Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 31, 2009 under People, drama | 
Liam Neeson, who returned to work days after his wife actress Natasha Richardson’s funeral, has completed filming the independent film “Chloe,” co-starring Julianne Moore. Neeson was shooting the film when Richardson had her fatal skiing accident. [via]
In the film directed by Canadian Atom Egoyan, a successful doctor (Julianne Moore) suspects her husband (Liam Neeson) of cheating. She tests his fidelity by hiring an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce him. The move creates complications that put her family in danger. [via]
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“Slumdog Millionaire” child actor Rubina Ali Qureshi reportedly shot for a TV commercial with actress Nicole Kidman. The advertisement, for a soft drinks company, was produced by director Ridley Scott and directed by Shekhar Kapur in Udaipur recently. Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal also stars in the commercial.
Rubina played the youngest portrayal of the leading lady Latika, in the Oscar-nominated film and she still lives in the Bandra slums.
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Isabella Rossellini’s critically acclaimed and provocative online series, “Green Porno”, goes from land to sea with the April 1st premiere of the second season on sundancechannel.com. The series features Rossellini as she acts out the reproductive habits of marine animals in six all new episodes entitled “Why Vagina”, “Limpet”, “Barnacle”, “Starfish”, “Whale” and “Angler”. Like the first season of “Green Porno,” this batch of films is scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining.
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Josh Hartnett was admitted to L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for observation early Monday morning after complaining of abdominal pain. An ambulance was summoned to the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood where Hartnett was staying, and he was able to walk into it on his own, his rep, Susan Patricola, said in a statement to People.com.
People.com also reported that the actor had suffered a “flare-up” of an ongoing gastrointestinal problem that has been bothering him for the last several months.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 30, 2009 under Awards, LGBT |
- Image from “A Jihad For Love” Winner of GLAAD award for Outstanding Documentary
Patrik-Ian Polk’s “Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom” and Jonah Markowitz’s “Shelter” — tied for the award for limited-release film at the 20th annual GLAAD Media Awards, held Saturday at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel. Parvez Sharma’s “A Jihad for Love” was named outstanding documentary.
Outstanding Film — Limited Release (tie)
“Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom”
“Shelter”
Outstanding Documentary
“A Jihad For Love”
Additional GLAAD honors will be announced April 18 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles and on May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco. [via]
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- Liv Tyler in “The Stranger”
Liv Tyler will play a maid of honor in a new romantic comedy. The actress will star in writer/director Galt Niederhoffer’s independent film The Romantics – about seven close friends who reunite to watch two of their pals get married.
She will star as the maid of honor, Laura, who has a longtime rivalry with the bride-to-be over the groom. [via]
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Last week a new documentary film called “You Own Alaska!” had it’s premiere at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. The filmmakers include John Hendrickson and two-time Governor of Alaska and former Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel.
The film helps to explain Alsaka’s unique “Owner State” whic was born when the state wrote its model constitution and won the fight for statehood 50 years ago.
The film tells how Alaskans insisted when they became a state that they receive at least 100 million acres of land so they could pay their own way. Most Alaskans don’t pay state income or sales taxes because the state budget is funded by revenues from the state-owned oil at the North Slope and most Alaskans qualify for an annual dividend from the Permanent Fund.
Writer/director Marla Williams interviewed Byron Mallott, Gloria O’Neill and Harold Napoleon, who spell out the core values of Alaska’s Native peoples and their vision for the future, and she interviewed Gov. Sarah Palin, who attended and spoke at last week’s premiere.
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See the trailer…
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 29, 2009 under Comedy, Television |
MTV News exclusively reported that IFC Festival Direct will be showing the ‘Twilight’ star Robert Pattinson’s new indie comedy “How to Be” on demand beginning April 29.
Patterson plays Art, a struggling singer/songwriter trying to get over a breakup. “How to Be” follows Art as he moves back in with his parents post-breakup and hires a full-time self-help guru to help him work through the pain and become “more normal.” The film was written and directed by newcomer Oliver Irving and also stars Rebecca Pidgeon. It premiered at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 27, 2009 under Comedy, Film Festival |
- L to R: Anne Heche and Ashton Kutcher star in Anchor Bay Films’ “Spread.”
