Arguably one of the most versatile directors in the business, Spike Jonze jumps regularly from music videos to commercials to Oscar-nominated films. He even had a main role acting alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in 1999’s “Three Kings.” In this video, WatchMojo.com takes a look at the highlights of Spike Jonze’s still young career.
Twilight’s hunks Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner speak with Tyra about girls, fans and the latest of the Twilight saga -New Moon.
Harry Potter is one of the most famous names in his wizarding world, and it is also one of the most famous names in the world of books. Since the first novel’s release in 1997, the Harry Potter series has sold well over 400 million copies, and spawned a successful movie series as well. Harry’s world appeals to a wide audience because of its blend of thrilling magic and real-life themes. In this video, WatchMojo.com learns more about both the book and movie franchises of Harry Potter.
Novelist Michael Crichton has died at the age of 66. He had been battling cancer secretly. Crichton penned such bestselling books as “Jurassic Park” and its sequel “the Lost World,” “The Andromeda Strain,” “Congo,” “Twister,” “Terminal Man,” and “Disclosure,” as well as having created the hit series “ER.” Read more…
The new, final trailer for TWILIGHT is set to premiere today, Thursday, October 9.
You can see it in theatres in its full glory on Friday, October 10, programmed in front of certain films and attached to the sneak preview of SEX DRIVE on Saturday, October 11.
There will be a sneak peak of this new trailer on ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT on Thursday, October 9, and immediately after that it will be viewable online via the Twilight widget.
TWILIGHT, the first film in Summit Entertainment’s thriller romance franchise, has moved up its North American release date to Friday, November 21, 2008. The film, which was previously planned to be released on December, 12, 2008, is taking advantage of an opening in the upcoming fall release calendar. The new release date for TWILIGHT allows the studio to both bring the film to the written-series’ enormous fan base sooner, and to present the film in more theatres prior to the holiday movie-going season where traditionally screen time for any popular film is limited.
“When Warner Bros. decided to move HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE to the summer of 2009, we saw a unique opportunity to slot in our film which has been gaining tremendous awareness and momentum over the past several months,” said Rob Friedman, Co-Chairman and CEO of Summit Entertainment. “We by no means are trying to fill the shoes of the incredible POTTER franchise for 2008, rather we are just looking to bring the fans of Stephenie Meyer’s incredible book series the film as soon possible from a programming perspective.”
Starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the thriller-romance based on Stephenie Meyer’s publishing phenomenon, the film is directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Melissa Rosenberg (STEP UP). Karen Rosenfelt (DEVIL WEARS PRADA), Greg Mooradian and Wyck Godfrey will produce along with Mark Morgan via his Maverick Films banner.
TWILIGHT tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan (Stewart) who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father, and becomes drawn to Edward Cullen (Pattinson), a pale, mysterious classmate who seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction that pulls them together…even when Edward confides that he and his family are vampires. Their unorthodox romance puts her in physical danger when Edward’s nemesis comes to town and sets his sights on Bella.
While watching HBO’s Sex and the City Film I made a note to self to go and buy the book that brought Big and Carrie back together for a happily ever after. I was shocked to find out, in this article, that the book didn’t even exist! The closest text in the real world apparently is “Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day,” first released in the 1920s and reissued last year by Kessinger Publishing. So ladies and gentlemen, there’s still a book to give us a chance at a Big love.
Prepare to be seduced…
A gothic thriller for the twenty-first century, Season of the Witch tells the tale of two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the man sent to investigate them.
Gabriel Blackstone is a hacker, information thief, and skilled “remote viewer” – he makes an excellent living stealing other people’s secrets. When a former lover asks him to look into the disappearance of her stepson, Gabriel’s investigations lead him to Monk House, a rambling Victorian home where time seems to stand still. Gabriel becomes increasingly bewitched by the house, and by its owners, the beautiful, enigmatic Morrighan and Minnaloushe Monk.
The sisters are “solar” witches, obsessed with the study of alchemy and the Art of Memory, a practice invented by the ancient Greeks. Gabriel believes that his client’s son has been murdered and that one of the women is the killer. But which one? Gabriel finds himself drawn inexorably deeper into the sisters’ complex world – becoming entranced even as he realizes he is in mortal danger.
Swirling together elements of the Matrix, Interview with the Vampire, and The Historian, this enthralling novel takes on big themes – love, death, alchemy, the power of the human mind to transform and transcend reality – and will beguile and entrance all who turn its pages.
For more information see http://www.seasonofthewitch.com
Tim Palen’s photography combines the best of John Waters and Joel-Peter Witkin, without ever going too far so that the image loses its power.
– Eli Roth, Writer/Director of HOSTEL and HOSTEL PART II
Award-winning fine art photographer Tim Palen serves up a visionary collection of images in his debut book collection GUTS, culled from his work in and around the marketing of six cutting-edge horror films. The 110-page book includes movie and event posters, production stills, outtakes, and location photos. The cover image — a photograph of red, glistening meat — telegraphs both the nature and sensibility of the work inside: sensual, sophisticated and veined with a drolly macabre sense of humor.
GUTS is published by Baby Tattoo Press. The Summer 2007 first printing is now on sale at the publisher’s website, and at select specialty bookstores including Forbidden Planet in New York City and Golden Apple in Los Angeles. The summer run includes a very limited special edition, which presents GUTS like a package of supermarket beef, shrink-wrapped and nestled on a foam tray. Adding to the illusion, the cover of the limited edition will not include type.
GUTS demonstrates Palen’s mastery of the bold, alluring and unsettling image that is intrinsic to the horror genre’s enduring power. GUTS gathers for the first time Palen’s eye-catching posters for three years of the SAW Blood Drive, an annual Halloween event benefiting the Red Cross. White looks anything but innocent in these campaigns starring a bevy of seductive nurses, angels of questionable mercy who appear quite eager to draw blood. Other highlights include a series of haunting photographs shot at Iceland’s otherworldly Blue Lagoon during a visit to the set of Eli Roth’s HOSTEL II. GUTS also opens a window onto Palen’s collaboration with several filmmakers who have taken horror in a new direction, and includes commentary by Roth (HOSTEL I, HOSTEL II) and Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II, SAW III, SAW IV), among others.
Palen’s twelve-year photography career encompasses editorial, advertising, fashion and portraiture. His work has appeared in such publications as Premiere, Paper, Vibe, Redbook, Penthouse, The New York Observer, and Flaunt Magazine. In 2006, Hollywood Life Magazine’s Behind the Camera Awards honored him for his impact on the movie industry with its “Movie Marketing Ninja” Award. His fine art photography for movie posters has also garnered numerous Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards, which honor achievements in the creative advertising community.
Palen is currently Co-President of Theatrical Marketing at Lionsgate. He and his partner divide their time between Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA.
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