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.
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
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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After vampire outings in the Nosferatu style horror 'Shadow of the Vampire' and his upcoming blood sucking-fest Daybreakers, Dafoe has opted to keep things a little supernatural by signing on for a third vampire role - in Cirque du Freak . Dafoe is cast as foppish vampire Gavner Purl , joining the likes of John C. Reilly , Ken Watanabe , Patrick Fugit , Jane Krakowski and Salma Hayek in the freak show flick. Cirque du Freak tells the story of a vampire who drafts a 14-year old to serve as... 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
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
The Hollywood Reporter actors Samantha Morton, Dominic West and Polly Walker are boarding John Carter of Mars for Disney. The film is an adaptation of the popular Edgar Rice Burroughs series of books with Andrew Stanton directing. Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe are already part of this project that follows a Civil War veteran (Kitsch) who gets transported to Mars. While there, he gets caught up in a war between the people of that planet.
Morton will play the role of Sola... Read Full Story
Antichrist (2009). Directed by Lars von Trier.
Off all my movie picks this year, this one scared me the most. I knew very little about the film going in, other than the fact that it was controversial .
I thought this was a good film, a piece of art that can be interpreted in many different ways. I'm not sure I understand all of vonTrier's film but then again, neither does its star. In the Q&A; following the screening, Willem Dafoe said he has no idea why it is called Antichrist , "only... Read Full Story
Antichrist
WARNING : Antichrist contains some of the most explicit scenes out side hardcore pornography that you’ve seen this year! Without a doubt one of the darkest films of the year, Lars Von Trier ’s ( Nocturne , The Element of Crime , Dancer in the Dark , Dogville , Manderlay , and The Boss of It All) Antichrist is generating immense speculation (basically, everything you read on the poster is true). Cinephiles every where have always known that Trier has a warped imagination... 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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