***George Clooney: 'The Descendants' Trailer! ***Jennifer Connelly: 'Salvation Boulevard' Trailer! ***Bradley Cooper Covers Esquire's Summer Issue ***Sarah Michelle Gellar: 'Ringer' Extended Preview! ***Ryan Reynolds Covers 'Details' June 2011

Thu, 26 May 2011

George Clooney: 'The Descendants' Trailer!

George Clooney has a serious chat in the trailer for his new dramedy, The Descendants, in theaters December 16.

Synopsis: Matt King (Clooney), an indifferent husband and father of two girls, is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family’s land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

The Descendants also stars Shailene Woodley, Matthew Lillard, and Judy Greer.

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/05/26/george-clooney-the-descendants-trailer/

Thu, 26 May 2011

Jennifer Connelly: 'Salvation Boulevard' Trailer!

Check out the trailer for Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, and Pierce Brosnan’s new film, Salvation Boulevard!

Synopsis: Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.

The comedy thriller, which also stars Marisa Tomei, will hit theaters July 15!

WILL YOU WATCH Jennifer Connelly, Pierce Brosnan, and Greg Kinnear in Salvation Boulevard? http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/05/26/jennifer-connelly-salvation-boulevard-trailer/

Thu, 26 May 2011

Bradley Cooper Covers Esquire's Summer Issue

Bradley Cooper suits up for the cover of Esquire’s Summer Issue, on newsstands May 30.

Here’s what the 36-year-old Hangover star had to share with the mag:

On his other movie, Limitless: “Since [it] opened, my agent calls me every morning and asks, ‘Do you fell any different?’ And I’m like, ‘Nope. Do you feel any different?’”

On his mother, whom he brought to live with him in L.A. after his dad passed away: “I love having her. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Bradley also recalled coming across Leonardo DiCaprio when he used to work as a doorman in his twenties!

Bradley, who covered the graveyard shift at the Morgans Hotel in NYC, shared that he ferried Leo up to his room one evening and remembered thinking they were “worlds apart” - Titanic had just come out, while Bradley was enrolled at the Actors Studio.

For more of Bradley’s interview, check out Esquire.com! http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/05/26/bradley-cooper-covers-esquires-summer-issue/

Thu, 26 May 2011

Sarah Michelle Gellar: 'Ringer' Extended Preview!

Sarah Michelle Gellar finds herself living a double life in this full trailer for her upcoming CW show, Ringer.

The drama, which will air this fall on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m., centers around Bridget Cafferty who’s on the run from the mob. She poses as her wealthy twin sister, Siobhan, to try to evade them but discovers that she also has a price on her head.

Sarah recently told EW her favorite part about the show is the surprises.

“This is the person who in the middle of The Sixth Sense yelled out, ‘Oh my, God! He’s dead!’” she said about herself. “Usually I see it coming, and I didn’t see [Ringer's plot twists] coming.”

In case you missed it, check out three additional sneak peeks of SMG in Ringer! http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/05/26/sarah-michelle-gellar-ringer-extended-preview/

Thu, 26 May 2011

Ryan Reynolds Covers 'Details' June 2011

Ryan Reynolds covers Details magazine’s June/July 2011 issue.

Here’s what the 34-year-old Green Lantern star had to share:

On not settling on one genre of films: “I’m not declaring nothing, man! I’m getting away with something I’d like to continue getting away with.”

Joking about his dark side: “You want to see what I’m like when we turn the tape recorder off? I slit throats, that’s what I do. I only drink panda tears. Do not bring me water. Do not bring me filtered water. I want the tears of a newborn panda, and I will have them—because I’m Ryan Reynolds!”

On not sharing details of his divorce: “I’ll say this: the media was not invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.”

FYI: Ryan is wearing a Tom Ford shirt and Gucci pants on the cover.

Bigger cover pic inside…  http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/05/26/ryan-reynolds-covers-details-june-2011/

***First Trailer for SALVATION BOULEVARD Starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear ***Chris Ellis and Brett Cullen Join THE DARK KNIGHT RISES ***First Posters for SHARK NIGHT 3D and THE DESCENDANTS ***Playwright David Auburn to Write Adaptation of THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN

First Trailer for SALVATION BOULEVARD Starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 5:40 pm

The first trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Salvation Boulevard has been released. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear and Jim Gaffigan, the comedy centers on the preacher of a mega church who frames an ex-hippie for a crime he didn’t commit. The flick premiered at Sundance where Matt wasn’t too thrilled by the finished product. Hit the jump to watch the trailer. http://collider.com/salvation-boulevard-movie-trailer/92526/



Chris Ellis and Brett Cullen Join THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
by Brendan Bettinger Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 7:21 pm


Chris Ellis (Transformers) and Brett Cullen (Lost) have signed on for small roles in The Dark Knight Rises. According to Variety, Ellis will play a priest; Cullen will play a judge. (Okay, so a priest, a judge, and a man dressed as a bat walk on to a movie set… ) Ellis and Cullen — who previously worked together in Apollo 13 — join Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon- Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Joey King, Daniel Sunjata, Diego Klattenhoff, and Burn Gorman as newcomers to Christopher Nolan’s Batman universe. Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman will reprise their roles for the sequel.


