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The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
The stars of several films being presented at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival made an appearance at the red carpet premieres.    
Stars of the Cohen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis: Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake and Oscar Isacc attend the premiere.   
Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen walked the red carpet for the Blood Ties premiere.  The film was directed by Marion’s husband Guillaume Canet.
Stars of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth attended the premiere of Jimmy P. 
Director Baz Luhrmann escorts his star, Carey Mulligan to the Cannes premiere of The Great Gatsby.  
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The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
The stars of several films being presented at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival made an appearance at the red carpet premieres.    
Stars of the Cohen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis: Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake and Oscar Isacc attend the premiere.   
Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen walked the red carpet for the Blood Ties premiere.  The film was directed by Marion’s husband Guillaume Canet.
Stars of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth attended the premiere of Jimmy P. 
Director Baz Luhrmann escorts his star, Carey Mulligan to the Cannes premiere of The Great Gatsby.  
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The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
The stars of several films being presented at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival made an appearance at the red carpet premieres.    
Stars of the Cohen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis: Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake and Oscar Isacc attend the premiere.   
Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen walked the red carpet for the Blood Ties premiere.  The film was directed by Marion’s husband Guillaume Canet.
Stars of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth attended the premiere of Jimmy P. 
Director Baz Luhrmann escorts his star, Carey Mulligan to the Cannes premiere of The Great Gatsby.  
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The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
The stars of several films being presented at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival made an appearance at the red carpet premieres.    
Stars of the Cohen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis: Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake and Oscar Isacc attend the premiere.   
Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen walked the red carpet for the Blood Ties premiere.  The film was directed by Marion’s husband Guillaume Canet.
Stars of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth attended the premiere of Jimmy P. 
Director Baz Luhrmann escorts his star, Carey Mulligan to the Cannes premiere of The Great Gatsby.  
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The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet

The stars of several films being presented at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival made an appearance at the red carpet premieres.    

Stars of the Cohen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis: Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake and Oscar Isacc attend the premiere.   

Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen walked the red carpet for the Blood Ties premiere.  The film was directed by Marion’s husband Guillaume Canet.

Stars of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth attended the premiere of Jimmy P. 

Director Baz Luhrmann escorts his star, Carey Mulligan to the Cannes premiere of The Great Gatsby.  

(Source: hollywoodreporter.com)

Jim Jarmusch’s Late Cannes Entry: Only Lovers Left Alive

Indie director, Jim Jarmusch is known for films such as  Broken Flowers and Coffee and Cigarettes.  His latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive was a last minute entry to the Cannes Film Festival competition.  The film stars Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers) as Adam and Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) as Eve.  They are centuries old lovers that are reunited.  The film also stars Mia Wasikowska (Lawless) as Ava, Eve’s wild uncontrollable younger sister; Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Into Darkness) is Ava’s boyfriend, Ian; and John Hurt (Harry Potter) is Marlowe. The film is described as a different take on the vampire genre.

Jim Jarmusch gave a statement about the film:

Only Lover Left Alive is an unconventional love story between a man and a woman, Adam and Eve. (My script was partially inspired by the last book published by Mark Twain: The Diaries of Adam and Eve — though no direct reference to the book is made other than the character’s names.) These two lovers are archetypal outsiders, classic bohemians, extremely intelligent and sophisticated — yet still in full possession of their animal instincts. They have traveled the world and experienced many remarkable things, always inhabiting the shadowed margins of society. And, like their own love story, their particular perspective on human history spans centuries — because they happen to be vampires.

But this is not your usual vampire story. Set in the very distinct cities of Detroit and Tangier, and taking place almost entirely at night, Adam and Eve must have human blood to survive. But they now live in the world of the 21st century where biting the neck of a stranger would be reckless and regressive — for survival, they must be certain the blood that sustains them is pure and free of disease or contamination. And, almost like shadows, they have learned long ago to deftly avoid the attention of any authorities. For our film, the vampire is a resonant metaphor — a way to frame the deeper intentions of the story. This is a love story, but also the story of two exceptional outsiders who, given their unusual circumstances, have a vast overview of human and natural history, including stunning achievements and tragic and brutal failures. Adam and Eve are themselves metaphors for the present state of human life — they are fragile and endangered, susceptible to natural forces, and to the shortsighted behavior of those in power.

