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Ben Kingsley Builds the Taj Mahal
Cinematical — ... Mike Myers' The Love Guru isn't the only film Ben Kingsley is cooking up, but this time around, it's a little more serious. Just a smidge. ...

Ben Kingsley Builds the Taj Mahal
Movie Blog — ... Mike Myers' The Love Guru isn't the only film Ben Kingsley is cooking up, but this time around, it's a little more serious. Just a smidge. ...

Lionsgate Planning Young Einstein Biopic
Cinematical — Filed under: Drama, Independent, Lionsgate Films, Distribution, Newsstand, Cinematical IndieFor those who were confused, irritated or just plain disappointed with the ridiculous Yahoo Serious comedy Young Einstein, you'll be happy to know that everyone's favorite physicist is getting a legitimate early-years biopic soon. According to Variety, Lionsgate has purchased the worldwide life rights to Albert Einstein, which kinda sounds like they now own the guy and could make a clone army (that probably wouldn't be so bad). Lionsgate has also ...

Lionsgate Planning Young Einstein Biopic
Movie Blog — Filed under: Drama, Independent, Lionsgate Films, Distribution, Newsstand, Cinematical IndieFor those who were confused, irritated or just plain disappointed with the ridiculous Yahoo Serious comedy Young Einstein, you'll be happy to know that everyone's favorite physicist is getting a legitimate early-years biopic soon. According to Variety, Lionsgate has purchased the worldwide life rights to Albert Einstein, which kinda sounds like they now own the guy and could make a clone army (that probably wouldn't be so bad). Lionsgate has also ...

Sir Ben Kingsley: "Britney Spears is My Inspiration"
Cinematical — Filed under: RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Trailers and ClipsSo you're Sir Ben Kingsley. You've been knighted. You've won an Oscar. You're a pretty big deal actor who recently married a relatively-unknown, younger, attractive actress like the ol' devil you are. So you decide to go out on a night on the town with your wife. Of course, being any sort of notable actor or celebrity, you get stopped by the paparazzi. What do you imagine they'll ask you? Something about your work? Something about your new wife? How ...

Sir Ben Kingsley: "Britney Spears is My Inspiration"
Movie Blog — Filed under: RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Trailers and ClipsSo you're Sir Ben Kingsley. You've been knighted. You've won an Oscar. You're a pretty big deal actor who recently married a relatively-unknown, younger, attractive actress like the ol' devil you are. So you decide to go out on a night on the town with your wife. Of course, being any sort of notable actor or celebrity, you get stopped by the paparazzi. What do you imagine they'll ask you? Something about your work? Something about your new wife? How ...

Ben Kingsley Joins Scorsese's 'Shutter Island'
Cinematical — Filed under: Drama, Thrillers, Casting, ParamountHe's always a great actor, but Ben Kingsley has a habit lately of working with undeserving directors (e.g. Uwe Boll) and appearing in undeserving movies (e.g. A Sound of Thunder). Give him a great director (Spielberg, Glazer) or even a good one (Attenborough, Levinson) and he shines. So, it's an enormous treat to learn he's finally working with Martin Scorsese, appearing in the newly Oscar-winning director's next film, Shutter Island. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Kingsley ...

Sir Ben Kingsley added to ‘Shutter Island’
A Mike Life — This movie ‘Shutter Island‘ just keeps getting better and better looking. I read the book a few weeks ago and you can read the review if you want to get an idea about the plot behind the movie. First you have Leonardo DiCaprio playing Teddy, and then Mark Ruffalo as Chuck. Next up is the head physician named Dr. Cawley which will reportedly be played by Sir Ben Kingsley. Kingsley is an amazing actor with a wide range of films in his past and from reading the book, he seems perfectly cast here ...

Michelle Williams to Play DiCaprio's Wife in Scorsese's 'Shutter Island'
Cinematical — ... that Ben Kingsley is on board as Dr. Cawley, "the chief physician at a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane." And now I shall tell you that ...

Stanley Kubrick and Uwe Boll: Equally Accomplished Filmmakers?
SpoutBlog — There are a number of accomplished actors who have worked with infamously bad filmmaker Uwe Boll: Sir Ben Kingsley; Geraldine Chaplin; Clint Howard. And many of those actors have worked with some great filmmakers. Yet who would think to ask Kingsley how Boll compares to Spielberg or Polanski, or Chaplin how Boll compares to David Lean or Robert Altman, or Howard how Boll compares to his brother Ron. Well, Shawn Adler of MTV Movies Blog decided that it would be really amusing if he asked Leelee Sobieski to comment on any similarities between Boll and ...

