INTERVIEW: DEVIL Takes A Toll On Actor Jacob Vargas

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:52

Written by Lupe Haas

Actor Jacob Vargas stars in the M. Night Shyamalan produced horror thriller DEVIL and the veteran actor admits to CineMovie his role in DEVIL put the fright in him on set and off.

Read more ...

INTERVIEW: Eli Roth on Docu-Horror The Last Exorcism

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:51

Written by Lupe Haas

Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth dons a producer hat for his new horror flick THE LAST EXORCISM, a pseudo documentary-style shot film he calls a "first person horror experience". 

Read more ...

Steve Austin: Stone Cold Action Hero

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:46

Written by Lupe Haas

Former WWF wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has dropped the "Stone Cold" from his name and adopted a new stage name -- actor Steve Austin. CineMovie TV sat down with actor Steve Austin to discuss his new movie THE EXPENDABLES with Hollywood heavy-hitters and action legends Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.  

Read more ...

Will Farrell Jokes About Mistreating Co-Stars

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:46

Written by Lupe Haas

Will Farrell stars and produces THE OTHER GUYS with Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dwayne Johnson.  As the boss on THE OTHER GUYS set, Farrell jokes he likes to keep it hostile during the production to bring out the tension in a scene.

Read more ...

Selena Gomez and Joey King Interview

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:45

Written by Lupe Haas

Wizards of Waverly Place's Selena Gomez and ten year-old newcomer Joey King rule the screen as sisters in the film adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s books RAMONA AND BEEZUS.

CineMovie's Zay Zay sat down with the two young actresses who describe their day on set as child actors. Selena also names Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception) as her favorite dreamy actor who she hopes to work with one day and more once she's "legal" joked the Disney star who reaches her eighteenth birthday this month.  Watch the video above.

Read more ...

Eva Mendes Seeks Quality Roles

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:44

Written by Lupe Haas

THE OTHER GUYS leading lady Eva Mendes is one of the few actresses who has transcended all genres playing different types of characters opposite A-List actors Denzel Washington (Training Day, Out of Time), Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider, The Bad Lieutenant), Johnny Depp (Once Upon A Time in Mexico), Joaquin Phoenix (We Own The Night), and Will Smith (Hitch) but the actress feels the juicy roles have always gone to male actors.

Read more ...

INTERVIEW: Kuno Becker Plays It Rough

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:44

Written by Lupe Haas

Mexican heartthrob and star of Goal I and Goal II, Kuno Becker returns to the big screen once again as an aspiring athlete in his new movie FROM MEXICO WITH LOVE opening October 8.       Watch Movie Trailer

Kuno tells CineMovie's Viviana Vigil, although he's played a soccer player in Goal I and II and a boxer in his latest film FROM MEXICO WITH LOVE, he's far from being athletic and hates to exercise.  Watch our interview with the up and coming Latino star.

FROM MEXICO WITH LOVE Movie Synopsis

Hector Villa (Kuno Becker), a scrappy migrant farm worker and part-time prizefighter, joins forces with an old-school trainer to take on a rich rancher’s boxer son in the ring. An adrenaline-pumping action drama that also stirs the heart, the film stars rising talent Kuno Becker (Goal!) as well as Steven Bauer (Traffic), Bruce McGill (Collateral) and Danay Garcia (“Prison Break”), and features thrilling fight scenes from stunt coordinator-turned-director Jimmy Nickerson (Rocky, Raging Bull, Fight Club).

Farm laborer Hector toils in the fields of a Texas ranch by day and moonlights as a boxer by night in whatever impromptu bouts he can line up. The winnings aren’t much, but they help support his ailing mother (Angélica Aragón), who works beside him in the fields. Meanwhile, the ranch’s tyrannical owner has fighting ambitions of his own: his son Robert (Alex Nesic), an all-American playboy, is a rising star on the local boxing scene.

