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Billy Bob Thornton and co-stars on the red carpet for Jayne Mansfield's Car
September 14, 2012Billy Bob Thornton - along with his co-stars Katherine LaNasa and Robert Duvall - showed up at Roy Thompson Hall in support of the North American premiere of his latest directorial project, Jayne Mansfield's Car. Thornton, LaNasa and Duvall were all smiles and laughs on the red carpet, stopping frequently to sign autographs for on-looking [...]
Javier Bardem at the Sons of the Clouds premiere
September 14, 2012Actor/producer Javier Bardem hit the red carpet yesterday afternoon at the Ryerson Theatre for the North American premiere of his latest film, Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony. Directed by Álvaro Longoria, the recently-picked-up documentary follows the displacement of nearly 200,000 refugees in the Western Sahara. Accompanied by the director and fellow producer Lilly [...]
Mark Ruffalo talks sex addiction in Thanks For Sharing
September 14, 2012In Mark Ruffalo's latest film, Thanks For Sharing - which is co-scripted and directed by The Kids Are All Right's Stuart Blumberg and co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow - he tackles the "dramedic" topic of sex addiction, but he's far from uncomfortable with the subject matter. "I was raised in a household that was very kind of [...]
Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener talk A Late Quartet
September 14, 2012By Seán Francis Condon Only two or three years ago, a film with five committed and lauded actors confronting their own foibles and inabilities to deal with reality would have been a relatively easy sell, the names on the marquee enough to generate studio excitement and widespread audiences. In today’s world of superheroes, getting the [...]
Silver Linings Playbook makes unlikeable characters likeable
September 13, 2012Stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper praise director David O. Russell By Sean Plummer Oscar-nominated writer-director David O. Russell (The Fighter) may be acclaimed for the psychological realism of his films, but actor Bradley Cooper, who plays a mentally disturbed man in Russell’s new film Silver Linings Playbook, was even more impressed by his director’s [...]
Paul Thomas Anderson talks Parenting with Amy Adams
September 13, 2012By Sean Plummer It may or may not be surprising to learn that director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) has a different parenting style than his The Master star Amy Adams. The point comes up obliquely during a recent Toronto International Film Festival press conference that Adams and the press-shy Anderson recently attended to [...]
Ice-T talks Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
September 13, 2012By Seán Francis Condon For three decades, Los Angeles actor and musician Ice-T has stood tall among the unlikely, juggling high-profile acting assignments in shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit while profiling the grit and backside of glamourous crime life with such solo tracks as the prison-reality ‘The Tower’ and the Body [...]
More TIFF pictures picked up by distributors
September 13, 2012The star studded film Spring Breakers has finally found itself a home. The U.S distribution rights to the film have been acquired by Annapurna Pictures. The story is about four college students - Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Brit - played by Pretty Little Liar's star Ashley Benson, who attempt to use [...]
