More Theo James coming this Christmas

Theo James is reportedly tied to the Christmas comedy 'The Most Wonderful Time'

Keaton and Arkin play Charlotte and Sam, a long-married couple who have been growing apart for decades and decide to host one last Christmas celebration before revealing to their family that they’re separating. Their grown children come home for the holidays with their own relationship issues and personality quirks, completely oblivious to their parents’ turmoil. As the entire family shares memories and creates chaos that includes a shocking episode at dinner, Charlotte and Sam begin to question their decision.

 

“The Most Wonderful Time” does not have a release date yet but Relativity is committed to making the movie in 2014.

This sounds like a cute holiday flick and I would love to see Theo in the lead as a "fake boyfriend" brought home by Amanda Seyfried... Merry Christmas indeed!

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Les Mis... Christmas Day

I can not wait for this movie, thought Christmas Day will be a busy movie day...

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'Les Misérables’

The trailer for the highly anticipated ‘Les Misérables’ Starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks and many more..... was released and it has me really really excited!

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Red Riding Hood Trailer and interview with Catherine Hardwicke

LA Times writes:

Catherine Hardwicke understands impetuous teen heroines the way George Lucas reverse-engineers robot sidekicks. In March, the director of “Twilight” and “Thirteen” will unleash her newest troublemaker upon the world with a dark, sensuous spin on “Red Riding Hood.” Hardwicke’s trailer for “Red Riding Hood,” which stars Amanda Seyfried in the title role, has just premiered on Apple.com. Hero Complex writer Rebecca Keegan spoke to Hardwicke about modernizing the fairy tale, building her own medieval world and casting (as Little Red’s heartthrob) the actor who almost played Edward in “Twilight.”

Interview with Catherine Hardwicke after the cut...

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RK: This red riding hood isn’t so little. She’s a young woman, apparently caught in a love triangle. Where did the idea of sexing up this folk tale originate?

CH: It came from Leonardo DiCaprio. He came up with the idea, “Wouldn’t it be cool to do a Gothic twist on Red Riding Hood, with the wolf being a werewolf, and just have a cool, sexy romantic thriller?” His company, Appian Way, commissioned David Leslie Johnson who wrote “Orphan” with them to write the screenplay.

RK: Where did you shoot this?

CH: Vancouver. It’s mostly a stage build. We had to build the village from scratch. It’s our own created world. Our village has very muscular, heavy timber construction. All the buildings are raised up on stilts and they have spikes because they’ve lived in fear, and paranoia for decades as they’ve been menaced by this wolf.

RK: After making “Twilight,” where fans felt such ownership over the story, is this a film in which you can create your own visual world?

CH: I think so. There’s so many versions of Red Riding Hood. It goes back 700 years. It’s much more open to interpretation. At the end of the fairy tale she’s saved by a woodcutter. That’s one of the reasons why we have the houses all out of heavy construction. We stayed true to the oldest telling of the stories in a lot of ways. There’s a great book called [Bruno Bettelheim's] “The Uses of Enchantment,” delving into the meaning and philosophy of fairy tales and why these stories have endured and gotten under our skin. That was very inspiring to me.

RK: Why has the story of Red Riding Hood endured?

CH: The girl in the story, her mother tells her, “Go straight to your grandmother’s house. Don’t dawdle or talk to strangers.” And she stops and picks flowers. She’s getting in touch with her own sensuality and then the wolf comes up and asks where she’s going and she tells him. She unknowingly opens up that door to let the wolf into her life. And then there’s so many interpretations of the red cape and what it symbolizes, from witchcraft to coming of age and sexuality.

RK: The red cape itself is huge and striking. What went into its design?

CH: It’s huge in a few fantasy sequences. But normally when Valerie, Amanda’s character, runs around in the cape, it’s just to the ground. You see that this cape has inspired painters for hundreds of years. We thought it would be interesting if this fabric had been woven with a lot of great care. We had a sewing circle of 14 women in Vancouver get together and embroider all this detail. We also have a very controlled color palette where there’s no other red in the movie except the cape.

RK: What kind of Red Riding Hood does Amanda play?

