KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO'S THERE? THE CLOSET. YOU'RE STILL AROUND? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!
There's been a great deal of discussion on the site [After Elton] over the past couple of weeks about gay celebrities, the closet and what constitutes being "out." And even though we've discussed the issue numerous times before, it seems like it is once again time to revisit the topic. And it's a subject that is as tricky as ever and that can have real consequences for the celebrities involved.
Perez kicked the latest round of debate off when he posted an item about White Collar's Matthew Bomer. Without citing a source or saying how he knew, Perez simply claimed Matt was an out gay man. If true, we were certainly interested in writing about Matt and his show, but as we aren't a gossip site, I wasn't going to simply repeat Perez's claims — for lots of reasons.
But I did call up Matthew's publicist and request an interview if, in fact, Perez's information was correct. Through his publicist, Matthew passed on doing the interview and the publicist told me they don't comment on their client's personal lives. And that post set off a heated discussion about outing, the closet and all the other related issues.
The issue of the closet is something we deal with at AfterElton.com a lot and we are constantly evaluating how we cover celebrities that may or may not be gay. First and foremost, we do not out people. It's our firm belief that despite the undeniably greater gay acceptance in society today, coming out still has serious ramifications for many people and is a decision to be made only by the individual in question (excluding closeted politician's, but that's another conversation for another site).
That being said, we also don't believe there is anything wrong with treating everyone the same and the questions asked of a straight celebrity are perfectly fine to ask of a gay celebrity when appropriate. Are you married? Single? What was your childhood like? How does being straight influence the way you play a gay character? Does your husband get jealous when you kiss another man? And so forth.
Here are some general observations and thoughts about where we stand today.
1) For our readers: Just because "everyone" in West Hollywood or New York "knows" Celebrity X is gay because you've seen him around town with another guy does not make it true or mean that the person is out publicly. First of all, New York and Los Angeles are not the entire world and secondly, being seen out in public with another man is not being out in any practical way.
2) For gay celebrities: Just because your family and friends know you are gay does not make you publicly out.
3) For representatives of gay celebrities: If your client is gay and your response is "no comment" because "we don't ever comment on our client's personal lives" all I have to say is "Poppycock." I may understand why you are hiding the info, but I'm not an idiot and neither are our readers. If your client discusses raising funds for Alzheimer's because their dad had it or working to fight testicular cancer because they have it or anything else not specifically about a particular role, then they do discuss their private lives.
4) There are legal issues involved. Like it or not, claiming a person is gay still has legal ramifications and you can be sued for defamation in almost half of the states in the U.S. Yes, the celebrity has to prove you are wrong, but the fact of the matter is not every celebrity rumored to be gay is gay, and I'm not about to risk my job on Perez Hilton's say so.
BTW, publicists? Please don't tell me information "off the record" and then hint you don't care what I say as long as it's without any attribution at all. Again, that could end with your client suing me and I don't traffic in gossip. Thanks, but no thanks.
5) Dear fellow journalists, please don't treat gay celebrities differently than straight ones. If you regularly ask straight actors about their spouses, children and how they personally relate to playing an ad executive from the 1950s, a starship captain or a serial killer, but avoid similar questions with those you suspect to be gay, you aren't doing your job. And given how quick you usually are to ask officially out actors about the same things you do straight ones, you know I'm right.
I can honestly say that after the success of Neil Patrick Harris has had after coming out publicly (apparently everyone in New York knew he was gay all along) I really thought things would be different and more actors would follow the Luke Macfarlane model and simply acknowledge the fact of their sexuality and move on. But I can tell you from personal experience that we still aren't there no matter how much I'd like us to be.
Which isn't to say I don't understand and appreciate the issues gay celebrities face. But the only reason things ever get better is because some people have the courage to care enough to make things better for all of us.
Source: Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (November 06, 2009), After Elton
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«Oldest ‹Older 1001 – 1200 of 1504 Newer› Newest»I'm sorry, but he looks really good in this picture. If you are looking at his hair you are looking at the wrong thing.
http://www.iheartjakemedia.com/displayimage.php?album=1409&pos=3
^^^ Bad hair and squinting eyes - what's good about that?
If you are looking at his hair you are looking at the wrong thing.
What should we look at?
New Prince of Persia teaser poster - ONTD comments
Bad jsrocks, UV will kick her ass, lol!
"I don't see the Prince of Persia. I think Jake is too commercial to have a role like this. I just see a messy Jake Gyllenhaal who could use a shower.
