Update: At one point at today’s marathon House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wi) asked Special Counsel Robert Hur, “Did you find that the president was senile?”
“I did not. That conclusion does not appear in my report, Congressman,” Hur said.
Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified material, concluded that no charges should be filed against the president in his report, released last month. But he also set of a firestorm among Biden and his supporters for suggesting that he was in cognitive decline.
That made his a target of Democrats’ criticism throughout the morning, but he also was grilled by Republicans on the decision not to prosecute Biden, as his rival in 2024, Donald Trump, makes claims that he is being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department.
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-pa) questioned Hur on why he claimed that Biden could not remember when his son,...
“I did not. That conclusion does not appear in my report, Congressman,” Hur said.
Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified material, concluded that no charges should be filed against the president in his report, released last month. But he also set of a firestorm among Biden and his supporters for suggesting that he was in cognitive decline.
That made his a target of Democrats’ criticism throughout the morning, but he also was grilled by Republicans on the decision not to prosecute Biden, as his rival in 2024, Donald Trump, makes claims that he is being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department.
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-pa) questioned Hur on why he claimed that Biden could not remember when his son,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
In silver screen Westerns, fantasy paints over reality. Real-life figures of that era, from lawmen like Wyatt Earp to outlaws like Jesse James, are as much heroes of cinema as fictional ones like the Man with No Name.
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is one of the most famous cases of the former. It's also an unusual Western; its focus is foremost on character and comedy, while shootouts are secondary. It has an unconventional structure, with both a half-hour long chase scene that sustains suspense all the way, mixed with leisurely, vignette-structured pacing of contemporary New Hollywood films. When the film debuted in 1969, Westerns were on their way out. Reflecting history and the genre's twilight, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" end with the pair dying at the hands of the Bolivian army.
Screenwriter William Goldman was attracted to the story of Cassidy and Sundance because it was unusual for a cowboy,...
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is one of the most famous cases of the former. It's also an unusual Western; its focus is foremost on character and comedy, while shootouts are secondary. It has an unconventional structure, with both a half-hour long chase scene that sustains suspense all the way, mixed with leisurely, vignette-structured pacing of contemporary New Hollywood films. When the film debuted in 1969, Westerns were on their way out. Reflecting history and the genre's twilight, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" end with the pair dying at the hands of the Bolivian army.
Screenwriter William Goldman was attracted to the story of Cassidy and Sundance because it was unusual for a cowboy,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Why so glum, chum? Movies are fun and they need watching.
In the immortal words of Shane Black via Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight, “Life is pain. Get used to it.” These days life has been really painful though, and it’s not so easy to get used to it. Thankfully movies are always here to pick us up when we need it, or bring us down if we’re looking to wallow. This month we’ve made a list of movies that will leave you smiling and feeling good about humanity after you watch them — at least for a little while. Click on their titles to be taken to their Netflix pages.
Pick of the Month: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
It’s possible that Big Trouble in Little China might be the stupidest movie ever made. It’s about a fast-talking, rock-stupid, man-child truck driver battling Asian mystics over the fate of his...
In the immortal words of Shane Black via Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight, “Life is pain. Get used to it.” These days life has been really painful though, and it’s not so easy to get used to it. Thankfully movies are always here to pick us up when we need it, or bring us down if we’re looking to wallow. This month we’ve made a list of movies that will leave you smiling and feeling good about humanity after you watch them — at least for a little while. Click on their titles to be taken to their Netflix pages.
Pick of the Month: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
It’s possible that Big Trouble in Little China might be the stupidest movie ever made. It’s about a fast-talking, rock-stupid, man-child truck driver battling Asian mystics over the fate of his...
- 4/26/2017
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...
1868 George Arliss, who won the Oscar for Disraeli (1929) born
1912 Rms Titanic set sail on this day from England on her first and last voyage. The rest is the subject of history, lore, and several plays and movies, most famously James Cameron's Oscar devouring Titanic (1997)
1925 The Great Gatsby is published. The classic novel failed at first but after F Scott Fitzgerald's death it became an indisputable classic, lateradapted to plays and movies and so on...
1868 George Arliss, who won the Oscar for Disraeli (1929) born
1912 Rms Titanic set sail on this day from England on her first and last voyage. The rest is the subject of history, lore, and several plays and movies, most famously James Cameron's Oscar devouring Titanic (1997)
1925 The Great Gatsby is published. The classic novel failed at first but after F Scott Fitzgerald's death it became an indisputable classic, lateradapted to plays and movies and so on...
- 4/10/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Writer El James was granted total control over the film version of Fifty Shades Darker, and it’s a trend that’s set to get bigger. But some in the business think it’s bad news
Some months ago, I interviewed a noted American director who had adapted a book by a noted American author. The director was in a hotel suite. He had a retinue of handlers and his own Pa. The author was placed in the corridor outside. He had a wonky trestle table piled with his own paperbacks. While the reporters were lined up to speak with the director, the publicist would attempt to interest them in the author. “He’s signing copies of his book,” she explained. “He’s signing them for free.” The author stared up at the reporters with a mortified smile and said: “Can I go and get some lunch now, please?”
At the time,...
