Hesher Update
The Hot Blog has Hesher pulling in a bit over 30k on it's 40 screens yesterday. That should be good for around 100k for the weekend, but is that strong…
Natalie Related News
Box Office Update + Best Buds
Let's start with Thor. The weekend estimate is for $32 million, which would be a very encouraging hold of just 50 odd percent from the opening weekend numbers. Thor is…
What The…
First we had trailers covering up Natalie's butt cheeks in Your Highness, and now Kitten has spotted a Black Swan UK ad that removes the red from Natalie's eyes. I…
Hesher Reviews
Hesher, which opens in limited theatres (40 screens) today, has received very mixed reviews wherever it’s played, and now with the official release it seems that hasn’t changed much at all. Below are a few reviews highlighting the good, the bad and the in-between.
– Film Freak Central cough up a very positive 3 and a half stars.
The film culls numerous laughs from a psychopath who’s a comically inappropriate role model, but more than that, it offers a furious refutation of the popular portrayal of the Other as magical restorers of faith. (Similarly, T.J. is so enamoured of faraway crush Nicole (a heartbreaking Natalie Portman)–whose name is barely mentioned in the film–that he’s unable to see her as an adult struggling to get by.)
– Peter Travers is also on board with 3 stars.
As the film’s co-producer, Portman shows a bracing kinship with the indie spirit. So what if Hesher flies off its wobbly handles — it keeps springing funny and touching surprises. The performances are aces. Wilson makes Dad’s emergence a subtle marvel. And even when the script edges Gordon-Levitt into Hallmark sentiment, you can’t take your eyes off him.
And now for the pain…
New Thor Interivew
Edge found a new taped interview on the subject of Thor. That stuff is...well, we've heard it a million times before. Most interesting was her last answer, where she expresses…
Natalie walking post
Natalie was spotted out heading to breakfast at Cafe Magador in Manhattan's East Village Tuesday morning. Candids courtesy of Just Jared.
Tidbits
Let's kick off the day with a new batch of mini updates. Did you know that mini updates are the 3rd greatest producer of oxygen, behind phytoplankton and trees? Fact!…
Black Swan Photo And Interview
Rachel found this gorgeous photo of a costume fitting on Black Swan, and I don’t think she’s used it yet…so I’m going to steal it. Suck on that, Rachel!
Accompanying that, we have an interview with Natalie for the DVD launch in the UK. A lot of the quotes have been seen before but there’s some good new stuff (to me at least) in there as well.
On why working so hard the last couple years was partly a mistake:
It’s been a very strange time in the film industry where things fall apart. This film only had its financing for real only two weeks after we started shooting. It was always going to happen, then kept falling apart. Shooting was delayed four or five times. Films rarely come together. I committed to things that I really liked, but none of which were really solid, except for Thor. Thor was the only one that was really happening, and then everything happened. Every film got financed. So I ended up doing four films in a row – and this was the second. It…won’t happen again!
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