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White Collar Review: "Book of Hours"
7 November 2009 6:37 AM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
White Collar hasn't lost its steam to keep us engaged and wanting more. This week in, "Book of Hours" our guys are hanging around some interesting mob types.
The "Book of Hours" is actually a very old and priceless Bible that the head mob guy had stolen from him. This guy does an alright job of playing a mob guy, but a mob boss? C'mon! We were expecting to see a James Gandolfini look-a-like from The Sopranos. I guess those days have come and gone and they aren't the same as they use to be. He did have that sweet endearing quality to him that makes us fall in love with The Godfather types.
Neal is still as hot as ever - especially how he is the only one on the whole FBI squad that wears a fedora - and boy does he wear that fedora well! Not only is »
- mmcarion@gmail.com (Mrs. Northman)
Morning Links - Conan O'Brien Apologizes After Levi Johnston Threatens to Sue
6 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Conan O'Brien issues an apology after Levi Johnston threatens to sue over an offensive joke - TMZ The Letterman scandal inspires an episode of Law & Order - Us Weekly Kevin Federline's girlfriend might be pregnant - Celebitchy Freddie Prinze, Jr. is enjoying fatherhood - Icydk Bruce Willis is not a fan of plastic surgery - Fox 411 Alec Baldwin bares his butt in It's Complicated - Lifeline Live Is Reggie moving in with Kim? - Wonderwall James Gandolfini gets into a fight with a paparazzi on Halloween - PopEater Gerard Butler always falls for the wrong girl - I'm Not Obsessed Amy Winehouse has a new hobby - The Blemish »
- PopSugar
Gandolfini 'Threatens Paparazzo'
6 November 2009 8:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Sopranos star James Gandolfini has been caught on camera allegedly threatening a paparazzo.
The actor is said to have taken exception to a videographer taping him as he shopped with his son Michael in New York City on Halloween.
In footage posted on the Huffington Post website, Gandolfini can be seen lunging for the photographer, who tells the star to "Relax, man!"
The hardman then pushes away the camera before shouting, "I'm gonna break your f**king face!"
As WENN went to press it was unknown if the snapper had filed charges against Gandolfini. »
James Gandolfini Punches Photographer (Video)
5 November 2009 1:40 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
'The Sopranos' may be over, but James Gandolfini is still acting like a mobster. On Halloween he assaulted a photographer who was trying to videotape him shopping in NYC's West Village for New York website Guest of a Guest. Near the end of the clip the photog's mom can be heard yelling, "Get away from my son!" Last year Gandolfini punched an autograph-seeking fan at JFK Airport. Watch: James Gandolfini Assaults photographer from Guest of a Guest on Vimeo. Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter!... »
- Katy Hall
Blu-Ray Review: Denzel Washington, Tony Scott Take ‘Pelham 123’ Seriously
5 November 2009 9:07 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – When a New York subway dispatcher finds himself locked in a tense battle of the wits with a deranged criminal onboard Pelham 123, he’s offered this bit of advice from a seasoned hostage negotiator: don’t enter his world. The same warning could be issued to viewers intent on entering the world of Tony Scott. It is a cinematic landscape that is alternately marred and enhanced by Add.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
With his ever-changing frame rate and rapid editing, Scott speeds through his story until he lands on a part that sparks his interest; often a moment of physical or emotional violence. This plays out in extreme slo-mo, halting the movement and blurring the action to such an extent that the audience feels like they have been punched in the head.
The Taking of Pelham 123 was released on Blu-Ray and DVD on November 3rd, 2009.
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Home »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 11/3
3 November 2009 9:03 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Here's my problem with the picture: a furiously-filmed chase through the streets of Paris should be spectacular and thrilling. Instead, it's incoherent, routine, even disappointing. Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) turns in another by-the-numbers action spectacle, this time starring Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Marlon Wayans, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. There are better ways to waste your time and money. Skip it. Also on Blu-ray.
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Tony Scott's remake is a higher-grade disappointment, coming achingly close to delivering an unqualified success. Derailed by John Travolta's unrepentant scenery-chewing, which goes far beyond the bounds of bad taste, and an unhealthy preoccupation with explaining everything, the film motors along reasonably well, fashioning a paranoid tale of post-9/11 terror and ticking time bomb suspense. Denzel Washington is eminently watchable, and »
- Peter Martin
Eric Roberts: The Hollywood Interview
2 November 2009 10:23 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)
Rediscovering Roberts
Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.
