At the Paperboy Set

Auch am 29.01. war Zac wieder fleißig. Man sah ihn am Set von The Paperboy. Außerdem gibt es noch ein Bild von ihm, als er im Studio war um Ted (The Lorax) seine Stimme zu leihen.

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Going Behind The Scenes Of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Dr. Seuss is one of those writers whom we will never forget. From themes that touch children and adults alike to the unique drawings to his use of trisyllabic meter, the author’s work is already beloved by multiple generations and it will continue to be until the end of time. One element helping to ensure Seuss’ is never forgotten is the on-going film series based on his books. It began in 2008 with Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino’s Horton Hears a Who! and on March 2nd it will continue with Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. 

A few months back a group of journalists, including myself, was granted the opportunity to visit Illumination Entertainment, the production company behind the upcoming adaptation. While there we not only had the opportunity to watch nearly 20 minutes of footage from The Lorax, but also speak with producer and company founder Christopher Meledandri. 

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Quelle: cinemablend.com

10 Things to Know About DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX

Back in October, Collider was invited to Illumination Entertainment in Santa Monica, in order to preview some footage of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. As a lifelong fan of the Dr. Seuss stories, and some of my earliest memories being connected to them, I was excited to get a glimpse of what audiences will get to see, when the film opens in theaters on March 2^nd. In an office surrounded by character merchandise and sculptures, it’s easy to see that producer Chris Meledandri is as much of a fan of the Dr. Seuss legacy as the audiences who love the work, generation after generation. Something about the stories of Dr. Seuss makes the reader or viewer feel like a kid again, and makes kids feel a sense of wonder, and The Lorax will clearly be no exception.

In case you’re not familiar with the story of The Lorax, the 3D-CG feature is an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. As a 12-year-old boy goes on a journey in search of the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams, he discovers the story of the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Hit the jump for 10 things to know about The Lorax, our interview with Chris Meledandri, and our thoughts on the footage we saw.

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Quelle: collider.com

On the Paperboy Set in L.A.

Auch gestern war Zac wieder fleißig am drehen.

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Sexy on the Set

Zac steht wieder vor der Kamera. Er dreht in L.A. seinen Film 'The Paperboy' zu Ende.

Am 27.01. wurde er am Set gesehen.

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The Lorax Tv Spot 1

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The Lorax New Clip

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Liberal Arts Premiere

Josh Radnor brings 'Liberal Arts' to Sundance and talks 'HIMYM' cast contract extensions

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Ellen's Big Name Lineup for February Sweeps

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" isn't taking any chances during February sweeps. In order to win the ratings race, Ellen has landed what's being dubbed the exclusive joint interviews with Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and Taylor Swift and Zac Efron. She will also sit down with First Lady Michelle Obama and celebs like Jennifer Aniston and has a host of musical talent heading to daytime. 


Tuesday, Feb. 21: Taylor Swift and Zac Efron will make their only appearance together to talk about their animated film "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax."


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Taylor Swift & Zac Efron Dating

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Läuft das was zwischen Zac und Taylor Swift

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15 Biggest Box Office Flops of 2011: THR Year In Review

Many Hollywood studios will be all too happy to forget 2011, which witnessed a troubling dip in moviegoing for much of the year at the domestic box office. There were several high-profile flops that lost tens of millions, including "Mars Needs Moms" and "Cowboys & Aliens." Studios split grosses with theater owners, so even if a movie makes as much as its production budget, it's still in trouble, and that's before even considering marketing costs. And, after several record-breaking years, the domestic box revenues are running 4 percent behind 2010 levels. Here’s a glance at the movies largely rejected by audiences.

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New Year's Eve

Studio: New Line/Warner Bros.
Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Zac Efron, Lea Michele, Halle Berry, Josh Duhamel
Release Date: Dec. 9, 2011
Budget: $56 million
Worldwide Gross to Date: $54.9 million

Quelle: hollywoodreporter.com

Sundance Review: Liberal Arts

Reviewed at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival

Liberal Arts is a really nice movie. This is the kind of statement that’s often thrown around pejoratively, or at the very least condescendingly—a pat on the movie’s head, if you will. But I’m merely trying to share the reserved but genuine warmth I felt towards the picture at its end; it’s not without its flaws, but it’s so very likable that you can’t get too worked up over them. It’s the second feature for How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor, whoseHappythankyoumoreplease had some of the same issues. They’re as negligible here as they were there.