Some months ago, I interviewed a noted American director who had adapted a book by a noted American author. The director was in a hotel suite. He had a retinue of handlers and his own Pa. The author was placed in the corridor outside. He had a wonky trestle table piled with his own paperbacks. While the reporters were lined up to speak with the director, the publicist would attempt to interest them in the author. “He’s signing copies of his book,” she explained. “He’s signing them for free.” The author stared up at the reporters with a mortified smile and said: “Can I go and get some lunch now, please?”
At the time,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Z: The Beginning Of Everything attempts to chart the flapper icon’s thrilling rise to intoxicating muse but its portrayal of the jazz age is disappointingly pedestrian
It’s a mark of the careering ambitions of our so-called golden age of television that, should I tell you Amazon is attempting to salvage a tired film genre with a 10-episode series about an iconic Zelda, that genre could just as easily be video game adaptation as period biopic. Alas, it’s the latter, and though Z: The Beginning Of Everything would be a perfectly good title for a rip-roaring tale of puzzle-based valour, on balance it’s probably better suited to a glittering jazz-age portrait of Zelda Fitzgerald.
Christina Ricci bids farewell to a decade of post-Speed Racer ignominy to play the title role, and her easy effervescence goes a long way to explaining what made the woman born Zelda...
It’s a mark of the careering ambitions of our so-called golden age of television that, should I tell you Amazon is attempting to salvage a tired film genre with a 10-episode series about an iconic Zelda, that genre could just as easily be video game adaptation as period biopic. Alas, it’s the latter, and though Z: The Beginning Of Everything would be a perfectly good title for a rip-roaring tale of puzzle-based valour, on balance it’s probably better suited to a glittering jazz-age portrait of Zelda Fitzgerald.
Christina Ricci bids farewell to a decade of post-Speed Racer ignominy to play the title role, and her easy effervescence goes a long way to explaining what made the woman born Zelda...
- 1/21/2017
- by Charlie Lyne
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix has announced that their budget for new content in 2017 will land in the neighborhood of $6 billion – that's billion, with a B. As if locked in a streaming-video arms race, competitors such as Amazon Prime and Hulu have beefed up their offerings for the year to come as well. If you felt cowed by the sheer volume of available streaming options in 2016, we've got some good news and some bad news. The good news: 2017's only going to be bigger. The bad news: See the good news.
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- 12/30/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Zelda Fitzgerald is a name that has been doing the rounds over the past few weeks – and we’re not just referring to Amazon’s upcoming Jazz Age series, Z: The Beginning Of Everything.
Fitzgerald, a boisterous novelist and socialite of the early 20th century, has graced the screen countless times in the past, both through standalone dramas dedicated to her turbulent life, as well as those films that largely focused on her celebrated other half, F. Scott Fitzgerald. But it seems Hollywood has taken a renewed interest in the Jazz Age icon, now that two, competing period dramas have entered pre-production – one with Scarlett Johansson (The Beautiful and the Damned), the other with Jennifer Lawrence.
Yes, Zelda Fitzgerald is very much in vogue, and with little over a month to until Amazon’s new series, the online giant has debuted the latest trailer for Z: The Beginning Of Everything...
Fitzgerald, a boisterous novelist and socialite of the early 20th century, has graced the screen countless times in the past, both through standalone dramas dedicated to her turbulent life, as well as those films that largely focused on her celebrated other half, F. Scott Fitzgerald. But it seems Hollywood has taken a renewed interest in the Jazz Age icon, now that two, competing period dramas have entered pre-production – one with Scarlett Johansson (The Beautiful and the Damned), the other with Jennifer Lawrence.
Yes, Zelda Fitzgerald is very much in vogue, and with little over a month to until Amazon’s new series, the online giant has debuted the latest trailer for Z: The Beginning Of Everything...
- 12/7/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
‘Z: The Beginning of Everything’ Trailer: Christina Ricci Embodies Zelda Fitzgerald in Amazon Series
They say that well-behaved women rarely make history, and who would Zelda Fitzgerald be without misbehaving every once in a while. In Amazon’s new original series, Christina Ricci transforms into the iconic socialite and novelist in “Z: The Beginning of Everything.” The first trailer for the upcoming period drama has been released, courtesy of Deadline, which you can take a peek at below.
Created by Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, the 10-episode series follows Zelda’s life and her passionate, yet tumultuous, relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald (David Hoflin) during the roaring 1920’s Jazz Age. The latest teaser spotlights their first encounter, their wild nights out on the town and their troubles as he becomes a successful writer.
Read More: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Season 2 Review: Amazon’s Normalized Nazi World Delves Deeper Into Dark Mythologies
“Z” also co-stars David Strathairn as Zelda’s father,...
Created by Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, the 10-episode series follows Zelda’s life and her passionate, yet tumultuous, relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald (David Hoflin) during the roaring 1920’s Jazz Age. The latest teaser spotlights their first encounter, their wild nights out on the town and their troubles as he becomes a successful writer.
Read More: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Season 2 Review: Amazon’s Normalized Nazi World Delves Deeper Into Dark Mythologies
“Z” also co-stars David Strathairn as Zelda’s father,...
