-uncle, Rex Bale, was an actor.</p><p>His father was a former commercial pilot.</p><p>His mother was a former circus dancer.</p><p>He has three sisters: musician Erin Bale; computer professional Sharon Bale; and director/actress <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050040/">Louise Bale</a>, who appeared in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104990/">Newsies</a> (1992).</p><p>His grandfather was a stand-up comic and children's entertainer.</p><p>Met his wife through <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000213/">Winona Ryder</a>; she was Ryder's personal assistant.</p><p>With <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005), he has become the seventh actor to play Batman/Bruce Wayne in a live-action film. The others were: Lewis Wilson in 1943's, Robert Lowery in 1949, Adam West in the 1966, Michael Keaton for the first two installments of the Batman film series, to be replaced by Val Kilmer and George Clooney.</p><p>Dropped an amazing 63 pounds for his role as the emaciated insomniac Trevor Reznik in the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/">El maquinista</a> (2004) with only a single vitamin consultation with a nutritionist to guide him. For the most part, he only ate salads and apples, chewed gum, smoked cigarettes, and drank nonfat lattes.</p><p>Considered getting formal acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) when he was twenty, but decided to focus on working instead.</p><p>Has been in 2 versions of the John Smith/Pocahontas story. He provides the voice of Thomas in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/">Pocahontas</a> (1995) and plays John Rolfe in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402399/">The New World</a> (2005).</p><p>Turned down the opportunity to reprise the role of Patrick Bateman in the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000812/">Roger Avary</a>-directed <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292644/">The Rules of Attraction</a> (2002).</p><p>His wife, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088023/">Sibi Blazic</a>, gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl. The baby was born 27 March, 2005 in Santa Monica, California.</p><p>In the "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" radio interview first aired June 13, 2005, he admitted to Gross that because Batman is "such an American icon", he had decided not to perform his promotional interviews for the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005) in his natural mixed Welsh/English accent. Instead he spoke to Gross in an almost inflection-less mid-American accent, only revealing his dialectic roots with a few words.</p><p>Has 3 older sisters: Erin, Sharon & Louise Bale'</p><p>Two of his most famous character's names have a difference of only one letter. Bateman and Batman.</p><p>Since a young age he was very ambitious about attending Drama School, and auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and the Central School of Speech And Drama at the age of twenty. He was accepted to all, but was convinced by his parents to continue working instead. To this day, he regrets not attending drama school for his personal passion of learning his craft.</p><p>The nameplate on his trailer for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005) read "Bruce Wayne" as opposed to Bale's name.</p><p>First non-American actor to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne.</p><p>Is the youngest actor to portray Batman.</p><p>Owned a home he shared with his sister, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050040/">Louise Bale</a>, in Manhattan Beach.</p><p>Before he played "Batman" in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005), his sister <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050040/">Louise Bale</a> played Batman's mother in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377753/">The Death of Batman</a> (2003).</p><p>Auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/">Titanic</a> (1997) and almost got the role but people felt that it wouldn't be "fair" having two Brits playing two Americans (Rose was American as well, she says in the movie that the Titanic was a slave ship bring her back to America).</p><p>Considered for the role of Will Turner in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/">Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl</a> (2003).</p><p>Is a distant relative to the 19th-Century thespian Lily Langtry.</p><p>Shares the role of Batman with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/">Val Kilmer</a>.</p><p>Since reading "Charlotte's Web", he does not eat red meat.</p><p>If he plays an American character, he will use an American accent in all the interviews related to the film. He says he does this so the audience isn't confused.</p><p>Daughter Emmaline, born 27 March 2005.</p><p>Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#13). [2007].</p><p>Although born and raised in Wales, his family is actually English.</p><p>Was good friends with actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/">Heath Ledger</a>.</p><p>His fans refer to themselves as "Baleheads".</p><p>His father was an activist and adventurer and his mother a circus dancer so he never lived in one place for very long while growing up.</p><p>A very private individual, he has never publicly confirmed the name of his daughter.</p><p>Beat out nearly 4,000 other auditions for the role of Jim Graham in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987).</p><p>Was introduced to acting by his sister, Louise.</p><p>Alongside Michael Keaton, he is the only other actor to portray Bruce Wayne/Batman in more than one live action film.