New look at Eddie Redmayne and Emma Watson in “My Week with Marilyn”

September 22, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

“My Week with Marilyn” is one of our most anticipated fall movies of 2011, and as we’ve said all along, while most eyes are on how two-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams will embody iconic screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, our attention is on a couple of other young stars who will appear in the film with her. Eddie Redmayne is Colin Clark, whose “week with Marilyn” as an assistant director on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl” is the basis of the film. Emma Watson, fresh off eight “Harry Potter” movies, plays Lucy, a young wardrobe assistant slash love interest to Clark. Simon Curtis directed the film which also stars Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh and Dominic Cooper as famed Marilyn photographer Milton H. Greene.

“My Week with Marilyn” was financed from the beginning by Harvey Weinstein, so we can expect a heavy Oscar push, particularly for Williams, precluding a disastrous reception when it premieres at the New York Film Festival next month. General audiences will get to see it on November 4th. Perhaps a bit surprisingly, there is no trailer for the film yet. Fan site Eddie Redmayne Online snagged the image below, our first look at Redmayne and Watson together in what looks like a promotional photoshoot for the film.

First official look at Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz and the whole cast of “Dark Shadows”

September 22, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

We’ve already seen one set of unofficial photos from the set of Tim Burton’s highly anticipated vampire saga “Dark Shadows” which was, well, a bit out there. So, as if to appease the outcry of fans and bloggers, the first official photo from the film has been released via Entertainment Weekly and we can all breathe a sigh of relief, the whole cast looks not nearly as crazy as those first set photos would have us believe. Johnny Depp’s skintone in particular looks much more manageable.

The whole cast appears strikingly doll-like, standing in a giant dollhouse, especially a couple of our favorite up and comers, Aussie breakout Bella Heathcote as governess Victoria Winters and Chloe Moretz, who looks more grownup than in any of her previous roles, as the rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard. Director Burton felt inspired to snap this shot of his entire cast by the original soap opera on which his film is based. “I remember seeing a group photograph of the cast of the original series,” he tells EW. “For me it captured the weird Dark Shadows vibe in a single image. I had a brief window of opportunity to have our cast present at the same time, the day before principle photography began. We decided to stage a similar picture instead of rehearsing, to see if we captured the Dark Shadows feeling.”

Check out the larger version of the pic below and head to EW for detailed descriptions of each actor and character represented. So has Tim Burton captured the Dark Shadows feeling? Let us know what you think!

First Look: Sam Worthington’s “Man on a Ledge” poster will give you vertigo

September 21, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

If you’re afraid of heights, you may not want to look too closely at the first poster for new Sam Worthington thriller “Man on a Ledge”, unveiled by MovieWeb today. Taking a striking overhead shot at Worthington’s Nick Cassidy as he perches perilously on said ledge high up on a New York City skyscraper, forget the swarms of people, even the cars look like ants.

In the Asger Roth directed heist thriller (wow, are there a lot of those floating around these days or what?), ex-cop turned conman Cassidy threatens to jump from the rooftop of a posh NYC hotel, prompting the NYPD to dispatch countless SWAT team members, officers and a female psychologist (Elizabeth Banks) to talk him down. Little do they know, the suicide attempt is merely a diversion to distract the police force while Cassidy’s brother Joey is pulling off the largest diamond heist in history. Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris and Edward Burns co-star.

“Man on a Ledge” releases on January 13, 2012 and you can see the full poster below.

First Look: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone on the set of “Gangster Squad”

September 21, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone look the epitome of suburban domestic bliss in our first look at a scene being filmed on Ruben Fleicsher’s 1940s mob drama “Gangster Squad.” The two look perfectly at home and believable in 1940s garb for the “30 Minutes of Less” director’s first foray into serious drama, and appear altogether a different couple than the one they played in this summer’s charming romantic comedy “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”

Gosling and Stone are joined in the film by a stellar cast that is rounded out by Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Anthony Mackie. In the Will Beall-scripted crime drama based on a true story, Penn will be notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, a charismatic figure who was also a bit of a celebrity, even being featured in a Life Magazine profile. But he was also considered a sociopath with a dark side, and Gosling and Brolin’s pair of cops are called in to put a stop to his dealings when innocent people start getting hurt. Mackie will play former LAPD lieutenant Rocky Washington. Stone plays a “sharp-tongued siren” who gets caught in a love triangle between Penn’s mobster and Gosling’s good guy though she seems pretty into the good guy in these first pictures.

Gossip site Celebrity Gossip got the snaps below. Check their site for even more!

