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Shia LaBeouf Dropped Acid For Sundance Role

Shia LaBeouf Dropped Acid For Sundance Role

Shia LaBeouf appears to be going full-tilt method acting of late. First, the actor said last summer that he was going "all the way" in Danish director Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, and at the Sundance Film Festival, currently underway, he said he dropped acid while working on The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.
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Festivals || ||

Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects' Heads To Berlin International Film Festival

Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects' Heads To Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival added nine titles to its 2013 competition lineup, including Steven Soderbergh's latest, Side Effects, starring Jude Law and Channing Tatum, which will have its International Premiere at the February event.
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Natalie Portman Gives Biggest Bang Per Buck

Natalie Portman Gives Biggest Bang Per Buck

Last Spring, Forbes named Kristen Stewart Hollywood's highest paid star, but the title of "most bankable star" is another matter altogether. Natalie Portman gives the best cash return, according to those denizens of wealth at Forbes, beating out the likes of Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Shia LaBeouf and Daniel Radcliffe.
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Willem Dafoe Joins Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac; Nicole Kidman Heads Out

Willem Dafoe Joins Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac; Nicole Kidman Heads Out

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe played a crazily estranged couple in Lars von Trier's erotic/thriller/surreal Antichrist in 2009. And now, Dafoe is set to return to Von Trier's latest, Nymphomaniac along with Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Stellan Skarsgard and Uma Thurman. Others are joining the cast, while one big name has pulled out.
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Beefs || ||

About That Time Shia LaBeouf And Tom Hardy Got Into A 'Tussle' On The Set Of Lawless

About That Time Shia LaBeouf And Tom Hardy Got Into A 'Tussle' On The Set Of Lawless

Now that John Hillcoat's brutal Prohibition tale Lawless has hit screens (read Movieline's review here) you can more vividly imagine the testosterone-and-moonshine fueled atmosphere that might have permeated the set, where, as Lawless legend has it, co-stars Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy had an unscripted scuffle. Nevertheless, while making the press rounds Hillcoat and LaBeouf both tried to squash rumors of the brotherly beef. Just a little innocent horseplay gone wrong?
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Lawless Director Says Story-Driven Filmmaking 'Tough' In U.S.

Lawless Director Says Story-Driven Filmmaking 'Tough' In U.S.

Director John Hillcoat spent ample time in the the American South, the setting for his latest bootlegging drama Lawless. Starring Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska, the film is inspired by the true-life stories of Matt Bondurant's own family in his novel, The Wettest County in the World and adapted for the screen by rocker Nick Cave. Lawless begins its roll out in the U.S. Friday.
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REVIEW: Rollicking But Rough Lawless Creates Bloody, Intoxicating Prohibition-Era World

REVIEW: Rollicking But Rough Lawless Creates Bloody, Intoxicating Prohibition-Era World

As rollicking and rough as a drive down a dirt road with no suspension, Lawless is a tale of three-bootlegging brothers from Prohibition-era Franklin County, Virginia, who are, in the words of one character, some "hard-ass crackers." Directed by Australia's John Hillcoat (The Road) and written by musician Nick Cave (who's adapted Matt Bondurant's historical novel The Wettest County in the World), Lawless is, like their last collaboration The Propositiona kind of remixed Western at heart. It's a story in which the law and the outlaws are equally outsized and dangerous — and a world in which the fighting has nothing to do with keeping order and everything to do with displays of strength. more »

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WATCH: Red Band Trailer For Lawless Gives New Meaning to 'Gas Guzzler'

WATCH: Red Band Trailer For Lawless Gives New Meaning to 'Gas Guzzler'

"Do you have any idea what a Thompson submachine gun does to a mortal?" Guy Pearce tells Tom Hardy about midway through this red-band trailer for Lawless. And, well, before you can say, "Swiss cheese!", Gary Oldman is riddling some poor sap in an old-fashioned automobile with lots of lead. more »

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Shia LaBeouf Ready To Perform Sex 'For Real' In Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac?

