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Junket Report: 'The Wolfman' Actors - Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving, and Emily Blunt
Filed under: Horror », Universal », Interviews », Remakes and Sequels »
With a howl and a snarl, The Wolfman loses a space (from 1941's The Wolf Man) and gains a lot of bombast. Plus, look, it's in color now! You can read Cinematical's review of the movie, or you can hear about it from the actors and filmmakers themselves. We spoke to Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt, and you can find out what they had to say about working on the film after the jump.
One thing that surprised me was Del Toro's love of Castle films and Aurora plastic models, which pegs him into the same horror movie lover that I was when I grew up. Hopkins was as feisty as a bear and ready to chop your legs off, Weaving was deliberate and methodical in his answers, just like Agent Smith, and Emily Blunt is pretty darned adorable, even though you expect Miranda Priestly to pop in at any moment and scream at her. Check it out after the jump.
Review: The Wolfman
Filed under: New Releases », Universal », Theatrical Reviews », New in Theaters »
There are two things I appreciate right out of the gate in regards to director Joe Johnston's remake of The Wolfman. One, I'm a sucker for gothic horror, so I'm open-minded to pretty much any period piece monster movie. Two, it's been many moons since we've seen a mainstream horror film starring actual adults and not the usual central casting assortment of reality TV-quality teenyboppers. For those two things, kudos. Maybe it's that little bit of goodwill that kept me from hating The Wolfman outright. It's the kind of relentlessly-paced junk that moves so fast and looks so cool that you barely have any time to process how empty it all is before the end credits roll. It truly is a modern spin on a classic, in almost all of the worst ways.
Benicio Del Toro, as American stage actor Lawrence Talbot, returns to his ancestral estate of Blackmoor upon hearing of the death of his brother, Ben, at the hands of some kind of giant beast. Talbot strikes an almost immediate connection with his late brother's fiancee, Gwen (Emily Blunt), but clashes with his weirdo father (Anthony Hopkins) in the wake of his brother's death, re-opening long-buried childhood wounds concerning his mother's apparent suicide. It's immediately clear from the moment Hopkins appears on screen that he's hiding something -- something dark and not-so-mysterious -- and it's the most significant new element in screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self's reworking of the 1941 classic Universal film. The Ben Talbot murder also attracts the attention of London's Inspector Abberline (Hugo Weaving, having more fun than anyone else in the film) who travels to the countryside to find out for himself if there's a lunatic on the moor or a creature far more sinister.
The Movieman's Oscar Nomination Predictions: Actor/Actress
Filed under: Awards », Oscar Watch »
The supporting actors and actresses have been broken down. Percentages are pretty high on at least eight of the ten predicted to be announced next Tuesday morning. With ten more available acting slots, there are potentially 17 performances in the running to grab them. Good luck to all of them since it has practically been decided who the winners will be already.
THE LOCKS
Since 1998, every winner of the Screen Actors Guild Awards have been nominated for an Oscar. That makes things pretty easy, don't it? Congratulations to Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) on their impending nominations. As with all, we will examine their chances to win the Oscar at a later date. Plenty of time for that. Since 2001, there have been 33 leading men and women who have been nominated from the following five groups: The BFCA, the Golden Globes, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Screen Actors Guild and the BAFTAs. All 33 were nominated for an Oscar. This year there are five that fall into that illustrious category. One of them being Bridges. The other four are George Clooney (Up In The Air), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
THE LOCKS
Since 1998, every winner of the Screen Actors Guild Awards have been nominated for an Oscar. That makes things pretty easy, don't it? Congratulations to Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) on their impending nominations. As with all, we will examine their chances to win the Oscar at a later date. Plenty of time for that. Since 2001, there have been 33 leading men and women who have been nominated from the following five groups: The BFCA, the Golden Globes, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Screen Actors Guild and the BAFTAs. All 33 were nominated for an Oscar. This year there are five that fall into that illustrious category. One of them being Bridges. The other four are George Clooney (Up In The Air), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Review: The Young Victoria
Filed under: Drama », New Releases », Theatrical Reviews »
We know Queen Victoria as the stern, round-faced widow who ruled Britain -- the woman who became Queen at the age of 18 and reigned for an impressive 63 years. Peeling that image away, French-Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee shows us a wholly different side of the Queen in The Young Victoria. Choosing to linger on Victoria's early years rife with isolation and manipulation, Vallee reveals the young woman who came to rise above her environment to become one of the most notable figures in the British monarchy. It's an angle that almost works beautifully, but ultimately falls victim to poor framing and the throes of dramatic romance.