- 12/7/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Ron Howard is considering directing the drama about her tumultous relationship to author F Scott Fitzgerald, inspired by Nancy Milford’s bestselling biography
Jennifer Lawrence is set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic of the jazz age icon, socialite and novelist. Ron Howard is eyeing a deal to direct, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Related: Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy make big money – but men still make more
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Jennifer Lawrence is set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic of the jazz age icon, socialite and novelist. Ron Howard is eyeing a deal to direct, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Related: Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy make big money – but men still make more
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- 10/21/2016
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
A Scott Berg with Michael Grandage, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Michael Grandage's Genius, starring Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney, written by John Logan, based on Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, by A Scott Berg, has Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway, Guy Pearce as F Scott Fitzgerald and Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald to round out their literary world.
Max Perkins (Colin Firth) with Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law)
Scott Berg also wrote Kate Remembered, about Katharine Hepburn, who died on this date, June 29 in 2003. Cate Blanchett in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (written by Logan), a Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway connection and Fitzgerald's Garden of Allah were revisited in our conversation.
Thomas Wolfe's (Jude Law) problem is that he can't stop writing. Like a feverish Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the page, he burns himself out. And the people around him,...
Michael Grandage's Genius, starring Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney, written by John Logan, based on Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, by A Scott Berg, has Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway, Guy Pearce as F Scott Fitzgerald and Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald to round out their literary world.
Max Perkins (Colin Firth) with Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law)
Scott Berg also wrote Kate Remembered, about Katharine Hepburn, who died on this date, June 29 in 2003. Cate Blanchett in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (written by Logan), a Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway connection and Fitzgerald's Garden of Allah were revisited in our conversation.
Thomas Wolfe's (Jude Law) problem is that he can't stop writing. Like a feverish Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the page, he burns himself out. And the people around him,...
- 6/29/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Nicole Kidman haunts Jude Law as he speaks on John Logan's script for Michael Grandage's Genius Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Laura Linney on Mrs Maxwell Perkins: 'She was kept outside of Manhattan, sort of away from the cultural hotbed of the city' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze In Genius, Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth), who wears a hat at all times, even indoors while working in shirtsleeves or during dinner with his wife and five daughters, knows good writing when he sees it. Mrs Perkins (Laura Linney), a playwright herself, shoots her husband knowing glances. She is treated by Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) as though she were as meaningless as a speck of dirt, while his mistress and patron, the married Mrs Aline Bernstein (Nicole Kidman), knows their relationship is doomed. Scribner’s Sons editor Perkins previously worked with Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West) and F Scott Fitzgerald (Guy Pearce) who were haunted by different demons than the compulsive Wolfe and only briefly make an appearance here as does Zelda (Vanessa Kirby).
At the New York premiere, Laura Linney stated that A Scott Berg's Max Perkins: Editor of Genius and her grandmother helped shape her character...
Laura Linney on Mrs Maxwell Perkins: 'She was kept outside of Manhattan, sort of away from the cultural hotbed of the city' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze In Genius, Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth), who wears a hat at all times, even indoors while working in shirtsleeves or during dinner with his wife and five daughters, knows good writing when he sees it. Mrs Perkins (Laura Linney), a playwright herself, shoots her husband knowing glances. She is treated by Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) as though she were as meaningless as a speck of dirt, while his mistress and patron, the married Mrs Aline Bernstein (Nicole Kidman), knows their relationship is doomed. Scribner’s Sons editor Perkins previously worked with Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West) and F Scott Fitzgerald (Guy Pearce) who were haunted by different demons than the compulsive Wolfe and only briefly make an appearance here as does Zelda (Vanessa Kirby).
At the New York premiere, Laura Linney stated that A Scott Berg's Max Perkins: Editor of Genius and her grandmother helped shape her character...
- 6/12/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A Scott Berg, Michael Grandage, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, John Logan and Jude Law Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions hosted a Museum of Modern Art premiere for Michael Grandage's Genius with Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney, written by John Logan (Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, Sam Mendes' Spectre and Skyfall), based on Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, by A Scott Berg. Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway, Guy Pearce as F Scott Fitzgerald and Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald round out their literary world.
John Logan on Scott Berg's Katharine Hepburn for Cate Blanchett: 'He absolutely offered some insight' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Angela Ashton, Joel Grey, Martha Plimpton, Oren Moverman, Kathleen Turner, Keith Urban, Spotlight screenwriter Josh Singer, Tom Wolfe, Zach Grenier, Elena Kampouris, Lilly Englert, Elena Rusconi, Laura Michelle Kelly, Tommy Tonge, Nan and Gay Talese,...
John Logan on Scott Berg's Katharine Hepburn for Cate Blanchett: 'He absolutely offered some insight' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Angela Ashton, Joel Grey, Martha Plimpton, Oren Moverman, Kathleen Turner, Keith Urban, Spotlight screenwriter Josh Singer, Tom Wolfe, Zach Grenier, Elena Kampouris, Lilly Englert, Elena Rusconi, Laura Michelle Kelly, Tommy Tonge, Nan and Gay Talese,...
- 6/7/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Actor will star in The Beautiful and the Damned as socialite and novelist who had a tumultuous marriage with Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald
Scarlett Johansson is set to play the socialite, novelist and “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald in romantic drama The Beautiful and the Damned.
Related: Scarlett Johansson: talking about the Hollywood gender wage gap is 'icky'
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Scarlett Johansson is set to play the socialite, novelist and “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald in romantic drama The Beautiful and the Damned.
Related: Scarlett Johansson: talking about the Hollywood gender wage gap is 'icky'
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- 4/22/2016
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor will star in The Beautiful and the Damned as socialite and novelist who had a tumultuous marriage with Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald
Scarlett Johansson is set to play the socialite, novelist and “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald in romantic drama The Beautiful and the Damned.
