There’s a new UK poster for Bel Ami, the latest adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant short story about a young man’s rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's most influential and wealthy women.

A great deal of the film's success will hinge on Pattinson's sex appeal, of course.  I like the fact that there is a comparison on the poster to Dangerous Liaisons. Pattinson’s fans, most of them, may be too young to get the reference, but those who do remember that film (as well as the very stylish version known as Valmont, with Colin Firth) will be interested in Bel Ami.  (A costume drama set in fin de sicle Europe will need all of the help it can get).

The cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas and Uma Thurman (the latter, two beautiful actresses who just happen to be over 40. I’m delighted they’re both being treated as ‘sexual beings’),  Christina Ricci who looks as light and fragile as a porcelain doll, Holliday Grainger (Lucrezia Borge in The Borges), Philip Glennister and Colm Meaney. Bel Ami finally has release dates of March 2 in the US and 9^th March in the UK.

I’m not sure how I feel about the new poster for James McTeigue’s The Raven. (I know I wasn’t happy that the film got pushed back to April.) The psychedelic raven’s wings look like they’ve sprouted from John Cusack’s back and turned him into an angel from hell.  I suppose I just need to go with it, as much as a slight alcoholic consumptive is being played by John Cusack. It is stunning though, as have been the two previous.

The cast of the fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories, also includes Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. It opens 9^th March in the UK and April 27 in the US.

Millennium Entertainment has issued a new one-sheet for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s fright-fest, The Intruders, which blanks out Clive Owen’s lovely face. Although I’m sure that’s meant to be a clue to the plot, I don’t have to like it.

Millennium’s press release:

"From visionary filmmaker JUAN CARLOS FRESNADILLO (28 Weeks Later, the upcoming Highlander reboot), INTRUDERS is the chilling story of two children living in different countries, each visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them.
INTRUDERS stars CLIVE OWEN (Children of Men), CARICE VAN HOUTEN (Repo Men), PILAR LÓPEZ DE AYALA (Juana la Loca),DANIEL BRÜHL (Inglorious Bastards), KERRY FOX (Shallow Grave) and HÉCTOR ALTERIO (Son of the Bride)."

The Intruders finally comes out March 30^th.

Red Lights from director Rodrigo Cortes (Buried) was also snapped up for release by Millennium Entertainment, just after its Sundance premiere. Elizabeth Olsen stars alongside Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy.

The plot follows De Niro as a famous blind telekinetic who becomes the number one target of a “university- backed team of paranormal skeptics.”

Red Lights hits Fresnadillo’s native Spain in March. No US dates confirmed yet, but we’ll keep you posted.

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We’ve got the first trailer for Paul Weitz’s Being Flynn with Robert De Niro, Paul Dano and Julianne Moore.How is it possible I had not heard a single thing about a movie with a cast like that, one based on a best-selling memoir, Nick Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, no less?  (I wish they’d had the balls to keep the book’s title. The film’s rated R anyway.) At least I finally know what De Niro was doing here in Boston this past Spring. I need to pay more attention to these things!

Nick Flynn (Dano) is a writer in his twenties, trying to find his voice, who works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father (De Niro). Moore plays Nick’s mother, who raised him alone. Check out the trailer.

Weitz, best known for About a Boy with Hugh Grant, knows his way around comedic drama or dramatic comedy, however you want to look at it. Being Flynn with De Niro, Dano, Moore, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor, Billy Wirth and Dale Dickey. We have the first trailer and the first poster, but only the vague release info of “2012”.

The Silver Linings Playbook, is director David O. Russell’s followup to last year’s Oscar nominated hit, The Fighter. Based on a novel by Matthew Quick, it’s about a man (Bradley Cooper) who has just been released from a mental institution after four years. He moves back in with his mother (Animal Kingdom’s Jacki Weaver) and sets out to win back his ex-wife (Julia Stiles).

The official synopsis: “Pat Peoples (Cooper) is a man always trying to look on the bright side of life – the title of the story takes it’s name from the expression that “every cloud has a silver lining.” Released from the hospital after losing his wife to another man, Pat believes this age-old adage is just the ticket to trying to win her back and get his life on track. Trying to remain resolutely undiscouraged, Pat moves back in with his parents and devotes himself entirely to becoming the man his wife always wanted him to be. But it’s an uphill battle. Until Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a beautiful young woman whose life also has not turned out the way she wanted. Together, the couple will try and navigate through their lives and stay true to who they are, always just one adventure away from a unique friendship, and possibly even love.”

Robert DeNiro fits in there somewhere, perhaps as Pat’s father. The rest of the cast includes Shea Whigham (Take Shelter, “Boardwalk Empire”) and Chris Tucker. I have to say I’m thrilled that Jacki Weaver is getting some play now that Hollywood has taken notice of her. She was tremendous in Animal Kingdom. Let’s hope she’s not quite as terrifying as Pat’s mother.

The Silver Linings Playbook is due out at the end of 2012.

