***Diane Kruger Replacing Eva Green in FAREWELL, MY QUEEN ***2011 Sundance Film Festival Adds SILENT HOUSE ***Judi Dench Joins Clint Eastwood’s J. EDGAR; Charlize Theron “Leaning Toward” Joining Film ***Trailer for THE OTHER WOMAN Starring Natalie Portman

2011 Sundance Film Festival Adds SILENT HOUSE

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: December 28th, 2010

The Sundance Film Festival has added Silent House to its 2011 lineup.  Silent House is a remake of a Uruguayan horror film, which centers on a father and daughter who spend the night in an old house when they hear a sound that seems to be coming from upstairs.  Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy, and Adam Barnett star.

Chris Kentis and Laura Lau (Open Water) reportedly filmed Silent Hill in a single continuous shot to capture the growing panic.  I’m a sucker for technique, but that’s enough to hook me.  Hit the jump for the official press release.

2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ADDS SILENT HOUSE TO LINE UP

Filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau Return to Festival with Psychological Thriller

PARK CITY, UT — Sundance Institute announced today that filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau (Open Water) will return to the Sundance Film Festival with their latest feature, Silent House, which will have its world premiere in the out-of-competition Park City at Midnight section.

The Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30, 2011 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.

Following Open Water, which screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau once again confront the face of fear in this enthralling psychological thriller. Impressively captured with a continuous camera shot, Silent House tracks the growing panic of its enigmatic lead, Elizabeth Olsen, who’s trapped in an unnerving nightmare. Never ones to be limited by a challenging production, Kentis and Lau mastermind a truly unique horror experience with immediate intimacy and unsettling terror.

With the addition of this film, the Festival will present 118 feature-length films, representing 29 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films. 95 films at the Festival will be world premieres.

Silent House / U.S.A. (Directors: Chris Kentis & Laura Lau; Screenwriter: Laura Lau) — A hauntingly choreographed descent into madness based on the Uruguayan film La Casa Muda. Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy, Adam Barnett. World Premiere

http://collider.com/sundance-2011-silent-house/67019/

Diane Kruger Replacing Eva Green in FAREWELL, MY QUEEN

by Laura Kelley    Posted: December 28th, 2010

Diane Kruger is set to take Eva Green’s place as Marie Antoinette in Benoit Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen.  The film, set near the end of the French Revolution, is an adaptation of a novel by Chantal Thomas. Kruger joins stars Lea Seydoux as a reader to Antoinette and Gerard Depardieu in an unknown role.  Eva Green is also no longer starring in Michael Mann’s Capa, having been replaced by Gemma Arterton.  Director Benoit Jacquot is probably best known for his films The School of Flesh and The Untouchable.  Farewell, My Queen is set to begin filming sometime next spring.  via ThePlaylist.

http://collider.com/diane-kruger-farewell-my-queen/66999/

Judi Dench Joins Clint Eastwood’s J. EDGAR; Charlize Theron “Leaning Toward” Joining Film

by Jason Barr    Posted: December 28th, 2010

Dame Judi Dench has joined Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover biopic, J. Edgar.  The Oscar-winner (Shakespeare in Love) will play alongside a confirmed cast that currently includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer (The Social Network), and Damon Herriman (FX’s Justified).  As of yet, there is no word on the nature of Dench’s role.  In 2011, she can be seen with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre and alongside Michelle Williams, Emma Watson, and Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn.

In related news, The Playlist is also reporting that Charlize Theron is “leaning toward” joining J. Edgar.  If you’ve been following the development of the project, you know that Theron has been offered the role of Helen Gandy (Hoover’s personal secretary).  However, Theron is currently tasked with choosing between J. Edgar and Universal’s tentpole project Snow White and the Huntsman (both films are scheduled to shoot in February 2011). http://collider.com/judi-dench-j-edgar-charlize-theron/66950/

Trailer for THE OTHER WOMAN Starring Natalie Portman

by Max Lichtig    Posted: December 28th, 2010

Just the other day, we brought you the first poster for the Natalie Portman film The Other Woman. Today, the trailer for the film has been released online and shows the gifted Black Swan thespian at it again in another dramatic and poignant role. The film also stars Scott Cohen and Lisa Kudrow. Based on the Ayelet Waldman novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, the film tells the story of Emilia (Portman), “a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss – and married – when she began working at his law firm.” Directed by Don Roos, whose previous credits include helming The Opposite of Sex and writing the screenplay for Marley and Me, the drama is set to be released on Video On Demand by IFC on January 1^st, 2011, but will see a theatrical release on February 4^th.

