Rosamund Pike - Watch Tom Cruise Become a Total Badass To Rescue Rosamund Pike in This Trailer For ‘Jack Reacher’ By Michael Arcand (MY SPACE)

Official Synopsis: When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: “Get Jack Reacher!” So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

(I can't see Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher - sorry.  Ray Stevenson would have been a MUCH better choice)

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RAY STEVENSON: Toronto; Anchor Bay Acquires ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car’ By MIKE FLEMING | (DEADLINE NEW YORK)

BREAKING: Anchor Bay Films has acquired North American and UK rights to Jayne Mansfield’s Car, the Billy Bob Thornton-directed which which makes its North American premiere on September 13th here at Toronto. Thornton stars with Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Katherine LaNasa, Ray Stevenson, and Robert Patrick. Thornton co-wrote it with Tom Epperson. Alexander Rodnyansky produced with Geyer Kosinski.

An ensemble drama about families and the effects of combat on the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, Jayne Mansfield’s Car looks at two colorful clans in 1969. Brought together by the death of a woman who was married, first to the Alabaman Jim Caldwell (Duvall) and then to the British Kingsley Bedford (Hurt), her families meet for the first time at the Caldwells’ home with uneasy curiosity. The result is a culture clash of the Sixties, and of the Old World versus the Old South.

READ MORE: http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/toronto-anchor-bay-acquires-jayne-mansfields-car/

Ray Stevenson: Jayne Mansfields Car trailer BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH | JULY 18, 2012 5:22 PM (THE PLAYLIST)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bi8cN_Um3Vs#

Despite boasting a strong ensemble cast including Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Frances O'Connor, Ray Stevenson, Kevin Bacon (with an amazing hairpiece) and Robert Patrick, with writer/director Billy Bob Thornton also featuring, and slotting a premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, it seems distributors stateside haven't been quick to bite on the drama "Jayne Mansfield's Car." But over in Australia, the movie will be landing on DVD and Blu-ray in early 2013 and the first trailer to get the word out has arrived.

No word on when we'll get to see the movie for ourselves over here, but for now, you can check out lengthy trailer below. [Le Blog Du Cinema]

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Clive Owen: Preview HBO's hot Emmy contender 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' By Marcus Dixon Apr 23 2012 | 01:45 am (GOLD DERBY)

The Emmy derby is about to get a massive A-list shake-up when HBO's original film "Hemingway and Gellhorn" makes its long-awaited debut Monday, May 28. The film screens out of competition at the Cannes filmfest the week before.

Golden Globe winner Clive Owen ("Closer," 2004) and Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman ("The Hours," 2002) lead an all-star cast that includes Oscar champ Robert Duvall ("Tender Mercies," 1983), Emmy victor David Strathairn ("Temple Grandin," 2010), SAG Drama Ensemble nominee Molly Parker ("Deadwood," 2007) and three-time Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub ("Monk," 2003, 2005, 2006). The star appeal of its cast should give "Hemingway & Gellhorn" some major Emmy attention when nominations are announced July 19. However, when HBO recently confirmed with Gold Derby all of their acting submissions for the year, Duvall was a notable omission.






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A cringe moment with Billy Bob Thornton and how he, you know, loves British people, the English, Irish and Scotch (oh my)

Billy Bob Thornton: 'I love British people. I always have. Fact of the matter is, my people came from you guys.'

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Billy Bob Thornton fixes me with a laser-eye stare, and briefly bares a mouthful of teeth in his southern-genteel grin. "I love British people," he says. "I always have. Fact of the matter is, my people came from you guys. The south was settled by the English, Scotch and Irish. You get into Minnesota and Wisconsin, that's German and Swedes, but our area is predominantly from the British Isles."

 Overlooking the fact that few use "Scotch" any more, and that many Irish people would object to being lumped in with the British Isles, you get his drift: from Arkansas, where Thornton grew up, it probably all looks pretty similar. But it also explains the oddest aspect of his new film, Jayne Mansfield's Car: after 20 minutes or so of blood-heat, southern-gothic drama, up pop John Hurt, Ray Stevenson and Frances O'Connor as a family of plummy-voiced types all the way from England.

Thornton, who co-wrote the film as well as directed it, makes great play out of the culture clash between these three and his Alabama-residing clan (which number Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick and Thornton himself). Thornton expands the theme. "There's a real kinship. Let's say you go to Atlanta. They have the British thing, it's a proper southern culture, the old south money. The accent isn't even that different, if you really listen. Here's an analogy: I'm on my best behaviour with a proper English gentleman, we're talking and we're respectful to each other. Then we have a few beers and, basically, we're the same guy.

 "People in the US have a wrong idea about the English. They think they're so uptight – but the Bafta awards last night were so loose."

You may or may not buy Thornton's basic premise of brotherhood between the old south and the old world, but that last remark reminds you that this soft-voiced, rail-thin man operates in the highest echelons of film-industry celebrityhood.



