Screenplay: ‘Bridesmaids’ starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd

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Bridesmaids: Kristen Wiig leads the cast as Annie, a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie’s life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. from trailers.apple.com

Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Lucas, Jill Clayburgh, Rebel Wilson, Michael Hitchcock
Writers: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo  Read more

5 Clips from ‘Drive’ starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks and Bryan Cranston

I’ve heard tons of good things about Nicholas Winding Refn‘s Drive. ‘One of the best movies of the year’ is something I hear a lot. I’m not sure if it can live up to that type of hype but I usually love anything Ryan Gosling is in… ok, except for All Good Things. That was downright awful.

Starring Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks and Bryan Cranston, the film is about a guy named Driver.  A Los Angeles wheelman for hire; stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. When he falls for his neighbor (Mulligan) things start going to hell rapidly. 

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Trailer: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Margaret’ starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick

Margaret: Margaret is a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman’s life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world. courtesy of trailers.apple.com

Writer/Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Cast: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, J. Smith-Cameron, Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno

In Theaters: September 30th, 2011
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Jessica Chastain Defends Sean Penn’s Slam of ‘Tree of Life’

Tree of Life actress Jessica Chastain was as surprised as everyone else when French newspaper Le Figaro quoted co-star Sean Penn as saying he wasn’t pleased with the film, which finally arrived in theaters this summer after six years in development.

“I was very surprised by the comment. The first thing I thought is, ‘Where did the comment come from?’ and I saw that it was a (publication) from another country,” she told Movie Line during a recent interview. “My first thought was that it was taken out of context, and then it was that it was mistranslated. There’s something that happened in the translation, and then it was picked up and put in a lot of other things.”

Having had her words taken out of context before, Chastain definitely felt Penn’s pain.

“I said something about gaining weight for The Help — about gaining 15 pounds and stuffing myself into a girdle in the heat of Mississippi…” she continued. “That comment got twisted into me saying that gaining weight was torture for me, which I never said. So I’m starting to realize, especially with the Internet and many, many media outlets, one comment can get shifted. It’s like a game of telephone. I haven’t talked to (Penn) about that comment yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was taken out of context.”   Read more

End of an Era: George Lee Andrews to Leave ‘Phantom of the Opera’ After 9,382 Performances

You could call George Lee Andrews the marathon man of the Broadway stage, but Saturday is his last lap around the track.

After a remarkable 23 years (and 12 lead actors) acting in Broadway’s longest-running musical Phantom of the Opera, Andrews was told by the play’s producers last May that his six month contract — which had been reviewed over forty times –  would not be renewed again.  This news was not made public until this past Tuesday, which marked Saturday’s performance — Andrews’ 9,382 — would be his last in the show.  Though Andrews has occasionally taken time off from the show, he has been in the cast ever since the show opened on Broadway in 1988.

According to the detailed article in The New York Times, producer Cameron Mackintosh informed the 68 year-old Andrews that his contract would not be renewed because of “the need for new blood to strengthen Phantom for an indefinite commercial run.” 

Phantom is not only Broadway’s current longest running show, but it’s the longest running show in the history of Broadway and is expected to keep running well through its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2013.  By then the show will have logged over an unprecedented 10,000 performances.   Read more

Evan Rachel Wood on ‘The Conspirator’ and How She Prepares For a Role

In a recent interview with WSJ, one of Hollywood’s youngest, but longest working vets, Evan Rachel Wood, discussed her time on the set of director Robert Redford’s 2010 flick, The Conspirator, recently released on DVD. 

The movie, that focused in Mary Surratt, a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln, featured Wood in the role of Surratt’s daughter Anna, alongside a cast of leading lady Robin Wright, James McAvoy and Tom Wilkinson.

When asked how much time she spent with Wright, she replied that she didn’t have a lot of prep time, but managed to pull it off with her experience in the business.  “I didn’t have a lot of time, unfortunately. I mean, I would have loved to spend a lot of time with her, but we got to the set and we just went – there wasn’t really any rehearsal for us or anything. But I got to know her better during filming, and afterwards.”   Read more

Robber Gets Caught Stealing From A New York City Street Performer

Fortunately, New York street performer Kid Lucky doesn’t also play an instrument, because if he did, he may have been too preoccupied to notice a thief taking off with his group’s collection box.

The foiled burglar watched Kid Lucky and two other beat boxers for about 40 seconds before bending down, pretending like he was putting money into their box and taking off with a handful of cash, according to the New York Daily News website. He then proceeded to run into “the biggest dude in the audience,” according to Kid Lucky, who also had a hand in restraining the man and forcing him to return the stolen money.

“I had already got caught him,” he recalled. “We took him, put him down on the ground, told him, you know, “Just leave the money,” let him back up and let him go. The rapper then “went back to performing again, because that’s what I do.”

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