Year: 2016

Happy Birthday: Jan de Bont

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jandebont.jpgJan de Bont

Born: October 22, 1943 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

After the huge success of his directorial debut, Speed (1994), Tri-Star offered him their American version of Godzilla (1998). He obtained a script and worked out a budget. Tri-Star rejected the submitted budget (reportedly over $160,000,000) and De Bont left the project which was temporarily shelved.

Was originally set to direct Minority Report (2002), but Steven Spielberg sacked him and took over as director, probably due to the failure of The Haunting (1999).

Speed
1994
dir. Bont
starring
Keannu Reeves
Dennis Hopper
Sandra Bullock
Die Hard
1988
dir. John McTiernan
starring
Bruce Willis
Reginald VelJohnson
LETHAL WEAPON 3Lethal Weapon 3
1992
dir. Richard Donner
Starring
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
The Haunting 1999The Haunting
1999
dir Bont
starring
Lili Taylor
Owen Wilson
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Happy Birthday: Bill Condon

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billcondon.jpgBill Condon

Born: October 22, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA

[on Julian Assange, the central character in his film ‘The Fifth Estate’] He’s clever. He conflates anything that might be critical of him as an attack on WikiLeaks. But he may be surprised at how even-handed a portrait it is. Nobody set out to make some kind of hit job. We want to understand what makes him tick. I came to admire him in many ways.

 

 

THE TWILIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN PART 1
dir. Bill Condon
Stars:
Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
MOVIE POSTERTHE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2
dir. Bill Condon
MOVIE POSTERDREAMGIRLS
2006
dir. Bill Condon
Stars:
Beyonce
Jamie Foxx
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Happy Birthday: Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)

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joanfontaineJoan Fontaine (1917–2013)

Born: October 22, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: December 15, 2013 (age 96) in Carmel, California, USA

[on working with Orson Welles on Jane Eyre (1943)] You can not battle an elephant. Orson was such a big man in every way that no one could stand up to him. On the first day at 4 o’clock, he strode in followed by his agent, a dwarf, his valet and a whole entourage. Approaching us, he proclaimed, “All right, everybody turn to page eight.” And we did it, though he was not the director.

 

The Women
1939
dir. George Cukor
Starring
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Rosalind Russell
SuspicionSuspicion
1942
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
Cary Grant
Fontaine
RebeccaRebecca
1940
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Laurence Olivier
Fontaine
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Happy Birthday: Catherine Deneuve

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catherinedeneuve.jpgCatherine Deneuve

Born: October 22, 1943 in Paris, France

I’m not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I’m an actress when I’m not working. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I’m an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy. I like the advantages; I know it’s not right but I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.

 

THE DEAD ZONE
1983
dir. by David Cronenberg
Stars:
Christopher Walken
Brooke Adams		 SydneyWhitePersepolis
2007
dir. Vincent Paronnaud
Marjane Satrapi
Starring
Penn
Iggy Popp
East/West
1999
dir. R�gis Wargnier
starring
Oleg Menshikov
Catherine Deneuve
Umbrellas of CherbourgUmbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
dir. by Jacques Demy
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REPULSIONRepulsion
1965
dir. Polanski
Starring
Catherine Deneuve
Ian Hendry		 movie8 WOMEN
2002
dir. Fran�ois Ozon
Starring
Fanny Ardant
Emmanuelle B�art
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Happy Birthday: Spike Jonze

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spikejonze.jpgSpike Jonze

Born: October 22, 1969 in Rockville, Maryland, USA

As a feature film director you got to be a guarding dog of the whole production. You got to be able to hold 100 script pages in the head at the same time. If you miss a detail it’s wasted. I don’t know how the music video generation can affect the movie business, but I’m curious what feature films the English Chris Cunningham and the Swedish guy Jonas Åkerlund are going to make.

[on the origins of Her (2013) from his long-ago encounter with an artificial-intelligence computer program] For the first 30 seconds, I had that buzz, like, It’s responding to me! Then it quickly fell apart and you realize, Here are the tricks, here’s how this works. But what if I could sustain that forever? What would that be like? I wanted to take that idea as far as I could possibly imagine and feel.

