Disconnect, which is the latest effort from Murderball director Henry Alex Rubin, looks like it could be the Babel of the wired world based on this trailer. The synopsis also indicates that we’ll be getting a series of intertwining stories with one thing in common: the perils of our digital society.
The cast includes Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Max Thieriot and Alexander Skarsgard.
The synopsis:
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can’t find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today’s wired world.
Intriguing. The poster is cool, too.
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Justin Timberlake put out his new song with Jay-Z last night and if this song is his way of trying to get us to beg him to go back to making movies, it’s working – IDLYITW
I want to drink from a bottle labeled DRINK ME so that I can shrink down to size and then roll around naked on Daniel Day-Lewis’ luscious silver mop - Lainey Gossip
CONFIRMED: Alexander Skarsgard’s double peen print tells me that he’s got enough peen to go around! – The Superficial
If I don’t have to wear chonies under the man dress, I’m in – Towleroad
Sarah Hyland got Vergara-ized – Hollywood Tuna
Julianne Moore was the definition of ginger perfection last night – Celebitchy
Sharon Osbourne’s voodoo spell on Lady CaCa worked, because the bitch split her pants – Drunken Stepfather
Why isn’t celebrity facemath a subject in high school? It should be – The Berry
Since Los Angeles is freezing over (it’s like 55 degrees) and has entered its ice age, I’m surprised Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez aren’t wearing UGGs, parkas and Burberry scarves with their dresses – Popoholic
Nicole Kidman should’ve worn an “I Peed On Zac Efron” t-shirt to the Golden Globes last night to remind all of us why she deserved to win – Popsugar
Chloe Moretz got fake engaged to her teenage boyfriend
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Full Story »Sundance ‘11 darling Brit Marling is now a year and change removed from the stunning festival debut that made her one to watch thanks to two films she co-wrote, produced, and starred in: The moody sci-fi drama Another Earth, released last summer, and the mesmerizing Sound of My Voice. The latter film finally hits theaters this week, giving audiences a chance to see a different side of Marling: Earthy, enigmatic, dangerously charismatic, and — as the leader of a cult amassing members in a basement in the Valley — possibly from the future.
Movieline spoke with Marling last year about Sound of My Voice, in which a would-be documentarian and his girlfriend (Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius) find themselves falling deeper under the spell of Marling’s Maggie as she prepares her followers for an unknown event. As with Another Earth, which was co-written and directed by Mike Cahill, Marling penned the script for Sound of My Voice with director Zal Batmanglij (who is currently at work on his SOMV follow-up The East, a drama centered around an anarchist group starring Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgard, Julia Ormond, Patricia Clarkson, and Marling).
Marling herself has since filmed the dramatic thriller Arbitrage with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon and will be seen in Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep. In Movieline’s chat she discusses the borderline illegal guerrilla filmmaking tricks that made Sound of My Voice possible, her thoughts on taking professional risks, her dream director list, and how to avoid the “morally-corrupt swamp” that is Hollywood. (A longer version of this interview was previously published here.)
Sundance was a huge coming out…
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The literary beacon of truth that is The National Enquirer (via Celebitchy) has put ASkars, Charlize Theron and a gay bar in the same story, and have given me the beautiful image of those two blond giants eye fucking each other as a go-go boy’s ass cheeks wiggle in the background. ASkars has backed away from an Olsen and fallen right into the golden crotch on Charlize Theron. Some source says that Charlize and ASkars strolled into GYM Sportsbar in West Hollywood, ordered two beers and then found love in a homo place. The source said this about Charlize and ASkars’ time together:
“They ordered two beers and went to sit on the patio. I realized it was Charlize and her date was Alexander Skarsgard. It was clear they were a couple, holding hands and staring into each other’s eyes.
People said hello, and they were really nice. After about 45 minutes, they left with their arms around each other and drove off in the same care.
Another source said that Charlize is busting nuts on the inside over ASkars and they went to a gay bar, because they didn’t think anyone would recognize them there. Um, is GYM one of those “in the dark” bars or is 99.99% of its clientele completely blind, because what self-respecting gay dude
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The sunny Hamptons International Film Festival played host to veteran stars and up-and-comers alike over the weekend, from Matthew Broderick and Alec Baldwin (who shared an eventful onstage chat at the fest) to Susan Sarandon, Alexander Skarsgard, and youngsters Emily Browning, Anton Yelchin, and former Verge designee Ezra Miller. Hit the jump for Movieline’s red carpet gallery from the fest.
Click here to launch the slideshow — Ezra Miller fans, you’ll want to click through to the end..
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Big ups to The Artist, the Oscar-contending silent-film throwback that took home the Audience Award at this weekend’s Hamptons International Film Festival. Michel Hazanavicius’s film led a class that also included the superb documentarian Marc Levin and breakout stars Emily Browning, Anton Yelchin and Alexander Skarsgård. Read on for the complete list of winners; congrats to all!
2011 Hamptons International Film Festival Award Winners:
THE ARTIST
Audience Award Narrative
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
HARD TIMES: LOST ON LONG ISLAND
Audience Award Documentary
Directed by Marc Levin
TWO’S A CROWD
Audience Award Winner for Best Short
Directed by Jim Isler and Tom Isler
THE FAIRY
Narrative Jury Winner
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
LAURA
Documentary Jury Winner
Directed by Fellipe Barbosa
THE STRANGE ONES
Short Documentary Jury Winner
Directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein
WITHOUT
The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography.
The Wouter Barendrecht Pioneering Vision Award
Directed by Mark Jackson
YOU’VE BEEN TRUMPED
Winner of the Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice
Director Anthony Baxter
SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS
THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD
Directed by Joshua Marston
VODKA FACTORY
Directed by Jerzy Sladkowski
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Feature Film Prize
Directed by Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson
THE BULLY PROJECT
The Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a Film of Conflict and Resolution
Directed By Lee Hirsch
2011 Breakthrough Performer Recipients
Emily Browning – SLEEPING BEAUTY
Alexander Skarsgard- MELONCHOLIA
Stine Fischer Christensen – CRACKS IN THE SHELL
Ezra Miller – ANOTHER HAPPY DAY
Shailene Woodley – THE DESCENDANTS
Anton Yelchin – LIKE CRAZY
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Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Shawn Levy wants Frankenstein… Rob Corddry could be a Warm body… R.I.P.D. gets a supermodel to play Jeff Bridges… and more ahead.
· The long, strange trip that has become The Wolverine keeps getting longer. Deadline reports that Fox is unlikely to start filming the X-Men prequel sequel with Hugh Jackman and new director James Mangold this fall, because of continued concern for the Japan-based shoot as well as Jackman’s commitment to Les Miserables. No official date has been set just yet, but Wolverine 2 might not start production until the spring 2012. Stay tuned… [Deadline]
· Speaking of seemingly-never-happening projects: Shawn Levy might put Fantastic Voyage on the back burner to direct Frankenstein for Fox. Per Deadline, “the studio is eager to get out in front of the seven other Frankenstein films that are percolating all over town.” Seven! Seven’s the key number here. [Deadline]
· Funny funnyman Rob Corddry is in final negotiations to join Nicholas Hoult and Theresa Palmer in the zombie love story Warm Bodies. 50/50’s Jonathan Levine will direct. [Variety]
· Another day, another indie movie for Alexander Skarsgard to circle. The hunky True Blood star is attached to Disconnect, about how the Internet can… ruins lives. Skarsgard will play a former Marine who — while facing financial strife — strikes up an affair thanks…
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