Screenplay: ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’

Courtesy of Sony Pictures, here is the screenplay to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Director: David Fincher

Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård , Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson

Writer: Steven Zaillian

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Q&A: Martin Sheen Talks ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ and Why He Changed His Name

Martin Sheen is the featured guest on tonight’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, NBC’s show that traces the ancestry of celebrities.

Brought to America by Host and Executive Producer Lisa Kudrow, the episode follows Sheen as he travels to Ireland and Spain to investigate his family roots.

I talked to Sheen on a conference call where he told me that he went on this journey because for his children and grandchildren. He said that, “I felt like I had a responsibility to go to this place at this time. I’m 71 years old and I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around and if something could be uncovered that would be meaningful to future generations then I would be a part of passing that on and that would be very, very satisfying.”

In this Q&A, Sheen talks about his roots, his time in Ireland and why as a young actor he changed his name.

Who Do You Think You Are? airs at 8/7c on NBC

After taking the journey like this does it make you feel more like a whole individual as far as giving you perspective about who you really are?

Martin Sheen: Well of course that is the fundamental purpose is to try and identify personally to your foundation. I think anyone that goes on one of these journeys whether it is in front of a camera or on the Internet is really looking for a personal identification with the past.

And what is amazing about that is that as you go back further and further into your lineage in generation and generation and you begin to look at the dates and you start to realize oh like for example, one of my great, great, great grandparents died just at the onset of the American Revolutionary War.

So in that sense it gives you some perspective that you rarely think about in terms of historical value.  Read more

Q&A: Lisa Kudrow Talks ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’

Lisa Kudrow returns tonight as Host and Executive Producer of NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?

The show traces the ancestral roots of celebrities and follows them as they find out, on camera, their family history. The celebrities featured this season are Martin Sheen, Marisa Tomei, Blair Underwood, Helen Hunt, Reba McEntire, Jerome Bettis, Rita Wilson, Edie Falco, Rob Lowe, Rashida Jones, Jason Sudeikis and Paula Deen.

I talked to Lisa on a conference call where she discussed why she championed and brought the show to America, the most challenging aspects of tracing someone’s past and if some of her Friends might one day appear on the show.

Who Do You Think You Are? airs at 8/7c on NBC

If you come across bad news, as I know some celebrities have on the show, how do you approach that situation?

Lisa Kudrow: You know, most people go into it understanding, I mean, there’s, you know, not a formal conversation, but, you know, most of them feel like I just want information whatever it is. Whatever it is. And they already understand that, you know, if they – if somewhere in their ancestry there were some, you know, unsavory people or they did bad things then, you know, that’s not who they are. And, you know, you can just focus on how the family turned itself around.

So, I don’t know, I mean I think people go into it understanding that this about getting information, it’s not about, you know, getting what you want.  Read more

One Quality Every Actor Needs To Become Successful!

written by Benson Simmonds

Yes, there are a few essential qualities that an actor needs to become a star and today we’re going to focus on…. well, let’s just say it’s something permeates every aspect of our culture. It’s everywhere – on billboards, in print, on the streets, in the office, in the home, and of course on TV and film…. did you guess yet?

Yes, it’s sex!  It’s not just that sex sells but as my longtime acting teacher and mentor Ivana Chubbuck taught me, a “star” actor can always find the SEX and the HUMOR in their work.  We’re not talking about looks here, because there are many beautiful people who just aren’t that sexy. If it were just about looks, then every good -looking actor would make it, but they don’t because it’s about much more than that!  Read more

Watch: The Opening Scene from ‘The Woman in Black’

Review: ‘Chronicle’ This!

Chronicle is the latest in ‘found footage’ films – where a story unfolds from video ‘found’ of an event so big that people were compelled to document the moment.

Directed by Josh Trank, the story follows 3 high schoolers – Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Matt (Alex Russell) and Steve (Michael B. Jordan) – who stumble upon a mysterious and unexplained shaft in the middle of the woods. Curious, they explore the tunnel and discover a glowing, alien-like life form.