</p><p>Took up vegetarianism at the age of six but has since returned to eating meat.</p><p>Lives in Los Angeles with his family.</p><p>Was arrested over verbal assault allegations made by his mother and his sister just hours after he attended the European premiere of his movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/">The Dark Knight</a> (2008) in London. Upon reviewing the case, the London police decided not to charge him with anything. [July 2008]</p><p>While working on Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg paid a visit to Bale on the set of Swing Kids (1993), as both movies were partially filmed in Prague.</p><p>Was considered for the part of James Bond in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/">Casino Royale</a> (2006).</p><p>Has said that he considers it an honor to have been called a "mofo" by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000168/">Samuel L. Jackson</a> in a movie.</p><p>C.Bale and wife belong to Board of Trustees in The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.</p><p>Dislikes doing interviews.</p><p>Met Drew Barrymore on the set of 'Empire of the Sun' 1987_, who was visiting her godfather, Steven Spielberg. He was thirteen and she was twelve. Later they would both admit to having a crush on one another at the time.</p><p>He was involved in already infamous incident where he was recorded verbally assaulting cinematographer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403397/">Shane Hurlbut</a> on the set of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009) for interrupting him during an intense scene. Bale has since apologized, but the incident was widely heard across the Internet.</p><p>Is an avid fan of video games and cites Super Mario as one of his all-time favorites growing up.</p><br /><h5>Personal Quotes</h5> <p>[interview in "Spin" magazine, March 1996] An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.</p><p>[on dealing with the resulting media attention of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092965/">Empire of the Sun</a> (1987) at age 13] It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing.</p><p>[on the sudden fame that resulted after <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092965/">Empire of the Sun</a> (1987)] I enjoyed making the film, but I was shocked when I received all the attention when I got home to Bournemouth. Girls were all over me, boys wanted to fight me, and I was being asked to open local fêtes when all I wanted to do was ride my BMX bike in the woods. I told my parents I wasn't interested in doing anything again because the attention ruined it.</p><p>I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.</p><p>I started my career without fans.</p><p>[on his 63-pound weight loss for "The Machinist" (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/">El maquinista</a> (2004))] I had a stupid kind of feeling of invincibility, like, "I can do it, I can manage it". I really did feel like I hit this point of enlightenment.</p><p>I always like that. Whenever there's a project where everyone's going, "Oooooh, it's a bit dodgy", I always like it. If you actually look at it, there tends not to be anything risky at all. Why did I start acting in the first place? I didn't do it to be mediocre or to please everybody all the time.</p><p>I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.</p><p>It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.</p><p>[on his transformation into Patrick Bateman for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/">American Psycho</a> (2000)] The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can't fake the physicality. Being English, I tend to enjoy going down to the pub far more than going to the gym, so it was very unnatural for me. I just had to convince myself that I loved it, which was the most difficult thing about playing this part. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. I found I had to stop thinking when I was in the gym because if I thought about it, I'd realize how ridiculous it was that I was pumping iron when I could've been out having a drink and a cigarette and enjoying some lunch. I did three hours a day for six weeks with a personal trainer and some time before that. I ate an awful lot during training and then almost nothing during filming.</p><p>The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping and, actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. I love sleeping so much that I could do it 12 hours a day if I didn't have to turn on the alarm clock . . . and still, sometimes . . .</p><p>Our Batman [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)] is centered on the early days. It's an explanation. It's certainly not Batman No. 5. It's a reinvention. We want you to forget there has ever been a Batman before this one.</p><p>[on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)] I've never felt like the Batman character in the films was given as much time as any of the villains. The villains were always the most interesting characters, too. Batman has always been this very bizarre, almost blind character running through the middle of the story. Our film is different.</p><p>[on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)] I contacted them. I heard they were doing some low-budget Batman not aimed at kids and I was tantalized. I had appreciated the Batman movies, but I wasn't really a fan and I didn't know the TV series. But I read some of the graphic novels, and they were very dark and very interesting.</p><p>I spent about three weeks in Chicago last July doing night shoots [for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)]. It's a great city, but the humidity was tough under the Batsuit. Uh, it got a little bad. It's hot enough in the Batsuit, let alone in the Chicago heat.</p><p>I needed money because I had just bought a house, but I just kept saying, "I really can't do another movie that I know is not going to turn out the way I want it to, and that I have to make a lot of concessions in my head for".</p><p>For me, there's a bigger risk trying ['Batman Begins (2005)_]. Ultimately, the big point was that [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/">Christopher Nolan</a>], who you would not expect to be doing that kind of movie, was going to direct it, which is exactly what I was looking for, because you want to do something totally different from the other Batman movies. I always thought there could be a really good movie made about Batman and when I heard that Chris was doing it I thought, "Well, he's not a director that you would expect, therefore you're going to get the unexpected from him". I think there's a great potential for going very dark with it, it's a fascinating character, very complex psychologically, which I've never seen done. You know, you have the two extremes, which are both very good. You can either go the very camp <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001842/">Adam West</a> TV series thing [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/">"Batman"</a> (1966)], which was great in its own way, or you can go more the way of the graphic "Dark Knight" novels which delve somewhat deeper.</p><p>I had spent weeks staring at the wall in my house out of depression because of things that had gone wrong and the choices I had made. When I read "The Machinist" [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/">El maquinista</a> (2004)], I just went, "Wow! This is perfect". I was having dreams about the character and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I felt like this one was going to save my arse, and pull me out of the depressed state I had got into.</p><p>I did other things, but my heart was never in it. A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.</p><p>At first, I was somewhat hesitant to do the role [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)]. I mean, after all, Batman is an icon. But I remember, as clear as day, being at the grocery store the day the movie opened, and this little boy saw me. He couldn't have been more than five years old. He just walked right up to me and hugged me. He hugged me, and I was so moved by it that I hugged him back. Then he looked up at me and said, "You're my hero." And in that moment, I knew that not only as an actor that I had done my job, but that I had made the right decision to play Batman. And I've never looked back on my the decision to play Batman since.</p><p>[on playing Batman] You couldn't pull it off unless you became a beast inside that suit.</p><p>I only sound intelligent when there's a good scriptwriter around.</p><p>I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.</p><p>I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played. They're all really far from who I am.</p><p>You can't help but find that violence is endlessly fascinating--and I mean true violence, not action-movie violence, just because it is used as the answer to so many problems. We're all taught as kids not to be violent, but you can't help but also see that violence is what works very often. Bullies thrive.</p><p>I think there's a kind of pretentiousness to the idea that serious work is only found in low-budget independent movies--I can't stand that snobbery.</p><p>I like being kept in the dark myself. You know, like mushrooms: Keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em shit. See, I think that's an enjoyable vegetable to be.</p><p>At the time that [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/">Christopher Nolan</a>] asked me to do it [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)] I actually couldn't do one push-up. They sent me to a trainer, who was having to hold my T-shirt at the back just to pull me up. I've come a long way from that.</p><p>[on filming Batman films during the summer] I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.</p><p>[describing director <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/">Christopher Nolan</a>'s method for filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005)] We tend to shoot at night like some kind of covert operation. So, we have minimal people actually seeing me in that way.</p><p>[on being asked if he knew how big a flop <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104990/">Newsies</a> (1992) was] You say something bad about "Newsies" and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.</p><p>He's a messed-up individual, as well. He's got all sorts of issues. He's just as twisted and messed-up as the villains he's fighting, and that's part of the beauty of the whole story. - on the character of Batman</p><p>(2007 - On his career) I've been able to work on movies that I like very much in the past few years, which I think have turned out how I had hoped that they would. And, I'm human, you know; that makes me feel good. I like it when people like what I do. I don't like it when people are laughing at me for what I do, you know? I mean, I'd love to say I was completely impervious to anybody's opinion, but that just ain't the truth. Of course, it matters. At the same time, there's also a danger when you start playing it too safe. After all, what am I paid to do? I'm paid to essentially make an ass out of myself, if needed. And occasionally, in doing that, you're going to fall flat on your face. But, I have learned, through doing that numerous times in my life, that there's also a ton of enjoyment to what other people see as humiliation. You can actually come to sort of thrive on that, because in a way, it kind of leads to a sort of fearlessness, if you genuinely don't mind. If the point is that you tried, I think that really is the most important thing. And, like you said, I feel like I've been very fortunate in the last couple of years that I've gotten to do what I loved, which is actually the making of movies, and on top of that, if I've liked how the movies have turned out themselves, then that's fantastic. But, to start getting too comfortable within that would be eventually to start churning out boring, boring chaff.