Related: Scarlett Johansson: talking about the Hollywood gender wage gap is 'icky'
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Scarlett Johansson is set to play the socialite, novelist and “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald in romantic drama The Beautiful and the Damned.
Related: Scarlett Johansson: talking about the Hollywood gender wage gap is 'icky'
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- 4/22/2016
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Grandage’s debut film, on Thomas Wolfe and his literary editor Maxwell Perkins, is hammily acted, overstylised and lacking in subtlety
Red pencils at the ready. This one needs a going over. Shot in musty sepia, dragged in and out of baffling slow motion, Genius is a story about editing that packs a lot of padding. The first film from theatre director Michael Grandage, it’s a biopic about literary editor Max Perkins and his client, Thomas Wolfe. It features a performance of vaudevillian gusto by Jude Law as the author. Colin Firth is – in his measured way – equally as hammy playing Perkins.
Unlike many writers, who have to dig for every word, Wolfe didn’t know when to stop. He had a wild talent that needed taming. Only Perkins, who had already honed the work of Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, understood how to subdue the author’s 5,000-page manuscripts into market-ready books.
Red pencils at the ready. This one needs a going over. Shot in musty sepia, dragged in and out of baffling slow motion, Genius is a story about editing that packs a lot of padding. The first film from theatre director Michael Grandage, it’s a biopic about literary editor Max Perkins and his client, Thomas Wolfe. It features a performance of vaudevillian gusto by Jude Law as the author. Colin Firth is – in his measured way – equally as hammy playing Perkins.
Unlike many writers, who have to dig for every word, Wolfe didn’t know when to stop. He had a wild talent that needed taming. Only Perkins, who had already honed the work of Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, understood how to subdue the author’s 5,000-page manuscripts into market-ready books.
- 2/16/2016
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Grandage’s debut film, on Thomas Wolfe and his literary editor Maxwell Perkins, is hammily acted, overstylised and lacking in subtlety
Red pencils at the ready. This one needs a going over. Shot in musty sepia, dragged in and out of baffling slow motion, Genius is a story about editing that packs a lot of padding. The first film from theatre director Michael Grandage, it’s a biopic about literary editor Max Perkins and his client, Thomas Wolfe. It features a performance of vaudevillian gusto by Jude Law as the author. Colin Firth is – in his measured way – equally as hammy playing Perkins.
Unlike many writers, who have to dig for every word, Wolfe didn’t know when to stop. He had a wild talent that needed taming. Only Perkins, who had already honed the work of Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, understood how to subdue the author’s 5,000-page manuscripts into market-ready books.
Red pencils at the ready. This one needs a going over. Shot in musty sepia, dragged in and out of baffling slow motion, Genius is a story about editing that packs a lot of padding. The first film from theatre director Michael Grandage, it’s a biopic about literary editor Max Perkins and his client, Thomas Wolfe. It features a performance of vaudevillian gusto by Jude Law as the author. Colin Firth is – in his measured way – equally as hammy playing Perkins.
Unlike many writers, who have to dig for every word, Wolfe didn’t know when to stop. He had a wild talent that needed taming. Only Perkins, who had already honed the work of Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, understood how to subdue the author’s 5,000-page manuscripts into market-ready books.
- 2/16/2016
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Murtada here to talk Berlinale which runs February 11th through the 21st. The Berlin Film Festival just announced titles for its Panorama section. These are possibly movies we will be talking about all through 2016, as we are still talking about 45 Years which made its debut there all the way back in February.
Gerwig and Hawke in Maggie's Plan
Among the titles is Tiff and Nyff entry Maggie’s Plan from director writer Rebecca Miller and starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore. Gerwig has admitted during a Q&A at Nyff that she based her character’s look on Miller’s style. That got us fantasizing that the movie is a roman a clef about how Miller married Daniel Day Lewis soon after he was involved with Isabelle Adjani. After all Moore is playing a sorta crazy European.
Another interesting title is John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone with Michael Pena,...
Gerwig and Hawke in Maggie's Plan
Among the titles is Tiff and Nyff entry Maggie’s Plan from director writer Rebecca Miller and starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore. Gerwig has admitted during a Q&A at Nyff that she based her character’s look on Miller’s style. That got us fantasizing that the movie is a roman a clef about how Miller married Daniel Day Lewis soon after he was involved with Isabelle Adjani. After all Moore is playing a sorta crazy European.
Another interesting title is John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone with Michael Pena,...
- 12/17/2015
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
Kelsey Grammer, who won a Golden Globe for Boss, is returning to the drama field with a co-starring role opposite Matt Bomer in The Last Tycoon, Amazon Studios' drama pilot based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's final unfinished novel. Also cast in the project, from Sony's TriStar Television, is Rosemarie DeWitt (Poltergeist). Additionally, joining the pilot is Pulitzer-winning author and F.Scott Fitzgerald scholar A. Scott Berg, who will serve as consulting producer. The Last Tyc…...
