plus 4, HBO’s ‘Entourage’ may head to the silver screen - The Celebrity Cafe.com

HBO’s ‘Entourage’ may head to the silver screen - The Celebrity Cafe.com
'Bruno' paster runs for Birmingham mayor - San Francisco Examiner
Michelle Williams tipped to play Marilyn Monroe - Newstrack India
MOVIE REVIEW: De Niro shines in 'Everybody's Fine' - Jamaica Gleaner
Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek set for Pancho Villa movie - Real Bollywood

HBO’s ‘Entourage’ may head to the silver screen - The Celebrity Cafe.com

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 06:52 PM PST

HBO's 'Entourage' may head to the silver screen
4-Dec-2009
Written by: Sari N. Kent

The success of HBO's "Entourage" has prompted widespread rumors of a movie in the television dramedy's future.

HBO's 'Entourage' may head to the silver screen

While HBO's hit dramedy "Entourage" has been picked up for a seventh season, rumblings of about the show coming to the silver screen are running rampant.

Yet, Mark Wahlberg, one of the show's executive producers, feels that beyond the already greenlighted seven season, "Entourage" has more story to tell, which Wahlberg thinks amounts to two more seasons of the show.

"We'll see; there could be more," he said at the premiere of his latest film, "The Lovely Bones." "But then, a movie."

As for the possibility of Vincent Chase and his childhood friends from Queens making their way onto the big screen, "Right now, the creators are concentrating on the new season." said a HBO spokeswoman.

Despite that statement, according to an article on HollywoodReporter.com, "HBO seems on board with the idea… In following a successful series run with a movie, the Doug Ellin-created 'Entourage' would mirror another long-running HBO comedy, 'Sex and the City.'"

As for other HBO shows moving to a theater near you, another network hit "The Sopranos," was long-rumored to be making the move from the little screen to the big screen but the project never materialized.

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'Bruno' paster runs for Birmingham mayor - San Francisco Examiner

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:57 PM PST

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Moviegoers know Jody Trautwein as the smiling Alabama pastor who tries to talk Sacha Baron Cohen's character out of being gay in the hit movie "Bruno." Trautwein is now auditioning for another role: Mayor of Birmingham.

Trautwein is among 14 candidates in next week's election to replace Larry Langford, who was booted from office in October after being convicted on 60 felony counts in a bribery scheme.

While the minister's scene drew laughter in theaters, he's running a serious campaign. He has a Web site, fliers, volunteers and a platform that includes fighting crime, improving city schools, economic expansion and restoring integrity to City Hall.

But political discussions inevitably begin with Trautwein's part in "Bruno," a spoof released this summer in which Cohen portrayed a gay Austrian fashion journalist traveling the United States.

"I haven't seen the movie," Trautwein, 39, said in an interview. "From what I understand it's about an hour and a half of darkness and perversion with about three minutes of light."

Trautwein said he was duped into appearing in the movie through phone calls from a producer and fake Internet sites set up by Cohen's cohorts. Trautwein believed he was helping a German TV crew telling the story of a man who wanted to give up homosexuality.

In the movie, Trautwein counsels "Bruno" to convert to heterosexuality by believing in Jesus.

"He wants to come into your heart right now," Trautwein says earnestly.

"Are you hitting on me?" Cohen deadpans.

No, Trautwein wasn't. But the segment helped the administrator and youth pastor at Point of Grace Church build a campaign profile.

Trautwein caught the attention of movie producers because of his former position as director of the Alabama Coalition Against Same-Sex Marriage. He's a conservative who describes himself as neither a Republican nor a Democrat.

Trautwein may be a longshot, but he said he's in the mayoral race to win even though he lacks the name recognition of candidates like Carole Smitherman, who served as interim mayor after Langford's ouster; William Bell, a member of the Jefferson County Commission; or Patrick Cooper, a lawyer who finished a distant second to Langford in 2007.

"We're going to run strong," said Trautwein, a Birmingham native who has worked in ministry for 14 years. "I believe we are going to surprise a lot of people."

The nonpartisan election is Tuesday, and a runoff will be held Jan. 19 if no candidate wins a majority of votes in the city, with an estimated population of about 210,000.

Langford is awaiting sentencing for taking some $236,000 in bribes in his former role as commission president in Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous region.

