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Fran Kranz, a longtime veteran of Joss Whedon projects, takes to the big screen in this Friday's The Cabin in the Woods and is set to again team with Whedon (and Cabin co-star Amy Acker) for Much Ado About Nothing , a low-budget take on the William Shakespeare play that was filmed last year as a mystery project in just 12 days. "[Whedon] shot that while he was on vacation," says Kranz. "I remember he said he was going to go to Italy with his wife and kids, then all of a sudden he started to shoot a movie, which is crazy... He does a lot of readings at his house, he's a great host. He always has people over, but he likes to have something to do, something specific. Sometimes he'll read plays. One night we all read 'A Mid-Summer Night's Dream'. He...

Jean Dujardin, Natalie Portman This year's Best Actor Oscar winner, Jean Dujardin, poses with 2010 Best Actress Oscar winner Natalie Portman backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards Awards, held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26. Dujardin won his Oscar for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. Portman won hers for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Jean Dujardin was a first-time nominee. His Best Actor competition consisted of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and Brad Pitt for Moneyball. In the past year, in addition to the Oscar Dujardin took home three major Best Actor awards: the BAFTA, the SAG Award, and the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy/Musical. Thus, Dujardin became the first actor ever to win all four trophies.

Best Actor Oscar winner Jean Dujardin Best Actor Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin did his Oss 117 act backstage at the 84th Academy Awards last Sunday, February 26, 2012. Dujardin won the Oscar for his portrayal of a fast-fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' Best Picture winner The Artist. Dujardin's two Oss films, Oss 117: Cairo Nest of Spies and Oss 117: Lost in Rio, were both directed by Hazanavicius, who also helmed one segment of Dujardin's latest movie, Les Infidèles / The Players. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Dujardin's Best Actor competition consisted of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A first-time Oscar nominee, Dujardin became the first Frenchman to take home an Oscar in the acting categories. (French-born actresses...

Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday, February 6, 2012. Dujardin is a Best Actor nominee for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. (Photo: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S.) Dujardin's Best Actor competition consists of Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, George Clooney for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, Gary Oldman for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Dujardin is a first-time Oscar nominee. Just recently, he won three major Best Actor awards: the BAFTA, the SAG Award, and the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy/Musical. Among Dujardin's other movie credits are two James Bond-ish spoofs directed by Michel Hazanavicius: Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and Oss 117: Lost in Rio. In addition, Dujardin starred or was featured in numerous French productions,...

Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin, winner of the SAG Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role for Michel Hazanavicius' silent comedy-drama The Artist, poses in the press room during the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage.) Jean Dujardin was the somewhat surprise winner, as most had been expecting George Clooney to take home SAG's The Actor statuette for his performance in Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants. Dujardin and Clooney's SAG Award competitors were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Leonardo DiCaprio for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. Last Sunday, Dujardin also won the British Academy of Film's Best Actor Award. He's now the odds-on favorite in the Oscar race. Among Dujardin's other movie credits...

Jean Dujardin Jean Dujardin, Best Actor SAG Award winner for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, speaks onstage during the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Jean Dujardin beat George Clooney for Alexander Payne's family drama The Descendants. Clooney was considered the favorite for both the SAG Awards and the Best Actor Oscar. The picture has since gotten fuzzier as far as the Academy Awards are concerned. Dujardin's fellow SAG Award competitors were Demián Bichir for Chris Weitz's A Better Life, Brad Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Leonardo DiCaprio for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. Among Dujardin's other movie credits are two with Michel Hazanavicius: Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and Oss 117: Lost in Rio. Additionally, Dujardin starred or was featured in Ca$h,...

Jean Dujardin Actor Jean Dujardin won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for his performance as a fading silent-film star in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. In the above photo, Dujardin — who also won the Best Actor Award for The Artist in Cannes last year — poses backstage in the press room with his Golden Globe at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, on Sunday, January 15. In many ways, The Artist borrows elements from George Cukor's What Price Glory?, in which Constance Bennett plays a rising star and Lowell Sherman a troubled producer, and the first two A Star Is Born movies, the first directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March; the second directed by Cukor, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. All three movies, in turn, were inspired by real-life...

Italian actress Caterina Murino, who charmed Daniel Craig as James Bond back in 2006 in Casino Royale, has just landed the role to play a former Colombian presidential candidate. According to THR, Murino will play Ingrid Betancourt in the English language film In Search of Ingrid.

The film is based on two books by Betancourt’s former husband Juan Carlos Lecompete, which details “what happened when Betancourt, a senator in Colombia and at the time a candidate for president, was taken hostage by terrorists and held in a South American jungle from 2002 to 2008 before being rescued by Colombian security forces.” Lecompete will be played by popular Mexican actor and photographer Valentino Lanus. Lanus will also be producing the project, along with Peter Rawley and Robert Katz.

