Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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Fifty Shades whips US box office
from BBC News - Entertainment & Arts
New Trailer For Spring Online
Nadia Hilker has an unusual condition
Following a healthy life on the festival circuit, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's dark romance Spring is finally approcahing its general release. With that in mind, here's a new trailer, in which Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker begin their unusual Italian dalliance. See if it's the kind of crazy you can deal with.
Spring sees Pucci (Evil Dead) as Evan, who takes a head-clearing trip to Europe following some personal drama. There he meets Hilker's Louise and persists in winning her over, despite her misgivings about getting into a relationship thanks to a rare condition she's suffering.
The trailer teases the information that Evan can't see Louise in the daytime and that she seems to start smoking in direct light (and not in the cigarette sense). But if you think what's going on is obvious, we'd suggest you keep an open mind...
After several short films - including the 'Bonestorm' segment of VHS: Viral, Spring is Benson and Moorhead's feature debut. The pair are also among the producers, and Benson has the screenplay credit. It's out in the US on March 20, and a few weeks later in the UK on April 17.
from Empire News
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Louis Jourdan 1921-12015
Octopussy's Kamal Khan dies aged 93
He faced off against James Bond. He was Dracula on television, and he’s probably best known for his starring role in Gigi. Louis Jourdan, who enjoyed a long and varied career in films and TV, has died at the age of 93.
Born Louis Gendre in Marseille, he at first worked for his parents in the hotels they ran in the South of France, before heading to Paris to study theatre. He got an early screen role in 1939 in Le Corsaire, but the film went unfinished because of the encroaching World War II. During the conflict and the German occupation of his home, Jourdan and his parents were involved with the resistance movement, though he also found time to appear in several movies that saw the projector’s light after the occupation ended. David O. Selznick saw his work there, and signed him to a contract that found him travelling to Hollywood to appear in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case in 1947. Despite a seemingly auspicious start, his career struggled early on and in 1950, Selznick sold his contract to Darryl F. Zanuck, fore whom he continued to work for several years.
His big break finally arrived in 1958 with the movie musical Gigi that had him as playboy Gaston, the man who falls for Leslie Caron’s title character. Though it would help make him a star, he didn’t like the role’s stereotypical exploration of French charmers. “That ooh-la-la, conventional, embarrassing character," he told the Associated Press in 1965. "I'm proud to be a Frenchman, but I resent the image people have of the stupid, continental charmer. Against that type of role I fight pitilessly."
Despite his regrets, the film helped boost his profile and he went on to appear in a variety of movies such as The V.I.P.s, Young Rebel, Swamp Thing and the 1983 Bond outing Octopussy, playing the villainous Kamal Khan opposite Roger Moore’s 007. His final film role was in 1992’s Year Of The Comet. On TV, he notched up a variety of roles on shows including Columbo, Charlie’s Angels, Vega$ and Hotel, and played Count Dracula for a 1978 BBC TV movie.
He married his wife Berthe in 1946 and the pair enjoyed a quiet, longstanding marriage until she died last year. Their happiness was only marred by the tragic death of their son, Louis Jr., from a dug overdose in 1981. Jourdan, who received the French Legion Of Honor in 2010, died after a long period of illness, at his home in Beverly Hills on Saturday. “Very sad to hear Louis Jourdan has died,” Moore wrote on Twitter. “Many happy memories of filming Octopussy together.”
from Empire News
Diane Kruger Finds The Infiltrator
Co-starring with Bryan Cranston
With Bryan Cranston and Lincoln Lawyer director Brad Furman locked in to reunite for a new thriller called The Infiltrator, they’ve now found someone to co-star with the artist formerly known as Walter White. Inglorious Basterds’ Diane Kruger is that someone.
Adapted by Ellen Brown Furman from customs and excise agent Robert Mazur’s autobiography, the film will find Cranston as Mazur, who must investigate dodgy dealings by going undercover as a man named Bob Musella. There’s no word on what part Kruger will be playing in the film, but she’s snatched the second lead role.
While Furman had hoped to be rolling the cameras last month, it appears he’ll have to wait a little longer to get cracking on this one, with shooting set to start shortly.
Kruger, most recently seen here as an alien in The Host, has several films in the works including Fathers And Daughters, Close Protection and Sky. She’s also attached to Penelope Cruz’ new drama, This Man, This Woman.
from Empire News
New Releases on Netflix - St. Vincent
With his parents preoccupied with their divorce, lonely 12-year-old Oliver strikes up a friendship with his war-veteran neighbor Vincent. A hard-drinking gambler with a fondness for hookers, Vincent finds his life changed by the boy's presence.
from New Releases This Week