Hollywood Archive

  • AUDREY TAUTOU stars in BEAUTIFUL LIES, a romantic comedy about a hairdresser who concocts a plan to cheer up her mother after her husband leaves. Here, Tautou chats about  bad haircuts, her accidental career, and side-stepping Hollywood. **BEAUTIFUL LIES opens in UK cinemas on 12 AUGUST MMM: You’ve worked with Pierre Salvadori, the writer-director of Beautiful Lies, previously on the film Priceless. What was it about your experience on that film that made you say...

    Audrey Tautou – Beautiful Lies

    AUDREY TAUTOU stars in BEAUTIFUL LIES, a romantic comedy about a hairdresser who concocts a plan to cheer up her mother after her husband leaves. Here, Tautou chats about  bad haircuts, her accidental career, and side-stepping Hollywood. **BEAUTIFUL LIES opens in UK cinemas on 12 AUGUST MMM: You’ve worked with Pierre Salvadori, the writer-director of Beautiful Lies, previously on the film Priceless. What was it about your experience on that film that made you say...

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  • It’s been a busy old year at the box office. Alice has been to Wonderland, Nanny McPhee returned with a bang, the toys told their story in 3D, Scott Pilgrim went up against the world, some schmucks got together for dinner, and people networked socially. With so many films to pick from it can’t have been easy for the UK’s regional film critics to choose their highlights of 2010. But choose they did, and the...

    Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2010 – And the winner is…

    It’s been a busy old year at the box office. Alice has been to Wonderland, Nanny McPhee returned with a bang, the toys told their story in 3D, Scott Pilgrim went up against the world, some schmucks got together for dinner, and people networked socially. With so many films to pick from it can’t have been easy for the UK’s regional film critics to choose their highlights of 2010. But choose they did, and the...

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  • British writer-director DEBBIE ISITT and actor JASON WATKINS join forces for the second time on Christmas movie NATIVITY! Like their first collaboration Confetti, Nativity! is improvised by its stars including Watkins (Being Human), Martin Freeman (The Office), Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty), and Marc Wootton (Shirley Ghostman). Watkins plays actor-turned-teacher Gordon Shakespeare who indulges his love of the theatre by staging his school’s nativity play each year. While Shakespeare’s efforts are always greeted with success, fellow...

    Jason Watkins & Debbie Isitt – Nativity!

    British writer-director DEBBIE ISITT and actor JASON WATKINS join forces for the second time on Christmas movie NATIVITY! Like their first collaboration Confetti, Nativity! is improvised by its stars including Watkins (Being Human), Martin Freeman (The Office), Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty), and Marc Wootton (Shirley Ghostman). Watkins plays actor-turned-teacher Gordon Shakespeare who indulges his love of the theatre by staging his school’s nativity play each year. While Shakespeare’s efforts are always greeted with success, fellow...

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  • Movie producer ASHOK AMRITRAJ left India for the United States in 1975. Back then he was a professional tennis player. But as a kid growing up in Chennai, he always had an eye for the movies. And in 1980 he swapped the world of tennis volleys for the world of camera dollies to become a movie producer. Since then he’s made a hundred movies including Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, Premonition with Sandra Bullock, and Bringing Down The House with...

    Ashok Amritraj (producer) – The Persuaders, Traitor, Premonition, etc

    Movie producer ASHOK AMRITRAJ left India for the United States in 1975. Back then he was a professional tennis player. But as a kid growing up in Chennai, he always had an eye for the movies. And in 1980 he swapped the world of tennis volleys for the world of camera dollies to become a movie producer. Since then he’s made a hundred movies including Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, Premonition with Sandra Bullock, and Bringing Down The House with...

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  • ROBERT DE NIRO and producer ART LINSON chat about their film What Just Happened?, the pressures of producing, terrible test screenings, and biting the hand that feeds. MMM: Your book, which the film’s based on, is subtitled Bitter Tales from the Hollywood Front Line, but the movie is more bittersweet, more comedic. Why did you decide to go that particular way? Linson: Bitter to me is usually funny – everybody has a different sense of...

    Robert De Niro (actor) & Art Linson (producer) – What Just Happened?

    ROBERT DE NIRO and producer ART LINSON chat about their film What Just Happened?, the pressures of producing, terrible test screenings, and biting the hand that feeds. MMM: Your book, which the film’s based on, is subtitled Bitter Tales from the Hollywood Front Line, but the movie is more bittersweet, more comedic. Why did you decide to go that particular way? Linson: Bitter to me is usually funny – everybody has a different sense of...

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