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Exclusive Stills: The Resident from Hammer Films

29 October 2009 4:29 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

One flick that's high on the list of films Dread Central staffers are looking forward to is The Resident. Hammer Films, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Christopher Lee all add up to some serious genre cred, and we're pleased to present two exclusive new stills from the project as well as an updated synopsis.

Every year three million single women in America move into an apartment for the first time. They do not know who lived in the apartment before them, they do not know their landlords, and they don’t bother to change the locks. This is the story of one such woman…

After separating from her husband, pretty young doctor Juliet Dermer (Swank) moves to Brooklyn, settling into a new life in a stunning and spacious loft apartment that seems too good to be true.

It is…

Mysterious occurrences lead her to suspect that she is not alone in her home, »

- Uncle Creepy

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Sony Picks Up Egoyan's 'Chloe'

9 October 2009 10:52 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Lisa Horowitz

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has acquired U.S. rights to director Atom Egoyan's "Chloe," Spwag president Steve Bersch announced Thursday.

A source close to the deal said it was a low-seven-figure acquisition.

"Chloe," which had its world premiere last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried. Erin Cressida Wilson ("Secretary") wrote the script.

Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Jeffrey Clifford of Montecito Picture Company produced the film, which is the first interna... »

- Lisa Horowitz

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Sony likes Atom Egoyan's Chloe

9 October 2009 1:34 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has picked up U.S. rights to Atom Egoyan's "Chloe," starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Nina Dobrev, Max Thieriot, Meghan Heffern, Laura DeCarteret and Mishu Vellani. The film was produced by Montecito Picture Company's Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Jeffrey Clifford and fully financed by Paris-based StudioCanal. Written by Erin Cressida Wilson ("Secretary"), the story follows a roman who doubts her husbands fidelity and enlists a sexy girl to test him. This leads to dangerous consequences. by Erin Cressida Wilson ("Secretary"), the story follows a roman who doubts her husbands fidelity and enlists a sexy girl to test him. This leads to dangerous consequences. »

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Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group Likes Chloe

8 October 2009 5:17 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

According to Variety, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group snapped up U.S. rights to Atom Egoyan's Chloe. The film stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried.

It recently bowed at the Toronto Film Festival in September..

The film was written by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary). It follows a woman who doesn't think her husband is faithful and enlists a seductive girl to test him.

"This really has been a huge title for us since we launched sales in Berlin," said StudioCanal's Harold van Lier, who financed the project. "We were able to see a full return on our investment via presales, which is a huge win in today's environment."

Chloe's theatrical release will be in the early part of 2010.

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Toronto 2009: "Chloe" is Heated, "Whip It" Whips It Good

14 September 2009 8:56 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Some may disagree, but I think there's something pretty cool about Toronto's mayor David Miller coming out to declare how proud he is of Atom Egoyan's new erotic thriller "Chloe." Of course, Miller was more likely taking pride in the depiction of his fair city than the film itself, which opens with Amanda Seyfried putting on a lacy black brassiere and never looks back. Egoyan has never shied away from the erotic -- it's the thrills part that has eluded his work for mainstream audiences, and when we meet Catherine (Julianne Moore) at the start of "Chloe," she, too, is dissatisfied.

As a locally prestigious gynecologist, Catherine is smart and sophisticated, but in a foretelling scene, she informs a patient that orgasms are "just a series of muscle contractions." When her husband (Liam Neeson) fails to return home for a surprise birthday party she has planned for him, Catherine »

- Stephen Saito

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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard Get Married

4 May 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard made it official on Saturday: The longtime couple, who have a daughter together, tied the knot in a romantic wedding in Italy. "We are happy to confirm that Maggie and Peter were married on Saturday, May 2," the actress's rep said in a statement to People. The celebration took place in a small chapel in Brindisi, according to European news reports. Among the guests were Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon. This is the second week in a row that Italy has been the home of a celebrity wedding: April 25 Salma Hayek wed French mogul François-Henri Pinault »

- Ulrica Wihlborg

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The final season of Boston Legal arrives on DVD and M&C's giving away four copies

1 May 2009 6:50 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

The fifth and final season of Boston Legal arrives on DVD May 5th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, and M&C.s giving away four copies of the four-disc set. It.s the closing season of pure legal chaos at the law firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt, as the final installment of the show that put a facetiously refreshing spin on the legal drama genre tackles timely and controversial judicial and personal issues without objection, including the 2008 presidential election, Mad Cow disease, gay marriage rights and health regulations for an unapproved Alzheimer.s drug. Headlining the outstanding ensemble cast are James Spader (Secretary, Sex Lies and Videotape) and William Shatner (.Star Trek.), starring in their respective Emmy and Golden »

- Patrick Luce

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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Plan to Wed Next Month

27 April 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Celebrity couple, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, reportedly are planning to make their union official in a wedding ceremony to be held next month in Italy. According to New York Post, the twosome will tie the knot in a sun-kissed Mediterranean ceremony during the second weekend of the month.

