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3 July 2008 11:37 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today the first official image was released from Paul Weitz's Cirque Du Freak, which features your first look at John C. Reilly in action. In the Universal PIctures adaptation of the popular children's book, Reilly will play a vampire who drafts a 14-year old to serve as his assistant. The youth is turned into a half-vampire and becomes the catalyst in a battle between vampires and the rival Vampanese. The studio bought rights in 2005 to a series of 12 books. Read on for a look at the image. Josh Hutcherson, Chris Kelly, Salma Hayek, Ken Watanabe and Willem Dafoe all also star.

30 June 2008 7:20 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

From one kid to another, Salma Hayek's daughter, Valentina, is pretty cool. "[She's] outgoing, just colorful," actor Josh Hutcherson, 15, told People at Sunday's L.A. premiere of Journey to the Center of the Earth. Hutcherson costars with Hayek in the upcoming film Cirque du Freak. "She's just really great." "I got to hang out with the baby some," Hutcherson says. "She was always very caring to her child, Valentina." Hayek gave birth to her first child, Valentina Paloma Pinault, with businessman fiancé Francois Henri Pinault last September. Hayek doesn't quite look herself in Cirque du Freak, which also costars John C. Reilly and Willem Dafoe.

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18 June 2008 12:03 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood star Anjelica Huston will be honoured at this year's Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.

The 56-year-old will pick up the Excellence Award at the August event, where she will also premiere her new movie Choke.

Past winners of the prize include Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich and Susan Sarandon.

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15 June 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

1. The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) Nikos Kazantzakis' novel was a lightning rod of controversy from its 1951 publication, and anyone attempting to adapt it to film could only assume that trouble would follow. That didn't dissuade Martin Scorsese, however. Attracted to its psychologically complex depiction of an oft-tormented Jesus, Scorsese optioned the book in the 1970s and struggled to film it for years, even seeing one attempt shut down shortly before shooting began. When he finally finished the film, protests from conservative Catholics and Christian fundamentalists followed. Most never saw the film; they judged it from reports of a final sequence in which Willem Dafoe's dying Christ entertains the temptation to abandon His divinity and live a normal human life, even making love with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey). (They might also have confused it with a widely circulated urban legend about a "gay Jesus" movie that started...

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28 May 2008 2:17 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Willem Dafoe has signed to star in horror-fantasy Cirque du Freak. The actor will play a vampire for the third time in his career in the Universal project, reports ShockTillYouDrop. John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Jane Krakowski and Salma Hayek also star. The film, based on the young adult novels by Darren Shan, tells the story of a teenager who becomes (more)

By Beth Hilton

27 May 2008 11:12 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

It was revealed today that Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire, Daybreakers, Spider-Man) has joined John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Kelly, Salma Hayek and Ken Watanabe in Cirque Du Freak, according to Ign. Now filming in New Orleans, Universal Pictures' adaptation stars John C. Reilly who will play a vampire who drafts a 14-year old to serve as his assistant. The youth is turned into a half-vampire and becomes the catalyst in a battle between vampires and the rival Vampanese. The studio bought rights in 2005 to a series of 12 books. This is going to be long franchise if the film performs well.

26 May 2008 6:21 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Spider-man star Willem Dafoe was expelled from school as a teenager for shooting graphic profiles of his fellow students.

The wannabe filmmaker was known for his controversial hobby but when one teacher found unedited footage in a school editing room, Dafoe was in trouble.

He says, "I had stepped out of the editing room one day and someone found my material, not yet edited, and there was some rough stuff there.

"I got expelled from school for that film, so it wasn't exactly an auspicious debut."

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22 May 2008 11:08 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

"It is going to be very exciting," he tells the Hollywood Reporter. "Horror is one genre that is used much less than others to transport other things. Lots of people have used great thrillers to transport political messages but the horror film is rarely used to transport anything but fear. And that I think makes it very interesting to try. It's called Miso Soup and is based on a famous Japanese novel. Willem Dafoe is attached to star. We will shoot in Tokyo next spring. But I'm not telling you anything else." "Miso Soup" was written by Ryu Murakami: Easygoing young Kenji makes good money guiding Americans through Tokyo's seamy nightlife. His teenage girlfriend has no objections, as long as he reserves New Year's Eve for her. But Kenji's latest client, a simmering psychopath called Frank, disrupts those holiday plans. He wants to regale Kenji with crazy monologues as he hypnotizes low-level sex workers.

21 April 2008 9:07 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Willem Dafoe prefers playing bad guys on film, because they give him the chance to be more creative.

The actor plays a cop in new movie Anamorphic, but has made his name taking on big screen villains - from a blood sucker in 2000's Shadow of the Vampire, to comic book villain The Green Goblin in the Spider-Man series.

And he is happy to keep turning to the dark side on screen.

He says, "It's more difficult to play someone virtuous. It's less rich fantasy for me. I'm always moved when someone does something generous or heroic in a movie, so you like to play that character.

"But, in approaching it, the dark side is often more fertile."

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15 April 2008 6:31 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Willem Dafoe has hit out at Hollywood's obsession with making money at the expense of great art.

Despite starring in Spider-Man - one of the most commercially lucrative franchises of recent years - Dafoe insists films are too often judged on their box office receipts.

He says, "People get too obsessed with a kind of puritanical thing in our society. If it doesn't make money... it isn't worth anything.

"There's an anti-art thing for us in this country."

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14 April 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

With such variety this week, we could be tempted to go nuts and combine them into one super movie. Osama Bin Laden would have 88 minutes to paint an anamorphic picture that disproved Darwinism while riding the winner of the Kentucky Derby through ancient China with his gay lover who is also an Oscar nominated composer moonlighting as a zombie stripper...we smell a Golden Globe!

"Anamorph"

Utilizing the painting technique of anamorphosis, whereby the nature of an image changes depending on the viewer's vantage point, filmmaker Henry Miller marks his directorial debut with this intricate and cerebral thriller that reads like "Saw" by way of "The Da Vinci Code." Willem Dafoe stars as the dogged but haunted Detective Aubray, on the trail of carefully placed clues and elaborate puzzles, trying to catch a serial killer whose crimes bare a striking resemblance to an old

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6 April 2008 10:42 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today Ifc released the one sheet for Anamorph, which opens in Ny on April 18 and On Demand. Also head over to Apple.com to watch the trailer in QuickTime. When a reclusive detective (Willem Dafoe) is drawn into the case of a serial killer who is enacting anamorphosis - a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective - only with human bodies; he is thrust into a dark and unsettling underworld that threatens to reveal the secrets of his tormented past. Read on for the poster.

12 March 2008 12:17 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

After laughing my way through the first trailer for Ifc's Anamorph, the studio today released a second trailer - sans the score for Saw (now it rocks a generic "thriller" tune). Starring Willem Dafoe, the film opens on April 18th at the Ifc Center in New York. "Anamorph" stars Dafoe and Speedman as detectives tracking a killer who re-creates the perspective-distorting painting technique "anamorphosis" in a bizarre series of murders.

8 March 2008 1:46 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today B-d reader 'Deppjolieperabo' discovered the trailer for Ifc Films' Anamorph , which stars Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman as detectives tracking a killer who re-creates the perspective-distorting painting technique "anamorphosis" in a bizarre series of murders. also star. Read on for a look at the trailer, which features the original score from Saw (these producers are super duper original), and watch for more soon.

14 articles from 2008