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'True Blood' hunk on landing Alcide: 'I started crying'
28 December 2009 10:15 AM, PST
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Now that you've had time to adjust to the idea of Joe Manganiello in the role of Alcide on True Blood, it's time to get to know the man behind the monster. In Part 1 of an exclusive two-part Q&A, the One Tree Hill hunk opens up about the phone call that changed his life, the childhood incident that foreshadowed his casting, and the punishing "werewolf workout" that will turn him into a half-human heartthrob.
How did you find out that you won the role?
Joe Manganiello: I had three meetings with Alan Ball. , I got a call from my agent and manager.
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Jane Campion and 'Bright Star' -- Lost in the Shuffle?
21 December 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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Jane Campion, who's wowed film fans and critics for years with movies like Sweetie, The Piano, and The Portrait of a Lady, came back with a fierceness at this year's Cannes with Bright Star, an elegant retelling of the love affair between John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The film shows the doomed relationship from Brawne's point of view; an outspoken and creative young woman with a flair for fashion and not much of a passion for Romantic poetry, Brawne becomes enamored of her neighbor much to the disapproval of her mother and his churlish friend, fellow writer Charles Brown (Paul Schneider). Unfortunately, their love remains rather celibate, relegated to holding hands and writing letters. Keats died at 25, unsuccessful and poor, from tuberculosis.
Overall the consensus from Cannes was that Jane Campion's first full-length movie since 2003's In the Cut was a strong contender in a number of Oscar categories,
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Director puts faith in on-set alchemy
17 December 2009 7:00 PM, PST
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Bright Star director Jane Campion believes in throwing her actors in at the deep end. Abbie Cornish had not met her co-star Ben Whishaw before they worked together on rehearsals for the story of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Campion explained she had learned a thing or two about on-set chemistry:'i had a situation on The Piano where when I told Holly [Hunter] that [Harvey Keitel] was going to be playing Baines; she just howled down the phone. She'd heard things - that he's very difficult, that he was rude to women. If I'd applied that rule of 'Let's get them together and see if they like each other', it would have been a disaster. They grew
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- Philippa Bourke
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Abbie Cornish Reflects on Bright Star and Looks Ahead to Sucker Punch
11 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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With awards season in full swing, Movieline is launching a new recurring feature called "For Your Reconsideration," where we speak to the talented people whose contributions to the year in film are worthy of a second look. First up: Abbie Cornish from Bright Star.
There's something about the women in Jane Campion's films: They can say so much without saying anything at all. Bright Star's Abbie Cornish certainly gets to talk more than Holly Hunter did in The Piano, but as her Fanny Brawne falls in love with Ben Whishaw's John Keats, her quiet fortitude conveys intelligence, emotion, and deep passion. It's one of the year's most striking performances.
Now that Cornish has been able to carve out some spare time from shooting Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, the actress talked to Movieline about clothes, chemistry, and the one thing Campion and Snyder have in common.
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'Community' recap: Horses, STDs, and Harvey Keitel
3 December 2009 11:17 PM, PST
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I was not in the best of moods last night when Community materialized on my TV. I was exhausted, I had a stubborn headache, and it was approaching 50 degrees outside, which for Angelenos is the equivalent of being trapped on Hoth. Luckily, yesterday's episode, "The Politics of Human Sexuality," was an agreeable affair. The show wasn't top-tier Community, mind you, but it was satisfying enough to snap this blogger out of his funk, and what more could you ask for from a freshman comedy series? While the episode's setting of a school Std fair didn't set up its humor as effectively as,
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- John Young
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Bright Star Shines Bright on DVD on January 26th
19 November 2009 8:01 AM, PST
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You can bring home a brand new drama home on DVD this coming January. Bright Star will be released on DVD on January 26. A Blu-ray release was not announced, but this standard DVD will be priced at $27.96 Srp. The film stars Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw.
From Jane Campion, Academy Award winner of The Piano, comes a sweeping love story that will carry you back through time to experience the passion and romance between acclaimed poet, John Keats and his beloved muse. London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair began at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was unimpressed not only by his poetry but also by literature in general.
