Superbad landed Stone roles in comedies and romantic comedies alike including The Rocker with Rainn Wilson, The House Bunny with Anna Faris and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Her love interest role along with Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland also paid huge dividends for her. She has five projects currently in production and Friday marks her starring debut in the comedy Easy A, a modern teen twist on The Scarlett Letter.
Thespians, it seems, can never have enough control over their projects. The biggest stars often collaborate heavily with directors and producers during the filmmaking process and in many cases serve as a producer themselves on projects they feel strongly about. But control can only go so far in front of the camera so it should really come as no surprise that many venture behind the lens and create their own works of art. In honor of one of these types, Ben Affleck, whose second feature film The Town come out Friday, Player Affinity has the top 10 best actors who have successfully crossed that divide of all time.
The blogosphere is abuzz with predictions of the link between five strangers trapped on a fateful elevator in Devil. The psychological thriller makes conspicuous notes in its advertising that these few people have been brought together for a purpose; their “chance” meeting will be central to all points of the story. “The mind of M. Night Shyamalan” will either bring a hit or a miss, as the success of this convention varies widely.
Director Gary Ross is reportedly in negotiations to direct the film adaptation of the hit novel sci-fi dystopia novel The Hunger Games. The famous trilogy penned by Suzanne Collins is believed to become a film franchise that could be “the next Twilight” despite its slightly gruesome nature
Hello all and welcome back to Trailer Tracker here at Player Affinity, your burly bouncer of movie trailers, letting only the hippest and most exciting clips play before your eyes. This week on the guest list is acclaimed director Clint Eastwood’s latest supernatural drama Hereafter, followed by the debut clip for the pairing of two Hollywood megastars – Jonny Depp and Angelina Jolie – in The Tourist.
There are six new DVD and Blu-ray releases for you lovely people this week: four of them are comedies, whilst the others are a big action blockbuster and a horror/thriller. Plus, it is an excellent week for re-releases, with classics like Se7en, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Breathless making it on to Blu-ray.
When one mentions the genre of “crime drama,” Martin Scorsese almost instantly comes to mind. After delving back into his thriller roots with Shutter Island, putting together the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire, Scorsese could reportedly be making his way back to the genre that makes him a film legend with his upcoming crime dramaThe Irishman, based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses.
