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Weekend Movie Preview: July 20, 2012

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The moment has arrived, and it is sadly tainted by tragedy with the Colorado shooting. The Dark Knight Rises lands in theaters and is honestly the only film on the docket with a national release. You can’t blame other studios for staying away from this weekend, because for this week’s Weekend Movie Preview, it’s all about the Bat.

Anne Hathaway and Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises: Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale’s final foray into the world of Batman finally arrives. The story of how Bruce Wayne and Batman have disappeared for eight years and how an evil menace in Bane forces both to come to grips with their fate and re-enter the world to suppress evil once again is powerful. The film is astounding, as we state in our The Dark Knight Rises review, and should be seen a multitude of times.

If the Caped Crusader screenings are sold out, here are three options of films already in release that are worth your time:

The Amazing Spider-Man: Yes, another superhero movie… and one that reboots a film that only went away a couple of years ago. But, Marc Webb has weaved a gem of a film and although we know the origins story, in the hands of Andrew Garfield, this Spider-Man is a joy to behold. Check out our The Amazing Spider-Man review for more.

Katy Perry Part of Me: Both fans and those who don’t find Katy Perry their cup of tea will cherish this concert film/documentary. As we state in our Katy Perry Part of Me review, this is one inspiring film.

Ted: Haven’t seen Ted yet? Run, don’t walk, to see it. Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane join forces and create an R-rated comedy gem. Where MacFarlane’s Family Guy is handcuffed by the FCC, Ted is allowed to live and breathe. And be warned, it’s not all gruff, as reported in our Ted review, this film has a lot of heart.


Celeste and Jesse Forever Clip: Rashida Jones and Ari Graynor Talk Love

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Friends engaging in sexy times has been a popular movie theme of late. See: Friends with Benefits, No Strings Attached, and Friends with Kids. Now Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg take a poke at it (no pun intended...okay fine, it was...) in Celeste and Jesse Forever. Check out the latest clip:

Jones and Samberg play best-friends-turned-married-couple-turned-exes who are trying to navigate their friendship in the wake of divorce. Elijah Wood (The Hobbit), Emma Roberts, Ari Graynor, and Chris Messina also star.

These That's My Boy quotes prove that Samberg is certainly comfortable with farcical comedy, but he is now entering more sincere, emotional territory with Celeste and Jesse. Jones is more familiar with romantic comedy, having appeared in such films as 2009's I Love You Man.

Celeste and Jesse Forever opens August 3.

Looper Stills Highlight Just How Believable Joseph Gordon-Levitt is as Young Bruce Willis

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It can be difficult to cast young and old versions of the same character, especially if those two versions are going to be playing on screen side-by-side. Men In Black 3 pulled it off remarkably well earlier this year with Josh Brolin playing a young Tommy Lee Jones.

Now, it's looking as though Looper did a great job casting Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) and Bruce Willis as differently-aged versions of the same character. Check out a bunch of new stills from the film:

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Gordon-Levitt plays Joseph Simmons, a hitman tasked with killing people--no questions asked--sent to him from the future. When Simmons' next target is his future self (played by Willis), he is faced with an impossible decision.

Emily Blunt also stars, along with Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels.

Looper hits theaters September 28. For more, head over to the Looper trailer.

The Dark Knight Rises Expected to Reach $80-90 Million on Opening Day

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The Dark Knight Rises is set to for a lucrative weekend, according to early numbers. Unfortunately, all news about The Dark Knight Rises is tempered with grief over this morning's shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

Despite those horrific events, TDKR is expected to make between $80-90 million dollars from its opening day, with a projected $175-180 million for the weekend. That would place the Christopher Nolan film at second overall--behind the $207 million The Avengers made--in opening weekend gross.

The highly-anticipated finale to the Nolan Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises is expected to at least give The Avengers a run for its money in total earnings, though the added ticket price from The Avengers' 3D screenings will make that task all the more difficult.

Will you be contributing to the film's success the weekend? After heading to the theater, let us know what you thought of Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Bane, and The Dark Knight Rises in the comments section.

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Django Unchained: Jamie Foxx on Tarantino Triumph

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Jamie Foxx has worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest directors, won an Oscar and has done the rare feat of also winning a couple of Grammys over the years. Yet, it was his experience on the Quentin Tarantino set of Django Unchained that may sit at the top of his life experience list. Foxx sat down with Movie Fanatic at Comic-Con recently to take us inside the powerful story of a slave seeking justice.

Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained
Foxx reported a completely collaborative set that didn’t find Tarantino as head teacher, but more of a facilitator of ideas. “We taught each other. One thing he did teach me: He pulls me in a room and challenges me. ‘Can you be this person? Can you leave all the shininess outside and actually be this person, a person who can’t read?’ Foxx recalled.

The actor reported that Tarantino asked one thing from him. “He said to trust him. He would take the character to another level. I think that was the best thing that I could have been told, and told in a way of ‘I don’t care about your celebrity. I don’t care about who you are as that person. It’s about the work.’ Then, I turned into a monster. I was like, ‘I want to go get all of it.’”

For Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx did not have to reach too far to wrap his head around a character that society is discriminating against. He shares a personal story with Movie Fanatic that is more powerful than any backstory that could have been made up.

“My upbringing was very interesting. I played the piano. That’s how I made money. My grandmother taught me to play piano and she said, ‘You need to learn how to play this piano, boy, so you can go across on the other side of the tracks and make some money. The other side of the tracks is where all the white folks live.’ When I was 16 and a friend of mine was 17, I get a gig to go play the Christmas holiday. I go to this big home out in the country,” Foxx said.

“The guy opens the door and says, ‘What’s going on here?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m here to play for your Christmas party. What’s the problem?’ ‘Why are two of you here at the same time?’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a license. He drove me. Is there a problem?’ He says, ‘Yeah, I can’t have two [N-word] in my house at the same time. Now, you figure it out.’ Now, this was 1984!”

Foxx was no stranger to hearing such vulgarity thrust at him, and informed his director about how the experience made him feel and how that would be channeled into the character of Django. “I taught Quentin this word, it’s called furniture -- they were doing racial jokes as I was playing. My grandmother said when you’re playing in those situations like that, you’re furniture,” Foxx said.

“So, when I explained this to Quentin, I said, ‘What you’re writing in this script, I’m not knee-jerking, because that happened.’”

Once on the Django Unchained set, Foxx was able to personalize the experience. His character, clearly as this is a Western, rides a horse. The Oscar winner has two horses, and used one of them to portray Django’s equine companion.

Django Unchained Photo: Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz
“When I met with Quentin, he says, ‘We’ve got to get you on a horse.’ I said, ‘Well, I have a couple of horses, can I ride my horse just so I get acclimated?’ Next thing you know, my horse learns the tricks. The trainer said, ‘You want to ride your horse in the movie?’ I said, ‘It would be great,’” Foxx said.

The actor immediately saw continuity between the journey of his character and his own horse, Cheetah, whom we meet in the Django Unchained trailer.

“My horse and Django have basically sort of the same story. Django starts off as really intense, nervous, is it okay for me to be what I want to be? And Cheetah is like that too. When we first shot and they were doing the setting of the cameras and they had the big silkscreen, she spooked at first,” Foxx said.

“I remember the trainer grabbing the horse by the bridle, and I said, 'No, don’t grab her by the bridle. Let her figure it out.' For the first couple of days, you see her settling in as Django makes his arc. By the time I make my arc at the end of the movie, Cheetah’s doing spins, stops on a dime. It was just great. All movies have those little magical qualities that make you understand that’s why it’s worth doing.”

The Dark Knight Rises: Anne Hathaway on Becoming Catwoman

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When Anne Hathaway first met The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan, she immediately got a sense of the first thing he wanted her to do.

The Dark Knight Rises: Anne Hathaway
“When I got the part, Chris had called me into his office and said, ‘Okay, so, there’s going to be a lot of fighting, and when we did Inception, Joseph (Gordon-Levitt) got in really good shape. Joe went to the gym for months so that way when we did his fight sequences, he did all of his own fighting. I really liked that,’” Hathaway recalled.

“I went, 'Gotcha. I am reading between the lines here.' I just went to the gym and came back when we wrapped. It was a complete transformation. I’d never done anything like that, because it wasn’t just about looking a certain way, I had to learn to fight. I had to become strong enough to be able to fight for many days at a time.”

Hathaway admitted that getting into shape for any role is honestly par for the course, especially for The Dark Knight Rises' Catwoman.

