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...having the responsibility if it fails." Others are happy for an early career push. "You have to get known, and in summer films you do get attention," says Elizabeth Banks, 29, who has the female lead (supporting Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges) in the horse opera Seabiscuit. For an actor, working beats not working--so why not in a movie that people will pay to see, rather than one that plays twice at Sundance and then vanishes...
...very notion that a fluffy summer action movie should be headed by America's most beautiful serious actor (or seriously beautiful one) paints a flummoxed smile on the faces of Depp's admirers. This is, after all, a film based on a Disney theme-park attraction--not a cool thrill machine like the Tower of Terror or a camp classic like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride but the staid Pirates of the Caribbean. For this project, Depp put aside the nutsy-greatsy auteurs of his past (Tim Burton, John Waters, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch) to team up with Gore Verbinski...
...Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic." MEL GIBSON, actor, on directing The Passion, a movie about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life...
...with Davis scoring as low as 21% in some polls, Republicans realize they have a chance to win back the country's most visible governorship. Issa may be too conservative (and abrasive) to win statewide office, but former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan tells TIME that he and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, both moderates, have talked about running against Davis. Schwarzenegger isn't discussing politics while he promotes Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which opens this week, but, says Riordan, "Davis' big worry is that it will be me or Arnold. I hope it's Arnold...
...cancer at the age of 72, having completed only one day of shooting on the sequel, his 30-year-old son Kenta?author of both films' screenplays but lacking in directorial experience?took over his father's job. Kenta's humble, self-effacing approach charmed some and annoyed others. Actor Takeshi Kitano, who played the original group's teacher in the first movie and reprises the role in flashback sequence, reportedly commented that the younger Fukasaku was "more polite than a Kyoto tea lady." Kenta insists that the finished product is a Kinji Fukasaku film, even though he directed almost...