Watch: Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck Fight and Make Up in First Clip from “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

May 16, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos Leave a comment

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Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara walk and talk and fight and make up against a gorgeously shot backdrop of trees and sunshine in the first clip from Sundance hit “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”, released today by Entertainment Weekly.

David Lowery directed the film about Mara and Affleck as an outlaw couple whose crime spree comes to an end with him going to jail and her going free to give birth to their daughter. It picks up four years later when he breaks free and she’s not sure if she still wants him back in her new little family’s life. The film won a Special Jury Prize for Cinematography for Bradford Young at Sundance, it’s easy to see why in this first glimpse of the slow-moving Texas-set film that’s drawn comparisons to Terrence Malick.

Watch the first clip of Mara and Affleck below. We’re hoping to catch the film at the Cannes Film Festival this week, and everyone can watch it when it’s released in theaters on August 16th.

New Images from Sundance Hit “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” Starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck

May 9, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

atbssm For months now we’ve had to settle for one measly picture from one of our most anticipated films of the year, David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”, but today, The Playlist has gifted us with four new images from the film featuring lead trio Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck and Ben Foster.

In the slow-moving, beautifully shot Texas outlaw drama, Affleck and Mara play a pair of passionate young lovers whose crime spree ends in a shootout with police in the Texas hills. She wounds an officer, but he takes the blame and goes to prison. Meanwhile, she has their baby, and four years later, he’s broken out and is on his way to reunite with her and the daughter he’s never met. She’s conflicted about the reunion, and things are muddied further by Foster’s presence as a police officer (the same one she wounded years earlier? It seems unclear) who’s interested in taking over the role of the man in her life.

The film won a Special Jury Prize for Cinematography at Sundance for DP Bradford Young, and will be released on August 16th, with stops at Cannes and in LA first. See the new photos below.

Rooney Mara – Casey Affleck Sundance premiere “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” draws praise, Malick comparisons

January 21, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Reviews 1 Comment

Being compared to legendary director Terrence Malick is no small compliment for up and coming filmmakers, so director David Lowery must be pretty happy with the reaction to his feature directorial debut, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”, which premiered yesterday inside the Eccles at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s a comparison that’s uttered with some baggage, but most audience members seem to agree the stylish, arty slowburner is worthy of standing on its own merits. “While spiritually indebted to Terrence Malick – and yes, it possesses its fair share of the filmmaker’s sun-kissed photography and the like – it would be far too simple and reductive to just pass this film off as nothing more,” says The Playlist.

Female lead for “Transcendence” opposite Johnny Depp down to Rooney Mara, Emily Blunt and Rebecca Hall

December 12, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 4 Comments

Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister is gearing up to make his directorial debut, and casting is firming up on sci-fi tale “Transcendence”, already starring Johnny Depp. Deadline reports the search for the female lead is narrowing and may be decided by this Friday.

The final three are Rooney Mara, Emily Blunt and Rebecca Hall, though Deadline warns Blunt could have scheduling conflicts with currently filming Tom Cruise actioner “All You Need is Kill.” Filming is set to begin on March 4th and the chosen actress will play a scientist named Evelyn, who is married to and uploads Depp’s character Will’s brain onto a supercomputer after his death. Casting is also underway for Max, a male friend of the couple, who helps Evelyn in protecting Will’s new form. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are executive producing for their longtime collaborator Pfister, while the screenplay came from newcomer Jack Paglen.

All three actresses seem way too young to play Depp’s wife, though Hall seems like the best fit to play a scientist to us. She is, however, already playing one in “Iron Man 3″ and could be in danger of being typecast if she plays both these characters back to back. Mara, too, has tread upon seemingly similar territory, recently wrapping up filming on Spike Jonze’s “Her”, which sees Joaquin Phoenix as a man in love with a computer. Blunt is also familiar with sci-fi, most recently having appeared in Rian Johnson’s exceptional time travel thriller “Looper.”

Casey Affleck goes on the search for the “Boston Strangler” in new film pitched by the actor

December 7, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting Leave a comment

After a string of critical but not necessarily commercial successes, 2013 is looking set to be a little more high profile for Casey Affleck. The Oscar nominee is currently filming “The Third Person” alongside James Franco and Mila Kunis, and will start next year out at Sundance Film Festival, taking the lead opposite fellow Oscar nominee Rooney Mara in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints“, the story of a man who escapes from prison and sets out on a journey to reunite with his wife and the daughter he’s never met.

The film premieres in Park City with a lot of hype surrounding it but Affleck will soon be moving on to a new pic, with Deadline reporting that the actor will star in “Boston Strangler“, pitched by Affleck to WB along with screenwriter Chuck Maclean who will script the film.

Affleck will play one of the detectives responsible for finding the killer, who was one of the most prolific serial murders in US history. The film focuses specifically on the ambitions of one particular detective, who was “willing to risk career and life in a race to bring down the most notorious sexual predator of the day, while battling a political cover-up by corrupt politicians and lawyers trying to save their careers.”

First image of Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck in Sundance-bound “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

November 28, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

One of the best parts of Sundance announcing their line-up is that we finally get to take a look at some of the movies that we’ve been eagerly anticipating. Here we have the first official photo of Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck in a rather dramatic moment in David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”, announced this morning to be premiering in the US Dramatic Competition at Sundance in January.

Lowery expanded his own short film of the same name for his feature directorial debut, and got one hell of a cast in Mara, Affleck, Ben Foster and Nate Parker to act out the story of a man who escapes from prison and sets out on a journey to reunite with his wife and the daughter he’s never met. Affleck and Mara play the doomed Bonnie and Clyde-esque couple, who were sent to prison in the first place after being brought down by the law. The first image from the film seems to set the stage for that arrest and separation.