Betty Kaplan is set to direct, as well as write the screenplay. Kaplan has done several adaptation work in the past — her films Of Love and Shadows,...

Too bad the critical symposium in the new, Winter 2012 issue of Cineaste isn't online. Participants evidently include Gianni Amelio, Olivier Assayas, Costa-Gavras, Robert Greenwald, and Sally Potter, "among others," but until we get our hands on the print edition, we'll have to make do with what is online, which, after all, is plenty: Patrick Z McGavin on Dave Kehr's When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade, Richard James Havis on Kyung Hyun Kim's Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era, Andrew Horton on New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History and Henry K Miller on Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema and The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe. And that's just the book reviews.

Besides the interviews with Mona Achache and Charlotte Rampling and festival reports (Locarno, Toronto and Montreal), the 15 reviews include David Sterritt on Kubrick's The Killing (1956), Joseph Luzzi on Raffaello Matarazzo,...

The actress is to play a Los Angeles Police Department (Lapd) officer in police drama 'Southland' and wanted to get some real-life experience, so she strapped on some body armour for a ride-along.

According to gossip website TMZ, Lucy toured some of the most gang-infested parts of the city in a squad car, but was not involved in any police activity.

However, she is set to participate in a more active ride-along in the near future.

Lucy is not the only celebrity to have taken part in a police sit-in.

Earlier this year, Jake Gyllenhaal witnessed a shooting in Los Angeles while he was doing research for his film 'End of Watch', in which he plays a police officer.

The incident happened on the 5700 block of Second Avenue at Van Ness Park during an anti-gang event called Summer Night Lights.

Lapd officials said bullets grazed the victim above his lip and on an arm.

You haven’t actually gotten to see the magical, inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, wedding reception in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, but that doesn’t mean you can’t own Edward and Bella’s porcelain dinnerware. Carmona New York has partnered with Summit Entertainment to create special dinnerware for the movie’s wedding event, along with floral arrangements to give it a magical flair. Check it all out below:

Guess what fellow Twilight fans? You can buy the official Twilight Carmona New York & Co. plates.

Carmona New York has recently partnered with Summit Entertainment in connection with the highly anticipated release of the studio’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. Carmona’s porcelain dinnerware sets the table in the most anticipated scene of the series, Edward and Bella’s wedding reception.

Owner and designer, Tammy Polatsek, custom-crafted the white asymmetrical plates, cups, and saucers especially for the wedding scene in order to bring the same simple elegance to this event that her pieces add to every occasion. Tammy also used her event planning expertise to create and provide the floral arrangements for the wedding. Her designs create a whimsical atmosphere, enhancing this scene’s Mid-Summer Night’s Dream-like quality for the audience.

With The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 coming to theaters November 18th, this set is the perfect gift for any Twilight Saga fan. Take a piece of the film home with you for the holidays in a perfectly packaged set of Edward and Bella’s wedding dishware!

You can check out and order the new dinnerware at Twilight by Carmona here.

The dinnerware is quite beautiful!

What do you think of the special Breaking Dawn – Part 1 dinnerware used for the movie? Would you order this dinnerware?...

If you want to talk about a director getting lucky, take a look at Fabrice Camoin. She’s only directed two shorts thus far in her career, but Variety is reporting that she’ll be directing A Stormy Summer Night, which is a film adaptation of Marguerite Duras‘ novel, 10 heures et demi du soir en ete. The big news, though, is that she’ll have Juliette Binoche — a.k.a. one of the most respected actresses in the world — starring for her. Not bad at all.

The story follows “a French couple who spend the night in a small Andalusian town, which has been rocked by a crime of passion committed by an immigrant worker”; I assume that Binoche will play one half of the couple. Shooting on the film is slated to commence next year. Les Films Du Poisson will produce, while Rezo is distributing in France.

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One Direction yesterday confirmed the details of their debut single ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ and today, we have brought you a very short clip of the track.

The lead single from their first album since leaving the X Factor was released for pre-order yesterday and within hours had overtaken stars such as Amy Winehouse and Adele and reached the second spot in the iTunes chart. It will become available for download on the 11th of September 2011 and will hit music stores the next day.

Big things are expected for the track, which is performed by Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson and was co-written by Carl Falk, X Factor vocal coach Kotecha and Rami Yacoub.

Yesterday the teen sensations visited the Radio 1 studios, where they played this short segment of the song for Scott Mills and then revealed that the full track will be given...