Olivia Thirlby on her behalf Role in 'Dredd' and Fighting Aliens in 'The Pitch-dark Hour'

You might not know Olivia Thirlby by title, but chances are you already know the 25-year-old actress, who's starred in from 'Juno' to 'No Strings Attached' to 'United 93.' Knowing from her approaching slate of films, title recognition could soon follow too. Additionally to showing up alongside Paul Dano and Robert P Niro in next year's 'Being Flynn,' Thirlby is placed to experience Judge Anderson within the buzzed-about sci-flick, 'Dredd.' The film, in line with the comic series, was initially modified in to the notoriously awful 1995 movie 'Judge Dredd' with Sylvester Stallone (not too it matters -- Thirlby has not even viewed that certain) fans from the comic happen to be clamoring for an additional version since. Moviefone lately spoken with Thirlby about walking in to the role of Anderson, whether she would be a sci-fi geek becoming an adult and how it is like fighting aliens, which she does in her own approaching film, 'The Pitch-dark Hour,' in theaters Xmas Day. So things get pretty physical together with your character in 'The Pitch-dark Hour.' I heard you probably did all of your own stunts. Used to do. I acquired bumped up with many different gnarly bruises, however it was fun. It had been interesting. It required lots of endurance. I have been curious if doing all of your own stunts is really fun. It is a type of dependent on necessity, like several things they cannot make use of a double for because they have to have the ability to see my face. It is also dependent on what types of stunts you will find, like there's certain stunts which i wouldn't happen to be able to do, but our stuff for 'Darkest Hour' was me around the rig connected to wires. It had been mostly just falling and being pulled. All of the aliens within this film are computer produced. Could it be difficult to elicit that kind of emotion when what you are said to be freaked out about is not even before you to begin with? It is not easy to shoot for the reason that respect, because many of the time things that you are said to be responding to don't exist yet, so it's really a challenge for the reason that regard, since you do need to use fantasy to well appear like you are afraid of something, which at that time your camera is moving, it's totally not there. Whenever we were filming 'The Pitch-dark Hour,' we did not know exactly what the aliens would seem like, we did not actually have a graphic reference. Therefore it was defnitely a large challenge to market individuals type of extreme moments when you are just producing them out of your own imagination. So you have got 'The Pitch-dark Hour' and also the 'Dredd' being released. Had you been a large sci-fi geek becoming an adult? To tell the truth, I wasn't a sci-fi geek whatsoever. However I deeply love a great sci-fi film, especially one that will really get you away. And That I read some reality-bending books becoming an adult, like stuff by [Kurt] Vonngeut, and so i already had one part my brain available to the abnormal and unusual, and it is generally fun to head to that world and film inside it. Have you even bother watching the initial 'Judge Dredd' movie with Sylvester Stallone, or did you need to use having a clean slate? I really did not watch the initial one deliberately, and that i still haven't. However I believe that at this time, it isn't an intentional choice. I'm excited to determine [the initial], and whenever I've the possibility [I'll. But throughout shooting, I made the decision to not watch it, simply because the film i was making really is not related to it, and that i did not would like to get affected because of it whatsoever. With 'Dredd' -- and to some extent, 'Being Flynn,' according to 'Another Bullshit Evening in Suck City' by Nick Flynn -- do you experience feeling more pressure because each of them come with an established group of followers? Yeah, certainly. Obviously, the Nick Flynn group of followers is quite different from the '2000 AD' group of followers [laughs]. It is a little daunting [for 'Dredd'], where I'm personifying a personality which already is available very firmly in individuals minds, which individuals have an attachment to and also have an affection for. But my hope is the fact that people react to it plus they believe it is something that enhances their creativeness and also the ideas they already had developed, rather than conflicting together. All I'm able to do is hope and pray which i will not be disappointing anybody. The smoothness which i play in 'Being Flynn' does not really appear in his memoirs, she's type of an amalgam of individuals. So fortunately I'm not living as much as real people there. Should you consider the trajectory of the career, you've ongoing to obtain bigger roles in bigger films. Out of your perspective, would you seem like you're beginning to maneuver right into a different tier of acting and/or celebrity at this time? It's all regulated relative. I still audition a great deal and work really challenging work. And So I don't really walk around feeling like I have managed to get [laughs]. My temporary goals are actually simply to be artistically stimulated and also to be looking forward to material I would be focusing on. I'm less worried about maybe how each project suits the large picture of my career, as lengthy as, with an individual basis, it's compelling and fun. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Go to Meatball Shop Instead of 'Mission: Impossible 4' After Party