Hector wants to face Robert in the ring—not least because Robert has taken an interest in the beautiful Maria (Garcia), a young worker recently smuggled across the border by the gruff but kindhearted Tito (Bauer). But the ranch owner doesn’t want his son fighting a Mexican “picker.” Hector’s shot at a better life appears doomed when he gets fired after brawling with ranch heavies who have slashed his mother’s pay. Beaten up, broke and jobless, he gets dumped back over the Mexican border for his troubles.

While there, Hector tracks down a veteran boxing trainer (McGill) who takes him under his wing and helps him prepare for the ultimate David-and-Goliath faceoff—a fight against Robert. After some tough negotiating by Tito, the ranch owner agrees to the match. The bout becomes a dramatic showdown between the racist ranchers and the masses of downtrodden farm workers, who see a victory in the ring as a chance to reclaim some of the dignity they’ve lost in the fields. Their hopes rest in the calloused hands of a young hero with something to prove.

Star Trek Sequel Secrets From A Romulan

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:43

Written by Lupe Haas

It's no secret that the STAR TREK sequel is on track for 2011 with J.J. Abrams producing but not directing.  CineMovie caught up with Nero's right hand Romulan - Clifton Collins, Jr. from this summer's blockbuster at the  ZOMBIELAND black carpet premiere.   Clifton also appeared in Mike Judge's comedy EXTRACT which opened last month starring Justin Bateman, Mila Kunis, and Ben Affleck.

CineMovie's Viviana Vigil extracts some top secret information from the young actor about the upcoming Star Trek movie.    Watch!

Indie Filmmakers Advice From Jared Hess and Mike White

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:43

Written by Lupe Haas

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (Jon Heder) and NACHO LIBRE (Jack Black) director Jared Hess is back with another offbeat comedy in GENTLEMEN BRONCOS.  Along with his wife Jerusha Hess, the writing and producing team return to the big screen three years after their foray into the world of Mexican wrestling, NACHO LIBRE, and five years after their high school slacker NAPOLEON DYNAMITE became a cult hit.

For GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, the Hesses teamed up once again with actor/writer/director Mike White (School of Rock, Orange County) who also produced their last film, NACHO LIBRE and stars as "Dusty" in the film.  

A salute to oddball artistes everywhere, GENTLEMEN BRONCOS weaves together a series of narratives revolving around aspiring writer Benjamin Purvis (The Forbidden Kingdom's Michael Angarano), a loveable underdog whose passion for writing science-fiction novels is turned upside down when his idol, the celebrated fantasy author Dr. Ronald Chevalier (Flight of the Conchords' Jermaine Clement), steals his story at a writers camp. 

In keeping with a writer's struggle theme of the movie, CineMovie's Fernando Esquivel sat down with the indie darlings to discuss why it's a good idea to write as a team and how to stay true to the craft of filmmaking. 

Tips On Mastering A Horror Scream

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:43

Written by Lupe Haas

It's Halloween time which means another SAW movie has hit movie theaters.  SAW VI opened October 23rd to rave screams and Halloween weekend promises more box office candy for the LionsGate horror franchise.

User Movie Reviews

One of Jigsaw's victim Tanedra Howard stars in the film after winning the role on VH-1's reality series Scream Queen in which 10 unknown actress competed for the title of Scream Queen.  SAW actress Shawnee Smith was a mentor on the show. 

CineMovie sat down with the crowned "Scream Queen" Tanedra Howard at Universal Hollywood Horror Night's SAW maze to give us tips on mastering a chilling howl -- just in time for Halloween.

Jigsaw's Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylo Interview: Tips To Playing Movie Villains 

Director James McTeigue On Shooting A Ninja Movie

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:42

Written by Lupe Haas

Director James McTeigue helms his second motion picture NINJA ASSASSIN starring Korean pop star Rain (Speed Racer).  

INTERVIEW: Rain Speaks Out On Megan Fox Crush 

CineMovie sat down with the director and his leading Ninja to talk about the high flying action and martial arts he undertook in this story about ninja assassins.  McTeigue discusses how many cameras he used in the fight scenes, the different combination of martial arts Rain trained for and the use of acrobatics to achieve the ninja moves without the use of wires and CGI.

