Just Be Yourself movie
Kandyse McClure ... Glenda
Allison McAtee ... Lola
Director: Stuart Davis
Writer: Stuart Davis
Taglines: Just Be Yourself... or someone else will.
Genres: Comedy
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Budget: $30,000 (estimated)
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Mark Steven Johnson works with De Niro and Travolta
Aam Weikath, Evelyne Dulot, Adan Ulrich Schwichtenberg, Bebeto Flowers, Konstantin Svietlakov (Europe Contributors)
Robert De Niro will play an American military veteran who has retreated to a remote cabin in the Appalachian Mountains, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a European tourist (Travolta) who’s actually a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge. Millennium Films is currently accepting crew resumes for the film “Killing Season” De Niro and John Travolta.
To be directed by Ghost Rider’s Mark Steven Johnson, Millennium Films, Corsan Pictures and FilmEngine will begin production January 16, 2012. Travolta going to Atlanta for it. "I've loved this project from the moment I read Evan Daugherty's remarkable script," said Corsan CEO Paul Breuls. "It's thrilling, imaginative, unexpected and dominated by two extraordinary characters on a collision course."
De Niro plays a military veteran living in a remote Appalachian Mountains cabin who strikes up a friendship with Travolta, supposedly a European tourist but really a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge.
Robert De Niro will play an American military veteran who has retreated to a remote cabin in the Appalachian Mountains, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a European tourist (Travolta) who’s actually a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge. Millennium Films is currently accepting crew resumes for the film “Killing Season” De Niro and John Travolta.
To be directed by Ghost Rider’s Mark Steven Johnson, Millennium Films, Corsan Pictures and FilmEngine will begin production January 16, 2012. Travolta going to Atlanta for it. "I've loved this project from the moment I read Evan Daugherty's remarkable script," said Corsan CEO Paul Breuls. "It's thrilling, imaginative, unexpected and dominated by two extraordinary characters on a collision course."
De Niro plays a military veteran living in a remote Appalachian Mountains cabin who strikes up a friendship with Travolta, supposedly a European tourist but really a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge.
November 2011 Coming Soon Movie Review
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
A discredited journalist (Daniel Craig) and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder in this David Fincher-directed remake of the 2009 Swedish thriller of the same name. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson's successful trilogy of books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo gets under way as the two leads (Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara) are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper they dig for the truth, however, the greater the risk of being buried alive by members of the family, who will go to great lengths to keep their secrets tightly sealed. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Hugo (2011)
A young orphan living in a Paris train station uncovers a mystery that jeopardizes his secretive way of life in this Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of Brian Selznick's stunning children's book. The Aviator's John Logan provides the screenplay for the GK Films production, which stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, and Christopher Lee.
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Take a trip to the North Pole and discover exactly how Santa Claus makes Christmas magic happen every year in this imaginative comedy for the entire family. Produced by Aardman Features in association with Sony Pictures Animation, this fun-filled holiday film introduces viewers to Santa's mischievous son Arthur, who races to complete an important mission in time to ensure that this year's Christmas celebrations will go off without a hitch.
Coriolanus (2011)
Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus, scripted by John Logan, updates one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays without sacrificing the Bard's original dialogue. Set in modern times, the movie stars Fiennes as the title character, a fierce General able to fight Rome's most dreaded enemies as well as quell civil unrest from a lack of food. When politicians convince Coriolanus to become a political leader, his natural fierceness and lack of political instincts lead to him being disgraced by other politicians and eventually forced to leave Rome after being branded a traitor. He then joins with his former enemies to invade Rome, and the only person who may be able to talk him out of this revenge plan is his mother (Vanessa Redgrave). The film, which features a portion of the play's dialogue transferred into the mouths of talking-heads on television news shows, played at the 2011 {~Toronto International Film Festival}.
The Muppets (2011)
When an evil oil man discovers black gold beneath Muppet Theater, Kermit recruits a Muppet super-fan and his two best friends to help gather up the gang for a telethon that will save the venue from being razed and replaced with a giant oil pump. Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) never met an oil field he couldn't suck dry. So when Tex discovers a bountiful reservoir right underneath Muppet Theater, he begins drawing up plans to claim the land and start drilling. Little does Tex realize that devoted Muppets fan Walter is currently in Los Angeles with his best friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams), and that he's not about to let one man's greed spoil a good thing for everyone. With Kermit by their side, Walter, Gary, and Mary hatch a plan to put on a big telethon that will help them raise the ten million dollars needed to keep Muppet Theater standing. But rounding up the gang won't be easy, because these days Miss Piggy's got a posh job at {~Vogue Paris}; Fozzie has landed a gig at a Reno casino; Gonzo has become the owner of a successful plumbing company; and Animal is dealing with anger management issues in a Santa Barbara clinic. With the drilling deadline fast drawing near and Tex wringing his hands in anticipation, the gang races to put on the performance of a lifetime and save Muppet Theater from certain destruction. Directed by James Bobin and written by Segel and Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets Movie features cameos by Zach Galifianakis, Billy Crystal, Jack Black, Alan Arkin, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, among others.
A discredited journalist (Daniel Craig) and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder in this David Fincher-directed remake of the 2009 Swedish thriller of the same name. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson's successful trilogy of books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo gets under way as the two leads (Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara) are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper they dig for the truth, however, the greater the risk of being buried alive by members of the family, who will go to great lengths to keep their secrets tightly sealed. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Hugo (2011)
A young orphan living in a Paris train station uncovers a mystery that jeopardizes his secretive way of life in this Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of Brian Selznick's stunning children's book. The Aviator's John Logan provides the screenplay for the GK Films production, which stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, and Christopher Lee.
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Take a trip to the North Pole and discover exactly how Santa Claus makes Christmas magic happen every year in this imaginative comedy for the entire family. Produced by Aardman Features in association with Sony Pictures Animation, this fun-filled holiday film introduces viewers to Santa's mischievous son Arthur, who races to complete an important mission in time to ensure that this year's Christmas celebrations will go off without a hitch.
