Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon Fall Into Mud

Two of Hollywood twangiest Rom-com stars for a couple of new drama. Director Jeff Nichols, announced today that it will consult with Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon to take root in his new film, mud, where McConaughey could play a role the charismatic face of an escape fleeing bounty hunters (shirtlessly?) With ' help of a teenager, so it can connect with the love of his life, Juniper (Witherspoon). It is a premise that could go either way, but Nichols only gangbusters at the Sundance thriller to take refuge, where volcanic Michael Shannon give a performance, so we are leaning toward optimism.

Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon Fall Into Mud

The Star Market: Will Planet of the Apes Help Cement Freida Pinto’s Rise?

Freida Pinto and Dev Patel both exploded in a big way when Slumdog Millionaire was an Oscar-winning sleeper hit back in 2008, but Pinto was able to fully exploit that moment: She lined up four new films, including Woody Allen with Islands and Julian Schnabel, and quickly became a staple fashion magazine. However, the beauty of Mumbai-born choose wisely? This weekend rise of Planet of the Apes will rep the highest level of the film Slumdog ago, and while the film is suddenly a wave of good reviews and buzz for his ecstatic motion capture performance by Andy Serkis, Pinto itself seems neglected. We decided to put the actress 26 years to the test by asking industry insiders to a simple question: If Freida Pinto was a part, would you buy, sell or hold?

Stock History: Pinto model, organized and studied drama in India before Slumdog happened. Outside of this film, she booked a supporting role in Woody Allen You will meet a man of your dreams, and then got a leader in the controversy Miral by Julian Schnabel. After the monkeys, who will continue his current foray into big-budget pictures with the interests of undying love in a fantastic Greek and Tarsem Singh is a Black Gold, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Michael Winterbottom Trishna at the tap.

Peers: Hollywood casting director team of his senior colleagues, such as Zoe Saldana (33), and Michelle Rodriguez (33), but is behind Rosario Dawson (32) and Jessica Alba (30).

Market Value: TBD. Slumdog was a huge success, which increased by nearly 400 million worldwide, but foreign and two underperformed Miral in limited release.

What Hollywood thinks: "I have not seen him do anything but stand there and look beautiful," said a bewildered agent we spoke to, while another added: "I do not know how great experience was so bad.'s Trailer the immortals, and if the best I could find, I am concerned. And like the great apes, the people you love, but I do not talk about it in the same. I do not care at all. "

"She and Dev Patel are good examples of people who have been overrated, and they were all" now "and not" the big picture, "says a publicist for the top." They were totally part of the Searchlight [Fox / Slumdog Millionaire] machine. He served the movie, obviously, but I'm not so sure they are served. If you want to be a movie star, Leave 'em wanting more. Instead, she was everywhere with that "We are very pleased to be here" thing. There was a kind of sweetness, but came through [the press] as shy and boring. "

Although the greatest film of Pinto is yet to come, a leading think she has already lost some of its buzz Slumdog "Woody Allen is a great gauge of the" IT Factor "with actresses, why he put You will meet on a large, dark Stranger, but it seems as if it were all these great roles for Slumdog, and they just never crystallized. It is not really hot on the list anymore. "

Still, the manager of this stretch to hope that it could easily exceed that Hollywood loves to pigeonhole it. "Character [Caroline Aranha monkeys] are not written at all for her, writing is not what you think when you see Frieda Pinto, so maybe you should continue to actively targeting where the movie isn 't an obvious part of him. Or maybe something unexpected, like the comedy of women. "

Analysis: Pinto is a difficult place in which he showed he can play more than a love interest of the eye-candy - and even more difficult because of their race, must be fair to play the love interest, too. This is how the odds are against: Comic-Con, Pinto said that Singh does not want to launch an Indian actress and leading lady of the Immortals, but Singh is himself one of the few Hollywood directors of India.

Yet, Pinto, managed to convince him, and he intends to be to prove that Hollywood has that burning desire, too. Halle Berry as before him, Pinto, must demonstrate that he is running more than meets the eye.

"The real question is driven," said the manager. "Does it rule? You think this would be the talent that informs the result for the client, but the real factor is almost always: "How bad they want? How hard they are willing to work? "It is almost never the talent or the air. I do not know what it entails."

"The party advertising is easy for her - you can always put it in a photoshoot in a beautiful dress - but the hardest is the material worth writing about," said publicist. "She needs to prove again, because I do not think people think of it as something beautiful right now Watch Charlize Theron and [Nicole] Kidman: They made it a point to push themselves - and their agents -.. . the perceived differently So I do think she needs to do something you do not look perfect '

One of the factors that we talked about Berry made the comparison even more explicit in his Pinto advice: "Go to Monster Ball-y-wood!"