By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Let Me Off at Off- and Off-Off-Broadway
1 November 2009 6:59 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
There is nothing inherently wrong with movie and TV stars being big draws on Broadway, necessitating current top ticket prices of 140 bucks or so, along with seats in the mezzanine that are so narrow they make you feel morbidly obese. This is nothing necessarily improper with any of this, because, in the case of, say Yazmina Reza's Tony Award winning drama God of Carnage, a powerful Albee-esque drama starring the brilliant Tony-winning Marcia Gay Harden, along with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels, the $81.50 you spend for a Tuesday night in the nosebleed seats becomes a transcendent theatrical experience at the Bernard Jacobs, with director Matthew Warchus expertly guiding two sets of parents into upper class warfare after one of their children has knocked out the teeth of the other. But as satisfying as God of Carnage is, there... »
- Brad Schreiber
Cool Where The Wild Things Are Photos
25 October 2009 12:04 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Check out a few more really cool photos from the fantasy film “Where the Wild Things Are” by director Spike Jonze (Jackass Number Two) and starring Forest Whitaker (The Expendables, Street Kings), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), Catherine Keener (Hamlet 2, Capote) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Where The Wild Things Are. Synopsis: “Where the Wild Things Are” is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie [...] »
- Brian Corder
News Flash: Channing Tatum to Star in Dito Montiel's Newest Movie & Nominated for People's Choice Award
24 October 2009 11:54 AM, PDT | Channing Tatum Unwrapped | See recent Channing Tatum Unwrapped news »
In case you all missed the tweet on Channing Tatum's official Twitter, Production Weekly just confirmed that Chan will be starring in yet another Dito Montiel film very soon.
First there was 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints', then 'Fighting', then 'Brotherhood of the Rose', and now we have 'Son of No One'. All written and directed by Dito Montiel and all starring Channing Tatum.
I think Chan may have mentioned this film when he was doing press for 'Fighting' in April, but there's not a lot of details out there for it yet. What we do know is that Chan will be acting along side his 'Fighting' co-star Terrence Howard, James Gandolfini from "The Sopranos" and Robert De Niro from more movies than I could ever list here and who coincidentally also executive produced Chan's 2009 historical drama 'Public Enemies'. »
- Blog Expert
New Photos from Where The Wild Things Are
22 October 2009 12:35 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Here’s a few very cool photos from the upcoming fantasy film “Where the Wild Things Are” by director Spike Jonze (Jackass Number Two) and starring Forest Whitaker (The Expendables, Street Kings), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), Catherine Keener (Hamlet 2, Capote) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Where The Wild Things Are. Synopsis: “Where the Wild Things Are” is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news [...] »
- Brian Corder
Hollywood Stars Smash Broadway Records
21 October 2009 5:10 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
If you want to break the box office, you get an A-list star - and Broadway's learning that that's as true in theater as it is on the silver screen. With movie stars on the marquees of its plays, Broadway is seeing one of its best fall seasons in recent years, selling $21.1 million from Oct. 12 to 18, according to The New York Times. Both A Steady Rain has grossed over $1 million, thanks to stars Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman. Meanwhile, Shakespeare is hot as never before, with Jude Law raking in $904,914 last week, bringing total box office receipts for Broadway to »
- Michael Y. Park
Where the Wild Things Are - “Scene Selection” Review
20 October 2009 11:24 AM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Children are so hard to incorporate into film and theater. The actors always are pesky, uncooperative, and rarely any good. However Max Records of “Where The Wild Things Are” stands out among today’s young actors with composure, emotion, and charm.
Records plays Max, an innocent boy who throws tantrums in a bratty, boisterous manor. He acts exactly as a child should though, beginning the film playing in the snow, throwing snowballs, and building an igloo. He ends up getting hurt and crying like a child should, but in return we see the wrath of Max and the love of his mother. Later Max plays out the scene from the book step for step by throwing a tantrum at the kitchen table and gets sent to bed. Flash forward and we see Max traveling to his own world toward the wild things. Max interacts and has an uneven time with the creatures. »
- Alex Kartman
Tatum, De Niro, Howard and Gandolfini Set for Montiel's 'Son of No One'
20 October 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- I guess this means that The Brotherhood of the Rose is on ice. Dito Montiel is instead pegging Son of No One as his next project, his third film following 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and this year's Fighting (you'd have to pay me to watch that one). This would mark the third time that Dito works with Channing Tatum (safe to say they're friends) and a second straight project with Terence Howard. Also attached are a pair of actors synonymous with "the streets" are Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. Production is expected to begin in January. The thriller is about a young cop who is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family. Sounds very James Gray if you ask me.... »
Review: Where the Wild Things Are
20 October 2009 2:10 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Spike Jonze As I left the cinema Friday night still reeling from my experience, I realized that the perfect barometer for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are was the 4-year old girl walking with her mom in front of me. Throughout the film I could hear her alternating between laughing, crying and screaming. In a nutshell, those are exactly the kind of emotions that this movie elicits. The hype surrounding Jonze’s latest creation (ten years in the making) was deafening and the stakes were high considering last year’s mini-debacle when test footage leaked online spurred many to lash out against it. However in his traditional perfectionist style, Jonze took it all in stride and eventually created a truly beautiful interpretation of Maurice Sendak’s famed children’s book. Once our protagonist (a neglected Max Records) escapes to the island where the wild things are, »
- Myles Dolphin
It's a Magical Place 'Where the Wild Things Are'
18 October 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
With the help of bestselling author and hipster favorite Dave Eggers, director Spike Jonze has turned a nearly wordless picture book into a full-length feature. Where the Wild Things Are brims with creativity, imagination, and the untamed spirit of childhood—all hallmarks of Maurice Sendak’s enduring creation. With its PG-rating and source material, Jonze’s film might seem like standard children’s fare, but there’s a palpable sense of loneliness, sadness, and unpredictability rarely felt in mainstream family films.
