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After a career that began with romantic comedies like “Princess Diaries 2” and “Just My Luck,” roles in Tony Scott’s “Unstoppable” and JJ Abrams’ re-boot of “Star Trek” as Captain Kirk have seen Chris Pine move into more action roles. With McG’s “This Means War,” he gets to combine both comedy and action as FDR, […]
LYNN COLLINS, THE PRINCESS OF MARS IN “JOHN CARTER” It’s common wisdom among actresses and pretty much everyone else, too, that great parts for women in the movies are hard to come by. Playing a wife, girlfriend or best friend is easy enough to do—those parts are a dime a dozen. But roles that portray […]
No doubt there are those Thomases who can’t help but be Toms. The always-affable Tom Hanks, for instance.
It’s common wisdom among actresses and pretty much everyone else, too, that great parts for women in the movies are hard to come by. Playing a wife, girlfriend or best friend is easy enough to do—those parts are a dime a dozen. But roles that portray smart, strong, fully developed women, much less ones who know how to use a sword and hold their own in battle, are rare to the point of nonexistent. Imagine, then, how excited Lynn Collins (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “True Blood”) is to be playing Princess Dejah Thoris in Academy Award®–winning writer/director Andrew Stanton’s action adventure film “John Carter.”
It isn’t often that an actor gets the opportunity to play a Civil War veteran who gets transported to the planet Mars and meets a beautiful, strong-willed princess so that he can help her fight a civil war of her own. For Taylor Kitsch, who put himself on the map playing Riggins on the highly acclaimed TV series “Friday Night Lights,” the chance to play the title role of John Carter in Academy Award®–winning writer/director Andrew Stanton’s “John Carter,” was something he was not going to pass up.
Michelle Williams takes on the iconic role of Marilyn Monroe in The Weinstein Company’s critically acclaimed “My Week with Marilyn.” Earning for Williams a Best Actress Oscar nomination, the film is based on Colin Clark’s book of the same name and chronicles his time spent working with Monroe while she was in England shooting the romantic comedy “The Prince and the Showgirl” in 1956.
Venerated actor Max von Sydow plays a mysterious old man who can communicate only via scrawls on a notepad yet becomes a boy’s only confidante on his quest across New York, in Warner Bros.’ “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” Von Sydow recently won a much-deserved Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for portraying the enigmatic, silent man known only as “The Renter.”
For the behind-the-camera crew of Columbia Pictures’ new comedy “Jack and Jill,” the primary challenge was in making lead star Adam Sandler into two titular characters. The primary task went to makeup department head Ann Pala, hair department head Thomas Real, and costume designer Ellen Lutter.
Through the magic of Disney and the leaps in modern computer animation technology developed at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, a team of artists, under the guidance of stereographer Robert Neuman, found a way to breathe more dimensional life into “Beauty and the Beast” by turning it into an eye-popping 3D experience.