Anticipating 2011:

Oscars are over. Time to move on. Here's what to look out for in 2011:

Contagion
Moneyball
Tree of Life
We Bought A Zoo
Hugo Cabret
A Dangerous Method
Take This Waltz
My Week With Marilyn
Maladies
Drive
Ides of March
The Descendants
War Horse
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Anne Hathaway Cast in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises as Selina Kyle (Catwoman)

Warner Brothers Pictures announced today that Anne Hathaway has been cast as Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises." She will be starring alongside Christian Bale, who returns in the title role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Christopher Nolan stated, "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Anne Hathaway, who will be a fantastic addition to our ensemble as we complete our story." In addition, Tom Hardy has been set to play Bane. Nolan said, "I am delighted to be working with Tom again and excited to watch him bring to life our new interpretation of one of Batman's most formidable enemies."
Nolan will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote with Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Nolan will also produce the film with his longtime producing partner, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven.
Anne Hathaway's film credits include 'The Princess Diaries,' 'Brokeback Mountain,' 'The Devil Wears Prada,' 'Becoming Jane,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' and 'Rachel Getting Married,' for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Hathaway played Viola in Shakespeare in the Park's 2009 production of TWELFTH NIGHT. She also appeared as Lili in CARNIVAL! at Encores. She is currently starring in 'Love and Other Drugs.'
"The Dark Knight Rises" is slated for release on July 20, 2012. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

W: A look into Fincher's 'Girl with The Dragon Tattoo' and Rooney Mara

I don’t know which specific sexy spots Lisbeth Salandar was inked in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but the body art variations exposed in W this month are fine by me. Excerpts from the in-depth profile of Rooney Mara and some tantalizing production hints from the 7-page article, after the cut… illustrated with a slinky shot of Rooney’s rump.

Salander—an androgynous, bisexual computer hacker with multiple piercings and a distinctive tattoo on her back—is the complicated star of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” series, a trio of novels that have sold more than 50 million (and counting) copies worldwide. Larsson described Salander in opposites: slender but tough, “spidery” but elegant. Fincher, who is directing the American movie version of the first book in the series, has taken that gamine, biker-chick, downtown-girl template and tweaked it. Now she’s his.
The transformation began with the hair. Mara’s long brown mane was dyed black and cut in a series of jagged points that looked as if she had chopped it herself with a dull razor. The bangs were cropped very short and uneven, and the rest of the hair was layered into an extended shag. The final result was a mash-up of brazen Seventies punk and spooky Eighties goth with a dash of S&M temptress. That look, which could also describe Salander’s nature, was echoed in her wardrobe—a collection of ripped stockings, low garter belts, skintight leather, and heavy-soled boots. In all the angry, attractive darkness, Mara, who is 25, lithe, and petite, radiated an intriguing mix of menace and vulnerability. Fincher’s Lisbeth Salander, as channeled by Mara, is unique—a brilliant but childlike avenging angel with an understanding and an appreciation of violence. In essence, she’s a lot like her creator, David Fincher.
…Scott Rudin, the producer of The Social Network, explains. Rudin, who sent the script for The Social Network to Fincher and who is also producing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, finds Fincher to be intrinsically, rigorously contrary. “He has a giant brain,” Rudin said. “And he can have 19 conversations simultaneously in his brain and he doesn’t miss anything. He’s capable of taking any point of view and dismantling it until he comes to the conclusion that, for him, makes perfect sense. I thought of David for Social Network because, fundamentally, Social Network is a portrait of an anarchist, and I think David is an anarchist. Besides being brilliant, David has the same fuck-off arrogance as Mark Zuckerberg. David is hardwired to question authority and existing structures. And he likes nothing better than to blow them up.”

'Soul Surfer': 127 Hours meets Blue Crush... meets Jaws

Notice Dennis Quaid. He was in one of the Jaws movies. Forgot which one. Doesn't really matter...

Michelle Williams on Valentine roses and thorns

Nominee for Best Actress at the Golden Globes this weekend, Michelle Williams talks about her role in Blue Valentine with The Australian, whose reporter says this search through the wreckage of a relationship is “the ultimate anti-date movie.”

Derek Cianfrance’s clever, counter-intuitive film does not reveal why Cindy and Dean are in such a mess or ply us with easy melodrama, but sketches the raw terrain of a relationship’s descent from tenderness to snarling mutual disdain.
Williams denies rumours that she and Gosling had a relationship off camera. However, they lived in their alter-egos’ “house” and went grocery shopping together. The film’s improvisational heart is clear in the naturalism of their performances. “When I dreamt of being an actor, as a teenager reading books about Marlon Brando and James Dean and the Method and all that embarrassing ‘actor’ stuff,” Williams says, “I hoped that one day I would be given the liberty to do the same, and now I have. We never did lines, everything was done straight on to camera. I hold myself to a high standard; I’m hard on myself, for better, for worse. I always ask for another take.”

Of filming the last part of the film, the breakdown, Williams says: “I would count the hours until I could get in the car and drive away, wash it off; my head out of the window, screaming like a dog. The only thing that could calm me was listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because it was female and aggressive.”

Touching on unfathomable connections to her tormented portrayals onscreen, Williams is candid about how she’s been able to cope with her own personal tragedy.

“I got to a point where I couldn’t use work as a refuge and so I learnt to fall in love with taking time off,” she says. “Nothing goes by in my life without being opened out, turned over, checked for deformities and sewn back up. I’m hard on myself, not just as an actress.”
How? “Everything. I’m learning to give it up in certain areas, like housekeeping. I clean obsessively, on the assumption that if where I live is orderly then my life will be orderly.
“I have a child but I was spending precious time at night not with her but on my hands and knees picking up dolls’ clothes under the couch or organising piles of books. Then I realised that the happiest houses aren’t the cleanest ones. I will not do it any more. I will no longer be a slave to my living room and my kitchen sink.”
Is she also hard on herself as a parent? “Yes, very, until I had a realisation about six months ago that I have a wonderful child who is doing so well and as her mother I must have something to do with that. But the constant question on my mind is how to find balance, because time spent working is time spent away from her. When I put her to bed I ask her, ‘What was your rose and what was your thorn?’ of that day. I guess I’m asking myself the same question: how have I succeeded, how have I failed, how do I improve and become the person and parent I want to be?”

OSCAR 2011 PREDICTIONS

Im just gonna put the biggest categories for now...

(Predicted Winners in BOLD)

Best Picture:
The Social Network
The Kings Speech
The Fighter
Black Swan
True Grit
127 Hours
Toy Story 3
The Kids Are All Right
Inception
The Town....I guess...

Best Actor:
Colin Firth (The Kings Speech)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Ryan Gosling (might be a tie with Duvall for Get Low)

Best Actress:
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Annette Benning (The Kids Are All Right)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winters Bone)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
Geoffrey Rush (The Kings Speech)

Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Helena Bonham Carter (The Kings Speech)

Director:
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
David O'Russell (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech)

Need to do more research on the other categories. Ill keep you posted.

THR 2010 Oscar Watch Actors Roundtable

http://bcove.me/rrgv9t25

The most interesting part is hearing Gosling talk about The Lovely Bones and his little tiff with Peter Jackson about him being too fat for the role.