David Cronenberg

Still Alice with Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. ‘Still Alice’ and ‘Maps to the Star’s box office: Julianne Moore Oscar helps only one movie (See previous post: “‘The Lazarus Effect’ Box Office: Olivia Wilde Horror Movie Arrives Comatose.”) The Oscars do matter. As mentioned in…

Robert Pattinson in Maps to the Stars. ‘Maps to the Star’s trailer and clips: Julianne Moore goes ballistic after losing a role, Robert Pattinson learns that Mia Wasikowska’s parents are brother and sister The Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars, the second David Cronenberg-Robert Pattinson…

Andy Kaufman death hoax: Contagious Internet disease continues to spread. Andy Kaufman alive? Or Andy Kaufman death hoax? New York City-born comedian Andy Kaufman, little known outside the United States but well-remembered in the U.S. by those who watched the late 1970s/early 1980s television series…

Holy Motors with Denis Lavant and Eva Mendes. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association‘s Best Foreign Language Film and a double nominee for the Online Film Critics Awards, Leos Carax’s hallucinatory Holy Motors follows a mysterious man (frequent Carax collaborator Denis Lavant) whose equally mysterious…

Kristen Stewart at the On the Road U.S. premiere in New York. A major international name, Kristen Stewart rose to fame after being cast as the lovestruck Bella Swan in Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling fantasy novel Twilight. Chris Weitz’s New…

Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts among 11 movies still in Oscar contention A Brazilian inmate trying to convince his mother…

Disney employees Darth Vader and Princess Leia as Lucasfilm now belongs to the Disney Enterprises realm. Lucasfilm now part of the (infinite) Disney Universe Disney has just gobbled up – for a reported $4.05 billion in cash and stock – Lucasfilm, the George Lucas-owned company…

‘Cosmopolis’ 2012 with Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson ‘Cosmopolis’ movie: Highly unlikely further expansion Sept. 4 update: Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis had a solid debut at three U.S. theaters two weekends ago. (The film was screened in Canada – and surprisingly flopped badly –…

Robert Pattinson naked and dangerous: Cosmopolis movie July 11 update: Robert Pattinson Cosmopolis movie trailer HD. This US Cosmopolis trailer doesn’t start with Robert Pattinson saying “I wanna a haircut.” (Please scroll down.) Instead, Pattinson’s words are “Show me my car.” Never mind that “Show…

Robert Pattinson news: Eclectic film projects June 26 update: In Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami, a movie adaptation (written by Rachelle Bennette) of Guy de Maupassant’s 19th-century novel, Robert Pattinson (photo) plays Georges Duroy, a former soldier who climbs to the top of…

Limousine rider Juliette Binoche. Cosmopolis reviews Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is missing a scene found in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel: a 300-person orgy at a Manhattan intersection. But don’t despair. Cronenberg’s movie, which opens tomorrow in Canada and Aug. 17 in the US,…

Maps to the Stars for Robert Pattinson / David Cronenberg? Above, Pattinson in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (Paul Giamatti in background) Robert Pattinson hates Twilight, according to those who have taken seriously his (jokingly) dismissive take on the movie series that has made him world famous. Anyhow,…

April 19, ’12, update: The Catching Fire director will be Francis Lawrence, among whose (few) feature-film credits are Reese Witherspoon / Robert Pattinson / Christoph Waltz’s Water for Elephants, Will Smith’s I Am Legend, and Keanu Reeves / Rachel Weisz’s Constantine. Deadline.com reports that Lionsgate’s…

Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees’ age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June…

Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Elisabeth Reaser, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 poster July 28 update: This The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 poster isn’t exactly the most creative…

Family conflict at the core of Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning psychological drama The Tree of Life. Pictured above: Maïwenn, Mélanie Laurent, Kirsten Dunst, Edgar Ramírez, Marisa Paredes, Dede Gardner, Pablo Giorgelli, Bill Pohlad, Jean Dujardin, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Nicole Garcia, Jane Fonda,…