***Ian McShane Cast as the Leader of the Dwarfs in SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN ***Penn Badgley Making Turn as Jeff Buckley in GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY ***New Trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s THE SKIN I LIVE IN ***Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake Interview BAD TEACHER ***First Trailer for FLYPAPER Starring Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd and Tim Blake Nelson

Ian McShane Cast as the Leader of the Dwarfs in SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: June 20th, 2011

Ian McShane has signed on to play Caesar, the leader of the dwarfs in Snow White and the Huntsman.  (That’s easily the coolest sentence I’ve written in months.)  For those keeping track, this is Universal’s Snow White project, the one that stars Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth.  The Relativity Snow White project — which has no title and stars other people — just entered into principal photography to be in theaters by March 16, 2012.  According to Heat Vision, director Rupert Sanders will shoot Snow White and the Huntsman in August, content to open a couple months later on June 1, 2012.  Heat Vision provides this logline:

[Snow White and the Huntsman] is a revisionist take on the fairy tale and features Snow White (Stewart) as a princess who escapes her evil stepmother (Theron) with the help of a huntsman (Hemsworth) who was to have killed her but now trains the princess to survive and fight back.

Let it be decreed that any Snow White movie that casts Ian McShane (as a dwarf no less!) has the advantage, no matter the release date.
http://collider.com/ian-mcshane-snow-white-and-the-huntsman/97758/

Penn Badgley Making Turn as Jeff Buckley in GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY

by Jason Barr   Posted: June 20th, 2011

Penn Badgley (Easy A and Gossip Girl) has signed on to play the late Jeff Buckley in co-writer/director Dan Algrant’s (Naked in New York and People I Know) upcoming drama Greetings from Tim Buckley. Per the press release from Smuggler Films, the film will center on the days leading up to Buckley’s 1991 performance at his father’s (the late Tim Buckley) tribute concert and will feature a romance with a young woman who helps him better understand his father who died at the age of 28. In discussing the role, Badgley showed reverence for the opportunity to play the legendary singer-songwriter, saying:

“To play a man who was singularly gifted as an artist, greatly misunderstood & mythologized as a human being… It’s something very special and sacred. I’m going to give all I can to this project.”

Greetings from Tim Buckley is slated to begin production in New York City this August. For more on the project, hit the jump for the full press release. http://collider.com/penn-badgley-greetings-from-tim-buckley/97713/

New Trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s THE SKIN I LIVE IN

by Phil Brown    Posted: June 20th, 2011

Pedro Almodovar can usually be counted on for odd movies that feel outside of the box, but his latest film The Skin I Live In looks like it could reach previously unattained weirdo heights for the director. The film premiered at Cannes last month and is already set for a fall release stateside, so pre-release footage of the surreal Antonio Banderas-starred plastic surgery thriller has been gradually finding its way to the internet over the last few weeks.
Today a new trailer has been released that promises even more vibrant cinematography and body-stocking clad fight scenes than ever before. Even viewed in this electric guitar-backed 60-second clip, The Skin I Live In doesn’t look like anything the director has attempted before or like any other movie coming out in the next few months. Hit the jump to this new trailer in all its kinky glory. http://collider.com/the-skin-i-live-in-movie-trailer/97612/

Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake Interview BAD TEACHER

by Christina Radish    Posted: June 20th, 2011

In the raunchy comedy Bad Teacher, Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a teacher who just doesn’t care about anyone but herself. She’s foul-mouthed, ruthless and wildly inappropriate, in her pursuit of the fake boobs that she’s convinced will make her more enticing in winning over a rich, handsome man. Waiting for her meal ticket to take her away from her day job teaching middle school, she sets a plan in motion to win over Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), who unfortunately starts to fall for Elizabeth’s colleague Amy Squirrel (Lucy Punch), setting her jealousy off into overdrive. Meanwhile, gym teacher Russell Gettis (Jason Segel) expresses interest in Elizabeth, even though he won’t take any of her bullshit. Completely the wrong person to help guide students, Elizabeth’s schemes get more and more outrageous, shocking everyone around her.
During a press conference to promote the film’s release, co-stars Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake, who has proven himself to be a very talented comic actor, talked about centering a film around a character who is horribly ruthless and yet still somehow likeable, their own experiences in public school, filming the hilarious dry-humping scene, and the importance of chemistry in a comedy ensemble. Check out what they had to say after the jump: ...........
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http://collider.com/cameron-diaz-justin-timberlake-interview-bad-teacher/97408/

