Kevin Smith isn't the only person making waves at Sundance (thankfully); newcomer Elizabeth Olsen debuted two films at the festival, and her performances in both have been so well-received that she's already being hailed as the breakthrough performer in Park City this year. Olsen spoke with Movieline's Alonso Duralde at the Levi's Dockers House on Main Street about how difficult it was to film the one-shot horror wonder Silent House, her revelatory turn in Martha Marcy May Marlene, the star-studded project she has coming up next, and just what it's like to be an It Girl. Click ahead to watch.
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The fun at the Levi's Dockers House on Main Street in Park City never stops. Just ask director and 2011 Sundance Film Festival juror Kimberly Peirce, who sat down with Movieline's own Elvis Mitchell to discuss what makes her temporary festival job so rewarding, and how she first arrived at Sundance back in 1997. Click ahead to watch the latest in our Sundance video interview series.
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The opening weekend of the Sundance Film Festival might be winding down, but Movieline is just getting started with a full slate of video interviews from our digs at Levi's Dockers House on Main Street. Among the festival luminaries to pay a visit: Ed Helms stopped by to chat with Elvis Mitchell about his new film Cedar Rapids, high expectations and his first Sundance visit -- as a parking attendant.
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Here at Movieline HQ we have giddily greeted each WTF-clip from I Melt With You, like manna dropped from camp heaven. Emoting Rob Lowe! Face-ripping Jeremy Piven! Weeping Christian McKay! Sandy Thomas Jane! And now we circle back to the Pivster, who is coked out of his gourd and screaming irately about How Life Really Is in this clip. At least I think it's from the movie; it could just as easily be from surveillance footage from the Craft Service table.
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Thanks to near-lethal levels of abstraction, randomness, lack of context and all-around puzzlement, the five-part package that makes up I Melt With You's awesome viral campaign is the most collectible set of movie marketing since Burger King offloaded Empire Strikes Back drinking glasses. And now, finally, it's co-star Sasha Grey's turn to get your brain cramping. Topless, of course. Did I mention this is NSFW?
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Well, Christian McKay isn't mumbling Eminem lyrics into an oscillating fan in this latest -- and final -- viral clip for I Melt With You. What he is doing, though, is having a bit of a post-shave breakdown into a hand towel. Dudes; you just never know what's going to start the waterworks. Click ahead to see the sadness.
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If this were a lazier outfit, we'd be going on and on about how this new College Humor video that loops Natalie Portman's less-than-charming laugh at the Golden Globes was her latest Norbit. But you expect better from us, dear readers, so let's just pass this along with minimal comment. Ahead, find the only 46 seconds you'll never need to hear of Natalie Portman laughing. She's not a future Oscar winner for nothing!
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You know the old saying: A news story isn't a news story until the animation wizards at Taiwanese news service NMA work their magic. With that in mind, how did Ricky Gervais spend that lost hour at the Golden Globes on Sunday night? Probably sipping a bottle of water and talking to celebrities, but it's fun to imagine a world where he got beaten with a dildo by Hugh Hefner. And sliced open by Tim Allen on the set of Home Improvement. Apologies to Warner Wolf, but let's go to the video tape.
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The despondent, face-ripping marvel that is I Melt With You went even crazier this afternoon wit the release of its latest... teaser? Experimental plug? Tormented curio? All of the above? Whatever you want to call this krazy klip, it features co-star Thomas Jane's own headscratching riff on the "pain of the modern male psyche." Because when Tom Jane hurts, he apparently takes it out on the desert.
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Because Nicolas Cage's Drive Angry 3-D didn't sound quite insane enough already, here's a sneak peek at the scene everyone will be talking about. And by everyone, I mean folks who watch anything the kookiest Coppola touches hoping to glimpse another batsh*t performance. Behold, Nic Cage shooting bad guys with one hand while holding a bottle of booze in one hand, a cigar in his teeth, and a naked ladyfriend on his... well, just watch.
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Why, hello again, I Melt With You! Mark Pellington's white male middle-aged angst-athon premieres at Sundance next week, and the marketing is in full swing. That means random 15-second clips, like a weathered Rob Lowe talking about mind and body disconnects, or this new one of Jeremy Piven trying in vain to rip his own face off. Either that or he has a wicked case of brain freeze. Tongue to the roof of your mouth, J-Pivs! Ahem. Click ahead to watch.
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The buzz on I Melt With You -- director Mark Pellingon's bleak thriller exploring "the pain of the modern male psyche" -- is building ahead of its Sundance premiere next week. Or rather, it was building; now it's a deafening boom of anticipation fueled by the most random Rob Lowe clip in the history of Rob Lowe clips. Click through and have a look.
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Except for the part where she was turned away from a Golden Globes afterparty for being too wasted, feebly protests "I can do it" to her oppressors and handlers alike, is ushered away in front of a dozen paparazzi and fans, takes a tumble and tears her gown, and signs an autograph with half her boob hanging out, I totally relate to Paz de la Huerta's drunken awards-night meltdown. Nothing three Aleve can't fix! And maybe a cease-and-desist letter. [TMZ]
On the one hand, I'm reluctant to even go here because of the inevitable cascade of "Is this foot-fetish joke video Jacki Weaver's Norbit?" controversy. On the other, it's Friday and all I want is to hit the eject button on this hellish week. And anyway, what kind of comprehensive Team Jacki repository/campaign headquarters would this be without this interlude cataloged among the voluminous archives? Watch and learn.
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How's this for random: Beginning in April, noted actor Stanley Tucci will regularly moderate a talk show about wine for national public television. The Burlesque actor has already filmed a few episodes of Vine Talk, in which he drinks and chats about wine with celebrity friends including John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Coolidge, Cheyenne Jackson and Easy A co-stars Patricia Clarkson and Penn Badgley. Click through for the show's highlight montage, which includes liberal shots of Stanley, Patricia and Penn laughing while swirling merlot.
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