I'm going to go see this film, but he sort of doesn't look right for the role to me. idk"
Hey in those pics Jake had the same haircut Reese did last year around this time before she got her extensions.
No, this is Aniston's hairdo.
^^^ P.S. I meant to say that Jake and Rachel Karen Green have the same haircut :)
" Anonymous said...
I'm sorry, but he looks really good in this picture. If you are looking at his hair you are looking at the wrong thing."
Jake is a gorgeous man but that hair is awful, it takes away from his looks because its distracting. Most people thinks its wig, I think its his real hair. He has thick hair and if grown long but not long enough thick hair really becomes unruly. He would been better off with a wig. And it those pics, his head is the focus. And by the way, what else should I be looking at? His nose hair?
" Anonymous said...
^^^ Bad hair and squinting eyes - what's good about that?"
When I saw this description, I thought of Rene Zweilleger.
NOSE HAIR?!?
Most people thinks its wig, I think its his real hair.
I'm sure it is his real hair.
" Jake said...
NOSE HAIR?!?"
Figure of speech, you don't have nose hair anymore. It was permanently removed when you had your nose done.
MY NOSE DONE?!?
"This is going to sound so mean, but in all seriousness, I think Jake is a fantastic actor EXCEPT when he has a female love interest. He's so unconvincing as a straight man."
Brothers clip "The Dream"
"Jake said...
MY NOSE DONE?!?"
Oh my, I meant Toothy had his nose done, not Jake.
ONTD has the best GIFs and illustrations
LMAO
I think Jake looks good in new POP pic; very rugged. But I also think that he looks like he needs some soap and shampoo. The whole needing a shower thing is distracting when you look at him. Every time I see a POP poster my first thought is Persia didn't have soap and water? And some of the comments on ONTD are brutal. Consensus seems to be making fun of Jake and movie look like hugh fail. I wonder if Disney is starting to get nervous yet. Each new glimpse of something about POP gets more negative comments every time. Disney's PR must absolutely moniter what gossip sites say. Disney is very PR conscious.
I think Jake looks good in new POP pic; very rugged.
I thinks that's the reason for bad and dirty hair - Disney way to make Jake look rugged.
Squinting eyes make Jake look tired and bored. COURAGE ???
And some of the comments on ONTD are brutal.
Most of the comments on anything on ONTD are brutal. That's an ONTD trademark. Chubby teenagers sitting at home making snide comments about thin women they'll never been and good looking men they'll never get. Welcome to the internets.
IHJ gallery
New Brothers stills
That's an ONTD trademark. Chubby teenagers sitting at home making snide comments about thin women they'll never been and good looking men they'll never get.
Bullshit.
No, it's true. You obviously don't hit ONTD on the days when they're talking about high school homework or how mean society is because they're not perfect size 16s.
Jake is a gorgeous man but
Jake's eyes are too close together. His nose is too long.
His eyebrows are too bushy.
His mouth too curly/girly.
His jaw too long.
His head too big.
His voice squeaks.
He looks like a Basset Hound...
^^^ and yet it all seems to work for him. Funny that.
He's lucky to have a long jaw - he'll never have a double chin.
And did you know that most actors and actresses all have larger heads in proportion to their bodies? I've often heard it photographs on film better.
As for the mouth? It's perfect.
and yet it all seems to work for him. Funny that.
Has it now?! LOL
Seems that a lot of people out there in the world think so too. He doesn't do it for you, that's fine. But that's why god made chocolate and vanilla.
Just watched James Franco on GH. Seriously, he is a walking stick of sex appeal.
I wonder if he and Jake still keep in touch.
7:55 - I totally agree. Life truly imitates art.
personnaly I think Jake and nathalie look really good together.
"That's an ONTD trademark. Chubby teenagers sitting at home making snide comments about thin women they'll never been and good looking men they'll never get."
totally agree
Should we start taking bets on the first Reeke photo ops next week? I say the first one will be on Wed. with Reeke doing a gym/coffee run with the hand holding and the second one will be a family outing in Ojai on Fri. Gotta feed the chickens and water the tomato plants.
Chubby teenagers sitting at home making snide comments about thin women they'll never been and good looking men they'll never get.
You wish, LOL.
You wish? How does that comment work in relation to the statement you just quoted. They wish what?
Babblers are trashing ONTD posters ONLY when they don't like Jake the Prince and PoP, ignoring all nice and supporting ONTD comments about Jake, Adam, Zachary and many other celebrities.
