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My Movie Diary (2000-2009)
28 December 2009 6:58 PM, PST
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I can’t remember why, I’ve slept since then, but, in January of 2000, I found myself sitting in front of a blank Word document. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do, and, now, 10 years later, I’m still working strong at it. I began keeping a sort of diary, listing the days and months and putting down the films I saw in the theater into it. I don’t remember why I only included movies I saw in the theater. I could have started just as an idea-giver on how many movies I actually saw each year (I also kept a running count each year). It began on January 7th, 2000, when I entered Bicentennial Man as my first film in this long and ever-growing endeavor.
In 2000, I saw 166 films in the theater. There were many a high (seeing Gladiator on May 5th and
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- Kirk
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1st Look: Joel Schumacher's Twelve
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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When Joel Schumacher made Tigerland in 1990, he plotted a future that would include a film such as Twelve - an indie-priced film funded by French money (Gaumont). The pic which resembles The Rules of Attraction and Alpha Dog on the surface, will close this coming edition of Sundance. - When Joel Schumacher made Tigerland in 1990, he plotted a future that would include a film such as Twelve - an indie-priced film funded by French money (Gaumont). The pic which resembles The Rules of Attraction and Alpha Dog on the surface, will close this coming edition of Sundance. Based on the novel by teenage scribe Nick McDonell, its depiction of the freewheeling, decadent lifestyle of Manhattan's young and rich and tells the story of a young drug dealer who watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his
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Pulp Fiction writer tweets on life in prison
24 November 2009 9:56 AM, PST
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In 140-character takes, Roger Avary has built up a vivid portrait of life in Ventura county jail where he is being held
When Roger Avary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction, was last month sentenced to a year behind bars for his role in a fatal car crash, it seemed that a promising writing career had come to an abrupt end.
But a string of posts on social networking site Twitter has revealed that he is apparently still chronicling the underbelly of American culture.
In a series of 140-character takes, Avary has built up a vivid portrait of life in Ventura county jail where he is currently being held. "Sickness spreads throughout the facility like brush fires," he writes in his latest tweet from November 22, "and #34 [his identification number in prison] is helpless to avoid the outbreak and inevitable infection."
Though there has been no official confirmation that the Twitter feed is Avary's, there are various clues to its authenticity,
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- Ed Pilkington
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News: Jessica Biel Engaging in Filth!
29 October 2009 9:26 AM, PDT
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The Hollywood Reporter today broke news that will be sure to tarnish the image of squeaky clean (yawn inspiring) gym bunny Jessica Biel. Jess has signed on to produce and star in Julia Brownell’s debut feature F*cking Engaged. The ‘raunchy comedy’ centres around a couple who pledge to have sex every day in the approach to their wedding to avoid turning into their parents. It sounds hilarious.
Biel, currently shooting her role as sassy Carissa Sosa in the new A-Team Movie, will next be seen in romantic comedy Nailed alongside Catherine Keener and Jake Gyllenhall. We hold out more hope for this and for the spring release of ensemble comedy Valentine’s Day in which she will reportedly appear. Nevertheless, tabloids worldwide will be delighted they may finally (and explicitly) confirm that Jessica Biel is engaged. Jess herself might also be rather glad of a role where she
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- Emily Breen
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'The Vampire Diaries' Star Ian Somerhalder Is Cursed In 'Cradlewood'
16 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT
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I'm fine watching Ian Somerhalder on the small screen, though I've missed him on "Lost" the past couple years and I'm pretty tired of vampire shows (such as his series "The Vampire Diaries"). But I just re-watched the terribly underrated "The Rules of Attraction" the other night and I really think he belongs on the big screen more often. Fortunately, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Somerhalder has been cast in a new film titled "Cradlewood."
Described as a romantic gothic fairy tale, "Cradlewood" follows a man (Somerhalder) threatened by a family curse. Thanks to an old deal with a demon, every male in his family dies as soon as he begets a son. In the movie, which was conceived and will be directed by visual effects artist Harry Weinmann ("Race to Witch Mountain"), Somerhalder's character suspects that his wife is pregnant and he resolves to do what he can to stay alive.
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- Christopher Campbell
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Bret Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sant to Film The Golden Suicides
14 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT
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Love him or hate him, you must admit that Bret Easton Ellis’ writing is some of the most innovative and unique work to arise out of the past few decades — Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho not only stunned on the page, but translated into three very good films.
However, his only work at adapting his novels into a screenplay by his own hand was the critically lambasted The Informers, which I have been told to avoid at all costs. I’d like to think, however, that this is simply a fluke, because Ellis’ talents will soon be used to adapt The Golden Suicides with Gus Van Sant (Milk, Elephant) at his side.
