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Video Game Voice Acting Isn't a Crime
Filed under: Fandom », Tech Stuff », Home Entertainment »
It wasn't until fairly recently that voice acting in video games was done by either no-name actors trying to pay the bills or B- and C-list actors who were, well, also trying to pay the bills. The Command and Conquer games began employing a mixed bag of actors in its 1999 iteration, Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun, when they managed to snag Luke Skywalker's big daddy James Earl Jones, but otherwise continued casting random character actors like Udo Kier and Barry Corbin in future games like Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.
Grand Theft Auto III changed the game, literally, with its roster of recognizable names and voices like Joe Pantoliano, Michael Madsen, Michael Rapaport, Debi Mazar, and Kyle MacLachlan all playing parts in the free-for-all crime cape that make Rockstar Games just that. With GTA III's massive sales and buzz (particularly from angry parents), the scene was set for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which boasted an over-the-top cast particularly appealing to its target audience: Dennis Hopper, Danny Trejo, Gary Busey, Lee Majors, Debbie Harry, Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, and Jenna Jameson, just to name a few.
Interview: 'Year One' Director Harold Ramis
Filed under: Comedy », Sony », Fandom », New in Theaters », Interviews », Summer Movies »
Harold Ramis is the comedy writer and director everyone's cribbed from, from Sandler to Apatow. After leaving "Second City TV," Ramis went on to write, direct, and occasionally star in comedic touchstones like Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Groundhog Day, and of course, Ghostbusters, which have starred a slew of loveable losers fighting to get their sh*t together in the army, on the golf course, or in the middle of a war with supernatural beings. After taking a few years off, Ramis is taking it back to the beginning with this summer's Year One, which stars Jack Black and Michael Cera as loveable loser cavemen who, when Black's Zed accidentally burns down the village, find themselves in the middle of a very familiar holy war. Read on and find out what the big daddy of buddy movies had to say about evolution and self-improvement, male full frontal nudity and the lack thereof, and what the heck is up with Ghostbusters 3.
Year One opens nationwide this Friday, June 19th.
Cinematical: How much more stressful is it to deal with marketing a summer blockbuster and competing with the other movies that are out?
Harold Ramis: You know, it's the same level of stress every time you make a movie, because you've pinned all your hopes and dreams on it and you've fantasized what success will be like, but at the time you can't escape fantasizing what failure will be like. [laughs]
I conceived this movie on a big scale, to do a Biblical epic comedy. I knew it was ambitious and when the studio said "Yes, we'll do it," and it became real, I thought, "Oh my God!" [laughs] It's one thing to fail small, but to make a big movie that doesn't work is so risky.
More Dushku Details for 'Valediction'
Filed under: Casting », Fandom »
MTV's Hollywood Crush got the details behind Eliza Dushku's Tweets about filming a new project in Boston directly from the star herself. The Dollhouse lead is currently in Beantown for Valediction, a thriller about a man who finds himself in the middle of a hot freaking mess. He and his wife have a young daughter who is "seemingly in a coma, but [they learn] she's actually alive and fully living out in her brain, but is just in this locked-in state... So he's trying to have his daughter wake up from this traumatic experience," according to Dushku. Also? The car accident is his fault.Ben Barnes, Prince Caspian himself, plays Josh, the utterly confused lead, and Sarah Roemer is his wife. Dushku is the wild card, Renee, with whom he once had an affair and is just one of the catalysts for Josh's inner turmoil.
"[Josh] sort of meets up with Renee and wonders what would have happened if he went that route. It really is about his struggle both with these women in his life and then with his daughter who's been injured... It turns into a really psychological chaos," Dushku told MTV.
Dushku's TV show Dollhouse was (thankfully!) renewed by Fox, and the multi-talented star is also producing a biopic about Robert Mapplethorpe, The Perfect Moment.
Who Should Be in the New Generation of 'Ghostbusters 3'?
Filed under: Comedy », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Casting », RumorMonger », Fandom », Remakes and Sequels »
Rocky, Rambo, Indy, all of the old icons are making their way to the big screen, and as we know, our favorite ghostbusters are hoping to head in that same direction. But rather than just jumping into the action, we learned back in March that this Ghostbusters sequel would have the old pros handing over the reigns and mentoring a new batch of ghost fighters. Now if Dan Aykroyd has his say, this will mean creating a larger new core team that will finally increase the female ghost-fighting power.