</p><p>I'm accustomed to not having any map for my life. I'd be reaching for an Uzi if I knew what was going to happen every day. If anybody tells me I shouldn't jump, of course all I want to do is jump and show it can be done.</p><p>Life is not stable. There is a great strength that comes from not being shocked or scared by upheavals.</p><p>I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: "Life should never be boring."</p><p>[on meeting <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> in a car park] He's got bodyguards and they were all shouting at me and I was going, 'Hold on, hold on, I've met him before!' but they were getting very worried as I walked toward him. But we chatted a bit. He had questions about <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009), he didn't know the script at all but I hear apparently he's now seen the movie... I'll wait to hear what his reaction is...</p><p>Variety is essential for me. I love watching a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000520/">Michael Mann</a> movie. I love watching a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/">Christopher Nolan</a> movie. Just to talk about my stuff, I enjoy a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/">El maquinista</a> (2004) kind of movie, a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462504/">Rescue Dawn</a> (2006), a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849/">3:10 to Yuma</a> (2007), an <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/">American Psycho</a> (2000), whatever. But I also love watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/">The Terminator</a> (1984) movies, I love watching the _Batman_ movies...</p><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/">Public Enemies</a> (2009) is very timely. The Depression had people resenting the fat cats, the banks and so you've got someone like Dillinger being a hero because he was making a difference - he was getting it back for himself and so many people looked at him and romanticised that.</p><p>You look back at the history of the Oscars - some of the best movies never got sh*t.</p><p>[on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/">Heath Ledger</a>'s Oscar win for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/">The Dark Knight</a> (2008)] Heath winning Best Supporting Actor was fantastic. I had dinner with his family a couple of nights before the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?award">award</a>s and liked very much they were the people who were picking it up for him. Of course I was really delighted that it did go that way.</p><p>I'm actually someone that's very anti the whole B-Rolls, DVD extras and stuff like that. I understand people are interested, I get that they want to hear about it, but to me I look at it as old school movie magic and with magic you do not reveal your secrets.</p><p>[<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/">Terminator 2: Judgment Day</a> (1991)] is the original nightmare of just being pursued that everyone has, by somebody who just will not stop, never stops, doesn't give up. And when you've got someone who looked like [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>] coming after you it made a big difference.</p><p>[on avoiding media coverage of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/">Heath Ledger</a>'s death] I paid no attention to it. I knew him, I knew the family and why the hell would I sit there listening to idiots who don't know anything at all? I literally didn't read anything, didn't watch anything (after he died). If I happened to be watching anything that came on, I switched over straight away. It's incredible the way the voyeuristic outlook is accepted as news.</p><p>[on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/">The Dark Knight</a> (2008)] Many times I'll work with actors and I can tell they're thinking: 'What are you doing? Why are you going that far with it?' or 'You're nuts!' With [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/">Heath Ledger</a>], I could feel him going: 'I love it!'</p><p>I don't feel like I have to explain, 'Well, I'm not really like this. I'm a wonderful guy and I have a lovely smile and how can you not like me?' - on his infamous onset rant on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009)</p><p>[on his infamous on-set rant on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009)] It wouldn't have happened if we hadn't been playing that scene, for Christ's sake, between John Connor and his wife, which is probably the most intense one in the movie...I'd definitely say that that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/">Christian Bale</a>.</p><p>Look, I hate to throw people under the bus for making movies I don't think are very good. But for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009) to be considered with any legitimacy, you have to throw number three [<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/">Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines</a> (2003)] under the bus. It began to spoof the whole thing. To me, that was a sign that the franchise was dead, the mythology was finished.