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Keira Knightley's growing up. Screw that chaste pirate shit, she's ready to get on all fours for her art! She's shooting a new film called "Atonement" with James McAvoy and it's full of blood and dirty bits! It's set during World War II, but that doesn't mean there aren't parts where she's spread-eagled!

Later she and McAvoy make love, keeping their clothes on, but all the zips and buttons are unfastened, in one of the most erotic moments that's likely to be seen on screen this year.

As the actress commented to me when I spoke to her on the set: "She's a grown-up and she does grown-up things. I was 17 when I started playing Elizabeth in the Pirate films and they were fun, but very much meant for families.

"Now I've grown up and so have the roles."

How come these chicks think they have to get nasty to be considered serious actresses? You didn't see Meryl or Joanne Woodward or whomever riding anyone to be considered talented. Just do what Charlize did and gain some love handles and mess your face up. THAT mess was acting!

(WENN)

A controversial book about Princess Diana has resulted in a Hollywood bidding war for the feature rights to a new film based on the book, ‘Diana And The Paparazzi’. Hollywood moguls hope that the movie will rake in millions following the success of The Queen which landed Helen Mirren an Oscar.

Many producers and directors who are bidding for the rights are very interested in getting Keira Knightley to play the part.

Film producer Quentin Reynolds, who is also bidding for the rights, said: “Already the word in Hollywood is ‘get Knightley!’ It’s a story that has everything; pathos, tragedy, comedy, adventure . . . and Princess Diana.

Keira doesn’t seem like a Princess Di to me, she’s just a Natalie Portman knockoff.

Source: Bricks & Stones

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About seven hours into Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, someone stuffs a monkey into a cannon, lights the fuse and sends it shooting across the deck to crash into another character. That monkey is like us, the audience — bruised, confused and unsure what it did to deserve this punishment. We have to endure a hurricane of hooey, a hydra-headed story with more subplots and pointless reversals than a Raymond Chandler tale and more doodad MacGuffins — a compass that points to this, a key that unlocks that — than even a parody could endure, all of which leads to a sort of white noise of confusion where a plot should be. Even if that monkey-cannon were pointed at my head, I couldn’t explain to you why, for example, the key pirates from the previous two films are now introduced to us as ‘pirate lords’ — leaders of some kind of pirate’s union, which, judging by Captain Jack (Johnny Depp) and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) does not offer dental. It’s their lordship, and what that means for pirates everywhere, that this trilogy capper is supposedly about.

You’ll remember that at the end of the last film, Dead Man’s Chest, Depp’s swishy swashbuckler was betrayed by Keira Knightley’s colonial babe Elizabeth Swann, left manacled to the deck of his ship as it was being eaten by a steroid-squid, in the hopes that a sticky pirate curse would drown with him and his ship. The audience wasn’t fooled — even the most casual moviegoer knew Depp would be returning for part three — but films that include an easy-breezy transition between life and afterlife often find themselves having to paddle twice as hard to get dramatic tension going, which is one of the problems that most plagues At World’s End. After all, if no one can really die, what’s the worst thing that can happen? (One of the reasons I’ve never bothered to read a comic book in my life, by the way) Somewhere around the thirty-minute mark of this one, we’re re-introduced to Captain Jack, who is stuck in some kind of Looney Tunes purgatory, commanding a ship sitting in the middle of a desert, and crewed only by multiple Jack Sparrows.

Continue reading Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End — Ryan’s Review

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Cinematical recently sent one of our Netscape colleagues, Ryan Budke, to the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End junket in LA on our behalf, where he was able to snag some one-on-one time with the film’s director, Gore Verbinski and, later on in the day, with action-blockbuster maestro Jerry Bruckheimer. Each interview is somewhat short, but taken together they make for a nice read — I found it especially interesting to hear Bruckheimer’s thoughts about the potential continuation of the Top Gun series and his confirmation that someone is indeed hard at work on the continuing adventures of Axel Foley. For Verbinski’s part, he seems to be completely exhausted by the experience of shooting the film and is only dreaming about taking a long, uninterrupted vacation, before rotating back to the movie world. So here are the two interviews, back to back — enjoy!

Gore Verbinski

I’m sure these next two weeks are gonna be …

GV: They’re mad, but they’re nothing compared to actually making the movie.

I guess I should ask you the question you’ve been asked a million times — when will we get to see ‘Pirates 4′?

GV: There are no plans for four. Ted and Terry and I are not spending nights until three in the morning writing and coming up with ideas. That’s certainly what we did once we agreed to do the second and third one. We spent a lot of time just figuring out what story we wanted to tell. It doesn’t mean that somewhere down the road we might not decide to jump in, and we’ve certainly left that option open, but I think everyone needs a little time off. And it really depends on — is there a story worth telling? I don’t think anyone wants to jump back into a ‘here’s your release date and there’s no script.’ I think we have a very talented crew and we’ve done what I think is some pretty amazing work under those circumstances, but they’re not circumstances you want to engage in time after time.

You could always go the Indiana Jones route, and just take fifteen or twenty years off.

GV: See, that sounds good to me. I don’t think it sounds so good to the studio.

So if we’re not gonna get part four next summer, what’s up next for you?

GV: Next summer … insane. I’m looking forward to vacation, actually. This has been such a long time with no light at the end of the tunnel. I made the ring and couldn’t go to the premiere because I was shooting Pirates. Then made The Weatherman, then Pirates, then Pirates3 … so its been about seven or eight years or solid movie after movie. I’m looking forward to not knowing what I’m doing next, not owing somebody a movie, reading some books, reading some scripts … just taking a little bit of time to just live instead of work.

Continue reading Interview: Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Director and Producer of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’

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For those just joining us, The Edge of Love is a semi-biopic of *poet Dylan Thomas that’s currently filming in some bog in the U.K. (When I tried to interview one of the stars, Cillian Murphy, by phone for a Tribeca film a couple of weeks ago, I was told that he was “filming somewhere so remote that he’s even unreachable by phone.”) The story of Edge will revolve around a bitter rivalry between two of the poet’s muses, who will be played by Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller. Lindsay Lohan was originally set to play the Miller role, but this became one of the many films she’s opted out of lately. Thomas will be played by Matthew Rhys, Miller will play his wife Caitlin, while Knightley has the role of a chlidhood friend and Murphy is the friend’s husband. Got all that? Okay, good. We now have, from a gossip rag, the first pic from the film, of Keira Knightley looking very dowdy and black-haired. She’s got the whole ‘jealous harpy’ thing going on, I think.

By the way, if you’re wondering how rising star Murphy got aced out of what would seem like the plum role — the poet himself — from what we know of the film it seems like he actually has the good part. His jealous husband character is actually a military nut who ends up attacking Thomas with a machine gun and a grenade! No doubt he’ll make the most of that. One final note about the film — there are two different titles floating around for it, the one mentioned above and The Best Times of our Lives, which I could have sworn was the official title up until a couple weeks ago. I have to say I’m not really crazy about either of them. They should put their thinking caps on while there’s still time and come up with something better, don’t you agree?

*I originally wrote Irish poet, while thinking of Irishman Cillian Murphy.

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Despite the fact that we all pretty much saw her boobs in the first Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst apparently had to make them look bigger for Spider-Man 3. She told The Sun that she had to wear a padded bra and that she had no problem doing so. She says she doesn’t think it’s sexist — she actually “embraced” the bigger bosom — and is fully aware that her character’s chest is enhanced for the action figures. Of course, the practice of augmenting female features is nothing even remotely new, but it continues to be an issue worth mentioning. Just last week there was a lot of fuss over the posters for the IMAX 3-D version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix because Emma “Hermione” Watson’s breasts had been re-sized (Warner Bros. claims the poster was not authorized and it has since been removed from the Imax website). If you remember a few years back, a similar issue was brought up regarding Keira Knightley’s cup size with the poster for King Arthur.

Dunst also told The Sun that her character helped her to grow in other areas. She says the role has helped her to become a better actress and is very glad that the character was written as more complex than she is depicted as in the comics. Dunst even states that she would like to continue playing Mary Jane, though only if Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire return with her for Spider-Man 4 (we already know she thinks it’d be a flop without them all). Finally, Dunst confirmed to The Sun that her next project is the Marla Ruzicka film, Sweet Relief, which we first heard about a year and a half ago (and heard a little more about a few weeks ago). While the actress cites the Spidey films as the most important so far in her growth as an actress, I imagine that this more-serious role will require her to grow even more if she actually hopes to do the real-life aid worker justice.

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