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George Clooney in Talks to Star in Alexander Payne’s Next Film, The Descendants

2 November 2009 10:03 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

While I enjoy poking fun at most actors who never seem to slow down and it feels like I’m announcing a new project for them every week, I never mind it when that actor is George Clooney.  Even when I’m not crazy about the film, like “The Good German” or “Intolerable Cruelty”, I still think he’s great in it.  You’ll find that there’s no escaping Clooney for the rest of 2009 since he has three movies coming out over the next two months.  But since he’s great in “The Men Who Stare at Goats” and “Up in the Air”, I don’t think you’ll mind (I have yet to see “Fantastic Mr. Fox” but I don’t think his voice work is going to let me down).

Even though Clooney is currently in Italy shooting Anton Corbijn’s spy-thriller “The American”, he’s already »

- Matt Goldberg

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Tommy Lee Jones and McConaughey in Talks for ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’

15 October 2009 2:16 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Collider declared that Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to both direct and act in The Lincoln Lawyer, a film that already has McConaughey attached as the lead. I’m already seeing some nightmarish love-child of No Country for Old Men and Failure to Launch.

The Lincoln Lawyer is based on the eponymous 2005 bestselling novel by Michael Connelly and follows an attorney who runs his business out of his car (McConaughey) and through what’s sure to be a funny little twist of fate, ends up representing a well-known Hollywood playboy in a murder case that, for our lawyer, is the chance of a lifetime.  Pardon my cynicism.

 

It just already sounds to me like we’re going to get one McConaughey playing one of three Hollywood cliches: the guy about to quit; the slacker who enjoys his professionally unimpressive life with a devil-may-care charm; or the guy who endearingly »

- Scott Miller

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Tommy Lee Jones to Direct Matthew McConaughey in "The Lincoln Lawyer"

14 October 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to direct and co-star in "The Lincoln Lawyer." Matthew McConaughey heads the cast of this film adaptation based on the 2005 best-seller by Michael Connelly.

McConaughey is set to play Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles lawyer whose office is the back of his Lincoln. He defends run-of-the-mill criminals until he lands the case of a lifetime -- defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder.

It's still unclear what Jones will play because in the book, the playboy character is a lot younger than the actor, But, they may change the age to fit him.

John Romano ("Nights in Rodanthe," "Intolerable Cruelty") wrote the script. Jones has directed a film before, the excellent "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada." He also starred in that movie, winning a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.

McConaughey has played a lawyer before in the John Grisham adaptation, »

- Manny

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Tommy Lee Joins To Board Lincoln Lawyer

14 October 2009 12:47 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Matthew McConaughey has already signed up to star in The Lincoln Lawyer, the story of an ambulance-chasing attorney who takes on a dangerous case, but now it looks like fellow Texan Tommy Lee Jones might be joining him as both director and co-star.It's not yet clear what role Jones will take in the story, which sees McConaughey as lawyer Mickey Haller, who's on his uppers and living out of his car (a Lincoln, see?) until he lands Louis Ross Roulet, a rich La playboy, as a client. Haller figures he's onto a winner - only things aren't quite that easy. Now Jones could be set to play Roulet, but he's written as a younger man in the Michael Connelly book on which the film's based, so it's not immediately certain. If Jones is taking a smaller part, there's prosecutor Ted Minton, or Haller's investigator friend Raul Levin.John Romano »

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Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew McConaughey to Co-Star in The Lincoln Lawyer

13 October 2009 8:55 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to co-star and direct the adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel “The Lincoln Lawyer,” about a Los Angeles lawyer who sets up shop in the back of his Lincoln. McConaughey will play Mickey Haller the hotshot lawyer, and though Jones’s role is unknown as of now, he looks to be playing the Beverly Hills playboy Haller must defend for murder. More on the project after the jump.

According to the Risky Biz Blog, the project is set up at Lakeshore Entertainment and the screenplay was penned by John Roman of “Intolerable Cruelty” and “Nights in Rodanthe” fame. This feature is Jones’s second stab at directing for film after “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” in 2005, which was a critical–if not financial–success for Sony Pictures Classics.