</p><p>[on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/">Terminator 2: Judgment Day</a> (1991)] I really liked the second one. It had as much to do with the electric atmosphere in the theater when I saw it at 17, when I was first getting out to the States, and I'd never been in a movie theater that had that much noise and excitement throughout the entire movie.</p><p>[on starting a new trilogy with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/">Terminator Salvation</a> (2009)] I hope that it will be a really fun, great movie trilogy if this one takes off and that we get to do a second or third, with me or not, whatever the scenario is. I think there is actually - in the hands of the right people - a real revival for this and an extension to an already good mythology.</p><p>I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.</p><br /><h5>Where Are They Now</h5> <p>(August 2003) Filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/">El maquinista</a> (2004) in Spain.</p><p>(March 2004) Filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005) in London, England.</p><p>(August 2005) Thailand (Filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462504/">Rescue Dawn</a> (2006)).</p><p>(2006) New Mexico - filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849/">3:10 to Yuma</a> (2007).</p><p>(August 2007) Filming the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/">Batman Begins</a> (2005) sequel, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/">The Dark Knight</a> (2008).</p><p>(May 2008) In Wisconsin - filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/">Public Enemies</a> (2009).</p><p>(July 2008) Filming 'Terminator Salvation' in New Mexico</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-56585777700598945912009-11-24T16:38:00.000-08:002009-11-24T16:44:36.613-08:00Biography for Kristen Stewart<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3m6nzAnk4kDgj2G4-7PPPoEQ0zyzrRi9tDu9XSg55Ule4rFcKy47ydtKXmlKNWyV1einbuxmhtWeQyUf8G3rbgcMURzLv_Db0CyKNgBMod9TSNncRAOx1v3l7zhsJ6MB3tU75Iim4d4T-/s1600/Kristen-Stewart2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3m6nzAnk4kDgj2G4-7PPPoEQ0zyzrRi9tDu9XSg55Ule4rFcKy47ydtKXmlKNWyV1einbuxmhtWeQyUf8G3rbgcMURzLv_Db0CyKNgBMod9TSNncRAOx1v3l7zhsJ6MB3tU75Iim4d4T-/s320/Kristen-Stewart2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407834619633137874" border="0" /></a><br /><h5>Date of Birth</h5> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/OnThisDay?day=9&month=April">9 April</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/BornInYear?1990">1990</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/BornWhere?Los%20Angeles,%20California,%20USA">Los Angeles, California, USA</a><br /><h5>Birth Name</h5> Kristen Jaymes Stewart<br /><h5>Nickname</h5> Kris<br />KStew<br /><h5>Height</h5> 5' 5" (1.65 m)<br /><br /><h5>Trivia</h5> <p>Has an older brother named Cameron and two adopted brothers named Dana and Taylor. They reside with her parents in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles. Kristen purchased her own home in 2008 and divides her time between there and her parents' residence.</p><p>Her father is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829522/">John Stewart</a>, a TV Producer who works at FOX TV. Currently co-producing <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397182/">"On-Air with Ryan Seacrest"</a> (2004).</p><p>Born in Los Angeles, California and then spent some of her early years in Colorado and has moved back to Los Angeles where she currently resides with her parents.</p><p>Supporter and member of the Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet.</p><p>Was ranked #17 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list. (2008).</p><p>Had to wear brown contact lenses for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I) because she has naturally green eyes while Bella's eyes are supposed to be brown.</p><p>Nominated 3 consecutive years (2003-2005) for the Young Artist Award, but never won.</p><p>Named The Movie Fanatic's Hottest Young Actress. (2008).</p><p>Has 3 dogs: Oz, a border collie mix, Jack and Lily who are mutts. Also has a cat named Jella.</p><p>Was ranked #9 on Moviefone's 'The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25'(2008).</p><p>Her mother is Australian.</p><p>Reads novels by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001977/">Charles Bukowski</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0903361/">Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</a>.</p><p>Favorite book is "East of Eden" by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825705/">John Steinbeck</a>. Also likes the book "The Stranger" by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133411/">Albert Camus</a>.</p><p>Mother is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543032/">Jules Mann-Stewart</a>, a script supervisor who is directing her first film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1329177/">K-11</a> (2010), which stars Kristen.</p><p>Was introduced to Vegemite (an Australian spread) by her Sydney-born mum, and names Noosa Heads (a Queensland resort town) as one of her favorite places on the planet. Her Australian heritage also inspired the name of her dog, a border collie named Oz.</p><br /><h5>Personal Quotes</h5> <p>On working on the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258000/">Panic Room</a> (2002) with such a big name star as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000149/">Jodie Foster</a>: "When I got "Panic Room", I'm like, 'Oh my God that's huge! It's bigger than huge'. I was kind of freaked out at first".