Cameron Diaz Keeps Busy In The Big Apple
Cameron Diaz Keeps Busy In The Big Apple
Cameron Diaz continues pumping out movies and collecting paychecks. The 35-year-old actress is currently in NYC filming “What Happens In Vegas” and has more projects on the horizon.
Between filming sessions yesterday afternoon, the In Her Shoes actress was spotted taking a quick break from the set for some time out on the town with costar Lake Bell.
The duo went to “a Godiva liquor bash thrown in honor of Bell’s interior decorator mother, Robin Bell, at STK, a downtown New York restaurant.”
The Shrek star told People magazine, “The house her mother Robin (designed) in (House Beautiful) magazine is beautiful.”
But not long after arriving at the party, Diaz and Bell had to head back to work, telling, “We have to go right now. It’s so tricky (to get away), but it was worth it.”
In other news on Cameron, she has just recently signed up to star in a new horror film titled ‘The Box’. Joining her in the Richard Kelly-directed flick will be Frank Langella, who plays a stranger who presents a mysterious box to a woman.
Movie Playlist: Garth Jennings
Filmmaker Playlist is a new feature on where we ask writers, directors, and stars to tell us their favorite movies of the moment. I’ve always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business became involved after discovering their love of films. And I always love talking to people about their favorite films. So talking to the people who make the movies about their favorite films just seemed like a natural idea.
First up in the series is Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow writer/director Garth Jennings.
“You tend to have a top five that shifts around over the years and certain films go up and down. I definitely come back to a lot of Billy Wilder’s films very often. I could watch those again and again and again. Certainly The Apartment is one of my favorite, favorite FAVORITE movies.”
“Harold and Maude I think is a terrific film.”
“Raiders of the Lost Ark I think is a perfect film. Because I loved Star Wars. Star Wars was the very first film I saw but Raiders of the Lost Ark, oh, whenever I see it, I can’t not watch it. It’s just perfect and it has such a terrific sense of wonder, and it just has everything I want in a film. And it’s got a great sense of humor, and you travel the world… there isn’t anything wrong with that film. Those selections are very different, I know. But they’re all just big hearted.”
Garth later talked a bit about films that terrified him:
“My first real horror film where I remember being absolutely terrified, it was a music video for Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Do you remember that? I remember sitting up watching that and there is a shot - Gerald Scarfe’s drawings were really macabre and brutal. And he pushes all these children through a mincer. I remember being up for weeks after that. I always had terrible nightmares as a kid anyway. And I remember seeing a clip from the Elephant Man and I didn’t know what it was. He just had a bag over his head and a hole for his eye. And he turned around for the camera and that was it. That was another week of sleepless nights.”
“But then by the time I got to horror films, I had left it so late because I was clearly not so good at watching them that I got to a point where I couldn’t tolerate it. And I haven’t gone back because Horror has become more gruesome - more about torture and less about creeping up on someone or creating frightening tense moments. Although I heard The Orphanage is good, and it sounds like I would actually quite like it.”
Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow expands to a theater (hopefully) near you on May 9th 2008.
Quarantine Movie Trailer
Screen Gems has released the movie trailer for Quarantine online. If you remember, last month we posted two viral videos which featured tape of a government shooting that happened on March 11th under the title Case 1017. It turned out that these virals were part of the viral marketing campaign for Quarantine, John Dowdle’s American remake of Spanish horror film [rec]. The film follows a TV news crew which gets trapped with a hazmat crew in a CDC quarantined apartment building which has been infected by something unknown. When the quarantine is eventually lifted, the only evidence of what happened is the news crew’s videotape (ala Cloverfield). The movie stars Jennifer Carpenter (pictured above), who I absolutely fell in love with from the hit television show Dexter (she plays Dexter’s foul mouthed almost always inappropriate sister Debra Morgan).
Check out the trailer. Tell me what you think in the comments below.
Quarantine hits theaters on October 17th 2008.
Hugo Weaving Joins The Wolf Man
Actor Hugo Weaving (V For Vendetta, The Matrix) is set to star as Detective Aberline for director Joe Johnston in The Wolf Man. Weaving will join a cast that includes Anthony Hopkins (as the Wolf Man’s father), Benicio del Toro (as the Wolf Man) and Emily Blunt (as the love interest). This is the first bit of casting news for the big budget remake of the 1941 horror film since the original director, Mark Romanek, abruptly left at the end of January over budget issues. Romanek had spent a few years working to bring the film to the screen with del Toro, and now Variety reports that Johnston has had David Self (Road to Perdition, The Haunting) do a rewrite of the script by Andrew Scott Walker. A little curious.
Weaving is the guy to go to for classier event films like this and he definitely boosts the movie’s chances of being a creative success. But Johnston, who previously directed Hidalgo, Jumanji and Jurassic Park III, inspires nothing. He has a surprising number of defenders online, but to me, this is the equivalent of hypothetically never seeing Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. Would this lavish project have happened with Johnston on board originally? No. And such a thought will be in the back of my head for sometime, perhaps even while watching the film in February ‘09, if applicable. Romanek hasn’t updated the news page on his official website in years; you have to wonder if he’ll ever open up about what happened.