Awesome trailer week rolls on! Just one day after the first trailer for 'The Dark Knight Rises' released online and two days before 'Prometheus' arrives, Warner Bros. has unveiled the first teaser for 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.' So, how does it look? Like 'Lord of the Rings,' but with Tim from 'The Office' (UK version, natch), Young Gandalf and Cate Blanchett. Also, dwarves singing! You crazy for this one, Peter Jackson. Head over to Apple to watch in HD or check it out below. Starring Martin Freeman (that's Tim), Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and precious Andy Serkis, 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' arrives in theaters on Dec. 14 2012. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Vin Diesel Certifies Fast & Furious 7

The story's too big for part 6.While eating your body body fat and shooting the breeze within a photograph-session for your Hollywood Reporter, Vin Diesel appears to own confirmed the seventh Fast & Furious was already inside the works. Shooting round the sixth hasn't even started yet, nevertheless the story that's being prepared appears like it's too massive being found in one movie.The Two films are increasingly being written at the same time, according to Vin, although there's no indication of whether they'll be shooting back-to-back."Using the wealth of the 4g apple iphone, as well as the inclusion of lots of figures, as well as the broadening of scope, once we were sitting to find out a sum go with property of number six, we was without enough room,Inch Vin describes."We should pay back this story, we should service a number of these character associations, then when we started mapping everything out it really went beyond 110 pages. The studio mentioned, 'You can't fit everything story in one damn movie!'"Without attempting to decrease a spoiler on people who haven't yet caught the gloriously absurd Fast Five, it already seems the following instalment will dsicover the return of Michelle Rodriguez and Avoi Mendes. To make sure that, with the presumable return of Paul Master, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris Bridges, Matt Schulze, Sang Kang, Lady Gadot and, we certainly hope, Elsa Pataky and Dwayne Manley, certainly signifies plenty of story to spread around. After which it somewhere inside, there's the requirement to wreck some automobiles.It is not by mentioning cars though, Paul Master thinks it's about thefighting types of brotherhood and family. "Once the action was all it absolutely was, it could have fallen off a really very long time ago," Master states. Inform us in the event you believe that inside the comments below. And reveal how extended you will see the series ongoing when you are there.Filming on Fast & Furious 6 can get going next season (after Diesel can get completed with Riddick 3), with Justin Lin within the helm, while he remains since Tokyo, japan, japan Drift. The release date was already searching for May 27, 2013.

Mexico's Canana pacts with Netflix

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican indie Canana has inked its first deal with Netflix to run episodes of its successful original series "Soy tu fan" (I'm Your Fan), currently on its second season on pubcaster Once TV Mexico. The romantic comedy, starring Ana Claudia Talancon ("The Crime of Father Amaro"), is Canana's first major project for the smallscreen, scoring an average 5 point rating with 7.5 points share in the second season that started in October. Episodes from the first season will be available for both Netflix Latin America and Netflix in the U.S. and Canada, the first time U.S. audiences will have access to the program. Canana has built a reputation as an innovator in distribution, becoming the first to offer VOD on a major cabler in Mexico, and releasing the 2010 "Revolucion" omnibus project in theaters, on DVD and free-to-air simultaneously. Canana, founded by producer Pablo Crus with thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, has its religious-themed "Nino santo" TV project in the pipeline, as well as two other projects under wraps. By running on Once TV, "Soy tu fan" directly competes against the TV duopoly of Televisa and TV Azteca, which control over 90% of Mexico's market share. In a statement, Cruz hailed the Netflix deal, saying it was meeting the desires "of the consumer, not the programmer." It comes a week after Netflix customers in Mexico and Latin America were given access to the service via Apple TV and iPad/iPhone. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Matt Damon Blasts Tony Gilroy's Bourne Ultimatum Script: 'It Was Unreadable'

“I don’t blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in,” Matt Damon told GQ recently about Gilroy’s script for the third Jason Bourne film, The Bourne Ultimatum — a script Gilroy agreed to write for “an exorbitant amount of money” as long as he only had to provide one draft and pay no regard to studio notes. “It’s just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It’s terrible. It’s really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left.” Gilroy wrote and directed the latest Bourne film The Bourne Legacy, due in theaters this August with Jeremy Renner starring. [GQ via indieWire]

Bosnian Serb War Victim Wants Jolies Film Banned

First Released: December 13, 2011 9:08 AM EST Credit: Getty Images BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Caption Julia Roberts steps out in the Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey premiere held at ArcLight Movie theaters in Hollywood, Calif. on December 8, 2011The mind of the group for Serbs held prisoner throughout Bosnias 1992-95 war states Angelina Jolies movie Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey ought to be banned within the Serb-run area of the country. Branislav Djukic from the Bosnian Serb Association of Camping Criminals told the Connected Press on Tuesday that although he's seen just the trailer, he is able to already the movie is showing lies and representing Serbs because the only ones who raped women throughout the war. Jolies movie is going to be launched within the U.S. on 12 ,. 23 and it is huge drama in regards to a Serb soldier who finds his ex-lover, a Muslim Bosnian lady, among sex slaves inside a camping. The film was recognized with a selected audience of 11 non-Serb war victim groups who first viewed it in Sarajevo earlier this year. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

5 Pieces of Elizabeth Taylor Movie Memorabilia I'd Actually Pay For

Long live the memory of our most-perfectly-nosed savior Elizabeth Taylor, whose Oscar cred and Crayola eyes shall live on in fabulous montages for eternity. Now, part of the matrimonial legend’s legacy can be ours: Her glorious Cleopatra wig — made from real human hair — is hitting the auction block. Oooh! I wonder if there are traces of Richard Burton’s saliva on it. Actually, I wonder if we can score a deal on other Liz Taylor movie memorabilia. Cleopatra is a decadent, but pretty uninteresting note in her career. No prestige, just bombast. Here’s the Liz stuff I’d rather bid on this holiday season. 1. Her pearl earrings from A Place in the Sun I figure if you’re going to buy a piece of memorabilia, you want it to represent something special: Well, Liz Taylor vaulted from darling child star to sensual screen beauty in 1951’s A Place in the Sun, playing aristocrat Angela Vickers, who compels George Eastman (Montgomery Clift, looking fiiiine) to, tell his homelier girlfriend Alice to — ahem — jump in a lake, figuratively. Elizabeth Taylor was fine onscreen before A Place in the Sun, but this film marked the first time she exhibited true spellbinding glamor. To live without those luxurious earrings would be An American Tragedy. (Best Theodore Dreiser joke of the day.) 2. This eye-popping headgear from Raintree County What kind of world do we live in where we don’t celebrate that Elizabeth Taylor, the most gorgeous brunette of all time, costarred in a film with Eva Marie Saint, who is arguably the most gorgeous blonde of all time? Throw in Monty Clift’s appearance, and this movie is essentially Hottie Cavalcade. We all adore Liz’s southern sultriness in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, so why not celebrate her twangy repartee with the looniest piece of headgear she ever wore in Ole Dixie? I’m gettin’ fluh-stuhd just thinkin’ abaht it. 3. The fetching white swimsuit from Suddenly Last Summer Finally, we’re getting to the movie that first pinpointed Liz’s true gift for histrionics. Tennessee Williams’s startlingly insane play makes for a hammy, unforgettable movie, and it even affords Liz the chance to predate Ursula Andress’s iconic beachside arrival by a couple years. In Suddenly, Liz wears the sexiest swimwear of the ’50s, surpassing even Burt Lancaster’s shorts in From Here to Eternity — but let’s not get competitive. The important thing is both garments thrilled the daylights out of Monty Clift. 4. The “Sunday chapel dress” from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Since I can’t buy Sandy Dennis’s RAW POWER at auction, I’ll settle for the other definitive Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? adornment: The busty, ballsy outfit Liz dons after her guests have arrived and the psychological warfare with her husband George (Richard Burton) commences. When Liz shimmies and twists in the climactic bar scene near film’s end, she makes that Melissa-Leo-in-The-Fighter getup seem like the raunchiest outfit in cinema history. I’m getting hysterically pregnant just revisiting that scene. 5. The headband from Reflections in a Golden Eye In this vastly underrated adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel with Liz and Marlon Brando, our girl enjoys a hasty, defiant stripping scene that drives Vito Corleone right up the wall. Sexiness and fussiness have rarely gone so well together, and after Liz flings off her bra with pure gusto — like some power-drunk competitor in a Real World/Road Rules Challenge — she’s left with a bedazzled headband and Brando’s harsh admonishment: “You disgust me!” Anything that could feasibly disgust Marlon Brando deserves its own gallery at the Smithsonian. Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra wig up for sale [Guardian]

CBS buys independent Gotham station

CBS has pacted to purchase a second station in NY City, WLNY. It's not a big station, as Wells Fargo analyst Marcy Ryvicker said the independent WLNY generated $3.8 million in revenue in 2010 -- less than 1% of total revenue for the country's largest market. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the acquisition gives CBS a duopoly in Gotham, something the broadcaster said "presents a tremendous opportunity for our TV stations division," according to a quote attributed to division prexy Peter Dunn in a statement from CBS. "Our plans for the station include adding people and resources to fuel a significant expansion of local news programming well beyond the nightly half-hour that currently airs," Dunn said. WLNY is CBS's 10th duopoloy; other markets with two CBS stations include Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Detroit, Miami, Sacramento and Pittsburgh. Ryvicker said the move likely will increase margins for the market, and it also provides another base for local CBS news crews. The Melville, N.Y.-based WLNY is an independent station serving most of Long Island, including Nassau and Suffolk counties, and extending into parts of New Jersey and Connecticut as well as NY. Contact Sam Thielman at sam.thielman@variety.com

Peter Weller Boards Star Trek 2

He'll join the castGiven that he's already been RoboCop (twice) and will forever have a cult following for playing Buckaroo Banzai, it's not like Peter Weller needs to show up in another famous sci-fi franchise. But that's exactly what he's doing, as Deadline has confirmed he'll join the new Star Trek sequel.As JJ Abrams prepares to kick off shooting on the movie next month, he's looking to add more and more actors to the roster. Benicio Del Toro was in talks to play a villain, but according to Vulture, he has apparently not reached a deal. Oh, and in the same report, the continuing is-he-isn't-he debate on Khan Noonien Singh as the villain was thrown for another loop by "sources" saying that the genetically-tinkered superman will show up.So what will Weller be playing? There's so little solid information about the film so far that it's tough to guess, though there is talk of an older baddie in the movie, and Weller certainly knows how to access the dark side when he wants to.More recently, he's been keeping the acting CV filled with the likes of 24, Dexter, Fringe and a batch of indie movies, while also pulling duties behind the camera, directing the likes of Monk and Sons Of Anarchy.Star Trek 2 will feature returning cast members Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg and John Cho and will be out mid-2013.

IFC Films Lands Bruce Beresfords Toronto Title Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

IFC Films has acquired United States privileges to Bruce Beresford’s dramatic comedy Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, which stars Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Chace Crawford, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Elizabeth Olsen and first tested only at that year’s Toronto Film Festival. The plot focuses on an uptight NY lawyer (Keener) who brings her teens towards the farmhouse of her hippie mother (Fonda) for any vacation. BCDF Pictures Brice Dal Farra, Claude Dal Farra, Lauren Munsch, and Jonathan Burkhart were producers around the project, with co-authors Christina Mengert and Frederick Muszynski also executive creating. The offer was discussed by Sundance Chooses/IFC Films’ Arianna Bocco with CAA with respect to the filmmakers.

Bailey, Reynolds recollect favorite moments

G.W. Bailey as Lt. ProvenzaCorey Reynolds as Sgt. David GabrielCorey Reynolds (Sgt. David Gabriel)Favorite episode: "It was an episode where a little girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered and my character took it really hard and crossed the line when interviewing the suspect to get the information from him. The crime was so heinous and the suspect such a monster that it was a question of 'Is it wrong to beat someone like that to get what you need?' "Favorite scene: "In season one there was a scene where Gabriel and Brenda are in her office looking at evidence and she says to him something like, 'I know it's not easy, you getting stuck in the middle,' because at the time he was trying to appease her and appease the squad and appease Pope and everybody. He says to her, 'It's actually not that hard, because you do good work.' It's such a small moment, but it's one of the first bonding, genuine moments shared between those characters."Favorite off-screen moment: "Kevin Bacon came in and directed an episode. His director's chair said 'Kevin Sedgwick.' It was great to see him come in and kind of be humbled in that moment, but it was really funny and got a big laugh from the crew."G.W. Bailey (Lt. Provenza)Favorite episode: "What we call the Skybox Tickets episode ("To Protect & to Serve," season 2) where Tony Denison, who plays Flynn, and I find a dead body in my garage and leave it there in order to go to a Dodgers game, and when we come back the body of course is missing."Favorite scene: "It was a scene focusing on Sanchez, where his brother has been killed but he holds his emotions in to the very end of the piece when he finally breaks down in Provenza's arms. It's a very powerful moment -- the kind Provenza doesn't get to do a lot of, which I thought made it even more powerful."Favorite off-screen moment: "Almost every Friday night when we finish filming, we have a big party and out of those parties have come some quite extraordinary moments that I will absolutely not talk about under any circumstances.""THE CLOSER" 100TH EPISODE TNT's blue streak | Sedgwick confides on 'Closer' ramifications | 'Crime' a sign of new times | Bailey, Reynolds recollect favorite moments Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Academy To Screen First Best Pic Champion Wings For Paramounts 100th Birthday

The Academy of motion Picture Arts And Sciences mentioned today that it's going to screen its first Best Picture Oscar champion, the 1927 quiet film Wings, around the month of the month of january 18 next season incorporated within an event of significant Pictures’ 100th anniversary. Tickets are available beginning today. The film, which starred Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper, first opened up in 1927. Furthermore, it had been really the only quiet film to win the most effective Picture Oscar, something worth watching especially this year while using honours buzz surrounding Michel Hazanavicius’ black-and-white-colored quiet The Artist, the Weinstein Co is disseminating and mounting a collection Oscar campaign for after sweeping up at Cannes it already won the most effective Pic award within the NY Film Experts Circle this year's week. The Wings screening the next month is really a premiere from the restoration by Vital using the Academy Film Archive, full of live-music accompaniment round the organ by Clark Wilson. It’s part of the Academy’s Vital celebration including the exhibition “Paramount’s Movie Key occasions: A Centennial Celebration,” featuring photographs, posters, design sketches and correspondence using the studio’s birthday. The exhibit will run The month of the month of january 6-February 5 inside the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery.