"On the massive Montreal set, star Gyllenhaal, late of such very non-actiony films as ''Donnie Darko'' and ''The Good Girl,'' gets his cheeks pinked and bangs frosted, then begins an odd chase scene around the freighter, as he flees from...nothing -- the wolves will be added later. After a few takes, Emmerich remarks to his young actor that he's terribly fleet of foot. Gyllenhaal grins beneath frosty eyebrows and replies in perfect movie trailerese, ''Faster's better: Bigger...faster...funnier!'' Source: www.ew.com
June 14 - Leaving A Studio In Hollywood.Fray, founder of Los Angeles-based Eco-limo, and a former driver of Leonardo’s Prius says; “When someone like Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Diaz, Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio takes an alternative fuel car to the Oscars or another major event, people see that they walk the walk. That’s a good thing.” Source: davidreport.com
"Day After Tomorrow, The: Politically charged and somewhat poorly executed 2004 disaster movie, starring Randy Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal, exposing the potentially apocalyptic effects of global warming, albeit in a scientifically implausible form. In green-tech slang, the title has become a synonym for "worst-case scenario." Notable for laughably ironic scene of hordes of illegal U.S. immigrants storming the border into Mexico to escape extreme weather in the north". Source: www.cnet.com
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Cast of 'Nailed' with Parker the Monkey In Columbia, SC June 14 - Leaving A Studio In Hollywood Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal leaving private yoga session togther in Santa Monica. 6.14.08 More pictures of celebs in sportwear:Brittany Murphy and Eminem.Shia Labeouf.Jake and Ryan running. Ryan Phillippe.
"Everyone who expects a love triangle or two brothers fighting for a woman will be disappointed. I for one am happy with this - I don´t want a typical Hollywood film.
IMO the three main roles have nearly equal screen time - perhaps Natalie a little less than the two guys. "Actually all the awards prediction sites have Jake as leading and Tobey as supporting.
If the script is correct and they have not changed it it will be:
Jake - Tommy (Thomas) Cahill Tobey - Sam Cahill Natalie - Grace Cahill
During the scenes where Sam is probably dead they alternate between the family dealing with Sams "death" and him being a prisoner of the Taliban and what happens there.
IMO Tommy is a great opportunity for Jake - I really hope he will be able to disappear in this character and we will see him in another challenging role".Source: iheartjake.suddenlaunch.comDavid Benioff & Amanda Peet. "While the title of this interview might seem a bit like hyperbole, ComingSoon.net has talked to many screenwriters in our time, and true, many of them are pretty cool--Juno's Diablo Cody is the latest upstart contender to receive the honorary title--but none of them have quite the credentials that David Benioff has that makes him so cool.
For your consideration, we shall list some of the reasons why we think he's cool:
* Although he may be the coolest writer in Hollywood, he's actually a New Yorker born and raised, and he still spends a lot of time in the city that never sleeps.
* His first screenplay was an adaptation of his first novel, which turned into Spike Lee's The 25th Hour, one of the few films that epitomizes what it was like being a New Yorker right after 9/11.
* He wrote the initial draft for the upcoming prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and he's a long-time comic book fan himself.
* He adapted Susanne Bier's wartime drama Brothers into an English language film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire and directed by Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In America)
"Maggie Gyllenhaal has hit out at the media for their reporting tactics after the death of fellow actor Heath Ledger - branding the industry "disrespectful".
The Secretary star blasted journalists for their style of reporting after the tragic death of the Australian actor, insisting she was "shocked" by the way they tackled the sensitive issue.
Gyllenhaal starred opposite Ledger in his final full film, The Dark Knight, in which he stars as Batman's nemesis, The Joker.
And the actress - whose brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, featured alongside Ledger in 2005's Brokeback Mountain - reveals her co-star and friend's untimely death has taken its toll on her.
She tells Britain's Empire magazine, "It's hard to talk about how it's (Ledger's death) affected me personally. It's been really hard for me."
"(And) the media has shocked me with the way that they've been disrespectful in some ways." Source: www.imdb.com/news Actress Reese Witherspoon's marriage to Ryan Phillippe is officially over - their divorce was finalised on Thursday.
