Shailene Woodley on George Clooney in 'The Descendants': 'He's a Good Arguer'
December, 15, 2011 1:11 pm | Comments On #George Clooney, Movies, Shailene Woodley, The DescendantsIt's nerve-wracking to act alongside George Clooney -- and he knows it.
Also read: 'Descendants': George Clooney as a Cuckold? Heck, Yes!
Wednesday night following TheWrap's screening of "The Descendants" at the Landmark Theater, actors Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer,...
Read MoreAgnieszka Holland Illuminates Challenging 'In Darkness' Shoot
December, 14, 2011 4:59 pm | Comments On #Agnieszka Holland, Chris Willman, foreign films, Movies, oscars, Sharon WaxmanThere are directors who like to keep their actors in the dark. And then there are directors who literally commit to trapping their company of players in… the… dark.
On Tuesday night, Agnieszka Holland told the crowd at TheWrap’s Awards Series Screening of “In Darkness” how she overcame the challenge of shooting the Holocaust epic in extremely low light.
The vast majority of the film takes place in sewers where a group of Jewish refugees take shelter for months at the height of World War II. The result more...
Read More'Beginners' Success? Thank Roller-Coasters and Christopher Plummer's Skinny Jeans
December, 13, 2011 1:14 pm | Comments On #Beginners, best supporting actor, Chris Willman, Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurent, Mike Mills, Movies, oscars, Steve PondIn bringing to the screen the real-life story of his father -- who came out of the closet after becoming a widower at at age 75 -- "Beginners" director Mike Mills gambled on a series of improvisational "rehearsals" with star Christopher Plummer.
They included riding roller-coasters at Magic Mountain and shopping for skinny jeans at Barney's, with Mills' surrogate, Plummer's co-star Ewan McGregor.
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Read MoreTerrence Malick 'Tree of Life': Get Ready for the 6-Hour Version?
December, 09, 2011 12:32 pm | Comments On #Academy Awards, Chris Willman, Dede Gardner, Emmanuel Lubezki, Movies, oscars, Steve Pond, Terrence Malick, The Tree of LifeA six-hour “Tree of Life”?
Filmgoers with a love for master filmmaking that tends toward the semi-linear embraced "The Tree of Life" in a big way. So when word got out the original screenplay was three inches high and six hours long – and when cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki hinted in the press a few weeks ago that legendary auteur Terrence Malick had plans to work on a cut of the movie that might be several hours longer -- happy forwards and retweets rippled through the cineaste community.
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Read More'Drive' Filmmaker Gets Auto-Erotic at Wrap Screening
December, 07, 2011 4:04 pm | Comments On #Carey Mulligan, Drive, drive screening, james brooks, Movies, Ron Perlman, Ryan Gosling, Television, thewrap screeningIs this what they mean by a powerful sex drive?
Director Nicolas Winding Refn, star Albert Brooks and director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel participated in a question-and-answer session following Wednesday night's screening of the Ryan Gosling action drama "Drive." Thanks to Refn, it didn't take long for the discussion to veer toward carnal (or would that be car-nal?) matters.
Asked by the panel's moderator, TheWrap's own Brent Lang, about the irony that Refn has an aversion to driving, the Danish filmmaker offered an eyebrow-raising insight into his personal life.
"I have car phobia, which means that I'm afraid of cars, but I am very sexually...
Read MoreDrake Doremus 'Like Crazy' Method: Instead of a Script, Actors Got Mix Tapes
December, 02, 2011 11:33 am | Comments On #Anton Yelchin, Awards Season Screening Series, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, indies, Like Crazy, Movies, musicDrake Doremus doesn't do scripts.
Instead, the director of the Sundance Grand Jury-winning “Like Crazy” gave the stars of his festival hit an outline – and some music.
It's an unconventional approach that the the indie director labeled a "scriptment," during a Q&A after a presentation of the film at TheWrap’s Awards Season Screening Series at the Landmark Theater on Thursday night,
Doremus told TheWrap's Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman that a “scriptment” was a 50-page short story that included back story and the occasional line of dialogue.
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Read MoreWatch Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster Horse Around About 'Rampart' (Video)
November, 22, 2011 6:41 pm | Comments On #awards video, Ben Foster, movie video, Movies, Oren Moverman, Rampart, screening series video, Woody HarrelsonOren Moverman's crime drama "Rampart" is a gritty movie centered on an L.A. cop "doing bad things to bad people," the director told TheWrap's Sharon Waxman Monday night in a video interview following a Q&A at the Landmark Theater.
But he, and co-stars Woody Harrelson (the bad cop in question), Ben Foster and Brie Larson couldn't stop goofing around after answering audience questions at TheWrap Awards Screening Series.
Also read: Woody Harrelson Cozied Up to Cops -- and Shed a Tear -- During 'Rampart' Shoot
They turned dead serious, however, talking about Harrelson's work in the movie.
The actor said playing "Date Rape" Dave Brown was a good challenge for "a lazy son of a bitch" like him.
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Read MoreWoody Harrelson Cozied Up to Cops -- and Shed a Tear -- During 'Rampart' Shoot
November, 22, 2011 1:30 pm | Comments On #Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Movies, Oren Moverman, Rampart, Woody HarrelsonWoody Harrelson thinks cops are cool. Well, at least, some of them.
Monday night following TheWrap's "Rampart" screening at the Landmark Theater, the actor told the crowd how he buddied up with two police officers in preparation for his explosive portrayal of a dirty Los Angeles cop.
"My biggest hurdle was believing that I could be a cop, because it seemed so unlikely to me," said Harrelson said during TheWrap Awards Screening Series discussion moderated by Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman.
Also read: Watch Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster Horse Around...
Read MoreChris Weitz: 'A Better Life' Gardener Not So Different From My 'Twilight' Vampires
November, 18, 2011 1:46 pm | Comments On #a better life, Chris Weitz, Chris Willman, demian bichir, Movies, oscars, Sharon Waxman, TwilightIf you’ve spent any time trying to find the connections between director Chris Weitz’s last film, "Twilight Saga: New Moon," and his latest, "A Better Life" -- which pivots on the subject of illegal immigrants -- you may have gotten so stuck that you’ve given up on the auteur theory.
But the link is there, if you look. “There’s a lot of discrimination in both films,” Weitz told the audience at a Q&A following a showing Thursday of "Better Life" at the Landmark Theater, part of TheWrap's Awards Screening Series. “Vampires are discriminated against.”
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Read More'Midnight in Paris' Star: Woody Wouldn't Even Tell Us What the Movie Was About
November, 11, 2011 10:31 am | Comments On #Awards, Corey Stoll, films, letty aronson, Midnight in Paris, Movies, newsArriving on the Parisian set of Woody Allen's 44th film, "Midnight in Paris," in the summer of 2010, veteran TV actor Corey Stoll milled around with such well-established big-screen actors as Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams, "not really knowing what we were doing."
In fact, at that point, "Only Owen had even read the entire script," Stoll -- who played Ernest Hemingway in the Allen hit -- said at a Q&A following a showing of the film at the Landmark Theater Thursday night, part of TheWrap's Awards Screening Series.
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TheWrap's Screening Series features the most significant films of 2011. Screenings are followed by question-and-answer sessions with the film's talent. The films are open to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the DGA, PGA and WGA members, and to subscribers to TheWrap's daily email newsletter, First Take.