The film piqued my interest because one- I am a fan of the vampire genre and am always looking for a refreshing take on it; two - I love the actors in the film: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska and Anton Yelchin.  

The first movie I have ever saw Tilda Swinton in was the 1992 film, Orlando that was based on the Virginia Woolf’s novel with the same name.  She was enigmatic as the androgynous title character.  I have enjoyed seeing everything she’s been in since then. She is an actress that can disappear completely into and inhabit her characters.  Her film roles are impressively diverse and it seems she can play any part even a male one.

The same can be said about Tom Hiddleston’s varying roles.  How deliciously dark was his Loki in The Avengers?  In the same year he appeared as Rachel Weisz’s rogish lover in The Deep Blue Sea and a courageous solider in War Horse.     

Michael Fassbender was originally considered for the role of Adam in Only Lovers Left Alive.  I think Tom Hiddleston is better fit playing a moody fatalistic vampire.  Tilda Swinton has such expressive eyes that she easily conveys morose.  

(Source: indiewire.com)

Finally, Images from Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmasters

I feel like I have been waiting forever for the highly anticipated Wong Kar Wai film, The Grandmasters to finally come out here in the states.  There hasn’t been many images from the film until now.  The melodically moody auteur hasn’t released a feature film since 2007’s My Blueberry Nights, his first Western film.

The Grandmasters stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai as martial-arts master Ip Man who trained Bruce Lee.  Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen, stars of Ang Lee’s 2000 martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger  also appear in the film.  

I have been a fan of  Wong Kar Wai’s films since the 1990’s Days of Being Wild.   He is, for me,  one of the best Chinese filmmakers of our time.  I still remember the breath taking shot of the Iguazu Waterfall in the 1997 film Happy Together.  Both films starred Tony Leung Chiu Wai and the late Leslie Cheung.  Tony has had a long collaboration with the legendary director.  He is the Depp to Wong Kar Wai’s Burton.   The actor also starred in two of Wong Kar Wai’s most acclaimed films, Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love.  The longing between the two lovers seen In the Mood for Love was palpable placed in the context of Wong Kar Wai’s visual brilliance and tone.  Lightening seemed to strike only once and the magic was lost when the director tried to revisit the story in 2046.  Besides In the Mood for Love, my other favorite film from Wong Kar Wai was the quiet film,  The Hand - one of three shorts in the 2004 Eros.  The film’s story was reminiscent of the longing and missed chances for love seen In the Mood for Love.  In The Hand, Chang Chen starred as the shy tailor’s assistant opposite Gong Li’s (Memoirs of a Geisha) aging prostitute.  

(Source: indiewire.com)

Ben Whishaw and Douglas Booth Appear in Clash Magazine Cannes Issue

Talented British actors Ben Whishaw and Douglas Booth are featured in the Cannes issue of Clash Magazine.

The first time I saw Ben Whishaw was in the 2008 film adaption of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.   He was memorably heartbreaking as the fragile and lost Sebastian Flyte opposite Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte and Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain.  He comes off as being both intense and quirky and his film roles seems to reflect that.    

Last year, he took on the iconic role of Q in the James Bond film Skyfall which was the fourth highest grossing film for 2012.  Ben will reprise the role in the twenty-fourth James Bond film due out in 2016.  

One of his break-out roles was starring as John Keats opposite Abbie Cornish’s Fanny Brawne in Jane Campion’s 2009 film, Bright Star.  The film followed the affair between the poet and his love until his untimely death at the age of 25.  Ben was also in the 2010 film adaption of Shakespere’s The Tempest.  In 2012, he appeared in the Wachowski sibling’s Cloud Atlas.  He is currently starring in the BBC series, The Hour.  

Douglas Booth’s classic chiseled face and pouty lips gives him an adrogynous look.  He has such a beautiful face that if he had lived in a time before film was invented, he would have been  immortalized in marble or paint.  The 20-year-old actor has appeared in several British television series and was featured in a Burberry campaign with young British stars like Emma Watson.  He will soon play Romeo opposite Hailee Steinfeld’s Juliet in the upcoming film adaption of Shakespere’s Romeo and Juliet.  