CH: She’s brave and does stand up to the wolf and stands up to the town elders as people start turning against her. In our story the town has a lot of secrets and lies, which start unraveling. She makes all these discoveries that she has to deal with.

RK: In what era does this film take place?

CH: It’s medieval but we didn’t want to say it’s 1437 southern France. We didn’t want to nail it down that much because it is a fairy tale interpretation.

RK: In Disney’s new film, “Tangled,” Rapunzel is a much more active heroine. She does more than let down her hair. Do you think we need to update our fairy tales for modern audiences?

CH: The Brothers Grimm wrote down most of these fairy tales and they were men. It’s great that people are infusing more life and more energy and a more active nature to the girls in the fairy tales. It probably would have always been that way if we had had our say.

RK: Who are the men competing for Red Riding Hood’s affections?

CH: One of them is Peter, played by Shiloh Fernandez. She feels he is her soul mate, but he’s had more of a troubled past. They love each other but that’s not the way her mother wants Amanda’s life to go. She wants her daughter to have a better life and arranges a marriage with Henry, who’s played by Max Irons, the son of Jeremy Irons. He’s a very striking-looking kid, as is Shiloh, who’s very soulful. Shiloh was my runner-up for Edward in “Twilight” but he and Kristen [Stewart] didn’t have the instant chemistry lock that is now well-known.

RK: There’s a whodunit element to the story. The wolf is a townsperson, right?

CH: It is somebody who lives in the village. The whole town turns against each other when they realize that any of them could be the wolf. This paranoia creeps in. When Gary Oldman arrives he’s almost like Homeland Security, “Turn in your friends if you see anything suspicious.”

RK: Was Amanda already attached when you came on board?

CH: I came on board when it was a first draft. Many things have changed since then. In the first draft the grandmother was a really craggy old grandmother who wanted to teach the girls to embroider and she was always wagging her finger and giving lectures. I’m like, “No, no no, we’re gonna have a hip, sexy grandmother,” and that’s how we got Julie Christie. Amanda was not attached. I fell in love with her when she did a little piece for an autism benefit. This person just reached out and grabbed your heart. I felt like, if she can make this monologue that alive…. Those eyes. That face. She’s just kind of ridiculous looking.

RK: She also, based on the trailer, seems to be a bit naughty.

CH: This Red Riding Hood, really, like the original Red Riding Hood is a bit naughty. Good girls don’t talk to werewolves. She’s kind of wild, she’s coming into her own. Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn’t come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see when people are dancing they’re totally cutting loose. I have a scene that feels like Burning Man, which of course was itself inspired by medieval scenes of burning effigies. In the film, the town feels like they’ve conquered the wolf. They feel justified in celebrating. They build this giant wolf effigy, a huge bonfire, everyone’s dancing like crazy and partying and going wild, so I used the Bosch painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights” as my inspiration for that. We built all the instruments in the Bosch painting, a hurdy gurdy, standing horn pipes, the same blue drums. We commissioned this band from Sweden called Fever Ray. She’s always performing in radical costumes, she’s like the Lady Gaga of Sweden. In our movie she’s wearing a harvest mask with a corn husk face and she’s singing and everybody’s dancing and singing. Of course it all goes to hell soon enough but it’s fun for a while.

RK: How did you get this project greenlit?

CH: Nowadays to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort. I made a visual presentation with my own paintings and drawings. I also cut a trailer that gives you the feeling of the music. They want to see, what kind of world are you creating? What’s the vibe? What’s the feel? Do we like that? Can we afford it? You do it on one level to get them excited about the project and then you do have to go and budget it too. I thought this was gonna be an $80-million movie but we had to make it for $42 million. So you take all your big wild ideas and then you figure out the most creative way you can to stretch the dollar.

RK: What’s the song in the trailer?

CH: That’s the song performed at our Burning Man concert. It’s the Swedish band Fever Ray. Karin [Dreijer Andersson], the leader of the band, collaborated with our composer Brian Reitzell to create this song that you see musicians performing live in the movie with the Bosch instruments. I loved it cause it was haunting. I felt like it was ancient, but edgy and modern.

– Rebecca Keegan






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Growing Pain. Leonardo DiCaprio is in town - I saw with my two eyes!

My exciting evening last night...

