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• Tamblyn is the future Meryl Streep, she just needs that one role to make everybody finally notice her unbelievable talent. Maybe this will be it, who knows.

  Comment by LL — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 10:59pm EST  Reply to this post

• “Tamblyn is the future Meryl Streep, she just needs that one role to make everybody finally notice her unbelievable talent.”

  Spit take!

  Comment by Darren — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 11:39pm EST  Reply to this post

• Agree about Tamblyn. Happy for her.

  Comment by TBWCF — Monday February 8, 2010 @ 11:51pm EST  Reply to this post

• How many more Jane Austen films do we have to suffer through? Get a new book or author already.

  Comment by snowballa — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 12:10am EST  Reply to this post

  • What part of “Jane Eyre, the Cary Fukunaga-directed adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel” equals a Jane Austen novel for you?

    Comment by LM — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 12:41pm EST  Reply to this post

    • To be fair Jane Eyre has been filmed thrice as much as Pride and Prejudice, Austen’s most popular novel. There were two features in the 90s alone (one with Samantha Morton, another with Charlotte Gainsborough) and one BBC miniseries made less than four years ago. The BBC miniseries got decent ratings but I can’t remember the movies being hit.

      Deader than disco. Hiring a barely of age actress to film a love story with some actor who will have to be ten to fifteen years her senior (because otherwise the plot will fall apart) won’t help matters.

      Comment by Sally — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 3:59pm EST  Reply to this post

• Some poor Focus assistant is getting chewed out today.

  Comment by Anonymouse — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 1:10am EST  Reply to this post

• Bigger issue. Bring back production to LA, so that non-name actresses who have been acting forever will be able to be considered and not just the “veteran names.” As far as ingenues…age old story. The younger you are the better. Hollywood loves youth, but doesn’t ever realize that the rest of the world loves good actresses of all ages whether they are names or not. Hooray for Tamblyn. Hooray for Blanchett- like she’s having trouble getting cast-old broad that she is….I’m being facetious about Blanchett of course.

  It’s so ironic that the reality shows with real women of all ages do well, yet Hollywood can’t seem to get it through their skulls that it’s the same of feature film, episodic and commercial casting. Then there’s the added problem for white women – since Hollywood thinks viewers hate white women now. If you’re brown or black-that’s cool, but if your white – God forbid. So shortsighted. Caveat: the only white women that Hollywood thinks the world loves are British women…..but all this information has fallen on deaf ears for oh so long. Bitter – yep.

  Comment by Tracy — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 1:51am EST  Reply to this post

  • Why don’t you give us your full name, since the only thing we know about you is that you’re a white woman who can’t get cast. It’s not like full disclosure will hurt your career.

    Whenever people complain, “How come there isn’t a club for white people?” That club is greater society, idiot. Did you see the cover of Vanity Fair? 12 white woman, not a single person of color. Personally, I could care less, but understand the fact that you chose to be an actor. If you had studied harder, maybe you could have gone to law school or something. Don’t complain because you scored a SAG card, but aren’t famous. That’s life.

    Comment by okay — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 11:57am EST  Reply to this post

  • Tracy, you obviously haven’t seen Vanity Fair’s most recent Young Hollywood cover. Not an actress of color to be seen anywhere….

    Comment by Really? — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 1:30pm EST  Reply to this post

• Don’t forget all the female leads in the upcoming Inferno/Sony pic BAD GIRLS.

  Comment by Elen_Z — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 2:31am EST  Reply to this post

• Cate Blanchett is signing on to join Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana in Hanna.

  With Eric Bana in the title role of Bill Hanna and Channing Tatum as Joe Barbera, with Cate Blanchett as June Foray anf Saoirse Ronan as Judy Jetson.

  Comment by Max — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 3:27pm EST  Reply to this post

• LL, I just saw Amber Tamblyn in BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. Girl is NO Meryl Streep. LMFAO! Not to say she’s a had actress. She just isn’t good. Or at least memorably so. Someone needs to give her another TV series because some actors only work well on TV and she’s one of them.

  Comment by Luke — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 7:53pm EST  Reply to this post

• Tracy, the sad is fact is that lots of films about older women do make money, even when they are quite ham fisted (i.e “The Banger Sisters”, “Beaches”, etc).

  The real problem is that getting any movie made is a herculean effort and very few producers want to push that rock up a hill when pushing the “Fast and Furious VIII” rock allows them to hang out with younger actors on the Sunset Strip and score chicks hoping for a one line walk on.

  Making things even harder is that Meryl Streep is on such a hot streak that if you can’t get her everyone thinks the film is a huge risk, although the Diane Keatons of the world have returned at the box office in films that ain’t Shakespeare (”Because I said so”).

  Truth is these types of films have just as loyal an audience as all the fanboy comic based properties (their moms!) and are a hell of a lot cheaper to produce.

  But that’s Hollywood…not exactly rational.

  Comment by Hear Ya — Tuesday February 9, 2010 @ 8:09pm EST  Reply to this post

• Mia Wasikowska’s performance was so genius in IN TREATMENT. And it looks like she is making excellent choices. I bet on HER to be the next Blanchett

  Comment by Thunder From Down Under — Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 2:04am EST  Reply to this post

• Cate was suppose to be in Joe Wright’s film “Indian Summer” but it was not to be. So, obviously, she wants to work with this wonderful director so she has signed on to do this. I say it’s all good, she will be stretched and her skills afresh, under his direction!

  

  Comment by Kathy SF — Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 5:08pm EST  Reply to this post