- 12/15/2015
- Deadline TV
The President: What’s his plan? Ohila: I think he is finishing his soup. • Hell Bent, Doctor Who Season Finale, Series 9
“Sometimes I think about what my mom told me. How I was really, really sick when I was first born and the doctors thought I was going to die. But there was this one doctor who wouldn’t give up. And sometimes, when things are really bad and fucked up, and I’m just so fucking tired of hauling myself out of the abyss one more goddamn time, I wish he had.” • Mindy Newell, On Her Depression
18 October 1990
Dear Ms. Newell,
Thanks for the letter and the story, which I liked enormously. I’m glad you liked my little book and that it may have helped in some way. I’m sure you’ll avoid your Jack the Ripper and pull through with grand success; remember that most people do.
“Sometimes I think about what my mom told me. How I was really, really sick when I was first born and the doctors thought I was going to die. But there was this one doctor who wouldn’t give up. And sometimes, when things are really bad and fucked up, and I’m just so fucking tired of hauling myself out of the abyss one more goddamn time, I wish he had.” • Mindy Newell, On Her Depression
18 October 1990
Dear Ms. Newell,
Thanks for the letter and the story, which I liked enormously. I’m glad you liked my little book and that it may have helped in some way. I’m sure you’ll avoid your Jack the Ripper and pull through with grand success; remember that most people do.
- 12/7/2015
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Amazon's pilot program is back up and running with six offerings on the slate this fall. "I am excited to see which shows spark conversation amongst our customers and what they want to be made into series," said Roy Price, the VP of Amazon Studios. Well, what's on the block? There's a show about '60s feminism! A gritty Western! A show starring Christina Ricci as Zelda Scott Fitzgerald! And perhaps most enticing: Tig Notaro's One Mississippi starring Notaro, co-produced by Louis C.K. and co-written by Diablo Cody. Here's a closer look:One Mississippi On paper, this is the real highlight of the pack. Loosely based on Tig Notaro’s life, the plot follows her return to her hometown in Mississippi to deal with her mother’s unexpected death. The rest of the cast includes Noah Harpster as her older brother Remy, John Rothman as her “emotionally distant stepfather, Bill,...
- 9/23/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
ABC
They say there are no second acts in American lives, but what did F Scott Fitzgerald know? He was dead by 44 and had crap hair. There’s overwhelming evidence to the contrary to be found, especially when you look to Hollywood – Revenge star Emily VanCamp, for instance, is very much in the thick of the big second act of her acting career.
Whilst her ABC drama series has been a huge hit, the network has cancelled it, effective with the end of its fourth season. Not that it’s getting VanCamp down, with the news barely managing to brush past her swiftly rising star. She’s already got a couple more movies wrapped, and is currently filming the third Captain America film.
She may have a bigger role in the next Marvel sequel, but even if she doesn’t VanCamp still has legions of fans leftover from Revenge (and...
They say there are no second acts in American lives, but what did F Scott Fitzgerald know? He was dead by 44 and had crap hair. There’s overwhelming evidence to the contrary to be found, especially when you look to Hollywood – Revenge star Emily VanCamp, for instance, is very much in the thick of the big second act of her acting career.
Whilst her ABC drama series has been a huge hit, the network has cancelled it, effective with the end of its fourth season. Not that it’s getting VanCamp down, with the news barely managing to brush past her swiftly rising star. She’s already got a couple more movies wrapped, and is currently filming the third Captain America film.
She may have a bigger role in the next Marvel sequel, but even if she doesn’t VanCamp still has legions of fans leftover from Revenge (and...
- 5/27/2015
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
By rights I should hate the English. Seriously, my background is almost entirely Scots and Irish. I grew up hearing about the troubles the English gave to the Scots and Irish, both in school and from my parents.
Yet I do not, I love the English. How can I hate a country that gave us not only Monty Python but also Benny Hill and the Carry On Films? How can I bear any ill will to a country that gave us writers of the caliber of Ramsey Campbell, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock and J. G Ballard? How can anyone hate a country that not only prizes eccentric behavior but encourages it? Take Mr. Kim Newman for instance, a brilliant writer whose work appears regularly in Video WatchDog and Videoscope Mr. Newman dresses himself, has his hair and mustache styled and speaks in the manner of someone from the 19th Century!
Yet I do not, I love the English. How can I hate a country that gave us not only Monty Python but also Benny Hill and the Carry On Films? How can I bear any ill will to a country that gave us writers of the caliber of Ramsey Campbell, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock and J. G Ballard? How can anyone hate a country that not only prizes eccentric behavior but encourages it? Take Mr. Kim Newman for instance, a brilliant writer whose work appears regularly in Video WatchDog and Videoscope Mr. Newman dresses himself, has his hair and mustache styled and speaks in the manner of someone from the 19th Century!
- 5/26/2015
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The producers of the Divergent movies are developing a fresh take on H G Wells' The Invisible Man...
The Invisible Man is one of H G Wells’ more perverse little daydreams. Whereas The Time Machine dreamed of an agrarian future (if you get past what dwells below) and The War Of The Worlds was one of our first intergalactic space yarns, there is something a little more disturbing about a man who can not be seen.
It certainly made for one of the best genre movies of the 1930s when director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein) introduced Hollywood to Claude Rains with the 1933 camp classic. Now, it is finding new life with a unique version at Sony Pictures Entertainment where the film will be produced under the Red Wagon Entertainment Banner by Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick. Lucas Wisendanger and Nicki Cortese are also serving as executive producers on the project.
