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15 Jan

Timothée Chalamet rode an e-bike to the premiere of A Complete Unknown… then got a fine

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Timothée Chalamet, e-bike fine, A Complete Unknown

You may have seen pictures of Timothée Chalamet arriving at the London premiere of A Complete Unknown on a bright green e-bike. However, the actor was hit with a £60 fine because he didn’t park it properly. Chalamet told the French talk show Quotidien that he chose to hop on an e-bike instead of taking a car because he wanted to beat the traffic. “It’s ecological!” he said.

Chalamet has received rave reviews for his performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. He’s scored nominations for best actor from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, SAG Awards, and BAFTAs. You can pretty much bet that he’ll also be adding an Oscar nomination to that list when they’re finally announced.

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Our own Chris Bumbray was a big fan of A Complete Unknown, particularly the performance of the leading man. “Chalamet is the real deal,” Bumbray wrote. “He makes for a perfect Dylan, with him channelling the man’s iconic appearance and voice without ever coming off like he’s doing a caricature.” Bumbray added that the film is “thoroughly entertaining and really gives you an appreciation for Dylan’s craft and importance, with the film packed with impressively mounted performances of his most essential songs. A Complete Unknown should do what Walk the Line did: it will expose Dylan’s music to a younger audience, as the film plays well to Dylan aficionados, more casual fans (such as myself) and even those who’ve never heard of him. It’s one of the year’s most entertaining movies, with Mangold’s film so good that I hope he’s got a few Dylan sequels in him, as it truly left me wanting more.” You can check out the rest of his review right here. 

Here’s the official synopsis: “Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.” In addition to Chalamet, A Complete Unknown stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro. The film also co-stars Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, and Scoot McNairy.

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15 Jan

Renée Zellweger on why she stopped acting for six years: “I was sick of the sound of my own voice”

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Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones

In the early 2000s, Renée Zellweger was one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood. Her roles in Bridget Jones’s Diary, Chicago, and Cold Mountain (the latter of which won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) made her a household name. However, by the end of the decade, she decided to step away from the world of acting for six years.

While speaking with Hugh Grant for British Vogue, Zellweger explained why she took her six-year hiatus. “Because I needed to. I was sick of the sound of my own voice,” She said. “When I was working, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, listen to you. Are you sad again, Renée? Oh, is this your mad voice?’ It was a regurgitation of the same emotional experiences.“

Although she wasn’t acting during that period, she did keep busy. “[I] studied international law. I built a house, rescued a pair of older doggies, created a partnership that led to a production company, advocated for and fundraised with a sick friend,” she explained, “and spent a lot of time with family and godchildren and driving across the country with the dogs. I got healthy.“

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Zellweger returned to Hollywood in 2016 for Bridget Jones’s Baby, the third installment of the franchise. She also earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Judy. After that, she seemed to take another hiatus, only appearing in The Thing About Pam, a 2022 true-crime comedy mini-series that explored Pam Hupp’s involvement in the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria.

Bridget Jones brought Zellweger back once again. She has reprised the role for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which will debut exclusively on Peacock in the U.S. on February 13th and will be released in theaters internationally on February 14th.

In the film, “Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor).“

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15 Jan

Shout Factory is having a Blu-ray sale to celebrate John Carpenter’s birthday

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January 16th is the birthday of legendary filmmaker John Carpenter, who turns 77 this year – and to mark the occasion, Shout Factory / Scream Factory is having a sale of John Carpenter Blu-rays! While the company has to apologize to later-era Carpenter fans because their 4K releases of his films Ghosts of Mars and Vampires are not included in this sale, the Blu-rays of Assault on Precinct 13, Someone’s Watching Me, Elvis, Starman, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and Body Bags are.

The Assault on Precinct 13 Blu-ray usually sells for $15.99. For this sale, the price has been dropped to $9.99. Written and directed by Carpenter, this film was originally released in 1976 and has the following synopsis: Isolated and cut off from the city inside a soon-to-be-closed L.A. police station, a group of police officers and convicts must join forces to defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder, who have taken a blood oath to kill someone trapped inside the precinct.

Carpenter wrote and directed the 1978 TV movie Someone’s Watching Me! right before he made Halloween and it aired on NBC the month after Halloween reached theatres. Here’s the synopsis: Los Angeles newcomer Leigh Michaels moves into a chic high-rise apartment building. She loves the view. So does the Peeping Tom who lives somewhere in the adjacent tower. The Blu-ray usually goes for $23.99 but is currently $14.99.

The Elvis Blu-ray has been knocked down from $22.99 to $14.99. Carpenter directed this two-and-a-half-hour TV movie from a script by Anthony Lawrence. Just two years after Elvis Presley died, Kurt Russell brought him back to life in the original biopic about the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Broadcast on ABC in 1979, Elvis marked the first time that director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell would work together in what would become a legendary pairing in film history (Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and Escape from L.A.). It traces Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom, to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

Carpenter directed the 1984 sci-fi romance Starman from a script by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon. When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, an alien (Jeff Bridges) arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), and clones itself into the form of her recently deceased husband. The alien coerces the shell-shocked Jenny to drive him to a pickup point hundreds of miles away, explaining that if he doesn’t meet his mothership in three days, he’ll die. Hot on their trail are government agents, intent on seizing him, dead or alive. En route, Jenny turns from captive to captivated as the alien re-awakens her humanity. The price of the Blu-ray has been lowered from $19.99 to $12.99.

Widely seen as a misstep for both Carpenter and star Chevy Chase, the 1992 dramedy Memoirs of an Invisible Man was based on a novel by H.F. Saint. Through a script by Robert Collector, Dana Olsen, and William Goldman, it tells the following story: Just a quick nap and weary stock analyst Nick Halloway is sure he’ll emerge as good as new. Instead, he wakes up as good as gone. Vanished. A nuclear accident has made Nick … invisible! If you want the Blu-ray, it’s currently $14.99 rather than its usual $23.99.

Body Bags is a 1993 horror anthology that’s hosted by Carpenter, playing a creepy coroner. Carpenter and Tobe Hooper directed the segments. The synopsis: Alex Datcher stars as a woman working the late shift at “The Gas Station” while a killer is on the loose. Then, Stacy Keach can’t stand the thought of losing his “Hair” and he’ll do anything to keep it. And finally, Mark Hamill portrays a baseball player that submits to an “Eye” transplant after he loses an eye in a car accident. The Blu-ray usually costs $15.99, but right now it’s available for $10.99.

Will you be taking advantage of Shout Factory / Scream Factory’s John Carpenter birthday sale? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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15 Jan

Frozen 2 actor Josh Gad says children were “fully traumatized” by Olaf’s original death scene

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Do you want to build a snowman? How about a great relationship with your therapist? In his new memoir In Gad We Trust, Frozen actor Josh Gad says Olaf’s original death scene in Frozen 2 was “brutal.” It was so brutal that the film’s writer, Jennifer Lee, was told to change it lest she make the children cry eternal tears of sadness.

“Jenn and I started recording the dialogue and I couldn’t get through it without sobbing. Those first recordings were brutal, and I remember feeling that we were doing something that was going to pack a serious punch,” Gad says in his new book about breaking down in the studio during production.

When Gad asked Lee how the first test screening went, Lee could not bring herself to lie. She informed Gad and other cast members that, while adults enjoyed the emotional scene, it left kids “very confused and very, very sad.”

According to Gad, he was unaware of Olaf’s demise before arriving at the recording studio on that fateful day. The shock of returning the friendly snowman to the winter from whence he came triggered a deep and abiding emotional response.

“I got to the studio and Jenn slow-rolled me into the day’s material. As I looked at the scene, the first thing I saw was ‘Olaf begins to flurry away.’ I read further. ‘Anna sobs’ and ‘Olaf looks to her for help.’ I looked at Jenn. ‘Wait — are we…?’ With tears in her eyes, she nodded her head and said, ‘Yes.’”

Damn! That’s cold-blooded. That’s some end-of-Toy Story 3 s**t.

“By the end of the recording, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. I remember getting a FaceTime call from my wife during the session and her response to seeing my puffy and red eyes was ‘Jesus, what the hell are they doing to you over there?’ She couldn’t tell if we were recording a sequel to Frozen or Sophie’s Choice,” Gad recalls.

Lee might have sugar-coated the children’s response to the first test screening. According to Gad, “Olaf’s death scene was causing absolute havoc with the younger viewers. They were apparently sobbing, screaming, and fully traumatized by the extended sequence and the tone of the scene.”

Even Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger weighed in through Lee, saying, “Olaf is a child. You can’t just willy-nilly kill a scared child, because the children watching will see themselves in him.”

Ultimately, Lee rewrote the scene to present a more endearing tone. Rather than show Olaf as frightened by his inevitable demise, he appears strong, aware, and at peace with his fate. He and Anna embrace before he slowly blows away, leaving Anna and the audience with a sense of closure as opposed to misery and despair.

“Come here, I’ve got you,” Anna says during the bittersweet scene, swooping Olaf into her lap. Before he flurries away, Olaf tells Anna that he “thought of one thing that’s permanent — love.”

I’m not crying! You’re the one who’s crying!

How did Olaf’s death scene hit you when you watched Frozen 2? Let us know in the comments section below.

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