Bottom Line: Although the great apes and Immortals of success, their success is not likely to be caused by Pinto, and even if Miral said it can be really works chops, was under and he had seen only half of the film Despite its leading role. You can skip to the next stage in Hollywood, Pinto is a fight film, which is only slender shoulders, and then he must deliver.

The Star Market: Will Planet of the Apes Help Cement Freida Pinto’s Rise?

Chace Crawford Boards South African Murder Drama

Are you mocking Chace Crawford dramatic in good faith, when you can see, it was as a leader in efforts Gossip Girl Drama Emmy? Maybe this will convince you that it is serious: LAT reports that Crawford will be a South African man charged with the murder of the Gun House, which stars Pierce Brosnan as his father. The funding is still working in the film, but my fingers are crossed, especially as we look forward to hearing the accent.

Chace Crawford Boards South African Murder Drama

The Coen Brothers Are Working on a Movie With ‘Quite a Bit of Live Music’

At the opening of the Film Society of Lincoln Center a new facility on Friday, Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers liked True Grit, some details slip in his next project while talking on stage with director Noah Baumbach. "You work in a movie now has a bit of music on it," said Baumbach, apparently aware of certain information confirmed Ethan Coen:. "Yes, it will be mostly live, think," said Joel said. "We are working on a film that has music on it now, but that's all done live instrument, unique," he said. Details remain sketchy, but here are some other things. "Ethan suggested that his new film was" a bit like Margot at the Wedding, "Baumbach 2007 film," reports Indiewire later, Joel said: "In the stories come with us, write to someone specific, but I have to say, the [music-related] What we do now, not written specifically for either party, which is unusual for us.

"Indiewire, considers it" a new project, "but not the first Coen Brothers film is rumored that they will not mature.

The Coen Brothers Are Working on a Movie With ‘Quite a Bit of Live Music’

Navy SEALs Movie Starring Navy SEALs Officially Announced

As first reported Vautour, Relativity Media publishes a film about Navy SEALs, featuring real Navy SEALs. The film scripted, bravery, was officially announced Sunday, and the studio is a 2012 release date target. Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh will direct and Kurt Johnstad (300) wrote the script. Bravery following a platoon on a mission to recover a CIA abducted and take the terrorists. The filmmakers had "unprecedented access shipbuilding," according to a press release, and the film will feature fight sequences composed of real events in the lives of men in the film.

Navy SEALs Movie Starring Navy SEALs Officially Announced

Downey Jr., Favreau Raise Iron Man 3 Red Flags

It is said that Jon Favreau was so frustrated by the attempt by Marvel to promote cross over The Iron Man 2 The Avengers, he refused to direct the third film, but Favreau showed no hard feelings, which appear alongside Robert Downey Jr. in a screening of two films Iron Man last weekend. "The most difficult to three Iron Man Jon Favreau will be to negotiate a job," Downey Jr. joked Festival Hero Complex in Los Angeles. "It will be huge, and I will see that they pay." Yet, although Favreau has passed the reins to Shane Black, he reiterated that the Iron Man 3, may be hampered by the insistence of Tony Stark Marvel push on duty with his other heroes this summer for The Avengers. "I think in the comics, you can say it's an individual story, and you can break into a group. But in the film, it is difficult not to see What Just Happened, "said Favreau.

"What you say?" [The other superhero] all just lost his cell phone and can not get help? So it will take much ingenuity to make sense of a film of the general public audience and an audience of comics.

Downey Jr., Favreau Raise Iron Man 3 Red Flags

SNL Vet Melanie Hutsell on Her Surprise Appearance in Bridesmaids

Melanie Hutsell was mostly MIA since the nineties early adoption on Saturday Night Live (where he is best known as Jan Brady and Tori Spelling), his career took her daughter, Carly, was born. So it was a pleasant surprise when he arrived on the screen bridesmaid Kristen Wiig is also a partner in the tennis scene - too bad she did not say a word, is not that what the mind. "It's a small part," Hutsell said, "but I am very grateful to be part of a good movie." The mother of two has a surprisingly strong accent (she was born in Marysville, California, which is why a murderer can print Paula Deen), and spoke with Vulture about the difficulties of a career post-BN, and Jane Lynch is your personal style with the value of patience of the show.

How did you end up in the bridesmaids?