Check out a synopsis of the novel, as well as the trailer after the jump:

After Black Swan, Natalie Portman has become one of my favorite female actors working in the industry right now. Her performance was so natural and utterly flawless that I have complete confidence she can take on any role. Maybe it’s the fact that she graduated from Harvard (much like her character in The Other Woman) or just an innate brilliance she brings to the screen. Whatever the case, it’s clear she can tackle anything, from psychopathic human/swan hybrids to comedic roles as well (she hosted SNL and was a hilarious guest on Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Funny or Die.) Although I am shaken up a bit by the fact that the role of Emilia was originally being eyed by Jennifer Lopez, it looks like this movie has a lot of promise.

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Here’s the synopsis of the novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits via Amazon:

How a five-year-old manages to make the adults in his life hew to the love he holds for them is the sweet treat in this honest, brutal, bitterly funny slice of life. When Emelia’s day-old daughter, Isabel, succumbs to SIDS, her own life stalls. She can’t work; she can’t sleep; Central Park, once her personal secret garden, now is a minefield of happy mother-child dyads. Since Isabel’s death, husband Jack’s only solace for the guilt of breaking up his sexless marriage with Carolyn for Emelia’s (now-absent) passion and love is joint custody of William, now five. What Emelia cannot bear most are Wednesdays, when she must cross the park to collect William at the 92nd Street Y preschool and take another shot at stepmotherhood. Carolyn, William’s furious mother and a renowned Upper East Side OB/GYN, lives to nab Emelia for mistakes in handling him. Carolyn’s indicting phone calls raise the already sky-high tension in Jack and Emelia’s home, but they don’t compare with Carolyn’s announcement that, at age 42, she is pregnant. The news pushes Emelia to confess to Jack two things she shouldn’t. William is charmingly realized, and Waldman (Daughter’s Keeper) has upper bourgeois New York down cold. The result is a terrific adult story.

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http://collider.com/the-other-woman-trailer/66929/

***Sad Keanu Picks Out Xmas Tree ***Keanu and a Christmas tradition! ***Gemma Arterton and Andrew Garfield to Star in CAPA

 

"Keanu e a tradição de Natal!!!

27 12 10

Written by keanubr

Por Giani
Keanu Reeves, como todas nós sabemos, é um homem nada convencional, mas ver ele mesmo  comprar  a sua árvore de Natal e  transportá-la em cima do seu Porsche, me dou conta que esse cara, por incrível que pareça, é família e tradição!!! Keanu estava na companhia de sua amiga de longa data Brenda!!!
Obrigado Club Keanu pelas fotos!!!
http://keanubr.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/keanu-e-a-tradicao-de-natal/
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in English;

"Keanu and a Christmas tradition!27 12 10 Written by keanubr

By Giani

Keanu Reeves, as we all know, is an unconventional man, but to see himself buying your Christmas tree and carry it on top of his Porsche, I realize that this guy, oddly enough, is family and tradition ! Keanu was in the company of his longtime friend Brenda!

Club Keanu Thanks for the photos!
source;
http://keanubr.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/keanu-e-a-tradicao-de-natal/

source; http://www.timewarp.jp/gossipscoop/2010/12/27/30412/

"Sad Keanu Picks Out Xmas Tree"

Only Keanu can make Christmas tree shopping look sad.

Waiting until the very last minute, Keanu Reeves was spotted picking out a tree on Christmas eve.

Come on, buddy. Put a smile on that face. It's the happiest time of year!