</p><p>(about her love for acting) I love it because I love to tell stories. I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.</p><p>I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.</p><p>Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. When you reach that point where you can't go anymore and you stop and you take a breath, it's that same sort of clearing of the mind.</p><p>A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.</p><p>All I try to do in the press is be honest about something that I really care about.</p><p>I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.</p><p>I start everything from the same place, with that sense of responsibility. On a bigger movie, you have to be aware that you can only control your aspect of the film. It's nice to be on a smaller movie because you're working with your friends and you feel so close-knit. It's your movie and you can do anything you want, and nobody's going to have anything to say. With a bigger movie, it concerns so many people. It's so much more of a process. But, in terms of what I do personally, it has to be the same, or else I'm just on some big movie, being a liar, and I can't do that.</p><p>Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.</p><p>About having an aha moment when it came to pursuing an acting career: I have the "Aha" moments progressively -- they're like milestones and they hit you. I think my first "Aha!" moment was when I did this (TV) movie called "Speak." I was just rolling with it, and ended up kind of really losing myself in it, so that I felt like I was a different person at the end. That was a big moment.</p><p>You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people - because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.</p><p>On whether she wants to develop her skills as a writer: I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell. I mean, I definitely will always do what I've been doing. I've also started taking a lot of pictures, and they help the writing. The pictures help the writing. I mean, I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.</p><p>About Bella in New Moon: Well, she loses what basically gives her the drive to do anything in her whole life. She loses the man she's in love with, but she also loses her entire life plan, and she's so young to have to be forced into a decision like that. It's just a glorified, elaborate version of the worst breakup you've ever been through. All of a sudden you question everything. All of a sudden you know nothing and you're dropped in the middle of a freezing cold ocean. Oddly, we have a character that's warm enough and bright enough to bring her out of that, and it's truly gut-ripping. Because as perfect as Jacob is for her, she holds on to an ideal, the ultimate fiery love that she has for Edward even though it's not comfortable, it's not practical and it's not a good idea.</p><p>This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that. It's about raising your profile and all that crap.</p><p>I was just in Botswana in Africa. I wanted to learn something about the world. I just feel really ignorant whenever I leave the country. I don't know a lot of stuff, and I really want to. I figure that traveling is a good way to start if you want knowledge. Like, if you don't know something about a country, then go and check it out. That's what I did.</p><p>On how her life has changed since Twilight: My life hasn't changed. Most circumstances I find myself in are different than they were a year ago, but I myself haven't changed...however a normal 18-year-old girl would change in a year. But it makes things so much easier. I would do it for free every day [even] if nobody saw it. I cannot describe how good it feels to actually have something that is truly into your heart and soul actually affecting people. And that's amazing. So that's the biggest change.</p><p>On whether she wants to continue making movies or go to college: I absolutely have no foresight. I used to think I had a lot when I was younger. I worked really hard in school to give myself options, and I've literally taken those options and thrown them down the toilet. Purposely - not to make that sound totally negative. It's what I want. I want to keep doing what I'm doing. It's funny, people ask me all the time: 'What do you do for fun? What do you do when you're not acting?' It's a strange thing, acting. It's a business, it's a job, everything like that. All it is, is self-reflection. You just never stop caring about people and I've never stopped doing that, so I'm sure it'll seep into other areas of my life. I want to write. I'm not going to school because I can't take the structure of it, but I'm not going to stop learning.</p><p>Usually I come in and sit down at roundtables in America and they look at me like 'what is wrong with you?' Just because I don't fit...nobody fits into the frame that typical Hollywood young actresses do, but they try to. They try to be this thing. Try to memorize answers and make everybody happy. That's so horrifying and scary to me. So when you're not that, you get criticized for it. You get criticized for being honest and criticized for being nervous. So that's kind of annoying. I do a whole day of press and then I get calls from publicity people that are like, 'you might want to be a little bit more bubbly'. And I'm like, 'no'. People get very upset in the States. It's weird. Fans of the book especially. They don't understand me. Which is fine. I guess it doesn't really matter who I am, it just matters that they like the movie.