The Invisible Man is one of H G Wells’ more perverse little daydreams. Whereas The Time Machine dreamed of an agrarian future (if you get past what dwells below) and The War Of The Worlds was one of our first intergalactic space yarns, there is something a little more disturbing about a man who can not be seen.
It certainly made for one of the best genre movies of the 1930s when director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein) introduced Hollywood to Claude Rains with the 1933 camp classic. Now, it is finding new life with a unique version at Sony Pictures Entertainment where the film will be produced under the Red Wagon Entertainment Banner by Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick. Lucas Wisendanger and Nicki Cortese are also serving as executive producers on the project.
- 4/22/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
As always, March is too early to get any kind of firm grasp on what will or won't be an Oscar contender come the end of the year, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun to speculate. Last year, only two of the nine films I predicted out of the gates actually ended up receiving Best Picture nominations at the 2015 Oscars -- Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel -- which goes to show just how much we know in advance. In fact, looking at the films I had on the outside looking in, only Best Picture winner Birdman was listed. But hey, at least I had three of the top contenders in the early year conversation, that's something... rightc When it comes to this year, I feel even less certain than I did last year. I'm not sure that's saying a whole lot since only two of the 43 films on...
- 3/9/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Seventy-five years after the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" (on December 15, 1939), it seems that nothing -- not the passage of time, not the movie's controversial racial politics, not the film's daunting length, and not even the release of certain James Cameron global blockbusters -- can diminish the romantic Civil War drama's stature as the most popular movie of all time.
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
The Late George Apley
"If I am remembered at all, it will be as the swine who rewrote Scott Fitzgerald," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz on numerous occasions, and though he does rate a mention in any Fitzgerald bio for his work revising Fitzgerald's screenplay of Three Comrades, he is also getting a sidebar retrospective, The Essential Iconoclast, at the New York Film Festival. Apart from including his several acknowledged classics, this also shines a light on some of the less celebrated movies in the distinguished Hollywood auteur's body of work.
In particular, The Late George Apley (1947) and Escape (1948) are seldom-screened dramas with suave English leading men, Ronald Colman and Mankiewicz favorite Rex Harrison, both supported by the delightful Peggy Cummins.
The Late George Apley supplements the emotion with a good portion of the wit Mankiewicz was so famous for. I spoke briefly on the telephone to co-star Cummins, best known...
"If I am remembered at all, it will be as the swine who rewrote Scott Fitzgerald," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz on numerous occasions, and though he does rate a mention in any Fitzgerald bio for his work revising Fitzgerald's screenplay of Three Comrades, he is also getting a sidebar retrospective, The Essential Iconoclast, at the New York Film Festival. Apart from including his several acknowledged classics, this also shines a light on some of the less celebrated movies in the distinguished Hollywood auteur's body of work.
In particular, The Late George Apley (1947) and Escape (1948) are seldom-screened dramas with suave English leading men, Ronald Colman and Mankiewicz favorite Rex Harrison, both supported by the delightful Peggy Cummins.
The Late George Apley supplements the emotion with a good portion of the wit Mankiewicz was so famous for. I spoke briefly on the telephone to co-star Cummins, best known...
- 10/9/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Gone Girl, director David Fincher's version of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel, is something of a marvel, a disturbing, one-of-a-kind creature as confoundingly dangerous as a poisonous snake equipped at either end with a head, forked tongue and fangs. No matter where you pick it up to examine it, you can expect to be bitten. In these spoiler-conscious days, a writer is hard put to know how much can be said about Gone Girl, which is perhaps the ultimate example of the oxymoronic school of "Don’t tell me! Don’t tell me!" storytelling. The safest bet is to see the movie soon.
- 9/23/2014
- by Tom Gliatto, @gliattoT
- PEOPLE.com
Gone Girl, director David Fincher's version of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel, is something of a marvel, a disturbing, one-of-a-kind creature as confoundingly dangerous as a poisonous snake equipped at either end with a head, forked tongue and fangs. No matter where you pick it up to examine it, you can expect to be bitten. In these spoiler-conscious days, a writer is hard put to know how much can be said about Gone Girl, which is perhaps the ultimate example of the oxymoronic school of "Don’t tell me! Don’t tell me!" storytelling. The safest bet is to see the movie soon.
- 9/23/2014
- by Tom Gliatto, @gliattoT
- PEOPLE.com
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously stated that “There are no second acts in American lives.”
Concussion would beg to differ, it instead presents an American lifestyle permanently stalled in its second act – your dramatic conflict is internal, your strive for a conclusion is an endless war against the white picket waves of suburbia. That the film happens to center around a lesbian woman is almost irrelevant, this is a universal tale of confused escapism and sexual deviancy. You know, the usual stuff.
For every driven man or woman who strikes out and makes it big, there’s another who has to stay at home and watch the kids. What kind of life is a life based on monotonous routine? You should at least be paid. Something better is always just out of reach, but you’ve got to hit spin class and then pick the kids up before you can even think about grabbing it.
Concussion would beg to differ, it instead presents an American lifestyle permanently stalled in its second act – your dramatic conflict is internal, your strive for a conclusion is an endless war against the white picket waves of suburbia. That the film happens to center around a lesbian woman is almost irrelevant, this is a universal tale of confused escapism and sexual deviancy. You know, the usual stuff.