I had a small role in an episode of [the TV series 2009] In the Motherhood. Was one of the authors who wrote Annie Mumolo bridesmaids with Kristen Wiig. We had a great time on set, and when I left, she was like, I really want to work with you again. Cut to a year later, I decided to return to Saturday Night Live to see a show, we went to see Betty White. It was incredible to see someone of his age still rock, it made me realize that it is a long life. Everybody in their career has ups and downs. It made me feel inspired. I met Kristen weekend and it was so easy to bond with her. It is one of those people you feel you've known forever. Two weeks later my agent called me and said if you can prove that Judd Apatow, you can play tennis, you have a role in his new film. Nancy Carell, Steve Carell's wife is also in the scene. We shot for two days, and Kristin and I improvised the hell out of him. All he was cut.

Wiig and Maya Rudolph in a moment of the show, where women were more powerful, while your time is known as a children's club.

The older group was to make the show and ready to move, like Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman. In nature, if their lives were sweet and kind and generous. Then there was another group, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, Chris Farley. Those guys were fighting for their work on the show and were really in the future and want to trace their plans. This is a competitive mentality. [And] then there was the girls! Where we fall into this picture of these two groups of children? I loved these guys and I knew that I loved, but sometimes I felt like I was a younger sister, did not want around. And there was no way for me to know that sitting on the power. No one knew what the future, and that would make Adam Sandler movies all the time. I was 23 years old and just happy to be there.

His co-stars Ellen Cleghorn was wonderful and disappeared.

I totally agree with you. I thought about it so much over the years, I do not know where she is. I really do not know, and it's sad. A great source of inspiration for me, Jane Lynch, I've known for twenty years. We were in [Chicago plays] The Real Life Brady Bunch together, and she played Mrs. Brady, and we had so much fun on stage. She came to my house after my daughter was born, and she was down and worried about his career. My mother said, "You just have to keep going and keep going." It was one of those moments I will never forget. I swear a few months later, his career took off. So my mother and I take full credit ! You get so close and want to throw in the towel and something will happen. I'm working on a pilot now called Waffle Hut with [bridesmaids'] Wendy McLendon Mo Collins and [Mad TV], and we develop our own characters. And I made a video for Funny or Die I'm so excited.

Have you stopped to work hard to raise children, or if it were forced to?

When I was at SNL, I was not married and I was not in a relationship. It has always been a disappointment for me, I had nobody to share it with. Meeting in New York was a nightmare. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was ready to settle down and find the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I found him three days after moving here. Many women are able to pull to have a family and keep their careers. I'm not one of those people.

She cried a lot and say things like, "Sorry, I'm bad, I had a meatloaf sandwich this morning," and "I just had my ovaries removed last week, is love!" Said would be in the DVD extras.

I play a middle-aged woman in an aerobics class, and she does the exercises changed and everyone has a rock hard body.

SNL Vet Melanie Hutsell on Her Surprise Appearance in Bridesmaids

Why Is Midnight in Paris Such a Huge Hit?

Woody Allen 42 Midnight in Paris, the film goes into wide release today and is ready to be director of a bigger box office hit in recent decades. After opening as a monster in six theaters in a few weeks ago, Paris has always created a sensation even greater by the oral route, and should exceed $ 23 million and the Grosses Vicky Cristina Barcelona, ​​Match Point as soon as (1986 reference points, and Allen's Hannah and her sister, who took 40,000. $ 000, could find his record under siege, too). The experts are also whispers that the Owen Wilson comedy to mark the end of the year Oscar nods. Needless to say that the film has exceeded almost everyone's expectations in such a short period of time, so we ask: why? What's in this film by Woody Allen, who has hit a nerve with the public?

Why Is Midnight in Paris Such a Huge Hit?

Russell Crowe, Possessor of 'Many Jewish Friends,' Tweets Against Circumcision

It's a good day for celebrities to make statements that offend morality, and then apologize for them! First Tracy Morgan, now Russell Crowe: The burly Australian sent a series of tweets protest circumcision, gloriously crowned with "many Jewish friends, I love my Jewish friends, I love apples and honey and funny little hats but stop cutting the babies a year. eliroth @ "He said, Eli Roth, because they are Pals (Roth RZA produced kung fu movie, the man with the iron fist, where Crowe is shown), and Roth quickly jumped to his defense: "@ russellcrowe is an extraordinary person -. people take a joke for me on Twitter and use it as an excuse to defame a good man" for the record, it does not seem that someone one says that the real opinions on circumcision Crowe was a joke, just the way they presented abrupt. Later, Crowe said: "My personal beliefs aside, I am aware that some will interpret this discussion I enjoyed the rituals and traditions of others.

