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So here’s what I did on my class trip to London: shoot a video featuring people on the street discussing whether they preferred PIRATE RADIO or THE BOAT THAT ROCKED as the title of the latest Richard Curtis film; interview some of the stars of the film itself; and eat British airport pizza. Two of those things were a helluva lot of fun, and one of them was an ungodly plummet into the depths of Hell. I’ll leave it to you to figure out which is which (hint: glad I brought some Pepto tablets with me).
The three actors featured in this first installment of our special, two-part PIRATE RADIO coverage form something of a romantic triangle in the film. Tom Sturridge plays Carl, the teenager who is sent by his mother (Emma Thompson) to spend some time on Radio Rock, the notorious pirate radio ship that in 1966 was beaming rock and roll from international waters into a United Kingdom whose own BBC couldn’t be bothered with the form. Talulah Riley is Marianne, the young woman that Carl’s godfather and Pirate Radio owner and captain Quentin (Bill Nighy) brings on-board to alleviate some of the boy’s sense of isolation. And Nick Frost is Doctor Dave, the sexually unquenchable Radio Rock personality whose interference in the kids’ first meeting proves to be something of a distraction for Marianne — because true love may be forever, but getting nailed by a DJ nets you serious street cred.
The conversations in this ep ranged far beyond the topic of PIRATE RADIO itself, covering as they did the legendary 007 water tank, the Cirque du Soleil, Steven Spielberg’s on-set attitude, and Rupert Everett in drag (but, then, don’t all conversations eventually wind up there?). Click the link to hear the show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-persons/mighty-movie-podcast-empi_b_354827.htmlSo here’s what I did on my class trip to London: shoot a video featuring people on... more
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You know that OLDBOY remake…well it wasn’t really a remake, anyway (which is a terrible idea by the way) Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were suppose to do a film that was based on the Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya and NOT FROM THE ORIGINAL FILM.
At the time DreamWorks was in the process of securing the rights along with MANDATE, until NOW.
http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-will-smith-steven-spielberg-s-old-boy-dead-8502You know that OLDBOY remake…well it wasn’t really a remake, anyway (which is a... more
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Ellen counts down the top 5 creepiest kids in the movies.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesEllen counts down the top 5 creepiest kids in the movies.
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5? Really, we're already at 5?
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Matt Damon will star in supernatural thriller “Hereafter,” Clint Eastwood’s next producing-directing project for Warner Bros. Pictures, set to begin shooting this fall.Matt Damon will star in supernatural thriller “Hereafter,” Clint Eastwood’s next... more
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"Drew Barrymore has been a familiar face on the screen practically since she was born. But with her latest film, Whip It, she has realized her lifelong dream of directing. The movie, based on the novel by Shauna Cross, chronicles the story of a young girl misfit who never fully belongs in the beauty pageant and football world that obsesses her town of Bodeen, Texas.
You have been in the business so long, were there any pointers on directing you have picked up along the way-say from Steven Spielberg?
Drew: You would have to be Helen Keller not to. After 34-years of working with more than 60 or so directors, yes absolutely. For instance, I don't yell action or cut. I feel that is like a floor gun going off telling people to start acting or stop acting... Director Ken Kwapis of He's Just Not that Into You, invigorates his actors out of the gate. He talks you into a scene..."(more)"Drew Barrymore has been a familiar face on the screen practically since she was born.... more
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The men who brought dinosaurs back to life in Jurassic Park are teaming up again, though it's a bittersweet reunion since one of them is no longer here.
Steven Spielberg is developing a film out of a posthumously published novel by the late Michael Crichton—Pirate Latitudes, an adventure story set off the coast of Jamaica in 1665.
Screenwriter David Koepp, who adapted Crichton's novels for Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, also has signed on to create the script. Spielberg plans to produce and is considering directing.
DreamWorks Studios describes the novel, set for release Nov. 24, as the story of "a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure."
"It's a mission movie, and we see it through the prism of what it might have been like to live on the island during that time," says Stacey Snider, Spielberg's partner in DreamWorks and the company's co-chair and CEO.
"Anything that Michael wrote, Steven would be keenly interested to read. But without Michael knowing it, or even me knowing it, it turns out Steven always wanted to direct his own pirate film."
Coincidentally, DreamWorks is beginning a new distribution deal with The Walt Disney Co., which rejuvenated this genre with Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean films, another of which is planned for 2011.
Snider says these swashbuckling movies won't clash because Pirate Latitudes will be more grounded in reality, as opposed to the supernatural fantasy of the Disney films. "We would only pursue this if it was wonderful in its own way, and didn't interfere with their films," she says.
DreamWorks plans to wait for Koepp's script before setting any formal schedule for the project. "This is a reunion movie that taps into all three of them, and their love of high adventure. Just like old times," Snider says.
When Crichton died last November from cancer, Spielberg noted that their friendship went back to the early '70s, when both were new to Hollywood, just beginning their careers. Along with Jurassic Park, they developed TV's ER together and the tornado movie Twister.
"Michael wrote a real page-turner that already seems suited for the big screen," Spielberg said of Pirate Latitudes. "Michael and I have had almost two decades of solid collaborations. Whenever I made a film from a Michael Crichton book or screenplay, I knew I was in good hands. Michael felt the same, and we like to think he still does."
