Actor Forest Whittaker walking on stage to present an award at the 38th Annual NAACP Image Awards at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles March 2, 2007.
Based on an original idea by crime writer James Ellroy, the Fox Searchlight project centers on a veteran LAPD cop (Reeves) who turns to alcohol after the death of his wife. The cop is forced to go up against his longtime mentor (Whitaker) when he is implicated in the execution of a fellow officer.
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… If you go to The Lookout – and you should – and you have the feeling, here and there, that the character struggling with his memory and his conscience could be Keanu Reeves, you are not alone.
"I always say that if Keanu Reeves and Heath Ledger had a love child, it would be Joe," Frank says, chuckling, about his leading man, Gordon-Levitt. "He has a piece of each of them in a real interesting way. There are gestures he does sometimes that are so Keanu!"
So, Keanu. I mean, Joe? Caught on the phone earlier in the day, Gordon-Levitt talks about the research he did for The Lookout…
Today, March 25, the European Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome. The EU’s 50th birthday gives us Europeans the opportunity to look back on this unprecedented success story. Together we can be proud of what the people of Europe have achieved in the past half-century.
TMZ has learned that actor Keanu Reeves was involved in an injury traffic collision with a paparazzo in Southern California yesterday.
According to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, "Mr. Reeves pulled out of a parking space, parallel to the curb, and grazed a paparazzo" with his 1996 Porsche, around 8:45 PM Monday night in Rancho Palos Verdes.
The Sheriff’s Dept. claims that the man then, "fell to the ground," and "paramedics were summoned." The photog was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was treated for unknown injuries. Reeves was not injured during the accident.
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. is investigating the collision.
Calls to Reeves’ reps were not immediately returned.
Shia LaBeouf, who co-starred in the comic-inspired film Constantine, told SCI FI Wire he was surprised over reports that Warner Brothers is in talks with stars Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz for a follow-up, Constantine 2. Responding to reports that The Hollywood Reporter talked to Reeves, LaBeouf said, "Wow, I didn’t think he would jump back on. Keanu went through a lot of s–t with that movie." The dark, brooding film, based on the Vertigo comic series Hellblazer, grossed about $76 million, the BoxOfficeMojo.com Web site reported. The modest success left the door open for a sequel. But is the report just a rumor? "I don’t know," LaBeouf said with a laugh in an interview at a preview for his upcoming animated film, Surf’s Up. "I’ve not heard anything, so maybe it’s not [happening]." —Mike Szymanski |
May’s going to be a big month for film next year. We will have Indiana Jones IV, Prince Caspien, Iron Man and now the first directed film from the Wachowski Brothers since The Matrix Trilogy with…. Speed Racer. 
The producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has been talking about his projects loads recently, and today is no exception. He has been discussing now to bring G.I. Joe to the big screen, but more importantly he’s talking Constantine 2, and it’s quite worrying. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 7 /PRNewswire/ — Starz Cinema, known for
showing thought provoking, alternative art house films, presents the world
television premieres of five acclaimed independent films in March. In
addition to Thumbsucker (winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and
the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival) starring
Tilda Swinton, Vincent D’Onofrio, Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn, the other
films in the weeklong event include Kinky Boots, Mirrormask, The Child
(winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival) and The Memory of a
Killer. The films will be shown every night at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT)
throughout the week of March 19, concluding with a marathon of all five
films on March 24.
Starz Cinema World Television Premiere Week Shown at 10:00 p.m. during
the week of March 19
* Kinky Boots 3/19 – After his father’s sudden death leaves him in charge
of a struggling shoe factory, a man (Joel Edgerton) finds an unlikely
business ally in a flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer (Chiwetel
Okiofor). The movie was inspired by the true story of a traditional
English men’s footwear factory, which turned to production of kinky
boots for transvestites, in order to save the ailing family business
and safeguard the jobs of the local community.
* Mirrormask 3/20 – Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), a 15-year-old girl in a
family of circus entertainers, often wishes that she could run away
from the circus and join real life. Blaming herself for her mother’s
illness, Helena falls into a dream, where she’s in a strange world with
two warring queens (no, there’s no theme here), bizarre creatures and
masked inhabitants. Order can only be restored by the mystical
Mirrormask and it’s up to Helena to find it. The film co-stars Gina
McKee and Stephen Fry.
* The Child (L’Enfant) 3/21 – Bruno and Sonia (Jeremie Renier and Deborah
Francois) are a young, immature couple, who find themselves strapped
down with a newborn son. Bruno, a petty thief, with no interest in
work and no direction in life, decides to sell the baby. Is there any
chance of redemption for Bruno?
* The Memory of a Killer (De Zaak Alzheimer) 3/22 – When a key civil
servant is murdered, the Antwerp police force puts its top crime
investigators on the case (Koen De Bouw and Werner De Smedt). The trail
leads to retired assassin Angelo (Jan Decleir). Showing symptoms of
Alzheimer’s, Angelo finds it increasingly difficult to carry out
assignments, and when he realizes he’s being used in a political power
game, he decides to bite the hand that feeds him.
* Thumbsucker 3/23 – A Minnesota teenager named Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci)
throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to
break free from his abnormal addiction to his thumb. The film co-stars
Tilda Swinton, Vincent D’Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn and
Benjamin Bratt.
Five-Film Marathon on Saturday, March 24
* Kinky Boots at 5:35 a.m., 2:40 p.m., 10 p.m.
* Mirrormask at 7:25 a.m., 11:50 p.m.
* The Child at 9:10 a.m., 4:30 p.m.
* Thumbsucker at 10:50 a.m., 6:10 p.m.
* The Memory of a Killer at 12:35 p.m., 7:50 p.m.
Starz Cinema brings the art-house to your house.
Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating
in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship
Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 15.5 million and 27.3
million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000
movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services
including Starz HD, Starz On Demand and Vongo(SM). Starz Entertainment
(http://www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation that is attributed to Liberty
Capital Group.
Contacts: Steve Belgard/Starz Les Eisner/The Lippin Group
(720) 852-5843 323-965-1990
steve.belgard@starz.com leisner@lippingroup.com
Directed by David Ayer, whose first movie ‘Bad Time’ will hit Belgian screens on March 14, ‘The Night Watchman’ tells the story of a cop who has fallen in disgrace and who discovers that corruption has taken over his department. He then tries to make amends for his mistakes by turning the culprits in. Shooting is due to start on April 30th.