Emily Blunt's Victoria rests at the center of a pulsing web of power struggles. Her mother (the Duchess of Kent, played by Miranda Richardson) is the puppet of her companion, Sir John Conroy (Mark Strong). Together, they struggle to keep control over the young girl, and to keep her from King William IV (Jim Broadbent), who, in turn, publicly loathes the Duchess. The Duchess' brother, meanwhile -- Leopold I of Belgium (Thomas Kretschmann) -- is determined for Victoria to marry the young Albert (Rupert Friend). To make it even more complicated, Lord Melbourne (Paul Bettany) comes into play, charming his way to a position as Victoria's trusted advisor while the young Albert struggles to not only win Victoria's heart, but also stop Melbourne's influence.
Exclusive: 'The Wolfman' Poster Premiere!
Filed under: Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Universal », Fandom », Posters »
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Cinematical has just received this exclusive new poster for The Wolfman, due in theaters February 12, 2010. As you can tell from above, this latest bit of marketing for the Joe Johnston directed resurrection of Universal's classic shows off the gentler side of the moon-fearing creature feature. It's a simple image of Emily Blunt, who plays Benicio del Toro's romantic interest in the film, hiding with baited breath behind a tree in the mist-filled forest from del Toro's titular man cursed with an ancient affliction.
What works so great about the poster, other than the fact that Emily Blunt is always easy on the eyes (and even easier on the eyes when in a corset), is how it denies us a glimpse of the actual lycanthrope at the center of the movie. I find it a testament to how fantastic the character of the wolfman is that no amount of beauty is going to distract us from wanting to catch a look at the doomed soul who loses control of himself whenever the moon is full.
In addition to this poster, Ain't It Cool News has debuted a second Wolfman poster a little later on today, so make sure to hop on over there to catch another insight into the mystical, Victorian world brought to life by the likes of Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, and Anthony Hopkins. After that, you may return to staring at the wonderful Emily Blunt, longing for February 12th to somehow get here sooner.
Check out the latest Wolfman trailer after the jump, and view the full poster by clicking the image below.
Gallery: 'The Wolfman' Poster
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Emily Blunt Joins Russell Brand in 'Get Him to the Greek'
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Universal », RumorMonger », Remakes and Sequels »
So I guess Emily Blunt missed out on the chance to torment Tony Stark, but that doesn't mean she hasn't been keeping busy. The British actress already has three productions lined up for the coming year, and the latest addition to her schedule has now surfaced over at Moviehole. According to sources, during an interview with a local Australian radio show, British comedian Russell Brand told them that Blunt was already committed to be his female co-star in Get Him to the Greek with Jonah Hill. According to Brand (via Moviehole) Blunt will be playing a fellow musician, and that she may even perform a duet with the great Aldous Snow (aka Brand) -- might I suggest a 'Do Something' remix? Blunt only has a few musical credits to her name, but you never know, maybe her former flame, Michael Buble, gave her some pointers.Greek is a sequel of sorts to the 2008 romantic comedy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Brand is reprising his role of Aldous Snow, a bed-hopping and socially clueless rock star, and the story will pick up with Snow who has since lapsed back into his druggie ways. Hill will play a young insurance adjuster who has been given the seemingly impossible task of getting the out of control celeb to a gig at L.A's Greek Theater.
UPDATE: Blunt's publicist and Universal have come forward to say that this casting rumor is not true, so says EW.
Review: Sunshine Cleaning
Filed under: New Releases », Theatrical Reviews »
(We're reposting this review from Sundance to coincide with the film's theatrical release this weekend)
By: Kim Voynar
It's not a bad idea for an indie film: Two sisters, still dealing as adults with the aftermath of their mother's suicide when they were children, are stuck in dead-end jobs. Then one of them gets the idea to stop cleaning rich people's houses for a living, and to start a business cleaning up crime scenes instead. That's the basic idea behind Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin.
Adams plays Rose, head cheerleader back in the glory days of high school, now stuck raising her son Oscar (Jason Spevack) alone. Rose cleans houses for a living, a job she's not crazy about, and she's having an affair with her high school boyfriend, Mac (Steve Zahn), who likes Rose enough to have sex on the side, but not enough to leave his wife for her. Her sister Norah (Blunt) lives with their father Joe (Arkin), who's always got a scheme going for finally getting rich. When Oscar keeps getting in trouble in school, Rose decides she needs to make more money so she can put him in private school, and cleaning houses for a living isn't going to get her there.