Coriolanus (2011)
Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus, scripted by John Logan, updates one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays without sacrificing the Bard's original dialogue. Set in modern times, the movie stars Fiennes as the title character, a fierce General able to fight Rome's most dreaded enemies as well as quell civil unrest from a lack of food. When politicians convince Coriolanus to become a political leader, his natural fierceness and lack of political instincts lead to him being disgraced by other politicians and eventually forced to leave Rome after being branded a traitor. He then joins with his former enemies to invade Rome, and the only person who may be able to talk him out of this revenge plan is his mother (Vanessa Redgrave). The film, which features a portion of the play's dialogue transferred into the mouths of talking-heads on television news shows, played at the 2011 {~Toronto International Film Festival}.
The Muppets (2011)
When an evil oil man discovers black gold beneath Muppet Theater, Kermit recruits a Muppet super-fan and his two best friends to help gather up the gang for a telethon that will save the venue from being razed and replaced with a giant oil pump. Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) never met an oil field he couldn't suck dry. So when Tex discovers a bountiful reservoir right underneath Muppet Theater, he begins drawing up plans to claim the land and start drilling. Little does Tex realize that devoted Muppets fan Walter is currently in Los Angeles with his best friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams), and that he's not about to let one man's greed spoil a good thing for everyone. With Kermit by their side, Walter, Gary, and Mary hatch a plan to put on a big telethon that will help them raise the ten million dollars needed to keep Muppet Theater standing. But rounding up the gang won't be easy, because these days Miss Piggy's got a posh job at {~Vogue Paris}; Fozzie has landed a gig at a Reno casino; Gonzo has become the owner of a successful plumbing company; and Animal is dealing with anger management issues in a Santa Barbara clinic. With the drilling deadline fast drawing near and Tex wringing his hands in anticipation, the gang races to put on the performance of a lifetime and save Muppet Theater from certain destruction. Directed by James Bobin and written by Segel and Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets Movie features cameos by Zach Galifianakis, Billy Crystal, Jack Black, Alan Arkin, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, among others.
November 2011 New Movies
Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo Agora É Outro (2010) - [NYC]
After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
| | The Muppets (2011) - [11/23] Comedy | Family | Musical |
A Dangerous Method (2011) - [11/23] A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. My Week with Marilyn (2011) - [11/23 -- limited] Drama Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.
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Update Review For The Three Musketeers (2011)
Following a few minutes of Assassin's Creed footage, this presents a plan intended to start a war between England and France, and only the titular heroes can stop it.
Let's start with what you're probably most interested in learning; yes, this is very much a Paul W.S. Anderson film(albeit it may be his best... though he still makes mistakes, such as setting things up that he does not follow through on, pay-off to things he only introduced seconds before it, etc.), for better or for worse, and yes, it is a fun ride if you are prepared for what it is, and you can live with it playing fast and loose with historical accuracy, and how close it is to the source material(it does include one or two notable things that I'm told are in the novel, and that we're familiar with). The action is stronger than any of his others, if he still does overuse slow-mo slightly(he goes downright 300 in one sequence, and it isn't anywhere near as good), and the scenes tend to either end too soon or go on for overly long. There are a few standout situations that I won't soon forget. This uses 3D extremely well, second only to Avatar, usually adding to the atmosphere and only a few times jabbing the audience in the face with something(one or two of those occurrences could be more effective). In general, the FX are amazing. The sets, costumes and props are gorgeous, as opulent as they ought to be. Dialog is usually bad or mediocre, with one or two clever lines. The comic relief is not funny, although this can make you chuckle(not exclusively intentionally). Vital to almost any version of The Three Musketeers is D'Artagnan, and this one is reasonable. He's not obnoxious, and he can be charming. Oh, he's flat as a board... all the characters are(another mainstay of this director). Athos, Porthos and Aramis are among the numerous well-cast actors. Milla is delicious as the deceiving double-agent Lady Winter, Waltz is spot-on as Richelieu, Mikkelsen is a despicable villain, and Fox as the king does well. In fact, the latter has to both be a laughing stock(a pathetic, childish ruler devoid of perspective) and sympathetic(he's an awkward young man in love). He pulls them off, but this really could have done better if it didn't try for so much at a time. The plot is excessively convoluted, full of holes, and in the end does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny. I recommend this to fans of Jovovich and her husband.
Let's start with what you're probably most interested in learning; yes, this is very much a Paul W.S. Anderson film(albeit it may be his best... though he still makes mistakes, such as setting things up that he does not follow through on, pay-off to things he only introduced seconds before it, etc.), for better or for worse, and yes, it is a fun ride if you are prepared for what it is, and you can live with it playing fast and loose with historical accuracy, and how close it is to the source material(it does include one or two notable things that I'm told are in the novel, and that we're familiar with). The action is stronger than any of his others, if he still does overuse slow-mo slightly(he goes downright 300 in one sequence, and it isn't anywhere near as good), and the scenes tend to either end too soon or go on for overly long. There are a few standout situations that I won't soon forget. This uses 3D extremely well, second only to Avatar, usually adding to the atmosphere and only a few times jabbing the audience in the face with something(one or two of those occurrences could be more effective). In general, the FX are amazing. The sets, costumes and props are gorgeous, as opulent as they ought to be. Dialog is usually bad or mediocre, with one or two clever lines. The comic relief is not funny, although this can make you chuckle(not exclusively intentionally). Vital to almost any version of The Three Musketeers is D'Artagnan, and this one is reasonable. He's not obnoxious, and he can be charming. Oh, he's flat as a board... all the characters are(another mainstay of this director). Athos, Porthos and Aramis are among the numerous well-cast actors. Milla is delicious as the deceiving double-agent Lady Winter, Waltz is spot-on as Richelieu, Mikkelsen is a despicable villain, and Fox as the king does well. In fact, the latter has to both be a laughing stock(a pathetic, childish ruler devoid of perspective) and sympathetic(he's an awkward young man in love). He pulls them off, but this really could have done better if it didn't try for so much at a time. The plot is excessively convoluted, full of holes, and in the end does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny. I recommend this to fans of Jovovich and her husband.
THE BIG YEAR (2011) : bird watchers
One of the wives in the slight but affable comedy The Big Year watches as her husband Stu (Steve Martin) vies with his adult son for bragging rights in a skiing contest. "They're men, dear," Edith (JoBeth Williams) says to her daughter-in-law, sounding fond, resigned and also slightly patronizing. Stu is about to spend a year trying, along with two other men (Owen Wilson and Jack Black), for the unusual honor of being named the world's best birder. "If they ever stop competing, they
die."