Radnor stars as Jesse, a mildly unhappy admissions officer for an unnamed university (presumably NYU). He’s just ended a relationship and is feeling particularly aimless—and thus prone to the bouts of nostalgia brought on by a visit to his alma matter to honor his favorite professor (Richard Jenkins) on the eve of his retirement. While there, he meets an adorable coed, adorably nicknamed Zibby and adorably played by Elizabeth Olsen. By the time he heads out of town, she’s done the next best thing to wearing an “I HAVE A CRUSH ON YOU” T-shirt: she’s burned him a CD.

These early scenes are just a scotch underwritten; though there are laughs here and there (Jesse tells Zibby he was an English major, but with a History minor, “just to make sure I was fully unemployable”), some of the dialogue feels like placeholders for forthcoming lines that would be funnier or more perceptive. Radnor’s screenplay picks up, oddly enough, in what would seem its most ridiculous section, wherein Jesse and Zibby connect over music (her CD is filled with classical and opera music from a survey course that “changed her life”), their responses and growing affection shared in handwritten letters.

Look, I get it. This flowery bonding business should be intolerable (it certainly sounds so, yes?), but Radnor’s delicate style and utter lack of cynicism ultimately win you over. This shouldn’t work, but it does. Soon, the letters have moved from waxing ecstatic over Beethoven to outright flirtation, leading to one of the picture’s best scenes, in which Jesse gets out a pad and pen and literally does the math. He’s 35 to her 19, so when he was 16, she was… three. But when he’s 87, she’ll be… 71? The way in which Radnor works it through, using only his hands and his face, is priceless.

You really can’t blame him for at least entertaining the notion; Olsen is utterly charming and just astonishingly pretty—nice racket, Radnor, writing movies where Elizabeth Olsen falls for you—and she shows fine range from her justly acclaimed (but obviously quite different) work in Martha Marcy May Marlene. She gets to display a bouncy comic spark (I like the way she prompts him to “say yes” whenever she propositions him), and she breaks your heart in her later scenes.

Radnor mostly plays straight man, though he gets off a couple of good lines. Alison Janney barely speaks in half of her scenes, yet basically steals the picture; she’s so good, she makes even weakest lines zing, and her last scene is utterly perfect (until Radnor lets it run on just a beat too long). An unbilled Zac Efron does a decent job channeling Pitt in True Romance, and though Elizabeth Reaser is underused (and part of an alarmingly predictable third-act turn), her presence is welcome. However, I’m no fan of Richard Jenkins’s new career as the dramatic drag on light rom-coms; his mid-life crisis here isn’t quite the distraction as his Alzheimer’s in Friends with Benefits, but it’s no better use of such a fine actor.

As with his first film, Radnor’s made his screenplay overly busy—there’s a couple of subplots too many, and thus an excess of loose ends to tie up at the end. But there’s much to recommend here: Radnor and Olsen’s swoony chemistry, Seamus Tierney’s sublime cinematography, and a surprisingly astute and sharp-edged (particularly in a film festival atmosphere) bit of business about cultural snobbery and the freedom to like “things that make you happy.” That scene makes sense in the context of the movie, though it now seems like a fail-safe, inserted for the Sundance audience. And Radnor’s right: there’s nothing wrong with liking a nice movie that makes you happy. Liberal Arts is a sweet flick with a few laughs and a little bit of truth. That’s less common than you’d think.

"Liberal Arts" screens at the Sundance Film Festival on 1/23, 1/27, and 1/28.


Quelle: jason-bailey.com

Shopping at Home Depot in Los Angeles

Zac war am 20.01 bei Home Depot in Los Angeles einkaufen. Plant er etwa ein BBQ? Er kaufte zwei Feuertöpfe und den passenden Feuertstarter dazu.

Quelle: vanessaworld.org

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Clip

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New Pictures

So da die alte Galerie immer noch nicht geht, und mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit auch nicht mehr gehen wird, können wir euch zur Zeit die neuesten Bilder nur so zeigen. Die neue Galerie ist schon in Arbeit.

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Sundance Brings Out A-List And Indies Stars

Zac Efron
The former "High School Musical" star has spent the last few years attempting to re-establish himself as a legitimate leading man with roles in "Charlie St. Cloud" and "The Lucky One." So Sundance seems like the natural place to go for that kind of career move. Efron will star alongside Sundance-breakout Elizabeth Olsen and writer-director Josh Radnor in "Liberal Arts." The movie follows a college professor who falls from one of his much younger students.


Quelle: moviesblog.mtv.com

Zac Leaves A Hotel In Santa Monica

Zac war am 18.01. in Santa Monica unterwegs.

