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Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 10:00AM Pop & Hiss Reeve Carney, who previously appeared in Julie Taymor's Tempest and Julie Taymor's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, has signed on to play Jeff Buckley in a biopic. Sure he looks right enough for the part, but sadly, at least thus far, he doesn't seem to be much of an actor.
In Contention loves the motion picture soundtrack cover for Drive more than the movie posters. Fair enough... but omg what's inside!!!. I'm buying the crap out of that CD when it becomes available. I kept wishing the songs were originals so that I could be incensed when Oscar ignored them.
Reeve Carney as himself. Ryan Gosling in fetishized scorpion jacket.
Time Out HK has a good lengthy interview with Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu of Bishonen fame. He's starring opposite fighting Russell Crowe (literally) soon in The Man With the Iron Fists
Cinema Blend has a funny thought. What if Channing Tatum's stripper movie Magic Mike is the first film wherein Matthew McConaughey (who just signed on as the boss man) doesn't take his shirt off?
Cineuropa Lars Von Trier's next picture Nymphomaniac will detail a woman's sexual life from birth til she's 50. Good luck with the, uh, casting of that one Lars.
Playbill Cyndi Lauper & Harvey Fierstein's stage musical adaptation of the drag movie Kinky Boots (yes you read that sentence right) will get a big workshop in September. I didn't even like the movie and I'm so excited for it.
Via Twitter omg. Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse) is in The Avengers. Yay! I have no idea how this photo is supposed to prove it but it is.
Hollywood Reporter Oscar buzzing Viola Davis (The Help) may star in a new HBO series. First Julianne... now Viola? Pretty soon no actresses will be left for the movies ;)
The Cut the cast of Glee is in Vogue. Why no Mercedes or Santana?
Music Video Break
Do you like Mika? I do muchly. Here's his latest music video "Elle Me Dit" but I only share it on this film blog because he's moved on from Grace Kelly to... Frenchsuperstar Fanny Ardant (8 Women, Ridicule, Roman de Gare). The video seems vaguely inspired by Wes Anderson (does Fanny then equal Anjelica Huston?) divided by François Ozon because if he was going for Wes, there's not enough center frame closeup.
What'cha think?
Reader Comments (13)
The video is indeed inspired by François Ozon and Wes Anderson, specifically the Royal Tenenbaums, he says it in an interview that's on youtube as well: http://youtu.be/SlOKnoQR5EA (there's a translation in the comments).
I just want to watch a movie with those characters. That's all I kept thinking while watching the music video. Haven't heard the song until now also and I love it. So catchy even if I have no idea what he's singing (oh 3-years of high school French, you fail me).
Hooray for Enver Gjokaj. So wonderful in Dollhouse that I'd love to see him on the big screen. He can do anything! I love it when really great (underrecognised) TV actors get a break, and love that you talked about Jurnee Smollett recently. I'm one of about two people that have seen Friday Night Lights in the UK (the first two season aired on a poor digital channel and then it was dropped completely), and would pretty much follow that main cast anywhere.
Hm...no Mercedes or Santana..the actors of color...makes you wonder..
Jenna Ushkowitz and Harry Shum Jr. are also "of colour".
They said it was a scheduling issue for the two of them to be absent.
Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer all in the same male stripper film/??!?!?? OMG!!!!!! I hope this is a trashy version of Burlesque!!! CANT WAIT LOL
Dave -- unfortunately it won't be trashy. Soderbergh is directing. ;)
The article on Von Trier says he's got two of the main actors. I would have loved to see Nicole get into this and really get her kink on in a way she hasn't since Kubrick (when he shot scenes of Nicole making out with a sailor, most of which apparently landed on the cutting room floor.) But it's probably ten years too late for that (no one associates Nicole with sex anymore, if they ever did); although she is playing a death-row groupie in The Paperboy. One of her last great perfs IMO (barring Birth) was in Dogville, so I'd be interested in what the two could do together ten years later (older and hopefully wiser?)
@SC: "Scheduling Issue"? Should I file that along with all other Hollywood press cliches, such as "hospitalized for exhaustion" (aka rehab?)
Loved le clip! I saw Ardant in person many years ago while she was promoting Pédale douce. Such a fascinating actress...
Mika's clip is a tonsorial wonder. I have definite hair jealousy watching that. Does Mika have a new CD coming out soon (fingers crossed).
I tend to side with Vogue on this one. They don't have much (anything) to gain by blatantly not inviting these two actresses and including everyone else. If they really were being racist with this, it is a lot more logical to just go Rachel/Finn/Quinn/Kurt/Puck...you know, the "main" couples (plus Kurt).
Or Vogue really could just be this blatantly racist. I don't know.
I would also hope that the rest of the cast of "Glee" would not go along with those two not being invited, otherwise they're horrible people. One also imagines that Naya and Amber themselves wouldn't be pleased.
I haven't confirmed this or anything, but apparently the Vogue shoot unfortunately coincided with both of the actresses being sick. Like someone said above, I highly doubt that Vogue would purposefully leave them out. They have nothing to gain by doing so.