Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
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Silver Linings Playbook, the Bradley Cooper/Jennifer Lawrence/Robert DeNiro tale of a guy just out of a mental institution trying to put his life back on track, based on the novel by Matthew Quick and shot in these-here-parts by David O. Russell of The Fighter fame, is one of a dozen or so hotly anticipated titles set for the Toronto International Film Festival, running Sept. 6 to 16th.
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
The Dark Knight disappeared from TV, radio and newspapers over the weekend. No ads, anywhere. But in Los Angeles, the image of the soul-ravaged vigilante superhero still loomed: Christian Bale’s chiseled jaw jutting beneath his Bat-mask on billboards in Hollywood and Santa Monica, Pasadena and Sherman Oaks, images of Batman and The Dark Knight Rises’ uber-terrorist villain, Bane, facing off on bus shelters and parking garage kiosks.
Molly Eichel, Daily News Staff Writer
Warner Brothers, the studio that released "The Dark Knight Rises," issued a statement regarding the tragic shooting in an Auroro, Colorado midnight screening of the movie that left 12 dead and 38 injured:
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
The vampire thing didn’t work so well, but maybe that’s a good thing for Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day Lewis and company. In Lincoln, the historical/political/bio-drama based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Day Lewis portrays the 16th president of the United States, tracing his rise from one-term congressman and prairie lawyer to the White House, and then on into the cataclysms of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter this is not.
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Molly Eichel, Daily News Staff Writer
Every year, the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville hosts BlobFest, a tribute to the classic 1958 film "The Blob," starring Steve McQueen. Part of the festivities, that took place July 14 and 15th, includes recreating the famous run-out scene, in which teens try to escape the deadly goop, filmed right at the Colonial. YouTube user ShawnProctor1 got last weekend's run-out on film for your viewing pleasure.
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
Comic-Con, the annual summer rite of frenzied movie fandom, kicked off Thursday with a Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 panel, with Kristen Stewart talking about what it’s like to finally be a vampire and TSBD2 director Bill Condon, in London doing the post-production work, video-messaging the crowd – and treating them to the final installment’s opening seven minutes. In the sequence, Stewart’s Bella and Pattinson’s Edward prowl around for fresh, warm-blooded critters to feast on. Stewart, red-eyed and, well, vampiric, takes down a big, wild cat, according to a report from The Wrap. Breaking Dawn: Part 2 opens November 16.
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
So what if Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter tanked at the box office? There’s still another Twilight coming, and a dozen or so other projects featuring be-fanged, blood-slurping undead in the leads. And now Deadline Hollywood reports that Russell Crowe has signed on to play the most famous vampire of them all, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in Harker. A thriller (of course) to be directed by torture porn Hostel guy Eli Roth, Harker centers around Scotland Yard inspector Jonathan Harker, who is on the hunt for this Dracula dude. The Harker role has yet to be cast. Crowe and Roth worked together on the upcoming RZA-directed action piece, The Man With the Iron Fists. Crowe stars in that one, Roth wrote the script.
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
People were paying $300 a ticket to see Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman in the just-concluded restaging of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. It’ll cost a little less than that to see the master thespian go at the role of Plutarch Heavensbee, Head Gamemaker for the Hunger Games in Catching Fire.
