Sam Mendes

Oprah Winfrey's Next Project: Sexually Charged HBO Pilot

www.dotspotter.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Oprah Winfrey 's production company Harpo films is teaming up with HBO to launch a sensual and steamy pilot. This news comes after Winfrey's announcement last week that she's leaving her show. The hour long show is about a woman who leaves her perfect nuclear family in Santa Monica, Calif. to fulfill her secret fantasies and desires in the grimy parts of Los Angeles, Variety reports. Winfrey, Harpo...

Oprah gets steamy with HBO

Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

TV News: Harpo Films sets sensual pilot at network -- Oprah Winfrey has a surprising project in the works.

Is makeup necessary?

AngloAustria (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

I was in Reading today, in Caversham, and this always reminds me of Caversham's very own Kate Winslett and her dreadful marriage to another child of Reading, film director Sam Mendes. As it's been a while since we last mentioned Mrs Mendes on AngloAustria, I thought we had better right that unfortunate wrong. It was tricky to think of a subject heading, as I sailed over Caversham bridge on my way back...

Eva Mendes : Eva Mendes uses her sex-symbol status to secure film roles

Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Actress Eva Mendes has revealed that she turns on her sexuality when she needs to secure film roles. Mendes, 35, admits she’s not afraid to use her sex-symbol status to get what she wants. “I don’t allow myself to be typecast, but when I have to turn up the heat and turn up the sexuality and I [...] Related posts: Eva Mendes : Eva Mendes says Kate Winslet gets all her dream roles...

Jonathan Demme to Turn Dave Eggers Katrina Book Into Cartoon

Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

When the levees broke.

On the London Stage: On the London Stage, a 'Little Voice' Grown Powerful

New York Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Jim Cartwright's "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'' tells of a teen familial face-off; and "Pains of Youth" presents a creepy image of pre-wartime doctors.

Cinema Italiano

Stale Popcorn (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

I noticed this previously unseen moment of Nicole Kidman in Nine as I watched the newly released trailer for the film, Rob Marshall's next that is out in January (Australia). It's a beautiful shot as one would expect from cinematographer Dion Beebe of Nicole Kidman, but after getting past that - and the other stunning images, particularly those of Penelope Cruz doing her lingerie-clad acrobatics routine...

The Wild Things

New Statesman (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Return to: | | The Wild ThingsBy Dave EggersReviewed by - 12 November 2009 A tame taleDave Eggers is like the cool kid at school whom everyone simultaneously hates and wants to be. It is too easy to resent an author who is presented as America's "hottest"; whose literary magazine McSweeney's has attracted a coterie of admirers including Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace and Nick Hornby; for...

Film Fight: October 2009

Solitude (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

A film fight that’s up within a few weeks of it’s due date? I must be getting caught up. Anyway, October was an obscenely strong month. Let’s get on with it. Zombieland is exactly my kind of film. Zombies, gore, action and comedy all packaged together neatly into 90 or so minutes. The whole thing is [...]

Year One

Dave's Thoughts And That (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

Harold Ramis. Jack Black. Michael Cera. Hank Azaria. Paul Rudd. Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Just some of the names that star in/direct one of the biggest comedies of 2009, written by Gene Stupnitsky (The Office) and Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Animal House to name but a few). Somehow, despite the stellar names and a fairly watertight premise, Year One doesn't quite deliver. Perhaps...

Cusack Interested in 'Preacher'?

CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Recently, Sam Mendes ( The Road to Perdition, Away We Go ) said the script for Preacher — an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book series — is about halfway finished. Now it appears that John Cusack, who’s starring in the upcoming 2012 , may want in on it. In an interview with io9 , Cusack described a comic book movie circulating around Hollywood that he’s trying to get himself...

Jake Gyllenhaal in "Source Code"

Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

"Jake Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to star in sci-fi thriller "Source Code" for Vendome Pictures and the Mark Gordon Co. Duncan Jones with his father David Bowie at the premiere of "Moon", Sundance Film Festival on 23rd January 23, 2009. Duncan Jones will direct and Mark Gordon will produce with Vendome's CEO Philippe Rousselet and Jordan Wynn. Production is slated to begin...

Cusack and Preacher?

JoBlo (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Is John Cusack fishing for a role in PREACHER? Perhaps, at least he thinks that's what it is. The peeps over at io9 got an exclusive with Cusack where the topic of comic book movies came up. As you might already know, Sam Mendes will be directing with John August (GO, CHARLIES ANGELS) penning the screenplay. Cusack is down with doing a comic novel, but would rather do something more adult oriented...

John Cusack Wants a Role in the Preacher Movie, Idris Elba Fancies a Part in 100 Bullets

Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

John Cusack says "I don't know if there are any more superheroes left", but he knows as well as we do that there's plenty more, cape-free comic books ripe for big screen adaptation, and that a great number of them seem fit to make for rather good movies. One project in particular has caught his eye, and that's the movie adaptation of Preacher that Sam Mendes is still attached to and that...

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John Cusack Thinking About Becoming A Preacher

Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Vampire hunting in his future?

Download Away We Go Online | Watch Away We Go Free

parttmjer | 02/06/2009

Want to download Away We Go full movie online ? Away We Go is the latest blockbuster to hit the screens in US. Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download Away We Go . Away We Go - The Plot Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John...