For every driven man or woman who strikes out and makes it big, there’s another who has to stay at home and watch the kids. What kind of life is a life based on monotonous routine? You should at least be paid. Something better is always just out of reach, but you’ve got to hit spin class and then pick the kids up before you can even think about grabbing it.
- 4/1/2014
- by Dominic Mill
- We Got This Covered
The big news this week, that you have no doubt heard by now, is that Netflix has partnered up with Marvel Studios to bring us no less than four exclusive series’ based on their characters in 2015. Those characters are Daredevil (which I always thought would work better on TV), Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.
Now, Iron Fist was in development for years as a film so they have a head start but I would have liked to have seen Luke Cage on the big screen and I am only vaguely familiar with Jessica Jones. The intention is that each of them will have their own 13 episode run before teaming up in a Defenders mini-series.
So what does this mean for Netflix? This is an epic win basically and means that regardless of exclusives or new content over the next year, they are going to remain in the game...
Now, Iron Fist was in development for years as a film so they have a head start but I would have liked to have seen Luke Cage on the big screen and I am only vaguely familiar with Jessica Jones. The intention is that each of them will have their own 13 episode run before teaming up in a Defenders mini-series.
So what does this mean for Netflix? This is an epic win basically and means that regardless of exclusives or new content over the next year, they are going to remain in the game...
- 11/11/2013
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Garrett Hedlund fell in love with Kerouac's electric prose as a teenager. Now aged 28, he plays Dean Moriarty, the free-thinking spirit at the heart of On the Road. Here, he discusses drugs, his love of the 50s – and the appeal of America's backroads
Did you know much about the beat generation, Jack Kerouac and his novel On the Road before you made this film?
Yes. I was 17 when I read the book. I was such a literature freak, I was doing world literature, creative writing and photojournalism at the time. I fantasised about F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby – I loved it, and then I read everything Jd Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the 40s and 50s.
Continue reading...
Did you know much about the beat generation, Jack Kerouac and his novel On the Road before you made this film?
Yes. I was 17 when I read the book. I was such a literature freak, I was doing world literature, creative writing and photojournalism at the time. I fantasised about F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby – I loved it, and then I read everything Jd Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the 40s and 50s.
Continue reading...
- 10/6/2012
- by Interview by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
F Scott Fitzgerald once told us there are no second acts in American lives.
Taylor Kitsch will be hoping there are possible third acts in American movies, because he's about to make his third, and surely final, roll of the dice this year, with the release of Savages, Oliver Stone's take on the drugs war.
Taylor Kitsch says of the Battleship and John Carter box office bombs - "It was hard on me"
Alongside Kitsch in Stone's film are two other actors searching for big screen credibility - Blake Lively and John Travolta.
This time last year, Kitsch was preparing to be the world's next big film star, on the eve of the release of two massive blockbusters, each with him in the lead role.
Unfortunately for him, those films were John Carter and Battleship - the rest is history, of the unfavourable sort. John Carter is in the...
Taylor Kitsch will be hoping there are possible third acts in American movies, because he's about to make his third, and surely final, roll of the dice this year, with the release of Savages, Oliver Stone's take on the drugs war.
Taylor Kitsch says of the Battleship and John Carter box office bombs - "It was hard on me"
Alongside Kitsch in Stone's film are two other actors searching for big screen credibility - Blake Lively and John Travolta.
This time last year, Kitsch was preparing to be the world's next big film star, on the eve of the release of two massive blockbusters, each with him in the lead role.
Unfortunately for him, those films were John Carter and Battleship - the rest is history, of the unfavourable sort. John Carter is in the...
- 7/4/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK/WENN
- Huffington Post
For all the many strengths of "The Avengers," there's one important element that writer-director Joss Whedon can't take credit for: the casting. Of the main characters, only one, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, hasn't appeared in one of the previous five Marvel movies that have led to this point. So given the casting committee that assembled The Avengers, it's something of a miracle that it's ended up with one of the most enjoyable collections of actors in a big tentpole movie for quite some time.
Of course, for the most part, it's to be expected: while there are a few newcomers in the mix, the principle cast have close to a century of experience in the movies between them, and countless great performances in their back catalogs. With "The Avengers" finally hitting U.S. theaters tomorrow, we've picked out the greatest performance of each of the seven members...
Of course, for the most part, it's to be expected: while there are a few newcomers in the mix, the principle cast have close to a century of experience in the movies between them, and countless great performances in their back catalogs. With "The Avengers" finally hitting U.S. theaters tomorrow, we've picked out the greatest performance of each of the seven members...
- 5/3/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Paramount Pictures released another trippy new movie poster from the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in [...]...
- 1/16/2009
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Paramount Pictures released and new movie poster from the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. [...]...
- 1/8/2009
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Spill.com recently reviewed the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the [...]...
- 12/31/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Paramount Pictures released this movie poster from the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This [...]...
- 12/29/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Mark Twain once quipped, “It’s a pity the best parts of life come at the beginning and the worst at the end.” It was this adage on which F. Scott Fitzgerald based his short story that lead to David Fincher’s adaptation, a chronological path of inspiration resulting in a timeless film.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the story of a man aging in reverse. In the early stages of his life, Benjamin’s frail, elderly body houses the mind of a child, a paradox of age and maturity. As his wrinkles fade and his grey hair darkens, his natural curiosity gathers a wealth of knowledge from geriatrics at the nursing home, a drunken tugboat captain, a regretful married woman, and a beautiful ballet dancer named Daisy.