Details on where and when exactly the wedding will take place are not known just yet. Both Maggie and Peter also have not yet commented on the wedding report.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has been dating Peter Sarsgaard, a close friend of her actor brother Jake Gyllenhaal, since 2002. In April 2006, she and Peter made public their engagement. Both of them are parents to 2-year-old daughter Ramona.

Personal life aside, Maggie is a movie star best known for her starring role as Lee Holloway in 2002 film "Secretary". Most recently, she was signed to star in "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang", a comedy-family big screen flick planned for 2010 U. »

- AceShowbiz.com

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I'm Still Link

6 April 2009 8:49 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

PC World Dr Manhattan... is blue (hee)

Ymfy Japanese poster for Maggie Gyllenhaal in Secretary. love. [thx]

/Film Helena Bonham-Carter's role in Terminator Salvation (beware spoilers. Will there be Any secrets left about this movie by the time it comes out? I know so much about it)

Guardian on Joe Wright and Keira Knightley's jolting anti-abuse ad and its debt to Peter Greenaway

NY Post some Cannes lineup rumors

NewNowNext Sex & the City 2: Now With Actual Release Date. Once a movie has one of those you know it's actually going to happen. Weirdness.

Just Jared has the Moet & Chandon Scarlett Johansson ads. Maybe she was always meant to be seen in still photos, ever luscious. There's no chance she's ever wrong for that part.

Getty Images Stritch Style!

Remember that Absolutely Non-comprehensive favorite film characters post I did? I tagged five people and 80% of them answered and I lurve their answers. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Under Wraps

24 February 2009 4:05 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

Director Maria Beatty last appeared in Filmmaker in 2002 when she interviewed Erin Cressida Wilson about her screenplay for Steve Shainberg's Secretary, and since then we've been hearing about her plans for a mainstream narrative feature. Now, reports Lauren Wissot in a "sneak peek" at The House Next Door, Beatty has finished Bandaged, which is executive produced by Abel Ferrara. From Wissot, an excerpt: Bandaged is S&M filmmaker Maria Beatty’s foray into the indie mainstream – if one could call a flick best described as Mädchen in Uniform meets The English Patient meets Eyes Without A Face “mainstream.” Fittingly, none other than Abel Ferrara is serving as executive producer, though it just as easily could have been David Cronenberg... »

- Scott Macaulay

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Ask the Flying Monkey! (February 17, 2009)

16 February 2009 5:38 PM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country)

Q: I've been feeling Lost a lot lately, mostly because I'm completely enamored with one of their new characters, Daniel Faraday, played by a very unique actor, Jeremy Davies. Can you tell me anything gay about Jeremy Davies? Anything at all? - Lindsey, New York

A: Hmmm, well, I can tell you that Davies, who first made a splash in the terrific indie hit Spanking the Monkey (1994), has made a name for himself playing nervous losers and misfits, in movies such as Secretary (2002), Solaris (2002), The Locusts (1997), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Some of these characters could, in a certain light, from a certain angle, by certain people, be read as “maybe, possibly gay.”

Davies also played a drama student in HBO’s TV production of The Laramie Project, about the murder of Matthew Shepard, »

- dennis

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Vanity Fair's Hollywood ~ Episode 10 (2004)

2 February 2009 5:20 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Missed previous episodes? The Hollywood Historian in me was busy last year. See: 1995 , 1996, 1997, 1998 , 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

With the annual Vanity Fair "Hollywood" issue about to debut for 2009 -- I'm guessing we see the new cover in less than two weeks (Update: the new cover has been leaked and Vanity Fair has chucked their traditional photo shoot *sniffle* for the millionth magazine cover featuring President Obama), let's briefly return to our Vanity Fair retrospectives. "Send in the Gowns" was the title of 2004's photo shoot and they returned to the first year's game plan of glamour girls. The cover was more crowded though, bringing us an unlucky 13. But who was this cover unlucky for?

