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R.I.P. Sidney Pollack
2008-05-28 09:34:00
"Director, actor and producer Sydney Pollack -- who died Monday, at age 73 -- made some terrific movies and some that were not so hot. But his death represents a loss the meaning of which isn't immediately apparent, at least not until you start fitting it into the context of what mainstream Hollywood filmmaking used to be, and what it has become.Pollack was a filmmaker who believed, even past the time many others had given up, that you could make a good mainstream movie about a serious subject, and he believed -- right up to his last few fiction features, the highly imperfect but well-intentioned pictures "The Interpreter" (2005) and "Random Hearts" (1999) -- in making movies for grown-ups, pictures that at least attempted to tell adult stories. Even when it became not just unpopular but almost untenable to do so, he continued to put his faith in the strength of a script and the quality of his actors' performances.But in the past 20 years or so, Pollack has been a strong presence ...
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In Culver City
2008-05-27 15:54:00
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal in Culver City after stopping by Caffe LUXXE on Montana for coffees, on 25th May, 08. Pictures by Iheartjake.com

"Hard Candy" (Some Candy Talking)
2008-05-26 13:50:00
"The power of Hard Candy lies in the fact that it makes you think rather than frightens you, and that for all of its 104 minutes runtime, you are wondering just who is playing who here.Hayley is determined to wrench the truth out of Jeff, but her actions show that she has made up her mind long before meeting with him and that she is already convinced of his guilt. Hayley?s fortitude is more about justification for her actions than about actual fact-finding. And Jeff may be a dodgy guy, but both Hayley and the audience can never be sure of just how dodgy he truly is. It is never clarified if Jeff is actually guilty of anything, or merely feels guilty for desiring something he knows is wrong. The audience is left to make up their own minds, and opinions willsurely vary. One of Hard Candy?s strengths is that it in no way sexualises Hayley?s behaviour; yet in terms of the cruelties she inflicts, her unambiguous intentions and calculated actions are those of a grown-up. Hayley is fully a...
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Trying low profile
2008-05-26 12:37:00
May 24th. Jake and Reese Witherspoon get lunch in LA. The couple tried to keep a low profile with hoods up in the LA rain. May 24th - Jake & Reese Outside the Katsuya Restaurant In Brentwood. Pictures by Iheartjake.com
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All good things on the set
2008-05-25 12:28:00
"Kirsten Dunst and costar Ryan Gosling walk back to their trailers on the set of their new movie, "All Good Things ", in New York City on Friday.The pair filmed scenes indoors at a private building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.The period thriller is set in the ?80s and centers on the scion of a New York real estate dynasty (Gosling) who falls for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks (Dunst). When the girl disappears, a down-and-out detective begins to uncover information that could put people close to the case in danger". Source: Justjared.buzznet.com

No plans of proposing?
2008-05-23 08:47:00
"Jake Gyllenhaal has laughed off reports he is planning to propose to girlfriend Reese Witherspoon and rush her down the aisle. The superstar couple began dating on the set of their 2007 film Rendition, and have been inseparable since, prompting reports of an imminent engagement.Now, friends tells magazine OK! Gyllenhaal will propose any day soon, and they don't want to wait long for wedding.A friend of Witherspoon tells the tabloid, "They'll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together."Gyllenhaal, 27, recently confessed he was deeply "in love" with Witherspoon to producer pal Ryan Kavahaugh.But Gyllenhaal's spokesperson Carrie Byalick insists the gossips are jumping to conclusions, telling OK! "There are no current wedding plans." Source: www.wfrv.comOn 17 th May - Shopping With Reese In Santa Monica."After attempting to join two different yoga classes, without success, the couple headed to American Apparel store on Main Street for some s...
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Doubtful Speculations
2008-05-22 07:21:00
Doubtful Speculations: "I sat a long time thinking uncomfortable thoughts.We are strangely made. We think we are wonderful creatures. Part of the time we think that, at any rate. And during that interval we consider with pride our mental equipment, with its penetration, its power of analysis, its ability to reason out clear conclussions from confused facts, and all the lordly rest of it; and then comes a rational interval and disenchants us. Disenchants us and lays us bare to ourselves, and we see that intellectually we are really no great things; that we seldom really know the thing we think we know; that our best-built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.So a little time before I knew that this voyage was a dream, and nothing more; a wee little puff or two of doubt had blown against that certainty, unhelped by fact or argument, and already it was dissolving away. It seemed an incredible thing, and it hurt my pride of intellect, b...