Yuck. If The Big Year only offered proof of this sweeping generalization it might be a chest-thumping extravaganza that does no favors to men or the women who gaze fondly upon them. But director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me) goes for an underlying message about how the joy of experience — spending a calendar year racking up sightings of hundreds of distinct bird species — trumps the thrill of trouncing others. That sounds awfully greeting-card-ish, but The Big Year works as a light, candy-bright comedy in the City Slickers vein: a live-action movie with grownups and without talking animals, suitable for the whole family.
A Big Year competition does takes place annually in North America. It's casual in the sense that no one enters; they just start, and all results are reported on the honor system. Mark Obmasik chronicled the 1998 competition in his 2004 book of the same name, which provided the loose basis for Howard Franklin's screenplay. In that banner year, three men each spotted over 700 species. If the movie is true to life, this almost quaint endeavor to glimpse and identify the small, winged gems of nature can also be a selfish enterprise, involving considerable sacrifice to personal and professional relationships, not to mention incurring vast travel expenses entailed in ditching one's regular life to dash off to remote locations at a moment's notice.
Two of the competitors can well afford it. Reigning champion Kenny Bostick's (Wilson) only responsibility seems to be to get his pretty, fertility-challenged wife Jess (Rosamund Pike) pregnant, an obligation most would enjoy. But Kenny is more interested in birding. "It's my calling," he tells Jess. "Like Gandhi?" she says, arching an eyebrow. Business tycoon Stu Preissler could retire in style, if his needy employees (Joel McHale and Kevin Pollak) and personal work ethic would allow it; Stu's hopes his Big Year will help him transition into retirement. (Read about the darker side of Owen Wilson.)
The underdog is Brad Harris (Jack Black), a computer whiz who moved in with his crabby father (Brian Dennehy) and supportive mother (Dianne Wiest) after getting ditched by his wife for his bird obsession. He maxes out six credit cards in pursuit of the title, and has to continue to work full time, but is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp ear for bird sounds.
Black fans may hardly recognize him, because for once he plays a person instead of a walking comedy mask atop a Buddha belly. For the first time in years I didn't want to run in the opposite direction from his smirk. I even rooted for him to get the lady birder (Rashida Jones) they keep bumping into, even though she's a little too good to be true (she's working on a gentler ambition, building up her life list of birds spotted, not a Big Year). With three male leads who tend to be big forces of nature themselves, the movie could have been a bravado fest, but instead they all play it small. Martin has seemed like he's faking something ever since his moved into the post Father of the Bride phase of his career, but he seems more comfortable playing fatherly opposite Black than usual.
It's not often that a mainstream movie focuses on an eccentric subset of the population without turning them into grotesques or cute little goofballs. These birders have technology on their side — a blogger named Ichabod Crane (Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons) keeps everyone up to date on the race and they get daily phone updates about obscure sightings. But there is still a quixotic aspect to searching for something so elusive in vast and varied landscapes, and the movie captures something of that. Frankel shows the birders fanning out across the rugged terrain of the avian paradise of Attu Island (with the Yukon subbing for the Aleutian Island) on bicycles, and as they visually bag their prey, the names of various species pop up all over the landscape, scrawled on the screen. It's like an Easter egg hunt for adults, joyous and sweet. The Big Year competition may be fierce, but the movie is as soft as a bunny.
die."
Yuck. If The Big Year only offered proof of this sweeping generalization it might be a chest-thumping extravaganza that does no favors to men or the women who gaze fondly upon them. But director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me) goes for an underlying message about how the joy of experience — spending a calendar year racking up sightings of hundreds of distinct bird species — trumps the thrill of trouncing others. That sounds awfully greeting-card-ish, but The Big Year works as a light, candy-bright comedy in the City Slickers vein: a live-action movie with grownups and without talking animals, suitable for the whole family.
A Big Year competition does takes place annually in North America. It's casual in the sense that no one enters; they just start, and all results are reported on the honor system. Mark Obmasik chronicled the 1998 competition in his 2004 book of the same name, which provided the loose basis for Howard Franklin's screenplay. In that banner year, three men each spotted over 700 species. If the movie is true to life, this almost quaint endeavor to glimpse and identify the small, winged gems of nature can also be a selfish enterprise, involving considerable sacrifice to personal and professional relationships, not to mention incurring vast travel expenses entailed in ditching one's regular life to dash off to remote locations at a moment's notice.
Two of the competitors can well afford it. Reigning champion Kenny Bostick's (Wilson) only responsibility seems to be to get his pretty, fertility-challenged wife Jess (Rosamund Pike) pregnant, an obligation most would enjoy. But Kenny is more interested in birding. "It's my calling," he tells Jess. "Like Gandhi?" she says, arching an eyebrow. Business tycoon Stu Preissler could retire in style, if his needy employees (Joel McHale and Kevin Pollak) and personal work ethic would allow it; Stu's hopes his Big Year will help him transition into retirement. (Read about the darker side of Owen Wilson.)
The underdog is Brad Harris (Jack Black), a computer whiz who moved in with his crabby father (Brian Dennehy) and supportive mother (Dianne Wiest) after getting ditched by his wife for his bird obsession. He maxes out six credit cards in pursuit of the title, and has to continue to work full time, but is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp ear for bird sounds.
Black fans may hardly recognize him, because for once he plays a person instead of a walking comedy mask atop a Buddha belly. For the first time in years I didn't want to run in the opposite direction from his smirk. I even rooted for him to get the lady birder (Rashida Jones) they keep bumping into, even though she's a little too good to be true (she's working on a gentler ambition, building up her life list of birds spotted, not a Big Year). With three male leads who tend to be big forces of nature themselves, the movie could have been a bravado fest, but instead they all play it small. Martin has seemed like he's faking something ever since his moved into the post Father of the Bride phase of his career, but he seems more comfortable playing fatherly opposite Black than usual.
It's not often that a mainstream movie focuses on an eccentric subset of the population without turning them into grotesques or cute little goofballs. These birders have technology on their side — a blogger named Ichabod Crane (Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons) keeps everyone up to date on the race and they get daily phone updates about obscure sightings. But there is still a quixotic aspect to searching for something so elusive in vast and varied landscapes, and the movie captures something of that. Frankel shows the birders fanning out across the rugged terrain of the avian paradise of Attu Island (with the Yukon subbing for the Aleutian Island) on bicycles, and as they visually bag their prey, the names of various species pop up all over the landscape, scrawled on the screen. It's like an Easter egg hunt for adults, joyous and sweet. The Big Year competition may be fierce, but the movie is as soft as a bunny.