</p><p>On doing interviews: Self-evaluation is not my strong point, and you're constantly asked to critique yourself. You just spent three months on a set and your whole life is wrapped up in that - and then it's like, "Okay, define that right now in five seconds." I can't do that. I used to get so nervous that I would become a completely different person - and then they would think that was me. So I've tried to calm down, but no one's ever going to write, "Oh, she's actually just a pretty f---in' average chick who really loves what she does." That's not gonna happen.</p><p>On how fame changed her life: There's nothing you can do about it, to be honest. I don't leave my hotel room -- literally, I don't. I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you own and keep it to yourself. That said, the only way for me not to have somebody know where I went the night before is if I didn't go out at all. I'm trading. It depends on what mood I'm in. Some nights, I think, 'You know what? I don't care. I'm going to do what I want to do.' Then the next day I think, 'Ugh. Now everyone thinks I'm going out to get the attention.' and I'm like, 'No, actually, for a second, thought that maybe I could be like a normal person.'</p><br /><h5>Salary</h5> <table border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I)</td> <td valign="top">$2,000,000</td> </tr> </tbody></table><br /><h5>Where Are They Now</h5> <p>(October 2002) Colorado filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331468/">Cold Creek Manor</a> (2003).</p><p>(February 2008) Just got cast for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I), and getting ready to start filming.</p><p>(March 2008) Filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I).</p><p>(May 2008) Finished filming for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I) on Friday, May 2nd 2008. "Twilight" is due to hit theaters November 21, 2008.</p><p>(January 2009) She is filming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259571/">The Twilight Saga: New Moon</a> (2009) with co-star <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1500155/">Robert Pattinson</a>.</p><p>(May 2009) May 29th, 2009 was the last day of filming for "New Moon"</p><p>(June 2009) Filming the Runaways</p><p>(August 2009) Filming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2009) in Vancouver, British Columbia</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230283092918166551.post-36831819631468847042009-11-24T16:33:00.001-08:002009-11-24T16:38:18.166-08:00Biography for Robert Pattinson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQoBwQRs0MJCOXgnllDiR5stLkcdgsca9WvIXf11kGa8aVP3QMCbDMMa1qlwhtuHKFbqdcg7x1W5rbTY_FogHJwlS6OaDD_huiUkEt3NubzdQ_NWqCDJlcc7z87cpPcCbcmh0Z9_fbaP3/s1600/robertpattinson1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQoBwQRs0MJCOXgnllDiR5stLkcdgsca9WvIXf11kGa8aVP3QMCbDMMa1qlwhtuHKFbqdcg7x1W5rbTY_FogHJwlS6OaDD_huiUkEt3NubzdQ_NWqCDJlcc7z87cpPcCbcmh0Z9_fbaP3/s320/robertpattinson1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407834078024301714" border="0" /></a><br /><h5>Birth Name</h5> Robert Thomas-Pattinson<br /><h5>Nickname</h5> Rob<br /><h5>Height</h5> 6' 1" (1.85 m)<br /><h5>Mini Biography</h5> <p>Robert Pattinson was born on May 13, 1986, in London, England. He enjoys music and is an excellent musician, playing both the guitar and piano.<br /><br />When Robert was 15, he started acting in amateur plays with the Barnes Theatre Company. Afterward, he took screen role like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387541/">Ring of the Nibelungs</a> (2004) (TV) (Kingdom of Twilight) as Giselher.<br /><br />In 2003, Robert took on the role of Cedric Diggory in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</a> (2005). He got his role a week later after meeting <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001565/">Mike Newell</a> in late 2003.<br /><br />He has since been cast as Edward Cullen in the highly-anticipated film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I). His music will also be heard in the film. Additionally, Robert has completed upcoming roles as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198557/">Salvador Dalí</a> in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104083/">Little Ashes</a> (2008) and Art in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057581/">How to Be</a> (2008).</p> <b>IMDb Mini Biography By: </b> <a name="ba" href="http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?Janel">Janel</a><br /><br /><h5>Trade Mark</h5> <p>Messy hair</p><br /><h5>Trivia</h5> <p>Is an excellent musician and plays both the guitar and piano. He began taking piano lessons at age three, and classical guitar at five.</p><p>Attended Harrodian private school in London.</p><p>He has two older sisters, Lizzy and Victoria.</p><p>Remains close friends with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</a> (2005) co-stars, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1648506/">Stanislav Ianevski</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1648520/">Katie Leung</a>.</p><p>Was taught how to scuba dive for his role in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</a> (2005).</p><p>Sports: Has said that darts and pool are more his sport, and that he made up that he liked snowboarding and soccer for his Harry Potter audition.</p><p>Acting Inspiration: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/">Jack Nicholson</a>.</p><p>Was ranked #23 on Moviefone's "The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25" (2008).</p><p>Chosen by the Hollywood Film Festival Award Committee as the recipient of the 2008 New Hollywood Award.