Read the article:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/feb/16/billy-bob-thornton-about-english?newsfeed=true

Today Thornton is presenting the world premiere of his very American art movie at the Berlin film festival, but yesterday he was yukking it up on stage in London, being flattered by Stephen Fry and presenting Hurt with his Bafta lifetime achievement award.

Ray Stevenson: Jayne Mansfield's Car (Variety)

Russia invades Hollywood by 'Car'

"The Russians are coming!" is no longer a cry of Red-scare panic. At least not in Hollywood, where -- for filmmakers struggling to raise funds for adult dramas -- it's now an exclamation of relief.

The unlikely film launching this Russian invasion is tonight's Berlinale competition world premiere of "Jayne Mansfield's Car," Billy Bob Thornton's tale of a Vietnam War-era culture clash between Southern and British step-families forced to meet at a funeral in a small Alabama town.

Robert Duvall, Thornton, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick, Ray Stevenson and Frances O'Connor star in the darkly-comic drama, which marks Thornton's return to narrative directing and screenwriting after more than a decade, as well as his reunion with writing partner Tom Epperson.

"Car" is the first collaboration between Russia-based film finance, production and distribution outfit AR Films, led by Alexander Rodnyansky ("Elena") in his English-language producing debut, and U.S.-based management-production firm Media Talent Group, led by Thornton's longtime manager and producing partner Geyer Kosinski ("The Tourist").

AR and MTG's work on "Car" and D.J. Caruso's upcoming "Goat Island" inspired them to team for a just-announced $120 million fund to develop and produce up to six more U.S.-based features (capped at $20 million each) over the next two years.

Read further:  http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050128

Ray Stevenson: Billy Bob Thornton's 'Jayne Mansfield's Car' Leads Competition Slate In Berlin; 'In The Land Of Blood And Honey' Gets Special Screening (Indiewire)

News by Kevin Jagernauth | January 9, 2012 |

Billy Bob Thornton and

Angelina Jolie...together again? Okay, not quite, but both filmmakers are headed to Berlin next month to present their latest films as the Berlinale has unveiled their competition slate, which does contain a couple of interesting titles to take note of.

First off is "Jayne Mansfield's Car," Thornton's first narrative feature behind the camera in over a decade (he directed the Willie Nelson doc "The King Of Luck" which premiered at SXSW last year). Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick and Ray Stevenson star in the film that last year, Duvall described thusly: “It’s about a guy in between WWI and WWII who raises a family after his wife left him for an Englishman and moved to England…When the wife dies, she asks to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point the character hasn’t seen her in 20 or 30 years. The two families — her original family she abandoned and her English family — meet and then things get really interesting.” Indeed.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/billy-bob-thorntons-jayne-mansfields-car-leads-competition-slate-in-berlin-in-the-land-of-blood-and-honey-gets-special-screening

Colin Firth, Robert Duval, Ryan Gosling: The Actors Roundtable discussion video (incredible group!) (The Hollywood Reporter)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/video-awards-watch-roundtable-actors-55245#5

Ray Stevenson in 'Jayne Mansfields Car' - Billy Bob Thornton's a Writer-Director Again

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Remember the good ol’ days when Billy Bob Thornton’s name was accompanied by the title “writer-director” instead of “Angelina’s ex?” They’re back.

“I just finished directing again for the first time in eleven years,” says Thornton, who most recently voiced a character in this weekend's box office champ "Puss 'N Boots." “It's a movie called 'Jayne Mansfield's Car.’ It takes place in the 1960s and we're hoping that it will come out sometimes late spring or in the fall of next year. We literally just finished it, so we're still working in postproduction on it. It's a movie that stars myself and Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson and Frances O'Connor. It's a very nice bunch of folks, and a great experience.”

“Tonally it’s 'Sling Blade'-like,” he explains, harkening back to his first feature behind the camera, for which he won an Oscar for original screenplay. “I think there's probably more humor in it than 'Sling Blade' but, once again, very dark humor – as usual. And just so you know, Jayne Mansfield is more of a metaphor for the movie. It's not about Jayne Mansfield's death or anything like that. It's mentioned, but that's not what it's about. It's really about how war affects different generations, and done in sort of a darkly humorous way. And about the examination of life and death and the fear and fascination with both.”

“There aren't many movies right now that are my style of movies,” he explains of what motivated to self-generate a new project. “The old days are kind of whimpering a little. And I said, ‘Well, instead of complaining, I used to write my own stuff – Do it again.’ And I'm right now in my career just looking at it like I'm starting all over. Like I'm a young filmmaker.”

Thornton tells PopcornBiz getting back behind the camera wasn’t exactly like getting back on a bicycle. “It's so hard,” he says. “There's so much preparation that goes into it. We're shooting Georgia in a hundred degree weather all the time. You don't really have time to get nervous much, to tell you the truth. You get nervous when you're done and they're going to throw it out there to the public. That's when I get nervous. But I've got to say we're very proud of this movie. So if it falls on its ass, I know we did it – you know what I mean?”

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