The final music video directed by Heath Ledger is out online now.
The actor, who won a posthumous supporting-actor Oscar for The Dark Knight, had behind-the-camera interests, too, specifically directing music videos.
The video is for the song "Cause An Effect" recorded by Ledger's childhood friend...
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Heath Ledger fans attending the San Diego Comic-Con got a peek at the late actor's final performance, in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
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Before unveiling footage from the film on Thursday, filmmaker Terry Gilliam detailed how Ledger, fresh off the success of Brokeback Mountain, had approached him to participate in his no-so-big budget film.
Watch a preview clip with Ledger after the jump.
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Heath Ledger's final performance was screened at the Cannes Film Festival with a special dedication to the late star.
Ledger stars as Tony, a man who befriends a mysterious theater troupe that can travel to fantasy worlds, in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Ledger died in January 2008 from an accidental overdose after completing a third of the film. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to play three incarnations of Ledger's character.
"I started calling friends — Johnny Depp, and he said ...
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Heath Ledger's final film still needs a studio, but the actor's fans will definitely get to see his last two directorial projects.
Two music videos directed by Ledger before his death will be released this year, according to Billboard. Modest Mouse will release the video for "King Rat," a bonus track from the band's 2007 album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Australian newcomer Grace Woodroofe will also release the Ledger-directed video for her cover of David Bowie's "Quicksand."
Ledger landed the Modest Mouse gig ...
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The third time was the charm for a certain Marvel Comics vigilante when Ray Stevenson stepped into the title role in Punisher: War Zone. To mark the big and banging action pic's arrival on home video (shop for the two-disc Special Edition DVD or Blu-ray format), Doug Hutchison — who plays Loony Bin Jim, the psycho bro of master villain Jigsaw, and now appears on Lost as Horace Goodspeed — gave us a peek inside his first "graphic" experience as an actor. Plus: Hutchison shares his take on one of cinema's greatest comic-book villains, Heath Ledger's Joker.
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