Besides William Forsythe, that is: “Director Martin Guigui is currently scouting for: YOUNG JAKE LAMOTTA. To play 14-20 years old, and already a tough bare knuckles fighter. He takes his father’s frequent beatings without a sound and makes money fighting much bigger opponents in back alley fights set up by his drunken, abusive father. Please submit over 18 to play younger OR emancipated. GUISSEPE [sic] LAMOTTA. Portrays 40s-70s, Jake’s father, a tough-looking Italian man, he’s a mean drunk who handcuffs and beats his son. He sets up the back alley fights with Jake and much older, stronger opponents. Later he refuses to help the grown-up Jake when he asks for money. Late in life, a frail old man, he reconciles with Jake just before his death. STAR NAME ONLY.” Good luck, Mickey Rourke! [Moviehole via The Playlist]
Full Story »The multiplex gave you a choice between incisive glimpses at an emotionally stunted woman (Young Adult), the vague dissolution of Arthur Conan Doyle’s legacy (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), and a big taste of Armageddon (Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked). How did Twitter handle it? We rack up the best five movie-related tweets of the weekend.
5. Charlie Day thinks that Young Adult’s heroine may have a more gruesome cinematic genealogy than we all realize.
@TheCharlieDay
Charlie Day I enjoyed two similar movies recently where a monster of a person goes bezerk in a small town. Young Adult and Rambo First Blood.
Dec 13 via webFavoriteRetweetReply
4. Danforth France suggests that Arthur Conan Doyle may have disapproved of this Game of Shadows nonsense.
3. Tom Compton believes Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked may have changed North Korea forever.
2. Patton Oswalt is ready to give you both thanks and tuna.
@pattonoswalt
Patton Oswalt Anyone who sees #Young Adult, please Tweet your home address. I will personally bring a casserole to you.
Dec 17 via Twitter for iPhoneFavoriteRetweetReply
1. In responding to another tweeter’s comment about Young Adult, Patton Oswalt lets slip that he’s a total turncoat.
@pattonoswalt
Patton Oswalt@biloon: Just saw YA. It was fantastic and @pattonoswalt, you were really fantastic in it. // Can’t respond. At CHIPWRECKED screening.
Dec 17 via Twitter for iPhoneFavoriteRetweetReply
“That was really nice!” exclaimed 13-year-old Elle Fanning at Friday night’s Young Hollywood Awards, where the actress picked up Actress of the Year honors. Presented the award by film legend Francis Ford Coppola (he cast her in his next film, Twixt Now and Sunrise, after seeing her in daughter Sofia’s Somewhere), Fanning brought the house down at L.A. Live by doing what more seasoned actors might have held back. She cried.
Overcome with emotion at the honor of having one of America’s greatest living directors introduce her with fatherly affection at her first major awards acceptance, Fanning was grateful, graceful, and adorably childlike. These are the Young Hollywood Awards, yes, but it’s easy to forget the “youth” part of it all when teenagers are trotting the red carpet like seasoned couturehounds. Moments like this, with Fanning genuinely verklemt at the podium (see it for yourself May 26, when the Young Hollywood Awards air on ION Television at 9pm ET/PT), bring the spectacle back to its essence — the celebration of young talent on the rise among Hollywood’s under-30 set.
Among the youngest of the young on hand: Fanning, 13; Hailee Steinfeld, 14; Super 8’s Riley Griffiths and Ryan Lee, both 13.
[Click for Movieline’s red carpet gallery from the 13th Annual Young Hollywood Awards.]
Given 2010’s crop of roles for young people, this year’s honorees represented a deep field of talent. Garrett Hedlund received the Actor of the Year award (Film), receiving his award from Tron: Legacy cast-mate Michael Sheen; Oscar-nominee Hailee Steinfeld got a surprise…
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In this week’s Hanna, 16-year-old knife enthusiast Saoirse Ronan joins the illustrious ranks of the lethal young women who’ve taken up arms (or fangs, or machine gun-arms) in the movies in the name of raining down righteous fury upon their enemies. Whether raised as assassins or transformed by tragic circumstance, these ten adolescent girls and teens don’t take crap from anyone — and they have the combined body count to prove it. If you run into any of these fierce misses in a darkened alley, let’s hope they’re on your side.
Click here to meet the deadliest young ladies in the movies.
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