Users review NINJA ASSASSIN

In NINJA ASSASSIN, flying decapitated limbs and buckets of blood give the epic spartan movie 300 a run for it's money but the director claims his ninja movie has more.  Watch the interview above.

Watch NINJA ASSASSIN movie trailer 

More on Director James McTeigue:

JAMES McTEIGUE (Director) has more than 20 years of experience in the film industry. He is next set to direct "The Raven," a fictionalized account of Edgar Allen Poe's final days.

As a boy in Sydney, McTeigue was exposed to a variety of world cinema and television and was heavily influenced by ninja television shows like "Shintaro" and "Phantom Agents," and by films such as "Shinobi No Mono." He graduated from Sydney University, where he studied art and film.

McTeigue made his directorial debut helming the iconoclastic screen adaptation of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." McTeigue came to the project through his relationship with the Wachowski brothers, for whom he served as the assistant director on all three "Matrix" films. His other previous film credits as an assistant director include "Speed Racer" and "Dark City."

VIDEO: Susan Sarandon On Handling Emotional Characters

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:41

Written by Lupe Haas

Academy-Award© winning actress Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Rocky Horror Picture Show) has played her fair share of emotional characters on screen.  The four-time Oscar nominated actress tells CineMovie her tips to handling challenging roles which doesn't include method-acting for this talented actress.  Fans review THE LOVELY BONES

In Peter Jackson's THE LOVELY BONES, the Bill Durham (Kevin Costner) star plays the unconventional Grandma Lynn. In the adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel, Susie Salmon is murdered by Stanley Tucci's Mr. Harvey in 1973 on her way home.  Her mother (Rachel Weisz) and father (Mark Wahlberg) mourn the loss of their daughter.  While some actors in THE LOVELY BONES couldn't leave their emotions behind on set, Susan Sarandon has figured out how to handle those difficult days on set.

INTERVIEW: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, and Stanley Tucci Handled Their Roles Differently

Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Louise, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) probably had the easiest time on set as the unconventional Grandma Lynn.  As the boozing and serial smoker granny, the Dead Man Walking star admitted she had "fun" playing the character responsible for the comic relief in THE LOVELY BONES.   Having played a grieving mother in Lorenzo's Oil, Sarandon was more than happy to take the job that had her "once removed" said the Thelma & Louise actress.  "My function within the bigger picture was to be hilarious.  It was great not dealing with what this poor gal (Rachel) and Mark had to do.  I've been there and lost many a child on celluloid."

Sarandon was not without challenges in THE LOVELY BONES.  Her only worry was not playing Grandma Lynn as a caricature but as a real person.

Sarandon describes how she tackles emotional days on set in the video above.

THE LOVELY BONES expands into movie theaters January 15, 2010.

Golden Globes: What You Didn't See On TV

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:40

Written by Lupe Haas

Millions of television viewers watched James Cameron and his mega blockbuster Avatar, Inglourious Basterds' Christop Waltz, Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) and Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) were some of the few who took home a Golden Globe statue Sunday night.  But what went on behind the scenes.  CineMovie has the scoop on what went on inside the Beverly  Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills from some of the celebrities who attended the 2010 ceremony as they headed into The Weinstein Co. afterparty.   

The Weinstein Co. hosted the party at the Beverly Hilton's Bar 210 & Plush Ultra Lounge for their nominees and winners for their films Nine, Inglourious Basterds, and A Single Man after the televised 2010 Golden Globes.  Among the guests were Fergie and Transformer's Josh Duhamel, Twilight's Taylor Lautner, Ice Age's John Leguizamo, Matt Damon, Colin Firth, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julianne Moore, Marion Cotillard, and Nine director Rob Marshall.  

Kiss & Tell: Cop Out Star Ana de la Reguera

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:39

Written by Lupe Haas

Mexican actress Ana de la Reguera comes clean on her COP OUT co-stars Bruce Willis (Die Hard) and Tracy Morgan (30 Rock). 