Those "nice and supporting" comments are few and far between on ONTD. Go take a walk over there right now and read the wank on Gabby Sibide or Kelly Osbourne.
I check out ONTD every day, one of the best gossip forums on the Internet.
I do as well. But the negative comments outweigh the positive by about 100:1. Lots of people hating just to hate in this world.
PoP looks like an average popcorn movie, Jake doesn't look too good in it, what's there to support???
Nobody's asking you to support it. And nobody's forcing you to buy a ticket to the film when it comes out. But on the other hand, some people will buy a ticket. And they'll probably enjoy it.
It's all about personal choice isn't it.
I'm not talking about watching the movie, I'm talking about comments.
Why do you expect positive ONTD comments about PoP and Jake playing Prince?
Should we start taking bets on the first Reeke photo ops next week?
Nah, Reeke is too boring for words :)
I wasn't talking only about Jake and PoP. I was talking about ONTD and it's posters' comments as a whole. Too much hate.
Nonsense.
Gyllenhaal in thriller Source Code - ONTD comments
I wasn't talking only about Jake and PoP.
Jake and PoP comments are the reason for this discussion. Do you expect positive ONTD comments about PoP and Jake playing Prince?
^^^ mostly positive
Do you expect positive ONTD comments about PoP and Jake playing Prince?
No. But pack mentality hating is just so boring. Yeah we get it, Jake isn't Persian. Which seems to be the mantra in any ONTD PoP post.
Which seems to be the mantra in any ONTD PoP post.
Looks like you don't read ONTD comments.
personnaly I think Jake and nathalie look really good together
I agree.
WDW posted Brothers kiss scene clip and that is one good looking, friendly kiss :) (I guess they decided to show all interesting Broithers scenes before December, lol)
Long hair in guys it's romantic. Jake looks very good in POP. He reminds me of a French actor I love (with wonderful hair).
I don't get people who say Jake hasn't chemistry with women. He seems to have good chemistry with Natalie and he definitely had great chemistry with Anne.
Long hair / PoP hairdo doesn't suit Jake.
Which French actor? We need pictures! :)
He seems to have good chemistry with Natalie...
Good chemistry, but not sexual chemistry and that's just like it should be in Brothers.
"Do you expect positive ONTD comments about PoP and Jake playing Prince?"
I guess some will commit suicide if this movie , at the end, isn't that bad!
NEW PoP Poster
ONTDers are a judgemental bunch. ;)
"Good chemistry, but not sexual chemistry and that's just like it should be in Brothers."
well I think we see things differently.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 are bad movies.
It doesn't matter how good or bad PoP will be, it only matters how much money will it make.
well I think we see things differently
You see sexual chemistry between Nat and Jake in Brothers?
NEW PoP Poster
Come on, Jake doesn't look THAT bad.
"Good chemistry, but not sexual chemistry"
nat isn't really sexy, penelope on contrary would have been incredible with him! both are "off the charts" together!
10:37 AM#1, bravo! I knew the Prince reminded me of something, that's it! Thanks.
"You see sexual chemistry between Nat and Jake in Brothers?"
compared to nat/tobey.... YES!!
nat isn't really sexy
Gemma isn't really sexy either?
Planet of the Persian Prince
lol, those are great.
"Gemma isn't really sexy either?"
She is but not as much as penelope for sure lol
FUCK!
I really hate Jake's hair in PoP. I don't get why they didn't want him to look good as Prince.
"Gemma isn't really sexy either?"
Gemma has a man's body, small breasts, wide shoulders and she's very tall.
I think Jake likes tiny women, he seems to have more chemistry with them.
^^Except for that one tiny woman he's dating (or maybe not). LOL.
Likes tiny women?! LMAO!
"Except for that one tiny woman he's dating "
yes but Reese is a desperate case!
Jake and Penelope have great chemistry? I thought they looked like two attractive lesbians together.
yes but Reese is a desperate case!
True.
Jake doesn't date a woman.
"I really hate Jake's hair in PoP. I don't get why they didn't want him to look good as Prince."
enough about his hair!
"Jake and Penelope have great chemistry?"
Yes!!
Gemma has a man's body, small breasts, wide shoulders and she's very tall.
What that has to do with a lack of chemistry in PoP? Jake loves men, that should only help!
"Gemma has a man's body, small breasts, wide shoulders and she's very tall."
what? she is not that bad.
