Blue Valentine: ‘lengthy oral sex’ ratings fight
30 January, 2010
‘”Blue Valentine” is the consummate awards contender ‘ With the low seven-figure purchase, Harvey Weinstein was able to get in the awards game relatively cheaply — a lot more cheaply than he would making an awards movie from scratch.
“Blue Valentine” is the consummate awards contender. The film, which includes an unflinching sequence at an abortion clinic and a lengthy oral sex scene, may have a fight on its hands with the ratings folks at the Motion Picture Association of America. In a statement, Harvey Weinstein said: “The quality of the film and daringness of the filmmakers is astounding. As for Ryan and Michelle Williams, their performances are incendiary.”
The Weinstein Co. nabbed U.S., Canadian and Pan-Asian satellite territory rights to Derek Cianfrance’s romantic drama starring the pair in a low-seven-figure deal.
WME Global chief Graham Taylor was in an anxious huddle at a restaurant off Main Street well after midnight Thursday with “Blue Valentine” producers (and his personal valentine) Lynette Howell, Jamie Patricof and Alex Orlovsky, (the team behind the 2006 Sundance hit “Half Nelson”) as all-night negotiations were going down. IFC Films and Sony Pictures Classics were also said to be in the mix.
“Blue Valentine” offers the possibility of pitching both a lead male and female, as well as the filmmakers, particularly director and co-writer Derek Cianfrance, who developed the script for years and is said to have written more than 60 drafts of the script before the Incentive film fund and WME kick-started it last spring. With the low seven-figure purchase, Harvey’s able to get in the awards game relatively cheaply — a lot more cheaply than he would making an awards movie from scratch.
Tribeca Film Institute annual benefit
3 December, 2009
Tribeca Film Institute’s annual benefit on Thursday, December 3, which this year includes the New York premiere of Everybody’s Fine, the new film starring Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale. A remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Stanno tutti bene, Everybody’s Fine follows a widower (De Niro) on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with his three grown children over the holidays. The touching film, directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine), is destined to become a new holiday classic.
Actually, Tiger was arguing about Buick
3 December, 2009
General Motors Corp., 24 November, agreed to discontinue a marketing accord with Tiger Woods, the world’s top-ranked golfer, at year’s end as plummeting sales spur cost cuts at the automaker. The golfer was driving a Cadillac Escalade, made by General Motors, when he crashed into a fire hydrant and then a tree at 2am 27 November. A spokesman for GM said that Woods received the car as a prize for winning the Buick Open golf tournament, which was sponsored by GM.
Michelle Williams Dawson’s Creek
19 November, 2009
all six seasons in one handsome, book-bound set. James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Philipps.
Heath Ledger Lindsay Lohan
13 November, 2009
Heath Ledger Nov. 22, 2007
Lindsay lohan January 19, 2008
Lindsay[ 2007] , who was rumored to have been dating Heath Ledger in Lindsay Lohan ditched snowboarder lover Riley Giles after hooking up with single Oscar-nominated star Heath Ledger, according to reports.
The actress split with Giles–who she met in rehab–last week, supposedly so the actress could concentrate on her career.
But Australian magazine NW claims she dumped Giles after meeting Ledger in a New York club over Thanksgiving. [Lindsay Lohan went home for Thanksgiving November 22, 2007... or out for dinner with them in NY]
The magazine reports, “Lindsay and Heath hit it off straight away. When she left the club she started texting him straight away and they hooked up a few times while she was still in New York. They were meeting late at night for sex. It was purely physical.”
Ledger has been single since splitting from fiancée Michelle Williams in September.
Lindsay Lohan’s Thanksgiving Holiday
Lindsay Lohan leaves her Long Island home and spends time in New York City with her family over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Lindsay, 21, dined at at Nick Deangelo’s in Merrick, Long Island, accompanied by mom Dina, little brother Cody and snowboarder boyfriend Riley Giles.
“Lindsay is home [for the holidays],” Dina told Life & Style recently. “And my son Michael is home from college. We all have so much to be thankful for!”
Saturdays are meant for shopping, and that’s exactly where shopaholic Lindsay Lohan could be found yesterday afternoon (January 19). 08
A little bit rock-and-roll, a little bit Euro-cool
5 November, 2009
A little bit rock-and-roll, a little bit Euro-cool
A collection of neutral basics — a loose Zara cardigan, simple T-shirt and skinny Nudie jeans — paired with Gucci sunglasses, a flowing scarf picked up in Barcelona and a pair of flat leather Bronx boots.
Illegal Alien Halloween Costume
18 October, 2009
Illegal Alien costume
note green card
alien costume
alien costume
full view
Local retailers continue to stock the costume that also comes with a ”green” card — which technically makes the alien legal. ”That the creature was holding a green card was a stab at a (broader) community,” he said, because it suggests even with a legal document, immigrants are still scary criminals. Another illegal alien mask recently on the market sported a baseball cap and a black mustache. ”More than likely we will not sell it next year as we have learned that rubber masks do not make a good medium for social commentary.” But William Gheen, head of the North Carolina-based political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration, said efforts to get stores not to sell the costume amounted to an attack on freedom of speech. He urged Americans to buy the costumes in protest.
Michelle Williams above the title
26 September, 2009
Shutter Island Poster
shutter island credits
Q. What’s “above the title”?
A. In a film, a name, such as the director or other prominent person, whose name appears in an advertisement, poster or the film itself, before the main title.
