7 Clips from Cameron Crowe’s ‘We Bought a Zoo’ starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson

If you missed out on We Bought a Zoo‘s sneak preview over Thanksgiving weekend, you’re in luck because 20th Century Fox is having another one tomorrow – Saturday, December 10th.

But before that, check out the 7 clips below.

Directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Scarlett Johansson, Patrick Fugit and Elle Fanning, the film tells the true story of a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start. So, he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.

The film opens on December 23rd.  Read more

Scarlett Johansson: “My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice”

Scarlett Johansson is, on one hand, one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood and has used her fame to publicly support various political causes. On the other hand, Johansson has managed to keep her personal life very private despite her massive fame, and even though in the last year she’s gone through both a divorce and a hacking scandal she’s managed to keep her name out of the gossip columns. Frankly it’s a bit refreshing in a world full of media whores to see an actress who wants to keep to herself.

But Johansson doesn’t try to keep her business to herself simply for privacy purposes.  While speaking with Interview Magazine, she reveals that there is a professional reason why she attempts to keep her life a bit of a mystery. 

In addition, she says that she seeks to work with actors who similarly also try to maintain a bit of the unknown.  Read more

Scarlett Johansson on her Broadway debut: “I’d spent four months bleeding all over the stage, completely exposed”

It seems scandal, even more than beauty, is truly in the eye of the beholder.  When Scarlett Johansson’s e-mail was hacked into, and nude photos were leaked onto the internet alongside those of multiple other stars, she reacted with her signature nonchalance.  “I know my best angles,” she recently told Vanity Fair, “They were sent to my husband.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  It’s not like I was shooting a porno.  Although,” she added, “There’s nothing wrong with that either.”

The invasion of privacy from the release of the pictures seems to pale in comparison to other ways Johansson has felt exposed in the past few years.  Her divorce from Ryan Reynolds (the recipient of the aforementioned photos) was public and painful.  Johansson says, “I really didn’t know what to do with myself.  It was such a strange time.  There was nothing that was interesting to me.  I had a very public separation.  It was difficult.  I felt very uncomfortable.”

Previous to the divorce, Johansson starred opposite Live Schreiber in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.  She dove into the role and experience and says that it “completely took me over in every way.  I’d spent four months bleeding all over the stage, completely exposed.”  Read more

Trailer: ‘The Avengers’ starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson

The Avengers: Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures “Marvel’s The Avengers”–the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when “Marvel’s The Avengers” assemble in summer 2012. In “Marvel’s The Avengers,” superheroes team up to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security. courtesy of trailers.apple.com

Writer/Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård , Samuel L. Jackson

In theaters: May 4th, 2012
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Trailer: Cameron Crowe’s ‘We Bought A Zoo’ starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church

We Bought A Zoo: This holiday season, acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) directs an amazing and true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory. Courtesy of trailers.apple.com

Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, John Michael Higgins

 
In theaters: December 23rd, 2011   Read more

Scarlett Johansson signs on for “Can A Song Save Your Life?”

This week Scarlett Johansson, signed on to do a new film with director John Carney about a singer-songwriter titled “Can A Song Save Your Life?”

John Carney, is the Italian-Director responsible for the popular 2006 indie Once.

Judd Apatow has signed on as executive producer, telling us that there will definitely be a comedic element; in this story of a washed-up A&R man in New York City, who forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter from out of town.

The male lead for the story has still not been cast,  although we here  that Mark Ruffalo and Jim Carrey are interested in the role.

“I’ve been writing it for a year and a half,” said Carney. ‘‘I went out to Los Angeles to meet Scarlett a couple of months ago. She was everything you could imagine – very hot, elegant and she’s really smart.” Read more

2010 Tony Nominations

 

BEST PLAY:

In the Next Room by Sarah Ruhl

Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts

Red by John Logan

Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

BEST MUSICAL:

American Idiot

Fela!

Memphis

Million Dollar Quartet

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Scarlett Johansson on her Broadway debut, playing a teenager and Iron Man 2

From wsj.com:

The Wall Street Journal: Normally you play characters who are older than you. Is it a challenge to play a teenager on stage?

Ms. Johansson: It’s really kind of agonizing in some ways to be 17, and I didn’t know if I wanted to go back there. I’m very wary of actors that are in their 20s that are playing teenagers, that play it with this really sort of false adolescence. It’s like a pet peeve of mine. I thought it was going to be an uncomfortable challenge—a challenge, but not a good kind of a challenge—and it turned out that I never thought about it again.

Did you work with a dialect coach?

We did have a dialect coach we’ve been working with. I’m from Manhattan and so it’s not an unfamiliar dialect for me. My mom’s side of the family’s all from New York, and of course they’re Jewish and from different boroughs, so it’s not exactly the same. The Italian Brooklyn accent is sort of particular to the Italians, but it’s similar.

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This months cover of Vanity Fair

This picture makes me laugh. Vanity Fair has Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Jonah Hill on the cover of this months magazine. It’s a knock off of a previous cover with Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley and Tom Ford.

Celebrity Trading Cards?

A new line of celebrity trading cards — yes, the little cardboard ones baseball fans used to hoard — officially sanctioned by the stars themselves is about to be launched. Anybody want to trade a Megan Fox for a Scarlett Johansson?