The project is still in development, but in the meantime, you can look forward to »

- Michael Sullivan

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In My Opinion: The Top Ten Coen Bros. Films

30 September 2009 1:49 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Ethan and Joel Coen circa 1990 while promoting Miller's Crossing Top Ten Coen Bros. Films With the upcoming release of A Serious Man, the brand new film from the Coen brothers, I decided to put together my personal top ten list of their films. A task that proved much harder than I would have originally imagined. I agonized over this list. Why? Because love isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about the Coen films. No, something more akin to reverence mixed with a healthy bit of obsessive adoration would be much closer to my relationship with their work. They are the kind are filmmakers who make us think, as we sit in the theater, they are unspooling the yarn just for us. Sure, the Coens weave tales of great violence and isolation, but somewhere in there a quiet grace is achieved too. Places 11, 12 and 13 Photo: Universal Pictures / Touchstone »

- Laremy Legel

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5 More From Tiff: Perrier's Bounty, The Joneses, The Hole, Survival of the Dead and A Serious Man

18 September 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Faithful readers! You may have noticed my absence from the blog of late as I let friends fill in from the Toronto International Film Festival. The Canadian fest wraps today but we've got a few more Tiff related reports to get through. I hope you're enjoying (comment!). After the Tiff wrap, I'll be back. Things have been crazy for me. Apologies! (I can't wait to tell you about my star studded 'Oprah Day'). Here's five more capsules from Txt Critic who I like to argue with in real life (he sees everything) despite his anonymity here.

on The JonesesThis satire of consumerism starring Demi Moore (at Tiff with her man, left) and David Duchovny as parents of a fake family "cell" placed into suburbia to sell their neighbors on various products is about as stale and 'blah' as that plot description sounds. The screenplay leaves both leads grasping at straws »

- NATHANIEL R

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Jeff Bridges To Star In Coen Bros. ‘True Grit’ Remake?

11 September 2009 11:11 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

We reported early this year on the fact that the Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men) are remaking the classic 1969 John Wayne Western, True Grit. Fast-forward to almost six months down the line, and it appears things are firmly on their way with the project - Jeff Bridges is reportedly in talks to star in the late-great John Wayne’s Oscar-winning role.

Big, tough boots to fill, I think you’ll agree.

Bridges is in talks with Paramount to star in the Coen’s True Grit, which would see him work with the filmmaking duo for the first time since he was The Dude in their 1998 cult-classic, The Big Lebowski (one of my all time favorite movies, Fyi). Along with reuniting the Coens with The Dude, the project (which the bros. are lining up as their next) also reunites them with No Country for Old Men producer, Scott Rudin. »

- Ross Miller

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Part Two: October 2009 (Features)

8 September 2009 11:00 PM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »

The banquet continues to get bigger during this equally elephantine cinematic salad course. Everything, from another unnecessary helping of serial killer Jigsaw to a pair of takes on two famous literary classics turn up this month. So do the standard spook shows, Romcoms, stunt spectaculars, and other familiar (if often tasty) samples of celluloid cuisine.

Films That Should SatisfyDirector: Joel & Ethan Coen Film: A Serious Man Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Wagner Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff MPAA rating: R Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/blog_art/a/aseriousmanposter.jpg Display as: List 2 OctoberA Serious Man How do the Coen Brothers do it? How do they keep coming up with inventive narratives, complicated characters, and directorial flair that's as reverent to the past as it is indicative of film's future. Aside from a rough bit from 2003 through 2005 (in which the subpar Ladykillers remake and Intolerable Cruelty resulted), they've »

- By Bill Gibron

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Se&L's 10 Must-See Films of Fall/Winter 2009 (Short Ends and Leader)