The couple ended its seven-year marriage when they separated in 2006 and the union was dissolved on 5 October, but the pair has only now fully resolved all financial and custodial issues.
Court documents filed in Los Angeles on Thursday reads: "(The court finds) the parties have settled all their remaining issues in these proceedings."
Witherspoon and Phillippe have since moved on to new relationships. The Legally Blonde star is currently dating Jake Gyllenhaal, while Phillippe recently went public with his romance with Abbie Cornish.
Witherspoon and Phillippe have two children - daughter Ava, eight, and son Deacon, four".Source: www.imdb.com/news
John Hawks comments on a new study suggesting that the reason human beings have white sclerae is to facilitate detection of what another person is looking at (press story here). Though the article is not out yet, the gist is that humans pay more attention to another person's eye movements, while other primates pay more attention to another's head movements in order to infer what the other is looking at. The pupil through which we look is only color-differentiated from the surrounding iris in people with light irises, but since the iris and pupil are concentric, if we could track the iris, we could track the pupil as well. And because our visual system is tuned to pick up on contrasts, especially between figure and background, a contrasting iris-sclera form would be ideal for tracking someone's eye direction. This in turn would have been useful in cooperative and learning situations where individuals need to focus on the same objects so that background information is shared, minimizing the need to spell out assumptions. This is similar to the Gricean Maxims in the linguistic field of pragmatics -- the more we share assumptions and follow cooperative norms, the less longwinded and lawyerly we have to be in communicating.1) Aside from detecting eye direction, a white sclera would also facilitate detecting emotional eye expressions, as the white sclera contrasts with the full range of human skin colors -- especially the darker ones, but even Irish skin isn't that white. When you narrow your eyes in suspicion or incredulity, for instance, darker shapes (the eyelids) overtake whiter shapes (the sclerae). Conversely, when you express surprise, the darker eyelids recede and open up more of the white sclerae. We look at muscular contractions in the brow area as well when detecting suspicion or surprise, of course, but color contrast between the eyelids and sclerae is also informative. The more varied and subtle an organism's emotional range becomes (i.e., more so in humans than other primates), the more crucial this information may become.
2) The study mentions that gaze-detection would be useful during mother-child learning, and John adds tool-making and tool use, but many cooperative behaviors would not be aided by gaze-detection -- namely, those where individuals are physically separated beyond the threshold at which judging another person's gaze based on eye movement becomes unreliable. I couldn't find any study quantifying this threshold, but I think at the range of about 40-50 feet, a moving head with stationary eyes would convey a stronger signal than a stationary head with moving eyes. If you recall any battle scene you've ever seen where two units were separated by such a distance, they usually communicate by jerking their heads or motioning with their hands and/or weapons, and surely combat is a cooperative and learning situation par excellence. Thus, it's really the close-range, intimate cooperative behaviors that are most facilitated by gaze-detection.3) The news release mentions that "our eyes are more horizontally elongated and disproportionately large for our body size compared to most apes." That makes sense: if you're trying to detect a figure moving across a background, or the frame closing in or opening up by say 25%, these tasks would be easier if the background were larger on an absolute level.
4) It follows from the above three points that larger, whiter eyes would be of greater use to females than males. I tried Google and PubMed for info on sexual dimorphism of eye size and came up with this, though I can't access it. Hormones affect the eye, so there may be dimorphism. Judging from experience, it seems females do have larger eyes, though the magnitude isn't as pronounced as for, say, breast size or height. Dimorphism is slow to evolve, but we're talking about something that likely happened at least before the major human races diverged and sometime after we split from chimpanzees. The primate-human comparison apparently measures the area occupied by the eyes compared to that occupied by the face or body, but that may not be the best way to measure large eyes when the purpose of those large eyes is to make it easy to track the iris' movement. What you'd measure, then, would be the area of the visible iris divided by the area of the entire visible part of the eye. I think it's by this measure that you can tell girls have larger eyes, and that "babyfaces" like Johnny Depp and Pete Doherty do as well.
5) Once eyes become whiter and larger, they could be used to gauge a mate's health since discolorations due to infection will be more apparent against a white background, which would set off a round of sexual selection for more ornamental eyes. Thus does evolution strive to create Penelope Cruz, a dual-mooned beauty if ever there was one". Source: www.gnxp.com
The pay cable channel has greenlighted 12 half-hour episodes (including the pilot) of the single-camera comedy from DreamWorks TV and Steven Spielberg. It's expected to enter production in Los Angeles in the summer.