Remember Growing Pain? Leonardo DiCaprio was the cutie I had a crush on and little did I know, would continue to crush on for several years...

It's been a while since I looked at Leo and swooned, let's face it, cute boys don't always grow up into sexy men, but Leo still has a lil something that gets my heart racing...

Anyways, yesterday I went by the set of Riding hood (director Catherine Hardwicke, starring Amanda Seyfreid and Shiloh Fernandez, the 2nd choice for Edward in Twilight... Billy Burke is also in it... Lukas Haas is also in it and he is friends with Leonardo DiCaprio who is also producer of the movie and they are friends with Tobey Maguire who just happens to be in town also, maybe for no other fact than to chill with friends?!?! His co-star from Spiderman, James Franco is also in town filming Apes Prequel and Tobey's friends with Leo and Lukas)

ANYWAYS - - -

I went by the set, it was late, after working 12 hours, I was alone, I waited, I watched, I saw Leo walk by, I almost died.

I have a very dark, blurry, crappy video... I didn't shout out, I didn't talk to him, I basically froze up.... I saw him between the trailers and he was talking to someone else who I couldn't see (a guy, could be crew, security, Tobey? though the voice was deeper than Tobey's usually is, no I couldn't hear what they were saying but i could hear the tone of voice and it seemed deeper than Tobey's but what do I know) he ran his hand through his hair, it's on my crappy, blurry, dark video, then he glanced my way and kept walking til I couldn't see him because of another vehicle in the way...

that's my story... not as exciting as I hoped but I saw him with my own eyes and for me - that is something worth remembering ....

now if the opportunity to talk to him arises... well, that would be BETTER but if it doesn't I am content with what I got... *le sigh*

still got the long hair...

If you want photos you can go to laineygossip.com as Punkd_Images got some sweet shots, oh to have a nice expensive fancy camera to capture moments with *le sigh*

I will post my video sometime over the weekend, it is disappointing to be honest, but whatever...

Letters to Juliet Premiere

Peter Facinelli & Wife Jennie Garth along with Charlie Bewley and many other stars attended the premiere for Letters to Juliet starring Amanda Seyfreid. This is one of many Summer movies I want to see.
Letters to Juliet Premiere

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no - i love YOU Channing Tatum

While in San Fransisco promoting ‘Dear John‘, Chan told the mob of excited fans all about his new site, PostTheLove.com. You can check a video Chan made while at the tour stop below…

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Dear John Review - No spoilers

This post has *NO SPOILERS*

if you want spoilers, more details, have read the book or seen the movie or both and don't mind spoilers Click Here

This post is safe.

I have been looking forward to seeing Dear John for a long time and was thrilled to be given screening passes from a totally rad person!

Anyways - I *JUST* finished the book and I can say you don't have to read the book to see the movie, but I suggest reading it anyways, it is better than the movie in my opinion (with the exception of eye-candy Channing Tatum, though I pictured him as I read anyways rawr!)

John Tyree's house is almost as I pictured it in the book, as is the beach and the pier and the ranch.... the beach house was not as a envisioned though.

There were some *MAJOR* changes to plot, characters, timeline, events, dialouge, and settings.... things that I don't think had to neccessarily change....

Don't get me wrong, I know changes are always made, but many of these were just - so different... perhaps having *JUST* read the book it bothered me more (though I had literally just finished Twilight hours before seeing it in theatre...)

Overall the movie is enjoyable, I didn't NEARLY as much as I did when I read it - partly because I was trying to wrap my head around the changes and omissions in the movie.

I also didn't get the chemistry between Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum and I'd even go so far as to say that I didn't like Amanda in this role - period.

I don't know if it was the script or her portrayal but I just didn't feel like she *WAS" Savannah Curtis.

Channing Tatum, well, I am biased, I adore him - like, he could just sit there and breathe for two hours and I'd watch, but I did think he did a fairly good job of John Tyree with the exception of a few over-acted scenes.

The star of the show was definately Richard Jenkins, who plays John Tyree's father. I can't say much without spoiling the plot but he is fantastic.

John Tyree is a soilder, and there seemed to be a lot more "war" scenes than in the book... maybe to draw in the husbands who were dragged by their wives ;)

But, there are (as I said) some events that occur that aren't even close to things in the book - - - they also alter the timeline of the story, which I understand shortening for movie-making purposes, but it just lessened parts of the movie for me, who enjoyed the book.

