Jonah Hill Telling A True Story

Along with James FrancoSince Moneyball saw him A) switching successfully to drama, B) working with Brad Pitt, and C) scoring an Oscar nomination, it's no surprise to learn that Jonah Hill is planning a combo of at least the first two elements for an upcoming film. He'll star alongside James Franco in True Story.The script was adapted from Michael Finkel's memoir, and will find Hill playing Finkel, who was working for the NY Times magazine back in 2002 when he sniffed out a likely story. The FBI had captured criminal Christian Longo (Franco) after he'd spent a few years on the FBI's Most Wanted List for killing his family.So far, so standard crime tale, right? But here's the twist: Longo had been using Finkel's identity while on the run. And to add one more wrinkle, the NYT fired Finkel the day after Longo was nabbed after deciding he'd falsified chunks of a recent investigative article. But when Longo declared that Finkel was the only journalist he'd talk to, and that he wanted to prove his innocence, a weird relationship grew with Finkel looking into the mystery and trying to redeem himself as a writer...So where does Pitt factor into it, we hear you ask... Well, he's producing the movie via his Plan B company, having won the rights to the project back from Paramount. Rupert Goold is directing, and while there's no financing in place you, you've got to figure the combo of Oscar nominees would be enough to make investors ready to jump aboard.

Because Of Due To Jimmy Kimmel Locks Within The famous host the famous host oprah, Jason Bateman For Publish-Oscars Special

Late evening talk show host Because Of Due To Jimmy Kimmel is yanking out all the stops for his publish-Oscars special, airing around the month of the month of january 26. Up to now hes handled to book the very best The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey, among a sea of several other A-listers set to avoid by. Jessica Biel, Jason Bateman, Qq Abrams, Steven Tyler, Tyler Perry, Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Ryan Philippe happen to be confirmed, People.com reviews. The annual publish-show fete, Because Of Due To Jimmy Kimmel Live: Following a Academy awards, may even include looks from Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Martin Scorsese, additionally to some performance from Coldplay, EW.com adds. Oscar host Billy Very may even create a feel and look. Thinking about the show has launched such viral smashes like "F*@#ing Film Clip,Inch "Handsome Men's Club," "Hottie Body Difficulty Club" and "Tom Hanks's Young children in Tiaras, shenanigans are needed and due to the standard of talent Mr. Kimmel has reserved for your party (which will air on ABC right after news which will air right after the Academy awards next Sunday), we expect those to go hard or return home. Kimmel recently tweeted he needs This yr medicine best yet, and Vulture blog got their at work some funny posters spoofs that tease so what can happen through the show this year. Posters featuring gun and weapon-transporting Helen Mirren, Clooney and Tom Hanks tease the spoof M:TM, also called Movie: The Film. While little is well known in regards to the plot in the action film, it will include Charlize Theron, Don Cheadle, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Cameron Diaz, and Samuel L. Jackson. Are you currently presently excited for Kimmel's publish-Oscar special? Reveal inside the comments and also on Twitter!

'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace': The Reviews Were In!

"Star Wars: Episode I" returns to theaters today, in 3D. But lets flash back for a few moments to May 19th, 1999 the day The Phantom Menace was originally released. If you were a die-hard Star Wars fan, like I was, you were going to see this movie regardless of what the critics wrote about it. You ached to hear, once again, that familiar yet exciting 20th Century Fox fanfare before reading the opening crawl. You may have camped out on a dirty sidewalk for hours, days, weeks even, just so you could be one of the first to experience it. But if you werent one of those fans, you might have waited and checked out the reviews before making the decision to see The Phantom Menace. The following is a sampling of what youd have read. The Story The plot has something to do with a trade embargo being waged against a small planet called Naboo, an embargo that turns out to be a disguise for a planned full-scale invasion. Were never told what this tiny planet could possibly be worth to the enormous Trade Federation (the way we understand, in the first Star Wars, what the baddies stand to gain from the elimination of the rebel forces), so the storys basic conflict has no weight. Charles Taylor, Salon.com The Look There are new places here--new kinds of places. Consider the underwater cities, floating in their transparent membranes. The Senate chamber, a vast sphere with senators arrayed along the inside walls, and speakers floating on pods in the center. And other places: the cityscape with the waterfall that has a dizzying descent through space. And the other cities: one city Venetian, with canals, another looking like a hothouse version of imperial Rome, and a third that seems to have grown out of desert sands. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times The Gungan Yoda puts in a cameo, but the film's designated alien is Jar Jar Binks, a rabbit-eared ambulatory lizard whose pidgin English degenerates from pseudo-Caribbean patois to Teletubby gurgle. (Although Jar Jar can be construed as grotesquely Third World and the fish faces talk like Fu Manchu, the most blatant ethnic stereotype is the hook-nosed merchant insect who owns young Anakin.) Jar Jar and his fellow Gungans suck the oxygen out of every scene; their human costars seem understandably asphyxiated. J. Hoberman, The Village Voice The Kid Based on what we see here, it doesn't seem like such an ineffable mystery that this kid will end up a wheezing, intergalactic power-mongering control freak. A slave boy who already fashions himself a Jedi knight, Anakin is a precocious brat -- the kind of kid who, in our own galaxy, might commandeer a playground and run everybody else off the jungle gym. If the psychological richness of the Star Wars movies is grounded in Darth Vader's movement in and out of the light, then it may be high time to create a new myth -- i.e., a new franchise. Peter Rainer, NY Magazine The Final Word Nothing could live up to the hype of this film. Nothing. "Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace" is a movie. It's not the Second Coming. It's not even the First Coming, depending on your religious stance. It's just a movie. ... And while I'm saddened to report that it's a deeply flawed film in terms of both story line and character development, I'm happy to note that visually it's a marvel. Paul Clinton, CNN.com "Phantom Menace" discussed this week in Talk Nerdy!

