Quote of the Day: Ryan Phillippe on Filming MacGruber
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“I would inflict pain upon myself. I would dig my fingernail into my thumb, or I’d bite the inside of my cheek. That was really the only way because the guy’s [Will Forte] a maniac in the best possible way.”
- Ryan Phillippe, on working with SNL comedian Will Forte for action-comedy MacGruber.
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Quote of the Day: Natalie Portman on Kissing Mila Kunis
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Fox Searchlight, Drama, Thrillers, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases,
“It’s not raunchy, it’s extreme.”
- Actress Natalie Portman on kissing her Black Swan co-star Mila Kunis. Will they do it better than Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried?
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Inglourious Basterds Prequel Possibly in the Works
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Weinstein Company, Action, Horror, Period, Political, Sequels, Thrillers, Celebrity Gossip, Filmmaking, Rumors, Scripts,
With one of the world’s most vied-for actors at your command and scoring an impressive $38 million at the box office, it’s nearly impractical for Quentin Tarantino to not pursue another Inglourious Basterds film.
According to Eli Roth, the chances are pretty good.
“Everybody would drop whatever they’re doing to go back to work with Quentin… All the time, Brad says, ‘Prequel, prequel!’ All the ‘basterds’ would jump on it in a second. We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and Quentin says if he does the prequel, he’s going to use them. They’re not going to be DVD extras.”
Without spilling too many secrets, Roth briefly describes one of the scenes, which features a rather random cameo…
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500 Days of Summer Without the Script
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Fox Searchlight, Independent, Romance, Comedy, Celeb News, Filmmaking, New Releases, Scripts, Videos,
The cute overload that is 500 Days of Summer continues, as stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel performed an impromptu, short version of how the film would be without a script.
Set to present an award to the film’s screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel ditched the teleprompter and offered a silent skit of the elevator/Smiths scene. Then the pair realized that they wouldn’t have had stage directions without a script and redid the scene appropriately (albeit, quite boring and proving a good point).
It’s nice to see actors who appreciate those other people working on a film.
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Eli Roth’s Close Call on Inglourious Basterds Set
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Weinstein Company, Action, Drama, Horror, Period, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases,
Despite directing and acting in various films served with copious amounts of violence, Eli Roth never quite came close to death on any of those projects until Inglourious Basterds.
During one of the latter scenes of the Quentin Tarantino‘s WWII tour de force, a fire consumes a Parisian theater where the basterds confront Nazi soldiers. It was during this scene that Roth received a taste of the pain his films’ characters experience ten-fold.
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Zack Snyder Releases Watchmen Journal #3
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Classics, Mystery, Noir, Filmmaking, Upcoming Releases,
The sixth of each month has continuously marked the release of Watchmen video journals, chronicling production on Zack Snyder‘s latest comic-to-screen film.
This month he gives us a peek at the infamous prison escape scene, revealing how stunt actors are lit on fire! I was a bit disappointed that we don’t clearly see Rorschach, though. In case you missed it on here, you can check out the photos of the Watchmen characters as well as the action figure prototypes. Enjoy.
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