"Tara," written by Oscar-winning "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody, stars Toni Collette as a wife and mother with dissociative identity disorder. John Corbett co-stars as her husband.
Story lines will examine how a dysfunctional family copes with the various identities that might appear on any given day and range in age, temperament and even gender.
Cody will continue to serve as a writer; she also will exec produce with Spielberg, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of DreamWorks TV and Alexa Junge. Craig Gillespie ("Lars and the Real Girl") directed the pilot.
"The combination of Diablo Coby's vision and Toni Collette's brilliance at playing her characters(cq) is irresistible," Showtime president of entertainment Robert Greenblatt said. "It's a very provocative idea, and there's a combination of humor and real drama. It's a unique show that seems to be right up our alley."
Greenblatt said he's looking at debuting the show early next year; he had originally hoped he might be able to launch it before year's end, but the writers strike and Collette's pregnancy delayed the shooting of the pilot.
Asked with what series "Tara" might be paired, Greenblatt emphasized that it's too early to say but mentioned "The Tudors," "The L Word," a second season of "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" (the series debuts June 16 after the season premiere of "Weeds") or "maybe another new show to come." Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
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Jun. 11 - Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon takes part in a Japanese tea ceremony, serving green tea for breast cancer survivors in Tokyo.
Wearing a traditional Japanese kimono, Witherspoon was taught the tea-making procedure in which powdered green tea, or matcha, is ceremonially prepared and served to others.
The Legally Blonde star is an Avon Global Ambassador promoting women's health and safety, a project supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
"The Tea Ceremony, which is a multi-faceted traditional activity designed to capture the spirit of healing the body, mind and soul, offered an open forum to discuss breast cancer issues and needs in Japan, which is a critical topic due to a high rate of breast cancer in the country and the Asia Pacific region. At the Tea Ceremony, Ms. Witherspoon met Dr. Matsuda, Chairman of the Japan Breast Cancer Association, and three Japanese breast cancer survivors, and talked with them about the lack of breast cancer awareness and screening facilities."As Avon's Global Ambassador, I'm honored to have this opportunity to meet with such extraordinary women, and experience a highlight of Japanese culture" said Ms. Witherspooon. "While their courage is inspiring, I was saddened to hear that only about 12% of women in Japan receive regular breast cancer screening. The lack of testing equipment and breast cancer experts in Japan means that many women here do not have access to the medical technology and care that is critical to diagnose and fight this deadly disease."Source: www.prnewswire.com
"The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards.
The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera said Sunday. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October 2004.
"Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen said in a statement". Source: www.msnbc.msn.com"Yep, 12-tone gay cowboys ... It's not a hoax ...
When word emerged this week that an operatic version of Brokeback Mountain is in the works, with a score by Charles Wuorinen, a lot of people in the classical music world weren't sure what to think. For a start, the news appeared in the Rush and Molloy gossip column in New York's tabloid Daily News — not a place the industry thinks to look for breaking developments. And the combination of material, medium and music seemed wildly improbable: a spare short story by Annie Proulx about inarticulate Wyoming sheepherders — which, granted, had been made into a film that was very compelling but was far from histrionic — translated into the most histrionic of art forms? With a composer who's one of America's last major unrepentant modernists?
"I think it's a marvelous idea," Wuorinen's manager, Howard Stokar, told Playbill Arts. "And so did Annie Proulx ... she liked the idea of it being an opera, and she liked the idea of Charles composing it."
There's no commission or opera house involved just yet — says Stokar, "Right now, it's really just under discussion. Who knows what's going to happen?" — but Proulx's approval means that one major hurdle that fells many worthwhile projects has been cleared. (Leonard Bernstein, for instance, is said to have worked on a treatment of Nabokov's Lolita but couldn't get rights to the story.)
The idea for a Brokeback opera was all Wuorinen's. "He wanted to work on a dramatic piece," said Stokar, "and this seemed like the perfect subject."
After Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the composer's adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel for children which premiered at New York City Opera in 2004, Wuorinen was eager to create another stage work. "He was very impressed with the movie adaptation of the short story," said Stokar, "and he thought it would be quite marvelous as an opera. In a way, it's a good old-fashioned love story."
Would Proulx's taciturn characters fit best in a chamber opera? "It would be a big piece," Stokar said, "something for an actual opera house."
Wuorinen is certainly aware of the problems involved in translating the story for the stage. "What's impressive about the film adaptation is that it really has an excellent screenplay," Stokar pointed out. "Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana did a terrific job of turning this little work of prose" — the original "Brokeback Mountain" is barely more than 10,000 words — "into a two-hour movie. Something similar would have to be done for an opera — for example, the language in the film is not language you can use in an opera. Who that's gonna be [to write the libretto], of course, it's much too early to say." Source: www.playbillarts.com
"It was another afternoon of shopping in NYC for Kirsten Dunst, on a break from filming All Good Things on Sunday. Judging from that smile, it doesn't look like the heat wave on the East Coast was slowing her down any. Now that Kirsten's opened up about depression being the reason behind her trip to rehab, we're glad to see her looking happy and healthy — hopefully a little retail therapy is just what the doctor ordered. Source: popsugar.com
Reese Witherspoon has reportedly refused to move in with her partner Jake Gyllenhaal.
The actress will not live with Gyllenhaal until they are married, according to Now magazine.
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is desperate to settle down and start a family with girlfriend Reese Witherspoon, according to reports.
The Brokeback Mountain hunk has been romantically involved with divorced mother-of-two Witherspoon since meeting on the set of their 2007 film Rendition.
The couple has been inseparable since, and, according to U.S. magazine Ok!, Gyllenhaal has made his intention to begin a family with Witherspoon clear - despite having yet to propose.
A source says, "He knows he might be jumping the gun thinking of kids, but he knows that Reese is the one. He laughs and says he needs to propose and do this the right way. It really is first comes love, then comes marriage...
"(Reese) reminds him that it's more than just coming over to take the kids to the park. Your entire life has to change. She's admitted that he has grown from when they first met into this very dependable dad type. He is ready to have his whole life change."
Witherspoon's eight-year marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe ended in 2006, and their divorce was finalised on 5 October. The former couple has two children together, eight-year-old Ava and four-year-old Deacon. Source: www.imdb.com/news via wenn.com"Witherspoon is apparently a believer in strong family values and doesn't want her children, Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, to change home unless she is wed.
"Reese doesn't want to live with Jake until they're married," said a source. "She has very traditional values.
"The thing that's convinced her that she wants to spend the rest of her life with Jake is how well he has fitted into family life.
"He is a good influence on her children and they have just a very strong relationship. Expect an engagement announcement any day now."
Gyllenhaal allegedly purchased a $7 million mansion in California for Witherspoon and her kids earlier this month". Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk
"Jake Gyllenhaal has seen off competition from famous hunks David Beckham and Brad Pitt to land the title of hottest gay icon.
The Brokeback Mountain actor, who starred in a camping love scene with the late Heath Ledger in the 2005 film, has topped the poll for the second year running.
Soccer ace Beckham and Pitt only managed 12th and 15th respectively, while Torchwood actor John Barrowman and Brothers and Sisters star Luke MacFarlane scooped second and third place respectively.