[Images via GSI Media.]

http://perezhilton.com/2010-12-26-keanu-reeves-picks-out-a-christmas-tree

 

 

Gemma Arterton and Andrew Garfield to Star in CAPA

by Kimberly Lucas    Posted: December 26th, 2010

It should come as no surprise that Gemma Arterton and Andrew Garfield, two of the year’s most sought-after and interesting new stars, will join forces. Arterton says she will star opposite Garfield in the new Michael Mann film Capa, which tells the story of the two-year romance between Gerda Taro and war photographer Robert Capa. Based on Susana Fortes’ award-winning novel Waiting for Robert Capa, Mann wants to create a “gritty, low-budget film.”

For more on Garfield, Arterton, and Capa, continue after the jump.

It is true that Garfield is the man of the hour after The Social Network, Never Let Me Go, and landing the lead of Spider-Man, a role he says feels like a “dream realized.” But the rise of Arterton’s star following Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia has not been lost on Total Film.  The site deemed Arterton the “Hottest Actress” and Garfield the “Hottest Actor” of 2010.

Arterton expressed her excitement in a statement to Total Film:

“I’m attached to about nine projects but I’m not sure which one’s I’m allowed to talk about. But I’m aiming for even more diversity. Capa is confirmed, so I should be working with your hottest actor, Andy Garfield!”

Both Capa and the pastural comedy Tamara Drewe will offer Arterton’s mainstream audience a fun change of pace, who is used to seeing her in blockbusters running around in a desert — first with Sam Worthington, then with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Here is the synopsis for Waiting for Robert Capa:

Love, war and photography marked the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, and nonconformist. They had everything in life, and they put everything at risk. They created their own legend and remained faithful to it until the very end! A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle and a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, and photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, and so they become Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. With these new identities, they travel to Spain and begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them — but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. [Amazon]

http://collider.com/gemma-arterton-andrew-garfield-capa/66725/

***Andrew Garfield & Gemma Arterton: 'Capa' Couple! ***'The Three Muskeeters' First Look! ***Christian Bale To Take On The Nanjing Project

Sun, 26 December 2010

Andrew Garfield & Gemma Arterton: 'Capa' Couple!

British actress Gemma Arterton was recently named TotalFilm’s Hottest Actress.


“Thank you so much for this award,” she said. “I’m very flattered - I saw the shortlist, so I know I was in very good company. I’m absolutely thrilled. This year’s been intense, but next year’s going to be… intenser! (laughs) I’m attached to about nine projects but I’m not sure which ones I’m allowed to talk about.

Gemma continued, “But I’m aiming for even more diversity. Capa [biopic about the combat photographer Robert Capa] is confirmed, so I should be working with your hottest actor, Andy Garfield! [Garfield is lined up to play Capa, Arterton plays his partner, Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war].”

We can’t wait to see Andrew and Gemma on the silver screen together!

Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/#ixzz19GH6qVsZ

 

 

Sun, 26 December 2010

'The Three Muskeeters' First Look!

Here’s a sneak peek at Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D adaption of The Three Musketeers!

The first look photo features Matthew Mcfadyen as Athos, Logan Lerman as D’Artagnan, Ray Stevenson as Porthos, and Luke Evans as Aramis.

Synopsis: The hot-headed young D’Artagnan joins forces with three rogue Musketeers in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich).

The film opens in 3D on October 14, 2011!

ARE YOU EXCITED for The Three Musketeers?

Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/page/3/#ixzz19GHM0H7q

 

 

 

 

Sun, 26 December 2010

Christian Bale To Take On The Nanjing Project

Christian Bale is set to star in a new film that depicts the Nanjing Massacre during World War II.

The 36-year-old actor will be teaming up with Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and will start filming on location in Nanjing in January, according to the Associated Press.

Christian will be playing a an American priest in the new project. The new film is an adaption of a book by Yan Geling which follows 13 sex workers in Nanjing who replaced university students as escorts during the Japanese invasion which resulted in the death of at least 150,000 Chinese civilians.

Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/page/3/#ixzz19GHUp9gk