(Source: clashmusic.com)

Cillian Murphy: One Man Act

Cillian Murphy appeared in the 2012 Clash Magazine film issue in which he talked about appearing in the London stage production of his one-man show Misterman.   In the show, he played Thomas Magill, a man from a small Irish town who thinks he has a  connection with God.  

Cillian Murphy is fearless actor who has worked with an impressive group of talented directors.  The scene of Murphy alone in a deserted London for Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is the one haunting image that still sticks with me when thinking about that film.  His character of Timekeeper Raymond Leon was the only memorable thing about the 2012 film, In Time.  Would Wes Carven’s Red Eye have been as good without Murphy’s Jackson Ripper being so charming and sinister?   

Cillian Murphy elevates every film he appears in and gives an unforgettable performance regardless if he is the star or a supporting player.  It is confounding how the 36-year-old-actor with a an expressive boyish face easily vacillates between sweet and scary.  He can morph into a believably menacing character with just one intense look or smirk. 

His range of films are impressive for the diverse roles and mainstream/indie appeal: Christopher Nolan’s Inception and Batman: The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises; Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Sunshine; Wes Craven’s Red Eye, Ken Loach’s The Wind that Shakes the Barley; Disco Pigs and Breakfast on Pluto.    
He’s one of those actors I don’t necessarily seek out in films but once I take notice of him in a movie, I am hooked. 

(Source: clashmusic.com)

Brad Pitt Featured in Latest Issue of Esquire Magazine

Brad Pitt appears in the June/July issue of Esquire Magazine to promote his upcoming summer zombie flick, World War Z.

The 49-year-old actor was photographed by Max Vadukul and profiled by Tom Junod who also did a profile of Angelina Jolie for Esquire Magazine in 2007.  

Excerpt from article: 

“I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house… there’s constant chatter in our house, whether it’s giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it. I hate it when they’re gone. I hate it. Maybe it’s nice to be in a hotel room for a day – ‘Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.’ But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life.”

The power couple recently made headlines for Jolie’s op-ed in the New York Times in which she shared her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.  Pitt was by the side of his fiancee and mother of his six children for her entire treatment.  

“Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has.”  

Brad Pitt released a statement to the London Evening Standard regarding Jolie’s procedure.  

“Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie’s choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic. I thank our medical team for their care and focus.

“All I want for is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family.”

Early buzz for World War Z has been more negative than positive with some industry insiders drawing comparisons to the advance negative press for John Carter and Battleship which both did abysmally at the box office for a big-budget movie.  World War Z is adapted from a a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks.  

World War Z is set to open the Moscow Film Festival.  

(Source: esquire.com)

The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  
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The Bling Ring Debuts at The 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directed The Bling Ring.  The film is inspired by actual events and stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Isreal Broussard.  The film follows a group of fame-obsessed teens known as the “Hollywood Hills Burgelars” who used the internet to track celebrites in order to rob them.  

(Source: hollywoodreporter.com)

It’s Cannes Time
Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  
Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  
The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  
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It’s Cannes Time
Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  
Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  
The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  
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It’s Cannes Time
Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  
Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  
The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  
Zoom Info
It’s Cannes Time
Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  
Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  
The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  
Zoom Info
It’s Cannes Time
Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  
Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  
The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  
Zoom Info
It’s Cannes Time
Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  
Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  
The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  
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It’s Cannes Time

Director Francis Lawrence and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2013 Cannes Film Festival to promote the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy: Catching Fire.  

Francis Lawrence previously directed Like Water for Elephants.  Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth is back as her friend and potential suitor, Gale Hawthorne.  Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) joins the popular franchise after an extensive casting process in which he won the coveted part of Finnick Odair.

Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.  The story is set in a dystopian society where children are chosen and pitted against one another for survival, all in the guise of entertainment for the Capital.  

The film is set to open November 22, 2013.  

(Source: hollywoodreporter.com)

Aussie Stars James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel

Young Australian actors James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel star in Two Mothers opposite Naomi Watts and Robin Wright.  The story follows two best friends who live in a small seaside Australian town where they raise two sons who are also close friends.  Both women engage in affairs with each other’s sons and gives new meaning to the term, “mother fucker.”