It’s a shame you’re in peak physical condition so early in life before you’ve accumulated life experience,...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the story of a man aging in reverse. In the early stages of his life, Benjamin’s frail, elderly body houses the mind of a child, a paradox of age and maturity. As his wrinkles fade and his grey hair darkens, his natural curiosity gathers a wealth of knowledge from geriatrics at the nursing home, a drunken tugboat captain, a regretful married woman, and a beautiful ballet dancer named Daisy.
It’s a shame you’re in peak physical condition so early in life before you’ve accumulated life experience,...
- 12/26/2008
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Chicago ??? It turns out that skipping a ???blowout??? garage sale she was planning paid off for up-and-coming actress Taraji P. Henson after all, she told HollywoodChicago.com???s Adam Fendelman in a Chicago interview. Not being there netted an even grander sale for her acting career: Henson was cast as Brad Pitt???s surrogate mother in the Oscar-buzzing film ???The Curious Case of Benjamin Button???.
???The Curious Case of Benjamin Button??? star Taraji P. Henson in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2008.
Photo credit: Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 4.0/5.0 The film, which was adapted for the screen by Eric Roth and is based on the 1920s short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stars Brad Pitt opposite Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton. It???s a curious film indeed about Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who ages backward. He???s born old and grows youthful.
For Henson, auditioning for the part of Queenie (Benjamin Button?...
???The Curious Case of Benjamin Button??? star Taraji P. Henson in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2008.
Photo credit: Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 4.0/5.0 The film, which was adapted for the screen by Eric Roth and is based on the 1920s short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stars Brad Pitt opposite Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton. It???s a curious film indeed about Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who ages backward. He???s born old and grows youthful.
For Henson, auditioning for the part of Queenie (Benjamin Button?...
- 12/25/2008
- by HollywoodChicago.com
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Reviewby Eric Sloss, Writer. What would happen if we aged differently? Say that we look old when we are young and look young when we are old. Would you act the same or act how you look? That is the intriguing premise of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. The film is based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The setting from the story has been changed from Baltimore to New Orleans. Button is born on the day World War I ends in 1918. However he is born with old features and is abandoned by his father at the steps of a retirement community. The retirement community is run by a young black woman named Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), who becomes Benjamin’s adoptive mother. Throughout this film you do get a strange sense of déjà vu. A careful check of the credits...
- 12/24/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Paramount Pictures released this movie poster from the upcoming film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. [...]...
- 12/22/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Paramount Pictures released this brand new movie poster from the upcoming film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging [...]...
- 12/19/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Paramount Pictures released another brand new movie poster from the upcoming film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by director David Fincher (Heavy Metal, Zodiac) and starring Brad Pitt (Dirty Tricks, Burn After Reading), Cate Blanchett (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian). Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging [...]...
- 12/16/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Casting Director: Laray Mayfield Director: David Fincher Writer: Eric Roth Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Elle Fanning, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond The Pitch: In a film adapted from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, Benjamin (Pitt) leads an unusual life, born at age 80 in post-World War I New Orleans and aging backward into the 21st century.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button could have been a casting director's dream — or nightmare. Starring Brad Pitt as a man aging backward, David Fincher's sixth feature is a sprawling fable with an equally sprawling cast. Fortunately, Laray Mayfield, who cast the filmmaker's Se7en, Fight Club, Panic Room, and Zodiac, relished the challenge. Fincher brought her the project three or four years before it went into production, without any star names attached — although, Mayfield says, the director always had Pitt in mind to play the title role: "David has a very...
- 12/11/2008
- backstage.com
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton. This reunites the Pitt and Blanchett after the successful "Babel" as well as Pitt with his "Se7en" helmer David Fincher. The film is produced by Kennedy/Marshall and opens on December 25th. David Fincher ("Zodiac," "The Game") directs from the writing by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord. Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918,...
- 12/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton. This reunites the Pitt and Blanchett after the successful "Babel" as well as Pitt with his "Se7en" helmer David Fincher. The film is produced by Kennedy/Marshall and opens on December 25th. David Fincher ("Zodiac," "The Game") directs from the writing by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord. Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918,...
- 12/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton. This reunites the Pitt and Blanchett after the successful "Babel" as well as Pitt with his "Se7en" helmer David Fincher. The film is produced by Kennedy/Marshall and opens on December 25th. David Fincher ("Zodiac," "The Game") directs from the writing by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord. Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy See all the clips here! “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey...
- 12/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton. This reunites the Pitt and Blanchett after the successful "Babel" as well as Pitt with his "Se7en" helmer David Fincher. The film is produced by Kennedy/Marshall and opens on December 25th. David Fincher ("Zodiac," "The Game") directs from the writing by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord. Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy “I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918,...
- 12/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
For months now, movie buffs have been anxiously awaiting the release of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", the upcoming Brad Pitt film based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story. The movie tells the tale of a man who ages backwards, a concept that in itself seems like it would make for a pretty intriguing film. Toss in that it was directed by David Fincher, who has brought us such hits as "Fight Club," "Zodiac", and Se7en", and it seems like it has all the ingredients of a hit...but does it deliver?All signs point to yes, as reviews of the film have begun to pour in. According to Reuters, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' in which a ...
- 11/26/2008
- by By Actress Archives
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