•Whiteout
•Status: Post-Production
•Role: Carrie Stetko
•Director: Dominic Sena
•Nothing But the Truth
•Status: Post-Production
•Role: Rachel Armstrong
•Director: Rod Lurie
•Vacancy
•Status: On DVD
•Role: Amy Fox
•Director: Nimrod Antal
•Click
•Status: On DVD
•Role: Donna Newman
•Director: Frank Coraci
Added images from both films to the Gallery. Captures from Underworld: Awakening are coming up.
Added 6 scans from the magazine.
[055] July 22nd – Total Recall Panel – Comic-Con 2011
[038] July 22nd – Underworld 4 Panel – Comic-Con 2011
[042] September 3rd – The Malibu Kiwanis 25th Anniversary Chili Cook Off
[016] November 21st – The Artist Los Angeles Special Screening
[004] July 12th – Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Toronto Premiere
[008] July 22nd – At The Drive-In Panel – Comic-Con 2011
[013] September 25th – Iris – A Journey Into The World Of Cinema By Cirque du Soleil Los Angeles Premiere
[018] October 15th – Spike TV’s 2011 Scream Awards
[085] November 5th – LACMA’s Art + Film Gala 2011
[220] November 29th – 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Press Conference
After skipping the third “Underworld” movie, Kate Beckinsale is back in “Underworld: Awakening,” reprising her role as the vampire-with-an-attitude Selene.
Selene is a “death dealer,” meaning she is a trained killer, fighting in a centuries-old battle with lycans, or werewolves. She is vicious and unrelenting, and has no qualms about pulling the trigger and killing an enemy.
In the first “Underworld” movie, vampires lived in luxury; we saw Selene visit an exquisite mansion. However, here in the fourth film of this series, vampires and lycans alike have been hunted to near extinction by humans. So, instead of fancy castles, vampires are literally hiding in caves, hoping to someday thrive again.
In past films, Selene has been protecting her hybrid boyfriend, Michael. Here, she is protecting Eve, a young teenage girl, played by potty-mouthed India Eisley (well known from ABC Family’s “Secret Life of An American Teen.”) So, Selene spends most of the movie fighting humans and lycans to protect Eve. The body count is high, and the action sequences seemingly never end.
Like the prior three “Underworld” movies, director Mans Marlind has created a world colored in hues of blue and black and shadows. These movies, and this universe, have a distinct look and vibe. No one will confuse the vampires and werewolves here with the ones in the “Twilight” series. These vampires aren’t sexy like in “The Vampire Diaries” or “True Blood;” they are cold, calculated killers.
And on the subject of killing, there is a significant amount of bloodshed here. This movie earns its R rating for its violence.
Shot on a $70 million budget, “Underworld Awakening” has already earned $108 million worldwide since its Jan. 20 release. Critics at Rottentomatoes.com gave it a low 28 percent approval rating.
“Underworld: Awakening” is for fans of this series only. If you haven’t seen some or all of the first three movies, you’ll probably be confused and disinterested. This movie doesn’t break any new ground, and it’s certainly light on plot, but it is a solid new chapter in this series.
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Celebrities including Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale and Jamie Oliver have praised Colin Firth after his ‘Best Actor’ victory at the 83rd annual Academy Awards.
Jackman, who hosted the Oscars in 2009, expressed an interest in working with the King’s Speech star.
Speaking to Daybreak‘s Kate Garraway on the Vanity Fair party red carpet, he said: “He was terrific, and [it's] a great film. I’ve never worked with Colin, but I’d love to.”
Jackman also added that he became suspicious that hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco planned to make jokes about him when he saw the seating plan for the ceremony.
“I had a rehearsal yesterday and I saw I was sitting front and centre,” he added. “I thought, ‘There’s something fishy going on here’.”
Chef Oliver told Garraway that he had met Firth for the first time last week, saying that he is “the nicest, most genuine, lovely man ever”.
Beckinsale said of Firth: “I just think he should win everything because he gives the best speeches.”
The Underworld actress added that she would like to see his dance moves, alluding to Firth’s acceptance speech where he joked about an urge to start dancing on stage.
Kate Beckinsale’s new movie ‘Contraband’ will now be made by Universal after its budget was slashed by $10 million.
Kate Beckinsale’s troubled movie ‘Contraband’ will be saved by Universal.
The project – also starring Mark Wahlberg – was having difficulty raising funding but with the budget slashed from $40 to $30 million, Deadline.com reports Universal will now make the film.
Mark will also produce the movie, a remake of foreign language film ‘Reykjavik-Rotterdam’.
The story focuses on a former smuggler who becomes a security guard, but is lured back to his old job when he finds himself in financial trouble.
Baltasar Kormakur will direct the project, which has been adapted from the original by Aaron Guzikowski.
‘Reykjavik-Rotterdam’ was Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008, although it missed out on the final shortlist.
No start date or expected release schedule has been confirmed for ‘Contraband’.
Kate, 37, most recently starred in 2009′s ‘Everybody’s Fine’ alongside Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore and will next be seen in ‘The Trials of Cate McCullogh’, in which she plays the titular character.
Iceland’s most notable cultural export is the singer and actress Bjork, but did you know they’ve got a film industry of their own running up there? Yeah, me neither. The Icelandic film Reykjavic-Rotterdam apparently made enough of a splash in Hollywood in 2008 that it was optioned for an American remake, and now the project has finally gotten going under the title Contraband. According to Deadline Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale are set to star for director Baltasar Koramkur, who starred in, wrote and co-produced the original film.
Kormakur played a former smuggler who is trying to go straight when he’s, yes, talked into one last job. Presumably Wahlberg will play the smuggler with Beckinsale as his wife, whose brother botches the smuggling run that kicks things off. Universal will be financing the film after backing away from it a while back over a $40 million budget– the producers at Working Title now have the costs at $30 million, and things are apparently ready to go at last.
Wahlberg is starring in another small-scale drama this fall with The Fighter, while Beckinsale’s attempts at dramatic acting– Pearl Harbor , Nothing But the Truth– have been slightly less successful. Neither is likely to be all that expensive on a drama like this, and both have their fans they can draw in when teaming up. The biggest question I’d have would be about Kormakur switching over to English and directing a story he knows so well, but that’s a mystery we won’t be able to solve until the movie appears, so we’ll just have to wait and wonder for now.