Currently, Van Sant is only involved in a co-writing capacity, adapting a Vanity article by Nancy Jo Sales that considers the suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. According to Variety:
“Duncan and
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- John Cooper
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Gus Van Sant's Golden Suicides
13 October 2009 11:46 PM, PDT
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In a pact guaranteed to raise both eyebrows and hackles, Gus Van Sant has teamed up with Brett Easton Ellis to write The Golden Suicides, based on the true story of the double suicide of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan.Blake and Duncan were popular New York Artists who, for reasons unknown, became increasingly paranoid that they were being conspired against by the Us government and the church of Scientology. Duncan overdosed on Tylenol in July 2007, and Blake is believed to have drowned himself in the Atlantic a week later.The film stems from a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales, and the subject seems to fit perfectly with Van Sant's "Death Trilogy" of Gerry (David Coughlin), Elephant (Columbine) and Last Days (Kurt Cobain) although at this point he's only attached as a writer and not as a director.Ellis' (American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction) involvement is
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Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Commit The Golden Suicides
13 October 2009 11:14 PM, PDT
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In 2007, two artists who were hot in the California scene committed suicide, one after the other, following fits of paranoia the two suffered, fearing the government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. Theresa Duncan, a video game designer for girls, killed herself in her bedroom. Jeremy Blake, a popular “digital painter,” found her there and ended his life by walking into the ocean a week later. And Nancy Jo Sales wrote an article for “Vanity Fair” about it. Now, two years later, perhaps the worst combination of writers imaginable are teaming up to pen the film. Find out more about the project, and why Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis spell disaster, after the jump.
The screen rights to this property were acquired by three different production companies working together. The first is PalmStar Entertainment, best known for producing the indie drama “Fifty Pills”–a surprisingly uninteresting film
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- Michael Sullivan
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Screenwriter Avary Sentenced
1 October 2009 1:16 AM, PDT
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Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary has been sentenced to a year in jail related to a fatal crash.
Avary, who won the 1995 Academy Award for writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, plead guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. The crash occurred in 2008, when he was driving home from a restaurant and his Mercedes collided with a telephone poll.
Passenger Andreas Zini was killed in the crash, and Avary's wife was ejected from the vehicle. She was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. According to authorities, Avary's car was traveling at more than 100 mph when it crashed into the pole.
This past Tuesday, Avary was sentenced to one year in jail, as well as five years of probation by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie, Variety reports. It was revealed in court that the writer had separately settled a civil action filed by Mr. Zini's family for $4.1M.
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Roger Avary Gets One Year In Prison
30 September 2009 3:13 PM, PDT
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Talk about wasted talent. Academy Award winning screenwriter Roger Avary will be out of commission for one year while serving a prison sentence. As reported by The Associated Press, a Ventura County Superior Court Judge sentenced him to one year in jail and five years of probation for his actions.
According to authorities, back in January of 2008, Avary was driving drunk in Southern California at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. He eventually hit a telephone pole, killing one of his passengers, a friend visiting from Italy, and seriously injuring his wife. Avary initially plead not guilty to the charges, but in hopes of moving past this issue, changed his plea on August 18th.
Avary co-wrote Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino for which they won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Avary is also responsible for penning The Rules of Attraction, Silent Hill and Beowulf. It was recently announced that
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Roger Avary Sentenced to One Year in Jail
30 September 2009 10:18 AM, PDT
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Academy Award screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in jail for a fatal traffic accident in Southern California that occurred 2008. Avary plead guilty in August to the charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. He also faces five years of probation. Authorities claim Avary was driving in excess of 110 miles per hour when he slammed into a telephone pole killing one of the passengers in the vehicle Avary was driving.
Avary was gearing up to write ‘Silent Hill 2,’ the sequel to the 2006 film which he also wrote. Avary collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction,’ the latter of which Avary won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with Tarantino. He also co-wrote the 2007, Robert Zemeckis adaptation of ‘Beowulf.’ Avary also directed the 1994 film, ‘Killing Zoe,’ and the 2002 adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, ‘The Rules of Attraction.’
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- Kirk
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Roger Avary Gets a Year in Jail for Manslaughter
30 September 2009 10:12 AM, PDT
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Hey, who says big name Hollywood types always get off easy? Oscar-winning writer/director Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction) has been sentenced to a year in prison this week following his involvement in a 2008 car crash that resulted in the death of a passenger. He was driving home in Southern California at night when he lost control of the car and crashed into a telephone pole at over 100 mph. His wife was ejected from the car and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, while his friend Andreas Zini was killed. Avary also received five years probation after pleading guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving.
Granted, Avary is from from a "big name" in Hollywood, and apparently the maximum sentence was 12 years, but either way, he is definitely going to do some hard time. Avary's most recent screenwriting credit was for Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf, which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
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Roger Avary sentenced to 12 months prison
30 September 2009 8:37 AM, PDT
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Oscar-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Roger Avary, who shared writing duties with Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, has been sentenced to a year in prison after being judged to have caused the death of his passenger while driving under the influence of alcohol.