Three Kings
1999
dir. David O. Russell
Starring
George Clooney
Mark Wahlberg
Ice Cube		 Being John MalkovichBeing John Malkovich
1999
dir. Jonze
starring
John Cusask
John Malkovich
Where the Wild Things Are
dir. Jonze
Stars:
Max Records
Catherine O’Hara
Forest Whitaker
MOVIE POSTERJACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA
2013
dir. Jeff Tremaine
Stars:
Johnny Knoxville
Jackson Nicoll		 MOVIE POSTERTHE WOLF OF WALL STREET
2013
dir. Martin Scorsese
Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
PJ Byrne
MOVIE POSTERHER
2013
dir. Spike Jonze
Stars:
Joaquin Phoenix
Amy Adams
Adaptation
2002
dir. Jonze
Starring
Nicholas Cage
Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper
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Happy Birthday: Bob Odenkirk

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bobodenkirk.jpgBob Odenkirk

Born: October 22, 1962 in Naperville, Illinois, USA

Married to: Naomi Odenkirk (1997 – present) (2 children)

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren’t allowed to see dailies and we weren’t allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

 

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2013
dir. Alexander Payne
Stars:
Bruce Dern
Will Forte
actorARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Season 1
2003-2004
Stars
Jason Bateman
Michael Cera		 MOVIE POSTERLET’S GO TO PRISON
2006
dir. Bob Odenkirk
Stars:
Dax Shepard
Will Arnett
Take Me Home TonightTAKE ME HOME TONIGHT
dir. Michael Dowse		 MOVIE POSTERMOVIE 43
2013
Stars:
Emma Stone
Stephen Merchant
Richard Gere
Liev Schreiber
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Happy Birthday: Kyle Gallner

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kylegallner.jpgKyle Gallner

Born: October 22, 1986 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Married to: Tara Ferguson (12 December 2015 – present) (2 children)

In TV, kid roles are like this: You’re either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody’s kid, or you get in these procedurals where you’re crying or you’re playing a witness or you’re playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there’s a formula to those TV shows.

 

MOVIE POSTERBEAUTIFUL CREATURES
2013
dir. Richard LaGravenese
Stars:
Alice Englert
Viola Davis

 

The Haunting in Connecticut
2009
dir. Peter Cornwell
Starring
Madsen
Elias Koteas
JENNIFER'S BODY Movie PosterJennifer’s Body
dir. Karyn Kusama
Starring
Megan Fox
Amanda Seyfried
Adam Brody
TV POSTERTHE WALKING DEAD SEASON 4
2013
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Movie PosterA Nightmare on Elm Street
dir. Samuel Bayer
Stars
Jackie Earle Haley
Rooney Mara		 MOVIE POSTERRED STATE
dir. Kevin Smith
Stars:
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Melissa Leo
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Happy Birthday: Christopher Lloyd

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christopherlloyd.jpgChristopher Lloyd