Cut to the next scene and they suddenly have telekinetic abilities and they can seemingly do anything, getting more powerful throughout the film.

At first, they are loving it – who wouldn’t? – but it soon becomes too much for Andrew and he goes all Dark Phoenix.

This film is right up my alley. Since I was a kid, I’ve dreamed of something like this happening to me so I was totally looking forward to this. But, sadly that didn’t happen.

First of all, the set-up of the story takes too long. How many times do we need to be told that Andrew has an awful home life? We got it the first 5 times you told us. And we get that Matt is smart (or trying to make it seem like he is); having him constantly spout off quotes by Pluto and Jung only makes him seem like a douche. How many high school kids do you know who do that?  Read more

Review: ‘The Woman in Black’

If you’ve been looking for an old-school ghost story, well then this weekend, you’re in luck.

In The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe stars as Arthur Kipps, a widowed lawyer who is sent to a remote English village to sort out and then sell the home of recently deceased eccentric. 

When he arrives, he finds that he’s not the most welcome person to grace the town and slowly, he realizes that they are hiding a long held secret: The house is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to destroy the lives of each family by killing their children in horrible, deliberate accidents. But with the help of Sam (Ciaran Hinds), the two set out to rid the town of the evil and hopefully save the lives of the ones that they love. 

Set in the year 1888, the film is everything you want it to be for that period; it’s rainy, foggy and moody, filled with characters who are cloaking secrets and just enough mystery to let you be suspicious of everyone.

Radcliffe, in his first on-screen role since the Harry Potter series ended, does a great job of washing away that character. I never once thought of him as Harry. Yes, the two characters do have things in common – they are both brave, headstrong and have great hair (Don’t tell me they don’t!) – but Radcliffe has developed into such a wonderful character actor that each character is totally different.

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Sh*t Emmy Award Winning Actors Say

Modern Family‘s Eric Stonestreet stars in this Funny Or Die video take off of the popular Shit [insert name here] Says meme.

And keep a lookout for another Emmy winning actor towards the end.

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Q&A: Carol Channing on Her New Documentary, Her Inspiration and More

Carol Channing, known as the ‘First Lady of the American Musical Theatre’, is probably one of the most recognized and impersonated entertainers in around today.

At 90 years old, when many people would be happy to accept accolades for past career achievements, Channing made the conscious decision to remove the diamonds, set aside the lashes and discard the wigs in order to dedicate the rest of her life to restore the arts back in our America’s public schools. 

In the new documentary, Carol Channing: Larger than Life (which opens this weekend in New York and San Fransisco), director Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness, Gotta Dance), follows Channing both onstage and off…past and present. 

The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway’s most glamorous era.  It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend. 

In this Q&A, she talks about the documentary, what performers she admires and what continues to motivate her.

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Get a Sneak Peek and Go Behind the Scenes of MCC Theater’s Re-Worked Musical ‘Carrie’

I’m incredibly curious to see how this is going to turn out.

MCC Theater  just premiered a fully re-worked production of the the famous flop, Carrie.

Based on Stephen King‘s bestselling novel, the musical of Carrie hasn’t been seen since its legendary 1988 Broadway production.

Now, the show’s original authors have joined with director Stafford Arima (Altar Boyz) and MCC Theater for a newly reworked and fully re-imagined vision of this gripping tale. Set today, in the small town of Chamberlain, Maine, Carrie features a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic film), music by Academy Award winner Michael Gore (Fame, Terms of Endearment), and lyrics by Academy Award winner Dean Pitchford (Fame, Footloose). The cast will feature Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie (Next to Normal, Kiss Me Kate) as Carrie’s evangelical mother, Margaret White, and Molly Ranson (Jerusalem, August: Osage County) as the lonely, vengeful, yet fragile girl at the center of it all.

The show is currently in previews and will open March 1st at The Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street).

Broadway World went to the first preview (which was sold out) and talked to the cast and production team about the show and even has some snippets of the show.  Read more

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