Julie Chen, the Big Brother and Early Show emcee, is taking on a strange new venture in the form of Sara Gilbert's View-like morning chatfest called The Talk. Alongside Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Leah Remini, Chen will bandy news topics, offer pithy opinions, and potentially channel the candor of Cedric the Entertainer. I spoke to her after The Talk's TCA panel in Beverly Hills and got her to admit the panelist she's most likely to have an Elisabeth Hasselbeck-worthy fight with on air.
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America Ferrera's star was launched with the 2002 independent film Real Women Have Curves, and eight years later, she's hoping to strike similar indie gold with the new returning soldier drama The Dry Land, which she produced and stars in (the film was directed by her fiance, Ryan Piers Williams). How much has the independent film landscape changed since then -- and how much has Ferrera herself changed now that Ugly Betty has closed up shop after four seasons? She told Movieline.
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It's shaping up to be quite a year Badge Dale. The 32-year-old actor starred on the critically acclaimed HBO mini-series The Pacific, will be seen in Robert Redford's next directorial effort, The Conspirator, and plays the lead on AMC's newest drama, Rubicon (Sunday night before Mad Men). He's also a Verge alum. So, yeah, 2010 has been pretty good to him indeed.
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Jeff Probst has won the Emmy for Best Reality Competition Host both years since the category's inception in 2008, and he's very likely to win again this year, but at the TCA after-party in Beverly Hills last night, Movieline challenged Probst to pick the best candidate for a replacement winner (between Tom Bergeron, Phil Keoghan, Heidi Klum, and Ryan Seacrest) in case he finally goes home empty-handed.
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After launching two incredibly successful franchises in Austin Powers and Meet the Parents, Jay Roach became Hollywood's first pick to direct any studio comedy, and yet the Steve Carell/Paul Rudd vehicle Dinner for Schmucks (adapted from Francis Veber's French farce The Dinner Game) is his first theatrical endeavor outside those two series in over ten years. Roach chatted with Movieline about the pros and cons of that kind of success, why he loves a girl with an accent, and what he'd like to see from the next Austin Powers sequel.
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from paparazzo Ron Galella and filmmaker Leon Gast about their new documentary Smash His Camera which opens Friday in limited theatrical release.
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Two hours before the Comic-Con panel for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet this weekend, I sat down with co-writer Evan Goldberg, a longtime collaborator of star Seth Rogen who was eager to show the audience what they'd brought down to San Diego. The results may have been a mixed bag -- some attendees were charmed, while others walked out of the panel in droves -- but as he told Movieline, Goldberg is more than confident they've got the goods, and when it comes to 3D (to which Hornet will be converted after the fact), he speaks with religious fervor.
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Get Low's Felix Bush is one of those once-in-a-lifetime roles that all actors crave. Except for Robert Duvall, perhaps -- a true legend of the craft for whom "once in a lifetime" might as well be synonymous with "all in a day's work."
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Last time Movieline spoke to Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the highly-paid screenwriters claimed their Hollywood heat could be all over soon. Clearly, that hasn't happened: After scripting some of the biggest tentpoles of the last few years, they've got the Jon Favreau-directed Cowboys And Aliens coming down the pike, starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. What was it like to work with Indiana Jones? This past weekend at Comic-Con, I asked them to tell me all about it.
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In the sense that Kevin Kline's legendary range avails viewers to a succession of diverse, unusual roles, The Extra Man is pretty much a typical Kevin Kline film. Surprising, poignant and funny, the adaptation of Jonathan Ames's novel features the Oscar-winner as Henry Harrison, a downmarket Upper East Side dandy whose key to securing affluence is to offer himself as a date to older, wealthy society women. Enter Louis Ives (Paul Dano) a would-be Fitzgerald whom Henry takes into his apartment and under his wing -- with reliably unpredictable and uncouth consequences.
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Clark Gregg has played Agent Coulson in several of the Marvel superhero movies, and just hours before I got the chance to briefly talk to him at Comic-Con, he was asked by Joss Whedon to reprise his role in The Avengers (if he seemed distracted, he apologized -- it was just because he really wanted to call his mom and tell her the good news).
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Zac Efron is at the next stage of his career, and he knows it. Though he's ceded his teen dream status to Taylor Lautner, the 22-year-old Efron is nothing if not savvy about picking his next wave of projects: Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles proved that Efron could go indie for a respected director, while the new romantic drama Charlie St. Cloud courts the female audience who's grown up with him, yet gives Efron his first meaty, adult role. Where will he go from here? As he told Movieline, that's the question at the forefront of his mind.
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Marvel may have brought out all its heroes for the Comic-Con panel that debuted The Avengers, but what of its villains? The previous Marvel films have had a nasty habit of offing them, but there's one upcoming baddie who's practically guaranteed to survive his film and hotly rumored to terrorize The Avengers, too: Tom Hiddleston, who stars as Loki in Thor. At Comic-Con, I asked Hiddleston about it, point blank.
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In The Devil Wears Prada, Stephanie Szostak played a French magazine editor who made a rival out of Meryl Streep, but in Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks, she goes one bigger: She makes a rival out of all the American women (and many American men) who covet Paul Rudd as their fantasy boyfriend.
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Last time Chris Hemsworth talked to Movieline, it was the week before his second audition for Kenneth Branagh's Thor, and one of his main rivals for the part was his younger brother Liam. Chris went on to clinch the role, though Liam recovered nicely (you may know him from The Last Song or his high-profile romance with costar Miley Cyrus). Last night, I had the opportunity to ask Chris how that all played out within the Hemsworth family.
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