Maybe all of them, with the exception of Maggie Gyllenhaal (hurrah) and Hilary Swank (known affectionately around these parts as Beelzebub), who was just 11 months away from her second Oscar. Vanity Fair had gotten less daring in their cover »

- NATHANIEL R

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Joins The Resident

29 January 2009 11:19 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays The Comedian in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, will reunite with Hilary Swank in The Resident, a thriller from director Antti J. Jokinen. The two previously shared the screen in P.S. I Love You. The story centers on a young doctor (Swank) who moves into a loft in Brooklyn where mysterious occurrences lead her to suspect that she is not alone in her home. She discovers that her seemingly charming landlord (Morgan) has developed a dangerous obsession with her, resulting in a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Jokinen will make his feature directing debut from a script he co-wrote with Robert Orr (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans). Erin Cressida Wilson (Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Secretary) recently turned in a rewrite. Jokinen, who hails from Finland, has directed music videos for Will Smith, Beyonce, Eminem, Korn and Celine Dion, and is co-founder of Solar Films, »

- James Cook

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Watchman Star Joins Cast of Hammer's 'The Resident'

29 January 2009 7:45 PM, PST | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

It was announced today that Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) has been cast to star opposite two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank in the suspense/thriller The Resident for Hammer Films. Antti J. Jokinen is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Robert Orr (Savior) and re-written by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, Fur). Beyond the break you can check out a long synopsis for the film, which begins shooting soon. Exclusive Film Distribution is handling worldwide sales and distribution for the film. Hammer is producing the film for parent company Exclusive Media Group (Emg), the global filmed entertainment group combining Hammer and L.A. based Spitfire Pictures, backed by strategic Investment Group Cyrte Investments. The announcement was made by EMGs Co-CEOs Simon Oakes and Nigel Sinclair. »

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Secretary - Movie Review

28 January 2009 7:52 PM, PST | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

There is a lot of really bizarre S & M in the ‘The Secretary’, and moreover there is nudity and general freakiness. You’d be hard-pressed (I hope) to watch this movie with your mother in the room. I’m telling you that at the beginning so that those who feel it necessary can leave the room now. Let’s face it, I don’t care what your schedule says, you might be in the wrong room, and there’s no shame in that. There is no trick, or so they say, in standing up for me when you know I’m right. I can get anyone to do that. The trick is standing up for me when you know I’m wrong. ‘The Secretary’ is about as close as you can come to a movie with only two people in it without going all the way over to ‘My Dinner »

- Marc Eastman

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Egoyan Grabs Moore, Neeson, and Seyfried for Next Film

10 January 2009 6:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan is certainly tackling all sides of the relationship spectrum. In June of last year, word hit that he would film a love triangle called Seven Wonders -- one that would follow a woman on the rebound who gets involved with a commercial director and her boyfriend. While there hasn't been any word on the film since, Variety now reports that he's getting busy with another film -- Chloe.

Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried are set to star in the feature, which sounds a whole heck of a lot different than Seven Wonders. Instead of sexuality-defying sex amidst the Seven Wonders of the World, Moore will play a successful doctor who thinks that her husband (Neeson) is cheating.To find out if she's right, the doc cuts out the skeezy detective middle man (that spurned wives usually use in cinematic cheating scenarios) and hires an escort (Seyfried) herself, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Moore, Neeson And Seyfried Join Chloe

9 January 2009 1:07 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Mamma Mia!'s Amanda Seyfried have signed up for Atom Egoyan's Chloe, a new thriller about infidelity and mistrust.The story sees Moore's successful doctor begin to suspect her husband of cheating. She hires an escort (Seyfried) to seduce him, test his fidelity and report back to her with the details, but the move ends up putting her family in danger.Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, Fur: A Portrait of Diane Arbus) wrote the script, which is based on 2003 French film Nathalie, which starred Gerard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant.The film is due to start shooting on February 9 in Toronto. »

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Three Sign on For Atom Egoyan’s Chloe

8 January 2009 8:48 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!) have signed on to star in Chloe, the new film from acclaimed filmmaker Atom Egoyan (Where the Truth Lies, The Sweet Hereafter). Moore will play a successful doctor who suspects her husband (Neeson) of cheating. She tests his fidelity by hiring an escort (Seyfried) to seduce him. The move creates complications that put her family in danger. The film was written by Erin Cressida Wilson, whose previously credits include Secretary and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. Egoyan’s latest film is Adoration, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and has been making its way through the festival circuit. It stars Scott Speedman, Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick and Rachel Blanchard and will receive a limited release in May. Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock will produce Chloe through their Montecito Picture Co. banner with production scheduled to begin in early February in Toronto. »

- James Cook

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