First Trailer for FLYPAPER Starring Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd and Tim Blake Nelson

by Adam Chitwood   Posted: June 20th, 2011

The first trailer for the heist comedy Flypaper has been released. Directed by Rob Minkoff, the film centers on two different groups of robbers who attempt to hold up a bank at the same time. While Tim Blake Nelson is spot on, the trailer seems a bit lacking, trying too hard to be Clue but coming up short. And the Patrick Dempsey/Ashley Judd romance doesn’t seem to work at all. Matt saw the film at Sundance and while he thought the film ultimately didn’t work as well as it tried, it was still good for a few laughs.
In addition to Dempsey, Judd and Nelson, the film also stars Mekhi Phifer, Jeffrey Tambor, John Ventimiglia, and Matt Ryan. Hit the jump to check out the trailer. http://collider.com/flypaper-movie-trailer/97584/

***New Images from CEREMONY Starring Uma Thurman, Michael Angarano, and Lee Pace ***Will Adam Sandler Be a FAT MAN for Miguel Arteta? ***Sundance 2011: FLYPAPER Review

New Images from CEREMONY Starring Uma Thurman, Michael Angarano, and Lee Pace

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 29th, 2011

Shortly after the poster premiere earlier this week, Magnolia Pictures has posted seven images for Ceremony.  Michael Angarano stars as a budding child ren’s book author who talks his former best friend (Reece Thompson) into a weekend at the beach house of a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace): “It soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with the filmmaker’s fiancée, Zoe (Uma Thurman), and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials.”

Written and directed by Max Winkler, Ceremony premiered to positive notices at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.  View the images after the break.

Ceremony premieres on demand on March 4 before a theatrical release on April 8.  It looks great, so save the date(s).  Here’s the official synopsis:

Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace). But it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with the filmmaker’s fiancée, Zoe (Uma Thurman), and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials. As Sam’s plan begins to unravel, he is forced to realize how complicated love and friendship can be.

Found at CeremonyFilm.com:

more here; http://collider.com/ceremony-movie-images/73412/

Will Adam Sandler Be a FAT MAN for Miguel Arteta?

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 29th, 2011

In 2003 Columbia Pictures picked up Fat Man, a spec script from Mike Weiss (The Simpsons) about “an 800-pound man who drops 600 pounds with the help of a nurse he finds more appealing than a Happy Meal.”  Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison was set to produce, though Sandler had no particular intention to star.

Flash forward eight years: director Miguel Arteta is at Sundance promoting his latest film Cedar Rapids, and the subject of Fat Man comes up.  Arteta is not formally attached to the project, but he hopes that if Sandler “gets the gumption to do it” he will be the one in the director’s chair.  Hit the jump to read the whole of what Arteta had to say about the project.

..... more here; http://collider.com/fat-man-adam-sandler-miguel-arteta/73435/

Sundance 2011: FLYPAPER Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 29th, 2011

The films I saw at Sundance this year involved a variety of subjects ranging from hippies to shot-gun wielding hobos to cults to young love to hippies to puppetry to cults to euthanasia to hippies to Roger Corman to cults.  I didn’t think my first year at Sundance would close out with an inoffensive, innocuous movie like Flypaper.  A caper comedy that wants to be Inside Man meets Clue meets Ten Little Indians but never becomes a fraction as good as any of those movies, Flypaper still manages some laughs due to its manic energy, non-stop jokes, and the brilliant Tim Blake Nelson.

As a bank is about to shut down for the weekend, it is held up by two different robbery crews.  One crew (played by Mekhi Phifer, John Ventimiglia, and Matt Ryan) is lean, efficient, and plans to go for the vault while at the same time a couple of hillbillies calling themselves “Peanut Butter & Jelly” (Tim Blake Nelson and Pruitt Taylor Vince) aim to get the money out of the ATMs by using weapons-grade plastic explosives they bought off the Internet.  Caught in the middle are the bank employees and Trip (Patrick Dempsey), a neurotic customer who believes there’s more going on than just two concurrent bank robberies.  While each robbery crew runs into difficulties in their respective heists, Trip runs around trying to piece together a conspiracy he sees at the heart of this unlikely coincidence of dual robberies.  Why does he care so much about solving the mystery?  Because he’s neurotic and wants to solve the mystery and that’s about as much as Flypaper cares to explain its lead character.

............ more here; http://collider.com/flypaper-review/73472/