Principal photography began last week in advance of a July 20, 2012 release. Read the official production announcement for The Dark Knight Rises after the jump.
http://collider.com/brett-cullen-chris-ellis-the-dark-knight-rises/92558

First Posters for SHARK NIGHT 3D and THE DESCENDANTS

by Jason Barr    Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 5:17 pm

It’s been a busy day for movie posters as we’ve already brought you new sheets from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Real Steel, and Green with Envy just to name a few. Now, we’ve got a few more promos to add to the pile thanks to the release of the first posters from Shark Night 3D and The Descendants. Neither sheet does anything particularly exciting as each seems content in reminding moviegoers that Shark Night 3D has sharks (and bikinis) and that Oscar-winner Alexander Payne’s (Sideways) The Descendants has, well, George Clooney.

For those unaware, David R. Ellis’ (Snakes on a Plane) Shark Night 3D stars Sara Paxton, Chris Zylka, and Joel David Moore, and features a group of college friends whose weekend getaway quickly turns sour after an uninvited school of sharks show up. The film hits theaters on September 14th. On the other hand, Payne’s The Descendants is the tale of an indifferent husband (Clooney) who is forced to reevaluate his life after his wife is involved in a boating accident. Fox Searchlight is currently eyeing a December 16th release for the film which promises to be an awards-season contender. Hit the jump to check out the new posters.

http://collider.com/shark-night-3d-poster-the-descendants/92502/

Playwright David Auburn to Write Adaptation of THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 23rd, 2011

Following in the footsteps of vampires and zombies, it looks like Frankenstein may be Hollywood’s next supernatural obsession. Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Auburn (Proof) has been tapped to adapt Peter Ackroyd’s novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein. The story focuses on a young Frankenstein who spends his days experimenting with corpses. Mary Shelly, who wrote the original novel and created the character, appears as a character in Ackroyd’s book alongside her mother. Deadline reports that RT Features and Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures will produce.
This is one of a number of Frankenstein-centered projects currently in development. Summit acquired the rights to Kenneth Oppel’s upcoming novel This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Sony is working on a contemporary version of the story, and Guillermo del Toro has been working with Universal on an adaptation for quite some time. Hit the jump to read a synopsis of Ackroyd’s novel.

http://collider.com/david-auburn-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein/92461/

***First Clip from TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Features No Transformers but Lots of Male Insecurity ***New Posters for LARRY CROWNE, PROJECT NIM and SALVATION BOULEVARD ***Britton, Oswalt, Huebel, Lynskey, and More Join Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD [UPDATED]

New Posters for LARRY CROWNE, PROJECT NIM and SALVATION BOULEVARD

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 18th, 2011 at 4:18 pm

A few new posters have been released today. First up, the one-sheet for Larry Crowne has been unveiled. Co-written, directed by, and starring Tom Hanks, the flick centers on a laid-off middle-aged man (Hanks) who goes back to college and strikes up a relationship with one of his professors (Julia Roberts). Additionally, the poster for Tim Marsh’s (Man on Wire) documentary Project Nim has been released. That film follows the real-life project in the ‘70s that set out to teach a chimpanzee (lovingly named Nim Chimpsky) sign language in an effort to bridge the gap between man and beast.

Finally, we have the poster for Salvation Boulevard. The religion-centered comedy premiered at Sundance and stars Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear and Jim Gaffigan. Hit the jump to check out the posters and synopses for Larry Crowne, Project Nim and Salvation Boulevard.

http://collider.com/larry-crowne-poster-project-nim-salvation-boulevard/91607/

First Clip from TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Features No Transformers but Lots of Male Insecurity

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 18th, 2011 at 2:52 pm

The first clip from Transformers: Dark of the Moon has gone online.  Does it feature robots punching each other?  Robots coming in from outer space?  Robots punching each other as they come in from outer space?  None of the above.  Instead we see Carly (Rosie Huntingon-Whiteley) leading her boyfriend Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) around her “Starship Enterprise”-like workspace and introducing him to her boss (Patrick Dempsey).  The boss shows off how successful he is, how handsome he is, Sam notices that Huntington-Whiteley is a supermodel, and promptly wets himself.  Okay, that last part isn’t true, but you can smell his insecurity.  You wonder why Sam just doesn’t say “Yeah, I saved the world a couple times with my giant robot friends, but those little trophies are nice.”

