Ten faces igniting movie buzz
Demetri Martin, 36, has the lead role in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, a big part opposite Brad Pitt in next year’s “Moneyball” and his own Comedy Central television series Important Things With Demetri Martin. Not bad for a Yale-educated historian and law school dropout who says comedy remains his first love and primary interest.”
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Carey Mulligan, 24, is poised to become Hollywoods new It-Girl after impressing Sundance audiences as a schoolgirl in love with a cad in the award-winning An Education. As a schoolgirl herself, her passion for acting took a lucky turn when screenwriter Julian Fellowes came to speak at her high school in England and she grabbed the opportunity to bend his ear.
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Director Matt Reeves’ “Cloverfield” tweaked the monster genre for the Twitter generation and now he’s taking on beasts of another sort with “Let Me In,” a remake of cult Swedish vampire film “Let the Right One In.” I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction,” he said.
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Lynn Shelton’s upcoming film “Humpday” has people buzzing about the female Judd Apatow. The movie about two old college buddies explores male friendship and personal identity amid a laughable situation.
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Christoph Waltz’s creepily cool performance in Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds earned the 52-year-old a best actor prize at Mays Cannes Film Festival, as well as some long-awaited international recognition.
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2009 has been a good year for writer Laeta Kalogridis: her screenplay for Shutter Island” makes her the first female writer on a Martin Scorsese movie and she’s collaborating with James Cameron on Christmas’ “Avatar” plus upcoming projects Battle Angel and The Dive.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s writing lives on 72 years after his death. Universal and Imagine Entertainment plan to adapt The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, a supernatural graphic novel from Image Comics that fictionalizes the author’s life story, and director Guillermo del Toro hopes to tap into his strange brew with a film version of At the Mountains of Madness, about an expedition to the Antarctic that uncovers massive and ancient mysteries.
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