I am very sorry, "Let's finish this in a moment of reconciliation. Apples with honey, so beautiful, right?

Russell Crowe, Possessor of 'Many Jewish Friends,' Tweets Against Circumcision

How Much Will Super 8’s Box Office Affect Original Movies? Less Than You’d Think

In the race to date, published by Super 8, there was plenty of hand wringing about the possibilities films for the weekend gross, with experts wonder if Paramount not to do-show-too-long campaign counterproductive. When the box office figures will start coming in one day, but expect handshakes continues, albeit in a different number of game: What is the Super 8 is Grosses represents the future of the original films in the studio? Before you even know the size of the JJ Abrams film opens, we're pretty sure they already meet the new question: 'do not really mean much.

It was always difficult to get a big-budget summer tentpole done when it is based on an original property, and although the Super 8 is successful, it will not change. However, an A-list director like Abrams - or Christopher Nolan, whose first movement of the needle on this debate much longer than the Super 8 could ever hope - can still get his original property, which is green if the budget and the package is quite attractive. Of course, the Super 8 bombs, managers may be wary of the next track Abrams, costing $ 200 million, without a clear hook, but if he projected the image of less than $ 50 million and had a great star that is not dedicated leadership of the city that would not compete for the rub.

In addition, hopes are riding on Super 8 because it was only the "original film" are misplaced. It is true that this season is full of comic book movies and suites but also loaded with original comedy, including the bridesmaids successful recent and upcoming movies stupid Crazy Love, Bad Master, 30 minutes or less, Larry Crowne , horrible bosses, and friends with benefits. (An unusual R-rated comedies are also due to the benefits provided by former Hangover.) When it moves in line to complain that Super 8 is a hope of the year of origin, their bias in favor of big-budget science fiction is the color of your perception.

If you are concerned about the lack of original film studios, in fact, there are two genres that could really use your concern: the entertainment and theater. Over the past decade, was animated blockbuster efforts almost always inspired by an original concept, through the pioneering spirit creative at Pixar. But now the Shrek series is no longer an outlier oversequelized and Pixar, Dreamworks and the rest has become a genre once known for its originality in a different way to the incubation franchise. At least they still make these movies, but: In the meantime, original dramas all but disappeared. JJ Abrams will be well into the Super 8, and everyone would be happy to meet with him to his next project - unless he decides to travel with a Super 8 film emotional textures, but not foreigners. Although critics have said that they would have preferred a straight line to the hybrid film, sometimes clumsy Abrams fact, there is no doubt that today's market, an original drama is the most difficult to sell , yes.

How Much Will Super 8’s Box Office Affect Original Movies? Less Than You’d Think

Adam Scott Joins the Rogen-Streisand Comedy My Mother’s Curse

Adam Scott will soon have a collection of odd little stories to tell. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Parks recreation and actress joined Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand road-trip movie curse of my mother during her break, where he will also act in indie See Girl Run opposite Robin Tunney. He will not kiss Amy Poehler in both films, but feel free to gossip, either.

Adam Scott Joins the Rogen-Streisand Comedy My Mother’s Curse

James McAvoy Falls Into Trance

Danny Boyle has just released an inverse Mystique! Oscar winning director originally set his sights on X-Men: First Class Michael Fassbender star in new movie line the back of his trance, but now that negotiations have failed, Boyle has sided with James McAvoy, rather - a lateral movement of the new Professor X. Magneto new McAvoy will play a lead singer whose art heist gets complicated when a key member of your team is amnesia. It might be useful for you too, to forget all about this new film promises, and future tasks of Boyle as creative director of the opening ceremony of Olympic Games in London will prevent up to a press Trance "in 2013.

James McAvoy Falls Into Trance

John Lasseter on the New Oscar Rules and Directing Cars 2 on His iPad

The first installment of Cars Pixar raked in nearly $ 250 million at the box office when it was published in 2006 - a great trip by any measure, but not enough in the stratosphere, for example, Finding Nemo or up. Since then, however, the franchise has grown exponentially in popularity and has become a major unexpected economic Disney making a staggering $ 2 billion of goods each year. Cars will be two this weekend to keep the rhythm crazy? We talked to its director, head of Pixar honcho John Lasseter, this is how the franchise has become such a successful show.

At what point did you realize that the cars of the franchise has become a phenomenon?

Yes, he did something that made the history of cinema, and it did not fit one of the business center. Typically, a film that will be the biggest year is out, and you can measure how strong the franchise is a drop-off sale of DVD products. If he is to take a long time to lose, you have a strong franchise, but the car actually has grown in popularity over the years - a dramatic, too! He has sold more than $ 10 billion of products and a DVD since it came out. E ', like, crazy.

