We’re shocked and stunned to report that actor James Gandolfini has died suddenly while on vacation in Italy after a suspected heart attack. Gandolfini was 51 years old. He will be missed.
Gandolfini is best known for his role as Tony Soprano in HBO’s The Sopranos in which he won the Emmy three times. Gandolfini’s 26 year acting career included roles in The Last Boy Scout, the Quentin Tarintino-scripted True Romance, Terminal Velocity, Crimson Tide, Get Shorty, The Juror, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Where The Wild Things Are, Killing Them Softly, The Man Who Wasn’t There, In The Loop, The Mexican, Zero Dark Thirty and most recently The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. His last film was the Dennis Lehane-adaptation Animal Rescue which will be released next year. James was in pre-production on the new limited series Criminal Justice.
I’ve included Gandolfini’s appearance on Inside The Actors Studio after the jump, which gives a retrospective of his acting career.
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Posted on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 by Angie Han
When Bridesmaids scored big at the box office, we wondered whether it’d open the floodgates for other funny women. It turns out we may have been thinking too broadly. Female-centric comedies in general are still all too rare at the multiplex, but female-centric comedies involving Paul Feig are a different story.
Feig chose to follow up the $288 million success of Bridesmaids with another lady-led laffer, the Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy buddy-cop pic The Heat, and now he’s working on yet another. His newest effort is Susan Cooper, about a female James Bond type. Hit the jump for all the details.
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Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.
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I’m quoted again in USA Today: “‘Man of Steel’ finds success — is ‘Justice League’ next?”
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Briefly: Hey, LA, if you haven’t seen the very entertaining film The Kings of Summer, from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, tonight might be the best night to catch it. At 7:40 this evening, at the Landmark Los Angeles at 10850 West Pico Blvd, Doug Benson will be hosting a special edition of the ‘Doug Loves Movies’ podcast, with the director and cast in attendance.
The Kings of Summer features Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moises Arias as three kids who take off into the woods to build their own house over the course of a summer. Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and Alison Brie play family members, and along with comedians such as Kumail Nanjiani, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Hannibal Buress provide some of the film’s comedic highlights.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts will be at the show tonight, as will Robinson, Basso, and Arias. Other attendees are being set up as well, and some of that comedic supporting cast can be expected to show up. Get tickets here.
Posted on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 by Angie Han
The name Solomon Northup may not ring a bell for most people, but Steve McQueen and his star-studded cast could help change that this winter with Twelve Years a Slave.
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Northup, a free man who was tricked and sold into slavery as an adult. He spent a dozen years working on plantations before eventually finding his way to freedom once more. Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Paulson, Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Alfre Woodard, and newcomer Lupita Nyong’o are also among the cast. See the first official stills from the movie after the jump.
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Posted on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 by Angie Han
In the States, Thanksgiving is practically synonymous with turkey. Any mention of the holiday automatically conjures images of a big, juicy, oven-roasted bird, and vice versa. Even vegetarians aren’t immune to the association — plenty of them nod to tradition with products like Tofurkey.
But as pleasant as it is for us humans to gorge ourselves on tryptophan-laced poultry, you can’t blame turkeys for wishing they could remove themselves from the menu. In Relativity’s Free Birds, two of them finally get the chance to do just that. Reggie (Owen Wilson) and Jake (Woody Harrelson) find a time machine to take them back to the very first Thanksgiving, where they attempt to save their kind once and for all. Hit the jump to watch the first trailer.
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Briefly: Even a casual observer knows that women direct far fewer big Hollywood films than men. So it’s interesting to see that the developing adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey — an extended S&M-lite sexual fantasy that has been decried as “mommy porn” as it tops sales charts — will be directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. She has made only one major feature, Nowhere Boy, from 2009.
We don’t yet know much about plans that Focus is pulling together for the film, but if the movie is even vaguely as successful as the novel series, it’ll be huge. Read More »
There’s a bit of new footage in this trailer for Edgar Wright‘s The World’s End, but the focus is in the tacked-on bit at the beginning. That’s where it is made explicitly clear that the folks who made this film also made Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Now, most of you already know that — indeed, most of you know it well enough to have picked out half a dozen nods to those two films in the film’s first teaser trailer.
For those of you who don’t need to be reminded of the film’s pedigree and the shared past of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and their director, there’s still something to be said for having another look at the trailer that shows off just what five friends will face when they embark upon an epic pub crawl in their hometown. Read More »
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