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David Oyelowo Talks Red Tails, The Paperboy, Middle of Nowhere, Lincoln, One Shot

David Oyelowo Talks Red Tails, The Paperboy, Middle of Nowhere, Lincoln, One Shot
By Wilson Morales

Coming out on January 20th is the highly anticipated Tuskegee Airmen film, ‘Red Tails,’ which stars a bevy of black talent from Cuba Gooding Jr, Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan Wilds, Ne-Yo, Michael B. Jordan, Elijah Kelly, Leslie Odom Jr, Kevin Phillips, Lee Tergesen, Andre Royo, Daniela Ruah, and Bryan Cranston.

Produced by Star Wars creator George Lucas, and using his own funds, the film centers on a crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program. Having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

For Oyelowo, who plays ace pilot Joe “Lightning” Little, the film not only puts him in the spotlight among a handful of talented actors, but the British native is starting to break out in Hollywoood, having appeared in Tate Taylor‘s box office hit ‘The Help,’ and with James Franco in ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes.’

David Oyelowo has a slew of upcoming films, including Ava DuVernay’s ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ which will debut at theSundance Film Festival, Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln,’ Lee Daniels’ ‘The Paperboy’ with Matthew McConaughey andNicole Kidman and ‘One Shot’ opposite Tom Cruise.

In speaking exclusively with Blackfilm.com, Oyelowo talked about his role in Red Tails, what it means for him as an actor, and the films he has coming up.

How would you describe Joe “Lightning” Little?

David Oyelowo: I would characterize him as the embodiment of the audacity of youth. In meeting the actual Tuskegee Airmen, when one of the things that was clear to me is that they are all in their 80s and 90s now and we talked about their exploits and even they go, “We can’t believe we did that!” Joe is the embodiment of that thing you have when you are in your teens and early 20s where you just feel immortal. He’s an incredibly exciting, just full of life character. An archetype hero I would say.

What was the draw to doing this film?

David Oyelowo: A film of this size and scale is definitely not the scale a young black actor in Hollywood gets. That’s just a fact. Coupled with George Lucas having to do with it, and coupled with the story. I was shocked that I didn’t know the story and amazed it was so kinetic a story. I recognized that this wasn’t a story about overcoming prejudice but a story of undeniable heroism in a world where we are seeing superhero films. These were genuine heroes that flew. For me, it was a no brainer. Red Tails is a full blown action movie with planes doing what you never see planes doing. We do in the air what normally gets done in the tarmac, and you forget that these guys were black. There were incredible at what they did.

What sort of research did you do for the film?

David Oyelowo: Hanging out with Lee Archer, Bill Holloman, Dr. Roscoe Brown, it was Lee Archer who was deemed an ace in the Tuskegee Airmen. He said to me that you can not achieve that. He said you can not do what these men did without a hint of arrogance. You need that to be able to get into that tin can and fly and do what they did. That was great for me because it legitimize what Lightning was on the page. One of them who will remain nameless met my wife at one point, and this 80 year old guy looked deeply into my wife and said, “You have beautiful eyes.” These guys have swagger. There’s no question about it. Even seeing them in this stage of their lives legitimizes what Lightning was and is.

With Lighting the only Tuskegee on film to have a romance, did you have say as to how you wanted it portrayed?

David Oyelowo: Not really. I just loved the fact that Joe is the character who is least tolerant of racism and yet is the one who falls in love with an Italian woman. This showed for me that racism in of itself is fear of the unknown as opposed to it literally being a color issue. On the one hand you had white people from America who had brought up to believe certain things about black people and then you had Italians, where for some of them, it was the first time, they had encountered these black men, who they find exotic and beautiful and wanted to be around with. I just loved that the same character was traveling in both worlds.

Although you are not new to it, how was working with the CGI?

David Oyelowo: I’m not new to it, but in some ways I am. Every film is different, if you are referring to ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes.’ The technology there and what we were dealing with is different. There, you are dealing with performance capture and interacting with actors who then go and be transferred into apes by the geniuses of WETA. The challenges were that you are in a gimbal that is being moved around. You have to become very clear where every plane is. The plane that is shooting and where you are shooting at was so mind numbing difficult to keep a handle in a complete take of where everything was when it’s not necessarily there. That was an education in of itself, but a fun one. It was like being a kid again in that world of imagination.

How was working with this big cast?

David Oyelowo: I felt so privileged to be part of something I hadn’t seen before in the sense of an African American cast in a movie that isn’t being made for a large black audience. This is a big film and it can not be made for just the black community. Here, we’re being afforded the opportunity to be at the center of own story. There’s no white character being forced in. There’s no excuse that these are the heroes and it’s not just one. There’s a group of us and that was something I hadn’t seen before or part of, so that was a wonderful honor for me.