"What that has to do with a lack of chemistry in PoP"
You saw the movie?
Keira had zero chemistry with orlando!
Why are the JiS fangirls trying to convince us Jake has great chemistry with women? I don't think so.
^^He definitely had chemistry with Jen and Anne.
"What that has to do with a lack of chemistry in PoP"
You saw the movie?
I saw only PoP trailers - just LIKE YOU. I didn't see any chemistry between Prince and Tamina, what about you?
"Why are the JiS fangirls trying to convince us Jake has great chemistry with women? I don't think so."
Why do you think someone is tring to convince you ?
You think jake has no chemistry with women , I think the contrary. I am not a JIS fangirls.
"I saw only PoP trailers - just LIKE YOU."
well I didn't see it so for gemma I don't know, I think she is sexy though and on pics they look beautiful. With nat it's work for me, I find them lovely. But I am waiting to see the movie to have a better judgment.
When is the Brothers premiere? Tonight?
There were 2-3 tweets who mentioned Brothers premiere in NYC today and tomorrow.
Thanks.
Are there any new Brothers reviews?
Lionsgate doesn't mention the premiere.
twitter.com/lionsgatemovies
Official Lionsgate Twitter page. Sharing content and engaging with fans about our latest film: BROTHERS, in theaters December 4th!
ReubenH: "A moment of silence for all our pussy-whipped brothers forced to endure the New Moon premiere" - from Texts From Last Night
21 minutes ago
NY Premiere of "Brothers" Sun nt - Cinema Society, Details & DKNY @ SVA.
Nov 19th
http://twitter.com/lizsblacker
Sunday? So, it's tomorow. I wonder if Jake will attend? Nat and Tobey will for sure.
"Be one of the first to see highly anticipated war drama, Brothers, at the New York City Premiere on Sunday, November 22!
The winning bidder and special guest will join the intimiate New York City Premiere of the film at The School of Visual Arts on Sunday, November 22 at 7:30 p.m. You and your lucky guest will also attend the after party at Abe & Arthur's!"
natalieportman.com
When is shooting for LAOD wrapped?
nathanielr: Off to see Jake Gyllenhaal in the flesh. I can barely type. Also lovely Natalie
10 minutes ago
Location New York, NY
http://twitter.com/nathanielr
http://filmexperience.blogspot.com/
When is shooting for LAOD wrapped?
End of November or beginning of December.
It's in a few days then.
A week or two.
Natalie Portman also turned up this week for a Q&A at a packed Saturday morning SAG screening of "Brothers" at the Directors Guild Theatre and mentioned that she had been friends with her costars Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal since she was about 14. She said she actually met Tobey in 1996 at the very same DGA venue at a premiere of a David Schwimmer movie, "The Pallbearer," and they have been tight ever since.
Saw this critic on babbleland ( yeah there are interesting things lol)
"Since there's no stated Twitter embargo, I can say that Brothers was quite good... actually surprising. But in the hands of any other filmmaker than Jim Sheridan, I'm not sure it would've worked so well."
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/10pkj
quite good...actually surprising...not sure it would've worked so well
Make up your mind! lol
Wonder if the Chin is flying in for the premiere on Sunday. There hasn't been a good old fashioned Reeking in a few months. This is Chinny's chance to try and grab some attention If Brothers really does go thru the Oscar season you know she'll be glued to Jake's side. That may even be the perfect time to announce their engagment.
^^Reeke can do whatever they want.
The sociopathic beard is going to announce an Engagement? What have you been smoking? LOL!
nathanielr: Off to see Jake Gyllenhaal in the flesh. I can barely type. Also lovely Natalie
:)
Tobey is long time friends with Anne, Natalie and Reese. And Jake is friends with Natalie, Anne and hangs out with Reese. Small Hollywood.
Tobey friends with Reese?! I don't think so, lol.
^^He is. Ever since Pleasantville. Reese said so at least.
Bullshit.
Why do you think it's bullshit?
Because there is no reson to believe anything Reese says and no reson to believe Tobey and Reese are friends.
The winning bidder and special guest will join the intimiate New York City Premiere of the film at The School of Visual Arts on Sunday, November 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Why intimiate?
Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell filming Crazy Heart
Colin Farrell sings country :)
I think there won't be many to attend the premiere.
I would love to see all three of them at the premiere. To see their dynamic since they're all friends for ages. :)
I think there won't be many to attend the premiere.
Couldn't they invite more people? A bit of promotion for Brothers wouldn't hurt!