In the film, Xavier Samuel’s character Ian is the one that initiates the affair with his best friend’s mother, Roz (Robin Wright) and falls deeply in love with her. 

The actors talked to Teen Vogue about filming in a small secluded seaside town, learning to surf, becoming fast friends and “floating.”

It was a beautiful film! Was it filmed in Australia?

James Frecheville: In Cedar Rocks, which is a seaside town. I think it’s got a resting population of about 28 people a year.”

XS: Yeah, it’s literally one of the kind of untouched places in Australia.”

JF: It’s about a four-hour drive north of the city.”

XS: It’s just a magical kind of place to work and stay. It’s great.”

For so many scenes, you guys are surfing together and you’re both great. Did you go to surf school?

XS: We told the director we could surf, so she sent along a secret video camera person to the beach to film us surfing, to see if we were actually good. She ended up watching the tapes and basically accused us of lying. That’s pretty much how we got to know each other—just out there learning to surf.”

JF: It was great. Our working week for a good part of our spring was flying out to Sydney and surfing Monday to Friday. then flying back for the weekend.”

XS: Pretty amazing gig.”

JF: And it was great because it really calcified a friendship between us.”

Where do you guys live now?

JF: ”We float.”

XS: ”The running joke is that we’re homeless. It’s just because Australia is so far away, you can’t really go back on the weekends. You end up spending some time in Sydney, and some time in L.A.”

JF: ”It’s also sort of what your year is looking like too. After I finished a job in America in the middle of last year, I just went back home and hung out there for six months.”

XS: ”It’s good to go back and refuel and process what’s been going on.”

Xavier Samuel is best known for his roles as Riley in Twilight: Eclipse and as Henry Wriothesley in Anonymous.  James Frecheville is best known for his role as Joshua “J” Cody in Animal Kingdom.  

Two Mothers will be in theaters August 2013.  

(Source: GQ)

Peter Facinelli: He Only Plays a Doctor 

The 40-year-old New York native Peter Facinelli is best known for playing Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the mega successful Twilight Saga franchise.  

Peter attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.   He started his career appearing in Six Feet Under, the acclaimed HBO series created by Alan Ball of True Blood fame.  He also appeared in the FX legal thriller, Damages that starred Academy Award nominated actress Glenn Close.  

Peter currently stars opposite Edie Falco of Sopranos fame in the Showtime comedy, Nurse Jackie that is about a drug addicted nurse with heart.    Peter is hilarious as Dr. Fitch Cooper, a handsome ER doctor who has a variation of Tourette’s Syndrome where he grabs women’s boobs.   Coop also goes out of his way to try to be well liked by the staff at All Saints.  


(Source: bellomag.com)

Colin Egglesfiled Stars in the Lifetime Guilty Pleasure, The Client List

Colin Egglesfield is a 40-year-old actor who hails from Illinois.  He started off in the long-running daytime soap opera, All My Children.  The soap also boast Transformer’s Josh Duhamel as an alumni.  He later appeared on the short-lived CW reboot of Melrose Place.  

Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson played tug-of-war with Colin in the 2011 release,  Something Borrowed.

 Colin can currently be seen in the Lifetime series, The Client List where he stars alongside what Entertainment Weekly deemed the perennial guilty pleasure, Jennifer Love Hewitt.  In the series, he plays Evan Parks who is in-love with his sister-in-law, Riley (Jennifer Love Hewitt).  Evan’s brother, Kyle (Brian Hallisay) leaves Riley who has to resort to working at a “spa” that gives more than massages to support her two children.    

(Source: bellomag.com)

About Time: New Sci-fi Rom-com by Love Actually Writer-Director Richard Curtis

If you loved the ensemble holiday rom-com Love Actually from British writer-director Richard Curtis, then About Time is the movie for you.

In About Time, Domhnall Gleeson’s (Bill Weasley from Harry Potter) character Tim discovers after a talk with his father played by the wonderful Bill Nighy in which his father reveals the men in his family has the ability to travel back in time.  All he has to do is go in a dark place and think about the point in time he wants to go back to.

