With The Twilight Saga: New Moon having set box-office records this past weekend, the vampire romance and pop-culture powerhouse cannot be ignored.
Prior to the release of the original Twilight last year, the biggest role Twilight/New Moon star Robert Pattinson had scored was a bit part in a Harry Pottter movie. It’s now a little over a year later and Pattinson is one of the biggest stars on the planet, facing hype an hysteria everywhere he goes. Even though he has become one of the most sought after young actors in Hollywood, the young Englishman is just as humble and self-effacing as he was before Twilight transformed his life last October.
Taking time out of his ridiculously busy schedule, Rob sat down to talk about what it’s like to get paid for romance, who would win in a fight between a vampire and a werewolf, who would win in a fight between him and co-star Taylor Lautner, whether fame has changed him in the past year, how he keeps his personal life private, and those rumours about his alleged impending fatherhood.
Plus: this week in home video, after the jump.
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To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the release of Fight Club, one of the most provocative major motion pictures of the past decade, the savagely witty Guy Movie Hall of Fame winner (Spike TV) is finally making it’s debut on Blu-ray — with the blood and bruises looking more brutal in 1080dpi than they did on the big screen and packed with a ton of original and new bonus features. In our own homage to this classic man’s movie, I opened up my Top Secret files on Tyler Durden and the Fight Club to resurrect my October 1999 interview with Brad Pitt, who offered up his thoughts on his soon-to-be-released cinematic legend that would hit theaters a couple of weeks later. You’ll find that interview, plus this week in home video, after the jump.
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After starring in two romantic comedies earlier this year — The Proposal and All About Steve — Hollywood acting vet Sandra Bullock has shifted artistic gears for her latest film The Blind Side, with her portrayal of the real-life, well-to-do, white, Memphis housewife who took in a homeless, black teenager, made him a part of her four-member family, encouraged him to attend college and helped him to secure a spot on the roster of one of the hottest NFL teams on the gridiron.
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In naughty romantic comedy The Ugly Truth, part-time film goddess (Knocked Up & 27 Dresses) and full-time TV star (Grey’s Anatomy) Katherine Heigl, teamed up with 300 and RockNRolla Scot Gerard Butler for director Robert Luketic’s look at the war between the sexes. Heigl is Abby Richter, a romantically-challenged morning show producer and Butler is a chauvinistic news correspondent, Mike Chadway; determined to prove that she’s not romantically challenged, Abby takes Mike’s advice during a promising new romance, with amusingly unexpected results. The Ugly Truth is filled with fake orgasms, sexy Jell-O Twins and politically incorrect gags.
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November 5-14, Toronto: Here’s the challenge I am giving myself: to write about the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, which examines how issues of mental illness and addiction are represented onscreen, without using the words crazy, nuts, daft, demented, sick, cuckoo, barmy, tetched, mental, psycho, berserk, bonkers, cracked, delirious, schizo, out to lunch, or wig out.
The festival, now in its 17th year and is put together by Workman Arts, a not-for-profit arts organization that works out of Toronto’s Centre of Mental Health and Addiction, presents more than a dozen screenings over its nine days, along with panel discussions, and even an evening of comedy. The full schedule is here. Last night’s opening night gala was sold out, but there are still tickets left for other events.
Missing it would be… ah, disappointing.
According to Denzel Washington, one of the lead men of the remake of the 1974 suspense classic, director Tony Scott’s new interpretation of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, the only things the films really have in common is that that they are about a hostage situation, they take place in NYC and the action and adventure all occur in the Big Apple subway underground. “It’s not really a remake,” two-time Oscar winner Washington explains, “it’s more of a reinterpretation.”
You’ll find an interview with Washington, plus this week in home video, all after the jump.
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After the (FTL) jump, Battlestar Galatica (BSG) series regulars Grace Park, Tricia Helfer, Michael Trucco, Jamie Bamber, Tahmoh Penikett and Katee Sackhoff discuss the making of the new DVD and Blu-ray release Battlestar Galatica: The Plan, their feelings about leaving the galaxy of BSG for good, what it was like playing Cylons, and the possibility of a BSG feature film.
(Plus: this week in home video.)
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The Cove, if you haven’t seen it – and you probably haven’t, since the documentary seems not to be doing so well in theatres, despite being as gripping and watchable as a Bourne movie – concerns the efforts of a group of environmentalists, led by former dolphin trainer, now dolphin liberator Ric O’Barry to document the slaughter of dolphins in a well-protected cove in a small village in Japan.
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Simply put, Megan Fox is hot property in Tinsel Town and for moviegoers around the world. Fox’s seeming overnight success, brought on by the worldwide success of the Transformers cinematic franchise — director Michael Bay’s live-action adaptations of the cartoon series about battling skyscraper-sized robots who can mutate into anything mechanical — has transformed the down-to-earth actress into a sizzling tabloid cover girl and international sensation. This success of this summer’s film phenomenon Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (or TR2) has reinforced the beauty’s star power. Fox chats with Earl Dittman after the jump. (Plus: this week in home video)
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In The Proposal, Sandra Bullock portrays Margaret, a cruel, take-no-prisoners publishing house boss who constantly terrorizes her underlings — especially her overworked, ambitious assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds). Although there are plans for her to score a hefty promotion, when it’s discovered the Canadian-born Margaret’s work visa is about to expire, she has to do some quick thinking of she’ll be back flipping burgers in the Canadian wilds. Even though she treats Andrew like crap, Margaret talks him into a marriage of convenience — he agrees in exchange for his own promotion. When a nosy immigration officer throws a wrench in the works, Margaret and Andrew demonstrate their “devotion” by heading to Alaska to celebrate the 90th birthday of Andrew’s grandmother (Betty White) and his screwball family. Check out our interview with both Reynolds and Bullock (plus: this week in home video) after the jump.
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