Jake will be Prince of Persia
2008-05-21 09:48:00
"Earlier this year, we told you about the folks at Latino Review revealing that an offer was out to Jake Gyllenhaal to star as the titular prince in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, the upcoming Mike Newell directed adaptation of the popular action adventure video game franchise of the same name. Today, the "Hollywood Insider" blog is reporting that Jakey G. has officially signed on as the time-controlling monarch. They've also added that current Brit Bond girl Gemma Arterton will be playing Tamina, a princess who helps the prince in his adventures and who presumably gets a little frisky with him, and that production is scheduled to start in July pending what happens with the looming actors' strike.Extra Tidbit: The latest game in the series, "Prince of Persia: Prodigy", is scheduled for release in fourth quarter of this year on XBox 360, PS3 and Windows".Source: www.joblo.com
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Charlie Bartlett
2008-05-21 09:00:00
"If you're a teen movie buff, you'll notice references ? some subtle, some not-so ?to Harold and Maude, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Rushmore. What's new about this movie is that it falls somewhere between noir teen flicks like Donnie Darko and more feel-good films like Ferris Bueller. It also feels very genuine, maybe because when I interviewed Kat and Anton (separately), they both mentioned Poll's request for their input for the movie (Anton to his character's backstory, Kat to her character's penchant for rock candy and choice of nail polish)". Source: www.premiere.com-How did you get involved with Charlie Bartlett and what drew you to the project?-Jon Poll: I read about 100 scripts trying to find something that seemed like it was worth all the work. I was looking for something that had a lot of humor, heart and something on its mind. There aren?t many out there. I found two scripts out there last year that did that: Charlie Bartlett and Juno. Ironical...

Kat Dennings (Infinite Norah)
2008-05-19 10:50:00
"As you may or may not know, I am about to begin filming something so amazing that my heart is going to explode like eyeballs on the moon: "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", with the infinite Michael Cera as Nick and some weird girl named Kat Dennings as Norah. It's almost too good to be true, therefore I'm going to shut up about it and talk about some really important issues:Pumpkin bread tastes like autumn, for serious. What more do I need in life? Pumpkin bread, cold weather, Manga, baby animals, a volcano filled with money, christmas music, and Bill Murray. Whether I have all of these things is irrelevant".Source: www.katdennings.com"The girl is dressed in a flannel shirt, and I can?t tell whether that?s because she?s trying to bring back the only fashion style of the past fifty years that hasn?t been brought back or whether it?s because the shirt is as damn comfortable as it looks. She has very pale skin and a haircut that reads private school even though she?s messed it ...

Riding in Venice
2008-05-19 00:47:00
May 16 - Jake & Reese Out & About in Los Angeles.May 17 - Bike Riding With Reese in Venice , CA.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Video
2008-05-18 12:25:00
"The film will star Cera as the titular Scott Pilgrim, a recent college grad who meets his dream girl, Ramona Flowers (Winstead). But to win her heart he must battle and defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. For me the pairing of Cera and Winstead is fantastic as I've long considered them some of the best of their generation. Add Edgar Wright into the mix and whoababy, we've got ourselves a winner. Winstead has been laying low since LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD but Cera has been quite busy with NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST and YEAR ONE with YOUTH IN REVOLT also in development. No word yet on when SCOTT PILGRIM might begin filming but it looks like it could go later this summer".Source: www.joblo.com MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD VIDEO:
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Best Kiss 2008
2008-05-17 07:57:00
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Shia Labeouf. Two of the nominees for the MTV Best Kiss 2008 are the kiss between Shia Labeouf and Sarah Roemer in "Disturbia":"Following scene after scene of teasing sexual tension, these two up-and-coming hotties finally cave in and make out". And the kiss between Ellen Page and Michael Cera in "Juno":"In one of the snarkiest movies ever, the most memorable moment may be the most sincere one. Effortlessly cool".Source: www.mtv.comSource: www.mtv.com/overdrive

M. Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona
2008-05-17 06:46:00
"Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in negotiations to star opposite Michael Cera in Universal's "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Edgar Wright is directing the adventure romance.In "Pilgrim" Winstead will play the dream woman of a young slacker (Cera). But the only way he can win her heart is by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends.The project is based on the Oni Press graphic novel "Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life", written by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Michael Bacall and Wright wrote the screenplay.Marc Platt and Eric Gitter are producing along with Wright and Nira Park, who produce via Big Talk Prods.The role could take Winstead ("Live Free or Die Hard") to leading lady status much the same way "Knocked Up" raised KatherineHeigl's profile when she was paired opposite Seth Rogen.Winstead is repped by Paradigm and Betty Winstead".Source: hollywoodreporter.comWhat a fun, sexy time this must be for Mr. Cera.

Sophia Bush & Beaux
2008-05-16 09:15:00
Sophia flirting with Jake on 25th January 2006.Sophia with Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, sitting on Christopher Mintz-Plasse's lap, 26th August at Teen Choice Awards 2007.Sophia with Emile Hirsch on 12th January 2007 - 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards.
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Jake Weird 2nd Anniversary!!
2008-05-15 09:18:00
This is the second anniversary of Jake Weird , do you remember the first one?We're here again at this point, weirdos, we were meant to be, we keep on connecting here in Weirdland! As a little tribute to my site watch this video (Jake is the star, Jake Weird is the galaxy), enjoy it!!
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Walking off the set
2008-05-13 07:25:00
May 2 - Jake and Reese On The Set of 'Nailed' In Columbia, South Carolina."Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel walked off the set of director David O. Russell's new movie Nailed on Friday, after producers failed to show they had enough money to pay its cast. The Screen Actor's Guild will keep all cast members from the movie until the production company shows there is enough money set aside in a union-mandated account. An on-set source tells the New York Times production on the movie is expected to resume this week. It's not the first scandal to strike set of the movie, which was co-written by Al Gore's daughter Kristin - veteran James Caan quit his cameo role last month after a bust-up with Russell".Source: www.imdb.com/news"When ThinkFilm pitches its slate at Cannes this week, the indie will confront an added obstacle: its seemingly wobbly financial condition. ThinkFilm is part of Capitol Films, whose indie comedy "Nailed," starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal, was shut dow...
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Donnie Darko Sequel
2008-05-10 02:07:00
"Donnie Darko " sequel "S. Darko" starts shooting May 18UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights.Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son Of Rambow, Gossip Girl), Briana Evigan (Step Up 2) and Justin Chatwin (Dragon Ball).Ash Shah's Silver Nitrate and Newmarket Capital are producing. Los Angeles-based Chris Fisher, who previously made Nightstalker and Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, will direct. The budget is pegged around $10m.The story picks up seven years after the first film (and Donnie's death) when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.Fisher said in a statement: "I am a great admirer of Richard Kelly's film and hope to create a similar world of blurre...
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List of Geeks
2008-05-09 07:31:00
MOST BADASS GEEKS IN FILM:10. CLARENCE WORLEY - True Romance"I don't like to barter. I don't like to dicker. I never have fun in Tijuana. That price is non-negotiable. What's in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth that much."9. DONNIE DARKO - Donnie Darko"Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up".4. NEO - The Matrix"I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you."3. PETER PARKER - Spider-Man"If somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied."2. ANAKIN SKYWALKER / DARTH VADER - Star Wars"I find your lack of faith disturbing."1. HIRO NAKAMURA - Heroes"Every ten year old wishes he had super powers. And I get them. Me of all people. Last in my class. Last on the sports field.I'm not a ...
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Happy belated B-day to Clark Duke!
2008-05-09 00:13:00
-"I'm too legit to quit smoking" (Clark & Michael) More bizarre pearls by Clark and Michael in their show:-"It's just blatant disrespect, and it's tacky. I guess I'm not used to it because I was raised like a gentleman [throws cup] Like a classy gentleman" -Clark.-"I notice you've been saying amigo a lot, that's very spanish of you" -Michael.-"This is that weird time a day when nothin's on...TV...It's just like animal shows"-"How can you go wrong... on The Internet?-Clark: This is hard to say, but you've gotta get your act together!-Michael: I'm going out!-Clark: Well when are you coming back?!-Michael: NEVER! (slams door).-Clark: "I can't believe they canceled this show".More "Clark and Michael" related stuff in my previous post: DOUBLE ENTENDRES
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MTV movie awards
2008-05-08 04:44:00
"Teen comedy "Superbad" is leading the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards after picking up five nods, including Best Movie. The high-school comedy, directed by Greg Mottola, also scooped nominations for the film's stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, who will compete in the Breakthrough Performance category along with their co-star Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Hill is also up for Best Comedic Performance. But "Superbad" will be going up against Oscar-winning "Juno" - which Cera also stars in -for the Best Movie prize, while the actor is also recognized for his efforts in the teen pregnancy film with a nomination for Best Male Performance. Meanwhile, the big-screen adaptation of Transformers is nominated for three awards: Best Movie, Best Male Performance for Shia Labeouf and Breakthrough Performance for Megan Fox. And Enchanted star Amy Adams also received a trio of nods for the Disney film - Best Female Performance, Best Comedic Performance and Best Kiss for her smooch with Patr...