The Berlin Film Festival: Why Still Matters for Hollywood

The Berlin Film Festival: Why Still Matters for Hollywood By Scott Roxborough February 7, 2012 Photo by Berlin Worldwide Film Festival It may be the sun and rain. It may be the frigid Berlin winter that inspires experts to repeat the identical bitter litany each year in regards to the Berlinale, that might be no stars, bad films, no new ideas.Several wags referred to as 2011's fest "the worst Berlinale ever." Really? A festival that incorporated Wim Wenders' groundbreaking 3d documentary "Pina," J.C. Chandor's furious financial drama "Margin Call" and also the astounding Iranian film "A Separation" -- which selected up Oscar nominations on Jan. 24?When the 62nd Berlinale opens Feb. 9, expect professionals being just like disgruntled. And basically as wrong. Berlin's broad, eclectic purchasing process helps it be harder to select which game game titles will be the large breakouts, but due to the festival's history, you will notice some. A combination part of possible standouts includes china imperial epic "White-colored Deer Plain" from Golden Bear champion Wang Quan'an ("Tuya's Marriage") "Home for your Weekend," a shattered-family drama within the always excellent German helmer Hendes-Christian Schmid ("Requiem") and Billy Bob Thornton's sixties period drama "Jayne Mansfield's Vehicle," featuring John Hurt, Kevin Sausage, Robert Duvall and Thornton themselves.Undertake and don't, however, will most likely return home while using Golden Bear. Berlin juries reserve the most effective prize for politically flavored cinema, so a betting guy would put his chips on Brillante Mendoza's "Taken" (about people using their company nations kidnapped by Filipino terrorists), Benedek Fliegauf's gypsy-focused thriller "Just the Wind" or Kim Nguyen's "Rebelle," which follows Komona, a 14-year-old soldier in Africa who's expecting a youthful child.There'll not substantially studio muscle on show in Berlin this year -- Warner Bros.' "Very Noisy & Incredibly Close," directed by Stephen Daldry, and Jason Reitman's "Youthful Adult" from Vital will be the only studio game game titles screening, neither of those competing. But Berlin never remains a studio launchpad and, since the Oscar nominations gone after mid-The month of the month of january in 2004, the studios' prestige films are starting earlier around, to the benefit of the fall fests and hindrance of Berlin. "Moneyball" bowed in Toronto, "The Descendants" in Telluride and "Hugo" in the surprise screening within the NY Film Festival. A far more compact studio presence means less stars, so Berlin has required to get creative to make sure sufficient red-colored-colored-carpet wattage. Since the only public festival of Europe's large three (Cannes and Venice are industry-only), Berlin needs its stars.Festival director Dieter Kosslick has needed to brushing the indie ranks for additional compact features, frequently directorial debuts, with large-title casts. And this year, Berlin gets the world premiere of "Bel Ami," a period of time piece from first-timers Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod that counts Rachelle Lefervre, Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas among its A-list talent James Marsh's Sundance entry "Shadow Dancer" with Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson and Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire," featuring Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Antonio Banderas. Jennifer Aniston will attend a distinctive screening of her directorial debut, "Inside the Land of Blood stream and Honey," and Meryl Streep will get a pre-Oscar Golden Bear in recognition of her life's work.For your industry, however, Berlin's real draw is its market. Again offered out and reserved solid, Berlin's European Film Companies are forecasted to become blockbuster, no less than in contrast while using staid and low-volume American Film Market in November.Pre-buys of in-development projects will probably be where the large money is, but expect a brisk business in pick-ups of finished films -- specially the more audience-friendly fare that screens in Berlin's Decades and Panorama sidebars. In Panorama, be cautious for "Iron Sky," in addition to-over-blown, extended- in-development Finnish "Nazis wideInch spoof, and "Cherry," an indie drama featuring Louise Graham just like a porno film director and James Franco just like a coke-addled lawyer.If the all systems Feb. 19, professionals likely will say it absolutely was an inadequate Berlinale and talk within the "amazing" selection likely to Cannes. The, meanwhile, will convince accumulate its deal memos and prebook Berlin's Grand Hyatt for 2013. The Hollywood Reporter The Berlin Film Festival: Why Still Matters for Hollywood By Scott Roxborough February 7, 2012 PHOTO CREDIT Berlin Worldwide Film Festival It may be the sun and rain. It may be the frigid Berlin winter that inspires experts to repeat the identical bitter litany each year in regards to the Berlinale, that might be no stars, bad films, no new ideas.Several wags referred to as 2011's fest "the worst Berlinale ever." Really? A festival that incorporated Wim