The trailer with Viggo Mortensen as John Halder in Good
Just as the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie, readies for release, indie distributor THINKFilm prepares to release Good, which stars Viggo Mortensen as John Halder, a decent individual with family problems. He has a neurotic wife (Jodie Whittaker), two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances ….
Smokin Aces prequel ramps up and gets director
I thought Smokin’ Aces was a complex and somewhat engaging contract killer crime movie. It came and went, but didn’t move many cinephiles enough to turn it into a cult gangland film…or even a DVD keeper really. While the box office was also somewhat disappointing, obviously someone at Universal believes enough in the film to ….
First photos from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds surface
JoBlo has posted two of the first stills from Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming war epic Inglourious Basterds. The attached pic features Pitt sporting a nifty little moustache, playing Lt. Aldo Raine, who leads the “Basterds”. He’s a Jew from the mountains of Tennessee, that is known to the German army as Aldo the Apache. The “Basterds” ….
66th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations announced
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Revolutionary Road and Slumdog Millionaire, were nominated for best drama, during the reading of nods for the 66th annual Golden Globes. In the comedy or musical category, best picture nominees are Mamma Mia!, Burn After Reading, Happy-Go-Lucky, In Bruges and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Meryl Streep ….
Last Samurai star to topline aviation disaster story
Variety reports that Last Samurai star Ken Watanabe will star in the Japanese production Shizumanu taiyo, a.k.a. The Sun That Doesn’t Set, a film to be based on the story of a 1985 plane crash that caused 520 deaths, the most in Japanese airline history. Watanabe is attached to play the head of an airline ….