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Battleship Director Peter Berg to Israeli Interviewer: 'Are You a Draft Dodger?'

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:37 +0000

Now here’s the way to make your run of the mill Battleship junket interview way more interesting: Turn the tables on your talking-head interviewer by grilling him on Israel’s nuclear policy and why he didn’t serve his compulsory service in the military. Which is what Peter Berg did to one unsuspecting journalist for Israel’s Channel [...]

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VOTD: Touching, Vivid Animated Short ‘Crayon Dragon’

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:37 +0000

CalArts animation student Toniko Pantoja might be a filmmaker to watch. The animator’s second-year project, Crayon Dragon, is a lovely little three-minute piece that has two nicely-realized characters, a wild imagination, and a good sense of depth and space. It could almost be the pitch for a good Nintendo game, but at the same time [...]

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The Anchorman Teaser Poster

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:36 +0000

This is far too early. I don’t even know if they’ve finished the script yet but they… This is just an excerpt of the article. Please visit the site to read more! You May Also Want To Read: Teaser Poster:

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ABC Still Planning ‘Hulk’ Television Series; Passes On ‘AKA Jessica Jones’

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:42 +0000

ABC’s entertainment president states that the ‘Hulk’ television series is still likely to happen, but fans may have to wait until 2013. Meanwhile, the network has passed on ‘AKA Jessica Jones’. You May Also Want To Read: Indiana Jones Blu-Ray

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Merida From ‘Brave’ Now Appearing at Disney’s Magic Kingdom

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:41 +0000

The movie is still a month from release but Merida from Brave has invaded Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. The rebellious red-headed princess is the highlight of a new corner of the park devoted to the upcoming Pixar film and, after the jump, check out some photos and a video of the experience that’s [...]

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Barbarossa: Siege Lord – why the emperor needs a new movie

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:34 +0000

This historically haywire film about Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, lets its fine subject downBarbarossa: Siege Lord (2009)
Director: Renzo Martinelli
Entertainment grade: E
History grade: CFrederick I Barbarossa was King of Germany and later Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1155-1190. Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, was named after him.PeopleThe film begins with a boy, Alberto, accidentally stumbling into the path of Frederick I when the emperor is hunting wild boar in northern Italy. Armed with a crossbow, Alberto manages to kill the boar just before it gores the emperor. This is fiction. The adult Alberto da Giussano is held to have been a great warrior of the Guelph faction, leading the Lombard League to victory at the Battle of Legnano in 1176. There’s no firm evidence that he existed. The early encounter with Frederick and a boar has been invented for the film, as has his backstory. He is cast improbably as a blacksmith married to a witch. In case that doesn’t inspire you enough, he bellows “Freedom!” every few minutes in exactly the manner of William Wallace expiring in Braveheart. This doesn’t bode well for Barbarossa: Siege Lord’s historical accuracy.MarriageFrederick marries Beatrice of Burgundy. “So here she is, the future empress,” says wedding guest Henry the Lion. “I just hope that she can make my cousin happier than his previous wife, who was incapable of being loved, and even more incapable of bearing him any children.” Historically, Henry was Duke of Saxony, but in this film he’s the Duke of Exposition. Still, it is true that Frederick’s first marriage to Adelheid of Vohburg was miserable and childless. Beatrice lifts her veil. “But she’s just a child!” gasps another guest. “I didn’t realise she was so young!” This exposition spreads like the plague, and the plague is going to spread pretty fast later in the movie. At the time of their marriage, Beatrice was 13 to Frederick’s 34. The film’s casting of a 65-year-old Rutger Hauer as Frederick makes it look even creepier than it was.WarIn 1160, the emperor lays siege to Milan. Alberto takes him on. The film depicts Milan as described in the chronicles of Bishop Otto of Freising and his continuer, Rahewin: it’s a walled city in the middle of a level plain, surrounded by a moat which was constructed in 1159 to ward Frederick off. The Germans fill the moat with barrels. “They’re putting barrels in the river!” someone gasps from the Milanese battlements. “To make a platform for the towers!” Is that the Duke of Exposition again? Can’t be: until 1174, he’s on Frederick’s side. The epidemic of clunky screenwriting must have claimed a Milanese victim.CrueltyFrederick straps captured prisoners to his siege towers, so the Milanese cannot attack them without killing their fellow citizens. Did he really do that? Yes, but not at the siege of Milan. This happened at the siege of Crema in 1159, which was notorious for its brutality. The Cremese responded by hacking imperial prisoners to death on their ramparts, in full view of Frederick’s army. Both Crema and Milan eventually fell to Frederick, in 1160 and 1162 respectively.More warAlberto convenes the Company of Death, an association of knights that will fight Frederick. Historians doubt the Company’s existence, but the Battle of Legnano on 29 May 1176 was real. In it, Frederick’s imperial troops took on the Milanese (and possibly the Company of Death, if you believe in them). During the fighting, as is shown here, Frederick was unhorsed and lost. Assuming he was dead, his imperial troops lost heart and scattered. In fact, he had merely done a runner. A few days later he turned up in Pavia, right as rain. The film is correct about this, but wrong in suggesting that Legnano was a decisive battle. Frederick was already inclined to negotiate a truce – though doing so by no means ended his ambition.VerdictFrederick I Barbarossa is a fine subject for a movie, but he could do better than this heap of soggy spaghetti.Period and historicalWar filmsAlex von Tunzelmann
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Cannes 2012: live blog – day one

