Trailer: ‘The Dictator’ starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly, J.B. Smoove

The Dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen re-teams with director Larry Charles on their newest slice of satire with this Paramount Pictures release concerning a foreign dictator and a goat herder (both played by Cohen) as they make their way across America.

Director: Larry Charles

Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly, J.B. Smoove

In theaters: May 11th, 2012
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Trailer: ‘Wanderlust’ starring Paul Rudd, Jennifer Anniston, Malin Akerman, Kathryn Hahn, Lauren Ambrose, Ken Marino

Wanderlust: Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in Wanderlust, a raucous comedy from director David Wain (Role Models) and producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) about a couple who leaves the pressures of the big city and joins a freewheeling community where the only rule is to be yourself. George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta. On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them. Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?

Director: David Wain

Cast: Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux, Malin Akerman, Kathryn Hahn, Lauren Ambrose, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Alan Alda

Writers: David Wain, Ken Marino

In theaters: February 24th, 2012 
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How to Design Your Best Year Yet

Written by Dallas Travers, CEC

As 2011 is now over, it’s time to clean up any unfinished business, clear the space for next year’s successes, and create the framework for your best year yet! I’ve provided 13 simple steps to help you organize your goals and make sure you cover all the bases.

This is my favorite year-end exercise. So, I’m really happy to share it with you.

Celebrate 2011

Before you head into the new year, take a moment to look back at all of your hard work over the past 12 months. What worked? What didn’t? And what can you change?

STEP ONE: Set the Tone

Make yourself comfortable. Play some music you love, grab some yummy food, light your favorite candle. With a notepad, pen, and this year’s calendar, begin your Year 2011 Reflection.  Read more

Tilda Swinton Talks about ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and Picking Her Parts: “I don’t choose roles, I choose people”

“That’s good use of an Oscar, it seems to me. It’s a really fair exchange,” says Tilda Swinton, speaking about how winning an Oscar allowed films like Julia and We Need To Talk About Kevin to get made and seen by audiences.

USA Today ran an interview with Swinton in which she spoke out about a number of topics, including her peculiar way of picking projects.

“I don’t choose roles, I choose people,” says the actress, “I generally make work that I’ve cooked up with some friends around the kitchen table, and so the people come first, and then the project generally comes second… and what I do in it comes third, a poor third.”

Swinton is a busy mother saying, “I’m an enthusiastic cook, and I have mouths to feed in my house so I need to cook.” It’s interesting that the film Kevin is about the absence of “maternal love.”  About her children Swinton says, “I remember noticing that I was really into them, that it was interesting to me and I was up for it. It could have gone the other way.”  Read more

Watch: Clive Owen’s Spanish Burger King Commercial

Watch Clive Owen shill for Burger King in this Spanish language commercial.

They clearly dubbed his voice. The actor they got sounds like someone you would find seducing an elected official’s wife on one of those Telemundo telenovela’s.

Check it out below!
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Ready to start the New Year?

Hi guys -

After the seemingly long and endless holiday break (at least for me it was), we’re all excited to get back to work – acting wise, I mean.

What are your resolutions or goals for the year?

Let me know by leaving a comment here or emailing me at Lance@dailyactor.com

I’ll write up a column with some of them and include your twitter handles, facebook pages or websites if you want them included. 

Let’s all hope for a great year!

Chinese Fugitive Hid… By Becoming a Television Actor?

As Edgar Allan Poe showed in The Purloined Letter, one of the best places to hide something is by putting it in plain sight — in other words, make it seem like there is nothing suspicious about what you want hidden by leaving it out in the open. 

It seems this even works for a person, too — as Sky News reports, Chinese television actor Zhang Guofeng spent his thirteen years as a fugitive acting on a popular television shows!

Over a dozen years ago Zhang Guofeng was named Ji Siguang and was accused of assaulting a police officer and stealing his gun with three other men.  At some point though he began his acting career, with a key role on the 2009 television series Lurk among his credits.

Zhang/Ji identity was recently finally discovered by Chinese authorities and he was arrested on the set of Shaolin Tigers, in which he appears as a Buddhist monk.  After his arrest he admitted his involvement in the 1998 assault.  Read more

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