Cool Hand Luke Opened at the Aldwych Theatre
Cool Hand Luke, has posted early closing notices for 19 Nov 2011 at the Aldwych Theatre, (the show was originally taking bookings until 7 Jan 2012).
Cool Hand Luke originally opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 3 Oct 2011 to mixed reveiws: Inferior in almost every respect to the Paul Newman film (Telegraph); Warren has an engaging presence and a flyweight dynamism. (Guardian).
It is directed by Andrew Loudon, designed by Edward Lipscomb, lighting by Matthew Eagland. Produced by Novel Theatre.
Cast include Marc Warren (Luke Jackson), Lisa Eichhorn (Mrs Jackson), Lee Boardman (Dragline), Rob Falconer (Bull Bill), Joshua McCord (Rabbit) ,
Nathan Osgood (Carr), Tom Silburn (Curly), David Sturzaker (Society Red), Richard Brake (Boss Godfrey), Kenneth Jay (Boss Kean), Sandra Marvin, Tania Mathurin, Bret Jones, Michael Cuckson, Julie Rogers.
Cool Hand Luke is the hard-hitting story of a World War II veteran turned convict and rebel, whose unquenchable spirit and refusal to be broken by the system becomes part of his fellow convicts' mythology of survival.
Cool Hand Luke originally opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 3 Oct 2011 to mixed reveiws: Inferior in almost every respect to the Paul Newman film (Telegraph); Warren has an engaging presence and a flyweight dynamism. (Guardian).
It is directed by Andrew Loudon, designed by Edward Lipscomb, lighting by Matthew Eagland. Produced by Novel Theatre.
Cast include Marc Warren (Luke Jackson), Lisa Eichhorn (Mrs Jackson), Lee Boardman (Dragline), Rob Falconer (Bull Bill), Joshua McCord (Rabbit) ,
Nathan Osgood (Carr), Tom Silburn (Curly), David Sturzaker (Society Red), Richard Brake (Boss Godfrey), Kenneth Jay (Boss Kean), Sandra Marvin, Tania Mathurin, Bret Jones, Michael Cuckson, Julie Rogers.
Cool Hand Luke is the hard-hitting story of a World War II veteran turned convict and rebel, whose unquenchable spirit and refusal to be broken by the system becomes part of his fellow convicts' mythology of survival.
Sam Shepard As Butch Cassidy In BLACKTHORN
Sam Shepard made a big entrance into the world of movie acting as the doomed romantic farmer in Terrence Malick's critically acclaimed "Days of Heaven." He has appeared in 40-odd films since that 1978 breakthrough. He has played iconic roles (heroic test pilot Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff"), walk-ons (Valerie Plame's father in "Fair Game") and a whole lot of sheriffs.
But rarely has he appeared to enjoy himself so thoroughly as in the new Western "Blackthorn." Shepard, 67, stars as an aging Butch Cassidy, who evaded an army ambush to live out his golden years as a solitary rancher.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, Shepard chooses his scripts with some care. This one offered him several irresistible lures: the best screenplay he had seen in a decade, a nine-week trip to Bolivia's gorgeous high-desert plateau and the chance to ride lots of
horses.
"This was a special script, I could recognize that from the get-go," Shepard said by phone last month.
The film is more than a latter-day epilogue to 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Spanish director Mateo Gil, who co-wrote "Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)" and "The Sea Inside," toys with Western lore, imagining the old outlaw returning to his daredevil ways after a long retirement. Cassidy wants to visit America to meet the grown son of Etta Place, who might be his child. A chance encounter with a crooked Spanish mining engineer (Eduardo Noriega) hauls the old fugitive back into trouble with the law.
The role gives Shepard a role to rival Jeff Bridges' Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." He has richly written dialogue duels with an old adversary from the Pinkerton detective agency (Irish actor Stephen Rea), exciting shootouts and even a raspy-throated singing scene.
"I loved the scope of it, the storytelling aspect and the way it keeps twisting and turning and going through different contortions," Shepard said. "I thought it was quite interesting the way it was structured. And from the very beginning it didn't seem like an exploitive film," riding the coattails of the Paul Newman-Robert Redford classic. "It just seemed very much itself, its own animal."
Making the role his own was an enjoyable challenge.
"I haven't played a big, deep role like that for quite some while. I did some research on it. I wasn't looking to try to recreate who Butch Cassidy was, but to invest in the history and the time of it and the outlaw aspect of it."
An even bigger challenge was shooting at the crest of the Andes, where the air was so thin that the filming locations and the actors' hotel rooms had auxiliary oxygen tanks.
Shepard's first experience of South America was arduous "and also adventurous," he said. "It had a 'Mad Max' appeal to it, like you were really out there on the edge of something. Shooting in a place like Uyuni, which is on the edge of the salt flats, and the high plateau, you did feel that there was a pioneering aspect to it that was kind of great."
"A lot of the time the altitude's around 15,000 feet, so the air was very thin," he recalled. "Breathing was somewhat of a problem. Sometimes we'd travel two hours to the location.
"It's amazing country. When you're out there on the salt flats you have absolutely no orientation. There are flamingoes flying parallel to the car about 6 feet above the salt. You wonder where in fact you are. It's like another planet."
Shepard, who lives in Kentucky and New Mexico, also did a fair amount of high-altitude filming in the upcoming "Darling Companion," an ensemble comedy set for a 2012 release. The film, produced by Minneapolis-based boutique studio Werc Werk Works from a script by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan, was shot in mountainous northern Utah this year. The cast includes Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Richard Jenkins and Dianne Wiest.
"I enjoyed it very much," Shepard said. "Great actors. I've worked with Diane many times," memorably as her suitor in 1987's "Baby Boom." "Always love working with her."
Kline and Keaton play a long-married couple whose relationship has sputtered to a stop. She pours her emotions into a stray dog; Kline loses it, and their friends go on a mission to find it. In outline it sounds like a shaggy-lost-dog story, "but what comes out of it is this hilarious conjunction of all these different characters, the way they bang up against each other and the way they deal with the situation. It's a very well-written, funny little script. It's a true comedy."
