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May 14 The Beverly Hills PlayhouseWendy says: Maybe other movies have it wrongUsually this kind of movie ends with the main characters getting married. But maybe we've been doing it backwards. In my generation it usually goes something like this — you date, you move in together, you get a pet, maybe have some kids, and then you think about getting married. If you win the lottery, that is, so you can make it The Perfect Wedding. And then, a couple of months after spending a year's salary on The Perfect Wedding and The Perfect Honeymoon, you realize you don't like being married to so-and-so and you break up, leaving pets/kids/house in limbo. Which, obviously, is kind of stressful for everybody involved. Maybe it would be better if we skipped the dating, married total strangers without telling anybody, and had to stay married for a significant period of time before we could get out of it. Who knows? The western world might see a sudden increase in the number of long, successful relationships. At least, that's if you believe what you see in the movies. What Happens in Vegas... isn't the first recent story to do a variation on the old Taming of the Shrew theme — it's been a popular one in films and TV shows the last few years. Two people who are total opposites (and neither of them a perfect catch) suddenly find themselves husband and wife, engage in a battle of wits to get rid of and/or change each other, and end up discovering their "opponent" isn't such a bad match for them after all. Resources for May 13 Osbrink Talent AgencySpielberg joins regulars for Cannes film festRounding up a lot of the usual suspects, the Cannes Film Festival presents a lineup from an illustrious if somewhat predictable gang of regulars, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, Woody Allen, Atom Egoyan and Wim Wenders. Then there's Steven Spielberg — who's not quite a newcomer, since he's been at Cannes before. But the festival's centerpiece, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," marks the director's first trip back since the 1980s, when he showed "The Color Purple" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" here. The new "Indiana Jones" flick opens worldwide May 22, four days after its Cannes premiere, giving the movie a similar global rollout that preceded blockbuster "E.T." "That's our benchmark. This is the same kind of movie in that (Cannes is) kind of the perfect launching pad, because we can bring the whole world there," said Frank Marshall, producer on the "Indiana Jones" movies. "It's perfectly timed for our release worldwide." In its 61st year, the world's most-prestigious film festival sometimes catches heat for including too many glossy Hollywood productions, such as past opening-night film "The Da Vinci Code" or action spectacles such as "Matrix Reloaded" and "X-Men: The Last Stand." Resources for May 12 Black Dog FilmsSex and The City quartet back -- in the movie Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are back -- The "Sex and the City" TV stars take to the big screen on Monday with the world premiere in London of their tales of love and high fashion in New York.
The film takes up four years on from where the hit series
left the sassy singletons, who were so blatantly honest in
their desire to have "sex like men" but also lusted as much for
a new pair of Manolo Blahnik heels as they did for the perfect
beau.
Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie and is also a
producer of the film, said she had been working on the project
for two and a half years. But getting everyone together again
was not easy.
"It was a really hard time," said Cattrall, who at the time was in the midst of a divorce. Her father had also just been diagnosed with dementia. "I needed to spend time with my real family and I'm really glad that I did because in the four years, you know, coming back, I think the film is where it should be," Cattrall told Reuters in New York before the film's London launch. Resources for May 11 The Beverly Hills PlayhouseReal-life skull worship inspires new 'Indy' filmThere is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth — a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie. Experts dismiss the hundreds of existing crystal skulls as fakes that were probably made by colorful antiquities traders in the 19th century. But Mayan priests worship the skulls, even today, and real-life skull hunters still search for them. The true story of the skulls stretches over continents and hundreds of years, and may be even more extraordinary than the tale portrayed in this fourth installment of the Harrison Ford franchise. It's unclear what version of the tale will appear in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls," which opens in U.S. theaters on May 22. The plot apparently revolves around a race against the Soviets to find the skulls. Distributor Paramount Pictures refused requests for interviews or information on the film, the first Indiana Jones movie since "The Last Crusade" came out in 1989. Resources for May 07 The Beverly Hills Playhouse"Spirit" rises to Christmas releaseLionsgate has moved up the nationwide release of its comic-book adaptation "The Spirit" to Christmas Day. The film, written and directed by Frank Miller ("Sin City") and based on the comic-book series created by the late Will Eisner, originally was slated to open January 16, 2009. "The Spirit" stars Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson, Stana Katic, Dan Lauria, Jaime King, Paz Vega and Louis Lombardi. Also slated to open on December 25 are Disney's "Bedtime Stories" and Fox 2000 Pictures' adaptation of the bestseller "Marley & Me." Resources for |
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