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Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen at TIFF (I Was There!) PHOTOS

As I am typing this it is 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, September 10, 2011. I am SO freaking tired but I want to get these out there because some very wonderful friends, and viewers have been so excited for me to have this experience I feel like they were with me.  I want to thank them for making the experience extra-special to share with them. Mostly I have to thank my husband who would have stepped on heads to get shots for me if that’s what he needed to do.

Killer Elite with Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Yvonne Strahovski was the first movie we saw for the 2011 TIFF. It was held at the Roy Thomson Hall and believe it or not, I’ve never been there (despite living in Toronto my entire life).

Because my email said pick up the tickets at the venue I went right there only to be told it’s in another building! They sent me far, when all I had to do was go down the stairs behind the f*ckernuts who sent me on a wild goose chase. It was so chaotic you have no idea. No one knew where to go and where they were going. Then the tickets were assigned to a section which was new to me with TIFF as I’ve always thought it’s wherever you can park it fastest.

We were in a balcony. Pretty much at the back of the venue. This is Jason Statham we are talking about. A man who’s almost-bald head I want to use as a loofah. I didn’t need to get close enough to touch him, but perhaps close enough to smell him.

So by this time I’m thinking f*ck you TIFF. I’m not happy. Until the jumbotron on the stage (which was showing the red carpet) showed the stars outside greeting fans. That was very cool. You’ll see some of those pics here.

Then the stars came out including the director, Gary McKendry who was talking but I was just staring at Jason Statham and mentally undressing him with my angry eyes.

I thought for sure that Jason Statham, Robert DeNiro, Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski would go to the podium and speak but they didn’t. Just the director. No offence Gary McKendry but at this point I was hoping you would trip backstage.

Then the movie came on. I had to pee at the very beginning. It seemed to go on FOREVER. I liked it but at times it was very difficult to understand what people were saying with the accents. I heard from others that they felt the same way. Robert De Niro was very funny in the movie.

Jason Statham’s girlfriend in the movie, played by Yvonne Strahovski was named Anne. With an ‘e’ at the end. You have no idea the feelings I got in my loins when I heard Jason Statham say the name Anne. With an ‘e’.  And it wasn’t preceded by ‘that crazy stalker-bitch’ either. It was in a loving way. I felt that was a sign from Mr. Statham and that perhaps all prior restraining orders would be forgiven.Hehe.

The pictures aren’t the best, but I was in the same room as Jason Statham and that is probably the closest I will ever get to him in this lifetime where I am not whisked away to jail or slapped with another restraining order.

If you want to read an intelligent post about this movie, my esteemed writer, Sheri has covered many posts. If you search “killer elite” on our site they’ll all pop up. It’s based on a true story and that is pretty harrowing.

Okay seriously now. In the main photo at the top of this post, doesn’t it look like Robert De Niro is looking right into our camera saying ‘you looking at me?’. I’m almost afraid to post this! Please don’t hurt me Mr. De Niro.

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Photos: D.W.D.

Bill Maher appeared on David Letterman last night and of course the conversation turned political and more specifically on Donald Trump running for President. Bill Maher’s take on that?:

“I don’t know why we are taking him so seriously,” Maher said of Trump. “Why are we listening to this curiosity from the 80s?” “It’s like opening up the paper and finding out John Wayne Bobbitt’s severed penis is the ambassador to France.”

Now that is funny! Watch the video as he and David Letterman wager on whether Donald Trump will actually run. I give it until noon hour before Donald Trump insults Bill Maher.

Another non-fan of Celebrity Apprentice’s Donald Trump has spoken up about his ‘tactics’ regarding his Presidential bid and the hunt for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. You may have heard of him? Robert DeNiro?

The legend that is Robert DeNiro was interviewed by Brian Williams’ during the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday and shared his thoughts without naming names:

“I won’t mention any of the certain people on the news in the last couple weeks,” De Niro said, after Williams mentioned how far apart the country has become politically. “But what are we doing? This is crazy. They’re making statements about people that they don’t even back up. Go get the facts before you start saying things about people.”

Williams and Trump both have shows on NBC which Williams asked DeNiro if perhaps it’s someone who shares networks, obviously alluding to Trump. The 67 year old actor went on to say:

“It’s like a big hustle. It’s like being a car salesman,” answered De Niro. “Don’t go out there and say things unless you can back them up. How dare you? That’s awful to do. To just go out there and speak and say these terrible things?”

Not being one to sit quietly by while someone insults him, Trump of course had to hurl his own insults:

“I like his acting, but in terms of when I watch him doing interviews and various other things, we’re not dealing with Albert Einstein,” Trump told Fox & Friends Monday. “He can say what he wants, but the fact is that this guy has not revealed his birth certificate, a lot of people agree with me.” According to Fox News, Trump went on to say the actor is “not the brightest bulb on the planet.”

Are you talking to me? DeNiro may not be Albert Einstein (nor would he ever claim to be), but he doesn’t have fish lips or really bad hair either. I’ll take famous combovers for $500 Alex.

Head on over to Movieline for the entire interview.

Photo: WENN