But rarely has he appeared to enjoy himself so thoroughly as in the new Western "Blackthorn." Shepard, 67, stars as an aging Butch Cassidy, who evaded an army ambush to live out his golden years as a solitary rancher.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, Shepard chooses his scripts with some care. This one offered him several irresistible lures: the best screenplay he had seen in a decade, a nine-week trip to Bolivia's gorgeous high-desert plateau and the chance to ride lots of
horses.
"This was a special script, I could recognize that from the get-go," Shepard said by phone last month.
The film is more than a latter-day epilogue to 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Spanish director Mateo Gil, who co-wrote "Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)" and "The Sea Inside," toys with Western lore, imagining the old outlaw returning to his daredevil ways after a long retirement. Cassidy wants to visit America to meet the grown son of Etta Place, who might be his child. A chance encounter with a crooked Spanish mining engineer (Eduardo Noriega) hauls the old fugitive back into trouble with the law.
The role gives Shepard a role to rival Jeff Bridges' Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit." He has richly written dialogue duels with an old adversary from the Pinkerton detective agency (Irish actor Stephen Rea), exciting shootouts and even a raspy-throated singing scene.
"I loved the scope of it, the storytelling aspect and the way it keeps twisting and turning and going through different contortions," Shepard said. "I thought it was quite interesting the way it was structured. And from the very beginning it didn't seem like an exploitive film," riding the coattails of the Paul Newman-Robert Redford classic. "It just seemed very much itself, its own animal."
Making the role his own was an enjoyable challenge.
"I haven't played a big, deep role like that for quite some while. I did some research on it. I wasn't looking to try to recreate who Butch Cassidy was, but to invest in the history and the time of it and the outlaw aspect of it."
An even bigger challenge was shooting at the crest of the Andes, where the air was so thin that the filming locations and the actors' hotel rooms had auxiliary oxygen tanks.
Shepard's first experience of South America was arduous "and also adventurous," he said. "It had a 'Mad Max' appeal to it, like you were really out there on the edge of something. Shooting in a place like Uyuni, which is on the edge of the salt flats, and the high plateau, you did feel that there was a pioneering aspect to it that was kind of great."
"A lot of the time the altitude's around 15,000 feet, so the air was very thin," he recalled. "Breathing was somewhat of a problem. Sometimes we'd travel two hours to the location.
"It's amazing country. When you're out there on the salt flats you have absolutely no orientation. There are flamingoes flying parallel to the car about 6 feet above the salt. You wonder where in fact you are. It's like another planet."
Shepard, who lives in Kentucky and New Mexico, also did a fair amount of high-altitude filming in the upcoming "Darling Companion," an ensemble comedy set for a 2012 release. The film, produced by Minneapolis-based boutique studio Werc Werk Works from a script by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan, was shot in mountainous northern Utah this year. The cast includes Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Richard Jenkins and Dianne Wiest.
"I enjoyed it very much," Shepard said. "Great actors. I've worked with Diane many times," memorably as her suitor in 1987's "Baby Boom." "Always love working with her."
Kline and Keaton play a long-married couple whose relationship has sputtered to a stop. She pours her emotions into a stray dog; Kline loses it, and their friends go on a mission to find it. In outline it sounds like a shaggy-lost-dog story, "but what comes out of it is this hilarious conjunction of all these different characters, the way they bang up against each other and the way they deal with the situation. It's a very well-written, funny little script. It's a true comedy."
Titanic 3D Rerelease PREVIEW
Earlier this week, ComingSoon.net had a chance to watch roughly 18 minutes, essentially 8 key scenes, from James 
In his introduction, Cameron stressed that he wouldn't be changing a single frame of the original movie, but unlike other 3D post-production conversions, they're spending over a year working with 300 artists to go through every shot and pixel of the movie and do what's necessary to make the new theatrical experience as relevant and memorable as the original. Cameron's intentions are to use the conversion process to create a movie that has the same depth of field it might have if he had been able to shoot the movie in 3D originally, using the decade of experience he's had with 3D photography and filmmaking to make sure every scene looks as good as it possibly can.
The clips shown were taken from different points in the three-hour film, beginning with a scene of the boarding of the
The most impressive shot was the tracking shot of the bow of the boat when Jack and Rose are on there and she's pretending to fly, because the 3D really gives you a feel of how high the ship was from the water, and watching the camera pan so fluidly across the bow with the water shimmering below shows what sort of care is being put into making the movie look just as good in 3D. This isn't the typical converted movie that seems to have very obvious layers between foreground and background.
They also showed four scenes from the actual crash and sinking of the boat, beginning with the spotting of the iceberg and the moments leading up to the crash. The longest sequence we watched shows Rose going below decks to look for Jack, who has been handcuffed to a pipe by her boyfriend's guard, and after finding him, she frantically tries to get help in order to rescue him as the ship sinks deeper and deeper. This was another good example of how good the water looks in 3D, because there are many scenes in this sequence of Rose looking down one hallway or another which stretches into the distance. We also watched the scene with everyone clamoring to board the lifeboats and cutting them free as the water started reaching the decks, then the final scene had Jack and Rose back on the railing of the boat, but this time as the ship jutted straight out of the water before its final plunge.
The footage had real depth and dimension but the 3D was never distracting, and it did add a lot to seeing these scenes, especially having not seen the film in over ten years and on a big screen in even longer. Although Cameron mentioned they're really pushing how far they could take the 3D depth of field with the process, it didn't seem to be as noticeable in these later scenes, maybe because the more activity on screen warranted less 3D tinkering. Cameron and Landau looked at this process as a creative visual FX process rather than a technical one, and we were surprised to learn that doing this post-conversion process didn't require bringing back the original film's DP Russell Carpenter or the original FX team, since the original movie was more model-based, so there weren't hard drives full of computer data that could be used to make the process easier. Cameron said, "I consider that a part of the process of conversion which is all visual FX, where every single shot, no matter how simple it was--like an insert shot of somebody picking up a fork--is now a visual FX shot with 20 artists working on it."
