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New The Host Character Posters Arrive Featuring Saoirse Ronan & Max Irons

January 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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Stephenie Meyer isn’t just about Twilight, as she’s also written The Host, which has a movie adaptation just weeks away from release on March 22nd. Now a couple of new characters posters have shown up online, featuring Saoirse Ronan’s Melanie Stryder and Max Irons’ Jared Howe.

In The Host, our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact. Most of humanity has succumbed, including Soarise Ronan’s main character, Melanie Stryder. However while normally the human is completely subdued by their host, in Melanie’s case, her personality flashes through, intriguing her Host, known as Wanda, and setting them off on a quest to find the last free humans. Jake Abel, Max Irons and William Hurt also star.

Andrew Niccol directs.

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ACTORS: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons DIRECTORS: Andrew Niccol FILMS: The Host

Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino & Matthew Lillard Get A Match

January 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Patrick-Stewart Stephen Belber’s 2004 play, Match, earned plenty of praise on Broadway play Match, even if it ran for only a couple of months. Now he’s planning to direct a movie version and is lining up a great cast to help him. Deadline reports that Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard are now set to star.

According to the site, ‘Stewart plays a reclusive, eccentric Juilliard dance instructor and former choreographer, who is visited by a Seattle couple, (Gugino and Lillard) under the pretense of interviewing the dancer for her thesis on the New York dance movement in the 1960s. However, as the couple’s true intentions are revealed, he finds himself unable to dance around the impact of decisions he made long ago.’

Let’s hope the movie itself is a bit more exciting than that synopsis. Shooting is already underway in New York.

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ACTORS: Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino, Matthew Lillard FILMS: Match

Rumours Of Gremlins Reboot Resurface

January 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

gremlins-singing You can set your watch by the sun, atomic clocks, Big Ben or the regularity with which rumours surface of a reboot/sequel for Gremlins. Now they’ve popped up again, with Vulture reporting that Warner Bros is in talks with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to reboot the franchise.

The site suggests that the reason reports of more Gremlins surface so often is that while people in Hollywood are indeed keen, the terms Spielberg offers have been too daunting from a financial perspective, and also that he’s keen to keep tight control as a producer to make sure it’s done right (while it might sound good to have Spielberg’s name attached, studios may be worried about something they have little control over).

Although no one’s commenting, it’s suggested that this time, a deal may actually happen. Don’t hold your breath though (and it’s also worth remember that Vulture is the site that earlier this week said Zack Snyder was developing a Star Wars spin-off, which was shot down by the filmmaker himself only a couple of hours later).

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DIRECTORS: Steven Spielberg

Dylan McDermott Signs Up For The Action-Thriller Freezer

January 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

dylan-mcdermott It’s been announced that Dylan McDermott will star in Freezer, an action-thriller that starts shooting this month in Edmonton, Canada. Mikael Salomon is set to direct from a script by Tom Doganoglu and Shane Weisfeld.

The film sees McDermott as Robert, an everyday guy who finds himself tested beyond human endurance when he awakens to find himself locked in an industrial freezer by Russian thugs. They insist he returns the $8 million dollars he stole from them, the only problem is, Robert has no idea what they are talking about. As he fights for his life before freezing to death, the truth slowly reveals itself.

Producer Lee Nelson commented, “We are excited that Dylan McDermott and Mikael Salomon have come together on this project. Their collaboration will combine Dylan’s intensity as an actor with Salomon’s powerful direction to capture an edge of your seat fight for life.”

McDermott will soon be seen in Olympus Has Fallen with Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman for director Antoine Fuqua, and Behaving Badly with Selena Gomez for director Tim Garrick.

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ACTORS: Dylan McDermott

Al Pacino & Brian de Palma To Reunite for Joe Paterno Biopic, Happy Valley

January 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Al-Pacino It seems director Brian De Palma and actor Al Pacino can only work together during years with a ‘3’ at the end, as we got Scarface in 1983, Carlito’s Way in 1993 and now in 2013 they’re getting back together for Happy Valley, a biopic based on the life of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.

Al Pacino has been attached since last September to star in the project, which is based on Joe Posnanski’s biography, Paterno. The book delves into the coach’s life before becoming PSU’s head football coach back in 1966, as well as the influence he had over the school and his eventual downfall after a scandal that rocked the entire college football community.

Jerry Sandusky, Penn State’s defensive coordinator, was revealed as a paedophile who had sexually assaulted young boys for decades. Paterno was fired after 46 years at the school for his role in trying to cover up and ignore the scandal. He died last January at the age of 85.

It isn’t known when shooting may begin at this time. (Source: Deadline)

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ACTORS: Al Pacino DIRECTORS: Brian De Palma FILMS: Happy Valley

First Poster For The Internship With Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn

January 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

internship-preview-poster1 Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are getting back together for The Internship, which certainly sounds like it could be a lot of fun when it arrives in cinemas on July 4th. Now the first poster for the movie is here, and as you can guess, the film has a bit of an Internet theme.

Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation’s most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

Shawn Levy (Real Steel) directs.

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ACTORS: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn DIRECTORS: Shawn Levy FILMS: The Internship

24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Announced

January 16, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for its 2013 Media Awards. The organisation’s diverse range of gongs covers everything from film and TV to magazine articles and comic books, acknowledging the LGBT related work going on in various spheres.

On the fiction film front there are two awards, with one honouring the Outstanding Film (with at least some LGBT content) that got a wide release in the US, while the other gives the nod to smaller movies that only got a limited released. On the Wide Release list are The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Cloud Atlas, ParaNorman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Your Sister’s Sister, while the Limited Releases nominated include Any Day Now, Keep the Lights On, Mosquita y Mari, Musical Chairs and North Sea Texas. Interestingly, Paranorman is the first PG rated movie ever included in its category, suggesting gay character are reaching into more different types of films than ever before.

In the Outstanding Documentary category, the nominees include Chely Wright: Wish Me Away, about the gay country music singer, as well as the hard-hitting AIDS documentary, How To Survive A Plague. There’s also Vito, about activist and Celluloid Closet author Vito Montiel, Hit So Hard, about Hole drummer Patty Schemel and Codebreaker, which looks at the incredible life of gay cryptographer and father of computing, Alan Turing.

The list of nominees across all the categories is as much an acknowledgement of the range of LGBT issues dealt with well in the US (in the face of much hostility), such as talk show episodes looking at the lives of transgender people, theatre touching on gay issues and gay-related online journalism.

GLAAD gives out its Media Awards at three ceremonies, on March 16th in New York City, on April 20th in Los Angeles, and on May 11th in San Francisco. Take a look at the full list of nominees below:

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister’s Sister (IFC Films)

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE
Any Day Now (Music Box Films)
Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
Mosquita y Mari (Wolfe Releasing)
Musical Chairs (Paladin)
North Sea Texas (Strand Releasing)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex (The CW)
Smash (NBC)
True Blood (HBO)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Glee (Fox)
Go On (NBC)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
The New Normal (NBC)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character)
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Me What to Do,” Raising Hope (Fox)
“Family Matters,” Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
“L’Affaire Du Coeur,” Franklin & Bash (TNT)
“Lost and Found,” Touch (Fox)
“Ruby Slippers,” The Mentalist (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
Hit and Miss (DirecTV)
Political Animals (USA)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Chely Wright: Wish Me Away (First Run Features)
Codebreaker (TODpix)
Hit So Hard (Variance Films)
How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)
Vito (HBO)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
The Amazing Race (CBS)
“It Is What It Is” Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)
The Real L Word (Showtime)
Small Town Security (AMC)
“Welcome to Hollywood,” Pregnant in Heels (Bravo)

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE
“At Home with Neil Patrick Harris, His Fiancé David Burtka, & Their Twins,” Oprah’s Next Chapter (OWN)
“Autoshop Restores Bullied Gay Student’s Car for Free,” The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)
“Bishop Gene Robinson,” The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
“The Husband Who Is Now a Woman and the Daughter Who Is Now a Son,” The Jeff Probst Show (syndicated)
“Marriage Equality,” The Suze Orman Show (CNBC)

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM – NEWSMAGAZINE
“Almost Equal,” Chronicle (WCVB TV5, Boston)
“Being Transgender in America,”Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC)
“End of an Error,” The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
“Golden Star,” Rock Center With Brian Williams (NBC)
“The Last Closet,” Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM SEGMENT
“Civil Rights Icon Supports Gay Marriage,” CNN Newsroom (CNN)
“Controversial Pastor Preaches Against Gays,” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
“Matthew Mitcham Olympics Profile,” NBC Olympics (NBC)
“Obama Endorses Marriage Equality,” Good Morning America (ABC)
“Scout Mom Dismissed,” MSNBC Live (MSNBC)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
“Black Church Reaches Out to Gay, Transgender Teens” by Meghan E. Irons (The Boston Globe)
“Game Changer” by Andy Mannix (City Pages, Minneapolis)
“Generation Halsted” (series) (Windy City Times, Chicago)
“Most Local School Districts Ignore State’s Anti-Gay Bullying Law” by Phillip Zonkel (Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.)
“Turned Away, He Turned to the Bible” by Douglas Quenqua (The New York Times)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
Frank Bruni (The New York Times)
Bill Nemitz (Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine)
Leonard Pitts Jr. (The Miami Herald)
Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
Dan Rodricks (The Baltimore Sun)

OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
The Baltimore Sun
The Boston Globe
Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine)
Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa)
USA Today

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE
“The First Gay President” by Andrew Sullivan (Newsweek)
“The Marriage Plot: Inside This Year’s Epic Campaign for Gay Equality” by Molly Ball (The Atlantic)
“Netherland” by Rachel Aviv (The New Yorker)
“School of Hate” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely (Rolling Stone)
“The Transgender Athlete” by Pablo S. Torre and David Epstein (Sports Illustrated)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
The Advocate/Out
New York
The New Yorker
People
Seventeen