Geek Daily: Suicide Squad, Marvel's 9 Deals, and More Wolverine Grappling
Filed under: Action », Casting », Deals », Warner Brothers », RumorMonger », 20th Century Fox », Newsstand », Movie Marketing », Comic/Superhero/Geek », Remakes and Sequels », Images »
Warner Bros is ramping up yet another DC property, according to Variety. Producer Dan Lin is setting up Suicide Squad as a potential franchise, with Justin Marks penning the initial screenplay. The series centers on supervillains both great and small, who are recruited by the government to serve as expendable agents on missions too dangerous for superheroes. What Variety doesn't say is which villains will be used, so it's difficult to say how cool or crappy this could be. It's also hard to get too excited about yet another DC property when so many of them are stuck in endless pre-production. (Ok, so we do have a date on The Green Lantern -- but without a Green Lantern, it's kind of uninspiring, isn't it?) We're definitely on a supervillain trend now, though, aren't we? And just think ... people said it wouldn't work!
CHUD is reporting that Samuel L. Jackson's nine picture deal is a sign of things to come, and that this is Marvel's new contractual item. You can expect similar deals in the future -- you can kind of imagine which characters might be locked down in perpetual servitude. Apparently, this may have been one of the issues that prevented Emily Blunt from signing to Iron Man 2.
Finally, there's a new X-Men Origins: Wolverine photo from Stark Industries, featuring more Sabretooth and Wolverine going claw to claw, muttonchop to muttonchop:
CHUD is reporting that Samuel L. Jackson's nine picture deal is a sign of things to come, and that this is Marvel's new contractual item. You can expect similar deals in the future -- you can kind of imagine which characters might be locked down in perpetual servitude. Apparently, this may have been one of the issues that prevented Emily Blunt from signing to Iron Man 2.
Finally, there's a new X-Men Origins: Wolverine photo from Stark Industries, featuring more Sabretooth and Wolverine going claw to claw, muttonchop to muttonchop:
Emily Blunt Officially Out For 'Iron Man 2'?
Filed under: Action », Casting », Paramount », RumorMonger », Celebrities and Controversy », 20th Century Fox », Comic/Superhero/Geek », Remakes and Sequels »
If you believe the post-Oscars party talk, it's official: Emily Blunt is out as the Black Widow. According to The Playlist, Jon Favreau was cornered by E! at an aftershow party, and confirmed that Fox had exercised its option on Blunt, and pinned her into Guilliver's Travels. Now, given that there's so little finalized on Iron Man 2, I think it's very possible that Blunt could still pop in. As it stands now, the cast consists of one Robert Downey Jr., Sam Rockwell, and Don Cheadle. Even Gwyneth Paltrow told MTV News has no idea if she's returning as Pepper Potts. They haven't even given me a script yet. They don't tell me anything. I could be, like, a costume assistant in it. I know nothing."
But, if Mickey Rourke decides to sign once and for all, they could have it before cameras pretty quickly, and that means they would need a new actress. Let's just hope that Favreau & Co aren't lured by the curves that are Scarlett Johansson, and either accept Eliza Dushku's very public offer (she can speak Russian, and she'd be better than Johansson) or wait around until Blunt can return. I'd prefer the latter. I mean, Favreau always did think that April 2010 release date was unrealistic.
'Iron Man 2' Rumor: If Not Blunt, What About Johansson?
Filed under: Casting », RumorMonger », Comic/Superhero/Geek », Remakes and Sequels »
In an ideal world, I would want to see a fiery Russian play Black Widow in the upcoming Iron Man 2, but this is Hollywood, and nationality usually has little to do with casting. So, the spotlight turned to the UK, and the talented Emily Blunt became the IT-girl. However, there's also this little project called Gulliver's Travels, and the Jack Black-led little project might force Blunt to back out of the sequel. Who could possibly take her place? According to Entertainment Weekly, it could be Scarlett Johansson, who has been in talks to take on the role.
Either the casting Powers That Be took the stupid pills, or this rumor is very false. (Or, they talked to her just to appease her interest.) By now, it's fairly obvious that big names + big talent is what makes these superhero projects so successful, and Johansson certainly hasn't made a "big talent" name for herself. Superstar presence, yes. Woman with acting chops ... not so much. After the mess surrounding Terrence Howard (a man with much more cred), you'd think they'd be even more picky than usual.
Therefore, in light of this news, you might want to start helping Marvel find a suitable replacement, or hope that these projects don't interfere. I'd imagine there's a good chance for the latter (production on Gulliver's starts on April 15, but Iron Man 2 doesn't even have a shooting script yet), but it's better to be safe than ScarJo sorry. Share your casting ideas below!
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