"While many movies take six weeks for the whole process, we're taking sixty weeks," Landau added. "You can't do justice to water, you can't do justice to smoke, you can't do justice to a close-up in six weeks. You're just jamming it together and a lot of times the director's not even there for that process." Cameron feels that much of the problems that have led to the backlash against 3D comes from studios forcing their filmmakers to release their movies in 3D, which often relies on a decision by the accountants to convert rather than shoot in 3D because it's cheaper, even though the results aren't the same.Cameron also reflected on the success of the original movie 14 years ago and why it warranted this sort of rerelease. "I was trying to account for what was similar between the 'Titanic' phenomenon and the 'Avatar' phenomenon, which proved very similar in a way. Even though the movies were completely different and didn't even always necessarily play to the same segments of the audience. I think it was that decision to see the film on the big screen and I think the 3D part of that gives people a reason to go to the movie theater. But I think there's a lot more going on with it than just that."
He gave a couple examples of this. "There are younger kids we're going to have to sell it to that don't know the movie. There's going to be a teenage audience that only knows the movie from video, and the question is whether they know that just from peer-to-peer or is it passed on from watching it with their family, their parents? There's social aspects to it we can't understand. I've always thought of the watching of this film in theaters as being a social phenomenon where parents could take their children or a teenager would go with his Mom where people would actually make their social appointments to go, and that's why the film was still cranking strong in the 10th, 12th and 16th week, because it takes people time to get that all worked out. 'I'm definitely going to see it in a theatre. I'm not going to see some pirated cheesy download. I've made that decision, now I have to figure out who I'm going to go with.' Very often, there was a lot of repeat viewing, but I don't think it was people going back solo and watching it over and over having the same experience. I think it was people communicating what they experienced with someone else."
"The way both Fox and Paramount are approaching this is as a new release," Landau added. "I think you'll see the campaigns that are very aggressive to a new audience, just like would be on any new release."
"They're marketing it with the energy of a new tentpole release," Cameron agreed, "but you can't sell it the way you would sell a franchise movie in the marketplace, because you're not going to take the time to tell people the story. You're going to make the assumption they know the story, but we kind of made that assumption the first time around, because the over-arching story of Titanic is so well known. We're not trying to tell the story in the trailer, and we're really happy with the trailer, because actually it's more of a memory-skewing device to remind you of how the film worked, that it wasn't this sappy romance, that there was real jeopardy and the threat of hideous death for these people that overshadowed these light romantic moments. That juxtaposition of love and death that made the film powerful and poignant."
When asked whether the rerelease is being done merely to push the gross of Titanic over that of its record-breaking follow-up Avatar, he joked, "Because we're just greedy motherf*ckers, and we didn't make enough the first time around. It just felt right in the centenary of the sinking of Titanic to bring this back out for fans who either are fans of the movie but have never had the widescreen experience or are fans of the movie who remember it from back then and want to re-experience that. I think it's perfectly valid."
"Let's remind ourselves - Hollywood is a business, and there's nothing wrong with that," he continued. "I personally am interested in fostering and promoting 3D as a viable business, and not only for the cinema, but the home market as well, so having a successful film in 3D is a good thing. Whether I'm involved with it or not, I'm happy. It doesn't matter what that 3D title is, because it helps the business."When asked about making changes in the movie, Cameron joked that he'll let George Lucas be the filmmaker who goes back to his earlier work and changes things. "That's an example of what I don't want to do," he quipped, then added. "That's not a slam. I think he considers his movies a perpetual work in progress. For me, the problem is when you pull that thread, it all unravels because where do you stop? For example, I've done three expeditions to the Titanic, I've done literally hundreds of hours of exploration of the interior of the wreck, always photographing all the stairwells, so I know the places where the film is wrong." In other words, Cameron has been able to learn a lot more information about the interiors of the Titanic than he had when he made the movie, but he knows that going back to fix those things would be very time-consuming.
One of the surprising things we learned is that those who may be adverse to 3D will also have a chance to see Titanic in a pristine new digital 2D and 2D IMAX version coming off the new 4K Master created in the process. Both Cameron and Landau thought that far too much emphasis of the story was put on the 3D of Avatar and how that contributed to its record-breaking box office. Similarly, he feels that too much of the media are to blame for the idea that 3D is losing ground at the box office just because it may be accounting for smaller percentages of a movie's take, and he's not worried about it affecting the rerelease either.
"Look, I think there's a trick to how you play the 3D card in the marketing of this," Cameron stated while stressing that the focus of the rerelease is to give those who loved the movie another chance to have the theatrical experience. "The 3D is interesting and it does galvanize the experience and ratchet it up to a new level, but it's still 'Titanic' in a movie theater which a lot of people have never seen, so from my perspective, I'd like that to be the lead line, that it's 'Titanic' being released after 14 years away on the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic itself to a new generation that's never seen it in theatres... and it's in 3D!"
Cameron isn't ruling out the idea of someday rereleasing some of his other popular movies like T2 in this manner, but for now, the filmmakers are going to be off-the-grid making the sequels to Avatar, and it was only the time they had between to see how this experiment of converting and rereleasing might work with Landau considering Titanic a "no-brainer" for this sort of re-release.
Cameron concluded with his thought on this. "We've seen one 3D rerelease so far that's been successful (The Lion King), and we're about to see another one right after the first of the year with Star Wars and then we'll be the third one, and then after that, I think we'll have a sense of whether people consider that valid. Maybe with the changing way people consume media, the idea of these favorite, beloved movies actually do have a place back in the cinema."
Titanic will get its rerelease into 3D, 2D and 3D IMAX theatres on April 6, 2012.
Jim Carrey AND Steve Carell Project
After teaming with a group of flightless birds for Mr. Popper's Penguins, Jim Carrey will have a more human partner in his next comedy when he teams with funnyman Steve Carell.
Deadline reports that Carrey in in negotiations to join Burt Wonderstone. Carrel is the title character, a traditional magician who breaks with his longtime partner and finds that he is upstaged by a hip, street-magician rival — likely the role Carrey will play.
Carell has been attached to the comedy for a while, with writer-director Jason Reitman (Up In the Air) doing a rewrite of the script initially penned by Horrible Bosses screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. TV director Charles McDougall, who worked with Carell on The Office, was hired to direct in February.
Burt Wonderstone is likely to start production this fall. Carrey and Carell last worked together on 2003's Bruce Almighty, right before Carell was cast in The Office.
Deadline reports that Carrey in in negotiations to join Burt Wonderstone. Carrel is the title character, a traditional magician who breaks with his longtime partner and finds that he is upstaged by a hip, street-magician rival — likely the role Carrey will play.