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE
“The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition” by Andy Marra (HuffingtonPost.com)
“Boardroom Battle: Directors Clash Over Gay Rights” by Ryan Ruggiero (CNBC.com)
“Eight Months in Solitary” by Andrew Harmon (Advocate.com)
“Why Aren’t We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?” by Marc Lamont Hill (Ebony.com)
“Workplace Protections for LGBT Workers Remain Stalled” by Chris Geidner (BuzzFeed.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM – MULTIMEDIA
“The Advocate 45” (series) (Advocate.com)
“Athletes at Core of ‘Fearless’ Photo Project” by Patrick Dorsey and Jeff Sheng (ESPN.com)
“‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: Transgender Officers on Secretly Serving in the U.S. Military” by Marc Lamont Hill (Live.HuffingtonPost.com)
“Edie Takes on DOMA” In the Life (ITLMedia.org)
“Gay Rights in the US, State by State” (GuardianNews.com)

OUTSTANDING BLOG
Autostraddle (http://www.autostraddle.com)
blac(k)ademic (http://blackademic.com)
The New Civil Rights Movement (http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com)
Rod 2.0 (http://rodonline.typepad.com)
Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST
Gossip, A Joyful Noise (Columbia Records)
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (19 Recordings, RCA Records)
Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (Def Jam)
Scissor Sisters, Magic Hour (Casablanca Records)
Rufus Wainwright, Out of the Game (Decca/Polydor)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK
Astonishing X-Men by Marjorie Liu (Marvel)
Batwoman by W. Haden Blackman, J.H. Williams III (DC Comics)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Andrew Chambliss, Scott Allie, Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg (Dark Horse)
Earth 2 by James Robinson (DC Comics)
Kevin Keller by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)

OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER
The Children by Michael Elyanow
Edith Can Shoot Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat
The Irish Curse by Martin Casella
Pieces by Chris Phillips
Silent by Pat Kinevane

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY
Bring It On: The Musical, book by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt and Amanda Green
Cock by Mike Bartlett
The Columnist by David Auburn
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF-OFF BROADWAY
Baby Daddy by Alec Mapa
From White Plains, written by Michael Perlman in collaboration with Fault Line Theatre
A Map of Virtue by Erin Courtney
Sontag: Reborn, adapted by Moe Angelos, based on the book by Susan Sontag
Tail! Spin! created by Mario Correa

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Jodie Foster Inspires Young People To Vaguely Come Out, Sort Of (Spoof)

January 16, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Jodie Foster’s rather meandering ‘coming out’ speech at the Golden Globes has certainly provoked a lot of reaction, from those who are pleased she’s said something that seems to be an unequivocal acknowledgement that she’s gay, to those peeved that it wasn’t more straightforward and also at the anger she seemed to have towards saying anything at all.

It’s also provoked a humorous response from The Onion, who say her speech has inspired youth across the US to kind of come out in vague, meandering ways. It’s quite fun, so take a look above.

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Matt Riddlehoover’s Latest Film Gets A Title, West Hollywood Motel

January 16, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

whm-jaredallman-alecbell The exceedingly busy actor/director Matt Riddlehoover (Scenes From A Gay Marriage) has recently been shooting a new movie, as we reported a few weeks ago. Now the previously untitled film from Bring Chase Productions has a name – West Hollywood Motel.

The romantic comedy, which was produced by Shane Bartlett and Ryan Basham, will follow several intersecting tales about people who have checked into the same motel room.

The ensemble cast includes Riddlehoover, his Scenes from a Gay Marriage co-star Jared Allman, and newcomer Alec Bell (pictured), as well as Andrew Callahan, Cesar D’ La Torre, Luis A. Gudino, Amy Kelly, Phil Leirness, Luis Lucas, Ben Phen, and Anna Sondall.

Currently in post-production, the film is slated for release later this year. In the meantime, you can keep up with West Hollywood Motel over at its official Facebook page.

As well as Scenes From A Gay Marriage, which was released on DVD in the US late last year, Riddlehoover has already shot Return To Babylon, while another as-yet-untitled movie is in development. So we can expect to hear a lot more from him.

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DIRECTORS: Matt Riddlehoover FILMS: West Hollywood Motel

The End Of Love Trailer – Take a look at Mark Webber’s personal drama

January 16, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Mark Webber is an interesting figure, as while he best known for appearing in the likes of Snow Day and Scott Pilgrim, he doesn’t have the same background as most Hollywood actors, having grown up on the streets as a youth, sleeping rough with his mother.

Now he’s preparing for the release his second film as a director, The End Of Love. The trailer for the intensely personal drama is now here, giving us a look at the story of a young man struggling with growing up once the mother of his child passes away.

The film co-stars Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Aubrey Plaza, Amanda Seyfried and will hit iTunes in the US on January 21st before opening in theaters March 1. No UK date is currently set.

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