“That was actually something that I felt very lucky about because I feel like in a situation like this -- I don’t know what other actresses have gone through -- but I feel like there’s a mandate that comes to you and a deal with how you have to look,” she said.

“The way I was treated on this movie was learn how to do what you need to do and then however you look that’s the way the character looks. I just felt, as a woman, very protected in that way.”

But, then there was the added pressure -- Gordon-Levitt in Inception, and Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises, did not have to perform the action sequences in four-inch heels. Not that she’s complaining.

“You just do. It’s part of being a woman. You just figure it out,” Hathaway said and laughed. “Devil Wears Prada was really good training for that though. I’ve kind of run up and down Manhattan so I just ran up and down Gotham!”

When it came to tackling an iconic part, played so magnificently by Michelle Pfeiffer two decades ago, Hathaway was not nervous. In fact, she was ready for anything for Nolan.

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“I would have played a footstool in this movie, but it was pretty cool to get to play such a wonderful character,” Hathaway said.

It also helped that, as we state in our The Dark Knight Rises review, the film follows Catwoman's alter ego, Selina Kyle, more than the feline-inspired character. “I loved that the focus was who she was as Selina -- and that there wasn't a schism within her, that she didn't change when she put on the suit. It was kind of her uniform which she had to wear for her job.”

Christopher Nolan Releases a Statement on the Aurora Theater Shooting

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Director Christopher Nolan has released a statement following the tragic movie theater shooting that occurred in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight screening of his film, The Dark Knight Rises.

With the death toll at 12, the injury count now being reported at 59--up from 38 this morning--and the police apparently working to disarm a series of booby traps the suspect left in his apartment, the story continues to worsen.

Read what Nolan had to say below:

“Speaking on behalf of the cast and crew of The Dark Knight Rises, I would like to express our profound sorrow at the senseless tragedy that has befallen the entire Aurora community. I would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting, but that they were there last night to watch a movie. I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me. Nothing any of us can say could ever adequately express our feelings for the innocent victims of this appalling crime, but our thoughts are with them and their families.”

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Senseless Violence at the Movies: Our National Pastime Attacked

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The country’s gun violence issue has entered the movie world, and not in terms of what we see onscreen. In the end, the shooting in Colorado had little to do with The Dark Knight Rises. It concerns a threat to our collective freedom to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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News shocked from Aurora, Colorado that a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises was the landscape for our next national tragedy. By now, we all know the terribly chilling story of a lone gunman who turned a cinematic celebration into a massacre.

As much as film has transported the world over the last century, it has become in Movie Fanatic’s opinion, our pastime in the U.S. Sure, baseball is the national pastime in terms of sport, but when taking into consideration the collective that is every soul in the United States of America, the one thing that unites us is a dialogue about the movies.

It is what connects us, stirs us, reflects us and serves as a congruency where even the most ardent of adversaries can carry on a conversation.

The movie theater is a sanctuary. He who shall not be mentioned, because the shooter’s name does not deserve to be glorified by this publication, did something that cracked the very foundation of our entertainment escape. In our world of digital inter-connectiveness, coming together for film is a community experience unlike any other that exists in 2012.

Think about it. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world, and in Aurora, gathered at the stroke of midnight on the release date for one of the year’s most anticipated films. The Dark Knight Rises was supposed to be the epic conclusion to the best superhero trilogy of all time.

It still is, as we report in our The Dark Knight Rises review, but who will not attend a cinematic experience in the foreseeable future without thinking of those that we lost and those who are forever altered by celebrating our national pastime of movie-watching in Colorado?

Let our passion for movies never end.

The best in filmed entertainment provides us with an affirmation of life, a celebration of liberty and a chronicle of the pursuit of happiness.


Killer Joe Exclusive Video: Matthew McConaughey on Playing Evil

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Matthew McConaughey is having a year for the ages. 2012 began with critical darling Bernie, followed by the blockbuster Magic Mike. Now he's back in a film with his home state as its locale in Killer Joe. The Texas native spoke to Movie Fanatic for an exclusive video interview and let us in on how he came to take the role that personifies villainy. “I didn’t get it at first,” McConaughey said of reading the script.

He felt his character and the film were too dark, as evidenced in the Killer Joe poster. But, he would soon discover its heart. "I didn’t get any of the humor. I didn’t allow myself to get underneath and see the humanity of these characters. Then I went back and re-read it, and I found the chuckles. I found the deliberate provocation.”