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:40 +0000

All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette, as it happens11.45am: Cannes’ dealmaking is also up and running. The first big news came through last night when the trades reported that Harvey Weinstein had come in for The Sapphires, the film about a 60s Australian Aboriginal girl group. It’s showing out of competition on Saturday; read the full story here.British cineastes will also be heartened by a sales deal reported this morning: Terence Davies’ long-gestating adaptation of Sunset Song is now up and running, with a pre-sales agreement in place. Here’s the full story from Screen Daily:Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song, which has secured Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn to head the cast.Deyn received acclaim for her West End performance in The Leisure Society earlier this year, while Mullan was most recently seen in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse.The film, based on the 1932 Scottish novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is scheduled to start shooting towards the end of the year. Davies and Bob Last of Ecosse Holdings have been jointly developing the project since they worked together on Davies’ 2000 House Of Mirth.It will be produced by Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter of Hurricane Films, the production company behind Davies’ documentary Of Time And The City, with Last executive producing.Set in the early 20th century against the backdrop of poverty in North-East Scotland, the story follows a farmer’s daughter, Chris Guthrie, struggling for love amid hardship and family misfortune.Actress Agyness Deyn said: “When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story, I’m so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he’s such an incredible director. I can’t wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice.”11.34am: Some fast verdicts on Moonrise Kingdom.Here’s Dave Calhoun of Time Out:It’s so full of a joyous love for the medium and smart without being clever-clever. Its childishness, sense of innocence and eye for fun all make it a very easy film to love.Peter Debruge of Variety:A universally appealing tale of teenage romance cuts through the smug eccentricity and heightened artificiality with which Anderson has allowed himself to be pigeonholed.Robbie Collin:
Adored Moonrise Kingdom. Anderson’s best since Tenenbaums, but thematically and visually it’s closest to Fox. Great opener.11.23am: Time to draw breath and do a bit of research. Here’s some required reading for anyone interested in getting up to speed with this year’s festival.• First up, have a look at Xan Brooks’ introduction to the court of Cannes: anyone who’s been will have some idea of the strange and inflexible codes by which the place can operate. Will we ever see Lars von Trier there again, after last year’s “Nazi”-gate? (You know, I think we will.)• Then cast your eyes over this: a letter from feminist action group La Barbe deploring the complete absence of women directors from the competition line-up. Cannes’ perceived sexism rears its head every year, but things have certainly reached a serious pass, as Peter Bradshaw pointed out a while back.• Here’s some inside dope on Moonrise Kingdom from the film-makers themselves, fronted by “Gosford Park hunk” Bob Balaban.• The main British hope comes (once again) via Ken Loach: here’s Catherine’s interview with one of Loach’s more unlikely stars, Glasgow binman Gary Maitland, who puts in a very funny turn as a dopey would-be whisky heister in Loach’s competition entry The Angels’ Share.• Jason Solomons is promoting a new generation of American film directors for Cannes glory – he did manage to tip Uncle Boonmee for last year’s Palme d’Or so he’s well worth listening to.• Incredibly, it seems no James Bond film has ever screened at Cannes. Well, they’re rectifying that this year, in the 50th anniversary of the start of the film series with Dr No.• Shia LaBeouf has turned director: if you’re down by the Critics Week venue, do pop in to look at his short film.• Peter Bradshaw gets all soppy over that icon of Cannes glamour, Marilyn Monroe – so what if she never actually ever turned up at the festival?