8 September 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »

At last count, there are close to 80 movies slated for release in the next four months, not including the off studio independents, heralded foreign imports, and frequent film festival surprises. As the transition from summer's popcorn pleasantries to fall's forced import begins, it's often hard to get a handle on what, exactly, deserves your dollars - and more significantly, your precious entertainment attention span. The push towards Awards season consequence is always complicated. Release dates shuffle, perspectives shift, and what seemed like a sure thing only a few weeks ago can fade into oblivion faster than a Will Farrell take on a classic Saturday morning kid's show from the '70s. With that in mind, Se&L has been sizing up the offerings on tap for the next 17 weeks, and we've complied our very own Top 10 Must-See titles. Now, this is not an attempt to gauge the best films of the year, »

- By Bill Gibron

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Fall Movie Preview: Deception And Dark Laughs in Coen Brothers Comedy, 'A Serious Man'

28 August 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Woody Harrelson. Tom Hanks. George Clooney again. Billy Bob Thornton. George Clooney a third time.

Joel and Ethan Coen like Hollywood leading men in their movies, those Oscar winners and tabloid staples who put butts in theaters seats and bring their twisty dark tales to life. After "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers" and "No Country for Old Men" and "Burn After Reading" comes "A Serious Man" and its star... Michael Stuhlbarg?

Yup, the Coen brothers are switching gears, at least when it comes to casting. Their story, though, hits themes—deception, betrayal, crime, humiliation, alienation, pride—that the writer/directors have returned to again and again in their work.

"I just didn't want to be the one who messed everything up," Stuhlbarg told MTV News.

A New York-based theater actor, »

- Eric Ditzian

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Exclusive: Up In The Air Poster

18 August 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

George Clooney's always worth watching, and so far director Jason Reitman hasn't set a foot wrong, with Thank You For Smoking and Juno under his belt. So the prospect of a film from both of them - say, one called Up In The Air - is a positively tasty one, and we're delighted to bring you the new poster for the film.Clooney stars as a corporate downsizing expert (booo! Hissss!) who travels all over the Us in pursuit of more opportunities to fire people. As he approaches the 10million* frequent flyer miles milestone and meets the frequent-flying woman of his dreams (Farmiga), his cherished lifestyle is threatened as his company wants to move him to headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.We have a feeling that this will share more creative DNA with Thank You For Smoking than Juno, but in any case it sounds like an opportunity for sly Clooney comedy, »

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The Linker is In

3 August 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Nathaniel (c'est moi) is back. Thank you to the guest bloggers Robert, Ja, Adam, Jose, Rc and Kieran for letting me breathe this week. Give them a round of applause.

The past seven or eight days have been alternately stressful, joyous, upsetting, relaxing and extremely busy (offweb stuff mostly: friends getting married, work deadlines...) but all the while I didn't have that sick omgihavetopostsomething*now* feeling that I don't think is conducive to good blogging or creativity. That feeling was beginning to sully The Film Experience a bit for me and it's something I'll have to watch out for and shoo away in the future. There's hundreds of corporate movie blogs out there that provide that 12-25 daily news-posts fix. I'll just try to craft good little nuggets as I can. I cherish this little home I've made on the web and the many people (you) who walk into it »

- NATHANIEL R

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[DVD Review] No Country for Old Men

9 April 2009 4:49 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ undisputed career masterpiece evokes the feeling that everything they’ve achieved prior to this has simply been larks. They were biding their time, practicing, waiting for just the right cosmic alignment of mood and material to unleash their true potential upon an unsuspecting audience lulled into a false sense of quirky security by the likes of Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.

For sure this is the Coen Bros of old and No Country feels like a distilled amalgamation of their classic work, sharpened and pointed into a needle of sheer cinematic genius. It has the cold, stark simplicity of Blood Simple, the dark cynicism of Miller’s Crossing, and the incompressible humor of Fargo (we defy you to identify anyone else that can craft a sidesplitting throwaway exchange about welding).

An adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s bleak 1980 set crime thriller, »

- Neil Pedley

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2009 | 2008 | 2006 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

14 articles from 2009

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