August 2008 News Archive (Page 15)

Rachel McAdams will forever be linked wirh Ryan Gosling. It's largely because these two stars have dated off and on for many years.

But it's also because they comprised the main couple in the ultimate chick flick: The Notebook.

In a recent interview with T Magazine, the beautiful actress answered a few questions about her career... and Gosling, of course.

Do you like to audition? I love auditioning. Since The Notebook and Wedding Crashers, I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

I also like screen tests, where they put you in a room with your male co-star. They want to see if the two of you have chemistry together. There’s something wonderfully old-fashioned about a chemistry test. During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn’t always work.

In The Notebook, you and Ryan Gosling had amazing chemistry. Are love scenes difficult? They’re strange. A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I’ve been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it’s hard with a kiss. It’s much better if there’s an attraction.

Steve Carell was the last member officially added to the Frat Pack so it seems fitting we made him our last Frat Pack member for Reel Movie Stars.

Steve Carell's career was started bring a correspondent The Daily Show, but it truly sky rocketed thanks to his starring roles in The 40 Year Old Virgin and on the television series, The Office.

We decided to give Carell some Reel treament with 9 films, 8 pictures, and one heck of a biography.

Now for some fun Carell trivia you may not have known:

• Was breifly a post office worker in Massachusetts where he delivered mail from his own car
• Provides the voice of Gary in The Ambigulously Gay Duo cartoons alongside fellow The Daily Show alumn Stephen Colbert
• While a member of the Chicago troupe The Second City, Stephen Colbert was his understudy
• Is a skilled ice skater and played goaltender as a kid.  Still plays in a league in Los Angeles
• Married to Nancy Walls who he met as his student in his improve class
• His wife, Nancy, briefly played his girlfriend on the show The Office
• Has two children, daughter Elisabeth and son John

Now enjoy this photo montage from our final Frat Packer being featured as a Reel Movie Star:

After just covering fellow Tropic Thunder co-star Jack Black, Reel Movie Stars is back with the film's director, Ben Stiller.

Our sixth installment of Reel Movie Stars is absolutely considering a member of the Frat Pack and is by far one of its most prolific members.

In honor of Stiller's return to the director's seat, we've gone ahead and added 22 movies to the comedian's filmography and one of the most complete biographies the Reel editors have ever put together.

But what would a Reel Movie Star blog be without some fun facts:

• Ben Stiller has been impersonating Tom Cruise since his show, The Ben Stiller Show.  He got Cruise to star in Tropic Thunder!
• His father Jerry Stiller played his father in The Heartbreak Kid
• He played his father Jerry Stiller's father in The King of Queens
• His father, Jerry, is Jewish and his mother, Anne, is Irish and converted to Jusaism before marrying Jerry.
• Won an Emmy award for his writing on The Ben Stiller Show
• Is Only 5'8
• Married to Christine Taylor who he co-stared with in Zoolander, Dodgeball, and Tropic Thunder
• Ben and Christine have two children together: daughter Ella Olivia and son Quinlin Dempsey

Now we'd like to leave you with some pictures of this amazing writer, director, and actor:

Here's a comedic duo we can't wait to watch in action:

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are set to play a married couple in Date Night, a 20th Century Fox comedy to be directed by Shawn Levy.

According to Variety, the plot follows a couple who find their routine date night becomes much more than just dinner and a movie.

The starting production date is unclear at the moment, as the film must be scheduled around Carell's sitcom The Office and Fey's 30 Rock.

Levy is currently shooting Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, while Carell recently starred in Get Smart and Fey appeared in Baby Mama.

The premise for Hamlet 2 is one only writers that penned politically-incorrect films such as Dick and Team America: World Police could come up with.

Enter Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady.

They came up with the idea of Dana Marschz, a beleaguered high school drama teacher whose drama class is about to get shut down unless he can come up with a stage production that justifies its existence. The solution? A sequel to Hamlet, of course.

