“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” - New Photo
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” from director David Fincher is based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The movie features Benjamin Button, played by Brad Pitt, as old man who physically ages backward - ages in reverse until he becomes a baby and then finally vanishes from the earth. At age 50, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman, Cate Blanchett. And then must come to terms with the relationship as they literally grow in opposite directions.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” also starring Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Julia Ormond.
The movie will hit theaters on December 19, 2008.
Check out the trailer HERE
”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The movie features Benjamin Button, played by Brad Pitt, as old man who physically ages backward - ages in reverse until he becomes a baby and then finally vanishes from the earth.
At age 50, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman, Cate Blanchett. And then must come to terms with the relationship as they literally grow in opposite directions.
Director: David Fincher
Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eric Roth
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Julia Ormond
Release date: December 19, 2008
You can visit the ”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” official site
and watch the trailer after the jump
‘Indiana Jones 4′ - The Old Magic Still Works - Cannes 2008
Earlier today, the world’s press in Cannes finally got to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Here is a summary of the critical reaction:
Anne Thompson of Variety sets the scene outside the screening and says the film is ‘good enough’ and ‘fun’:
”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had its world premiere at Cannes at 1 PM May 18; the press anxiously streamed into the Lumiere early, afraid they would be shut out-and many were.
There were whoos and whistles before the screening started.The movie unspooled without the usual Cannes logo. The first hour plays like gangbusters and is really fun.
Harrison Ford has Indy down, even as a grizzled “gramps” dealing affectionately with Shia LaBeouf as a 60s greaser with a pompadour.
The movie will do blockbuster boxoffice, and whatever critical brickbats are still to come…”
Her Variety colleague Todd McCarthy says it ‘delivers the goods’:
”One of the most eagerly and long-awaited series follow-ups in screen history delivers the goods, not those of the still first-rate original, 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” but those of its uneven two successors.
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” begins with an actual big bang, then gradually slides toward a ho-hum midsection before literally taking off for an uplifting finish.”
‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ full-length trailer
Paramount Picture has unveiled yet a second full-length trailer for the long-awaited adventure film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which comes to theaters May 22nd.
Steven Spielberg says that the film will feature all of Jones’ former babes in various cameo roles including Karen Allen and other Indy girls who had smaller roles. It is still up in the air whether or not Kate Capshaw, Spielberg’s wife, will make an appearance.
The film is set in the early ’50s.
Indiana Jones 4 - Three New Banners
And here we are again with ‘Indy 4‘ banners with the main characters, the famous Harrison Ford, of course, in the role of Indiana Jones, Shia LaBeouf as Mutt Williams and finally Cate Blanchett, as bad agent Irina Spalko.
Hollywood and Cannes Film Festival
Clint Eastwood’s film “The Changeling“, starring Angelina Jolie as a woman searching for her missing son in 1920s Los Angeles and “Synechdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut.joins a competition list.
Steven Soderbergh, who took the top Cannes award in 1989 for “Sex, Lies and Videotape“, won a race against time to complete his four-hour epic “Che“, on the life of the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in time for the festival.
Steven Soderbergh’s inclusion looks like a last-minute decision. He competes with two pic ”Che” bio - “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla”
As predicted, Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” world preems down on the Croisette, possibly on Sunday May 18. It promises this fest’s must-attend, highest-glam event.
Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s head said the presence of Steven Spielberg and the stars of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, which will premiere outside the main competition, would ensure “a magnificent red carpet”.
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and George Lucas are expected to join Spielberg on the steps outside the Palais des Festivals, guaranteeing the kinds of flashing cameras that add essential glamour to the festival’s arthouse fare.
Out-of-competition, DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda,” an adventure, comedic chop-soc tooner, promises another Hollywood red-carpet cavalcade.
Also non-competing, as is Woody Allen’s custom, is the Spain-shot “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
After its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, the Hollywood satire “What Just Happened?” will get a second chance at Cannes - closing night, but we are not sure yet because organizers said they would announce the movies that open and close the festival in a few days.
Robert De Niro stars an embattled Hollywood producer whose life falls apart during one turbulent week. In a life-imitating-art turn, the film’s climactic scene takes place at the Cannes Film Festival, with the producer’s fictional movie-within-a-movie opening the event.
“What Just Happened?” also stars Catherine Keener as a tough-as-nails studio chief and features a number of stars, including Sean Penn and Bruce Willis, playing themselves in self-parodying roles. Barry Levinson directs from an adaptation of “Into the Wild” producer Art Linson’s memoir.
The film generated strong buzz going into January’s Sundance Film Festival, and was expected to sell for a significant seven-figure sum. But the movie received a mixed critical.
New Featurette Online for ‘Indiana Jones 4′
A new featurette has popped up online at the official website for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull featuring young actor Shia LaBeouf on the set of the production.. Shia stars with Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent. Spielberg was once again behind the camera for the highly anticipated fourth installment.
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