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Leading Man: Tahar Rahim Keeps Busy
Posted on06. Mar, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Rising international thespian Tahar Rahim is quickly filling up his dance card. The star of “A Prophet” has been hand-picked by German director Fatih Akin for the leading role in “The Cut,” the conclusion of an acclaimed trilogy that includes “Head-On” (2005) and “The Edge of Heaven” (2007). “While ‘Head-On’ dealt with romance and ‘Edge [...]
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Bad Behavior: Lawsuits, Trash-Talk and Scandals
Posted on20. Feb, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Celebrity Buzz surrounding rising star Chris Pine but his former agents aren’t happy with him and have filed suit alleging improprieties. The producer of film starring Antonio Banderas is alleged to have committed forgery in order to drum up the necessary funding. And good ol’ Charlie Sheen is still throwing bombs. What’s in the water in [...]
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Keeping Up With Jean Dujardin
Posted on14. Feb, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Celebrity Buzz: It’s not easy keeping up with Jean Dujardin these days. The French matinee idol has been flying back and forth across the globe doing press for “The Artist,” the black-and-white Valentine to silent movies is up for a clutch of Academy Awards later this month, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Dujardin’s schedule [...]
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Leading Man: Common is feeling the ‘LUV’
Posted on14. Feb, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Our Celebrity Buzz focuses on the performer Common enjoying a career renaissance lately outside of the spoken-word and rap circles that turned him into an underground icon more than two decades ago. On the silver screen, he’s the star of the forthcoming crime drama “LUV” that recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Common plays [...]
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That’s Nico Evers-Swindell In The Audi S7
Posted on06. Feb, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Super Bowl weekend is almost more famous for the commercials aired during its television broadcast than for the action on the gridiron. And those spots don’t come cheap: the average price for a 30-second spot this year was $3.5 million. Audi didn’t blow its budget on buying ad time; they also had some fun with [...]
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This Onscreen Partnership of Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum
Posted on31. Jan, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
In the annals of Hollywood there are director-actor teams that have become legend: Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro or Leonardo DiCaprio. Steven Soderbergh and… Channing Tatum? The Oscar-winning auteur and the former Abercrombie & Fitch model will have paired [...]
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Sundance Buzz: Filmmaker Mark Webber’s ‘The End of Love’
Posted on24. Jan, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah kicked off this week and one filmmaker is already making waves. Mark Webber’s achingly poignant drama “The End of Love” headlines Michael Cera and Amanda Seyfried opposite Webber himself, who also serves as writer and director. It’s about a single father wrestling with tragedy as he [...]
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We Love Anthony Mackie And Here’s Why
Posted on19. Jan, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
He’s one of Hollywood’s best and brightest young actors, with a string of critically acclaimed roles under his belt, lots of celebrity buzz, as well as the mentorship of Hollywood’s top filmmakers. Anthony Mackie was a scene-stealer in the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker” and now he’s a “Man on a Ledge.” Technically, it is costar [...]
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Movie Awards: 2011 Year of the ‘Artist’
Posted on16. Jan, 2012 by Ben Scuglia.
Last night’s Golden Globes winners confirmed that frustrated movie lovers should not stop advocating for quality filmmaking and serious, entertaining stories for grown-ups. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out chunks of hardware to “The Descendants,” a story of a distant father fighting to reconnect with his children and keep the family going after a [...]
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