Below are excerpts of an interview Flemning and Brady gave to ComingSoon.net:

When you decided to make the movie, which came first, the idea of a Hamlet 2 or the character of Dana Marshz?
Fleming: The character. We kind of reverse-engineered the movie from the character. I don't know why. We were just talking and we knew we wanted a teacher, and we loved drama teacher right away, and we both loved that kind of super-enthusiastic character who wakes up and every day is a creative opportunity even in the face of no positive feedback.
Brady: It's true. He has no reason to keep going, but then he lives by a code... I always think those characters are great, it's almost like "A Confederacy of Dunces" kind of delusional character that just can't be stopped.

Steve Coogan stars in Hamlet 2.

Coming off Iron Man, currently starring in Tropic Thunder, and planning a Sherlock Holmes remake, Robert Downey Jr. is a new man.

Just ask the actor himself, as Rolling Stone did when the magazine brought up a lofty quote the star uttered a couple years ago.

"Puh-leaze! That guy is someone who is a foulmouthed liar who thinks he sounds really hip."

Thanks to the disasters known as Pearl Harbor and Gigi, it's safe to say that Ben Affleck is no longer an A-list actor.

But Mr. Jennifer Garner, who turns 36 today, looks to have a bright future ahead as a director. We loved his work behind the camera on Gone Baby Gone.

Of course, Affleck did star in a number of memorable movies. Here's a look at some films, and the characters he plays in them, on his resume:

• Dogma: Bartleby
  
• Armageddon: A.J.
  
• Good Will Hunting: Chuckie Sullivan
  
  

Coming off The Lovd Guru - and its disappointing box office haul - Mike Myers has signed on to the cast of Quentin Tarantino's next movie.

Myers has signed on for Inglorious Basterds as British General Ed Fenech, a military mastermind who helps hatch a plot to kill Nazi leaders. He's the latest addition to an ever-growing, star-studded cast.

Brad Pitt stars in the movie as Lt. Aldo Raine, the leader of a group of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into German-occupied France on a singular mission to kill as many Nazis as they can. Eli Roth is also on board, and Tarantino is said to be courting Simon Pegg, Nastassja Kinski, David Krumholtz, and B.J. Novak for roles, as well.

Look for the movie to premiere in Cannes in 2009.

While fans of the hit series 24 will have to wait until January for new episodes, they can now get excited about the strong possibility of a 24 movie.

"It's certainly on the table," Kiefer Sutherlan, who is currently starring in Mirrors, told Extra. "We would certainly be thrilled to make it, but we're going to wait until the series is finished."

There has long been talk of a big-screen version of 24. The film was meant to be shot during the Season 6 and 7 hiatus, but plans were put on the backburner to concentrate on the series.

We love Jack Bauer and company, but we'd hate to see a movie. The ideal ending to this groundbreaking show would be for Bauer to die - saving the world, of course - in the series finale.

Tyrese Gibson certainly knows how to drive a fast car.

The former model got his acting break in The Fast and the Furious. Now, he's back for Death Race, an action-packed thrilled that co-stars Jason Statham.

Gibson shared his thoughts on the film with MoviesOnline:

How did you get involved with Death Race?
Paul reached out and said that he kinda had me in mind for it, but he didn't give me the part. What ended up happening is we met up at a hotel. And he ended up slipping and giving me the part without knowing. So my people said, "Tyrese, the director wants to meet you but he hasn't determined if he wants to go with you or not. So he'll let us know a couple days after the meeting if he's gonna go with you or not."

So at the whole dinner, I'm on edge. You're trying to put the good impression and all that. "Yeah, man, you know how this'll be great. I'd love to be a part of this." But where he slipped up at is he pulled his laptop out and while he was talking to me, he say, "You know, so these are the areas that we're gonna be filming at." So I'm like, "Oh, sh*t. You said we." Then he said, "This is the car that I have you in mind to drive in."

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