Hit the jump to check out the clip.  The film also stars Josh Duhamel, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, John Turturro, Frances McDormand, Peter Cullen, and Tyrese Gibson.  Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens in 3D on July 1st.

http://collider.com/transformers-3-movie-clip/91586/

Britton, Oswalt, Huebel, Lynskey, and More Join Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD [UPDATED]

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 18th, 2011 at 2:08 pm

The cast for the pre-apocalyptic rom-com Seeking a Friend for the End of the World has just kind of exploded.  The film was already set to star Steve Carell as a man who is joined by a woman (Keira Knightley) to find his old high-school sweeheart before the world is destroyed by an asteroid.  Yesterday, we learned that the talented Gillian Jacobs had joined the film and now we’ve received a press release announcing that a truckload of other great actors have signed on as well.  Check out this line-up: Connie Britton, Patton Oswalt, Rob Huebel (who yesterday signed on to another apocalypse-based comedy, Rapturepalooza), Melanie Lynskey, T.J. Miller, Melinda Dillon as well as Aaron Brown (The District), Tonita Castro (The Sarah Silverman Program), Mark Moses (Desperate Housewives), and Bob Stephenson (Jericho).  And this is all in addition to the previously announced cast-members William Petersen, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry (also in Rapturepalooza), Derek Luke, and Lindsay Sloane.  How can the movie squeeze in this kind of ensemble?  It’s a road-trip picture, which means most of these folks will probably only have a scene or two, but it’s better than nothing.

Lorene Scafaria (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) is making her directorial debut from her own script.  Production on the film begins this week. Hit the jump to check out the press release.

[Update: We've updated the article with a couple of set photos featuring Carell and Knightley. Check them out after the jump]

http://collider.com/britton-oswalt-huebel-lynskey-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world/91579/

***First Image of Glenn Close in ALBERT NOBBS ***Sundance 2011: First Images from WIN WIN Starring Paul Giamatti and SALVATION BOULEVARD Starring Pierce Brosnan

First Image of Glenn Close in ALBERT NOBBS

by Jason Barr    Posted: December 15th, 2010

The first image of Glenn Close on the Dublin set of Albert Nobbs has landed online.  In the film, Close plays an English woman who disguises herself as a male (pretty convincingly, I might add) so as to land a job as a butler in 19th century Ireland.  In addition to starring, Close is also credited as a producer and co-writer.  Joining the five-time Academy Award nominee in the film are Michael Gambon (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Showtime’s The Tudors), Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass), and Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland).  Rodrigo García directs (HBO’s In Treatment).

Hit the jump to check out the image as well as an official synopsis.  Albert Nobbs is based on the short story by George Moore and is currently looking at a 2011 release.

Click to enlarge the image [from Daily Mail]:

Here’s the official synopsis:

19th century Ireland: a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years – ‘he’ is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape this fate. When handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerves to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she’s found a soul-mate – but Helen’s eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy-man! As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time… This humorous but ultimately poignant ensemble story about life ‘below-stairs’ is nothing less than Gosford Park meets Boys Don’t Cry.

http://www.collider.com/2010/12/15/glenn-close-image-albert-nobbs/

Sundance 2011: First Images from WIN WIN Starring Paul Giamatti and SALVATION BOULEVARD Starring Pierce Brosnan

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: December 15th, 2010

We’re bringing you the first images from films premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and today we’ve got two films that will have their out-of-competition premieres at the festival: Win Win and Salvation Boulevard. Win Win features Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, and Jeffrey Tambor. The film comes from writer/director Tom McCarthy (The Visitor), and centers on an attorney (Giamatti) moonlighting as a high school wrestling instructor who stumbles upon a star athlete with a mother fresh out of rehab.

Salvation Boulevard is a comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, and Jim Gaffigan. The flick centers on the head of a mega-church (Brosnan) who frames an ex-hippie for a crime he didn’t commit. Hit the jump to check out images and a brief synopsis for both films. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30th.

WIN WIN

(Director and screenwriter: Tom McCarthy, based on the story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni) – When a disheartened attorney moonlighting as a high school wrestling coach stumbles across a star athlete, things seem to be looking up. That is, until the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. Cast: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Jeffrey Tambor.

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SALVATION BOULEVARD

(Director: George Ratliff; Screenwriters: Doug Max Stone and George Ratliff, based on the novel by Larry Beinhart) – An evangelical preacher who has captivated a city with his charm frames an ex-hippie for a crime he did not commit. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei.

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http://www.collider.com/2010/12/15/win-win-movie-images-salvation-boulevard-movie-images/