Screenplay : ‘The King’s Speech’
January 31, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Screenplays
Want the screenplay to The King’s Speech?
Sure you do!
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Ehle, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall, Anthony Andrews
17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Winners
January 30, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Performing Arts News
17th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® RECIPIENTS
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
COLIN FIRTH / King George VI – “THE KING’S SPEECH” (The Weinstein Company)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
NATALIE PORTMAN / Nina Sayers – “BLACK SWAN” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
CHRISTIAN BALE / Dicky Eklund – “THE FIGHTER” (Paramount Pictures and Relativity Media)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
MELISSA LEO / Alice Ward – “THE FIGHTER” (Paramount Pictures and Relativity Media)
Contest: Win a free movie from SundanceNow!
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Performing Arts News
SundanceNOW is offering a free movie to one of our readers!
SundanceNOW is a place for anyone interested in independent films – both American and worldwide. They’ve got some fantastic films you can watch right now and new ones are added all the time!
This month they’re featuring films that were favorites at the Sundance Film Festival, including Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know.
As an added bonus, SundanceNOW is offering a Daily Actor readers a discount code that allows you to watch the film for just 99 cents! Visit SundanceNOW (www.sundancenow.com) and enter the code MEANDYOUPROMO for the discount.
Now, want to win a free movie? It’s quick and easy! If you’re on Twitter, tweet about Daily Actor. Or join our Facebook page and enter there by leaving a comment under any of our recent posts. Simple and easy!
Hurry! Contest ends during Sunday’s SAG Awards!
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Raw Acting Talent – Why Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Columns
Written by Sean Pratt
It’s not the talent you’re born with that counts, but the way you develop it that makes all the difference in whether you become an expert or not.
Nature or Nurture
I know for some actors, myself included, that previous statement is tantamount to heresy, but hear me out. Recent studies by researchers in the fields of sociology, economics and psychology have demonstrated an interesting and counterintuitive connection between practice and perfection. The general consensus is that though raw talent can be a factor in whether a person decides to pursue a certain career…a life in the Biz, for instance…it is not the most important factor when it comes to being an exceptional performer.
Dr. K. Anders Ericsson, Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, states in his recent paper, The Making of an Expert:
“To people who have never reached a national or international level of competition, it may appear that excellence is simply the result of practicing daily for years or even decades. However, living in a cave does not make you a geologist. Not all practice makes perfect. You need a particular kind of practice—deliberate practice—to develop expertise. When most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do. Deliberate practice is different. It entails considerable, specific, and sustained efforts to do something you can’t do well—or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you want to become.”
4 Clips from ‘Cedar Rapids’ starring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Anne Heche
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Film & Theater Clips
Here’s four clips from the upcoming film, Cedar Rapids. Starring Ed Helms as Tim, a naïve insurance salesman who is sent to an insurance convention in wonderful, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He’s quickly distracted by three convention veterans (John C. Reilly, Anne Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr.) who show him the ropes of convention life.
Director: Miguel Arteta
Cast: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche, Stephen Root, Kurtwood Smith, Alia Shawkat, Mike O’Malley, Rob Corddry, Seth Morris, Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Trailer: ‘Peep World’ starring Michael C. Hall, Rainn Wilson, Sarah Silverman and Judy Greer
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Trailers
Peep World: On the day of their Father’s 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family’s most intimate secrets.
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Judy Greer, Ben Schwartz, Kate Mara, Taraji P. Henson
Director: Barry W. Blaustein
True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld: “I just had this thought in my mind that [Mattie Ross] was me and nobody else but me”
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Performing Arts News
Hailee Steinfeld, nominated for her role as Mattie Ross in True Grit, talked to Flaunt magazine about what it took to get her role.
On her audition:
“It was huge. A lot of girls auditioned for it. I heard about it through my mom’s cousin. We went to my agent about it and she said the Coen brothers had already gone back to New York and it was down to three girls. But then I got a call to put together a tape and two days later I got called back to read with [the casting director] and then a month later with the Coen brothers.”
On her role as Mattie Ross:
“Honestly, I feel like there were little signs along the way. I was really prepared for this. I was ready and I wanted it. There was something about [this story], I just had this thought in my mind that it was me and nobody else but me and I’d never felt that way before.”
Trailer: ‘Beginners’ starring Ewan McGregor
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Trailers
Beginners: Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Melanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds) only months after his father Hal (Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him. from trailers.apple.com
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic
- Writer/Director: Mike Mills
The new cast of La Cage aux Folles get ready for opening night!
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Performing Arts News
The new stars of the of La Cage aux Folles, Harvey Fierstein, Jeffrey Tambor & Wilson Jermaine Heredia, talk about taking on their roles, the show and more!
When asked if he was excited to make his musical theater debut, Tambor said, “I alternate being the most excited kid on the block to having the urge to call American Airlines and say get me the first flight out of here!”
Video after the jump
via Broadway.com
The Office: Michael Scott meets David Brent
January 28, 2011 by Lance Carter
Filed under Performing Arts News
If you missed last nights episode of The Office, then you missed the worst kept secret out there: UK Office boss Ricky Gervais finally meets his American counter-part, Steve Carell.
It’s not exactly earth-shattering, but it’s still fun to see them together.