Overall, a B- Movie I would say, which isn't bad... but read the book for sure (before or after the movie, it won't matter... there are many differences, though the general themes and overall outcome are pretty much the same)

**SPOILER POST HERE**

Dear John Spoiler Review (Book vs Movie)

NON SPOILER POST HERE

********SPOILER WARNING - THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS **********

Dear John - - - I enjoyed you very much but I am frustrated at the many changes you made between book and movie. I can't even recall all of them, they were so numerous I almost whipped out my blackberry to take notes, but stopped after remembering the lady sitting near me getting angry at someone whose ringer went off during previews... not me.... thank goodness....

The novel was good, I enjoyed it though there were parts that went off on uneccessary tangents, I knew the movie would cut those out, and for that I was thankful....

but the changes... why the changes?

First of all, John get shot?

Yes, I understand you want to open with something dramatic, and you want to have his memories of coins draw us in to wonder why? why the coins?

But, did you have to shoot John? I appreciated the extra scene of Channing Tatum topless as we zoomed in on his bullet scars, but the novel doesn't have him shot... this set me off from the first minute of the movie and made it challenging for me to fully enjoy....

The next major change that disrupted my movie-going experience was Allan and Tim... the novel clearly states that Savannah, Tim and Allan grew up together... why did you make Allan Tim's son? I actually wanted to pause and rewind [sadly this is not yet a movie theatre option] to check that he actually called Allan "Son" and Tim was married already? where do you come up with this?

Another issue I had with Tim was the hospital scene.... the main part that made Nicholas Sparks novel so interesting and controversial in my mind morally was when Tim thinks he is dying and offers his wife to John.

The movie skipped this entirely!!!!

Tim was all wrong, wrong actor, wrong lines, wrong wardrobe, what happened to going to church - that was a great time to bond the three of them, which would lead to all the more shock when Savannah marries Tim....

I will give you credit, when the wedding photo of Tim and Savannah popped on screen half the theatre (who obviously hadn't read the book and was on this journey with Dear John that was completely opposite of mine) gasped in disbelief... how? what? Tim? They all said in shock...

Other alterations that baffled my brain hard....

surfing, Savannah is supposed to pick it up first wave

first date, John takes her to Shrimp Shack in the novel... in the movie you had her decide where to go and him be unsure.... yes it set up the "don't come around here no more, you were a bad ass 3 years ago" line but really? not worth it, the "what's this scar from" talk in the movie was sufficient.

First date again, the "I wanna meet your dad..... NOW" was lame... too rushed, the whole theatre laughed at how absurd it came across.

After Tim's broken nose, Tim comes to see John... not John going to find Savannah and their first "I Love You" is written in the book - wtf?

NOT TO MENTION (ok I am going to) Tim lives in the beach house next door? why? why does he have a beach house and a son?

In the book John isn't there when his father dies, though I have to say the scene where Mr. Tyree holds John's hand in the hospital was the time that I cried in the movie.... so emotional

Why did we try to take Mr Tyree to Savannah's parents house? Granted it allowed Richard Jenkins to shine in that role, but it was otherwise uneeded... except to show John's time was limited and he had to spend it with his dad or Savannah BUT... that leads me to my next bewildered moment..

WHY were his visits home and breaks all discombobulated? In the book he has his leaves and right befor eone of them (which he plans to spend with Savannah) his dad has the heart attack so he has to go home early and spend it with his dad, versus the movie where he has one night off and flies alllllll the way home ? What happened to his other visits? I felt the college visit and Savannah having a "life" was deterimental in foreshadowing the eventual demise of their relationship (though never their love)

I already mentioned the shooting

The "you're re-enlisting" scene after 9/11 happens at Savannah's parents in the movie, in the book it's while he is away

Allan rides his bike home from hospital each day in the book, in the movie he is given a ride and Tim isn't in his hospital room he's in the lobby area

The build up to Tim's illness isn't in the movie, She basically says he is sick right away

The movie hasmore humour from Randy, which I appreciated "I was going to go in and get the purse"

Underwater scenes in movie and surfing after his dad died (in the book of course he comes home for the heart attack, then he returns overseas returning after his dad's died)

The "story" of John's dad's obsession with coin is because of a weird coin John got from the ice cream man... this is NOT how it goes in the book... though I did like how the first coin guy tried to rip John off as a kid and his dad "sensed" it (like Autistic children can) and then they learned it's true value.