Avary, 44, who adapted and directed Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules Of Attraction and also wrote the scripts for Silent Hill and Beowulf, was said to be travelling at over 100mph in his Mercedes when he crashed into a telephone pole in Ventura County, California.
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- Dan Goodswen
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Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary sentenced for DUI
30 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT
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Academy Award-winning Pulp Fiction co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been sentenced to a year in jail for driving while intoxicated and gross vehicular manslaughter. He will also have to perform five years of probation upon his release.
Avary was behind the wheel January 14, 2008 when the Mercedes he was driving crashed into a telephone pole in Ojai, CA. Avary was ejected from the vehicle and sustained injuries, as did Avary's wife Gretchen, but the crash proved to be fatal for their second passenger. The police investigation that followed found that the vehicle had been traveling in excess of 100 mph.
The screenwriter of Beowulf (with Neil Gaiman), Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction and Silent Hill, Avary has recently closed a deal to write the screenplay for Silent Hill 2 and had also committed to writing a script based on the video game Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The judge overseeing the case said that
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- Patrick Sauriol
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'Silent Hill' Writer and Producer Duo Return for Sequel
15 September 2009 1:21 AM, PDT
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Familiar faces from "Silent Hill" are making their return to the video game adaptation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, screenwriter Roger Avary and producer Samuel Hadida have come on board "Silent Hill 2", the sequel to the 2006 horror thriller. The two signed on while no director has been attached to the project.
Confirmation of Avary's return was in contrast to his 2007 remark to Shock Till You Drop. At the time, he indicated that he won't be making a return should director Christophe Gans refuse to return to the director's chair for the second time. "I'm not gonna do Silent Hill 2," he said. "If Christophe's not gonna do it, I'm not..."
Roger Avary is known for his work on Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction". His writing credits include "The Rules of Attraction" and "Beowulf". He is writing for videogame adaptation of "Return to Castle Wolfenstein". Samuel Hadida, in the meantime,
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Film: Review:Sorority Row
11 September 2009 9:04 AM, PDT
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Late in the dire college slasher flick Sorority Row, the killer takes some time away from impaling hateful victims to explain why the world will be a better place without all the awful people who didn’t survive the movie. And you know what? The psychopath has a point. Nobody in Sorority Row has a shred of decency—it’s like the school from The Rules Of Attraction with a lobotomy and a botched boob job—so the maniac in the black robe can’t help but emerge as the sole sympathetic character by bumping off soulless sorority sisters one
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Cinema release inspirations including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
17 July 2009 2:44 AM, PDT
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After the months and months and months of waiting, it’s finally here – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Its release postponed from last November to this July, the sixth adventure of the boy wizard opened in cinemas on Wednesday and is already breaking records, the J.K. Rowling adaptation proving to be a cinematic juggernaut that is swamping theatres with multiples screens dedicated to it. Look around and there are a couple of other new movies also out from today such as sci-fi space mystery Moon and ensemble drama The Informers, however, for the majority of you if you fancy catching a film this weekend, prepare to be Pottered!
If you see… Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) take on a new mission with Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) all the while trying to cope with teenage romances in family blockbuster Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career
26 June 2009 1:56 PM, PDT
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Clifton Collins Jr. talks Boondock Saints 2, Extract, directing music videos and much more
A few days ago, I mentioned on my Facebook page that I was extremely excited to be interviewing a favorite actor of mine, Clifton Collins Jr. I was also rather dismayed that there were many friendo's of mine out there who didn't know who he was, by name anyway. Some would recognize him when I mentioned he was the homosexual hitman in the critically-acclaimed film Traffic, or the crazy drug dealer in the equally-underrated The Rules Of Attraction (which is one of my favorite performances of his), some recognize him as the confused killer Perry Smith in Capote, a performance that some think is just as Oscar-worthy as Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar-winning portrayal of Truman Capote. Oh yeah, and, of course, there were those who just recently saw him on the silver screen as Ayel, the
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Ian Somerhalder Joins Vampire Diaries!
26 March 2009 10:21 AM, PDT
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Ian Somerhalder, who played Boone on the ABC hit show "Lost," and also appeared in the genre feature Pulse (let's not forget The Rules Of Attraction either) has joined the cast of the CW's drama pilot "Vampire Diaries," according to Variety.
Somerhalder is set to play Damon, a smug vampire who can go from playful to evil in a split second. Also joining the cast are Zach Roerig ("Friday Night Lights"), who will play the jock Matt, and Kayla Ewell ("Entourage"), who will play Matt's sister. Previously announced cast includes Nina Dobrev and Steven R. McQueen.
"Vampire Diaries," based on a series of books from Alloy Entertainment, centers on a woman who falls for two vampire brothers - one good and one evil. Warner Bros. TV is behind the project, along with Alloy and Outerbanks Ent.
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