Reese and Tobey are friends. They were supposed to star together in Tokoyo Punch, a film that was supposed to be produced by Tobey's production Co. He had problems getting $$$ for the movie and the rights to the project expired.
It's now being done by another co with new stars , I even think Anne was attached to it after the rights expired.
I don't remember who is starring in it now.
Reese, Tobey, Jake, Natalie have known each other for years. it's not bullshit.
I even remember seeing pics of Reese and Kiki together at some ACLU function while he was dating Kiki and she was still married to Ryan, HW is a very small world.
BTW: Gossip on Tobey: He was dating his now Father -in-law when cast as Spiderman. He then started dating his daughter and then married her and now has 2 kids: Jennifer Meyers. Her dad is some big HW producer.
Off to see Jake Gyllenhaal in the flesh. I can barely type. Also lovely Natalie
@heydonnelly press conferences / Q&As are torture... But sometimes hilarious torture
Jake G was hilarious at press conf., The class clown while Tobey played serious actor and Natalie smiled silently, the goddess 'tween them
16 minutes ago
http://twitter.com/nathanielr
Reese and Tobey are friends. They were supposed to star together in Tokoyo Punch...
They know each other, that's all.
Reese, Tobey, Jake, Natalie have known each other for years. it's not bullshit.
We know that Jake knows Ryan at least since Homegrown (1998) directed by Stephen.
Pics will soon arrive. :)
Why does it bother you that she knows and may be friends with Spiderman? Why do you even care?
And we all know about Ryan and Homegrown. She made Peasentville with Tobey around the same time.
And Spiderman is still screwing around with his Father-in-law by all reports!
Tobey played serious actor
LOL
Why does it bother you that she knows and may be friends with Spiderman?
Reese's lying, faking and pretending bothers me.
Spiderman takes it up the ass from daddy in law, ewwwwwwwwww!
Chut up!
From http://twitter.com/nathanielr's site:
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
JA from MNPP here, doing the 2001 thing, briefly noting a flick from the year that left a bit of an impression on lil' ol' me. Yes, Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. I can and have - seriously I have, click here to see - list a bunch of reasons why I believe this movie's too cool for school, but it really, the essence, it all boils down you see to that delightful line uttered there above. Sometimes Beth Grant doubts our commitment to Sparkle Motion. Sometimes I doubt our collective commitment to Sparkle Motion.
But then I pop in a cassette tape of "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears and I contemplate how exactly one does suck a fuck or what the sex lives of Smurfs are all about or if "feces" means "baby mice" or whether "cellar door" might just be the most beautiful phrase in all of the English language and so I poke my finger into a hole in the eyeball of a metal-faced rabbit-man that represents the fabric of space and time itself and I feel a little more, a little less, complete. Why am I wearing this funny man suit anyway? It's like child-proselytizer Jim Cunningham put it best:
"Is that all the gusta you can musta?"
filmexperience
LAOD filming - Jake and Anne pictures
^^^ LAOD LOL
Nails
LAOD filming - Jake and Anne pictures
Thanks so much. Physically they look so good together. I think Jake likes her. :)
Love Jake's LAOD hair :)
I think Jake likes her.
What's not to like about Anne? :)
BRAD PITT is set to battle extraterrestrials in the Bermuda Triangle, after securing the movie rights to a new video game.
Pitt's Plan B production company has signed a deal with gaming company Capcom to take Dark Void to the big screen. The actor intends to take the lead role of a pilot who crash lands in a parallel world where he must fight off alien invaders. Dark Void the game is due to launch in January (10), with the movie scheduled to follow, reports Daily Variety.
Hopefully Brad's video game movie will be more successful then Angie's Tomb Raider.
"What people don't realize is, I am managing my image, more than maybe the editor of OUT magazine likes to give anybody credit for. My team is a team. And I really feel fortunate that 19 Management and Simon Fuller said to me, from the get-go, 'We want to do what you want to do. You need to tell us how you want to do things, what interests you have,' and they've been incredibly supportive of me. I really mean it. I'm not being puppeted around. I didn't want to jump onto a gay magazine as my first thing, because I feel like that's putting myself in a box and limiting myself. It was my desire to stay away from talking about certain political and civil rights issues because I'm not a politician. I'm an entertainer. That is not my area of expertise. I can talk about relationships and personal experiences because as an artist those things involve writing lyrics and that part of my process. But I didn't feel comfortable talking about the March on Washington. I didn't feel comfortable, so I asked my publicist to ask the interviewer to stay away from the political questions. I take full responsibility for that. I think that the editor has his agenda and has his opinions, which I respect, but they're not necessarily my opinions. And I wish there was a little respect for that. Not every gay man is the same gay man."
