Posts Tagged ‘Blake Lively’

The Wizard of OZ set for 2014 re-release

The Wizard of OZ set for 2014 re-release

The classic American musical film, The Wizard of OZ is to be restored and re-released, to tie in with its 75th anniversary. Warner Brothers have announced that they will stop shipping the DVD from May this year and will begin digitally remastering the film, ready for its release in 2014. After its restoration, the well-loved family...

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Penn Badgley bags Jeff Buckley role

Penn Badgley bags Jeff Buckley role

It has been announced that Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley has won the coveted role of Jeff Buckley. We reported a while a go that the film, Greetings From Tim Buckley, was being made and that Robert Pattinson desperately wanted the role. It had even been reported that he had met with Jeff Buckley's mother to discuss the role. There were also...

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Real Life Fathers of Film

Real Life Fathers of Film

Every so often we get to see real life family relationships play out on the big screen, from brothers and sisters, to parents and their children. With Fathers Day just a few days away, we thought we'd take a look at some classic examples of some on-screen dads playing the parents to their real life children within the world of filmmaking....

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Blake Lively considering two exciting roles

Blake Lively considering two exciting roles

Looks like Blake Lively is the lady of the moment, everyone is trying to get a piece of her. We already know she's in the hotly-anticipated Green Lantern, playing Carol Ferris after beating of competition from the likes of Eva Green, Diana Kruger and Jennifer Garner. Now she is being lined up for roles in two other films- Savages and Oz:...

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Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively to play Carrie Bradshaw?

Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively to play Carrie Bradshaw?

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively could be set to take on the role of a young Carrie Bradshaw in a Sex and the City prequel! Our favourite member of the New York glitterati, Carrie Bradshaw, could soon be sipping cosmopolitans on the big screen once again! But don't panic - it's not time for Sex and the City 3 just yet. In fact, judging by the...

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The Town DVD w/special features

The Town DVD w/special features

When we saw The Town back in September last year we were blown away by how Ben Affleck managed to turn a classic heist story into an edge-of-your-seat, highly original drama. Now as the DVD is released, we get a chance to a watch the film again and take a look at its special features. Set in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the robbery...

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Interview: Blake Lively on The Town, Ben Affleck and Boston

Interview: Blake Lively on The Town, Ben Affleck and Boston

There are some young actors you just know are going to be huge stars. Blake Lively is one of those. Having blazed a trail through Gossip Girl, she's now become the face of  Chanel's Mademoiselle handbag line, as well as putting in a seriously good performance in Ben Affleck's The Town. Here's an interview that will give you an insight into how...

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Green Lantern trailer – starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

Green Lantern trailer – starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

The much anticipated trailer for Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, is now online. Reynolds, who, incidentally, has just been named as "sexiest man alive" by US magazine, People, stars as Hal Jordan, who is recruited by the Green Lantern Corps. Based on the DC Comics character of the same name, Green Lantern is set to tell the...

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Carey Mulligan to play The Great Gatsby’s Daisy?

Carey Mulligan to play The Great Gatsby’s Daisy?

Artistic Aussie director Baz Luhrmann is taking on the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. The flamboyant director who gave us Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet, has apparently already cast his two male leads - Leornado DiCaprio as Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Carraway. The big question is who will play the lead...

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Ben Affleck the best director in The Town: The Town review

Ben Affleck the best director in The Town: The Town review

Though Ben Affleck had some success with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, I still think of him mostly for terrible movies. Disasters like Gigli, that ill-fated project with his ex J-Lo, and Jersey Girl, which I can only remember for being painful. So, I went to The Town expecting the worst. I came out in tears and overwhelmed with...

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Ben Affleck is back in The Town

Trailers for the new Ben Affleck movie The Town have got us wondering if it'll be one of his flops or successes. The town in question is Affleck's home ground of Boston, where 'there are over 300 bank robberies...every year'. Doug MacRay (Affleck) is a bank robber who bumps into one of his traumatised victims, Claire (Rebecca Hall), shortly...

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