Born: October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA

[2012, on landing Back to the Future (1985)] I was shooting a film in Mexico City that I’m not sure ever came out. But it was shooting in Mexico City, and I was kind of implanted there, focusing on that, when my agent sent me the script for Back to the Future (1985). I scanned it, but I wasn’t terribly impressed, mostly because I’d been offered the chance to go back East and do a play at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. I’d be playing Hans Christian Andersen – I grew up with Danny Kaye. And Colleen Dewhurst, an amazing, wonderful actress, was going to be my mother in it, and I just thought, “I need to go back to my roots.” So I just dismissed the Back to the Future (1985) script. And then a friend who was with me at the time said, “My mantra has always been to never leave any stone unturned.” In other words, whenever someone has an interest in you, whatever it is, at least check it out. So based on that, I flew back to Los Angeles, met Bob Zemeckis, and the rest is history.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1975
dir. by Milos Foreman
starring
Jack Nicholson
Louise Fletcher		 THE SEARCH FOR SPOCKThe Search for Spock: Star Trek III
1984
dir. Leonard Nimoy
Starring
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
CLUEClue
1985
dir. Jonathan Lynn
starring
Tim Curry
Madeline Kahn		 Back to the FutureBack to the Future
1985
dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring
Michael J. Fox
Lloyd
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
dir. Robert Zemeckis
Starring
Bob Hoskins
Joanna Cassidy		 Back to the FutureBack to the Future II
1989
dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring
Michael J. Fox
Lloyd
ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD
1994
dir. William Dear
Stars:
Danny Glover
Brenda Fricker		 MOVIE POSTEREIGHT MEN OUT
1988
dir. John Sayles
Stars:
John Cusack
Clifton James
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MOVIE POSTERA MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST
2014
dir. Seth MacFarlane
Stars:
Charlize Theron
Liam Neeson
BACK TO THE FUTURE IIIBack to the Future III
1990
dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring
Michael J Fox
Lloyd		 THE TALE OF DESPEREAUXThe Tale of Despereaux
2008
dir. Sam Fell
Robert Stevenhagen
Voices by
Matthew Broderick
Dustin Hoffman
movie posterADMISSIONS
2004
dir. Melissa Painter
Starring
Lauren Ambrose
Amy Madigan		 MOVIE POSTERPIRANHA 3DD
dir. John Gulager
Stars:
Danielle Panabaker
Katrina Bowden
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Happy Birthday: Jeff Goldblum

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jeffgoldblum.jpgJeff Goldblum

Born: October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Married to: Emilie Livingston (8 November 2014 – present) (1 child)
Geena Davis (1 November 1987 – 17 October 1990) (divorced)
Patricia Gaul (4 July 1980 – 1985) (divorced)

I got good grades in school, but I was in a little school and a small town out of Pittsburgh, not academically demanding or ambitious, I don’t know how much that says but I was not that science thrilled I was more in to playing sports, jazz, painting and acting, stuff like that, but recently because of playing these parts I’ve gotten more interested in science, my dad was a doctor, and I’m reading this Carl Sagan book that makes science, see the way he talks about it is very aliquot, makes it seems kind of human kind of romantic and wondrous, spirituals, sexy vermeil, its very attractive book that he just wrote.

The Fly
1986
dir. Cronenberg
Starring
Goldblum
Geena Davis		 The Switch Movie PosterThe Switch
dir. Josh Gordon
Will Speck
Stars
Jennifer Aniston
Jason Bateman
Powder
1995
dir. Victor Salva
Starring
Sean Patrick Flanery
Lance Henriksen
JURASSIC PARK 2 MOVIE POSTERThe Lost World: Jurassic Park 2
1997
dir. Steven Spielberg
Starring
Goldblum
Julianne Moore
MOVIE POSTERTHE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
2014
dir. Wes Anderson
Stars:
Saoirse Ronan
Lea Seydoux		 MOVIE POSTERJURASSIC PARK 3D
2013
dir. Steven Spielberg
Stars:
Sam Neill
Laura Dern
JURASSIC PARKJurassic Park
1993
dir. Steven Spielberg
Starring
Goldblum
Sam Neill
Laura Dern		 MORNING GLORYMORNING GLORY
dir. Roger Michell
Stars:
Rachel McAdams
Harrison Ford
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Happy Birthday: Ken Watanabe

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kenwatanabe.jpgKen Watanabe

Born: October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Japan

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMALetters from Iwo Jima
2006
dir. Clint Eastwood
Starring
Ken Watanabe
Kazunari Ninomiya
InceptionInception
dir. Christopher Nolan
Stars
Leonardo DiCaprio
Ken Watanabe
MOVIE POSTERTRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
2014
dir. Michael Bay
Stars:
Mark Wahlberg
Stanley Tucci		 MOVIE POSTERGODZILLA
2014
dir. Gareth Edwards
Stars:
Aaron Taylor Johnson
Elizabeth Olsen
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Movie PosterCirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
dir. Paul Weitz
Stars:
Chris Massoglia
John C Reilly
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