Willem Dafoe news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Willem Dafoe performances. According to Wikipedia: William Dafoe, Jr. is an Academy Award nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental...
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Willem Dafoe news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Willem Dafoe performances. According to Wikipedia: William Dafoe, Jr. is an Academy Award nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group.
Here’s hoping that Rosie Perez does better in her upcoming “The Other Guys” than she did at the Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday night.
Spies say the actress – who’s filming the flick with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in NYC – flopped, and flopped badly, while presenting an award.
Rosie started out on the wrong foot: She attempted to thank the IFP (the Independent Filmmaker Project, which sponsors the awards) but acknowledged the Independent Film Channel instead.
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The Idiot Savant asks Marie, "Am I no longer capable of saving us from magic words?" In turn, she asks him, "What makes chosen words — magic?" And they're off and running, in the surreal immersion that is Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant," an absurdist comedy premiering at the Public Theater. Foreman wrote, directed and designed this play, which, like most of his work, has no conventional narrative. Events unfold in a dreamlike, disjointed fashion, taking any number of departures from reality... Read Full Story
Willem Dafoe has revealed that he was nearly cast as Batman.
But not THAT Batman, Michael Keaton’s Batman way back in 1989.
Yep, back when Tim Burton was looking for his Batman, Dafoe’s name was considered.
Take a read of what Dafoe had to say about it…
“Very early, they talked to me about playing Batman. I hate to [...] Read Full Story
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With two new films (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant & Antichrist), Willem Dafoe shows no signs of slowing down. It is Lars Von Trier’s controversial Antichrist that is getting the most press. Here, Dafoe discusses the film and the challenges it required, film festivals, the “author” of film, theater v. film, and his career in general.
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About a hundred million billion years ago, I went to see a Halloween-themed movie called Trick or Treat , which was about a kid who brings a dead rock star back to life by playing one of his records backwards. The film had no “name” actors, minimal special effects and was a huge cheesefest, but compared to a new film I saw in preview last night, elaborately titled Cirque duFreak: The Vampire’s Assistant , it was the greatest piece of cinematic horror known to man. Like much of the... Read Full Story
Lionsgate has released this cool new poster for the upcoming vampire thriller, Daybreakers , starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes... Read Full Story
We have been keeping our eye on Disney’s production of John Carter of Mars , their adaptation of the classic novel from Edgar Rice Burroughs. Now there has been 2 more gentlemen cast in the film and that is Sherlock Holmes ‘ villain, Mark Strong and Solomon Kane ’s, James Purefoy. They have both joined the cast of the Andrew Stanton directed feature.
Created by Burroughs, John Carter first appeared in 1911’s A Princess of Mars , the first Burroughs novel set on the fictionalized version... Read Full Story
This article goes over four trailers for upcoming movies including Whip It!, Antichrist, The Fourth Kind, and Inception. Contributor: Anthony Willard Published: Sep 18, 2009 Read Full Story