Anchor Bay Entertainment is making a big splash as a theatrical distributor. In one of, if not, the biggest purchase at 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Anchor Bay Entertainment Anchor Bay Films acquired U.S. and Australian rights to David Mackenzie’s “Spread,” which was produced by and stars Ashton Kutcher. The film which also stars Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva, Sebastian Stan, Rachel Blanchard, Maria Conchita Alonso and Sonia Rockwell is about a male gigolo in LA.
Spread will be released in theaters August 14, 2009.
- Ashton Kutcher stars in Anchor Bay Films’ “Spread”.
Spread is a fresh, funny, and racy look at the trials and tribulations of sleeping your way to a life of privilege in Los Angeles. Comic and karmic, the film is an “immorality tale” about a gorgeous guy who gives women what they want in order to live exactly as he likes.
In Spread, Nikki (Ashton Kutcher) isn’t a gigolo. He’s a sexual grifter, a fun-loving, freeloading hipster who understands his greatest assets are his looks and sexual prowess, which he uses to charm his way into the hearts of the city’s richest women and enjoy their lifestyle. Nikki gets a free place to live, fantastic gifts, A-list access, and plenty of sex. The women get to feel young, beautiful… and utterly fulfilled in the bedroom. It’s a mutually beneficial set-up.
Nikki’s latest conquest is Samantha (Anne Heche), a stunning middle-aged lawyer who gives him more than he’s ever had before. But then he meets a gorgeous waitress his own age named Heather (Margarita Levieva). She comes to visit Nikki at Samantha’s house while Samantha is out of town, sees what an incredible place it is… and comes to the mistaken conclusion it’s his. Unbeknownst to Nikki, Heather lives by playing the same game.
When Samantha comes home, she discovers Nikki’s infidelity and he’s put out on the street. With nowhere else to turn, Nikki pulls out all the stops to win Heather over and they begin to form their own kind of bond. Sexually charged by a game of one-upsmanship, each shows the other their best grifts, and they unexpectedly begin falling in love – the one thing they can’t do in the life they lead. Soon, the truth of their unfolding relationship forces a choice between love and money, and Nikki has to decide whether he can live on his own once and for all in the hopes of finding something real.
Tags: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Anne Heche, Ashton Kutcher, David Mackenzie, Margarita Levieva, Maria Conchita Alonso, Rachel Blanchard, Sebastian Stan, Sonia Rockwell, Spread, Sundance Film Festival
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IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Alexis Dos Santo’s romantic drama “Unmade Beds,” which premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. [via]
With his startlingly visceral and original second feature, Unmade Beds, Alexis Dos Santos manifests an exuberant London where unbridled longing and zeal plunge nubile expats into lusty adventures and momentous encounters. When wide-eyed Spaniard Axl comes to London on a quest for the father who abandoned him, he lands in the middle of a creative hotbed-an underground polyglot squat filled with colorful free spirits. Among them is Vera, a beautiful Belgian girl recently dumped by her boyfriend, who seeks to restore her faith in romantic destiny after meeting a charismatic stranger. As Axl and Vera separately pursue these bittersweet and elusive connections, they circle each other’s orbits-their fates almost inevitably intertwined.Alongside this lush story of youthful awakening, Dos Santos conjures a rhythmic stream-of-consciousness mood collage. Axl and Vera’s world vibrates with visual and sonic energy. The palate of yellows, reds, and greens emits benevolent warmth as if to soften the blow of their tender aches. Surprising sound scapes and an effusive score aptly express the characters’ mercurial interior states. Meanwhile slapstick moments and musical performances by fresh unknowns puncture the melancholy, buoying the film into irreverent whimsy. They may be slightly crumpled works in progress-like the unmade beds where they slumber-but Axl, Vera, and their friends are as vital as a crisp new day. [via]