This is definitely one of our most anticipated of the fest, and you can see the first photo now below, thanks to The NY Times.

Rooney Mara, Daniel Radcliffe, Shailene Woodley and more will premiere films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival

November 28, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in General News 2 Comments

As we begin to look towards this year’s awards season, a new crop of films have just been announced for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival - the festival where potential awards contenders first get unveiled.

This year’s selection is mostly “devoted to exploring the myriad forms of human sexuality” noted the festival’s director John Cooper, and several of our favourite rising stars will be premiering new pics.

James Ponsoldt’s “The Spectacular Now” with Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller will debut at the festival competing in the US Dramatic Competition, along with the Rooney Mara/Casey Affleck starrer “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints“, and “Kill Your Darlings“, the Beat drama with Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Elisabeth Olsen.

Also competing will be Kaya Scodelario and Aneurin Barnard in Francesca Gregorini’s “Emauel and the Truth About Fishes” (which Rooney Mara was originally slated to star in), “Fruitvale” with Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer, and “The Lifeguard” with Kristen Bell and Martin Starr.

There are sixteen titles in all competing for the US Dramatic Competition, including other films that feature Juno Temple, Scoot McNairy, Jonathon Groff, Corey Stoll and Alison Brie .

In recent years many of the Sundance award winners have gone to become Oscar contenders (“Junebug”, “Frozen River”, “Winters Bone“), with this year’s big awards hopeful “Beasts of the Southern Wild” premiering at Sundance 2012 and going on to win at the Cannes Film Festival as well.

Take a look below the cut for further information on all the entries to this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Which do you think we’ll still be talking about this time next year?

Watch: First trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s “Side Effects” starring Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum

November 2, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos Leave a comment

There’s a lot going on in the first trailer released for Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller “Side Effects” (formerly “Bitter Pill”), starring Rooney Mara as a troubled young woman who turns to pills to deal with her husband’s (Channing Tatum) release from prison. Add in Jude Law as her therapist with whom she may or may not be having an inappropriate relationship, a murder mystery, some courtroom drama and it all adds up to something pretty intriguing.

“Side Effects”, which marks Mara’s first film since earning an Oscar nomination for her role as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and is Tatum’s third collaboration with Soderbergh following “Haywire” and “Magic Mike”, will be released on February 8th, 2013 and the first trailer can now be viewed below.

Paul Dano and Rooney Mara out, Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning in for indie thriller “Night Moves”

August 13, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

There will be no “Meek’s Cutoff” reunion after all. After nearly a year, Kelly Reichardt’s eco-terrorist thriller “Night Moves” is getting a bit of a cast makeover as it moves closer to production. Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Dano had been set to play the two male leads, while Rooney Mara was circling the female lead, but now Variety reports Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning will be taking over the roles vacated by Dano and Mara.

The trio of actors will play a group of eco-terrorists who plot to blow up a dam. Eisenberg will be the ringleader, Fanning the rich young girl who funds the project, and Sarsgaard the mastermind behind the plan. Sarsgaard spoke last year of his character’s motivations: “I can understand how my character gets to the point of wanting to blow up a dam. I never want to do this, but I can understand how someone can want to do that. We have a gun pointed to our planet. We see that the demonstrations are not working because they are being tackled with pepper [spray]… so you get the radical movement. I can understand that.” Production is scheduled to begin in October in Oregon.

Eisenberg has stayed busy since getting his first Oscar nomination in David Fincher’s 2010 masterpiece “The Social Network.” After a double dose of indies in “Why Stop Now” and “Free Samples”, Eisenberg starred in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” follow-up, “To Rome With Love”, opposite Ellen Page. He’s currently filming “The Double”, a comedy based on Dostoyevsky’s novella, opposite Mia Wasikowska and will also soon be seen in magician heist thriller “Now You See Me” with Dave Franco. Fanning is currently filming coming-of-age drama “Very Good Girls” opposite Elizabeth Olsen and has wrapped on indies “Now Is Good” (which showed at Cannes and which we didn’t really care for) and “The Motel Life.” She’ll also have one last appearance as vampire villainous Jane in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2″, out in November.

Olivia Wilde joins Spike Jonze’s untitled film opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Rooney Mara

May 30, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

Where does she find the time?! In demand actress Olivia Wilde – who we seem to be writing casting stories for every other day – has landed yet another intriguing project. Deadline reports that Wilde is now part of the cast of Spike Jonze’s next untitled offering, which already boasts a cast that consists of Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara and Samantha Morton.

Mara replaced Carey Mulligan a couple of months ago on the highly secretive project that’s purported to revolve around a man (presumably Phoenix) who falls in love with the voice of a computer, ala iPhone’s Siri. Plot details beyond that are sparse and it’s unclear who any of the amazing female supporting cast will be playing, though we do know Jonze wrote the script himself and this is an entirely separate project from the one he is also working on with a script by Charlie Kaufman. Filming is expected to begin soon.

Wilde recently wrapped up filming on Ron Howard’s Formula One biopic “Rush” opposite Chris Hemsworth and is now onto “Better Living Through Chemistry” opposite Sam Rockwell in a role she took over from Jennifer Garner. Upcoming juggling acts will consist of indie comedies “Relanxious” and “Squirrels to the Nuts”, both with Brie Larson, and anthology-style romantic drama “Third Person” opposite Liam Neeson. That’s to say nothing of the movies she’s already completed and will be seeing audiences soon, which include “People Like Us”, “Deadfall”, “Burt Wonderstone”, “The Longest Week” and “The Words.” PHEW!

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