• And here is the full line-up for the official selection. You’ll find the Cannes classics here, the Directors’ Fortnight and Critic’s Week here.10.44am: Right, down to business. Our video team, Henry and Elliot, have been beavering away to bring you the first edition of the Guardian Film Show right from the heart of the action. Peter and Xan are ruminating on the forthcoming delights – it’ll be a “banquet of art and trash” apparently…10.15am: So let’s see what there is to look forward to today. First up we’ll be launching our curtain-raiser video this morning, which no doubt will see Peter, Xan and Catherine gritting their teeth and girding their collective loins for the ordeal ahead. But there’s only one game in town on this opening day – Moonrise Kingdom – and Peter will be filing his review around lunchtime. Charlotte will follow that up later in the afternoon with a report from the Moonrise Kingdom press conference, where director Wes Anderson and star Bruce Willis will no doubt be having their say. There’ll also be a word or two from the jury press conference (which will more than likely involve Ewan McGregor, Andrea Arnold and jury president Nanni Moretti). Later on, we might – just might – be able to file a review of the Roman Polanski documentary A Film Memoir, directed by Laurent Bouzereau and part of the special screenings programme; but we’ll definitely be posting a picture gallery from Moonrise Kingdom’s red-carpet premiere at the Palais. That kicks off at 8pm (French time) and so the pics will go up shortly after.9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it’s Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They’ve dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.Right around now the world’s critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we’ll know whether it’s hot… or not.We’ve sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We’ll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.Please do get involved too, whether you’re in France or at home, we want to know your thoughts on this year’s festival, and on our own and others’ coverage. You can post a comment below, or tweet us @guardianfilm.Cannes 2012FestivalsCannes film festivalWes AndersonBruce WillisNanni MorettiEwan McGregorAndrea ArnoldAndrew Pulver
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New Train Wreck Teaser for Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management

contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:45 +0000

FX has released this new teaser for Charlie Sheen’s new comedy series “Anger Management,” premiering on the network on June 28th. The first two episodes will air that day at 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM E/P. In the following weeks, the series will air first-run episodes Thursdays at 9:30 PM with the previous week’s episode repeated at 9:00 PM. In “Anger Management,” Sheen stars as “Charlie,” a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. Selma Blair, Shawnee Smith, Daniela Bobadilla, Michael Arden, and Noureen DeWulf co-star. He has a successful private practice, holding sessions with his group of primary patients each week, as well as performing pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison.

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contentpuller — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:44 +0000

This Friday, the perennial bestseller that is Heidi Murkoff’s and Sharon Mazel’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting hits the big screen in a film that blends comedy, romance and drama with an ensemble cast and interwoven tales of what different couples go through on the nine-month road from conception to childbirth. ComingSoon.net had to opportunity to sit down and speak with three of the film’s on-screen couples, Elizabeth Banks and Ben Falcone (Wendy and Gary), Cameron Diaz and Matthew Morrison (Jules and Evan) and Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford (Rosie and Marco), along with director Kirk Jones to talk about bringing multiple fictional narratives to one of the world’s most popular non-fiction books. Also starring Jennifer Lopez, Brooklyn Decker, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock,…

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