The poll was compiled by gay website AfterElton.com. Comedienne Tina Fey claimed the top spot in the Hot 100 gay women list on sister site, AfterEllen.com. Source: www.imdb.com/news
"…Canadian director Bruce McDonald reinvented the cinema with his remarkable "The Tracey Fragments", adapted by Maureen Medved from her stream-of-consciousness novel about a 15-year-old Winnipeg girl (Ellen Page) suffering dramatically from the slings and arrows of adolescence. McDonald undertakes to break the screen into an array of panels, of ever-changing quantity and attributes, each containing an independent image. Many of Tracey’s formal ideas are elaborations of the kind of cutting that’s commonly known as “intellectual montage,” in which the collision of different images creates a new idea that wasn’t intrinsic to either image. (I’m not sure that Eisenstein, who coined the term, intended for it to be applied to this simple schema; but I’ll use the phrase for lack of a better.) I’ve never enjoyed intellectual montage (even Eisenstein thought it was too literary an effect without additional qualities): it’s so easy for me to hang a concept on the process on that my mind registers only the concept, and is blocked from any appreciation of texture or mood. So I was surprised to discover that the extra dimensions that McDonald adds to montage in Tracey totally transform it."The Tracey Fragments" is not the first film to use paneled images, but it’s the first feature-length narrative that I know of that relies on paneling as its basic method of visual communication, that dispenses with the safety net of the full-frame image. To give some idea of the degrees of freedom in this system, here’s a partial, not terribly rigorous taxonomy of the effects I noted in Tracey:
Subjective panel creation: Tracey imagines Billy Zero saying “I love you, Tracey Berkowitz” before her act of violence. Motivated panel creation: small panels appear and disappear with the sound of Tracey’s breathing. Lyrical panel creation: as noted above, a thousand quiet slamming doors create a fluttering vibration; or, the screen converts over, one panel at a time, to an array of images of buzzing street lamps at twilight. Non-diegetic panel creation: Some panels of Tracey running are replaced by running horses, to reference the Patti Smith song on the soundtrack. Drama tied to panel creation: increase in quantity and frequency of panels when Tracey’s mom won’t speak to her on the phone. Drama tied to new effect concepts: non-rectangular panels appear for the first time after the film’s most violent scene. Drama tied to removal of effects: natural sound and color are restored as Billy Zero penetrates Tracey. Drama tied to end of paneling: there are no panels at all a few times in the film, most powerfully at the ending. Suspense cross-cutting: simultaneous panels show Tracey shoplifting and a suspicious store clerk watching. Cause/effect cross-cutting: simultaneous panels show Tracey in a photo booth and the pictures she takes. Point-of-view cross-cutting: simultaneous panels show Tracey reading a comic and frames from the comic. Space-preserving panels: a widescreen panel at the top of the screen shows a panorama of the space where Tracey talks to Billy Zero, with the rest of the screen showing details. Space-restoring effects: panels gradually reassemble a full-screen image after Tracey is pushed out of the car. Time shift: Panels assemble a contiguous space, but some panels are time-delayed, in the scene where Tracey stands up after Billy Zero leaves in his car. Unmotivated geometry play: panels are layered horizontally; or, panels are arranged in a checkerboard pattern. Motivated geometry play: the top horizontal panel of the screen shows the ceiling above Tracey. Text interpolations: Billy Zero’s first appearance at school is accompanied by a panel containing the words “New Boy.” Meta-effects: After echo has been associated with frames of the same action staggered in time, echo is used even with no time-staggered frames. Or: after the use of panels with white and black backgrounds depicting unreal settings, the therapist’s office is depicted abstractly, with white and black backgrounds in a whole frame". Source: notebook.theauteurs.com
"Ben Kingsley will play the villain in Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's bigscreen adapatation of the Ubisoft vidgame "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time."
In the fantasy actioner, Kingsley portrays Nizam, who plots to kill his brother King Shahrman and blame it on Prince Dastan so he can take the throne.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays the prince, while Gemma Arterton and Alfred Molina round out the leads.
Pic starts lensing in July in Morocco and England with Mike Newell at the helm. Film will bow next year.
Currently in "War, Inc.," Kingsley will next be seen in the pics "The Love Guru," "50 Dead Men," "The Wackness," "Elegy" and "Transsiberian." He is currently filming Martin Scorsese's drama "Shutter Island," with Leonardo DiCaprio". Source: www.variety.com
"Now that Jake Gyllenhaal has officially signed to star in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", that basically means we can take his name off the table with regards to all future comic properties (at least until after Persia comes out, because that may turn into a franchise if the first makes loads of duckets). While we still have no idea whether Tobey Maguire will return to play Spidey in a Spider-Man 4, we do know that Sony is prepping something. They just re-upped their deal for a fourth installment (fact) and they may be looking to get more bang for their buck by shooting two sequels at the same time with a story arc that stretches across both films. Has enough time passed for Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst? Do they miss the roles? The characters? How much would it take to get them back? And do we want them back? I think it's pretty clear we all still want Spider-Man in our big-screen lives, even though the third film was what it was. But are Maguire and Dunst still the right actors for the job? Or would some new blood do an old franchise some good?
