Guy Pearce has had an extraordinary career with movies like Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to his breakout role in LA Confidential. Even though he’s a strong leading man on-screen, getting into acting was a way for him to survive. The English-born Australian actor lost his dad at the age of […]
Judy Greer has played everyone’s best friend on-screen over the last decade, but the character actress has really found her own niche the last couple of years. She hit Los Angeles in 1997 after graduating from Depaul University. She talked about her first week in Hollywood, it’s a week most
Aubrey Plaza is taking on the box office again with her new movie, About Alex. For fans that love her deadpan character April from Parks and Recreation, it’s going to be a bit of a departure. The 30-year-old actress told The New York Times, “It’s a fun challenge to make
Whether it’s his distinctive voice or his bearing, Benedict Cumberbatch has been a go-to actor for intelligent characters like Sherlock Holmes or British mathematician Alan Turing. In a conversation with the Los Angeles Times, Cumberbatch spoke about what’s on his mind when he’s playing such characters… and he admits it
If you don’t know the name Zoe Kazan, then you probably aren’t a fan of romantic-comedies. The 30-year-old actress has taken over where Meg Ryan left off back in the day. Her latest movie, What If with Daniel Radcliffe, focuses in on an animator who is in a relationship. She
Because he is mainly cast in supporting roles, Oscar-nominated actor Richard Jenkins tends to appear in at least three movies every year. However, he is cast in lead roles every once in a while, including in the indie drama 4 Minute Mile, which is now available on VOD and is
In the amazingly prescient clip, Pratt says, “Man… I just got a text message. It’s from Steven Spielberg. God! So annoying.”
In the video, they talk about voicing their characters, Elle working with a dialect coach for her British accent, why Hempstead Wright’s character looks so much like him and what they did during the last 20 minutes of ever voice session.
The most important thing to remember when you consider the news that Sandra Bullock topping this year’s Forbes list of highest earning actresses is that the movie that is most responsible for that achievement, Gravity, was a movie that Warner Bros. was unsure about releasing. That gamble paid off for
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has said that despite the overwhelming success of Disney’s Marvel movies it isn’t easy to convince actors to sign those six to nine movie contracts. Obviously one drawback is that kind of commitment ties an actor down for a lot of time that
I could listen to Sir Ben Kingsley talk about acting and.. well, I could listen to him talk about anything. He’s starring in the new Laika stop-motion animated film, The Boxtrolls, and he and some of the cast (along with the director) joined in on a Comic-Con panel about the
Guardians of the Galaxy is poised to become one of the biggest hits of the summer before its release date on Aug. 1. Early press screenings have proven to be successful way to pass along a strong word-of-mouth on the Marvel film. Despite such incredible visibility and guaranteed work for
In recent roles in movies like Her and Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson has made a concentrated effort to not appear as “Scarlett Johansson” (and in the case of Her, she didn’t appear at all). It’s difficult for an actress of her notoriety (and beauty) to disappear into a role
The list of professional wrestlers who have attempted acting careers is long, but the list of those who actually succeeded on the silver screen is very small. Of course, none have yet equaled the resume of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and only a few are even as popular on screen
Sande Alessi Casting is in a bit of hot water after posting a racially insensitive casting call for the Universal Pictures film, Straight Outta Compton. The biopic will tell the story of the rap group N.W.A. and is set to be released in 2015. Even with the cooperation of founding members
Michael Pitt has had a quirky career jumping from Dawson’s Creek to a successful stint in indie film with directors like Gus Van Sant, Bernardo Bertolucci and Michael Haneke. This summer, he’s headed to more mainstream fare with I Origins. The film portrays the story of a molecular scientist who
San Diego Comic-Con: Daniel Radcliffe has a new film, Horns, coming out this October and to rev up the promotion, he and writer Joe Hill and director Alexandre Aja had a press conference at this weekend’s Comic Con. Horns is about a young man named Ig Perrish (Radcliffe) who becomes
Though Scarlett Johansson has been kicking butt in The Avengers movies as Black Widow, she has tended to star in dramatic films since her 2003 movie breakthrough Lost in Translation. However, in Lucy Johansson is finally starring as the lead in her first all-out action movie, which is directed by
Daniel Radcliffe is headed to romantic-comedy territory this summer. His new film What If follows a med-school dropout who falls in love with a girl, played by Zoe Kazan, that he meets at a party. The 24-year-old actor talked to Vulture about taking on a role that focuses on a
Zach Braff has gone from a fan favorite actor on the cult TV series Scrubs to indie filmmaker and Broadway star in only a few short years. While Braff has gained thousands of fans in the meantime, he also remains a target of ridicule for using Kickstarter to partially fund
