Trailer: Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch: An epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences.

Director: Zack Snyder

Cast: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn, Oscar Isaac

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Trailer: The Town

The Town: Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage–bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name… and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug…not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.

Director: Ben Affleck

Cast: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper

Trailer is after the jump
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Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall on auditions, performing and waiting for your moment

Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall, stars of the new Ben Affleck directed film, The Town, talk about the film, auditions and how they got their start.

W: Did you both have to audition for The Town?

Jon Hamm: I was on a list of people that the studio was considering. They go down the list, basically.

Rebecca Hall: I don’t think I was on a list. I auditioned. My agent flew me to New York because I couldn’t afford to pay the airfare, and then if I got it, I’d pay her back. I met Ben in some hotel room and we chatted for about two hours. I didn’t hear anything for about three months, and then I got the call.

W: Rebecca, your audition for Vicky Cristina Barcelona consisted of Woody Allen making sure you could do an American accent. The Town is set in Boston—is your accent Bostonian?

Hall: No. It’s general American, because I’m meant to be a yuppie from Marblehead who’s moved into a rough area. Her accent has little bits of Boston and little bits of “I’m tough.” I was determined to make her quite streetwise and savvy and strong. I was nervous about portraying the woman who gets subjected to violence and then becomes the love interest, victimized and fragile, of a protective man.

W: When did you both realize you wanted to perform?

Hall: I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

Hamm: I played Winnie-the-Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing up in front of people and looking like an idiot. In high school I was a middle linebacker and I played Judas in Godspell.

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Emmy Roundtable: Dramatic actors talk about their performances

This years Emmy nominations are coming up and The Hollywood Reporter got some great actors together for a lively conversation.

Watch as Matthew Fox, Jon Hamm, Bryan Cranston, Alexander Skarsgard, Ray Romano and Matt Bomer answer questions like: Whats the best thing about being an actor & if they watch their own performances?

Watch it – it’ll definitely make you laugh!

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Cast and Crew of ‘Mad Men’ sing along to ‘Bye Bye Birdie’

Here’s a video of the cast and crew of Mad Men singing (and lip syncing) to Bye Bye Birdie.

They start filming season 4 in a couple of days and I absolutely cannot wait!

Jon Hamm on starting out as an actor, on-set injuries and Mad Men

From Vanity Fair:

When did you start acting? Were you pretty young?

You know, kind of. My first acting job, so the story goes, was in first grade. I was picked by my teacher to be Winnie the Pooh in our first-grade production of Winnie the Pooh—back when, you know, public school programs still had things like productions of Winnie the Pooh, and music programs and recess and things like that.

Jumping ahead a bit, or a lot, what was your first acting job after you moved to L.A.?

The first job I got was a one-episode thing on Providence where I played this sort of bartender. It was a Halloween party and I had a costume. I dressed up as Zorro. I was sort of a…

A love interest?

Yeah, for the younger sister. But what I didn’t know was that the star of the show [Melina Kanakaredes] had gotten pregnant and they were running out of lenses to shoot her with and things for her to hold in front of her. So they had to kind of beef up everybody’s storyline, and I was available. They ended up bringing my guy back for 17 or 18 more episodes. And after that, I got a little part in a movie and another couple of little parts in TV shows and pilots and this and that and the other. And I was able to, about a year after that, quit my day job and focus on it full time.
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