Wenders' groundbreaking 3d documentary "Pina," J.C. Chandor's furious financial drama "Margin Call" as well as the astounding Iranian film "A Separation" -- which acquired Oscar nominations on Jan. 24?When the 62nd Berlinale opens Feb. 9, expect professionals being much like disgruntled. And basically as wrong. Berlin's broad, eclectic purchasing process helps it be harder to select which game game titles will be the large breakouts, but due to the festival's history, you will notice some. A combination part of possible standouts includes china imperial epic "White-colored Deer Plain" from Golden Bear champion Wang Quan'an ("Tuya's Marriage") "Home for your Weekend," a shattered-family drama within the always excellent German helmer Hendes-Christian Schmid ("Requiem") and Billy Bob Thornton's sixties period drama "Jayne Mansfield's Vehicle," featuring John Hurt, Kevin Sausage, Robert Duvall and Thornton themselves.Undertake and don't, however, will most likely return home while using Golden Bear. Berlin juries reserve the most effective prize for politically flavored cinema, so a betting guy would put his chips on Brillante Mendoza's "Taken" (about people using their company nations kidnapped by Filipino terrorists), Benedek Fliegauf's gypsy-focused thriller "Just the Wind" or Kim Nguyen's "Rebelle," which follows Komona, a 14-year-old soldier in Africa who's expecting a youthful child.There'll not substantially studio muscle on show in Berlin this year -- Warner Bros.' "Very Noisy & Incredibly Close," directed by Stephen Daldry, and Jason Reitman's "Youthful Adult" from Vital will be the only studio game game titles screening, neither of those competing. But Berlin never remains a studio launchpad and, since the Oscar nominations gone after mid-The month of the month of january in 2004, the studios' prestige films are starting earlier around, to the benefit of the fall fests and hindrance of Berlin. "Moneyball" bowed in Toronto, "The Descendants" in Telluride and "Hugo" in the surprise screening within the NY Film Festival. A far more compact studio presence means less stars, so Berlin has required to get creative to make certain sufficient red-colored-colored-carpet wattage. Since the only public festival of Europe's large three (Cannes and Venice are industry-only), Berlin needs its stars.Festival director Dieter Kosslick has needed to brushing the indie ranks for additional compact features, frequently directorial debuts, with large-title casts. And this year, Berlin gets the world premiere of "Bel Ami," some time piece from first-timers Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod that counts Rachelle Lefervre, Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas among its A-list talent James Marsh's Sundance entry "Shadow Dancer" with Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson and Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire," featuring Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Antonio Banderas. Jennifer Aniston will attend a distinctive screening of her directorial debut, "Inside the Land of Blood stream and Honey," and Meryl Streep will get a pre-Oscar Golden Bear in recognition of her life's work.For your industry, however, Berlin's real draw is its market. Again offered out and reserved solid, Berlin's European Film Companies are forecasted to become blockbuster, no less than in contrast while using staid and low-volume American Film Market in November.Pre-buys of in-development projects will probably be where the large money is, but expect a brisk business in pick-ups of finished films -- specially the more audience-friendly fare that screens in Berlin's Decades and Panorama sidebars. In Panorama, be cautious for "Iron Sky," in addition to-over-blown, extended- in-development Finnish "Nazis wideInch spoof, and "Cherry," an indie drama featuring Louise Graham just like a porno film director and James Franco just like a coke-addled lawyer.If the all systems Feb. 19, professionals likely will say it absolutely was an insufficient Berlinale and talk within the "amazing" selection likely to Cannes. The, meanwhile, will convince accumulate its deal memos and prebook Berlin's Grand Hyatt for 2013. The Hollywood Reporter

As well as the Annie really visits ...

Mace Neufeld with helmer champion Jennifer Yuh Nelson John B. Carls, Craig Wood, Gore Verbinski and Mark McCreedy celebrate their wins for "Rango" within the Annie Honours. Annie Honours host Patton Oswalt found save your day of presenters Tara Strong, Jason Marsden and Brittany Snow, who inadvertantly introduced a champion from turn at UCLA's Royce Hall on Saturday. After showing the nominees to find the best TV production-preschool, Snow opened up up her envelope and study the champion in the next category. After sorting everything out and looking to console a very upset Snow, Oswalt quipped for the trio, "Don't mix your fingers relating to this 'Yo Gabba Gabba' cameo."Joining ASIFA-Hollywood prexy Frank Gladstone within the pre- and publish-kudos parties for your animation biz were Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Gore Verbinski, Mace Neufeld, Judy Greer and ASIFA-Hollywood co-founder June Foray.