First Look: Pictures confirm Haley Bennett in for new Terrence Malick-Christian Bale film

September 19, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 7 Comments

Though for whatever reason, someone doesn’t want word getting out that newcomer Haley Bennett has been officially chosen as the female lead in Terrence Malick’s new film, pictures say otherwise. Many eyewitnesses, including Bale fan site Baleheads, snagged the pictures (some below) of Christian Bale and Bennett filming on location at the Austin City Lights Music Festival, where they’ve been spotted roaming the grounds and backstage at various performances by a plethora of concert-goers.

There’s no title, much less plot details, to the new film, though the filming locations thus far reasons that it may be music-centric. Should any singing be required of Bennett, it should be no problem for the young actress who many still remember best from her role as pop singer Cora Corman who sang a duet with Hugh Grant in “Music & Lyrics” back in 2007. And while there is a fourteen year age difference between Bale and Bennett (just as all the young actresses vying for the role were similarly aged), their relationship in the film would appear to be romantic based on the photographic evidence thus far.

We’ll keep you updated on this mysterious new project and this new face to watch as more details (hopefully) emerge!

New poster, stills and trailer for Abigail Breslin’s “Janie Jones”

September 14, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images, Videos Leave a comment

Here’s a first look at Abigail Breslin in new film Janie Jones also starring Elisabeth Shue and Alessandro Nivola. Premièring back in April at Tribeca Film Festival, the film has received solid reviews ready for wide release on October 28th this year.

Also starring Brittany Snow, Frank Whaley, Joel Moore and Peter Stormar, the film follows an ageing rocker, whose life is suddenly transformed when his teenage daughter is left in his care.

Rocker Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola) and his band, the Ethan Brand Experience, are on the comeback trail when a former flame (Oscar® nominee Elisabeth Shue) drops a bomb in his lap—their 13-year-old daughter, Janie Jones (Abigail Breslin). Ethan refuses to believe Janie is his kid, but when her mom suddenly leaves for rehab, the child has no place to go but with the band.

With no inclination toward fatherhood, Ethan continues his hard-living ways, leaving Janie to fend for herself in the dive bars and sleazy motels along the way. As his drug- and booze-fueled antics take their toll on and off stage, the band deserts him one by one, until he and Janie are left alone.

Desperate to finish the tour and revive his career, Ethan stays on the road as a solo act with Janie in tow. As Ethan’s self-destructive spiral threatens to derail his comeback, Janie uses her own surprising musical talents to help guide him down the rocky road to redemption.

(via Coming Soon)

Below the cut we have several images from the film, plus the new poster and a trailer.

First Look: Bella Heathcote on the set of “Dark Shadows” with Johnny Depp

September 13, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 2 Comments

Aussie up and comer Bella Heathcote is seen above in costume and in character as governess Victoria Winters on the set of Tim Burton’s remake of 1960s soap opera “Dark Shadows”, which chronicled the adventures of vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Johnny Depp (also pictured). The all-star cast also features Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley and Helena Bonham Carter as well as up and comer Thomas McDonell as young Barnabas.. In our first look at the film on location in London, Heathcote looks appropriately garbed in Victorian era dress while Depp, well… yes.

We’ll forgive you if Depp is drawing most of your attention. Sure he’s playing an outrageous soap opera vampire who probably doesn’t get much sun, but the white face paint and drawn on sideburns seem quite over the top, to say the least, especially when compared to Barnabas in the original series, which was already highly dramatic. [

September 12, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images Leave a comment

2011 was a big year for breakout female actresses, and especially so for British actress Felicity Jones.

Jones won the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for her role as Anna in Drake Doremus’, Like Crazy, which follows the ups and downs of a relationship between a British student (Jones) and her American college sweetheart Jacob, played by Anton Yelchin, who are torn apart after Anna overstays her visa.

In this new still from Like Crazy (courtesy of MTV), we see the two lovers on a beach, before deportation and the complications of a long distance relationship.

In an exclusive interview with MTV, director Doremus explains how Jones, who was previously best known in Hollywood for her supporting role in Ricky Gervias’ Cemetary Junction, landed the role:

Felicity sent me a tape from London. I had seen about 50 girls in Los Angeles. I’d brought a few of them in with Anton and did the chemistry read, and I was not quite feeling it yet. She sent a tape of herself in her flat in London. She just embodied everything that was this character. I immediately called her and told her to come. It was a total gut call. I had never even seen her with Anton, and I didn’t even know if they’d have chemistry, but something in my gut told me we had to cast Felicity Jones and that she was the right person for this. And man, oh man, that’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my career.

And sending that tape was probably one of the best decisions Jones ever made as well!

Like Crazy also stars Jennifer Lawrence and Charlie Bewley and opens in limited theaters on 28th October in the US, and February 3rd 2012 in the UK.

Click below to see the full size still.

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