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*An unlikely collaboration, Jay-Z and the film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” will play out in full for audiences on Friday. The opening track for the movie has to be the rapper’s “100$ Bill,” setting the tone for the rest of the soundtrack which also includes Beyoncé and Andre 3000. But the [...]
*It’s not surprising that Leonardo DiCaprio hooked “The Great Gatsby” director Baz Luhrmann up with Jay Z, who not only supplied music for the film but also became an Executive Producer. What is surprising is that at the junket for “Gatsby,” an MTV online writer said he was surprised to find DiCaprio a fan of [...]
Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is a classic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, arrives in theaters May 10, 2013 *I was prepared to be bored in reviewing the Warner Bros/Village Roadshow Picture presentation of The Great Gatsby, based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but it was an enchanting and wonder-filled [...]
*The news leaked late last year, but today, Warner Bros. officially confirmed that the soundtrack for its forthcoming update of “The Great Gatsby” will indeed be overseen by Jay-Z. The rap mogul said he will bring a modern “Jazz Age” energy to the soundtrack for the adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of 1920s America. [...]
*“Django” hit the jackpot this year for Oscar nominations. The controversial spaghetti Western/slave flick, however, is not cool enough for the committee to push past its tradition of skipping over great black actors. Supporting actor Christoph Waltz was nominated and the film got nods for best picture and original screenplay. However, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington [...]
*Samuel L. Jackson is that dude in Hollywood. He’s that guy who can say what he wants, when he wants and not even bat an eye. The actor was recently at the center of an “SNL” FCC nightmare when he dropped the “f-bomb” on live television. Though many expected a public apology, we didn’t get [...]
*Reginald Hudlin and Quentin Tarantino first spoke about making a movie together on the topic of slavery over a decade ago – 15 years to be exact. Hudlin told him that until a movie with the impact of a “Spartacus” (the Stanley Kubric directed epic that starred Kirk Douglas as a rebellious Roman slave and won 4 [...]
*Leonardo DiCaprio is one of America’s most celebrated actors, having received praise in such diverse films as “Gangs of New York,” “The Aviator,” “Catch Me if You Can” and “The Departed.” “It’s the greatest job in the world,” the actor said of his profession. “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do my entire life and [...]
*For the African American actors in “Django Unchained,” the experience of shooting the film on a real former slave plantation was surreal enough on its own. But after director Quentin Tarantino and his production design team added the cotton fields, the dozens of extras working those fields and other details to enhance the plot about [...]
*Denzel Washington’s performance in “Flight,” Don Cheadle of Showtime’s “House of Lies” and the upcoming Jamie Foxx film “Django Unchained” were among the nominees announced this morning for the Golden Globe Awards, handed out annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press. The Civil War epic “Lincoln” leads the nominees with seven, among them best drama, best [...]
*Quentin Tarantino has released a new trailer for his revenge film “Django Unchained,” and this one features more screen time for co-stars Kerry Washington, Saumel L. Jackson and Jonah Hill, who appears as a man riding with the Klu Klux Klan. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave [...]
*Jamie Foxx says it was difficult watching his “Django Unchained” co-star Kerry Washington being whipped during a brutal scene in the film, and is convinced audiences will be moved to tears. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] As previously reported, the actor plays a freed slave out for revenge against an evil plantation owner portrayed by [...]
*Kanye West commandeered the DJ booth at a New York City nightclub on Saturday and reportedly sent the crowd into a frenzy when he surprised them with some of his new tracks, reports the New York Daily News. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The rapper was at Ph-D Rooftop Lounge with Leonardo DiCaprio and the [...]
*Set in the South two years before the Civil War, “Django Unchained” stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead [...]
*Columbia Pictures has released new stills from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s film “Django Unchained.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] As previously reported, Jamie Foxx stars as Django, a freed slave who treks across America with Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German dentist turned bounty hunter. Together, they try to retrieve Django’s wife Broomhilda [...]
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