Annette Bening, Olympia Dukakis, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo Set for New Films
By: Brian Scott Lipton · Jul 1, 2009 · New York

Stage veterans Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo will join Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, according to Variety.

The film is about a pair of siblings raised by two women (Bening and Moore), who set out find their biological father (Ruffalo)

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Fr 5/22: Mark Ruffalo, Mindy Kaling, the Decemberists

Can't wait!! :)

Threesome set for 'Date Night'
By Jay A. Fernandez
May 13, 2009, 11:00 PM ET

Ray Liotta, Mila Kunis and Mark Ruffalo will join Tina Fey and Steve Carell on their comedic "Date Night" for Fox.

The three will be among the characters Fey and Carell encounter as a couple on a date gone awry. Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Taraji P. Henson, Common, Leighton Meester, Kristen Wiig and Jimmi Simpson already are in the mix. The film is being directed by Shawn Levy.

Liotta will play Joe Miletto, whom Levy describes as a "villain of peace." Kunis will play the low-rent criminal wife of Franco's character. Ruffalo will play Wiig's husband and Carell's best friend.

"Date Night," which began shooting last month, was written by Josh Klausner.

Liotta, repped by WMA and Untitled Entertainment, most recently appeared in "Observe and Report." He has "Youth in Revolt" and Tim Allen's directorial debut, "Crazy on the Outside," forthcoming.

Kunis, repped by CAA and Curtis Talent Management, most recently starred in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Max Payne." She next appears in "Extract."

Ruffalo, repped by WMA and Robert Stein Management, next appears in "The Brothers Bloom," which opens Friday.

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Exclusive: Rian Johnson on The Brothers Bloom
Source: Edward Douglas
May 11, 2009



It's been a long road to the release of Rian Johnson's second movie The Brothers Bloom. Originally slated to come out just a few weeks after premiering at last year's Toronto Film Festival, it was moved a couple of times to find a less busy weekend for release, finally settling on this coming weekend.

Johnson's first film Brick was one of the standouts at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, winning a Jury Prize for Originality of Vision. When the movie was released a year later, many critics mused that if that was the type of movie Johnson could make for less than $500,000, imagine what he could do with real budget. Thankfully, Johnson got that budget for his follow-up, which involves a much more ambitious vision, a bigger name cast and locations across the globe.

The Brothers Bloom are Stephen and Bloom Bloom, played by Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody, two of the most skilled con men in the game who follow Stephen's intricate cinematic plots to scam unsuspecting marks out of their money. After over 20 years of scams, Bloom wants out, but he's enticed into one more con when Stephen introduces him to the beautiful but eccentric shut-in Penelope, played by Rachel Weisz, who gives Bloom a way to finally write his own story rather than constantly be the brooding anti-hero of his brother's plans.

It's a fun movie that offers as unique a voice to the con game movie as Brick did when it created the "teen crime noir" genre. For instance, the opening scene (which you can watch here) might immediately remind some of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, but over the course of the film, there's lots of great throwbacks to movies of the past that you don't necessarily need to be a film archivist to appreciate. (We also just loved Babel co-star Rinko Kikuchi as the silent but deadly Bang Bang, the brothers' ever-present go-to wing-woman.)

ComingSoon.net had a chance to visit Johnson at the edit bay last year while he was finishing up the film, but at Toronto (nearly eight months ago!), we had a chance to sit down for a full interview with the bright young filmmaker, talking about various aspect of his second film and getting some idea what his third film might be like.

Read the interview here.

Go here to check it out!! :)

Actor/writer Don McKellar won a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award last night for Blindness. The film, which also starred McKellar along with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, won for Best Feature Film Screenplay.

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YAY for the movie and for McKellar!! :)

Mark Ruffalo
"I've never been a fan of my hair. Everyone had cool straight hair, and I had this 'bouf.'"



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Found some info on Shutter Island from joblo.com

Shutter Island teaser?
March 30, 2009

The only thing I can think of that gets me more excited than a film that takes place in a mental institution, is a film that takes place in a mental institution that stars Leonardo DiCaprio and is directed by Martin Scorsese. Enter SHUTTER ISLAND , the upcoming thriller based on the Dennis Lehane novel and co-starring Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, and Jackie Earle Haley. The film takes place on a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor, where U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) is sent to find a murderous patient who escaped from the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The image below, which appeared suddenly in a Berliner Zeitung newspaper, tells us that this film will be filled with all kinds of creepy.

Whether this is in fact the film's first official teaser poster or merely some early marketing concept remains to be seen. It does however, immediately remind me of another insane asylum-set film--the grossly underrated SESSION 9--which can only be a good thing.

Extra Tidbit: The fact that the escaped lunatic in this film is a woman elevates this movie to a whole new level.




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Where the Wild Things Are Trailer Online!
Source: ComingSoon.net March 25, 2009

The trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures' Where the Wild Things Are debuted on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" this morning and can now be watched online! Opening in theaters on October 16, the Spike Jonze-directed big screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic book stars Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara and Forest Whitaker.

Go to here see the amazing trailer. :)