— Adam Lambert
BRAD PITT is set to battle extraterrestrials in the Bermuda Triangle
Sounds like a good old sci-fi movie.
I asked my publicist to ask the interviewer to stay away from the political questions.
I prepared a list for my publicist! We have so much in common, we should hang out together!
IHJ gallery
People's Sexiest Man - scan / new Jake photo
Posted on WDW
"I saw Jim Sheridan's Brothers (Lionsgate, 12.4) a couple of nights ago, and then conducted a brief interview with Sheridan today at Manhattan's Four Seasons and then attended a group press conference (Sheridan, Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh). The hazy focus during the zoom-in on Maguire is due to low light -- apologies."
hollywood-elsewhere.com - Brothers press conference video
More from Jeffrey Wells
November 10, 2009
Time To Show Brothers
Last night Envelope/Notes on a Season columnist Pete Hammond wrote with some enthusiasm about a Sunday DGA screening of Jim Sheridan's Brothers (Lionsgate, 12.4), the remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 film with Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman costarring.
Hammond asked "why no bloggers are buzzing about Brothers even with its Dec. 4 opening less than a month away"? Well, I've been writing about this film for over two years now, beginning with a start-of-filming announcement and into a 10.1.08 report that MGM had bumped Brothers out of a once-planned 12.4.08 release.
But to answer Hammond, no one's blogging about Brothers because Lionsgate has been lagging on press screenings invites, or at least none as far as this inbox is concerned. I'm told there's some kind of "special screening" in Manhattan slated for 11.22, and an L.A. premiere screening set for 12.1. Sheridan is currently in Toronto preparing to shoot Dream House, a psychological thriller with Daniel Craig starring. He flies to Ireland tomorrow and returns to this side of the pond a week or so later.
Sheridan's remake follows Bier's basic story. Maguire and Gyllenhaal are the brothers separated by character and philosophy (as well as four inches of height). Maguire is the older, "responsible," married brother who goes off to Afghanistan and gets into a situation that results in a MIA report sent home. Portman plays Maguire's wife. Gyllenhaal is the younger fuck-up brother who begins to fill his brother's familial duties when Maguire disappears during a skirmish and is presumed dead.
Lionsgate is obviously much more interested in promoting Precious than Brothers at this stage, and who can blame them? But conspicuously not screening a film that will be released nearly three weeks hence seems like a weird way to play it. Being a huge fan of Bier's original work, I refuse to believe that a film with this story and a cast of this calibre wouldn't deliver in a significant and applaudable way.
"This powerful and timely story of a decorated Marine, presumed dead in Afghanistan, who comes home to great conflict within his family and within his own head, is a poignant and explosive look at the toll that combat exacts from veterans' lives," Hammond writes. "It feels especially pertinent now in the wake of the Ft. Hood tragedy and shows that war doesn't really end for some vets once they return.
"Sheridan received a tremendous ovation Sunday afternoon when he was introduced for a q & a after a very well-received Directors Guild of America screening. The free-wheeling director engaged in a refreshingly honest and thoughtful conversation about the film's bumpy journey to being remade.
"Sheridan pointed out that he doesn't normally like the idea of remakes, but this one seemed irresistible, if full of minefields. In the end he believes it is quite faithful to the spirit of the Danish original and said Relativity Media, which financed the film, even did research screenings on Bier's movie to get a take from an American audience for help in shaping the redo.
"[Sheridan] also mentioned there were some reshoots as he tried to get a grip on what the movie should be.
"The film was finished by November 2008 but Relativity agreed to hold it for a year to get just the right release date. Sheridan says selling any film with a war theme is tricky and fall is a better time for this particular subject matter. With Summit's widely acclaimed Iraq war flick, The Hurt Locker opening last summer, it was probably a wise move."
Hollywood Elsewhere
When I saw the poster, I thought it was for some sci-fi movie about cloning.
Yay, so Brothers is well received and Tobey might get an Oscar nod. Good news!
There are Brothers reviews? Link please!
Reese is probably emailing Jake right now to tell him that Brothers seems to be well received and it's because he picked her as his beard. She's also probably telling him that POP will be a huge hit and that he wouldn't have had any success if he didn't beard with her. And that moron is probably believing her.