Special Features:
- Deleted Scene
- An Inspiring Romance Featurette
- Becoming Keats and
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Harvey Keitel Joins DeNiro in “Little Fockers”
13 November 2009 11:42 AM, PST
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Harvey Keitel (The Piano, Bad Lieutenant, Pulp Fiction) has signed up to appear in “Little Fockers,” the latest movie in the “Meet The Parents” comedy series.
Along with Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson, we have newcomers Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, and now Keitel. He will play a contractor employed by Stiller’s character.
Paul Weitz (In Good Company, American Pie) is directing the new film. Jane Rosenthal and Jay Roach, who directed the first two films in the franchise, are producing. John Hamburg, who co-wrote the first two films, rewrote the original script by Larry Stuckey.
“Little Fockers” is set to be in theatres on July 30, 2010.
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- Allan Ford
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Jan Chapman - The Woman Behind So Many Great Films
10 November 2009 2:56 PM, PST
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One of my longtime obsessions has been finding Australian films,
especially those directed by women. It began almost 20 years ago when
I first saw My Brilliant Career and I was blown away. Thinking
back now, seeing that movie was another one of my seminal movie moments
and that began a deep love for all things Gillian Armstrong and Judy
Davis.
One thing you will discover if you dig a little deeper on some of
the most interesting flicks to have come out of Australia in the last
20 years is the recurrence of one name in particular producer, Jan
Chapman.
This woman has produced some great films (lots by women directors) including The Last Days of Chez Nous, The Piano, Lantana, Sommersault and the current Jane Campion film Bright Star.
I had the privilege to speak with Jan recently and immediately I was
struck (through the phone) with that same sense.
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- Melissa Silverstein
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Paquin: 'Fans find my nude scenes weird'
30 October 2009 2:12 AM, PDT
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Anna Paquin has revealed that viewers get uncomfortable seeing her naked in vampire drama True Blood. The actress, who played Flora in Oscar-winning film The Piano aged 11, said that people find it difficult to see her strip off because they still think of her as an innocent child star. Paquin told Bang Showbiz: "It's been a gradual evolution for me. It's probably weird for people to watch it and if they have this image of me as a sweet little child, (more)
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- By Rebecca Davies
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True Blood hits UK DVD!
29 October 2009 12:44 PM, PDT
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One of our fave TV shows is hitting DVD in the UK this week, the superb Us TV show True Blood.
From the creator of Six Feet Under and the Academy Award® winning writer of American Beauty (Alan Ball) and featuring the sexy, eclectic cast of Academy Award® winning Anna Paquin(The Piano, X-Men), British actor Stephen Moyer (NY-lon), Alexander Skarsgard (Generation Kill) and Ryan Kwanten (Home and Away) True Blood is the show that everyone is talking about.
A sensation in the Us, winning a Golden Globe in its first season (Anna
Paquin, Best Actress) True Blood has already made its (fang)marks on
the flesh of British viewers pulling in huge viewers on FX and
threatening to glamour even more when it makes its terrestrial debut on
Channel 4 in October. Feeding our fascination for vampires, Alan Ball
looks at a lascivious world occupied by the dead in the
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- Paul
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Exclusive: Bright Star Clip
29 October 2009 7:41 AM, PDT
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No one captures the gentle melancholy of the human condition like Michael Bay Jane Campion, and Bright Star, the tale of John Keats' tragic love affair with Fanny Brawne, is arguably her finest since The Piano.Set during the final two years of the young poet's life and with a title taken from the opening line of a Keats sonnet, Bright Star is awash with romance, heartache and heaving bosoms. As this clip shows, Campion's direction has lost none of its poetry as Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) correspond and daydream in a field of bluebells.Aside from the clip, we also have some new stills from Bright Star, or you can wait until it's out in cinemas on Friday 6th November.
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Former Child Star Anna Paquin Admits Audiences Find It "Weird" When She Gets Nude On Screen
29 October 2009 12:54 AM, PDT
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Anna Paquin admits audiences find it "weird" when she gets nude on screen. The former child actress - who won an Oscar aged 11 for her part in "The Piano" - doesn't mind baring all for scenes in her steamy U.S. drama series "True Blood" but understands it is difficult for people to stop thinking of her as a "sweet" young star.