Carell has been attached to the comedy for a while, with writer-director Jason Reitman (Up In the Air) doing a rewrite of the script initially penned by Horrible Bosses screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. TV director Charles McDougall, who worked with Carell on The Office, was hired to direct in February.
Burt Wonderstone is likely to start production this fall. Carrey and Carell last worked together on 2003's Bruce Almighty, right before Carell was cast in The Office.
Michael Fassender Goes Indie
Speaking of Tarantino alums, Inglourious Basterds' Michael Fassbender is adding another indie project to his slate, after working on high-profile movies like X-Men: First Class and the upcoming Prometheus.
Variety reports that Fassbender will reunite with his Shame director Steve McQueen for his next project, Twelve Years a Slave. The pair first worked together on the McQueen's 2008 debut Hunger, and have recently been taking Shame around to various festivals.
Also starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (2012), Twelve Years a Slave tells the true story of Solomon Northup, the son of a slave who
was kidnapped in 1841 and rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853.
McQueen co-wrote the script with John Ridley (Red Tails) and is set to start directing the production early next year.
Variety reports that Fassbender will reunite with his Shame director Steve McQueen for his next project, Twelve Years a Slave. The pair first worked together on the McQueen's 2008 debut Hunger, and have recently been taking Shame around to various festivals.
Also starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (2012), Twelve Years a Slave tells the true story of Solomon Northup, the son of a slave who
was kidnapped in 1841 and rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853.
McQueen co-wrote the script with John Ridley (Red Tails) and is set to start directing the production early next year.
Don Johnson JOINS Django Unchained
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino has been slowly putting together a solid cast for his upcoming "Southern" Django Unchained, which follows Jamie Foxx as a freed slave determined to rescue his wife from a sadistic slave owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). Tarantino recently added his Deathproof actor Kurt Russell to the cast as evil slave trainer Ace Woody, replacing Kevin Costner who recently dropped out, as well as Kill Bill, Vol. 2's Laura Cayouette as DiCaprio's widowed sister.
Deadline reports that the latest addition to the cast is Don Johnson, who will play a wealthy plantation owner named Spencer Bennett. Casting a veteran actor who hasn't been in many recent high-profile projects is typical of Tarantino, who rejuvenated the careers of actors like John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) and Robert Forster (Jackie Brown). Johnson recently appeared as the villainous Von Stillman in...
last year's Machete, directed by Tarantino's friend and frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez.
Johnson joins a cast filled with Tarantino alumni, including Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. Django is set to start shooting in November, and has been given a release date of December 25, 2012.
Deadline reports that the latest addition to the cast is Don Johnson, who will play a wealthy plantation owner named Spencer Bennett. Casting a veteran actor who hasn't been in many recent high-profile projects is typical of Tarantino, who rejuvenated the careers of actors like John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) and Robert Forster (Jackie Brown). Johnson recently appeared as the villainous Von Stillman in...
last year's Machete, directed by Tarantino's friend and frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez.
Johnson joins a cast filled with Tarantino alumni, including Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. Django is set to start shooting in November, and has been given a release date of December 25, 2012.
Contagion (2011) REVIEW
The film follows several interacting plotlines with no single protagonist over the course of several weeks from the initial outbreak and attempts to contain it, to panic and decay of social order, and finally the introduction of a vaccine.
Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns from a business trip to Hong Kong. Two days later she collapses with severe seizures in her suburban Minneapolis home. Her husband, Mitch Emhoff (Matt Damon), rushes her to the hospital but she dies as a result of an unknown disease. Mitch returns home and finds his stepson Clark has also died as a result of similar symptoms. Mitch is put in isolation but turns out to be immune to the disease. He and his daughter attempt to flee the city, but a quarantine has been imposed and they are forced to return to their home to face decaying social order and rampant looting of stores and homes. Mitch struggles to give his daughter, who has a lengthy wait for a vaccination and is thus quarantined to their house, a sense of normality while trying to come to terms with his own loss.
In Atlanta, representatives from the Department of Homeland Security meet with Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and express fears that the disease is a bioweapon intended to cause terror over the Thanksgiving weekend. Cheever sends Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, to Minneapolis to begin the investigation and traceback. Dr. Mears has to negotiate with local bureaucrats reluctant to commit resources and becomes infected with the disease while staying at her hotel. The Minnesota National Guard arrives to quarantine the city, and a badly deteriorating Dr. Mears is moved to the field medical station she helped set up, where she later succumbs.
Investigations into cures via treatment protocols or vaccines initially prove fruitless as scientists cannot find a cell line to culture the MEV-1 virus. Professor Ian Sussman (Elliott Gould) violates orders from CDC scientist Dr. Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) to destroy his samples and identifies a line of bat cells that will support research into a vaccine. At the CDC, Dr. Hextall uses this breakthrough to begin to characterize the properties of the virus which turns out to have a mix of genetic material from bat and pig viruses and appears to spread via fomites.
A conspiratorially-minded freelance journalist named Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) posts video blogs claiming that he has recovered from his sickness using a homeopathic cure based on forsythia. Panicked people attempting to obtain forsythia overwhelm pharmacies and also accelerate the contagion as infected and healthy people congregate. Krumwiede leaps to national attention and during a television interview accuses Dr. Cheever of informing friends and family to leave Chicago before a quarantine is imposed. It is later revealed Krumwiede was never sick but was attempting to boost demand on behalf of investors in the companies producing and distributing the treatment.
Dr. Hextall identifies a potential vaccine using an attenuated (live) virus. Because of the difficulties of human subjects testing, she follows the precedent of other vaccine researchers and inoculates herself first. Hextall visits her gravely-ill father in the hospital to expose herself to the virus and test the vaccine. Production of the vaccine is rapidly ramped up and the CDC awards vaccinations via a random lottery based on birth dates for one full year until every survivor is vaccinated. Dr. Cheever, remorseful of the deaths that his delayed action indirectly caused, gave his fast tracked vaccination to the son of a janitor (John Hawkes) he works with at the disease center.
Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) is a World Health Organization epidemiologist who traveled to Hong Kong to find out where the sickness originated. While she is there, she identifies Emhoff as patient zero. Orantes is kidnapped by epidemiologist, Sun Feng (Chin Han) to use as leverage to obtain the first vaccines for his village. After the vaccines reach there, she is exchanged for some vaccines which turn out to be placebos. Orantes rushes to notify the villagers.
