Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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The first trailer for Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tried to live in the area between quirky, endearing and sentimental. The balance didn't work for me, especially thanks to the reliance on U2 as the score for the trailer. As a result I think that first look…
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Here's the trailer for Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on a script by Eric Roth. The movie has been a curiosity for me for months in part because the book is a piece of post-modernism that doesn't lend itself easily to adaptation, and in part because…
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Warner Bros. is going for some Oscar gold this year, and not only with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, which the studio is hoping might turn into a Return of the King-style contender. The studio also has a couple of possible prestige pictures in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar and Stephen Daldry's…
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Don't call it a Sopranos reunion, but James Gandolfini is poised to work with Sopranos creator David Chase once more. The actor has taken a role in Mr Chase's new project Twylight Zones, aka the film previously referred to as the Untitled David Chase Rock and Roll Movie. In addition, Mr. Gandolfini is circling roles…
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Briefly: 2011 could be a good year for John Goodman and his fans. He'll be seen in Kevin Smith's Red State, and looks to be part of The Artist (with James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller) and Thicker (with Alison Pill, Guy Pearce and Christopher Lloyd). And now he's been cast alongside Tom Hanks and…
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If you're a Jeopardy! fiend, the name Thomas Horn is likely familiar; to everyone else some explanation is in order as to how the 12-year old earned his fame, and how that has led to him landing a plum role in Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.…
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Last time we checked in on Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Daldry had just officially signed on, though he'd been working on the project with producer Scott Rudin for some time. Now Warner Bros. and Paramount are close to a deal to co-produce the film, and…
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The fiction of Jonathan Safran Foer represents a very specific way of looking at the world, and celebrate the ways in which language works and fails. Foer is extremely skilled at creating images that are both fantastic and genuine; his prose can generate such an impression of seeing things unfold that they seem like natural…
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