While talking with the LA Times about the particulars of the third film (he says Sigourney Weaver is in, as are the ectoplasmic specialists, and that he wants Harold Ramis to direct), Aykroyd said that he's pulling for a "new generation" ghostbusting team. This one would have five members, at least a few of whom are women. Specifically, he's hoping for Alyssa Milano (who lent her voice to the new game), and Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku. "I think they're amazing."
I get the feeling that they're trying to go for a more sleek ghosbusting feel, rather than simple comedy. Neither actress is a big name in the world of laughs, and both have their feet firmly planted in the supernatural fighting biz. So this becomes a bittersweet yay: women are entering the flock, but will we see some of that classic comedy go out the window as the story gets modernized? I like it when things get a little more slick, but please -- not too slick.
Are these the two women you'd like to see fighting the ghosts? Or, would you wish for a more comedic bent with someone like, say, Tina Fey? Who should be the lady ghostbusters?
Let's Talk About: Allure's Weird Naked Celeb Spread
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy », Fandom », Images »
Check it out: Allure magazine asked hundreds of celebrities to pose naked for a random "It'll help your career, we promise!" photo shoot, and the five who actually said yes thankfully happened to be in phenomenal shape, weighing 115 pounds soaking wet. Then they had the nerve to ask them how they felt about their bodies ("well, you know, I'd like to weigh 112 -- but thems the breaks"), whether they sleep naked and a bunch of other meaningless questions -- when all they should've done is posted the images with a headline that read: "The Economy + Smaller Budget = Five Nude Celebrity Photos. Enjoy!Look, I'm a guy who occasionally likes to look at beautiful women. I can't help it, God apparently thought this would be something I might enjoy as I grew older. But this Allure spread, well ... it just reeks of desperation on the magazine's part. The difference between this and a Playboy spread is that these five women (Padme Lakshmi, Eliza Dushku, Chelsea Handler, Sharon Leal and Lynn Collins) probably made it past the seventh grade. Sure, times are tough -- budget cuts and layoffs are all around us -- but does the answer to all our woes really come in the form of Eliza Dushku's birthday suit? Or should we feel better as a society because we now know that Dusku strips down to her underwear and Ugg boots while eating lunch in her trailer? Is this really the kind of material Jesus would've wanted us to read two days after Easter? Think about that!
Feel free to check out a few of these photos in the gallery below, but keep in mind they might be a little NSFW and they're incredibly tacky. Allure had some nerve posting these ...
Eliza Dushku Producing Mapplethorpe Biopic
Filed under: Drama », Deals », Sundance »
You probably wouldn't expect a fine art biopic from the gal best known as the bad girl on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but stranger things have happened at Sundance. Eliza Dushku (star of Joss Whedon's upcoming series, Dollhouse) recently announced to E! online that she would be co-producing a biopic of the acclaimed photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe. Dushku tells E, "Literally this week after quite some time, we finalized the deal with the Mapplethorpe estate,"Mapplethorpe earned fame in the 1970's when his portraits of his socialite friends earned the notice of the New York 'scene' -- some of you might even have some of his art and don't even know it; that is if you own a copy of Patti Smith's debut album. But for most of us the name of Mapplethorpe probably brings to mind his controversial later works. In the early 90's there was no more contested artist than Mapplethorpe, he was known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men -- and let's just say his nudes weren't for the 'faint of heart'. His work was a lightening rod for the debate on public funding for the arts and when Mapplethorpe displayed sexually explicit photographs that were supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, it caused an outcry over what exactly our tax dollars are supporting.
Dushku has already made a few in-roads to big-screen stardom, and some have been more successful than others. Maybe she has found her stride as a producer, and so like any good producer she already has her star in mind. The actress confirmed that her brother Nate would be playing the renowned photog. Dushku told E, "Nate physically has an uncanny resemblance to Robert, some pictures are really eerie" -- proving once again that in Hollywood, it really is who you know.
Review: Nobel Son
Filed under: Action », Comedy », Independent », Thrillers », Mystery & Suspense », Theatrical Reviews »
They say that the music makes the man.
Actually, no, They don't, but I do, and by "man," I mean "movie". And it isn't so much that the work of composer Paul Oakenfold single-handedly undoes Nobel Son but rather unwittingly serves an accomplice to creating one aggressively atonal crime caper. His thumping techno beats are more fitting for the likes of Swordfish -- indeed, they were at the time -- and maybe more so when accompanying a night of relentless thrusting and occasional pill-popping in Ye Local Nightclub, an activity of more potential enjoyment than sitting through this movie instead. Either way, you'd end up lots of noise, plenty of flash, and little to show for it other than a lasting headache and a lingering sense of regret.