The film concludes with how the virus originated. The mining corporation based in Minneapolis is actively clearing jungle, a bulldozer knocks over a palm tree that had bats nesting in it. They fly out, and one lands on a banana plant, eating a chunk of banana. But not having its tree to go back to, it flies to a nearby hog building, where it drops the banana into a pig sty, where a pig eats it. The pig is then sold and slaughtered and is shown being prepared by a chef in the Macau casino Beth Emhoff was in but not washing his hands afterwards. The chef shakes hands with Beth, showing how she got the disease.
CAST :
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Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns from a business trip to Hong Kong. Two days later she collapses with severe seizures in her suburban Minneapolis home. Her husband, Mitch Emhoff (Matt Damon), rushes her to the hospital but she dies as a result of an unknown disease. Mitch returns home and finds his stepson Clark has also died as a result of similar symptoms. Mitch is put in isolation but turns out to be immune to the disease. He and his daughter attempt to flee the city, but a quarantine has been imposed and they are forced to return to their home to face decaying social order and rampant looting of stores and homes. Mitch struggles to give his daughter, who has a lengthy wait for a vaccination and is thus quarantined to their house, a sense of normality while trying to come to terms with his own loss.
In Atlanta, representatives from the Department of Homeland Security meet with Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and express fears that the disease is a bioweapon intended to cause terror over the Thanksgiving weekend. Cheever sends Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, to Minneapolis to begin the investigation and traceback. Dr. Mears has to negotiate with local bureaucrats reluctant to commit resources and becomes infected with the disease while staying at her hotel. The Minnesota National Guard arrives to quarantine the city, and a badly deteriorating Dr. Mears is moved to the field medical station she helped set up, where she later succumbs.
Investigations into cures via treatment protocols or vaccines initially prove fruitless as scientists cannot find a cell line to culture the MEV-1 virus. Professor Ian Sussman (Elliott Gould) violates orders from CDC scientist Dr. Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) to destroy his samples and identifies a line of bat cells that will support research into a vaccine. At the CDC, Dr. Hextall uses this breakthrough to begin to characterize the properties of the virus which turns out to have a mix of genetic material from bat and pig viruses and appears to spread via fomites.
A conspiratorially-minded freelance journalist named Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) posts video blogs claiming that he has recovered from his sickness using a homeopathic cure based on forsythia. Panicked people attempting to obtain forsythia overwhelm pharmacies and also accelerate the contagion as infected and healthy people congregate. Krumwiede leaps to national attention and during a television interview accuses Dr. Cheever of informing friends and family to leave Chicago before a quarantine is imposed. It is later revealed Krumwiede was never sick but was attempting to boost demand on behalf of investors in the companies producing and distributing the treatment.
Dr. Hextall identifies a potential vaccine using an attenuated (live) virus. Because of the difficulties of human subjects testing, she follows the precedent of other vaccine researchers and inoculates herself first. Hextall visits her gravely-ill father in the hospital to expose herself to the virus and test the vaccine. Production of the vaccine is rapidly ramped up and the CDC awards vaccinations via a random lottery based on birth dates for one full year until every survivor is vaccinated. Dr. Cheever, remorseful of the deaths that his delayed action indirectly caused, gave his fast tracked vaccination to the son of a janitor (John Hawkes) he works with at the disease center.
Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) is a World Health Organization epidemiologist who traveled to Hong Kong to find out where the sickness originated. While she is there, she identifies Emhoff as patient zero. Orantes is kidnapped by epidemiologist, Sun Feng (Chin Han) to use as leverage to obtain the first vaccines for his village. After the vaccines reach there, she is exchanged for some vaccines which turn out to be placebos. Orantes rushes to notify the villagers.
The film concludes with how the virus originated. The mining corporation based in Minneapolis is actively clearing jungle, a bulldozer knocks over a palm tree that had bats nesting in it. They fly out, and one lands on a banana plant, eating a chunk of banana. But not having its tree to go back to, it flies to a nearby hog building, where it drops the banana into a pig sty, where a pig eats it. The pig is then sold and slaughtered and is shown being prepared by a chef in the Macau casino Beth Emhoff was in but not washing his hands afterwards. The chef shakes hands with Beth, showing how she got the disease.
CAST :
- Marion Cotillard as Dr. Leonora Orantes
- Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff
- Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Ellis Cheever
- Jude Law as Alan Krumwiede
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff
- Kate Winslet as Dr. Erin Mears
- Enrico Colantoni as Dennis French
- Bryan Cranston as RADM Lyle Haggerty
- Griffin Kane as Clark Morrow
- Jennifer Ehle as Dr. Ally Hextall
- Sanaa Lathan as Mrs. Cheever
- Demetri Martin as Dr. David Eisenberg
- Elliott Gould as Dr. Ian Sussman
- Chin Han as Sun Feng
- John Hawkes as Roger
- Amr Waked as Rafik
- Daria Strokous as Irina
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta as himself
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Shrek Forever After (2010)
Tired and localed Shrek pacts with a deal-creator Rumpelstiltskin to return to feeling a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted form of Far Far Away, where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and Fiona have never met, he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.
TOPS AT THE BOX OFFICE this week
TOPS AT THE BOX OFFICE this week:
1. IRON MAN 2
2. ROBIN HOOD
3. LETTERS TO JULIET
4. JUST WRIGHT
5. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
1. IRON MAN 2
2. ROBIN HOOD
3. LETTERS TO JULIET
4. JUST WRIGHT
5. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
LETTERS TO JULIET (2010)
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An American girl on vacation in Italy meets an unanswered "letters to Juliet", one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a "secretaries of Juliet", and she goes on a quest to seek the lovers referenced in the letter.
CAST:
AMANDA SEYFRIED, MARCIA DeBONIS
COMING SOON
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
SEX AND THE CITY 2
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
MACGRUBER
SHREK FOREVER AFTER
SEX AND THE CITY 2
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
MACGRUBER
SHREK FOREVER AFTER
TOPS AT THE BOX OFFICE
TOPS AT THE BOX OFFICE
1. IRON MAN 2
2. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
3. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
4. DATE NIGHT
5. THE BACK-UP PLAN
6. FURRY VENGEANCE
7. CLASH OF THE TITANS
8. DEATH AT A FUNERAL