Isn't this guy from Hollywood Elswhere a reviewer? And some posts ago there was another review that said that the movie was better then expected and that Tobey was Oscar-worthy.
Huh? Who would ever think that Reese has anything to do with Brothers or PoP quality?!?
Isn't this guy from Hollywood Elswhere a reviewer?
Yes, but he didn't post his Brothers review.
And some posts ago there was another review that said that the movie was better then expected and that Tobey was Oscar-worthy.
That comment just said that Brothers is quite good.
^^But we can all assume it's positive since, first he seems to be a big Jake supporter (he loves all Jake movies), second he called the movie "powerful".
No, that LA Times guy called the movie "powerful".
^^Well that's even better. LOL.
It would be if that LA Times guy was some respected critic.
So far Brothers reviews / comments go from "OK movie" to "there might be Oscar nominations".
The only possible Oscar nom would be for Tobey. It is his movie but that is a real long shot and wont happen.
I've watched Brothers trailers and all available clips. I think it it's a good movie, but I didn't see anything that would really make me want to see it.
The only possible Oscar nom would be for Tobey.
Looks like everyone agrees that little girls are great, especially Bailee Madison.
P.S. Trailer for Maggie's Crazy Heart was enough to make me want to see the movie.
The only possible Oscar nom would be for Tobey.
Some people mentioned that Tobey isn't very good - we need more reviews.
Jake and Nat - a bit of JJ Brothers promotion
Wow, Colin and Jeff are great! :)
Why on earth did they use that picture? Jake looks about 17 there. They must have some more recent shots from the movie shot that would have been better. His management has really gone to hell.
"Some people mentioned that Tobey isn't very good - we need more reviews."
Frankly Maguire overactes to death in these clips but you know he has the "showy" character so = oscar nom.
Hollywood is so predictible it's not funny!
A pretty good review on this blog.
"http://moviemasterheadquarters.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-review-brothers.html"
Bro's press conf. pics
All three look good. Natalie is Jake's most beautiful female co-star he ever had, hands down.
*cough*
A pretty good review on this blog.
That's extremely good review. From trailers and clips I can see good acting, but nothing remakable.
Heads up for fans: Imaginarium will open nationwide in the USA in January 2010. :)
Anne said...
*cough*
Anne is too goofy looking to be called beautiful. But when she's done well, she is an attention grabber in addition to her hight and proportions. She's definitely sexier than Natalie, but Natalie is obviously more beautiful.
No comment!
Why on earth did they use that picture? Jake looks about 17 there.
Nice photo, but they could post few Nat and Jake stills from Brothers.
A bit of Austin
Austin Nichols Journal - More USO related pictures - Ramstein/Germany
There's a pic of Jake (Jake's back) and RW from when they went to see the president.
Jake's broad shoulders
Woman on the left - PA from Coachella?
^^I can't tell.
"http://moviemasterheadquarters.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-review-brothers.html"
That blog, which launched only last month, looks suspect. Maybe it's a Payu2Blog. The blogger is a mediocre writer and the things he says..
"Ever since starring in the indie hit, "Brick", Joseph Gordon Levitt has become on of the greatest actors working today."
"The Killing Room" ... I was surprised at how good the acting was. Usually, films that go straight to DVD have terrible acting, but the performances in this were phenomenal. Who knew that Nick Cannon was capable of such a powerful performance?"
^^^ The blogger likes to be positive ;)
I don't see why this blogger would be suspect, he don't present himself as a professional critic writer, just a lambda citizen who gives an opinion.
I am waiting for Jeffrey wells or roger Ebert review!
I don't think BROTHERS is the best movie of the year but all the actors seems excellent and sheridan is a good director.
Can you see excellent performances from trailers and clips?
I am waiting for Jeffrey wells or roger Ebert review!
I'm waiting for 15-20 reviews to make up my mind :)
BROTHERS interview
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/entertainment/hollywood_mine/?p=434
^^^ I thought a day later of the impact James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo had in “Rebel Without a Cause” and I don’t the comparison is far-fetched here.
Wow, he's serious?!
JAKE: There was one moment where – I don’t know if you remember this, Jim – where Natalie’s character tells my character that Tobey has been killed. We did talk for a little while about me falling in the snow and making snow angels. I don’t know if you remember that?
SHERIDAN: No.
Making snow angels?! :)
SHERIDAN: No.
