BAFTA Red Carpet Interview- Beau Willimon – Writer, The Ides of March

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Here’s Beau Willimon talking about The Ides of March from the red carpet at last nights BAFTA Awards. (see all our BAFTA coverage including the full winners list and other interviews here). How does it feel to be a BAFTA nominee? ‘It feels thrilling. It feels like a miracle the movie made it from the [...]

The 2012 BAFTA Award Winners List

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So there we have it. The 2012 BAFTA Awards have now drawn to a close. The Artist had an amazing night taking seven awards including that of the award for Best Film. Michel Hazanavicius’s black and white silent film also took awards for Best Actor, Original Music, Cinematography, Costume Design, Original Screenplay, Best Director and [...]

Hollywood Unhinged – Will Ferrell and the Tears of Oscar

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Feeling sorry for Will Ferrell and why Oscar prefers crying to a good belly laugh I feel a little sorry for Will Ferrell. No, it’s not the succession of box-office hits, the staggering star salary or the house in the Hollywood hills that’s probably quite spacious with a pretty decent-sized garage. Because let’s face it, [...]

Multiple A-List Guests Confirmed for the 2012 BAFTA Awards

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UPDATE – We blog the awards here LIVE! BAFTA have just announced the list of people who will be attending the 2012 BAFTA Awards this Sunday and it’s rather an impressive list. I’ve placed the full press release below but in a nutshell, those attending include: Receiving Awards in alphabetical order: Adam Deacon, Bérénice Bejo, [...]

David Yates and Emma Watson Re-Team for Your Voice in My Head

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David Yates and Emma Watson, who worked together on the last four Harry Potter instalments, are set to reunite for Your Voice in My Head. Written by Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head centres on a young woman (Watson) who attempts suicide before being saved by a New York-based psychiatrist who’s dying of cancer. It is [...]

The Box-Office – The Cloons Pulls in the Crowds but Is Pipped To The Post by War Horse

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It’s been a more successful week than I thought. But only just. There’s been highs (The Descendants), lows (Like Crazy) and The Grey did so okay for itself that I’ll hardly mention it throughout. Yes it’s been an entirely average week at the box-office, so set your sights low and read on, because d’you know [...]

Exclusive Extended Featurette: George Clooney & Director Alexander Payne Talk The Descendants

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We’ve been given this absolutely fantastic extended featurette which is simply George Clooney and Director Alexander Payne talking about The Descendants but it’s so much more than that as they touch on their own experiences on movies and some of their favourite actors and experiences in their own careers. The featurettes 12 minute featurette focuses [...]

Exclusive Interview: Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants

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Author Kaui Hart Hemming has seen her highly-praised debut novel The Descendants turned into an equally celebrated (and now potential multiple Oscar-winning) Hollywood picture. The story of a workaholic father in Hawaii who is forced to take the emotional reins following a tragic incident in his family, the material was powerful enough to coax Sideways [...]

The Descendants Review

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Director Alexander Payne returns to the big screen (after an almost eight-year absence) with a somewhat unexpectedly gentle comedy-drama which is free from the biting satire and humorous cynicism which characterised his earlier work, and offers his most heart-felt feature to date. George Clooney is Matt King, a work-obsessed lawyer from a prominent and successful [...]

George Clooney Is All Smiles In New Poster For The Descendants

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Hotly tipped to go to the Oscars next month, we’ve got only a few days left before Alexander Payne’s The Descendants comes to cinemas here in the UK. We got the first trailer for the film back in May last year, and it’s been something to look forward to ever since. The beautiful first poster [...]

Fantastic New Clip And Two Featurettes For Alexander Payne’s The Descendants With George Clooney

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It’s been a little while since we last saw something from George Clooney’s The Descendants, but it certainly hasn’t dropped off the radar, and it’s one of the films I’m most looking forward to seeing next year. With George Clooney’s The Ides of March having now its release, making a fantastic impression, we can now [...]

Exclusive Interview with Evan Rachel Wood on The Ides of March

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Last week, I got to chat with writer of The The Ides of March, Beau Willimon and one of the cast members, Evan Rachel Wood about playing the role of Molly Stearns in the movie which is released tomorrow, Friday 28th October. I’ve broken the two interviews and if you missed my interview with Beau, [...]

Exclusive Interview with Writer of The Ides of March – Beau Willimon

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Last week, I got to chat with writer of The The Ides of March, Beau Willimon and one of the cast members, Evan Rachel Wood about playing the role of Molly Stearns in the movie which is released this Friday 28th October. I’ve broken the two interviews into two posts and today you’ll get to [...]

Ben Affleck Will Make a ‘Stand’ Before Possibly Reteaming With Damon

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Ben Affleck competes for the title of Hollywood’s most in demand director with two big gigs in the works, one featuring his old Good Will Hunting buddy, and another which marks quite a departure from his previous work. Collider are reporting that the duo may reteam (it hasn’t been officially announced as yet) in a [...]

Win From Dusk Till Dawn on Blu-ray

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Ahead of Halloween, Lions Gate Home Entertainment have given us classic 1996 horror movie, From Dusk Till Dawn to give away to three lucky winners. The movie is available to buy now but we want to give you the chance to win one! The film stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest [...]

The Ides of March UK Premiere Footage and Interviews

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Last night, London saw the UK Premiere at the London Film Festival for the brand new Geroge Clooney movie, The Ides of March. Clooney not only stars in the movie but co-wrote the screenplay along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon who I got to sit down with and interview earlier today. The film sees [...]

The Ides of March Review

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Based on the 2008 play Farragut North, The Ides of March is a political thriller that explores the back-room dealings, manipulations and power plays of a Democratic Primary campaign in Ohio viewed through the eyes of an idealistic press spokesman. Along the way he finds his life complicated first by an illicit meeting with a [...]

George Clooney’s The Ides of March Gets Three Fantastic New Clips

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We got a brilliant first clip and a terrific new poster for George Clooney’s upcoming The Ides of March late last month, following on from the awesome UK quad poster that was released a week earlier. Three more fantastic new clips from the film have been released, courtesy of Collider, and they give another great [...]

George Clooney Needs His Daughter’s Help In New Clip From The Descendants

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We saw the first trailer and poster for one of Alexander Payne’s next directorial effort, The Descendants, back in May, and they were both absolutely fantastic. Then last week we got the first clip from the film, in which George Clooney met his daughter’s boyfriend for the first time, and this has now been followed up [...]

New Clip Of George Clooney In The Descendants Meeting His Daughter’s Boyfriend

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The last things of we saw for one of George Clooney’s next projects, The Descendants, was back in May when we got a fantastic first poster followed by the film’s first trailer. The Playlist have got a new clip from the film ahead of its screening at Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, before we [...]