When Robert De Niro first told us of his plans with Martin Scorsese to shoot a sort of meta-companion film to their upcoming organized crime tale, "The Irishman," we were stumped.
The idea, De Niro explained, was to make a second film that was "reminiscent of a kind of '8 1/2,' 'La Dolce Vita,' [a] certain kind of biographical, semi-biographical type of Hollywood movie — a director and the actor — based on things Marty and I have experienced and kind of overlapping them."
That sounded like a killer idea, even if we didn't know exactly what he was talking about. That was back in April. When we caught up with the Oscar-winner this weekend, while he was promoting "Little Fockers," however, De Niro cast doubt on the idea that the second film, which Eric Roth ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") was writing, would come to fruition. Read More...
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Russell Brand's Five-Minute Shakespearean Improv For 'The Tempest' Will Knock Your Socks Off
Posted 12/15/10 12:05 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Commentary, Video
Russell Brand might have a pretty short filmography right now, but it shouldn't take too much digging to realize that he's going to be a force to be reckoned with very soon. He surprised everyone in the States with his scene-stealing performance in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and then went on to make us love Aldous Snow all over again in this year's "Get Him To The Greek." Somehow he managed to make a drunken rock star surprisingly nuanced and relatable.
Full disclosure: I haven't seen "Bedtime Stories" so I can't vouch for Brand in there. Nor have I seen "The Tempest," since it hasn't hit theaters in the Boston area yet. But what I have seen is Vulture's video of Brand improvising a five-minute long back story for his Shakespearean character, the jester Trinculo, during a "Tempset" rehearsal with director Julie Taymor and co-star Alfred Molina. All I can say is that maybe if Vulture had released this a day earlier, the HFPA would have rethought giving Johnny Depp both of those Golden Globe nominations and maybe spared one for Brand. Read More...
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