Thank goodness he gave the film a second read, because he turns in the performance of his career as a Lone Star State detective who works as a for-hire killer on the side. When he is employed by a trailer park family to take out their matriarch, McConaughey takes over the entire film and shows co-stars Thomas Haden Church, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple why he’s one of the best.

Gangster Squad to Re-Shoot Scenes Following Aurora Tragedy

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As you may have heard, Warner Bros. was caught in an unfortunate misstep following the horrible tragedy in Aurora, Colorado early Friday morning. The studio had some theaters show a trailer for Gangster Squad prior to screenings of The Dark Knight Rises that featured a movie theater shooting scene.

Warner Bros. pulled the promo (some argue not quickly enough), and now plans to remove the scene from the film entirely.

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The scene was apparently a rather pivotal one, and they are now scrambling to rewrite and re-shoot the sequence in order to make the film's September 7 release.

Warner Bros. spent the weekend deciding whether to delay the film's release instead of cutting the scene, but landed on re-shoots as the best option.

Gangster Squad stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Giovanni Ribisi (Ted). It tells the true story of Mickey Cohen, an East Coast gangster who terrorizes Los Angeles in the 1940s.

Jena Malone as Johanna Mason in Catching Fire: It's Official!

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Well, we reported three weeks ago that Jena Malone would play Johanna Mason in Catching Fire, but now it's absolutely, without question, 100% official.

Lionsgate released a press release today informing us that Malone had been cast as the antagonistic tribute. And though we pretty much already knew this, it's good to hear some official word.

Malone will join Jennifer Lawrence and newcomers Amanda Plummer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and possibly Sam Claflin, who is rumored to be playing Finnick Odair.

The sequel to The Hunger Games is based on the second book in Suzanne Collins' series. Catching Fire will be released on November 22, 2013.

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The Hobbit Production Video: See What They Showed at Comic-Con

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Just as The Hobbit transports viewers to Middle Earth, so to does the 8th The Hobbit production video transport viewers to Comic-Con. Check out Peter Jackson's trip to Comic-Con as well as the cool behind-the-scenes footage he showed fans there:

The production crew had the almost unfathomable task of creating an entire world for the big screen, and from the looks of these Hobbit stills, they succeeded beautifully.

The Hobbit stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, and Benedict Cumberbatch, who will also star in Star Trek 2.

The film will be released in two parts, with both having been shot in succession. The first film, An Unexpected Journey, premieres December 14. The second, There and Back Again, hits theaters December 13, 2013.

Step Up Revolution Exclusive: tWitch & Jamal Sims Dish Dancing

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Since capturing hearts on So You Think You Can Dance, dancer Stephen “tWitch” Boss has made his way to the big screen. Most remember him from Step Up 3D, but he also did his thing in Hairspray and Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming. tWitch is back in the Step Up Revolution cast and he is visiting with Movie Fanatic for an exclusive video interview along with the film’s choreographer, Jamal Sims.

Sims has been quite busy of late orchestrating the dance moves used in four movies in the last 18 months: Footloose, Jack and Jill, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son and now Step Up Revolution.

The pair join forces to give us an inside look at what was the most difficult of all the extraordinary dance sequences in the fourth Step Up movie to film. Hint: It’s featured heavily in the Step Up Revolution trailer.

Violent weather forced Sims to make a last second change to the film's central dance number. “We were planning on doing it outside,” Sims said. “The day we arrived, they said we couldn’t shoot outside. So we had to take everything that was outside in this huge space and put it in a small space.”

“You just have to roll with it,” tWitch added. “There is no time to second guess it.”

The result is magic.

Sam Worthington May Co-Star in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Ten

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Sam Worthington is in talks to co-star in David Ayer's new crime drama Ten. Worthington would star alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, who joined the Ten cast in May.

Worthington is best known for his role as Jake Sully in Avatar. He also starred in Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, and Man on a Ledge.

Australian Actor Sam Worthington

Ten tells the story of an elite DEA squad who, after pulling of an elaborate drug heist, are mysteriously killed off one by one.

Ayer has written a slew of law-enforcement films including Training Day and S.W.A.T. His latest film End of Watch, which he both wrote and directed, comes out September 28. Check out the End of Watch trailer for more.

Ten is set to be released some time in 2013.