Sundance Review: The Wackness
FirstShowing.net — Try and remember 1994. If you're like me, the NES, GameBoy, Curt Cobain, and Phish come to mind at least, but in The Wackness, every other detail Jonathan Levine implements will bring you back to the glory days of mid-1994. Set in New York City, The Wackness is an eclectic yet hilarious story about a loser-turned-pot-dealer named Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), who has no friends, deals drugs to his psychiatrist, and has the hots for his daughter. The Wackness' director Jonathan Levine is already defining a new generation of filmmakers along the likes of Jason ...

“War, Inc.” Poster, Trailer, and Pics with John Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei, and Hilary Duff
Pop Critics — I caught a brief mention about War, Inc. a long time ago and haven’t heard much about it since. I knew that it actually filmed back in late 2006. I recently remembered it and decided to do a little searching to find out more about it. As it turns out, there’s already a trailer, a poster, and pictures out for the film but all we have is a limited release date for the US. War, Inc. is apparently a dark, political satire inspired by Naomi Klein’s article “Baghdad Year Zero”. Cusack wrote and ...

Exclusive: Interview With Joshua Seftel, Director of "War, Inc."
Film Gecko — “War, Inc.” premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, and opens in L.A. and New York theaters on May 23. It’s a political satire set in Turaqistan, a war-torn country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities there, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man, played by John Cusack, to assassinate a Middle East oil minister. To do so, he’ll have to pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer, maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile ...

Revenge of the Stoner Movies - The 2008 Comeback!
FirstShowing.net — I still remember the first time I ever watched Half Baked. All I wanted to do was smoke a bowl and float around the city, but alas I was too naive at the time. Despite a lack of any marijuana, I still laughed my ass off and haven't forgotten it since. After Half Baked became a ...

"Elegy" Gets Picked Up
Film Gecko — A stellar cast including Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry are starring in Lakeshore Entertainment’s Elegy, hitting theaters August 8, 2008, after a run in film festivals around the country. Cruz plays a Cuban student whose professor (Kingsley) attempts to seduce her. An adaptation of Philip Roth’s short novel, The Dying Animal, the drama premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and also at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. According to ...

The Wackness Official Poster Debuts - Really?
FirstShowing.net — Are you kidding me? This is the official poster for The Wackness that is supposed to stand up next to other heavy-hitting summer posters like this one and this one? While I'm sure Sony Pictures Classics is saying to themselves, any publicity is good publicity, ...

Stalked: Harrelson,Morton and Queen of the South
Filmstalker — Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton have both joined the same film. And Queen of the South has a trio of new stars. Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton have signed up for The Messenger, a road movie from Oren Moverman . News comes from Variety . Another update from Variety , Queen of the South has an impressive cast. Eva Mendes , Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley will star. The film sees a woman escape to Spain following the murder of her drug dealing boyfriend. There she becomes a major drug smuggler and tries to avenge the death of her boyfriend. It ...

Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley Join 'Prince of Persia'
Cinematical — Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Disney, Newsstand, Games and Game MoviesAccording to Variety, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has landed some more top-notch talent. Alfred Molina and Sir Ben Kingsley have joined Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton in the video game adaptation. Molina will be playing Sheik Amar, who becomes a mentor to Gyllenhaal's prince. No word on who Kingsley is playing, but popular consensus is that it will be the villainous Vizir. Of course, since they aren't ...

Michelle Williams e Leonardo DiCaprio insieme sul set
Gossippando.it — Nuova pellicola per Michelle Williams (28) che in questi giorni sta girando ‘Shutter Island’,  la nuova fatica cinematografica del bravissimo regista Martin Scorsese, e con Leonardo DiCaprio (34). I colleghi di set sono stati immortalati proprio durante una pausa a Boston, dove il regista sta girando il suo nuovo progetto ambientato nel 1954 e che vedrà Leo investigare su  strane ...