VIDEO: Watch a COP OUT movie clip

The beautiful actress debut to American audiences in 2006's Nacho Libre as Jack Black's love interest, Sister Encarnacion.  Now the Mexican native dishes on her unscripted kissing scene with Tracy Morgan and why Bruce Willis put her up to it.  Plus she gives us insight into how she prepares for kissing scenes especially for her Lipton tea commercial shoot in which she makes out with the wolverine himself Hugh Jackman.

Ana also fills CineMovie in on the Die Hard star on set antics. 

VIDEO: Movie Trailer

COP OUT is in theaters February 26th. 

Acting 101 With Andy Garcia

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:39

  Andy Garcia (Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, The Godfather: Part III) stars in CITY ISLAND, a tale of a dysfunctional family in the outskirts of New York City.  The veteran actor stars with newcomer Steven Straight (10,000 BC) who tells CineMovie.TV he learned a lot from watching The Untouchables star on set.

Andy Garcia also reveals to CineMovie.TV what it takes to become an actor and grow into a good actor which is the same advice he offers his aspiring actor daughters.  His daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido stars as his on screen daughter.  Watch our interview with the men of CITY ISLAND.

Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife, ER), and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) also star in the film.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, City Island spins a web of misrepresentations, misinterpretations, and misunderstandings into a smart and charming comedy about family that stops at nothing to avoid the truth.

Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife, ER), Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Andy Garcia's  daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido also star in the film.

CITY ISLAND opens in limited release in New York and Los Angeles March 19.

Oscar Nominee's Advice On Writing / Directing

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:38

Written by Lupe Haas

THE BURNING PLAIN starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, is the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. Having proven himself with his complex, emotional and provocative stories in Babel (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), 21 Grams (Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro), and Amores Perros (Gael Garcia Berrnal) with director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu and his script for actor/director Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquidas Estrada (January Jones, Dwight Yoakum, Arriaga turned to directing his first feature-length film. 

Read Movie Review of The Burning Plain

Transitioning from screenwriter to director was a natural move for the talented writer who sat down with CineMovie to discuss what it takes to be a writer and director.  The writer/director is also a college professor and provides insightful advice and lessons for the next generation of filmmakers.  Watch the interview above

THE BURNING PLAIN open August 18th in movie theaters with simultaneous release on VOD and Amazon.

Movie Synopsis

THE BURNING PLAIN, a romantic mystery about a woman on the edge who takes an emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. Oscar-winner Charlize Theron plays Sylvia, a beautiful restaurant manager whose cool, professional demeanor masks the sexually charged storm within. When a stranger from Mexico confronts her with her mysterious past, Sylvia is launched into a journey through space and time that inextricably connects her to these disparate characters, all of whom are grappling with their own romantic destinies.

In Mexico, a young motherless girl, Maria (Tessa Ia), lives happily with her father and his best friend until a tragic accident changes it all. In the New Mexico border town of Las Cruces, two teenagers, Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence) and Santiago (JD Pardo), find love in the aftermath of their parents’ sudden deaths. In an abandoned trailer, a housewife, Gina (Oscar-winner Kim Basinger), embarks on a passionate affair that will put Sylvia and the others on a collision course with the explosive power of forbidden love.
 

From 2929 Productions (Good Night and Good Luck, We Own the Night), the film was produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie Macdonald (Catch Me If You Can, Sweeney Todd) and executive produced by Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan, and Ray Angelic.

Starring:   CHARLIZE THERON, JOHN CORBETT, Kim Basinger, Tessa Ia, Jennifer Lawrence, JD Pardo
Screenplay By:   Guillermo Arriaga
Directed By:       Guillermo Arriaga

Bollywood Meets Hollywood: KITES

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:38

Bollywood has come to Hollywood in the new romantic saga KITES starring Mexican aktress Barbara Mori (La Mujer De Mi Hermano) who starred in the highest Mexican soap Rubi and India's Brad Pitt - Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan. 

KITES is a story of passion that defies every rule, of a relationship that takes two lovers on a thrilling journey filled with precious moments - and unexpected betrayal.  Shot in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Santa Fe, KITES is one of the biggest films ever produced in India.