The Dark Knight Rises Has 3rd Best Opening Weekend of All Time: Weekend Box Office Results

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In deference to the families and victims of the shooting in Aurora early Friday morning, Warner Bros. joined with the other studios in abstaining from their traditional celebration of the weekend numbers.

As such (and rightly so), we had no box office results to report to you yesterday. Today, however, the earnings for The Dark Knight Rises have snuck out without the typical fanfare. According to Box Office Mojo, the film grossed $160.9 million through the weekend, making it the third best opening weekend in history.

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The Avengers tore the record to shreds in May, earning $207.4 million in its first three days. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2 is in second place with $169.2 million. Rises just barely beat out its predecessor, 2008's The Dark Knight, which took in $158.4 million to open its theater run, and currently sits in fourth place in the category.

Batman, Selina Kyle, Bane, and The Dark Knight Rises are eying the $600 million domestic mark that The Avengers reached earlier this year. Do you think Christopher Nolan's final Batman flick can compete with Earth's Mightiest Heroes?

Considering the respect the studios have given to those affected by the tragedy, we should remember that while we are allowed to enjoy the film to the fullest, these numbers are ultimately just that; numbers. Read Christopher Nolan's statement about the shooting for his thoughts.

UPDATE: THE FULL BOX OFFICE REPORT HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED.

Box Office Top 10:

1. The Dark Knight Rises, $160.9 million

2. Ice Age: Continental Drift, $20.4 million
3. The Amazing Spider-Man, $10.9 million
4. Ted$10 million
5. Brave, $6 million
6. Magic Mike, $4.3 million
7. Savages, $3.4 million
8. Madea's Witness Protection,
$2.3 million
9. Moonrise Kingdom, $1.8 million
10. To Rome With Love $1.4 million


Emile Hirsch Signs on to Navy SEAL Movie Lone Survivor

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Emile Hirsch has signed on to star alongside Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, and Ben Foster in the upcoming film Lone Survivor.

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The film, based on the nonfiction book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10, tells the story of four Navy SEALs who were captured by Al Qaeda during a mission to kill a terrorist leader. Battleship's Peter Berg will direct.

Hirsch most recently starred in Oliver Stone's Savages, along with Kitsch. Wahlberg, meanwhile, is coming off the comedy Ted, written and directed by Seth MacFarlane. Check out some Ted quotes for a look.

Lone Survivor is set to begin shooting this September. No word yet on a release date.

Singing in the Rain Blu-Ray Review: Celebrating 60 Years

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Singin' in the Rain, the number one musical of all time, according to AFI, is celebrating 60 years by being released in a one-of-a-kind and limited edition Blu-Ray set. Movie Fanatic received the impressive package and could not recommend it more.

Singin in the Rain Blu-Ray SetFirst of all, Gene Kelly’s smile has never looked as radiant as it does in hi-def. In fact, the movie is a beauty to behold on so many levels. 

Great sound and picture is to be expected with any Blu-Ray release, but there is something truly special about the job done by Warner Bros. with the Singin’ in the Rain 60th Anniversary edition.

The set we received not only wowed us with the movie itself, but also with what was included in the Blu-Ray limited edition set.

The multi-disc set includes the astounding content listed below. It is one of the best special feature additions for a classic film that we have ever witnessed.

Singin’ in the Rain 60th Anniversary Edition Special Features:

  • Singin’ in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation: All-new Documentary presented in High Definition on Blu-ray
  • Commentary by Stanley Donen, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Cyd Charisse, Kathleen Freeman, screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, and film historian Rudy Behlmer
  • Great Performances: Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM, a 1996 PBS documentary about the career of producer/songwriter Arthur Freed
  • The Making of Singin’ in the Rain
  • You are My Lucky Star: Outtake musical number
  • Nacio Herb Brown/Arthur Freed Film Excerpts (a collection of 12 film clips from earlier films with Freed/Brown songs)
  • Scoring Stage Session Cues
  • Stills gallery
  • Theatrical trailer (below)

Also included in the box set are treats that no Singin’ in the Rain fan should be without, including:

  • 48-page hardcover commemorative book that highlights the behind-the-scenes history of how the musical made it to the big screen
  • Collective full-size umbrella with charm
  • Original theatrical door panel display reproduction

Easy Money Exclusive Interview: Joel Kinnaman Comes Out a Star

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Joel Kinnaman, fresh from finishing filming the new RoboCop where he takes the title role, sits down for an exclusive interview with Movie Fanatic to discuss the film that put him on the map. Easy Money is a crime thriller that still has this writer trying to shake off its power. “I’m very proud of it. I think it’s maybe the best work I’ve done, in front of the camera anyway,” Kinnaman said.

