FILM/ NEW "POTTER" PROMO POSTERS RELEASED: New posters have been released for the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I". The 3 new posters feature Harry, Hermione, and Ron on the run with their wands drawn and the tagline “Nowhere is safe". They’re dirty and bruised and looking over their shoulders. The film opens November 19.
FILM/ FEBRUARY 2012 EYED FOR 3D "STAR WARS": 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm are zeroing in on a February 2012 release date to launch the 1st of the "Star Wars" movies to be converted to 3D, "Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace." George Lucas hopes that releasing the film early in the year, outside of summer blockbuster season, will give it an open run at the box office and also set up the opportunity to sell merchandise through the balance of the year. The plan under discussion would make the release of the subsequent films in the series an annual event on the film calendar. While Fox said it has not decided on a specific date, media reports say that it is looking at a date around Valentine's Day, which falls on a Tuesday in 2012. That would point to a release date as early as Friday, February 10 or, more likely, Wednesday, February 15, or Friday, February 17, which also happens to be the beginning of the extended President's Day holiday weekend. Currently, the only movie slated for February 2012 is Sony's "Ghost Rider 2," which will also be in 3D and is set for February 17. If the 1st in the series meets with success, the remaining 5 films would follow a year apart on comparable dates. However, depending on how the 1st release performs, the companies could also decide to open the subsequent entries in different spots on the calendar.
Christopher Plummer will play the patriarch of the family with dark secrets in Columbia's adaptation of worldwide book sensation "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." The movie, which is shooting in Sweden with David Fincher behind the camera, stars Daniel Craig as a disgraced journalist who teams up with a pierced and tattooed hacker, played by Rooney Mara. The 2 are hired by a wealthy industrialist (Plummer) to solve a 40-year unsolved murder, but the case uncovers a web of familial corruption. A veteran of stage and screen, Plummer voiced the part of the villain in Disney/Pixar's "Up" and earned his only Oscar nomination for playing Leo Tolstoy opposite Helen Mirren in the drama "The Last Station." He will also be seen in Screen Gems' vampire movie "Priest" with Paul Bettany and Stephen Moyer.
FILM & THEATRE/ ARTHUR PENN DIES AT 88: Arthur Penn, the 3 time Oscar-nominated director best known for "Bonnie and Clyde," the landmark 1967 film that stirred critical passions over its graphic violence and became a harbinger of a new era of American filmmaking, died Tuesday, a day after he turned 88. Penn died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home A veteran of directing live television dramas in the 1950s, Penn made his film directorial debut with "The Left Handed Gun,"a 1958 revisionist western starring Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. Penn, who was often attracted to characters who were outsiders, directed only a dozen other feature films over the next 3 decades, including "The Miracle Worker," "The Chase," "Mickey One," "Alice's Restaurant," "Little Big Man," "Night Moves," "The Missouri Breaks" and "Four Friends." But during his heyday in the late 1960s and early `70s, Penn was in the vanguard of American filmmakers and is considered a pivotal figure in American cinema thanks to "Bonnie and Clyde," pictured, the standout film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, as Depression-era bank robbers-turned folk heroes. "Had he only directed 'Bonnie and Clyde,' he'd be a director of note," film critic Leonard Maltin said in 2009. "But that was simply the most successful of these highly individual, often idiosyncratic, films that he made in his heyday." Penn was also known for his work on Broadway as the director of "Two for the Seesaw," "The Miracle Worker," "All the Way Home," "Toys in the Attic," "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May," "Golden Boy" and "Wait Until Dark." Penn is survived by his family.
"Catch Me If You Can," the new Broadway musical from the people behind "Hairspray," will play the Neil Simon Theatre beginning March 7, 2011, its producers announced yesterday. They had previously announced that "Catch Me If You Can" would play a Nederlander house, leading to speculation whether it would book the Neil Simon, where "Hairspray" played a 7 year run. The new musical, directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, will officially open April 10, 2011. "Hairspray" songwriters Shaiman and Wittman penned the score to "Catch Me If You Can," based on the DreamWorks film of the same name. "Catch Me If You Can," according to producers, "captures the astonishing true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., a world-class con artist who passed himself off as a doctor, a lawyer, and a jet pilot — all before the age of 21. With straight-arrow FBI agent Carl Hanratty on Frank's trail, we're off on a jet-setting, cat-and-mouse chase, as a jazzy, swinging-sixties score keeps this adventure in constant motion. In the end, Agent Hanratty learns he and Frank aren't so very different after all, and Frank finds out what happens when love catches up to a man on the run."
The long awaited kiss between Mitchell and Cam on ABC's "Modern Family" happened last night. And contrary to what some predicted, it did not hurt the ratings at all. The show led the night. The kiss begins when Cam is shopping for clothes and he is overcome with affection after Mitchell makes a loving comment. He reaches out to hug and kiss his partner, but Mitchell suddenly darts out of reach, uncomfortable, we’re informed a moment later, with public displays of affection. The kiss comes later in the episode, but it did not happen easily. Nor should it have. After all, this is no ordinary kiss, not to the thousands of fans who’ve been campaigning for such a moment on the Facebook page, “Let Cam & Mitchell Kiss On Modern Family” And not to the 13 million-plus fans who simply love the show and its characters. Of course, many wondered what all the fuss was about. The show’s patriarch, Ed O’Neill, said last June, "Who cares?" and added, “They’re the most conservative family of the three.”
"Last Comic Standing" judge and comedian Greg Giraldo passed away yesterday. He was 44.Giraldo was known for his Comedy Central roasts and appeared on "The Howard Stern Show," among others. Comedy Central issued a statement, saying, "The tragic news of Greg's passing hits us very, very hard. Greg has been a close member of the Comedy Central family for years, injecting his energy and wicked sense of humor into countless projects. The comedy community lost a brother today. Our thoughts are with his family." Giraldo had been hospitalized since Saturday in New Jersey after an accidental overdose on prescription pills. The comedian, who attended Harvard, was a father of 4.
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