Archive for December, 2007
‘Sweeney Todd’ Flashback Was Scary said Johnny Depp
The movie is the sixth collaboration for Depp and director Tim Burton and one of their riskiest. It’s based on Stephen Sondheim’s bloody Broadway musical about a murderous barber, and Depp had scant singing experience.
In a career that has included drunk pirates and a scissor-handed recluse, Johnny Depp says the strangest scene he’s ever filmed is a simple flashback in ’Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet street.’
Scene that scared Depp was flashback to young Sweeney’s happy life before he was sent to prison by Judge Turpin was the scene.
It’s arguably the most normal scene in the movie, and both Depp and Burton could hardly stomach it.
’I think that was the weirdest thing I ever had to shoot,’ Depp told, ’(Burton) literally was sobbing. He left the set of his own movie.’
Burton said the extreme melodrama of the scene was difficult to watch.
’That’s when I knew (Depp) was a great actor, because that was terrible,’ the 49-year-old director said. ’That was so bad.’
’That and having to soap up Alan Rickman’s face were two of the scariest moments, maybe of my life,’ joked Depp.
”The Duchess” trailer
Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman’s best-selling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, documenting the romantic entanglements of a beautiful celebrity (Kiera Knightly) whose unhappy marriage to the the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) threatens to erupt into scandal when she falls for an enterprising young politician.
Joker Poster New and Better
The official site for ‘The Dark Knight’ has been updated and now links to a video page with a nice high-quality peek at that earlier Joker poster.
‘One Missed Call’ New horror action Coming Soon
Shannyn Sossamon and Ed Burns star in director Eric Valette’s remake of Takashi Miike’s frightful tale about a cell-phone call from the future that foreshadows one’s own death.
Beth Raymond (Sossamon) is a college student whose friends have all been dying in droves, and the one connecting factor between all of the incidents is that just before their deaths, each of the victims received a message in which they heard themselves being murdered.
Upon receiving her own frightening phone call, Beth has only three days to solve the mystery and cheat death. Burns co-stars as a detective who is deeply troubled by the recent spate of deaths.
watch the trailer after the jump
‘Bee Movie’ Review
Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Oprah Winfrey…
There’s been a lot of buzz about Jerry Seinfeld’s new film over the past couple of years - being a CGI project, it’s taken that long to make it – and though the wait may have stung a few, the result definitely won’t.
By now, we’d all be aware that Jerry Seinfeld – whether it’s as a stand-up comedian or as the brainchild of one of TV land’s best sitcoms of all time – never enters anything half-prepped, and the work that he’s put into his first movie shows right up there on the screen – it’s a beautiful, dazzling family pic that doesn’t skip a beat. In short, this is no – excuse the pun – B-movie.
Written by and featuring Seinfeld as a very personable bee, ’Bee Movie’ is uncompromising fun and well-crafted filmmaking, and unlike a lot of the mediocre animated/family films in recent months it’s a satisfying experience for any age.
Age Restricted ‘Semi-Pro’ Trailer
Will Ferrell has this strange ability to make a blockbuster, universally respected comedy, then turn around and make totally mediocre crap, but his career isn’t affected by it at all. Last spring he brought the world Blades of Glory, which made way more money than it deserved, and this February it will be Semi-Pro. It’s another raunchy comedy about some obscure sport, except this time instead of car racing or ice skating it’s semi-professional basketball.
Most of what we’ve seen for the movie so far is just teasers, but now there’s an age-restricted trailer available at this site, which has better security than most bars I’ve checked. They say they check your name and date of birth against the information on your driver’s license, but I haven’t checked to see if you can get past ‘em. In any case, if you’re old enough to buy a lottery ticket, you can check out the trailer and be presented with… a crazy amount of blowjob jokes. Read the rest of this entry
‘Yes Man’ New Jim Carrey’s Comedy
Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a man who signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything…and anything (based on the memoir by Danny Wallace). At first, unleashing the power of “yes” transforms Carl’s life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that opening up his life to endless possibilities can have its drawbacks.
‘It’s about a man who finds himself very depressed, and is always saying no. When friends ask him out, he always says no,’ Heyman said of the script. “[The film will explore] what happens when he decides to say yes to every thing that comes his way.”
This sounds like a high concept comedy spun in reality. Heyman went on to call this ‘one of the funniest scripts I’ve read’, which is good news, because if Jim Carrey can do anything, it’s make a funny script even funnier. Carrey is naturally hilarious, as he consistently proves on talk shows the world over, time and time again.
Directed by: Peyton Reed
Written by: Nicholas Stoller and Jarrad Paul & Andrew Mogel
Cast: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Michael Higgins…
