Movie Reviews and Previews This is Lisbeth So many emails about this and I expect it will dominate discussion tomorrow during our Weekly LiveBlog – it was the most sought after role in a long time, the one they all wanted, and now the American Lisbeth Salander has been confirmed: Rooney Mara. Who? She’s a young actress By Lainey • Aug 16, 2010 08:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Script security = bad movies Written by Sarah Look, I get it. Stuff leaks on the internet all the time. It’s a real problem for Hollywood. How do you build hype for a project when anyone can sign onto IMDB and download a copy of the script? Technology provides an ease of access never By Lainey • Aug 16, 2010 06:35 am
Dumbass Angelina Jolie/Marilyn Monroe Elizabeth Taylor does not want anyone playing her in a movie about her life in Furious Love despite all those dumbass rumours that the Jolie would be taking on the role. But what about Marilyn Monroe? Andrew O’Hagan wrote a book about Marilyn’s dog Maf, The Life And By Lainey • Aug 16, 2010 04:49 am
Quiveration Nostalgic 90s Jakey in that trench coat all forlorn and adorable standing in the hospital? Please. I have to work very, very hard not to watch this trailer over and over again. So far this morning it’s already been 3 times. This weekend, because of golf, only 4 times, but the By Lainey • Aug 16, 2010 02:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ and a new piece Robert Downey Jr is in London. He was photographed leaving Guy Ritchie’s house today. Guy Ritchie meanwhile was photographed last night after dinner with his new piece. It’s too hot for me to bother with knowing her name and, frankly, do we have to? I’m all Snooked By Lainey • Aug 11, 2010 09:36 am
Faux Gossip Emma as Lisbeth? This was all over the liveblog just now and my inbox – did Emma Watson cut her hair off so that she could be Lisbeth Salander in the English film version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Well, I believe Emma when she says her cut was for style and By Lainey • Aug 10, 2010 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robo & The Romantics Everybody’s talking about the trailer, just released today. Have you seen it yet? Here: I liked it the first time around. Then I watched it again and became more and more irritated my Katie’s melancholia. Movies like this, that bring you back to university and tap into the By Lainey • Aug 10, 2010 05:26 am
Maple Leaf Sarah Polley at work She is one of Canada’s brightest, most brilliant talents. And the last time she wrote and directed a movie it was nominated for awards everywhere, including Oscar. She’s now working on Take This Waltz (second Leonard Cohen reference today – huzzah!), a screenplay with so much potential it was By Lainey • Aug 06, 2010 08:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews They found Berger Deadline reported last night that Robin Wright will sign on as Erika Berger in the US version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Not bad. I guess I’d be down with seeing her get into bed with Daniel Craig, sure. But it certainly is a glossy production, non? By Lainey • Aug 06, 2010 06:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Anne & Beautiful Jim Anne Hathaway seems to be really, really enjoying this shoot. Good. I am newly optimistic about her playing Emma Morley in One Day – click here if you missed yesterday’s article and review on the book – and if she’s happy at work it must mean that she likes the By Lainey • Aug 03, 2010 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews But will there be a story? Well... it’s a Michael Bay movie. Transformers 3 continues to shoot in Chicago – here’s Shia LaBeouf in a suit taking a break on set yesterday. So cute. Also Patrick Dempsey and Shia earlier in July and on the weekend shooting a post-destruction scene. They have similar hair, non? By Lainey • Aug 03, 2010 07:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma, Dexter and my Summer Book List It’s Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew. And it really, really is, non? Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess were photographed in Edinburgh this weekend working on One Day. Look at them them! They totally ARE! Jim’s hair. He’s gorgeous. Like so much. And Annie’s clothes, the way By Lainey • Aug 02, 2010 04:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Remind me why Sucker Punch was delayed? I’m blaming it on director Zack Snyder’s animated flick Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. (Really? Owls?) If not for the owls, Sucker Punch could be happening this October instead of next March. I don’t care if there are other, better reasons--somehow it’s By Sarah • Jul 28, 2010 04:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The search for Lisbeth Salander It’s become the most coveted role in recent memory – Lisbeth Salander, the badass heroine of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series now being, ugh, adapted for the screen in America ... because people won’t read subtitles. David Fincher’s heading up the remake and Daniel Craig was just confirmed this By Lainey • Jul 28, 2010 04:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny & Pene dancing in Hawaii Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz are working on Pirates 4 in Hawaii. New set photos have emerged this week showing the two in costume and also rehearsing a drunken dance sequence on a boat out of costume. I love it when his hair is like this and tied back in By Lainey • Jul 28, 2010 04:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A close cast Scott Pilgrim vs the World was all over Comic-Con. It was plastered all over the Hilton Bayfront. It was hyped like almost no other feature. And it is also getting a lot, a LOT of love from critics and fans and nerds and herds. They say that Edgar Wright’s By Lainey • Jul 27, 2010 03:17 am
