I don’t know how I fell about the press release I got today that Variety would release its “10 Actors to Watch” list at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony.
Who is trying to leverage who?
Anyway… here is the list I wouldn’t be surprised to see…
Dominic Cooper – Mamma Mia! and The Duchess
Essie Davis
amit on: Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
movieman on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
Christian on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
movieman on: Review: Marriage Story (spoilers only in the broadest sense)
movieman on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
movieman on: Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
YancySkancy on: Review: Little Women (no spoilers)
Hcat on: Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree
movieman on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
movieman on: I Should Be Doing Box Office
Review: Little Women (no spoilers)
Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree
Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
Review: Marriage Story (spoilers only in the broadest sense)
see all »
[twitter-widget username="DavidPoland" hiderss="true" hidereplies="true" hidefrom="true" items="3" showts="60" title=" " targetBlank="true"][twitter-widget username="MCNTweets" hiderss="true" hidereplies="true" hidefrom="true" items="3" showts="60" title=" " targetBlank="true"]
It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
I swear half the movies on Hulu must star Franco Nero. So far, I’ve seen him in Enter the Ninja, as a white ninja with a ’70s porno mustache, and now I’m watching 21 Hours at Munich, where he’s a Palestinian terrorist.
Variety should give him an award.
AHHHAAAAHH!!! David Hess (Krug from Last House On the Left) is in this…
Mutinyco keepin’ on topic as alwayz YEP YEP!
CARICE VAN HOUTEN already OWNED the fuck out of BLACK BOOK, so anyone who’s anyone should ALREADY BE WATCHIN’…
YEP TO YEP, GET THE BOZACK, SON.
I like Kat Dennings. It’s nice to see an actress her age who actually has comic timing and isn’t just a simpering, slack-jawed blonde with big tits.
Based on the trailer (and the fact that he’s also in Avatar next year), the likely hypothetical St. Anna representative would be Laz Alonso.
Dominic Cooper was woeful in Mamma Mia. That’s all.
Adami,
Dominic Cooper was woeful in Mamma Mia! but then again, the same could be said for just about all the cast… the “singing” just about saved it… and that singing came from the audience with which I watched it.
But back to good ole’ Dominic. I think he is a blank. I can’t remember him at all from The Escapist, but to be fair, The History Boys was an ensemble.
“CARICE VAN HOUTEN already OWNED the fuck out of BLACK BOOK, so anyone who’s anyone should ALREADY BE WATCHIN’…”
For once, Lex and I are in 100% agreement.
I believe Essie Davis was “one to watch” about five years ago.
Sally Hawkins *is* wonderful in HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, but that’s a love it or hate it kind of movie.
Robert Pattinson. For sure.
Robert Pattinson is going to be a huge movie star. He has the talent, charisma, looks and screen presence to get to the very top.
Dominic Cooper is the only one on the list I would disagree with. Mind you it could be worse, you could have added Ben Barnes. Essie Davis is an excellent actress.
I agree Robert Pattinson will be a huge star and actually has the talent to stay at the top. He was very impressive in The Haunted Airman and ‘How To Be’. Really looking forward to seeing him as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes. Also curious to learn more about his new film ‘Parts Per Billion’ with Olivia Thirlby. Love to see him play Perseus in the reboot of Clash of the Titans.
I have to agree when it comes to Robert Pattinson. A very diverse and brilliant actor. He’s definitely someone to watch for. He has two small films coming out after Twilight that I think will really showcase what he’s made of, “Little Ashes” and “How To Be”. He’s also brought amazing characters to life previous to his Twilight role. He’s going to stand apart from many of the Hollywood actors today. He has so much more to offer. I can’t wait for the rest of the world to find out.