The sexy Mexican actress sat down with CineMovie and tells us what attracted her to the Indian produced film and working with the Bollywood cast and crew.  

KITES is in theaters May 21st.

BOX OFFICE:  KITES is the first Indian produced film to break into the top 10 movies at the U.S. box office for the weekend of May 21st through May 23rd.    

INTERVIEW: Kristen Stewart Talks Marriage and Best Kiss

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:37

Kristen Stewart reprisesk her role of Bella in the third film of the TWILIGHT series, ECLIPSE.  CineMovie was one of the lucky few to interview TWILIGHT'S leading lady at a press conference in Beverly Hills June 12th.

Read more ...

INTERVIEW: Josh Brolin Defends Megan Fox

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:36

Josh Brolin's JONAH HEX co-star Megan Fox has been outspoken about Hollywood and director Michael Bay which may have cost her return to the third Transformers movie starring Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel.  Josh Brolin admired the "rebellious" actress and cast her as Jonah Hex's leading lady in the comic book western adaptation opening June 18.  

Watch JONAH HEX Trailer

In a press conference with Josh Brolin and Megan Fox in Beverly Hills, Josh defended his co-star's rebelliousness and CineMovie has the audio from the press conference as well as Megan's response to Josh's comments.  

Listen to the interview above or read below. 

VIDEO: Korean Star Rain On Megan Fox Crush 

Megan Fox and Josh Brollin Interview

JOSH: However Megan was perceived, I liked the idea of giving somebody - even though this is a kind of an absurd ridiculous escapist film - the opportunity like someone gave me in saying "hey we can go a little further with the acting here.  Even though we made it fun, Megan did a lot of different takes where she's crying, not crying. There some of a dialect there and bucolic dialect.  But when I read some of these articles that she had done and was kind of acerbic and rebellious she could be - I wanted to see how real that was.  
 
Nobody can handle that kind of fame that fast at 22 years old and I thought she was handling it really well. I just wanted to see she was the real deal.  I wanted to see if she could go head to head with John and hold her own.  There's definitely a truck driver mentality there. 

MEGAN: I think it's wonderful what they're saying it and I'm humbled by their comments.
People who are famous and make it to this level of fame for whatever reason whether it'd deserved or not - you have to be a strong person to survive it because it is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day.  Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized newstory no matter what your intentions were when you said it. It becomes overwhelming but am I that rebellious?  Of course I think there are many sides to me who I am in my personality. The only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don't really have any fears as far as this industry is concerned that maybe other people are afraid to do or say.  In my personal life, I am actually very responsible with my personal relationships and things like that. 

JOSH:  Rebellion could be holding on to your own integrity of not playing into the idea of this sensationalizing.  We all have our moments.  and that's your guy's job to take those moments and turgid - gaseous and make it big.  It's bigger than the person is.  And when you start believing your own press that's when it gets really sad. But that's part of the rebellion that I responded because she is still her.  She's still very grounded.
 

INTERVIEW: Co-Directing Tips With Mark and Jay Duplass

• Email

Details

Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:36

Director-writers Mark and Jay Duplass direct Marissa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and John C. Reilly in the unconventional romantik dramedy - CYRUS.  Since their attention-grabbing debut at Sundance with their first feature film The Puffy Chair, the brother directing team remain faithful to their style of low-budget filmmaking and improvisational techniques with their mainstream film CYRUS.

CineMovie sat down with the sibling filmmakers to find out 5 successful tips to co-directing a movie production, why they shoot on video and keeping things 'real' without the traditional coverage and marks.

The brother team first came to the attention of producer Michael Costigan at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where he saw their $15,000 feature debut, The Puffy Chair. Mark and Jay Duplass impressed many in Hollywood went on to direct their second feature film Baghead in 2008. 

Marke and Jay Duplass' Co-Directing Tips

1. Two Heads Are Better Than One

2. Use Breath Mints

3. Keep Actors Surprised

4. Good Cop, Bad Cop

5. The Back-Up Plan


About CYRUS:
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son.

Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie (Catherine Keener), John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim (Matt Walsh) at a party. To his and everyone else’s surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei).