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Harvey Weinstein, Maker Of Violent Movies, Wants Filmmaker Summit On Violence In Movies

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 8:51pm PDTTags: Harvey Weinstein, Quentin Tarantino

Harvey Weinstein tells the Huffington Post that Hollywood “can’t shirk our responsibility” for depicting violence. During yet another personal publicity push for one of his movies (French import The Intouchables), Weinstein acknowledged, ”It’s a question that I wrestle with all the time. I’ve been involved with violent movies,” said the studio head who has produced all of director Quentin Tarantino’s blood-spattered films, including the upcoming slave-era revenge fantasy Django Unchained, “and then I’ve also said at a certain point, ‘I can’t take it anymore. Please cut it.’ You know, you’ve got to respect the filmmaker, and it’s a really tough issue.” Weinstein also said, “I think, as filmmakers, we should sit down – the Marty Scorseses, the Quentin Tarantinos, and hopefully all of us who deal in violence in movies – and discuss our role in that.” As a successful screenwriter pal of mine emailed about Harvey’s ‘summit’ call: “Wonderful. It’s going to take place at the corner of Hubris St. and Hypocrisy Blvd, in the city of Sanctimony, right near the Self-Righteous Cineplex.”

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‘Django Unchained’ A ‘Shaft’ Prequel? So Says Quentin Tarantino: Comic-Con

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 1:42pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Quentin Tarantino

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.

Django UnchainedDjango Unchained a Shaft prequel? Really? There’s one more week of shooting on Django, and they just did scenes with Jonah Hill as a member of the Regulators (the pre-Civil War version of the KKK). Quentin Tarantino said it turned into one of the funniest scenes he’s ever done, which he says is up there with the name-colors conversation in Reservoir Dogs. There is one character in the movie that ties into the larger Tarantino-verse which he’s keeping a surprise, but he says Kerry Washington‘s character Brunhilde von Shaft is, in his mind, an ancestor of John Shaft – this prompted QT to start singing the theme song out loud. The panel was moderated by Anthony Breznican from Entertainment Weekly, who said he needed a whole new level of grandiloquent profanity to describe Django, a “twisted, bloody fairy tale,” before introducing Jamie Foxx, Walton Goggins, Don Johnson (with Jeff Bridges-looking facial hair and gray ponytail), Christoph Waltz (long hair and a bushy white beard that almost looks false, like Santa Claus), Washington, and Tarantino (in a leather jacket, dorky felt fedora, and a T-shirt depicting many of his characters as kids playing in a sandbox).
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Universal Dates Tarantino/RZA/Roth/Crowe’s ‘The Man With The Iron Fists’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 12:22pm PDTTags: Quentin Tarantino, RZA, The Man With The Iron Fists, Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures said today it will release The Man With The Iron Fists on Friday, November 2nd of this year. Produced by Quentin Tarantino and others, the stylized action-adventure inspired by kung-fu classics is directed by RZA … Read More »

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Hot Promo: ‘Django Unchained’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 2, 2012 @ 11:48am PDTTags: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, The Weinstein Company

Here’s the latest TV promo for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, which The Weinstein Company is releasing Christmas Day. This follows news over the weekend that the distributor plans a Comic-Con panel set for the convention’s Saturday schedule where it will show more footage.

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Quentin Tarantino, ‘Iron Man 3′, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Pacific Rim’, Juice Comic-Con Saturday

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 2:47pm PDTTags: After Earth, Big Deals Film, Comic-Con, Quentin Tarantino, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s Comic-Con coverage. This year’s event runs July 12-15.

Ever since 20th Century Fox showed the naked wrestling scene from Borat a few years ago at Comic-Con, the convention has been a lot stricter about R-rated clips, and companies like The Weinstein Co. and Lionsgate have scheduled off-site events for edgier genre fare such as Machete and the later Saw sequels. But when an icon of pop culture asks for a panel at the biggest pop-cultureDjango Unchained convention, well, you give Quentin Tarantino a Saturday slot in Hall H to show Django Unchained clips. Cast members who’ll attend were not announced in the Saturday lineup posted today. That may mean they probably don’t know if Jamie Foxx’s schedule will allow it for sure (last time I remember him coming down was for Stealth. Remember that one?). Similarly, the special guests for Marvel’s Iron Man 3 panel also remain anonymous so far, though I’ll be amazed if Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t show up, as he tends to make appearances every year. Expect that Marvel panel to also show something for Thor 2, and maybe make a more formal announcement about Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man and the Russo brothers’ Captain America sequel.

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The Warner Bros-Legendary panel is shaping up as the must-see of the show, with footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Zack Snyder’s Superman movie Man Of Steel the obvious draws, and Pacific Rim (aka Guillermo del Toro’s “giant fucking monsters against giant fucking robots”) likely to please. Rumors have been circulating that there may be another giant monster in the house, as Legendary has a Godzilla remake in the pipeline. Read More »

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Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Tyler Perry Join BET Awards

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 10:17am PDTTags: BET Awards, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino Jamie Foxx Django UnchainedStraight off Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx were announced today as presenters for Sunday’s BET Awards. The director and the star join Tyler Perry and Laz Alonzo, who … Read More »

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Jonah Hill Joins Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 10:30am PDTTags: Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has set Jonah Hill to play a role in Django Unchained, which is in production. I’m trying to find out who he’ll be playing, but am told it won’t be Scotty Harmony, the kid who loses … Read More »

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Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 4:57pm PDTTags: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, The Weinstein Company
Mike Fleming

Here’s the first look from The Weinstein Company at Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s drama about a slave who’s freed by a bounty hunter and tries to get back to his wife. In his way are some bad, bad people, … Read More »

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Evan Parke Joins Tarantino’s ‘Django’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 6:30pm PSTTags: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Evan Parke is joining the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. The film with Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson has begun production and will shoot in parishes in Louisiana. In addition to TV work on Desperate Housewives … Read More »

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Quentin Tarantino: ‘Midnight In Paris’ 2011′s Best; ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ 2nd

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 17, 2012 @ 5:24am PSTTags: Midnight In Paris, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

His own films often show up on year-end lists, so why shouldn’t Quentin Tarantino posit his own picks? Tarantino, readying Django Unchained with Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz, has unveiled his top 11 2011 films list on … Read More »

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Susan Orlean: Throw Rin Tin Tin A Bone & Give Back The Pooch’s Best Actor Oscar

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 3, 2012 @ 2:14pm PSTTags: Oscars, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

The Orchid Thief author Susan Orlean has a Hollywood theft to report, and a suggestion how to remedy the injustice. During the exhaustive research that Orlean did for her book Rin Tin Tin: The Life And The Legend, she discovered … Read More »

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London Crix Go Roeg With Top Honor

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday December 2, 2011 @ 5:26am PSTTags: Charlotte Rampling, Judi Dench, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Caine, Quentin Tarantino

The London Film Critics Circle is to present director Nicolas Roeg with the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, the org announced Friday. The prize is the venerable group’s highest honor and has previously gone to such … Read More »

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Michael Kenneth Williams In Talks For ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Snitch’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 16, 2011 @ 10:52am PSTTags: Django Unchained, Dwayne Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, Ric Roman Waugh, Snitch
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Insiders on Django Unchained said that the talks with Michael Kenneth Williams just won’t work out because of his schedule on Boardwalk Empire. They are scrapping that role completely.

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django’ Casts Rex Linn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 6:40pm PSTTags: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rex Linn is best known for his role as “Det. Frank Tripp” on CSI: Miami. Now he’s taking time out of the TV shooting schedule to join Quentin Tarantino’s star studded cast of Django Unchained. Linn will play the role of “Tennessee Harry”.

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Todd Allen Joins ‘Django Unchained’ Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 12:15pm PSTTags: Django Unchained, Film Castings, Quentin Tarantino

Todd Allen has joined the still-growing ensemble for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as plantation overseer Dollar Bill. He joins Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washingon, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kurt Russell, Anthony LaPaglia and Don Johnson among others. Allen’s … Read More »

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BAFTA Guru Launches To Advise On Industry Careers

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 10:54am PDTTags: BAFTA, British Academy Of Film And Television Arts, Errol Morris, Quentin Tarantino

BAFTA Guru has kicked off with the aim of offering entertainment industry expertise via a library of interviews, lectures, master classes and debates culled from the UK academy’s access to “some of the best minds in film, TV and video games.” Its target is 18- to 30-year-olds looking for advice … Read More »

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Anthony LaPaglia Joins ‘Django Unchained’, Laments Hardships Pushing Film Actors To TV

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Anthony LaPaglia, Christopher Plummer, Django Unchained, Film Castings, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Liev Schreiber, Quentin Tarantino, Toni Collette
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony LaPaglia has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained cast. LaPaglia will play the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters. LaPaglia said he and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play mean brothers, and LaPaglia said he was bowled over by the script. “It’s wildly ambitious and imaginative, deals with that subject matter in a way it hasn’t been dealt with before,” LaPaglia told me. “The way the cast has shaped up, it’s exciting to be involved.” It will be the second film in a row where LaPaglia can readopt the Australian accent he grew up with but dropped for many of his Hollywood roles and the series Without A Trace. He wrapped the PJ Hogan-directed Mental with Toni Collette and Liev Schreiber, a film that LaPaglia said is partly based on the filmmaker’s own experiences. “I play the father, who in real life had committed his mother to a mental institution, who had five kids, picked up a hitchhiker [Collette] on the way back and said, you’re taking care of the kids now.” LaPaglia said Hogan got rights to tunes from The Sound Of Music, and uses them in unexpected ways. “I absolutely assassinate “Edelweiss,” just tear it to shreds so badly that I’m sure Christopher Plummer would have a fit. It was meant to be terrible, and it is.” Read More »

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Kerry Washington Lands ‘Django Unchained’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Film Castings, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Washington has won the role of Broomhilda in Django Unchained. Director Quentin Tarantino made his choice and The Weinstein Company began exclusive negotiations with her CAA reps last night. She’ll play the long-suffering slave wife of Django (Jamie … Read More »

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HAMMOND: Oscar Hopefuls Swarm Hollywood Awards Gala

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 2:31am PDTTags: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Bennett Miller, Carey Mulligan, Christopher Plummer, Diablo Cody, George Clooney, Michel Hazanavicius, Michelle Williams, Quentin Tarantino, The Artist, The Help
Pete Hammond

Across town, as President Barack Obama was drawing every celebrity not in contention for awards this season, the 15th annual Hollywood Awards Gala was taking place at the Beverly Hilton. All of the Oscar hopefuls who agreed to show up to accept an award were there in their Monday finest as this was a place to be seen if you want an ego boost at this early point in the season.

With 19 above- and below-the-line categories to plow through, this was a surprisingly fun show that, if it didn’t already exist, Hollywood would have to find some way to invent. Billed as the ”official” kickoff to awards season (if you don’t count all those film festivals we’ve just been through), The Hollywood Awards were created — and basically chosen — by executive director Carlos de Abreu, who, with Janice Pennington, founded the gala and accompanying film festival. They are the result of a months-long negotiation between him and the studios and distributors, who are using this early opportunity to get key positioning for the players they hope to advance during the long awards season leading ultimately to Oscar. The only caveat is that to get the award, you have to agree to show up.

This year, de Abreu has his pulse on some real contenders and handed out acting awards to — among many others — Michelle Williams, George Clooney and Christopher Plummer, who all could realistically be considered close to frontrunners in their respective categories.

A real highlight of the show was when Marilyn Monroe’s Oscar-nominated Bus Stop co-star Don Murray showed up to present Hollywood Actress of the Year to Williams, who plays the iconic star in The Weinstein Company’s My Week With Marilyn. “I’m the last of the the on-screen lovers of Marilyn Monroe, and I still just happen to have a body that actually works, ” the 82-year-old actor said to much laughter. “Michelle re-created moments I was so intimately familiar with as I spent 14 months working with Marilyn. There’s not one thing in this film that’s not truthful. It was a revelation. Michelle’s performance made me appreciate Marilyn Monroe  so much more.”

Williams, noticeably nervous, said her friends always wanted to see her win a award so she could basically sweat through the experience. She did well though, closing with a touching perception about Monroe. “It seems to me that all Marilyn Monroe wanted was to be taken seriously as an actress, and she studied so hard and never really got there,” she said, adding that it was ironic Williams herself could get this kind of recognition that so eluded the star she played.

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