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Following the potentially game-changing Up in the Air, director Jason Reitman (admirably) returns to a smaller, indie-flavoured milieu, re-teaming with his Juno scribe Diablo Cody to bring another highly memorable female character to life, and in the process, managing to create his strongest work to date. We first catch thirty-something divorcee Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) [...]
Young Adult is definitely one of the lower-budget films I’m looking forward to most next year. The film sees director Jason Reitman teaming back up with writer Diablo Cody after their incredibly successful work on Juno together in 2007, which won Cody her Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and Reitman his first nomination for Best [...]
The trailer for Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, Higher Ground, has landed courtesy of Apple. The film – which stars Farmiga (Up In The Air) along with Joshua Leonard, John Hawkes, Dagmara Dominczyk and sister Taissa Farmiga – charts one woman’s search for her religious identity – an endeavour which takes up a large portion of her life. Picked up by [...]
Eric Bana (Star Trek), James Spader (Secretary), Ryan Phillippe (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Carla Gugino (Faster) have all signed on to star in By Virtue Fall. Writer Sheldon Turner, who received an Academy Award nomination for Jason Reitman’s acclaimed comedy-drama Up in the Air, will make his directorial debut with the buddy drama. By Virtue Fall centers on two [...]
Michael Mann seems to have settled on his next cinema feature, having chosen one of the possible projects he’s had in development for the last few months. He will be tackling the crime story Big Tuna, which is a biopic of Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo and his protégé who eventually replaced him, Sam Giancana. Mann [...]
Two of Hollywood’s most sought after stars, Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper (who were both up for Green Lantern at one point), are planning to team up in for an (as yet) untitled action-comedy. The film, written by Sheldon Turner who penned The Longest Yard, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and Up in the Air [...]
It was revealed last week that Jason Reitman was set to re-team with writer Diablo Cody for his next directorial effort, Young Adult; with Charlize Theron set to topline the cast. The Playlist are today speculating that Josh Brolin could star alongside Theron, in the role of her ex-high school boyfriend. Synopsis: Young Adult will centro on [...]
The biggest night in Hollywood is here and over the next few hours they’ll be tears, cheers and (hopefully) a few surprises as the 82nd Academy Awards are handed out. The sordid trudge up the red carpet has finished and I’m going to be blogging live as the winners are announced, you can have a [...]
Embedded below is a deleted scene from the Blu-Ray/DVD of Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, released in the US on March 9th. The deleted scene is a montage that focuses on the period in the film when Ryan (George Clooney) is grounded in Omaha following the implementation of Natalie’s (Anna Kendrick) new system which [...]
When it happened they came through (full list of nominations here) thick and fast, with no real surprises and a few disappointments in the mix. While this is mainly a publicity exercise there is some truly outstanding talent being honoured here, and there’s good news for Carey Mulligan who greatly impressed in An Education and [...]
After thirty minutes of Thank You For Smoking, i was sold on them. And that’s no mean feat – i’m asthmatic! Lighting up is a risk more to me than alot of other people. But that was the power of Eckhart’s first lead role. I watched Thank You For Smoking for the first time this [...]
Jason Reitman’s feature follow up to the Oscar Winning Juno is many things. Up In The Air is an indictment of the economic misfortunes and the erosive nature of corporate culture, it is a road movie populated by dysfunctional family members (who are not related), it is a love story in reverse peppered with distant [...]
That Twitter and Facebook have allowed us follow the movements of our favourite directors and actors is a sure sign that barriers are coming down between fans and their quarry, and while many of the Tweets are written by marketing teams licking their collective lips at the free publicity there are some who have truly [...]
It’s a slow news day today but to tide us over, The Londonist have posted a great arrangement of photos from the first week of the 53rd London Film Festival. You can view all our coverage and reviews from the festival here. They have photos of Emily Watson, Vera Farmiga, Emma Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Sophie [...]
Here’s the full theatrical trailer for one of the many movies that George Clooney has come out over the next few months, Up in the Air. It’s directed by Jason Reitman and also stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. It tells the story of a man who spends most of his life off the ground [...]
