Gus Van Sant Shoots Fifty Shades Test Footage to be Considered as Director
For your consideration, Universal: Gus Van Sant as Fifty Shades of Grey director. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsRiver Phoenix's Final Film to Have North American Premiere at Miami Film Festival
Though it’s been nearly 20 years since his untimely death, actor River Phoenix’s final film, Dark Blood, will finally have a North American premiere at the 30th annual Miami International Film Festival, according to The Wrap.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsPromised Land
Oscar-winning screenwriter Matt Damon has reunited with his Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant on this earnest environmental drama centered on natural gas extraction—aka fracking. Along with co-writer/co-star John Krasinski, Damon puts a human face on a polarizing news story, casting himself as antihero salesman Steve Butler, whose job it is to get struggling landowners to sign their energy rights away. He brings hope to small towns whose way of life is fading, and he believes in his message, having seen his own hometown die with the closing of a Caterpillar plant. “I’m not a bad guy,” he... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe 10 Best Things About Portland, Oregon
There are plenty of reasons why Portland has acquired “It Town” status over the past few years, but these are the secrets about what makes Stumptown the kind of irreplaceable, slightly twee, irreplicably shaggy berg it’s become. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayRestless
Meet Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), a sad, possibly suicidal lad who crashes strangers’ funerals wearing a three-piece suit. Meet Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska), a lively lass who sketches birds and insects and dresses like a boy. Theirs is a tragic love story designed to tug, hard, at the heartstrings: She has cancer, and she’s going to die.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsPortlandia Review: “Blunderbuss” (Episode 1.05)
Episode 5 of Portlandia, IFC’s hipster-skewering series, featured a number of guest appearances, including actress Selma Blair, director Gus Van Sant, and musicians James Mercer (The Shins, Broken Bells), Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), and and Colin Meloy and Jenny Conlee of Portland’s hometown heroes The Decemberists.... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsThe 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
We're looking at the Best of the Decade throughout the month of the November. Today's list is the 50 Best Movies from 2000 to 2009. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayGus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Write a Double-Suicide Movie
Gus Van Sant will join novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis in writing a film for Lionsgate about the double suicides of New York artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsVan Sant Considering Jack Black, Woody Harrelson for Acid
For the role of writer Ken Kesey in the upcoming film adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, director Gus Van Sant had one person in mind. Unfortunately, that person was the late, Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger. ... read more
Found in: NewsOscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights
Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning. ... read more
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