Winning Concept – The 20 Mile March

Written by Gywn Gilliss

Winning Concept – The 20 Mile March

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I love reading about adventurers, explorers, those who dared to strike out and accomplish something major. Even if they didn’t change the world, their stories are worth hearing about… inspiring to say the least. And there’s a lot to be learned in reading biographies of these extraordinary people. You can apply their choices to your life as a Warrior- Actor.

For example, THE SOUTH POLE. A story of two adversaries. Amundsen and his counterpart, Scott, were both extremely courageous men, two very different (and probably difficult) personalities. Jim Collins, best selling author who wrote Good to Great, and Great by Choice, explores the personality traits of highly successful CEO’s and of each explorer. Because that’s what it gets down to in life- PERSONALITY. PERSONAL TRAITS. Read more

Biography: Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones is one of the brightest actresses of her generation.

She has recently been seen in Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in BAFTA-nominated director Niall MacCormick’s Albatross and in the romantic drama Like Crazy. For her performance as ‘Anna’ in like Crazy, Jones was awarded for Best Breakthrough Performer by the National Board of Review and the Gotham Awards, among others. Jones has also starred in the romantic comedy The Chalet Girl, and in Soulboy, a coming-of-age drama set in the 1970s Northern Soul underground musical scene, which premiered to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Film Festival. In addition to her role as Emily in Hysteria, she will next be seen in Davis Hare’s Page Eight (TV movie) with Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz and Bill Nighy; and in the comedy Cheerful Weather for the Wedding.

Other recent films include Cemetary Junction, a comedy written and directed by the award-winning partnership of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant; and the short movie The Hangup, based on Anthony Minghella’s 1980 radio play.

Jones starred as ‘Edmée’ in Cheri, directed by Stephen Frears, co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates and Rupert Friend. Her extensive film credits also include the role of Lady Cordelia Flyte in the remake of Brideshead Revisited, directed by Julian Jarrold, opposite Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell; and Flashbacks of a Fool with Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, rapper Eve, Keeley Hawes and Olivia Williams. Read more

Biography: Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson has become one of the leading international motion-picture actors today. Whether it is his Academy Award®-nominated role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s highly acclaimed Schindler’s List (1993), his award-winning portrayal of the legendary Irish Republican hero in Michael Collins (1996), or his role as controversial sex therapist Alfred Kinsey in the critically acclaimed Kinsey (2004), Neeson continues to display an acting range matched by few.

In January 2012, Neeson starred in the box-office hit The Grey. Directed by Joe Carnahan, this action-adventure featured an oil drilling team that struggled to survive after a plane crash that stranded them in the wild of Alaska. Hunting the humans was a pack of wolves that saw them as intruders.

In February 2011, Neeson was seen opposite Diane Kruger and January Jones in Unknown, a psychological thriller about stolen identity. Neeson also co-starred in the Warner Bros. remake of the 1981 film Clash of the Titans, which tells the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster in order to save the princess Andromeda. A sequel is currently in the works for release in 2012. Read more

Watch the Trailers for All the New CBS Fall Shows

CBS only ordered 4 pilots for the fall and the only one that remotely interests me is the Dennis Quaid starrer, Vegas.

Made in Jersey is a Legally Blonde rip-off and Sherlock is a near clone of the BBC’s Sherlock.

Check them out below. Read more

Watch the Trailers for All the New NBC Fall Shows

NBC has 9 new scripted shows coming this fall and some look pretty promising. Jon Favreau and JJ Abrams Revolotion, Matthew Perry‘s Go On, The New Normal with Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells and 1600 Penn with Josh Gad.

Check them all out below! Read more

Biography: Luke Evans

Luke Evans is a Welsh actor primed to turn heads among U.S. moviegoers and the film industry with his upcoming starring roles in notable studio films. Evans will next be seen in Paul W.S. Anderson’s star-studded 3-D spectacle The Three Musketeers. Evans stars as Aramis, one of the disgraced musketeers taking on Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) and The Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) in the hope of restoring their reputation as a force to be reckoned with. The film also stars Logan Lerman and Milla Jovovich.

Soon thereafter, Evans again graces multiplexes as the Greek god Zeus in Tarsem Singh’s Immortals, a stylish and spectacular 3-D action adventure starring Mickey Rourke, Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto and Isabel Lucas.

Evans recently completed his second turn with director Mat Whitecross in the contemporary film noir Ashes, starring alongside Ray Winstone, Jim Sturgess, Lesley Manville and Jodie Whittaker. The actor has also completed production on No One Lives, directed by Ryûhei Kitamura. This horror film focuses on a ruthless gang of killers who are surprised by their victims’ resistance. Next, Evans begins filming his role as Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Read more

Adversity Is Your Friend

Written by David Patrick Green

There’s nothing like life to teach one a lesson.  

Most of us can’t really learn the toughest lessons of life from others.  That’s probably because some of life’s lessons can’t simply be witnessed or recounted.  They have to be experienced.  You need to have the emotional muscle memory to keep you from making the same mistake twice.  You just hope that the experience you have that teaches you the lesson isn’t injurious…or worse.  Like in the case of drinking and driving.  I grew up in a time when it was quite common to drink and drive.  We all knew it was wrong but the consequences weren’t made clear enough to deter us.  I lost a couple of people to drinking and driving and had a few close calls myself.  Those were my lessons and they were very impactful.  The same can be said about acting experiences.  You need to make your own mistakes.  Acting is a very emotionally driven activity.  Actors are both naturally emotional (or may become that way) and take their craft personally.  We are also continually drawing off our emotions for our work and we have to create emotions that may never have existed within us before.  It is a demanding business.  Read more

Biography: Jackie Earle Haley

Jackie Earle Haley has had one of the most interesting career trajectories in the industry. He started out as a successful child actor before virtually disappearing from Hollywood.

After 15 years, he made an almost unprecedented comeback in back-to-back 2006 feature releases: Steven Zaillian‘s All the King’s Men and Todd Field‘s controversial drama Little Children. Haley’s courageous performance as convicted sex offender Ronnie McGorvey in the latter brought him numerous accolades, culminating in an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was also honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award® nomination and won Best Supporting Actor awards from several critics groups, including the New York Film Critics Circle and the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Haley then appeared in the Will Ferrell basketball comedy Semi-Pro. In 2009, he joined the ensemble cast of Watchmen, Zack Snyder‘s ambitious film adaptation of the seminal graphic novel, earning acclaim from critics and fans alike for his portrayal of the enigmatic Rorschach.

The following year, Haley co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in the dramatic thriller Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. Also in 2010, Haley took on the role of the monstrously terrifying killer Freddy Krueger in the reimagining of the horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. On television, Haley starred for two seasons on FOX’s action series Human Target.

Haley first came to fame in the mid-1970s with his scene-stealing performance as Kelly Leak, the cigarette-smoking, motorcycle-riding hellion, in Michael Ritchie‘s comedy hit The Bad News Bears, reprising his role in two sequels. He again won praise from critics and audiences for his role as the romantic but short-tempered Moocher in Peter Yates‘ Oscar®-winning 1979 sleeper hit Breaking Away. In 1983, Haley played the sex-obsessed Dave in Curtis Hanson‘s Losin’ It, with Tom Cruise. That same year, he made his Broadway debut, starring in John Byrne‘s play Slab Boys, with Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Val Kilmer.

When the transition to more adult roles proved difficult, Haley turned his focus to directing. He began helming industrial videos, which eventually led to commercials. He had been off the screen for more than a decade when, in 2004, Steven Zaillian tracked him down for the role of Sugar Boy in All the King’s Men. That, combined with his work in Little Children, resulted in the resurgence of his acting career.

Later this year, Haley portrays Alexander Stephens in Steven Spielberg’s historical drama Lincoln, opening in December 2012.

This Biography/Filmography of Jackie Earle Haley is courtesy of Warner Brothers

Biography: Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike has quickly emerged as a contemporary and multifaceted actress having earned international acclaim for both her stage and film roles. Pike recently wrapped production on Christopher McQuarrie‘s Crime Drama One Shot, opposite Tom Cruise. The film is set for release in February 2013.

Pike was recently seen in the spy comedy Johnny English Reborn, a sequel to the 2003 hit film. She appeared opposite Rowan Atkinson, and Gillian Anderson and Dominic West also starred, with Oliver Parker directing. Pike also was recently seen in David Frankel‘s comedy The Big Year, with Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin.

In 2010, Pike starred in the dramatic film Made in Dagenham, with Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson and Bob Hoskins, based on the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant. She was later nominated for a 2011 London Critics’ Circle Award for British Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in the film. Pike also starred in Barney’s Version, opposite Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and went on to receive rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival. Pike’s work in the film earned her a 2011 London Critics’ Circle Award for British Actress of the Year. She was also recently seen in the BBC movie Women in Love.

Pike received critical acclaim for her work as Helen in Lone Scherfig‘s Academy Award Nominated Film An Education, with Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan. Received well at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, An Education continued to garner critical acclaim with Academy Award®, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Film Critics nominations, and a win for Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Read more

Trailer: ‘Killer Joe’ starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon & Thomas Haden Church

Killer Joe: When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can’t pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. Like from a modern-day, twisted fairy tale, “Killer Joe” Cooper becomes the prince to Dottie’s Cinderella. Based on the play by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, “Killer Joe” is a garish, proactive black comedy from Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Thomas Hayden Church, and Gina Gershon.

Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church
Writers: Tracy Letts

In theaters: July 27th  Read more

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