After the first 2 weeks together she gives him a going away present (PS he leaves, she doesn't leave for school.... she stays to build the house... OH AND HE NEVER helps with the house in the book, though I never got why, so I am glad he did in the movie....) ANYWAYS.... the gift she gives him is a book on autism, which is when they fight over "are you studying my dad? you think he's a retard?" happens.


I am sure there are many more, but those ones pop into my head first... and strongest... BOTTOM LINE - so much changed and I don't know why... I wish I knew why you changed so much... but Dear John I still love you, however, I think I love you more as a book... um, with the exception of topless Channing Tatum. Thank-you for that....

Your Always,
Mandy

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Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the flick, as I said in my NON SPOILER POST HERE. It's just that I hate when films make adaptations that are not neccessary (like in the last Harry Potter movie when ********SPOILER*********** Dumbledore dies... in the book they had all the wands up and the service... the movie just kinda ended.... wtf?!!?

Maybe I am just hard to please?

If you have read it and seen it please comment....

PS - Amanda Seyfried sings in the movie too - random!

Dear John Premier in Charleston SC

The Premier of Dear John was in Charleston South Carolina. The cast also paid a visit to Fort Bragg.

Fans, mostly women, waited and snapped photos of Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried.

I would LOVE to meet Channing Tatum one day.... but for now, I'd settle for advanced screening tickets to see Dear John in Vancouver.

Kyle Morris.

Tatum is one of the stars of "Dear John," which is about a Special Forces soldier who falls for a college student in South Carolina. Their love story is told through letters the two send one another while John (played by Tatum) is deployed overseas. Tatum said it was an honor to be on Fort Bragg and share the film with the people whose stories are being told on screen.

"I just really hope that everybody likes the movie," Tatum told reporters before the show. "We just really wanted to make a beautiful movie about two kids falling in love and extraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances."

Joining him on the camouflage carpet was his co-star, Amanda Seyfried, who plays John's first love in the film. Nicholas Sparks, who wrote the heart-wrenching novel, also walked the carpet, posed for pictures and signed autographs for screaming fans.


@channingtatum has RT'd numerous people's twitpics.. here are a few

Mandy's Mind - Channing Tatum is so talented and so sexy! I can't believe he has filmed in Vancouver and I didn't know.... hopefully he returns one day - I'd LOVE to shake his hand... get a photo... maybe a hug < 3

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All Girls Photo shoot...

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Twi-Hards kept tweeting at me and bombing my inbox yesterday – their tits were in a twist over a photo shoot involving Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin for Vogue. E!Online broke the story that the two were photographed at the LA County Museum of Art. Emilie has apparently offended the Twi-Hards because she was cast in a film with Pattinson. She’s a “fat ass bitch” because the two are friends. They feel this way of course because they’re just trying to look out for Kristen Stewart who is “ROB’s ONE TRUE LOVE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Please.

Kristen can take care of herself. Kristen was It before Robert Pattinson and she will be It after Robert Pattinson. Because in this equation, Robert Pattinson is the longshot. So while he fannies about with his hearthrobby image, Kristen Stewart is up to more prestigious endeavours.

How about the Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue?

Yes. The Hollywood Issue.

I’ll attach a few of my past favourites just to give you an idea of what the Hollywood Issue means.

I’m told exclusively that it took place a few days ago. Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood, Amanda Seyfried, Emma Stone, Mia Wasikowska, and more. A girl crush lady boner. So many of my girls. And SO happy Emma Stone was invited. Hopefully Amanda Seyfried has a new publicist?

It’s a strong young crop of female talent. And on the heels of the Portmans, Knightleys, Hathaways, Johanssons, who themselves are following the Winslets, the Blanchetts, the Cruzes, the Paltrows, the Watts, the Thurmans, and the Moores, this is yet another reason why Lindsay Lohan can’t work.