Joel Kinnaman in Easy Money
Kinnaman portrays JW, a talented Stockholm business school student who is tired of being on the cusp of Sweden’s high society. When an opportunity arises for him to participate in a drug deal that will bring him the kind of money to firmly plant him in Stockholm’s upper crust, he takes it… and our unforgettable thriller begins. 

Movie Fanatic: What do you think most prepared you for the role of JW?

Joel Kinnaman: It was very rewarding. I just had went on hiatus from playing Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, which is something quite similar -- a storyline that takes him even further. I was in a very good place to go there with this guy.

Movie Fanatic: Your director, Daniel Espinosa in our Safe House interview, had such great things to say about this film. How did you find him as a helmer?

Joel Kinnaman: Daniel is one of my best friends. I met him about 2002 or 2003, when I auditioned for his first feature. I was offered a part in that movie but then I turned it down because I had just gotten accepted to the acting school, the national dramatic acting school of Sweden. But we stayed in touch and we became friends after that. Then, when I was getting out of acting school, we were developing this movie that we wanted to do together but we couldn’t get it approved from the government board that sort of gives half of the budget to a movie. But then he got Easy Money. I’d probably say no to any director in the world if Daniel wanted me to do a movie. I think he has a couple of true masterpieces in him. He’s just a very powerful director.

Movie Fanatic: What struck you most when you first got the script?

Joel Kinnaman: First of all, it was a world that we hadn’t really seen in Sweden before. The criminal world hadn’t been portrayed in any believable way. It’s something that we and everybody was talking about: it’s so frustrating that we can’t see stories about the criminal world that we all knew was out there. Some of us knew it firsthand and the Danish were doing it so much better -- Nicolas Winding Refn, with his Pusher trilogy.

Movie Fanatic: What did you treasure most about portraying your character, JW?

Joel Kinnaman: I love that the centerpiece of the movie is a character that comes from the country, that is sort of a Talented Mr. Ripley. He comes into this meeting ground in a part of Stockholm, where a lot of the nightclubs are, and the upper crust and the criminal world come together. And he was a character that wove in between them. Apart from being such a complex character that had so many sides that were fun to play, I thought it was just a story that took these people very seriously and it wasn’t judgmental. It took place in a moral gray zone that I think is where most of life takes place. And that’s what I think is interesting to show to the audience, because in the moral gray zone, that’s where I think the audience will have to make up their own mind. So then you force them to think and that’s what you want to do.

Ruby Sparks Exclusive Interview: Zoe Kazan on Real & Reel Love

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Zoe Kazan and her Ruby Sparks co-star Paul Dano have been together romantically for five years. She was so moved by their love and her boyfriend’s talent -- she penned a script just so they could finally share scenes in the same film. “Even when we’re not working together, we help each other out,” Kazan dished about Dano in our exclusive video interview.

“There’s something ineffable about him, you cannot put your finger on it.”

The actress is clearly beyond the moon with excitement that not only was Ruby Sparks able to be made, but she pinches herself thinking about how Little Miss Sunshine directors -- and fellow lovebirds -- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, chose her film as their next project.

And don’t get her started on the stellar cast of Ruby Sparks that includes Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas and Elliot Gould!

Total Recall Featurette: Action!

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Here's a little insider tidbit: When Woody Allen starts filming, he yells "Endearing intellectual bumbling!"

On the set of Total Recall, director Len Wiseman can yell "action!" and mean it. Check out this behind-the-scenes featurette, which details the action in the film:

Total Recall stars Colin Farrell as Doug Quaid, a role originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Expendables 2) in the 1990 version. Quaid, a factory worker in a futuristic dystopian society, goes to a company called Rekall to implant his brain with false memories. What he finds is that they've already done that, and that he's a secret agent.

Kate Beckinsale plays his fake wife, with Jessica Biel starring as a member of the Resistance. Jon Cho, Bryan Cranston, and Bill Nighy also star.

Catch Total Recall in theaters August 3. Until then, have a look at this Total Recall trailer.

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