Sometimes the stars of major book-to-movie franchises are humble, gracious, and totally comfortable around their legions of fans, no matter how obsessive — like Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe, a beacon of British politeness in a world of celebrities run amok. And other times they’re like Robert Pattinson, Twilight’s hilariously reluctant vampire heartthrob. To publicize Friday’s release of the first film in Stephenie Meyer’s teen-romance saga, Pattinson has been traveling the country signing autographs, shaking hands, and posing for pictures, and, as he’s made clear to all reporters covering his promotional appearances, he is completely miserable.
Difficult People Patches Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Difficult People Patches Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » James Urbaniak as Arthur, Julie Klausner as Julie. We begin inside the offices of Buzzlist, a media entity that “loves lists,” where Julie and Billy landed a two-week trial as guest bloggers.
Derek Cianfrance. Derek Cianfrance is establishing himself as a director who, as he puts it, drops his actors into the “the aquarium of life” to see if they can swim. With The Place Beyond the Pines, he got Ryan Gosling onto a motorcycle, moved Eva Mendes into a house with their onscreen son Dane DeHaan, and made the two of them go bowling together — and that was all before they started shooting.
Academy Award–winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, known for the movies Crash and Million Dollar Baby, is being sued in a civil case for sexual assault in a two-week trial at the New York County Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Haleigh Breest, 36, a movie publicist, alleges that Haggis raped her nine years ago at his Soho apartment. In 2017, after being “shocked” when Haggis, 69, came out as an advocate for the Me Too movement, Breest decided she couldn’t look the other way anymore and filed this lawsuit.
When Disney started adapting Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods for film, few issues were more pressing than what to do about “Hello, Little Girl,” a sexually charged duet between Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf filled with all sorts of double entendres. Sondheim himself admitted that the studio had “objections” to the number, and these concerns were magnified when director Rob Marshall cast an actual tween as Red.
Beauty and the Beast. Disney has decided against censoring out Beauty and the Beast’s“gay moment” for the film’s Malaysian release. The decision comes after Disney initially made a cut of the film without the contested scene available to the country’s Film Censorship Board, and the board approved the edited version for release. Malaysia has strict laws prohibiting homosexuality, and the board’s chairman said of the minor scene in question, “It is only one short scene, but it is inappropriate because many children will be watching this movie.
Earlier today, the Weinstein Co. discontinued their line of Django Unchained action figures amid a good deal of controversy. The natural question that arises: Should they have ever existed in the first place? The Weinsteins have made action figures for all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, including Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Colonel Hans Landa toys for Inglourious Basterds. (Yep, they made a Nazi action figure.) The figures are geared toward over-17 (like the movies themselves) film memorabilia collectors.
At the end of Mother!, Javier Bardem cracks open Jennifer Lawrence’s chest and scoops out her heart. That, friends, is what it’s like to watch the credits sequence at the end of Call Me by Your Name. I can’t say anything else without spoiling it, but suffice it to say that the love story comes with an epilogue akin to the one in Moonlight or the 400 Blows, with a character staring at the camera dead-on, daring you to share their emotion.
Brie Larson. Lucille LeSueur, Leroy Harold Scherer, Jr. Frances Gumm. You’ll be forgiven if you don’t immediately recognize the birth names of Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, and Judy Garland respectively. It’s not unusual for people to reinvent themselves when they reach Hollywood. In fact, Hudson’s agent Henry Willson had a factory of actors in the ‘50s who came to Hollywood with small-town names and ended up with larger-than-life personas like Tab Hunter, Guy Madison, and Dack Rambo.
Doctor Who (Peter Capaldi) shredding. When the Doctor made his Doctor Who season-9 entrance aboard a tank, shredding his “ax,” Peter Capaldi furthersolidified his legacy in the Whoniverse. In an interview with the New York Times in front of the show’s next season (premiering April 15), which will be Capaldi’s last as the iconic character, the actor explained how he was responsible for bringing the electric guitar to the Doctor.