Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh is developing a high-concept 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about one of the most famous women in history, Cleopatra.
An odd combo, you say? But the makeup and jewelry alone in Cleopatra's era scream for rockin' musical numbers! Some high profile talent may be buying into that theory as well – Soderbergh is wooing...
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Steven Soderbergh the man who brings together A-listers in his sleep is taking a giant leap into a pool of TV talent and other talent less frequently seen on the big screen to help out Matt Damon in his new comic thriller The InformantAlongside Damon who stars as an insider in the agricultural biz Soderbergh has nabbed former Quantum Leaper Scott Bakula and The Soups Joel McHale whos still in final negotiations says the Reporter The two will play FBI agents trying to fight corporate baddies in a price-fixing scam The film is an adaptation of Kurt Eichenwalds blockbuster book The Informant A True Story Bakula and McHale will also be joining other comedic cast members including Mike OMalley Yes Dear and Two and a Half Mens Melanie Lynskey Of his unusual casting decisions Soderbergh says he didnt want actors who were already overexposed in the cinema and who could let a dark comedic tone emerge organically What do you think of these big leaps t
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion I saw a preview of the Steven Soderbergh movie The Good German and noticed that the black-and-white photography was by his regular cinematographer Peter Andrews What Im wondering is why Andrews never works with anyone else JoanieFlickChick Peter Andrews never works with anyone other than Steven Soderbergh because Peter Andrews is Steven Soderbergh Although there are a number of cinematographers who later became directors including Jan de Bont Barry Sonnenfeld Mario Bava Ernest Dickerson Dean Semler Nicolas Roeg Andrew Davis and Ronald Neame very few mainstream directors shoot their own films in large part because directing a big complicated and expensive feature is more than enough work without adding in another full-time job The only other one I can think of who is working in Hollywood today is Peter Hyams and given how awful his recent films have been you could make a very persuasive argument t
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Robin Weigert, Deadwood
There are many reasons to love this final full season of HBO's Deadwood (Sundays at 9 pm/ET), not least among them the continued standout performance by Robin Weigert. As the vulgar, dirt-smeared and usually plastered Calamity Jane, Weigert makes off with every scene she's in. The actress checked in from Las Vegas — where she was, appropriately, playing poker.
TV Guide: You mustn't get recognized much in public. You're like night and day with Jane.Robin Weigert: I don't, and it's kind of a treat in its own way. But I suppose poker players are into Deadwood [Laughs], so there's a certain point where I'll hear, "I know you from somewhere," but they just can't place
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Question: I've been reading about the movie Bubble being the first film ever released simultaneously on TV, in movie theaters and on DVD. I don't know why, but I keep thinking some other movie already did that. Do you know if it really was the very first?
Answer: Steven Soderbergh's Bubble (2006) was definitely the first to come to theaters, cable and DVD at virtually the same time — it was shown on HDNet cable on the same Friday it opened in theaters, although it actually came to DVD four days later, because Tuesday is the standard day of the week DVDs (and videos before them) go on sale in stores. But there are a couple of precedents. Back in the 1983 — before DVD was so much as a technological twinkle in anyone's eye and the home-video market barely existed — Universal (a co
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Cry Havoc: Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips
Question: I just saw a direct-to-video movie called Havoc that was dedicated to Jessica Kaplan (1979-2003). Who was she and why is the movie dedicated to her?
Answer: When Los Angeles-born Jessica Kaplan was a 17-year-old high-school student at Santa Monica's famous Crossroads School, she sold a screenplay called The Powers that Be — about privileged white California kids who were into gangbanging ghetto culture until they run into the real thing — to New Line Cinema for a cool $150,000. This happened a full three years before 13-year-old Nikki Reed wrote a screenplay called Thirteen about her experiences as a wayward child of privilege, but Reed got far more publicity because her script was quickly produced and she costarred in the movie. Kaplan
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Question: In the Terence Stamp movie The Limey, the filmmakers appears to have incorporated clips of an earlier film in which he appeared. Am I right and, if so, what's the name of the movie?Answer: The Limey (1999) cuts back and forth between the present and the past: In the present, aging English gangster — Terence Stamp — cuts a bloody swath through Southern California in search of the truth behind his estranged daughter's death, and in the flashbacks we see snippets of his relationship with his wife and little girl some 30 years earlier. Rather than cast younger actors to play Stamp and his family in flashbacks, director Steven Soderbergh did indeed use scenes from an older movie,
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Per Variety, producer Jerry Weintraub has fielded a first script draft and now is in the early stages of plotting a third chapter of George Clooney's star-studded ensemble-driven Ocean's Eleven franchise, to be titled — wait for it — Ocean's Thirteen. Who's really left to join the cast? Brad's buddy Angelina?
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Isaiah Washington
For the first 23 years of his life, before he embarked on a circuitous two-decade acting career and the breakout role of Dr. Preston Burke on Grey's Anatomy, Isaiah Washington walked a very straight line.
He woke up every day knowing exactly what he was supposed to do and who he was supposed to be. Everyone in his suburban Houston neighborhood — where he did his homework, got good grades and stayed out of trouble — knew he was going to get a football scholarship to pay his way through college. But even when that didn't happen, he simply went to the backup plan and joined the Air Force, where he learned enough about aerospace engineering to land a successful private sector job in Washington, D.C.
Throughout it all, he showed up every day and worked hard, and if he had any questions, he asked someone in charge: a coach, a superior officer, a boss. He got married the day aft
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