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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Mark Ruffalo tells ‘Details’ he almost quit acting: “I’d had it with L.A. I got depressed. I was losing my love for it. So I said, ‘I’m done.’”

In 2009, Mark Ruffalo decided he had had enough of the Hollywood machine, and he walked away from acting.

“I’d had it with L.A.,” he told Details magazine. “And I really had it with the business side of acting, the machinery of it all.  You’re an artist, but then all of a sudden you’re a product at the same time, and there’s this company that’s sprung up around you.  I got depressed.  I was losing my love for it. So I said, ‘I’m done.’ I fired everybody and moved my family to Callicoon, NY. I had to make a radical move. “The Kids Are All Right” was my swan song.  I didn’t know what I was doing next.”

Ruffalo says it is far from easy to make it in the acting business. “It was brutal.  The years are stripping away, but when you talk to anyone from home, you’re saying something like ‘Well, I’m just working on my craft right now, when the truth is that I can’t get a f***ing job because no one will hire me. It was humiliating.”

The draw to acting is a strong one, Ruffalo says, and while sitting in the audience at Sundance, watching “The Kids Are All Right” make its debut he says, “watching everyone’s jaded, super cool Hollywood identities melt into the communal experience of filmmaking and storytelling.  It reminded me: I’m an actor, and my whole life has been geared towards being an actor.”

Ruffalo also shares his thoughts on motion-capture acting:  “It’s the absolute perfect marriage because it relies on your imagination, your ability to project outside of yourself, to be the watcher and the watched.  A stage actor has to be able to do that, because you’re telling the story with your body as much as your face and voice.”

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Mark Ruffalo on showy roles and enjoying his nomination

It’s been a whirlwind 24 hours for Mark Ruffalo after being nominated for his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in The Kids Are All Right.

Speakeasy talked with the actor about his acting style and how he’s going to handle the next month.

Your gave a very low-key performance in “The Kids Are All Right.” Are those harder to do than big showy roles?

They’re certainly harder to be seen for, you know. I’m pleasantly surprised that I was included in the list. My work tends to be a little more low-key. I don’t see myself as an Oscar contender generally because of that. I’m completely blown away and so grateful that I am being considered and people have taken notice of it.

What’s the key to handling awards season hoopla?

I don’t know. One thing I know is I’ve been doing this for 20 years and it’s taken me 20 to get here. In another 20, I may be dead. I’ve been really trying to enjoy it and soak it up and really be grateful for it. It’s easy to be cynical about these things. But I’ve been in the trenches long enough and on the outside long enough that you have to enjoy it when it comes along.

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Oscar 2011 Reactions: Colin Firth, James Franco, Natalie Portman

The Oscar nominations came out this morning and the actors are out giving their thoughts. Here’s some of the better videos and quotes of the bunch.

If you were only to watch 2, I recommend watching the Colin Firth video followed by James Franco. Franco chides Meredith Vieira for almost telling Colin Firth that he was going to win Best Actor. Pretty funny!

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Must Watch: Actors Roundtable

The Hollywood Reporter gathered some incredible actors for another one of their fantastic roundtable interviews.

James Franco, Ryan Gosling, Colin Firth, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg and Robert Duvall talk about their careers, how they got stared in acting and so many more things. There are 3 clips but you really should watch the whole video (at the end of this post). It’s over an hour-long but I promise you, you’ll love every minute of it.

In this clip, Jesse Eisenberg talks about how he would do 50 takes on for a scene in The Social Network and only like 2 of them. And keep an eye on Duvall in the beginning. He’s totally not paying attention. But then he takes over the clip and rocks, basically saying that 50 takes is ridiculous.

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Screenplay: The Kids Are All Right

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Sure you do!

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Director: Lisa Cholodenko

Cast: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson

Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo talk about their new film, The Kids Are Alright

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and director Lisa Cholodenko of The Kids Are Alright appeared on The Charlie Rose Show to chat about the movie.

The video is only 26 minutes long so if you’re interested in the film, play it in the background if you have some time (especially if you’re at work!).

They talk about how the movie started, casting of the film, their characters and more.

I’ve heard excellent things about this film!

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Screenplay: “Shutter Island”

Want the screenplay for Shutter Island?

Sure you do!

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Thanks to scriptcollector

Synopsis: Two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress—like hospital for the criminally insane.

Trailer: Brothers Bloom

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Synopsis: The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo & Robbie Coltrane

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Ex-con turned actor puts his life on film

Brian Goodman, a south Boston guy who came from a life of crime has just written and directed his first feature film starring Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet and Mark Wahlberg.

The movie, “What Doesn’t Kill You,” is a gritty, semi-autobiographical look at his life as a hood. Goodman was on the street at age 12, sold drugs to survive and has been shot several times in deals gone bad.

Hm… Anyone want to knock off a couple of 7-11′s with me?

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