Tim finds this skill has its benefits when he finds himself going back to relive the moments with his love, Mary played by no-stranger-to-time-traveling movies, Rachel McAdams.  Tim goes back to the first moments when he meets Mary, to their wedding and the birth of their child.  Time travel doesn’t come without a price and his attempt to fix a tragedy in his life leads to a butterfly effect that causes him to erase his life with Mary.  

(Source: hollywoodreporter.com)

Ezra Miller: Queer and Proud

There’s  something so introspective and raw in Ezra Miller’s acting that makes him wiser than his chronological age.  He came out last year and refers to himself as “queer” instead of gay.  He was interviewed by Out Magazine and The Advocate where he discussed the label he chose to refer to his sexual orientation.  He seems very comfortable in his own skin for someone so young.  He will be lauded as being brave for coming out in an industry that seems to punish actors for being open about their sexual orientation; with many actors choosing to stay “in the closet” rather than risk jeopardizing their careers.  Wouldn’t it be nice if every young actor could be as candid as Ezra Miller for something that is as natural as breathing.  

The 19-year-old actor, Ezra Miller won acclaim for his roles in the 2011 drama We Need to Talk About Kevin and last year’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  

In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ezra played the title role of Kevin and starred alongside Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) as his mother trying to come to terms with her son and the murders he commits.  

Ezra starred with Emma Watson (Harry Potter) and Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson).  In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, he played Patrick, a gay high school student involved in a secret relationship with one of the school’s football players.  

He was the highlight of the 2010 dramedy, Every Day.  Ezra played Jonah, the gay son of stars Liev Schreiber’s Ned and Helen Hunt’s Jeannie.  He had a memorable make out session with equally hunky Tilky Jones.

Highlights from his interview with Out Magazine:

“I’m queer,” he says, simply. “I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. I am very much in love with no one in particular. I’ve been trying to figure out relationships, you know? I don’t know if it’s responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don’t think we’re ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that’s what you’re supposed to be looking for. Then [when] we find what we think is love — even if it is love — we do not yet have the tools. I do feel that it’s possible to be at this age unintentionally hurtful, just by being irresponsible — which is fine. I’m super down with being irresponsible. I’m just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people. That’s where I’m at in the boyfriend/girlfriend/zefriend type of question.”

Miller explains that he was mocked as a kid for having a speech impediment. Then he had a life-changing experience. “I was trying to kiss boys in school,” he says, and then the best friend he fooled around with turned on him. “He had some macho realization that led him to believe that I was the problem. So I went from having a stutter to being a totally gay little opera singer to being, like, a really confused queer adolescent.”

(Source: out.com)

Canadian Import: Landon Liboiron

The 21-year-old actor hails from Alberta, Canada and started his acting career on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation.  The popular series seems to be the jumping point for many Canadian teen actors and post alumnus such as Drake, Nina Dobrev (Vampire Diaries) and Shenae Grimes (90210).  

Liboiron also appeared on the short-lived 2011 Fox sci-fi drama, Terra Nova.  The series was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and was based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel.   Terra Nova was set in a future where humanity is on the brink of extinction because of overpopulation and poor air quality.  Scientist discover a rift in time and create a portal in which they can send a select few back in time to the Cretaceous period.   Liboiron played Josh Shannon, the rebellious teenage son of James Shannon played by Jason O’Mara.  

Liboiron can now be seen in the Netflix American horror thriller Hemlock Grove that is executive produced by Eli Roth of Hostel fame.  Landon Liborion plays Peter Rumancek who just moved into the fictional town of Hemlock Grove with his mother Lynda (Lili Taylor).  Peter hails from a line of gypsy werewolves.  Just as Peter and his mother arrive in town, several teenage girls are brutally killed by what looks like an animal attack.  Peter joins forces with the spooky Roman Godfrey (Bill Skarsgard) to find out who is responsible.  Roman comes from an influential family that owns a bio-tech company.    He has a seven feet tall sister name Shelly (Nicole Boivin) that glows.  His demonic mother, Olivia Godfrey (Famke Janssen) is sleeping with his uncle Norman Godfrey (Dougray Scott).  His cousin, Letha Godfrey (Penelope Mitchell) believes she was impregnated by an angel.   On top of that, Roman is also a Upyr (vampire).   

(Source: bellomag.com)

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