Kevin's Review: War, Inc. - A Funny Shell Company
FirstShowing.net — Nowadays it's hard to find a film that offers anything one might consider refreshing when it comes to the Iraq War. So much has been done already - and done badly - that mere mention of the subject matter is apt to draw exhausted sighs. Naturally, I approached John Cusack's War, Inc. with the some trepidation. Written, produced and starring Cusack, War, Inc. tries ostensibly to be deft political commentary, but it's really just timely, smiling satire. The story easily looses grip of it's political footing, leaving us to simply enjoy the well-rounded cast - which, in and of itself, still ...

"Transsiberian" - 3 New Clips
Film Gecko — Transsiberian hits theaters in limited release July 18, 2008. Directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist), it tells the story of an American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), who decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. On the way, they meet another couple from the West, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), with whom they quickly form a familiar bond that often unites fellow travelers away from home. When Roy accidentally gets separated ...

Penélope Erotique
Film Experience Blog — Today's Hump Day Hottie: Penélope Cruz The mythological Penelope, wife to Odysseus, was reportedly faithful to her man in body. Maybe not in spirit, though. She yearned to "display herself to her suitors, fan their hearts, inflame them more" The increasingingly mythologized Penélope Cruz will be doing all those things to moviegoers and recent Volver converts once Elegy hits screens in August. The movie, directed by Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me) is based on Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal and it's a ...

Cinematical Seven: Most Overrated Actors
Cinematical — Filed under: Fandom, Lists By: Jeffrey M. Anderson (original publish date: April 23, 2007) (With the Cine-staff off on a late-July mini-vacation, we thought it'd be fun to bring you some of our favorite pieces from years past. Enjoy!) Taking potshots at people can seem fun in the moment, but regrettable later. Especially when someone shoots back. For example, in choosing this list of the most overrated actors, I might at one time have chosen someone like Tobey Maguire, Mark Wahlberg or Ryan Gosling. At various points in the past, I was ...

In Praise of Penelope Cruz
Gossip Central — "I think Philip Roth is a genius," said Penelope Cruz last week to Charlie Rose, explaining why she initiated a feature film project based upon the author's 2001 novella, "The Dying Animal." The revelation here is that this beautiful movie star has an acute literary intelligence, or am I betraying some sort of prejudice? Are people this gorgeous and talented also allowed to be this smart? The film is called ...

Revenge of The Mortimer Snerds
Thighs Wide Shut — Mister Foe Oedipus Wrecks Trailers & Mo Hallam Foe (Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell) is unwilling to let the memory of his mother's suicide by drowning go (no more rhymes, we mean it, anybody wanna play Scene It?). The tragic event has stunted his growth, as he's filled his adolescence of solitude with a lotta tom foolery and peeping tomage. To make splatters worse, he suspects his father (Ciarán Hinds, secretly the world's greatestist actor) of having something to do with her untimely death, so he could take a new ...

Script Review: Jerry Bruckheimer's Epic Prince of Persia Movie
FirstShowing.net — Our resident script maestro Nick Valentine drops by with another review of a highly anticipated film. I've always been a fan of the Prince of Persia video games; I remember when my uncle introduced me to the original game and how mesmerized I was by each daredevil jump ...

Movie Review: War, Inc.
Lair of the Green Knight — Hi all… I am a huge John Cusack (and Joan Cusack too) fan and was enthused when I started seeing the promos for War, Inc. well over a year ago. Unfortunately, I have to say it left me disappointed when I finally saw it on DVD a couple of weeks ago. My wife even fell asleep during the movie, simply because she didn’t find it worth watching. Rating: 1 out of 4 stars So let’s start at the beginning. War, Inc. is the story of assassin Brand Hauser (John Cusack) who is hired by an American corporation to kill an oil minster in the ...

Underappreciated Films of 2008 / Rental Suggestions
Film Experience Blog — Year in Review Part 4 of 5 "Overrated" and "Underrated" are loaded statements when it comes to the critical and popular reception of movies. They suggest a false notion that there exists an easily cited consensus but depending on who you read and where you get your information consensus may vary. Which means it isn't consensus. Confusing. "Underappreciated", my preferred appellation, has its limits too. It suggests that one can't include films with decent to huge box office so for this year's "Underappreciated" roundup I'm spotlighting films that almost no one saw (along with their gross to ...

Ben Kingsley Joining Sly's 'Expendables'?
Get The Big Picture — Add another name to Sylvester Stallone's wish list for The Expendables. The writer-director-actor-producer told videographers (a kind way of saying paparazzi) that he signed Forest Whitaker and that an official announcement is coming soon. Meanwhile, the rumors that Sandra Bullock would join the cast were just that, and Nu Image/Millenium refuted those claims on Monday. But the new actor in Sly's sights is Sir Ben Kingsley, saying he ...