Evidence showed Langford — himself a professing Christian who leads a weekly Bible study — took checks and expensive gifts from an investment banker who received lucrative bond business from the county, which is now trying to avoid filing the largest municipal bankruptcy ever.

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Michelle Williams tipped to play Marilyn Monroe - Newstrack India

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:36 AM PST

London, Dec 5 (ANI): Actress Michelle Williams has reportedly been offered to take on the role of Marilyn Monroe in a new movie about the screen icon.

Williams has been chosen to play the lead in upcoming film 'My Week With Marilyn', beating actresses Scarlett Johansson and Amy Adams who were earlier considered for the part.

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However, according to Daily Mail, director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt picked are waiting for the 'Brokeback Mountain' star to agree, reports the Daily Express.

The picture will document Monroe's time filming 1957 movie The Prince and The Showgirl with Laurence Olivier and is based on a diary kept by the film's assistant director Colin Clarke. (ANI)

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MOVIE REVIEW: De Niro shines in 'Everybody's Fine' - Jamaica Gleaner

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 09:15 PM PST

For those weary of the cuddly Robert De Niro, the gentle uplift of his latest film, Everybody's Fine, probably is not going to be tonic for the soul. Midway through the movie, however, there is a flash of the old, unpredictable and delightfully unmanageable De Niro, when his character, feeling unappreciated by his grown children, goes off on a subway panhandler for a perceived breach of etiquette.

De Niro offers a master class of mannered, minimalist acting in Everybody's Fine. If writer-director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) had allowed his lead actor a bit more room to roam into the dark corners of his character, the movie's fast path toward late-life insight would have felt more earned.

Still, De Niro's work possesses such a quiet power that Jones' well-crafted film disappoints only in the sense that it could have delivered more.

excuses, excuses

We first see De Niro's character, retiree Frank Goode, preparing for the homecoming of his four adult children. With the cardigan-dad strains of Perry Como playing in the background, Frank meticu-lously puts his home and garden in order. When the music stops playing, the phone starts ringing. Each "kid" begs off the reunion, using last-minute excuses that sound like just that: excuses.

So Frank, recently widowed and on heart medication, decides to ignore his doctor's advice and head out on a cross-country road trip to visit his offspring. He travels first to New York, where there is no sign of his troubled artist son, David (Austin Lysy). He surprises career-minded Amy (Kate Beckinsale) in Chicago, slacker musician Robert (Sam Rockwell) in Colorado and free-spirit Rosie (Drew Barrymore) in Las Vegas.

Frank's presence at each stop is not exactly welcomed, and we gradually come to understand why. Frank spent his entire adult life working double shifts so his children could succeed. And, for Frank, failure was not an option. If they did not achieve, the kids would hear about it from him. To some degree, that dynamic remains in effect.

Jones should have made Frank a little less huggable, though both the character and the movie itself are not nearly as manipulative as Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 original, which Jones adapted. If Frank's interactions with his grown children had more of an edge, though, the contrast between the reality of the relationships and his perception of them would have been truly heartbreaking.

Instead, Jones achieves a certain wistfulness. Rockwell, Barrymore and Beckinsale all shine in their brief screen time, with De Niro's scenes with Rockwell packing the kind of tension the movie could have used to better advantage.

Father's Day perennial

The strength of Everybody's Fine is watching De Niro slowly transform Frank into a father willing to listen and accept his children for who they are and not who he wanted them to be. De Niro gives the familiar-feeling movie the chance to be a Father's Day perennial.

Everybody's Fine, a Miramax Films release, is rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language. Running time: 100 minutes. Three stars out of four.

- AP

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Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek set for Pancho Villa movie - Real Bollywood

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:09 PM PST

Los Angeles, Dec 4 (DPA) Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek are to star in Serbian director Emir Kusturica's biopic about Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa, Variety reported.

The movie, to be titled Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers, will start filming in 2011 due to Depp's prior commitments, the report said Thursday.

The film is based on the biographical novel The Friends of Pancho Villa, which recounts how Villa and his compadres had a great time fighting and robbing the rich, but also dancing, partying and making love.

Depp will act in Spanish in the Spanish-language feature that will be shot partly in Mexico, where Villa - an early 20th-century bandit who became a guerrilla fighter and a hero to the poor - is an iconic historical figure.

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