Trailer: ‘Last Night’ starring Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes

Last Night: Set in New York City, Last Night is the story of a married couple that while apart for one night, is confronted by temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage. Joanna (Academy Award(R) nominee Keira Knightley) and Michael Reed (Sam Worthington) are 7 years into a successful and happy relationship. They are moving along in their lives together until Joanna meets Laura (Eva Mendes), the stunningly beautiful work colleague whom Michael never mentioned. While Michael is away with Laura on a business trip, Joanna runs into an old but never quite forgotten love, Alex (Guillaume Canet) and agrees to have drinks with him. As the night progresses and temptation increases for the couple, each must confront who they are inside and outside of their relationship. Last Night is ultimately a film about choices – the choice you make to be with someone, to give yourself physically and emotionally, and how to survive all three. from trailers.apple.com

Director: Massy Tadjedin
Cast: Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet
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Trailer: ‘Everything Must Go’ starring Will Ferrell and Rebecca Hall

Everything Must Go:  A career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired, for falling off the wagon one last time, he returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their suburban home and dumped all his possessions out on the front yard. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line – or more properly, on the lawn – reluctantly holding a yard sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival. trailers.apple.com

Director: Dan Rush
Cast: Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SXSW Interview: Jake Gyllenhaal: “Finding out the ‘why’ is always the most important thing”

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The Jake Gyllenhaal that I met during the roundtable interview at SXSW has never really been seen on screen; he was affable, funny, warm and smart. Love and Other Drugs showed pieces of that and Source Code ( yes, Source Code!) gets even closer. Directed by Duncan Jones, it’s a sci-fi action adventure but it also has a nice romantic sub-plot that really works for the movie.

It was filmed in two parts; the train section with Michelle Monaghan and the pod section with…himself. He occasionally worked with Vera Farmiga but most of the time it was him and a green screen.

Jake talked about his on-set injury, his desire to direct, how acting against a green screen was freeing and give us his advice to actors.

The interview had some spoilers that I removed so if you’ve already seen the movie, check out the audio portion.

For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes

Prince of Persia, that was your first foray into action heroism, are you more comfortable now beating up guys and jumping off trains?

Jake Gyllenhaal: [laughs] Wait, is that a similarity between the 2 movies?

There was definitely a little bit of a confidence. When we did that shot jumping off the train, there’s a shot that Duncan did which is kind of brilliant. I hope he does Anatomy of a Scene for that shot ‘cause it was 3 different parts and I have to do the first jump off of the train, and it was timing and the camera, and the whole thing. And then it was like, “I got it guys. I know. I’m cool.” And then I injured myself. But in terms of the process of doing things like that, I got a lot of experience off of a number of the movies that I’ve done that have action or a little bit of fighting and stuff in them.

What was the injury?

Jake Gyllenhaal: If you see in the movie, when I jump off the train and then my legs go up and then I land on my shoulder, I just injured my shoulder and then I rolled. Rolled from jumping off the train. It was kind of an intense impact, rolling off of a…or jumping off of a moving train. It wasn’t moving when we shot. [laughs]
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Franco tells Letterman about his Oscar appearance: “I love her, but Anne Hathaway is so energetic. I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to her”

James Franco was battered by critics after he co-hosted the Oscars with Anne Hathaway, with many of them saying he appeared to be stoned throughout the broadcast. Franco has insisted he was merely fatigued by to a hectic schedule.

Franco told David Letterman that his co-host was partly to blame. “I love her, but Anne Hathaway is so energetic. I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway…She has a lot of energy,” the actor said.

Letterman agreed, describing Hathaway as,”very buoyant…very ebullient.”

Franco was nominated for an Oscar this year for his role in “127 Hours” and believes he is recognized more as a dramatic actor than for his comedic skills. He summed up his Oscar experience for Letterman. “I think I actually — I haven’t watched it back — maybe I had low energy. I honestly played those lines as well as I could.”

Having hosted the Oscars in 1995, to mixed reviews, Letterman appeared to sympathize with Franco, describing his own experience as, ”Horrible…I was so bad that they talked for a while about shutting down the motion picture industry.”

Franco’s Letterman appearance will air tonight.

via reuters.com

SXSW Interview: Michelle Monaghan talks about ‘Source Code’ and getting her face melted off

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In Source Code, Michelle Monaghan plays a woman on a train that only has eight minutes before it explodes. I’d tell you more but then I would ruin the movie. I can tell you that she has the difficult task of re-creating that same 8 minute scene over and over again. Each scene had to be the same, but different. Imagine how hard that would be!

Well, she does a fantastic job and when you see the film, you’ll definitely agree with me.

I talked to Michelle in a roundtable interview at SXSW about the challenges of doing the same scene over and over, if she did any research into the Source Code and what it’s like to get her face melted off.

Oh, and just an observation: Michelle has some guns on her. Seriously! There’s no doubt in my mind that she could kick my butt… without breaking a sweat.

For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes

Can you talk a little bit about what it was with this script that really sort of attracted you with the project?

Michelle Monaghan: Yeah, I think initially, I was just really struck at, kind of what an original idea it was, and from an actor’s point of view for the role of Christina, I thought it was just gonna be a really cool exercise and performance and a real challenge. It felt really daunting to me initially and then, then I got really, really intrigued, and I especially became more intrigued after I spoke to Duncan. We Skyped and for me it became very, very apparent that it was, he wanted it to be character driven more than anything. I haven’t really kind of ventured into sci-fi as far as the genre, don’t lot of other things, but sci-fi was not one of them, and so I really thought, wow why not go on this endeavor with somebody who’s cool, young and energetic as Duncan Jones. And he’s great at telling a story, so I thought if anybody can do it I don’t, necessarily think it can work in anybody’s hands and it was difficult material, for all of the actors I think. And it was really fun, it was a really fun experience, and it felt like we were making a student film a lot of the time ‘cause we were just sitting in this commuter train that one car, and we would huddled and like work it out each Source Code, and it was really fun, it was really cool.
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Trailer: The Hangover Part 2 starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis

The Hangover Part II: Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can’t even be imagined.

Director: Todd Phillips

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong

Writers: Todd Phillips, Craig Mazin, Scot Armstrong

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Stop Postponing Living

This is a guest post by Anthony Meindl

Why do we wait for things in life? Constantly put things off until they become long-lost dreams. We wait for the date we went out with last week to call us back, forthe better airfare to go on that trip we’ve been planning for 5 years, for permission from others. We wait to get new headshots or write that novel or until we’re “more prepared.” We end up waiting our entire lives, then look back and realize there are never any ”right” moments. There’s only now. And sadly, we end up justifying that it’s okay that the things we most wanted to do, never happened.

So when is the right moment?

Now!

Stop waiting for things to get better or easier or less busy. Stop saying that you need to wait to be better prepared or more secure or more sure of yourself. Stop waiting for the girlfriend or the husband or the agent or the manager. Stop waiting for the right look or the right age or the right resume or the right time.

Stop waiting for someone or something to give you permission to be all that you already are.

Stop putting your life on hold, thinking you’re still missing something in order for you to do the things you want to be doing. You can do them now.

Anthony Meindl is an award-winning writer, producer, director and actor whose first feature screenplay, THE WONDER GIRLS, was the Grand Prize Winning Feature Screenplay in the Slamdance Film Festival Screenplay Competition in 2007. Prior to this accomplishment, Meindl was responsible for the production of an array of award-winning projects. His background in acting, training, and performance has afforded him the opportunity to create what has become a thriving artist community in Los Angeles.

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