She said: "It's been a gradual evolution for me. It's probably weird for people to watch it and if they have this image of me as a sweet little child, but it's not weird for me."
"My wardrobe is awesome. I'm practically naked the entire time - what's not to love?"
New Zealand-born Anna - who is dating her co-star, Stephen Moyer, who plays vampire Bill Compton in the show - also explained that casting good looking actors in the show was essential to explain the allure which vampires have.
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Spike TV's 2009 Scream Awards: star-studded and surreal
28 October 2009 3:24 PM, PDT
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I don't know if you caught last night's 2009 Scream Awards on Spike TV last night. But if you didn't, then you missed out on one of the strangest parades of Hollywood back-patting ever staged. For those unfamiliar with this new heir to the Oscars and the Golden Globes, the Scream Awards are ostensibly all about celebrating the best in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror on both the big and the small screen. And just to show that the event is even cooler than the MTV Movie Awards, the categories honor such superlatives as Best Horror Movie, Best Villain, and my personal favorite,
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- Chris Nashawaty
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Amelia
23 October 2009 7:48 AM, PDT
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The review... If you’re going to make a film about an aviatrix, it better soar. Mira Nair's Amelia seems to understand this with reverent voiceovers about flight sprinkled throughout. It even begins by prepping for liftoff as we see Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) waving from her plane’s wing, about to embark on a historic flight. Unfortunately it's the historic flight, as in her last. Argh! The movie has opted for that musty old biopic framing device: Start at the famous end, jump backwards in time to see how it all began, count down with us to the famous celebrity death! When a biopic begins this way, you have to worry that it has nothing fresh to say, being closer in spirit to a Wikipedia entry than a movie.
From that initial take off, complete with an overzealous score that assumes every moment's a climactic one, Amelia the
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Review: Amelia
22 October 2009 11:30 AM, PDT
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It's Oscar contender season, when the studios trot out the films they hope will capture the attention of the bearers of golden statuettes, and the box office revenue those little gold men bring. One has to wonder just what Fox Searchlight was thinking when they chose to release Amelia.
It seems like a perfect match: Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) directing a cast of heavyweights, including Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston. Stuart Dryburgh had an Oscar nod for Best Cinematography for The Piano amongst his list of nominations and wins. Both editors, Allyson C. Johnson and Lee Percy, are seasoned professionals, and Johnson has worked on several Nair projects. The writers, Ron Bass (Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Girl, Interrupted, Mask) each have an Oscar nod. Two books about Earhart are used, including Susan Butler's East to the Dawn and
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- Jenn Brown
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Between The Lines: 'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated'
18 October 2009 11:50 AM, PDT
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As I entered the theatre itself to find my seat, I came face-to-face for the first time in lord knows how long with Reba Perkins, one of my favorite Nashville actresses, who now works part-time as an usher for Tpac. Reba's genuinely heartfelt response to seeing me was heartwarming and reassuring. Instantly, my mind went back to the first time I had the opportunity to review Reba's onstage work, in the Circle Players production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. She gave a wonderfully nuanced performance that garnered rave reviews all around and resulted in her being nominated for a First Night Award that season.
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Stephen Moyer 'Hoping' for Same-Sex Romp
13 October 2009 8:10 AM, PDT
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"True Blood's" Stephen Moyer may lock horns with fellow vampire Alexander Skarsgard on the HBO series -- but Moyer is hoping for a same-sex romp between the bloodsuckers on the show.
"Alex is a good friend of mine and a fantastic actor and I love working with Alex and I don't get to do it as much as I would love to," Moyer revealed to Digital Spy, adding jokingly, "You never know -- whether
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Spotlight Review: Bright Star - Jed Medina
11 October 2009 3:23 AM, PDT
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Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
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Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,
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Spotlight Review: Bright Star - Jed Medina
11 October 2009 3:23 AM, PDT
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Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
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Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,
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Spotlight Review: Bright Star - Jed Medina
11 October 2009 3:23 AM, PDT
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Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
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Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,
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