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...chance, and he seizes it. He's ordinary, pudgy-faced, quiet, and at first seems to lack the screen charisma to carry a film. That supposition vanishes in a few minutes, as Renner slowly reveals the strength, confidence and unpredictability of a young Russell Crowe. The merging of actor and character is one of the big things to love about this movie. The other is that its tone, of steely calm, takes its cue from the character it so acutely observes. It's as if James was not only the subject of the movie - he made...
...Consider that of the 19 films nominated for Oscars this past year in the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor and actress), 12 had played at TIFF in 2007, as had the winners in four of those six slots. Such multiple nominees as No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Savages, Away from Her and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly had received their first big North American push on Lake Ontario. The preponderance of TIFF veterans among Academy favorites is nothing new. In 2006 the top contenders for Best Picture were...
DIED As scenes of impending doom flash onscreen, his gravelly voice cuts through the explosive effects and thundering music with the familiar words "In a world where ..." Known as "Thunder Throat," "The Trailer King" or, more generally, "that movie voice-over guy," self-dubbed voice actor Don LaFontaine narrated more than 5,000 movie trailers and other promotions in his nearly 50-year career. Originally an audio engineer and editor, LaFontaine got his start behind the mike because of a scheduling mix-up. Soon he was recording voice-overs full time--as many as 60 a week--and narrating teasers...
...this year. But Andie Grace, a spokesperson for the festival who keeps track of such things at the annual, week-long circus in the Nevada desert, said there's no way to know. "Among the oldest participants I've ever had the pleasure to hang out with, one was actor Larry Hagman, who was born in September of '31," she said. "So your cousin has him beat." Easily. Irving was seven when J.R. Ewing was born...
...second tier of summer's heroes included some surprises, too. Iron Man, a new franchise built around a lesser-known Marvel Comics character and a lead actor, Robert Downey Jr., whose indie-heavy resume didn't suggest he'd lure the masses, managed to take in $317.5 million. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the film most prognosticators expected to whip into first place, came in third with a respectable though not earth-shattering $315 million. Another summer sure thing - Will Smith in the superhero movie Hancock - made $226 million, a hit by most actors' standards...