Like Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Where the Wild Things Are boasts an undercurrent of darkness that might surprise children and any unwitting parents unfamiliar with Jonze’s past work in Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. However, despite its sometimes melancholy mood, this adaptation is often buoyant with moments of joy and gleeful abandon.
Max (Max Records) is a terror of a child »
Wild Things Run Wild At Box Office
18 October 2009 4:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Fantasy film Where The Wild Things Are has marched to the top of the U.S. box office, taking $32.5 million (£21.6 million) in its opening weekend.
Director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book boasts a castlist including James Gandolfini, Forest Whitaker and Chris Cooper.
The animated adventure easily beat Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler thriller Law Abiding Citizen into second place, but the movie - another box office debutant, still managed an impressive $21.3 million (£14.2 million).
Low budget horror film Paranormal Activity jumped up the chart to third place, taking $20.2 million (£13.5 million), ahead of Couples Retreat and The Stepfather, which round out the top five. »
Adults lead 'Wild Things' $32.5M box-office rumpus
18 October 2009 1:06 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
"Where the Wild Things Are" proved a bigger hit with adult audiences than family crowds as the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book debuted at No. 1 with $32.5 million.Moviegoers 18 and older accounted for 43 percent of the audience, while parents with children made up 27 percent, according to distributor Warner Bros.Overture Films earned the No. 2 spot with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler's vengeance thriller "Law Abiding Citizen," which debuted with $21.3 million.Expanding into wider release, Paramount's low-budget horror sensation "Paranormal Activity" moved up to No. 3 with $20.2 million.Shot for a reported $15,000, "Paranormal Activity" outdid the premiere of Sony's fright flick "The Stepfather," which cost $19 million and played in nearly four times as many theaters but managed just a No. 5 opening with $12.3 million.The results for "Where the Wild Things Are" matched the intent of director Spike Jonze, »
Where the Wild Things Are tops the box office with a strong $32.4 million. Paranormal Activity most impressive.
18 October 2009 6:13 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"Where the Wild Things Are" topped the box office with a big $32.4 million opening weekend gross. The Warner Bros. Pictures family adventure averaged $8,693.44 per theatre from 3,735 venues. The adaptation of the beloved Maurice Sendak book helmed by Spike Jonze, stars Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Dano, Michael Berry Jr. and Tom Noonan. Not disgraced in second place was Overture Films' intense action crime thriller "Law Abiding Citizen" starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Fox. Opening in 2,890 theatres, the film debuted with $21.25 million at an average of $7,352.94. Impressing remarkably was Paramount Pictures "Paranormal Activity" which, thanks to user demand, increased its reach into 760 theatres and grossed a gargantuan $20.1 million at an average of $26,530.26. Total cume for the horror is now over $33.7 million from a miniscule budget of around $15,000. »
Review: Where the Wild Things Are
17 October 2009 10:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Where the Wild Things Are Directed by Spike Jonze Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's classic Where the Wild Things Are contains exactly 10 sentences, 338 words of text and 18 pictures. The book, which the author refers to as a ¨personal exorcism,¨ earned a Caldecott Medal, went on to touch millions of readers worldwide, was eventually ranked by Publishers Weekly as one of the 10 all-time best-selling books for children since the 1970s and served as the basis for an animated short, an opera, a ballet, a museum exhibit and now a major motion picture. Spike Jonze's heartfelt adaptation is as beautiful, heartbreaking, and ingenuous as the original source material. Jonze creates an entire emotional and spiritual visual life which is as valid as the book. Giving it a modern cinematic voice, he manages to never take anything away from the story but rather he enhances and riches its text. Jonze makes the clever »
- Ricky
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