Arrested Development happening
2008-05-07 20:38:00
-I got a call from Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator, and he said "so have you heard about this movie we're supposedly doing?" and I said yes. And he said he was in and it was great. And Jason [Bateman], when he was doing all the Juno press, he basically just talked up [Arrested Development ] the movie. He got the publicity going before anything was real. So Mitch talked to Ron Howard, who said he would direct it, and he's down. So I think Mitch was like, "I guess I'll write it then," and that's what I think he's doing now. And yes, I'm involved. I think everyone is.-Except Franklin [Will Arnett's racist puppet], right?-[laughs] Maybe not. I think Franklin was thrown away by Fox executives.-Who do you see most often from the cast?-Sadly, I don't see everyone that often. I see Michael Cera every now and again, but he's famous now so he doesn't want to talk to me.-He doesn't pick up your calls anymore?-No, not as much. It's fine. I'm handling it well. [Laughs.] I'm kidding! -...

On the set of "Nailed"
2008-05-06 08:22:00
"We?re not sure how we turned into Access Hollywood today, but our source on the set of the movie ?Nailed? just keeps on giving ? and the lastest news is this: For the first time in a career spanning four decades and over ninety movies, actor James Caan has walked off the set of one of his films. Citing differences with director David O. Russell, Caan left the set of the film last night and will have to be recast". Source: www.fitsnews.comAnd this is not the first time the director David O. Russell has had conflicts with some of the actors in his films, in this video during "I heart Huckabees" he had a fight with the actress Lilly Tomlin:

New affiliate Michael Cera Source
2008-05-05 07:40:00
Michael was chosen as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive for 2007. Source : michaelcerasource.netJake was chosen the 10th sexiest man alive in 2006. Source: www.people.com"My mom says that I'll alway be a perpetual teenager, and I hope she is right about it. ... So highschool is like an embryo of how your adult life probably will develop. It's the time you secretly begin to take notes in your mind about things you didn't suspect they existed" -read the whole sappy post in Rian Johnson's forum. I wrote these lines and I still feel almost the same that I explained then, maybe those jv years marked me so hard that after watching "Brick" I developed a crush on Joseph Gordon-Levitt, remember? and now, well, we have umpteen videos being uploaded by me dedicated to Mike Cera, so let's see, it seems to me this can be called a new crush in Weirdland. Kendra is in love again after watching two "high-school" movies as "Superbad" and "Juno" partially were about pre-college days, ...
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Bryan Lee O'Malley
2008-05-04 17:50:00
"The FCBD story introduced Scott and his friends to first-time readers and it also provided fans with another adventure that they'd embarked on. Wallace Wells, Ramona Flowers and Scott are characters that would appeal to the average American reader, and O?Malley reiterated what he said before that the characters were originally loosely based on himself, his girlfriend and his roommate when he was then 23 years old. ?But I'd like to think they have since grown into their own unique personalities. I certainly don't think of them as myself, my roommate and my girlfriend anymore, but I do think "what would he say in this situation?" or whatever, when I feel stuck.?Source: www.newsarama.com"MAYONEGG" VIDEO:The "Scott Pilgrim" influence is not only in digest-format indie books, but in a lot of new comics that blend together a lot of different pop-culture touchstones that the creators are interested in, in the same way that you blend together manga, indie rock, video games and so on.Bri...
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Maeby in "Arrested Development" confirmed
2008-05-03 05:09:00
Alia Shawkat: Well especially like in Arrested Development [in which Alia played Maeby Bluth from the time she was 14 until she was 16], I find that when the writing?s more creative and more realistic, it?s easier to connect to because you just go with how you would [be] if you were in that situation.-Teenflare.com: Were you as bummed out as the rest of the world when Arrested Development was cancelled? -Alia: Every season, it was like, ?we?re not getting picked up?, and then we did. So when it was actually cancelled, we saw it coming. It was sad, but I think that what the show needed to do, it got done. We had three great seasons and a lot of fans. I wish the characters could?ve continued, but I think the writers did a great job until the very end.-Teenflare.com: Well there?s a stir on the internet about a potential movie. Do you know anything about that? -Alia: With the publicity of "Juno", Jason Bateman started spewing rumours that there was going to be a movie. When we wrapped, ...

