Coen Brothers Cast Damon, Brolin and Bridges for True Grit
The Coen brothers have gotten acclaim for their violent Westerns (No Country for Old Men) and for their period pieces (O Brother, Where Art Thou?). So the announcement that they are currently casting for a remake of historical Western True Grit seems like a no-brainer.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsMastodon Talks Jonah Hex Score
"We sacrificed two weeks away from home to give away an album's worth of material," bassist/singer Troy Sanders says... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsMastodon to Score Jonah Hex Movie
Über-film-geek Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News dropped a tidbit of knowledge on us last night. In between bouts of nonsense about Medusa's genitals and Satan's mighty balls, he revealed that Atlanta-based metalmen Mastodon will be scoring the upcoming comic-book flick Jonah Hex. But what does it sound like? "Needless to say, pretty heavy!"... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsAtlanta Film Festival 2009: Red Carpet Video Interviews with Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Karin Hayes and More
Paste worked the red carpet on opening night of the Atlanta Film Festival, talking to Josh Brolin, Chris Moore and more. Watch the interviews in the embedded videos below:... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalSpringsteen, Vedder, Damon, Cheadle, many more aboard for People's History of the United States
In an unusually ambitious project, the History Channel announced that it plans to adapt Howard Zinn’s seminal 1980 book A People’s History of the United States as a two-hour film with archival footage and readings by Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and John Legend and film stars like Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle and Marisa Tomei.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSlumdog Millionaire starlet works with Woody Allen next
Freida Pinto will follow up her performance in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire with a part in Woody Allen's next film. The movie is currently only listed as Woody Allen's Untitled London Project, but Pinto will join the likes of Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins for filming.... read more
Found in: Movies, 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
Found in: Movies, NewsStill-awesome Goonies soundtrack re-released
For a huge number of twenty- and thirtysomethings—myself included—1985 movie The Goonies is inextricably linked to our childhoods. How many times did we all watch this at a birthday party or sleepover? And how many times did we argue over who was gonna be Mikey when we took on the roles of the film’s colorful characters, re-enacting the treasure-map-guided, deadly-obstacle-strewn search for “the rich stuff,” so we could save our families from foreclosure and forced removal at the hands of greedy developers, just like the kids in the movie?... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNew York hearts Milk, Los Angeles prefers Wall-E
With award season in full swing, Milk and Wall-E have proven to be be the big winners on both sides of the coast. The New York Film Critics Circle named the Gus Van Sant-directed drama as its best film, while the Los Angeles Film Critics Association went for Pixar's latest opus.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsOscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?
There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still... read more
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