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Kristen Stewart Not Worried About Her Films’ Success

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celeb News, Filmmaking, Scripts,

Kristen StewartKristen Stewart never thinks about how successful her movies are going to be when she signs up.

The 22-year-old actress - who has starred in one of the best-received movie franchises of all time as Bella Swan in the Twilight Saga - no longer thinks about how her films affect people because she has to decide if she likes them first of all.

"I couldn't imagine doing a project with the idea of how it's going to affect people. It really has to affect you first, and if it does, then maybe it will affect other people ... I think that people who don't have that are clearly choosing things to become famous actresses. They're clearly choosing things to make money. I mean, I love Los Angeles - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time."

Kristen admits she feels very grateful to have experience so much success in her shirt career and she realizes she is privileged to have worked with so many talented actors: "I feel so extremely successful - and not just because I can greenlight a movie now. It's because I've really only worked with people that I truly love."

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James Cameron is Only Interested in Avatar Movies

James CameronJames Cameron plans to only make Avatar movies for the rest of his career. The director - who was Oscar-nominated for the first film, which tells the tale of humans exploiting the natural resources of the planet Pandora - is no longer concerned with making any other films and wants to focus on the sci-fi projects for the future.

"I'm in the Avatar business. Period. That's it. I'm making Avatar 2, Avatar 3, maybe Avatar 4, and I'm not going to produce other people's movies for them. I'm not interested in taking scripts.... I think within the Avatar landscape I can say everything I need to say that I think needs to be said, in terms of the state of the world and what I think we need to be doing about it. And doing it in an entertaining way," he told The New York Times.

Currently James is working hard on the first follow-up, and pre-production is already underway: "So we've been mostly working on the tool set, the production pipeline, setting up the new stages in Los Angeles, setting up the new visual effects pipeline in New Zealand, that sort of thing. And, by the way, writing."


Quote of the Day: Tilda Swinton on Acting

Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,

Tilda Swinton winning her Oscar

"I'm not really interested in acting. I've given up waiting for an epiphany of interest to strike. Acting is a red herring and a major mistake and I'm still trying to get back on track. Every time I'm in a film I'm determined it's the last I'm in then I'll fall into a conversation with someone and we'll cook up a new scheme. Basically it's gone on for 20 years but I'm hoping to pull it to a close shortly."

-- Michael Clayton actress Tilda Swinton on her opinion of acting.

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Quote of the Day: When Ryan Gosling Will Retire From Films

Ryan Gosling at the premiere of Drive

"I'd like to be making babies but I'm not, so I'm making movies... When someone comes along, I don't think I'll be able to do both and I'm fine with that. I'll make movies until I make babies."

- Drive actor Ryan Gosling on when he'll stop making movies.

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Jon Hamm Wants George Clooney’s Career

Jon Hamm and George Clooney

wants to be the next George Clooney.

The actor - who has long-been compared to the Hollywood hunk - confesses he would “love to emulate” the Men Who Stare At Goats star’s career because of the variation of his work.

“We already have a perfectly serviceable , but that’s certainly someone whose career I would love to emulate because he’s been able to work in various genres and walk the line between drama and comedy. He also got started very late in life because ER came when he was well into his thirties, so he bounced around, not unlike me, from show to show and failed pilot to failed pilot, and then ER happened and he blew up.”

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Clint Eastwood Tired of Himself

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Clint Eastwood

has no interest in seeing himself on film.

The Oscar-winning director prefers to stay behind the camera allowing others to take center stage, but insists he has no plans to quit acting altogether.

“I leave that to younger actors now. I’m not a prize fighter who has to capture another victory. Since I worked as a director for the first time on Play Misty for Me in 1970, I’ve become tired of seeing myself on the big screen,” the 80-year-old said. “That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop acting, though.”

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Hugh Grant’s Limited Range

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Hugh Grant thinks he’s a “very limited” actor.

The Did You Hear About The Morgans? star - whose known for playing suave English men in romantic comedy films - doesn’t work on as many movies as his peers by choice.

“I’m very picky but also very limited as an actor. There’s not much I can do,” he claimed. “I’ve always said that if you give me an Ibsen script, I can get away with it. But there are a lot of people who can do it better. I think that’s right. And if you’re going to put all this effort and heartache… if you put a year of your life into this, it’s only worth it if you think you have something to offer in this area.”

The 49-year-old star also spoke about the crippling panic attacks he suffered while filming 2007 comedy and admitted he almost quit acting as a result.

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Lucky Actress Sarah Harding

Sarah Harding at St. Trinian's 2 premiereSarah Harding feels lucky to have been given the chance to act.

The Girls Aloud star, who plays the role of schoolgirl Roxy in St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, says she is living out her dream on the big screen. Speaking at the world premiere of the movie In London’s Leicester Square, Sarah said:

“I’m just enjoying every minute of it at the moment. I’m getting to live out my fantasies. I’ve lived out my dream doing the singing and I never thought I’d get into doing the acting side of it as well, which is amazing. I’m very honored and grateful that they are giving me a chance.”

The 28-year-old star, who braved the cold on a special pink carpet in a stunning cut-out dress, also denied there was any competition between Girls Aloud as each member focuses on individual projects. “We’ve all got very different tastes and I think if were to all do our own solo stuff it would be very different.”

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Danny Dyer Fears Typecasting

Danny DyerDanny Dyer was asked to appear in a film called Cockneys vs. Zombies.

The London-born actor admits he tired of being offered the same type of roles - as a British hardman - and singled out the horror movie as the biggest low point he reached.

“I turned down a movie recently called Cockneys vs. Zombies. I thought ‘F**k me, for f**k’s sake’. That’s the final nail in the coffin for me. The fact they even had the front to use that title. I didn’t even turn the first page of the script.”

The Human Traffic star says rejecting the script was a relatively new thing for him because he used to accept anything he was offered out of a fear of rejection:

“So I’m learning, like I said, when you struggle as an actor for so long, and being an actor is about rejection, being told no all the time, so when you get on a run, and people start writing parts for you, you can get a bit carried away with that and say yes to everything. And I’ve had a bit of a spell of going, ‘Yeah, OK, I feel privileged that you want me in your film’. You’ve got to rein that in and say ‘No, it’s not going to test me, it’s not going to challenge me, it’s nothing new.”

Dyer’s Football Foul-Ups DVD is available to buy now.


Robert Pattinson Fears Non-Twilight Films

Robert PattinsonDespite already landing roles outside of the vampire series, Robert Pattinson finds taking on work outside of the Twilight franchise “scary.”

The actor, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the hit movie series, says that it is more difficult to take on new roles now that he is so famous because there are so many things to consider.

“You get offered stuff that you would never dream of getting offered before, but that’s also scary. You don’t have to audition for anything. But I don’t want to do a movie just so it gets made. You have to question yourself a lot more. Before Twilight, I did any movie that I got offered, and you’d try and make the best of it afterwards. But now, you’re expected to come into the movie and provide not only economic viability, but also a performance as well. You can’t just mess around. People are like, ‘We’re employing you to be here, as a star and an actor.’ It’s difficult, and it’s scary.”

After recently working on the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, Robert is looking forward to taking on some radically different projects before getting to work on fourth installment Breaking Dawn.

“I think the tentative time for Breaking Dawn is fall next year. Depending on how things go, I’m doing a movie called Bel Ami in February, an adaptation to a Guy de Maupassant novel. And I’m doing - I hope - a Western with Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman called Unbound Captives sometime around there as well. They’ve got to try and juggle things around until everybody’s schedules work.”


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