Christian Bale Gossip

Ford vs Ferrari opens next week – Sarah reviewed the film in September at TIFF – and there are a lot of people who think it could be an Oscar contender, with both leads, Christian Bale and Matt Damon, submitted in the Best Actor category. Full Story

Ford v Ferrari, an old-school get-er-done drama in which Men do important Men Things and somehow Change The World with their Men Things, is your dad’s favorite film of the year. It’s a period drama soft-lobbed right down the middle, well-crafted and loaded with good actors. Can’t really say it’s a bad movie, because it’s too well made for that, but it’s very much what you expect. Full Story

One of the most fun things I have ever done in my life was go to a test track and drive a 1967 Shelby GT500. I’ve always loved Corvettes, and the way they look like they’re eating the road as they drive, but my boyfriend’s dad was a serious muscle car collector and he prized Mustangs above everything else. Full Story

Rami Malek’s win for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes last night over Bradley Cooper was one of the night’s biggest surprises, along with Bohemian Rhapsody winning Best Drama, also over A Star is Born. Because, of course, ASIB has been the presumed frontrunner all season. Full Story

American Hustle came out five years ago, directed by David O Russell, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Renner. The film was nominated for several Oscars. Now three of its stars are in this year’s Oscar race, two of them going up against each other. Full Story

Jon Favreau made a hybrid live-action/animated Jungle Book that was really quite good, so much so it bagged him the job of directing the new Lion King, and also good enough that it threw Andy Serkis’s competing project into considerable shade. Back then Serkis’s project was called Jungle Book: Origins—and yes, it’s supposed to be a dark and gritty Jungle Book, as indicated by “Origins”—and it was supposed to be Serkis’s directorial debut (that honor ultimately went to Breathe). Full Story

Last Friday, it was quietly announced that Adam McKay’s film about Dick Cheney, starring Christian Bale, would be released on Christmas Day. Before then, the film didn’t even have a title. Now we know it’s Vice and we also know that, given the timing of the opening (Christmas Day almost always means an Oscar run), we have another contender. Full Story

Few actors are as committed to Method by way of body transformation as Christian Bale, who will, as his next trick, transform himself into a peeled egg in order to play Dick Cheney. Adam McKay and his Big Short producers at Plan B—including Brad Pitt—are putting together a biopic about Cheney, with Bale in talks to star. Full Story

In the 1970s, writer/director Terrence Malick made two legit masterpieces. In a decade dominated by the first wave of American independent cinema and blockbusters—everything sharks and wars amongst the stars and godfathers—Malick delivered two of the most important pieces of American cinema in the post-studio age. Full Story

Christian Bale called it a “make out” last night during the Critics’ Choice Awards when he was named Best Actor in a Comedy and kissed Adam McKay and other producers at the table on the mouth before getting up on stage to collect his trophy. He also looked great in all black. There was another Christian Bale headline that was making news this weekend though. Full Story

I don’t think Christian Bale hates these events as much as, say, Tom Hardy does. But he never looks entirely comfortable either. Last night was probably as relaxed as I’ve seen him though. And that likely has a lot to do with the fact that he’s not a favourite. Just there as part of the team. Full Story