It is amazing to me.

Even in places where the film was right when it came out, now is a giant. I think it's really exciting to see the little guys wearing a Lightning McQueen T-shirt, or see the cars rolling suitcase in the airport stuff like that. It 'really fun, because you know the signs mean a lot to them. That's why I do what I do know that these signs have a place in the hearts of these families.

What is it like to lead and guide in the studio, at the same time?

And 'difficult. Demands on your schedule is challenging. When you look at what I do ... I am the creative director of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Toon Studios, and are the main creative consultant Walt Disney Imagineering, where I go there and help build rides and attractions and shows. Each of these is full time, and then for more, I directed the film, which is more than a full-time job.

So how do you do all this and not go crazy?

One way that I could not keep up with all these other projects, the iPad. You know, the iPad has changed my life! Steve Jobs is like a brother to me, and he is one of the founders of Pixar, and when the iPad the first time, I got one now. I started loading some, iPad, photographs and drawings and art department stuff in two cars, and driving home, I had to go through this stuff. Then, supervising technical director for 2 cars, Apurva Shah, wrote an iPad Special Review application only instrument called me where I can watch a video and photos. I live about an hour away by Pixar, have started to run down my reservation when I got a ride with a friend, and I want to sit down and work on the car this iPad. Hours of viewing time in my iPad accounted for about three hours of review time for study - it was incredibly powerful. And now, all the business units work with all their own iPads. I'm just a big guy, so I enjoyed it so much.

I read that you have taken in 3-D images of your wedding. How it works

I picked up the 3-D cameras, and I have this beautiful old Kodak 3-D camera, which was in the fifties. It uses 35 mm film, but you can send a couple of places where to put the slides, and you can look through these 3-D viewers. We do not have that many, just because it's fun for me. I love photography in 3-D, I think it's wild. In 1989, we made a Pixar short Knick Knack called 3-D, although there was a 3-D theaters to see it, so I have always been enthusiastic about the three dimensions of the worlds and characters. Explore the world because one eye closed, when we can open the other eye?

Pixar was off 3-D movies, long before the avatar is such a priority for most studies. I'm curious, with all that experience under your belt, what did you learn about what to do and what not to do with 3-D?

What we're trying to do the trick is easy to get something straight out of you. "Oh, watch out!" When executed, is to tell the story, and that's the way it calculates using 3-D to help draw the eye to something, and then another, then another.

Since they are the Academy of Management, I'd like to get Oscar to new rules began last week.

I think it's great. What we aspire to do is really keep the Oscar as relevant to today's audience can. Yes, I am very excited about it. This is to refine the best animated film category and a little more.

Why do you think needs to be refined? Certainly the experience of the ten candidates appears to have been a good thing for Pixar.

Well, I think that is going to be cool. What Bruce Davis said his research is that when you look at the past ten years, and to use a certain level of criteria, a number of years, it would be five candidates, but other years would have been six, seven, nine. Now, the rules reflect the quality of movies. We do not fill the slot for something that is worse just because we have an open slot.

John Lasseter on the New Oscar Rules and Directing Cars 2 on His iPad

How Michael Bay’s Underwear-Clad Transformers Actress Proved Herself

What is the North from the famous Northwest crop dust the scene would look like if Michael Bay had directed? Perhaps it should be noted first harrowing encounter with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Michael Bay, the man who throws at the end to replace Megan Fox Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The two first met in 2009 a number of Victoria 's Secret Commercial directed Bay, the Huntington-Whiteley has appeared in what he described as GQ as the "bra and panties and a big, billowing, black, floor-length dress and high heels. "

"I remember the first thing Michael told me - even before he came and asked me my name - was" Can you walk? And he looked at me like, 'What is this man talking about? Sure, I can walk. "And then he started telling me to get in the car, then took me -. I mean, honestly, I mean it was almost a kilometer in the desert, where n does not stop to think," This is a joke, right? "And I threw the car in the middle of the desert."

"And he said," OK, when you shout action, you must go! "And I suppose I could do it in stages. They screamed for action, and the car sped leave to set and I was like," Well, what should I do? " So I went all the way to where the camera was that took me - I would say a good 10, 12 minutes, and it was a track worthy Stomp - on the Salt Flats, it was like 100 degrees, it felt like fire. I remember going back and will not be impressed by all that I was pretty upset after; .. I think you can go, so "I just looked at Michael and he yesterday,"

How Michael Bay’s Underwear-Clad Transformers Actress Proved Herself