Posts Tagged ‘Martin Scorsese’

Berlin Film Festival: ‘Shutter Island’ party

February 14, 2010 - 1:48 pm

By Mira Advani Honeycutt

Finding Leo was far more intense than getting out of “Shutter Island.”

Martin Scorsese’s film premiered Saturday night at the Berlinale and I was keen to meet the Italian trifecta — Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo — as well as Sir Ben Kingsley and Michelle Williams, at the after party held at Muenza in the Mitte district of Berlin.

Q&A: Læta Kalogridis on ‘Shutter Island,’ James Cameron and female superheroes

February 9, 2010 - 12:00 pm

By Jay A. Fernandez

The rare female screenwriter working in non-romantic comedy genres, Læta Kalogridis has had her hands on a diverse array of scripts in the past 15 years — “Scream 3,” “Tomb Raider,” “Wonder Woman,” “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “Night Watch,” and “Alexander,” to name a few. Friday, Paramount releases the Martin Scorsese-directed “Shutter Island,” her adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s paranoia-soaked Cold War thriller. And this summer Fox will let loose its action tentpole “Knight and Day,” which Kalogridis co-wrote. She also served as an uncredited helper on James Cameron’s record-busting “Avatar.” Here, Kalogridis talks about the bloody inspiration in Greek myth, female superheroes and the appeal of the “unbelievably, incredibly, outrageously violent.”

How exactly do you pronounce your name?
It’s Læta, with the diphthong—it’s Latin, actually. If it were Greek it would be Lay-eta. But it’s Latin, so it’s like Caesar.

So your ethnic background is Greek?
On my father’s side.

GLOBES! Leo, Tobey, Jodie, Marty and friends pack the Chateau

January 17, 2010 - 2:10 pm

By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

As if you needed a reminder, it’s Golden Globes weekend. The next twelve hours should present some fabulous Hollywood spectacle, and we’ll be posting here from the show throughout the day/evening.

But for a little pre-show hors d’œuvres, here are some highlights from Paramount’s pre-Globes event last night at the Chateau Marmont honoring Martin Scorsese on receiving the DeMille award this year.

Oddest scene: Stanley Tucci, who’s up for an award for his role in “The Lovely Bones,” literally being chased on foot by several paparazzi down Sunset Blvd. as he was leaving the party.

Unusual pairing: Jodie Foster having a conversation with “Star Trek’s” Anton Yelchin.

Most unexpected movie star: Mike Tyson of “The Hangover,” which is actually a Warner Bros. film, being congratulated by everyone he passed on his “great movie” last year.

Classic line: One young actor overheard saying to his buddy — “When you’re on TV, girls are very generous. Very generous.”

The party took over the whole main part of the hotel, and included an amazing mixed bag of Hollywood, young and old. Among the attendees were most of the “Entourage” crew, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Madsen, Jason Reitman, Orlando Bloom, Jon Hamm, Powers Booth, Ray Liotta, Shannyn Sossamon, Tobey Maguire, Ed Begley Jr., Sally Kellerman, Rosanna Arquette, Jeremy Piven, Winona Ryder, Bar Rafaeli, Richard Kind, Ashley Greene, Don Rickles, Chris Pine, Crispin Glover, Marion Cotilliard, Vera Farmiga, Edgar Wright and more.

Stay tuned for more Globes news, commentary, observations and party chatter…

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