Sheridan blocked out the memory of that bad idea :)
BROTHERS interview
Boston Herald - Brothers press conference
I don’t know if you remember this, Jim – where Natalie’s character tells my character that Tobey has been killed. We did talk for a little while about me falling in the snow and making snow angels.
LOL, worst idea ever :)
... where Natalie’s character tells my character that Tobey has been killed
QUESTION: YOU ALL KNOW EACH OTHER. WAS THERE A LOT OF REHEARSAL ON THIS? OR WAS THERE A LOT OF STAYING IN CHARACTER TO GET THE PROPER TONE ON SET AND CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT, THE ATMOSPHERE IN MAKING THE FILM?
GYLLENHAAL: It was great to be in a remake because you really have a new sense…[laughs]. Naturally, because all know each other, I found that we all had fascinating complications and fascinating interactions just as the people that we are. There was very little to do as a result of that. So often you have to create some kind of back story but because of the real life, people have very often said to me that I look like Tobey and so I thought that it was a perfect casting thing, that Jim put us together. We really just made a movie so that I could say that I look a little bit different from Tobey. So to all those cab drivers in New York, I’m not Spider-Man. I think that was just inherent. It was there. It existed and it took very little to make that happen. A little uncomfortable on set sometimes because what it is real also sometimes is what it is being pretended. At the same time, as an actor, I think it was great food for a great meal.
SHERIDAN: Where I come from and you’re working with actors you’re all the time trying to stop them performing. These guys were so still I was like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t have any work to do.’ American actors are so used to the medium of film.
GYLLENHAAL: Did you say ‘stale’?
SHERIDAN: I didn’t say ‘stale.’ I wouldn’t say stale. The difficulty with Jake is he’s kind of like, you know the way that other actors are really intense and they come on and you’re like, ‘Oh my God.’ Jake is kind of like that but he’s got a 360 degree intensity. You never know where he’s looking. He’s kind of in the scene but he’s kind of looking around himself. It takes a bit of getting used to and it took me a few weeks to get used to Jake’s approach which is very unique in my experience. He just thinks he’s in real life — and he’s up on the screen. Jake is just the same now as on the thing, up with the kid, up with his sister’s kid. He keeps joking even when I get serious and all, don’t you?
GYLLENHAAL: I think you just described me as a crazy person. ‘Jake has no idea of reality’.
QUESTION: IS THAT A TRUTH ABOUT YOU, JAKE?
GYLLENHAAL: Well, I can say that I think watching Tobey in the movie, that’s sort of the most extraordinary truth of it, watching somebody do something like that. I can only speak from personal experience but I have been blessed to watch actors who people didn’t feel were a certain way or could perform a certain thing do that. I’ve been honored to watch that. It’s always nice to see when people, journalists and people who never thought of someone one way, and then seeing them that way. I watched him go from the first part of the movie [BEFORE MAGUIRE’S CHARACTER GOES OVERSEAS] and then we had a Christmas break inbetween and then he had another week and when he came back he was another person and he was another person than what he was in the first couple of weeks that we started shooting. That was an extraordinary transformation, not only to watch as an actor but as a person and as an audience member. And now watching the movie I feel that way, too. I think that’s what we could talk about. I mean, I could talk about Natalie, too, but then I think she would probably freak out. I’ll stick with Tobey.
I mean, I could talk about Natalie, too, but then I think she would probably freak out. I’ll stick with Tobey.
LOL!
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SNL Update:
Jake is NOT hosting SNL on December 5th. Just announced on the show it is Blake Lively from Gossip Girl with musical guest Rhianna.
I can only speak from personal experience but I have been blessed to watch actors who people didn’t feel were a certain way or could perform a certain thing do that. I’ve been honored to watch that. It’s always nice to see when people, journalists and people who never thought of someone one way, and then seeing them that way.
He's probably talking about Aniston and Heath too who got their most accolades in the film with him. Well Heath topped himself in TDK. Jake of course is always the perfect performner. Not even he thinks that he's underrated. ;)
where Natalie’s character tells my character that Tobey has been killed
Could be. ;) I don't think they're good friends. Friendly to each other, but probably no friends. JMO of course.
Do you think there is a reason why Tobey and Jake probably aren't friends?
He's probably talking about Aniston and Heath too who got their most accolades in the film with him.
That's a good point.
^^I think Jake and Kiki were lobbying hard be replace Tobey in Spidey two when Tobey was reluctant to return. But he eventually did. I think this kind of spoiled his friendship to Kiki and probably Jake too.
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