Shia LaBeouf Ready To Perform Sex 'For Real' In Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac?

This week Shia LaBeouf announced that his blockbuster phase is over. From here on out, he's focusing on working with indie artistes, starting with everyone's favorite provocateur, Lars Von Trier. But will Shia go all the way for his art on Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, which will reportedly be shot in both softcore and hardcore versions and potentially require its cast to perform unsimulated sex scenes?
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Videos || ||

WATCH: Naked Shia LaBeouf Strips Down with Butterflies, Interpretive Dance For NSFW Sigur Rós Video

Sigur Ros, Shia LaBeouf

Filmmaker Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach) was originally going to film Icelandic outfit Sigur Ros for their "Fjögur píanó" music video, but then she apparently ran into Shia LaBeouf and the whole concept changed into a Big Idea-filled meditation involving nudity, interpretive dance, and an underwater acid trip. Of course! Watch the NSFW (but oddly gorgeous) short and ponder away after the jump.
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Biz Break || ||

Diaz & Del Toro Team for Agent, Posey Honored, LaBeouf's Film Critic Movie: Biz Break

Diaz & Del Toro Team for Agent, Posey Honored, LaBeouf's Film Critic Movie: Biz Break

Also in Thursday afternoon's Biz Break: Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) is set to direct a post-tsunami Japan crime thriller, Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon's Sunlight Jr. will preview at Cannes, Nigel Lythgoe teams with BAFTA L.A., and Venice winners are spotlighted in NYC Italian film series.
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The 2-Minute Verdict || ||

Lawless Trailer: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain Get Wet

Lawless Trailer: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain Get Wet

Here's the first trailer for Lawless, née The Wettest County in the World, a.k.a. the long-shelved Prohibition thriller featuring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce dealing in all kinds of low-down bootlegging shenanigans. Violence? Check. Romance? Check. Clipped, moody dialogue courtesy of Hillcoat's Proposition screenwriter/punk prophet Nick Cave? Hell to the check. Cannes competition, here we come!
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Bikers and Sombreros and Boogeymen, Oh My: The Work of Shia LaBeouf, Comic Book Artist

Shia LaBeouf - "Let's F*cking Party" via Comics Alliance

Shia LaBeouf popped up on a whim last weekend at Chicago's C2E2 to peddle three original comic books he created, and thanks to the lucky and enterprising comics fans on the ground the internet now has a look at the imagery and philosophical musings whirling around in Shia's brain. Like: Random thoughts on poets (they bore him), someone who looks an awful lot like the boogeyman (okay, LaBeouf pal Marilyn Manson), and the adventures of a canyon-jumping biker and his sombrero-wearing pal.
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Meet Guy Pearce, Action Hero: The Lockout Star Talks Cameo Roles, Prometheus, and Lawless

Guy Pearce (Getty Images)

He's played cops, a count, Houdini, a time traveler, a king, and even a drag queen, but in this week's Lockout, Guy Pearce treads new ground as an all-out action hero -- not that he necessarily sees things that way. "People used to say that about L.A. Confidential," he recalled to Movieline recently in Los Angeles. "They’d go, ‘Wow, so you’re an action hero!’ I’d be like, action hero? It’s a ‘50s film noir!" Even still, after 20+ years of acting, most recently in a string of acclaimed supporting turns (see: The King's Speech, The Hurt Locker, Animal Kingdom, Mildred Pierce), it's only now that Pearce is laying claim to the title, guns blazing.
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Burning Questions || ||

Who Are the Most Bankable Stars in Hollywood?

Kristen Stewart attends the "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2011 in New York City.

Earlier this fall, Forbes figured out which dead celebrities are still making millions from the grave. In the continual spirit of measuring Hollywood stars by their bank accounts, Forbes has calculated which of today's actors and actresses provide studios with the best return on their investments. Can you guess the five most bankable stars in Hollywood today? I'm betting that you can name at least two...

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