For awhile, lots of people were looking at Jake Gyllenhaal to replace Maguire if a decision like that had to be made. With Jake G. out of the picture, who else could you see filling Maguire's Spidey tights? Source: www.cinematical.com "Latino Review broke the news that Patrick Fugit was being considered as the heir to the Spider-Man throne. His suitability was hotly debated, but apparently all for nothing if the Internet is to be believed.
CHUD happened to be on set of Cirque du Freak, which Fugit has just finished filming, and one of the producers sent off an inquiry as to the truth of the casting rumor. The e-mail was the first Fugit had heard about it -- which means little in the world of "insider scoops," as Fugit could still quite possibly be on a "to be considered" list. A Sony rep also told IESB that the Fugit story is completely false. "No one is being considered for the role but Tobey. Period." Source: www.bloggingsundance.com
"After three flicks, I can't see Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst returning to shoot two Spider-Man films together (would be a lot to take on), but you never know. In the meantime, here's what we know: Looks like Vanderbilt is writing Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5, and the studio might look to shoot both flicks at the same time. As of right now, the studio has no comment" Source: www.bloggingsundance.com
Downey Jr. In Talks To Play Cowboy In Quirky Sci-fi Western
"On the massive Montreal set, star Gyllenhaal, late of such very non-actiony films as ''Donnie Darko'' and ''The Good Girl,'' gets his cheeks pinked and bangs frosted, then begins an odd chase scene around the freighter, as he flees from...nothing -- the wolves will be added later. After a few takes, Emmerich remarks to his young actor that he's terribly fleet of foot. Gyllenhaal grins beneath frosty eyebrows and replies in perfect movie trailerese, ''Faster's better: Bigger...faster...funnier!'' Source: www.ew.com
June 14 - Leaving A Studio In Hollywood.
Fray, founder of Los Angeles-based Eco-limo, and a former driver of Leonardo’s Prius says; “When someone like Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Diaz, Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio takes an alternative fuel car to the Oscars or another major event, people see that they walk the walk. That’s a good thing.” Source: davidreport.com
"Day After Tomorrow, The: Politically charged and somewhat poorly executed 2004 disaster movie, starring Randy Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal, exposing the potentially apocalyptic effects of global warming, albeit in a scientifically implausible form. In green-tech slang, the title has become a synonym for "worst-case scenario." Notable for laughably ironic scene of hordes of illegal U.S. immigrants storming the border into Mexico to escape extreme weather in the north". Source: www.cnet.com
"Fleetmatics is a rapidly growing venture backed telematics company with significant mobile asset software experience dating back to 1998. Fleetmatics was incorporated in 2004.
Cast of 'Nailed' with Parker the Monkey In Columbia, SC
June 14 - Leaving A Studio In Hollywood
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal leaving private yoga session togther in Santa Monica. 6.14.08
Brittany Murphy and Eminem.
Shia Labeouf.
Jake and Ryan running.
Ryan Phillippe.
"Everyone who expects a love triangle or two brothers fighting for a woman will be disappointed. I for one am happy with this - I don´t want a typical Hollywood film.
"Actually all the awards prediction sites have Jake as leading and Tobey as supporting.
Source: iheartjake.suddenlaunch.com
David Benioff & Amanda Peet.
"Maggie Gyllenhaal has hit out at the media for their reporting tactics after the death of fellow actor Heath Ledger - branding the industry "disrespectful".
Actress Reese Witherspoon's marriage to Ryan Phillippe is officially over - their divorce was finalised on Thursday.
1) Aside from detecting eye direction, a white sclera would also facilitate detecting emotional eye expressions, as the white sclera contrasts with the full range of human skin colors -- especially the darker ones, but even Irish skin isn't that white. When you narrow your eyes in suspicion or incredulity, for instance, darker shapes (the eyelids) overtake whiter shapes (the sclerae). Conversely, when you express surprise, the darker eyelids recede and open up more of the white sclerae. We look at muscular contractions in the brow area as well when detecting suspicion or surprise, of course, but color contrast between the eyelids and sclerae is also informative. The more varied and subtle an organism's emotional range becomes (i.e., more so in humans than other primates), the more crucial this information may become.