Sexy Hoodies
2008-05-02 17:44:00
Jake as Donnie in "Donnie Darko" (2001). Ellen Page as Hayley Stark in "Hard Candy" (2005).Both, Donnie and Hayley seem to share a bitter dark vision of their world around them, both wear hoodies, Donnie's is gray, Hayley's is red. Both characters become saviours through their stories.Maggie Gyllenhaal wearing a pink hoodie.Ryan Gosling as Leland in "The United States of Leland" (2003). Shia Labeouf wearing a blue cordless hoodie.Ryan and Shia appeared in this previous entry "Four young actors" along with Jake and Joe Gordon-Levitt in similar shots.In this another more recent post these four young actors appeared again in a list with more promising upcoming actors, being one of them Michael Cera. Michael can rival with Jake in hoodie-love. Both wear their hooded sweatshirts in a nonchalantly sexy way. Check them out: Michael Cera as Evan in "Superbad" (2007).Michael Cera as Bleeker in "Juno" (2007).
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2012
2008-04-30 23:01:00
"One of Hollywood's hottest couples may soon be headed our way. Rumour has it, none other than Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal will be here to star in an epic new flick called "2012". It centres around a group of people who face natural disasters, such as typhoons and volcanoes, that coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012. Filming is expected to get underway in Los Angeles and in Vancouver in late June. 2012 will hit theatres next year". Source: Vancouver.24hrs.ca

Look out, Jake!
2008-04-29 02:49:00
"You may not know his name. You may not even know his face. But look out Jake Gyllenhaal ? indie prince Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fast becoming one of the hottest properties in Hollywood.Like so many of his peers, the 27-year-old almost ended up as road-kill. As a teenager, the actor hated being a celebrity. He hated being pimped out as a poster boy during his six-year stretch on suburban-alien sitcom 3rd Rock From The Sun. At his best, the adult Gordon-Levitt is a stealthy, cerebral performer ? always shining without shouting. Recently, he?s been slotting nimbly into studio ?lms like Memento-style heist thriller The Lookout; and Killshot, in which he plays a psychopathic assassin stalking Diane Lane. Next on our screens, though, is Kimberly (Boys Don?t Cry) Peirce?s eagerly anticipated boys-back-from-Iraq drama Stop-Loss, in which Gordon-Levitt co-stars with Ryan Phillippe. To date, he has kept a tight steer on script choices ? no youth romps, no ?owery rom-coms. Instead he seeks out...

Nora Zehetner (A "Princess")
2008-04-29 00:08:00
Kip Pardue: "Nora plays Princess Ithaca, who is a person who is misunderstood, to say the least, and she lives in a castle on the hill in this kind of idyllic space. My character, William, enters her life by chance actually. And as he enters into her life he realizes that he?s going to play a much bigger role and finds out that Princess Ithaca really does have powers beyond the mere mortals that most of us are. It ends up being this tale of saving mythological creatures from certain disaster, and Princess Ithaca needs William?s help to make the transition to the next princess.-I notice that you?ve both worked on both TV and film, and I was wondering how you feel production on the film set has differed from the TV set and with your relationship to the other actors.Nora Zehetner in the indie flick "Fifty Pills"N. Zehetner: Actually I do a lot of independent films and they?re on tight schedules too. But I think generally speaking it?s a tighter schedule. We shot this entire thing in fo...