And Now Mickey Rourke is 'Expendable,' Too
Get The Big Picture — Oh, that tricky Sly Stallone. He told reporters that Forest Whitaker in The Expendables was a done deal and that he was hoping to get Ben Kingsley. We just reported on it earlier tonight. And now there could be even more Oscar gold joining the mercernary movie: Variety reports that Mickey Rourke, projected to be among this year's Best Actor nominees, has inked a deal to join the cast as ...

2009 Razzie nominations
Filmstalker — Razzie.jpg The 2008 Razzie nominations have been announced and are right here for your discussion, there are some good ones, and some ones that really don't deserve to be here. I'll give you my opinion and you can argue yours. As always there are plenty of multiple nominations for single films, and a few old favourites appear in the list, it's well worth a look this year. The winners are announced on February the 21st, but in the meantime let's dive into the nominations and see what you think. Reading the introduction on the Razzie site ...

We Can't Wait #6 Shutter Island
Film Experience Blog — Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Elias Koteas, Jackie Earle Haley and Patricia Clarkson Synopsis: Marshals Leo & Mark attempt to find murderous Emily! She escaped from Ashecliffe Asylum where Dr. Ben & Max both work!! She might be hiding on Shutter Island!!! (I'm gagging on multiple exclamation points because it sounds like such a pulpy thriller. Wheee) Brought to you ...

Schwarzenegger Joins 'The Expendables'
Get The Big Picture — More casting news for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, also known as the Calling in His Favors Movie. In addition to Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, and Forest Whitaker, Ain't it Cool News is reporting that Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts are officially on board, and that Ben Kingsley won't be in the film. The big news is that Sly's former Planet Hollywood co-owner, Arnold ...

Stallone and Schwarzenegger in Expendables
Filmstalker — Stallone-Arnie-Willis.jpg It's hard to believe but the rumour is that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be joining Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables for a cameo appearance. Yes, I know it's not what we wanted, but it's damn close. Actually it's not what I wanted, let's put it like that and see what you think once you've read who he will be playing. The casting for his action film The Expendables is already looking fantastic and with Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture all set to star and rumours of Forest Whitaker and Robert Knepper, you have to be thinking that this is something special ...

First Trailer for Martin Scorsese's 'Shutter Island'
Get The Big Picture — Martin Scorsese will return to theaters this fall with Shutter Island, the story of two U.S. marshals, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, who are investigating the disappearance of a murderess from an isolated island prison for the criminally insane. The film is set in the 1950s, and it could be a breakout for Emily Mortimer, who has been around forever, but plays the pivotal role of the murderess on the run. You would ...

First Look: Ben Kingsley as Nizam in Disney's Prince of Persia
FirstShowing.net — Disney is really going all out with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time this week. Ironically, though, they're not showing anything at Comic-Con (or is it just a secret?). ComingSoon has debuted the first photo of Ben Kingsley as the "villainous ...

New 'Prince of Persia' Shot with Ben Kingsley
Get The Big Picture — We got our first glimpse of the marketing for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time yesterday, with the debut of two terrific posters featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton. They weren't at all what I was expecting, but they're pretty memorable. Now comes the first high resolution image of Ben Kingsley, courtesy of Coming Soon. Click on the goatee to see the whole shot. In the film, Sir Ben will ...

10 Actors Who Shouldn’t Do Sex Scenes
SpoutBlog — If you need to rest your eyes at any point during the 146 min. comedy epic Funny People, your best bet is to do it early during a sequence in which Adam Sandler’s character has back to back sex with a couple of female fans. The second of these scenes is mildly amusing, but there’s just no need to put the images in your head of either Sandler with a face full of breasts or the actor taking a girl from behind. There are some actors we don’t need to see in a sex scene, humorous or otherwise, and Adam Sandler is one of them. He’s of a generation of comedic ...

PSYCH Premiere Review, James Roday And Dule Hill Interview, And Awesome Prize Pack Giveaway!
Are You Screening? — It won’t surprise anyone to learn that I’m a fan of USA’s PSYCH.  The new season is starting this Friday, August 7th at 10/9c, and the show is kicking things off with a solid start.  Below I’ve got details and clips, an interview with ...