Is it wonderful of the accolades ‘The Help’ has received thus far?

David Oyelowo: It’s great. I had a relatively small part in the film but when I turned up for the short time I was there, you can feel that there was a clear atmosphere that w were doing something special and that kept on being the case all the way now to the award nominations and things like that. I felt so privileged to be part of in any way.

The Sundance Film Festival is coming up and you have a role in Ava DuVernay’s film, ‘Middle of Nowhere.’ Can you talk about the character you play?

David Oyelowo: I play a character called Brian and the husband (played by Omari Hardwick) of Emayatzy Corinealdi’s character, Ruby, has been incarcerated and he’s in for a long stretch. The film is about what you do as a ‘widow.’ How do you conduct your life, and Ruby and Brian’s paths cross and it’s about the tension between these two. Are you free to engage again when you almost feel like the man you are still married to is not around anymore? Ava was very inspired by stories and experiences she has encountered with women around her of dealing with the exact syndrome. When I read the script, I was just blown away by the quality of the writing. It’s exactly what I had been looking for. I had been looking to work with black voices that I feel have integrity. What you will never see me doing is a black film for the sake of it and one that I feel is well trodden stereotypical buffoonery. This was something that felt true. I recognize these people as human beings. I think she’s a new and powerful voice in cinema and I felt that I had to be around this woman.

You also have a role in Lee Daniels’ new film, ‘The Paperboy.’ What role do you play?

David Oyelowo: I play a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Matthew McConaughey’s character has been incarcerated for murder and he’s on death row. Nicole Kidman’s character has fallen in love with him and she alerts us to the fact that he well may have been put away improperly. So both Matthew’s character and mine go to investigate if this is indeed the case and it gets pretty messy quickly in Lately, Florida, this small sweaty southern town where a lot of ghosts and skeletons come pouring out of the closet.

Weren’t you supposed to work with Lee Daniels on his other film, ‘Selma,’ playing Dr. Martin Luther King jr.?

David Oyelowo: It was amazing to actually end up working with him. We were supposed to do ‘Selma’ over two years ago now and he’s still in the process of trying to get the film off the ground, but in the meantime, this film came along. Lee re-wrote the character from a white character to black because he was that desirous to work with me. That vote of confidence is something I will never forget.

How was working on Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’?

David Oyelowo: That was just incredible. Daniel Day Lewis is my favorite actor of all-time. To get to share words, to share a scene, and for the person who calls “Cut” behind the monitor to be Spielberg was one of those where I can die happy. These two guys were at the absolute top of their game. I play a union cavalryman and we’re not allowed to talk too much about it because Steven likes to keep things under wrap. It’s a very powerful role and there’s a great interaction between myself and President Lincoln and it sets up the movie really.

And then there’s ‘One Shot’ with Tom Cruise.

David Oyelowo: I just wrapped that less than a week ago and Tom Cruise is just something else. The work ethic, the dedication, the energy, the enthusiasm, and to go toe-to-toe with him was incredible. There’s a car chase in the film that’s nothing anyone has seen before. We literally shut down Pittsburgh and we have to free drive through that thing for three weeks at night. In the film, there’s a sniper attack in Pittsburgh and five people have been shot and killed. I’m the lead detective investigating it. Tom’s character is an ex-military investigator and this sniper is military trained. So we team up to track this sniper down.

Are you still planning to work with Mary J. Blige on the Nina Simone biopic?

David Oyelowo: Yes, the film will still happen. We’re going to do that sometime this year. It’s a question of schedules and everything aligning, but it’s a phenomenal script. There’s no way that film isn’t going to be made.

Do you have any other film coming out?

David Oyelowo: Yes. I have a film called ‘Default,’ which is about Somalian pirates who attack a plane rather than a boat. My character hijacks a plane knowing that a news crew is onboard and he basically puts them on trial for how they reported on Somalia over the last 10 years. Rather than getting their money, they have to air the interview.

How do find time to balance life when you have time?

David Oyelowo: A big priority for me is my family. We’re never apart for more than two weeks. They travel with me and they were with me in Pittsburgh, and I’ve never been apart from my wife for more than two weeks in our 13 years of marriage. It’s a tricky thing to make work but we home school our kids in order to facilitate it. What I love and do as an actor will never take precedent over my family. We just find a way to make it work.

Quelle: blackfilm.com