Eliza Dushku Plus Macaulay Culkin Equals Group Orgy?
Filed under: Drama », Romance », Fandom », Movie Marketing », Trailers and Clips »
Hmmm, seems like this is a film to watch when you're home alone ... (Sorry, I had to make the joke. Had to!) Yes, in case you did not know, Macaulay Culkin and Eliza Dushku star in a film called Sex and Breakfast that's surprisingly already available on DVD here in the states and is currently screening at the Cannes Market in hopes of snagging some international buyers. Not only is it already available on DVD, but you can also skip the whole rental thingy and watch the entire film on YouTube over here. Oh, and that's the trailer above.
Now, based on the trailer, you'd think Sex and Breakfast was a hot, steamy low-budget indie flick featuring young, kinda-still-famous actors doing it all ... night ... long. And THEN having breakfast! Hot! Actually, the film follows two couples who, when difficulties arise in their relationships, visit a sex therapist who's into proscribing group sex to everyone ... or at least that's how Karina over at Spout remembers it. Okay, still hot -- we could do without the Culkin, but the Dushku-on-girl action (as promised in the trailer) is an interesting scenario. But then Karina goes and ruins the whole ending for us (spoiler warning!!): "The couples do finally get around to Doing It, but it's the most boring sex scene of all time, all above-the-shoulders shots of one swapped couple kissing intercut with the meaningful stares of the other couple from across the room." Bummer. But do they have breakfast??
Anyone actually rent this flick? Care to comment?
Eliza Dushku Works 'The Thacker Case'
Filed under: Independent », Casting », Mystery & Suspense », Scripts », Cinematical Indie »
Sometimes murder mysteries focus on innocent people who have had their lives ripped away, and sometimes they focus on people who have a lot of skeletons in their closet. This time around, it's the latter, and it's full of corrupt cops, booze, and mysterious death. The Hollywood Reporter has posted that the cast has come into place on an upcoming indie film, helmed by Brian Jun, called The Thacker Case. This is actually based on a true story of the 1983 wrongful death case of a man named Kevin Thacker -- one that was adapted by Robert Dean Klein, from a story by attorney Stuart Pepper. As THR describes it: "The story centers on around [sic] the mysterious death of repeat drunk driving offender Thacker, and the discovery of his body in an alley behind the Mashalltown, Iowa, police department after his latest DUI arrest."The players will be -- Eliza Dushku (Buffy), Gabriel Mann (The Bourne Supremacy), and John Savage (Carnivale). Mann is playing Pepper, the author of the original piece, who is "a young up-and-coming attorney who launches his career by landing the controversial case, which required him to wade through law enforcement corruption and cover-ups." Dushku is taking her arse-kicking down a touch and will be his loyal assistant, Monica Wright, and Savage will play Thacker's father, "who enlists the help of Pepper to discover the truth behind his son's death."
Production began this week in Los Angeles and Iowa, after a recent casting call. The specs are still online, so dip into the jump for some character particulars for the movie, courtesy of igotmuse. Warning: There are no big spoilers, but if you're touchy about details, refrain from jumping.
Dushku Learns the Alphabet
Filed under: Horror », Thrillers », Casting »
After spending years fighting evil, you finally face the First Evil, defeat him, send your town into an abyss, and then what? For one slayer, it's putting aside your evil-vanquishing roots in order to face some creepy Asian children. For the other chosen one, it's a little bit of everything. Eliza Dushku jumped from her time as Faith to a time-bending med student on TV, and now to a whole mess of films with a little laughter, a little screaming and a little psychosis -- the last of which comes from the upcoming thriller, The Alphabet Killer.Rob Schmidt, who last headed the feature Wrong Turn, will direct the murder mystery that is based on the real-life Alphabet Murders from Rochester, NY in the seventies. According to the official site, which is already online, the movie will follow Megan, a police investigator played by Dushku, who is up against her fiancé for head of the department. When a girl is raped and murdered and she can't solve it, her reality slips, she's institutionalized, and he takes the job. When back in the department, but working as a records clerk, she uses her pull to ride along with her ex-fiancé when more murders are committed. Obviously, this brings up old wounds and her mental health begins to slip.
The case remains unsolved, so Schmidt has some options on his plate for the ending. He can leave the case unsolved as it is, and focus on Megan and her psyche, or take The Black Dahlia route and come up with a fictional killer and ending. What would you rather have as the moviegoer? The slick wrap-up with no factual basis, or the never-resolved ending that's true to life?
[via JoBlo/ArrowInTheHead]
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