3) The news release mentions that "our eyes are more horizontally elongated and disproportionately large for our body size compared to most apes." That makes sense: if you're trying to detect a figure moving across a background, or the frame closing in or opening up by say 25%, these tasks would be easier if the background were larger on an absolute level.
Showtime picks up 'Tara' Diablo Cody-penned series stars Toni Collette
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"As Avon's Global Ambassador, I'm honored to have this opportunity to meet with such extraordinary women, and experience a highlight of Japanese culture" said Ms. Witherspooon. "While their courage is inspiring, I was
"The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards.
"Yep, 12-tone gay cowboys ... It's not a hoax ...
"It was another afternoon of shopping in NYC for Kirsten Dunst, on a break from filming All Good Things on Sunday. Judging from that smile, it doesn't look like the heat wave on the East Coast was slowing her down any. Now that Kirsten's opened up about depression being the reason behind her trip to rehab, we're glad to see her looking happy and healthy — hopefully a little retail therapy is just what the doctor ordered. 
May 24 - Out to Lunch with Reese in Los Angeles.
"Witherspoon is apparently a believer in strong family values and doesn't want her children, Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, to change home unless she is wed.
"Jake Gyllenhaal has seen off competition from famous hunks David Beckham and Brad Pitt to land the title of hottest gay icon.
Comedienne Tina Fey claimed the top spot in the Hot 100 gay women list on sister site, AfterEllen.com. Source: www.imdb.com/news
Many of Tracey’s formal ideas are elaborations of the kind of cutting that’s commonly known as “intellectual montage,” in which the collision of different images creates a new idea that wasn’t intrinsic to either image. (I’m not sure that Eisenstein, who coined the term, intended for it to be applied to this simple schema; but I’ll use the phrase for lack of a better.) I’ve never enjoyed intellectual montage (even Eisenstein thought it was too literary an effect without additional qualities): it’s so easy for me to hang a concept on the process on that my mind registers only the concept, and is blocked from any appreciation of texture or mood. So I was surprised to discover that the extra dimensions that McDonald adds to montage in Tracey totally transform it.
"The Tracey Fragments" is not the first film to use paneled images, but it’s the first feature-length narrative that I know of that relies on paneling as its basic method of visual communication, that dispenses with the safety net of the full-frame image. To give some idea of the degrees of freedom in this system, here’s a partial, not terribly rigorous taxonomy of the effects I noted in Tracey:
Meta-effects: After echo has been associated with frames of the same action staggered in time, echo is used even with no time-staggered frames. Or: after the use of panels with white and black backgrounds depicting unreal settings, the therapist’s office is depicted abstractly, with white and black backgrounds in a whole frame".
"Ben Kingsley will play the villain in Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's bigscreen adapatation of the Ubisoft vidgame "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time."
"Now that Jake Gyllenhaal has officially signed to star in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", that basically means we can take his name off the table with regards to all future comic properties (at least until after Persia comes out, because that may turn into a franchise if the first makes loads of duckets). 
While we still have no idea whether Tobey Maguire will return to play Spidey in a Spider-Man 4, we do know that Sony is prepping something. They just re-upped their deal for a fourth installment (fact) and they may be looking to get more bang for their buck by shooting two sequels at the same time with a story arc that stretches across both films. 
Has enough time passed for Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst? Do they miss the roles? The characters? How much would it take to get them back? And do we want them back? I think it's pretty clear we all still want Spider-Man in our big-screen lives, even though the third film was what it was. But are Maguire and Dunst still the right actors for the job? Or would some new blood do an old franchise some good?
"Latino Review broke the news that Patrick Fugit was being considered as the heir to the Spider-Man throne. His suitability was hotly debated, but apparently all for nothing if the Internet is to be believed.
A Sony rep also told IESB that the Fugit story is completely false. "No one is being considered for the role but Tobey. Period."
"After three flicks, I can't see Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst returning to shoot two Spider-Man films together (would be a lot to take on), but you never know. In the meantime, here's what we know: Looks like Vanderbilt is writing Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5, and the studio might look to shoot both flicks at the same time. As of right now, the studio has no comment" Source: www.bloggingsundance.com