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I didn't realize they had known each other for so long!The men who brought dinosaurs back to life in Jurassic Park are teaming up again,... more
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Dopo la serie di Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg tornerà presto ai romanzi di Michael Chrichton. USA Today ha, infatti, annunciato che il regista sta sviluppando un nuovo progetto tratto dall’ultimo libro dell’autore, che sarà pubblicato negli USA postumo. S’intitola Pirate Latitudes ed è un’avventura ambientata nelle coste della Giamaica nel 1665.Dopo la serie di Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg tornerà presto ai romanzi di Michael... more
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In Ong-Bak, director Prachya Pinkaew included a special hidden messages.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesIn Ong-Bak, director Prachya Pinkaew included a special hidden messages.
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The Brooklyn Public Library has restricted access to a book whose controversial title character will be featured in a Steven Spielberg movie.The Brooklyn Public Library has restricted access to a book whose controversial title... more
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Steven Spielberg's plan for an Abraham Lincoln biopic, with Liam Neeson in the title role, is under threat from a rival project by fellow Oscar-winner Robert Redford, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Their Risky Business blog reports that Redford is planning a film centred around the assassination of the US president by actor and Confederacy sympathiser John Wilkes Booth. The tale, to be titled The Conspirator, would focus on the story of Mary Surratt, allegedly one of Booth's aides.
Surratt ran a boarding house in Washington and is alleged to have supplied Wilkes Booth with weapons at her tavern as he attempted to make a getaway after shooting the president at Ford's Theater in 1865. She was eventually convicted and hanged for conspiring to kill the president. Redford's film will also feature a young Union lawyer named Frederick Aiken who comes to believe that Surratt is innocent after being appointed to defend her.
Redford is said to be chasing James McAvoy for one of the lead roles. The Sundance film festival founder aims to shoot in the autumn - long before Spielberg looks likely to begin work on his long-gestating project - from a screenplay by James Solomon, writer of US TV series The Bronx is Burning.
Hollywood has a history of getting itchy feet when two rival biopics pop up at the same time. Pierce Brosnan's plan for a Dylan Thomas biopic was partly scuppered by the emergence of The Edge of Love, released last year. And when two similar films do make it to the box office, one tends to suffer: Toby Jones won plaudits for his portrayal of Truman Capote in 2006's Infamous, but it was Philip Seymour Hoffman who took home the Oscar that year for his portrayal of the writer in Capote, which beat its rival into cinemas by nearly a year.
If both are making similar films would there for be better if they worked to together, then one film to suffer?The Abraham Lincoln memorial in Washington
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Spielberg is directing a remake of the James Stewart classic "Harvey," the story of a big-hearted eccentric who's branded a crackpot for claiming to have a 6-foot-tall invisible rabbit as his best buddy.
Casting is just getting started, with production expected to begin early next year.
The new version will be a contemporary update of Stewart's 1950 film, which was based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
The film is a co-production between Spielberg's DreamWorks Studio and 20th Century Fox. A release date has not been announced, but a Fox spokesman said the studio is looking to have the film in theaters late next year...
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Might secret agent Matt Helm provide the answer to which film Steven Spielberg will next helm?
Spielberg is seriously considering a film that DreamWorks developed for several years before leaving it behind at Paramount as part of the divorce settlement between the two companies. But the question of whether Spielberg will direct involves a series of complex issues that touch on the relationship between Paramount and DreamWorks, and the latter studio's new finance partner, Reliance.well, he might...
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Variety recently reporting that Steven Spielberg is considering directing a movie about Donald Hamilton's secret agent character Matt Helm. The film was being developed for a number of years by DreamWorks who never got it off the ground.
Representatives of Spielberg stated that he is attached to produce, but it's unclear if he's going to direct. Spielberg is excited about the project after the rewrite by Paul Attanasio.
Spielberg and Stacey Snider are now closing their financing deal through Reliance and their new deal with Disney, they would like nothing more than to have those partners be part of Spielberg's next picture. However Paramount are not obligated to make that deal, and it's unclear whether the studio will step up to Spielberg's traditionally rich deal terms.
Matt Helm is a series of 27 novels about a government agent whose mission is to take down enemy agents.Variety recently reporting that Steven Spielberg is considering directing a movie... more
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Executive producer Steven Spielberg, director D.J. Caruso and actor Shia LeBeouf got together to make Disturbia, a loose remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window. The film ended up being a sleeper hit and grossed $120 million at the grand old worldwide box office (not bad for a movie with a $20 million budget). So why not see if lightning strikes twice? Spielberg brought on Caruso and LeBeouf again for another Hitchcock redo, and this time they set their sights on the mistaken identity thriller North By Northwest. Using that as a launching pad, along with Isaac Asimov’s All the Troubles of the World, Eagle Eye came to fruition.
read the rest at the link aboveExecutive producer Steven Spielberg, director D.J. Caruso and actor Shia LeBeouf got... more
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A 1974 film starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton.
First theatrical feature film directed by Steven Spielberg.
The first motion picture filmed with the Panaflex.
92% TomatometerA 1974 film starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton.
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Ever wonder where legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg (pictured, with friend) gets his inspiration? Gunga Din, Frank Capra and Samuel Fuller, among others. What about beyond that, like game-wise?
While at E3, Ubisoft's Maxime Bernard's told Official Xbox 360 Magazine in a recently published article: "He [Spielberg] had an entourage... and he said to his friend 'it gives us a lot of ideas, it's very inspiring.' I was thinking, like, wow. If we made a game that inspires Spielberg then [censored], we're doing something good here."Ever wonder where legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg (pictured, with friend) gets... more
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Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and from the creators of “Band of Brothers”, The Pacific is a a 10-part HBO mini-series which tells the intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and from the creators of “Band of... more
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