TEN AMAZING WES FACTS 1. Wes made iPhone videos of himself acting out the scenes in MR Fox to send to the animators when he couldn't describe something in words.2. Owen Wilson and Wes went to the same school on Houston, Texas, and the two friends have worked together on every single one of Wes's films.3. He once carried $14,000 in a suitcase in order to pay off Bill Murray's debts.4. In Mr Fox,
Oscar-nominated actor Owen Wilson, 38, was hospitalized after attempting suicide; The National Enquirer has broke the story Monday exclusively. At 12:10 p.m. on August 26, 2007 , Owen Wilson was rushed to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica , California , by ambulance. Initial reports cited the reason as dehydration, however it has been reported that he was discovered with superficial wounds to his...
Wes Anderson's funny, fabulous Fantastic Mr. Fox feels like a book that's been missing from his library, an all-ages comedy with tender life lessons gently imparted by lovable characters. For all I know, Roald Dahl is spinning in his grave, but the British author's book has provided Anderson with a badly-needed spark that reignites his creative juices. Not that Anderson's post-Owen Wilson collaborations...
Personally speaking, I've been a fan of Jason Schwartzman since he and writer-director Wes Anderson collaborated on Rushmore and created what I still think is a definitive portrait of the beautiful torment of teenage life. While of course Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson conceived the ideas, Schwartzman fleshed them out both literally and emotionally, offering a character that was weird and idiosyncratic...
Fox's 11 I'm pretty much the sucker for stop motion animation, so this naturally comes with that wee bit of bias, because I surely take my hats off to the filmmakers, especially the modelers and pretty much everyone who has to painstakingly move everything a little bit at a time, which for folks who are impatient (like myself), would already have driven one nuts. But this crazy effort in bringing to...
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is great. Still only in limited release, Anderson’s sixth feature officially ends his frustrating creative downturn. His career came storming out of the gate, with the one-two-three punch of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. But then he stopped writing with Owen Wilson, and his next two features (The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited)...
I picked up the Criterion edition of The Royal Tenenbaums for The Husband because I had heard it was a good comedy but didn't give it to him because, as I read a bit about it, it just didn't seem to be his "type" of comedy -too much tragedy in the midst of it all, maybe. I ended up putting it in the stack with all the other to-be-watched DVDs, and the Younger Son picked it tonight. We liked...
Something aobut stop-motion animation, Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson seems like a perfect collision in aesthetics, sensibilities and quirk. Everything that's grown to annoy me about Anderson's old money-Owen Wilson-Bill Murray movies (Darjeeling, Life Aquatic) fades into memory with his...
the fantastic mr.fox movie (book by roald dahl )opens thanksgiving day!!! yay! i get to interview mr.fox's son ash ( jason schwartzman ) tomorrow :) here's what the movie pr person told me to share with mod*mom readers: fantastic mr. fox is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop-motion techniques to tell the story of the best-selling children’s...
So, I’m all excited about Wes Anderson’s 6th film, Fantastic Mr. Fox . I mean, I’ve already seen it, but am still super stoked about it. It’s totally awesome and will easily win the statue for best animated film. It’s occurred to me though that maybe some people aren’t as familiar with the writer/director as they should be. So, i thought I’d remind you. This...
Jeez, I haven't seen the original Bottle Rocket short in 15 or 16 years. L.M.Kit Carson, who helped Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson with the funding to complete it (and who got it into Sundance and showed the short to Polly Platt, etc.) showed me a tape of it, as I recall. And this isn't even the whole thing....
Today's stars! Well not literally today 's but November 18th . Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you. Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante 1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy , drop everything right now and do so. 1908 Imogene Coca...
Actress Chloe Sevigny Boys Don’t Cry is 35. Actor Owen Wilson The Royal Tenenbaums and Zoolander is 41. Rapper Fabolous is 30. Actor Oscar Nunez The Office is 51. Actress Peta Wilson La Femme Nikita is 39. Actor Mike Epps is 39. Guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica is 47. Singer Kim Wilde is 49. Image credit to Juan Rico/Fame Pictures.
Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuu Happy Birthday to you! The Star Celeb would like to wish the following people a very happy birthday completely free of sarcasm this November 18th, 2009: Owen Wilson who turns 41 born November 18th, 1968 Elizabeth Perkins who turns 49 born November 18th, 1960 and; Linda Evans who turns 66 born November 18th, 1942 Have a wonderful...
Based on the book by Roald Dahl, Mr. Fox features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman. The Fantastic Mr. Fox telling the story of a crafty fox who finds himself and his family targeted for death by the three dumb, pug-ugly farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the critter.
Plot: Surfer/drifter/con guy Jack Ryan (Wilson) makes his cours to Hawaii and lands a concern caring for an Walter Crewes (Freeman), a referee on the island. His current gig leads to an responsibility complexi with an comely, darin Eve (Foster), who's assuredly the flame of a genuine lands big noise (Sinise) - a shade capitalist and longtime opponent compeer of Judge Crewes. Ryan, typically, has to...