</p><p>Awarded Best Actor 2008 at the Strasbourg Film festival for his performance as "Art" in the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057581/">How to Be</a> (2008).</p><p>One sister, Lizzy, 25, had a top ten hit with the band Aurora. The other, Victoria, 27, works in advertising.</p><p>Most of his earnings from his first acting job - a supporting role in the television film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387541/">Ring of the Nibelungs</a> (2004) (TV) - went on paying his own fees at The Harrodian School in Barnes.</p><p>He beat 3,000 people to play Edward Cullen in the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I).</p><p>Named as Yahoo's Top Movie Heart Throb of 2008.</p><p>Named as Rolling Stone Magazine's Hottest Actor of 2008.</p><p>Named by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081857/">"Entertainment Tonight"</a> (1981) (ET) as their top hunk of 2008.</p><p>Named as one of the LA Times Breakout Stars of 2008.</p><p>Named as one of Forbes Breakout Stars of 2008.</p><p>His small, but would-have-been-memorable part in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241025/">Vanity Fair</a> (2004), was cut out in the final production.</p><p>Awarded Hello Magazine's Most Attractive Man Award of 2008.</p><p>Invited an obsessive fan out for dinner when he was having a bad day.</p><p>Father is a car salesman.</p><p>Supports Arsenal Football Club.</p><p>Splits his time residing between London, UK where his family is from and Los Angeles, CA.</p><p>One of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive 2008.</p><p>Moviefone's Number 1 Hottest Young Star Under 25 2009.</p><br /><h5>Personal Quotes</h5> <p>Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a turning point as I moved to a mixed school and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.</p><p>It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was just kind of aimlessly wandering around London and these two guys who were about 30 came up and asked for my autograph. I was really quite proud at the time, and they wanted to take photos and stuff. And then they were sort of wandering around and I was kind of wandering around and I bumped into them about three times, and every single time their respect for me kept growing and growing and growing.</p><p>They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I should try to act. So I auditioned for Guys and Dolls and got a little tiny part as some Cuban dancer or something and then in the next play I got the lead part, and then I got my agent. So I owe everything to that little club.</p><p>I aspire to be <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/">Jack Nicholson</a>. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</a> (1975) when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.</p><p>The day before [the Harry Potter London premiere] I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone. Then suddenly strangers are screaming your name. Amazing.</p><p>I went to one of these signing conventions. [in '06] It was one of the most interesting experiences I've had. It was so strange that people would pay for autographs. You keep thinking you should do a little dance for them as well or something.</p><p>I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three or four. And the guitar - I used to play classical guitar from when I was about five to 12 years of age. Then I didn't play guitar for like years. About four or five years ago, I got out the guitar again and just started playing blues and stuff. I am not very good at the guitar, but I am all right. I am in a band in London as well.</p><p>My favorite teacher was probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she'd still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher.</p><p>I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. Playing Dali has been a complete turning point for me. It's the first part I've had that has required really serious thought. I became completely obsessed with Dali during the filming, and I read every biography I could get a hold of. He was the most bizarre, complex man, but in the end I felt I could relate to him. He was basically incredibly shy.</p><p>I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.</p><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I) is a metaphor for the virtues of chastity, but it's had the opposite effect. I get letters that say "I'm going to kill myself if you don't watch <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810900/">High School Musical 2</a> (2007) (TV) with me". It's a little nuts.</p><p>Everything has become more intense for six months, since 'Twilight' was released. It's hard to handle what's happening to me. I don't have the necessary hindsight, even if only to find a way out to this situation. But this celebrity thing, you can't fight it, it's useless, you can't avoid it. When it's not something you desired during your whole life, or something you don't aspire to, you're free not to care about it. I didn't sign for Disney. There's not a stipulation which forces me to smile to the paparazzi.</p><br /><h5>Where Are They Now</h5> <p>(January 2008) He was recently named as the lead role in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/">Twilight</a> (2008/I). They are starting production.</p><p>(July 2008) Los Angeles, California</p><p>(January 2009) Currently spending time in his beloved London, England.</p><p>(December 2008) 22nd December 2008 Arrives from Los Angeles at London Heathrow Airport to spend Christmas with his family.</p><p>(February 2009) London, UK</p><p>(August 2009) Vancouver - Filming Eclipse</p>loephihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922937824962285275noreply@blogger.com0