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      Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Save Hijacked Plane in New Movie

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      Augenschein Film

      The ‘Looper’ actor is keen to be a part of the new movie ‘7500’ because there’s ‘a lot of improvisation on the part of the actors as well as on the part of the camera.’
      May 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Joseph Gordon-Levitt has jumped on board a new hijack movie, in which he plays an unlikely hero.
      In Oscar-nominated short film director Patrick Vollrath’s feature-length debut, “7500”, the actor portrays the co-pilot of a flight from Berlin, Germany to Paris, France, which is overrun by terrorists.
      Gordon-Levitt tells WENN he took the role in part because he was intrigued by Vollrath’s decision to film the movie as an “improvisational exercise.”
      “He explained how it involved a lot of improvisation on the part of the actors as well as on the part of the camera,” recalls Gordon-Levitt. “And letting the camera roll for 20, 30 or even 40 minutes at a time and just letting the actors become the characters and live the situation.”
      Vollrath reveals he cast Gordon-Levitt as co-pilot Tobias because he was not an obvious action film hero. “I was very much looking for not Bruce Willis, not a Special Forces-trained guy who can use all his abilities to solve the situation,” the director explains.
      “Tobias is an everyman who never expects to be in a situation like this and hopes he never will be – and then it happens. So he’s as overwhelmed as you or I would be. He had to be someone the audience likes from the moment he enters the cockpit. So we’re on his side even when he has to make some incredibly difficult decisions.”
      Fortunately for Gordon-Levitt, the pilot in the film, played by German actor Carlo Kitzlinger, actually flew planes for Lufthansa for 20 years, so the American star had a seasoned technical adviser by his side, and the duo spent two weeks in flight simulators prior to filming.
      The film is released via Amazon on June 19, 2020.

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      Sylvester Stallone Blames 'Rocky' for Him Losing Eyebrows for the Rest of His Life

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      Chartoff-Winkler Productions

      In ’40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic’, the actor known for his portrayal of Rocky Balboa recalls all the tests make-up artist Mike Westmore did to create every little thing about his character.
      May 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Sylvester Stallone struggled to find the right look for his boxer character Rocky Balboa and lost his eyebrows in the process.
      The movie icon has narrated a new documentary about the making of the classic 1976 film and in it he admits he and director John Avildsen went to extremes to create every little thing about the boxer character.
      “Mike Westmore was the make-up artist and he would do all these tests which were great but I wound up not having any eyebrows left for the rest of my life,” Stallone explains in “40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic”. “One time he wanted Rocky to look very, very punchy and I thought, ‘Why don’t you glue my nose to the side of my face’, so they got this kind of colostomy bag of glue and it was so bad it looked like a cartoon; like I had run into a wall… We took things to kind of extremes.”
      Stallone admits he had to fight for Rocky’s iconic hat: “That was a real bone of contention,” he adds. “No one wanted me to wear the hat. They wanted me to just be bareheaded.”
      “There was a store there (in Philadelphia) and I bought that hat for, like, three bucks and I was like, ‘I want to wear the hat.’ The producer goes, ‘You can’t wear the hat because Gene Hackman wore one in French Connection.’ I said, ‘So that’s the end of hats? Hats are banned?’ I said it kind of topped off the character and so we had him use the hat.”
      “I had never seen a hat like it. It was, like, this cheap felt cardboard hat but it just worked perfectly and I think made a great impression on the character.”
      Stallone also recalls Avildsen taking video footage between takes, which annoyed the actor at the time – but now those films have helped piece together the making of a classic in Derek Wayne Johnson’s film, which will be released digitally next month (June).
      “He was always in the background and he would drive me crazy taking these eight millimetre films,” the “Rocky” star laughs. “At the time I thought, ‘What a waste of film’, but I’m glad he did it because here we are.”

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      'Sonic the hedgehog' Announces Sequel With Original Director

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      Paramount Pictures

      The upcoming second movie about Sega’s fastest hedgehog is set to be helmed by Jeff Fowler and scribed by the two screenwriters who worked on the first installment.
      May 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Sonic the Hedgehog” is to return for a sequel after the original smashed the U.S. record for the biggest video game movie opening of all time.
      Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy confirmed on Thursday, May 28, 2020 that they’ve started work on a follow-up film, which will bring back Jeff Fowler as director and Pat Casey and Josh Miller as scriptwriters.
      The first film starred James Marsden and Jim Carrey and featured the voice of Ben Schwartz as the world’s speediest hedgehog, but decisions have yet to be made on casting for the next film.
      News of a sequel comes as little surprise given the immense success of “Sonic the Hedgehog’, which beat previous record holder “Detective Pikachu” by almost $3 million upon its release.

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      ‘The Vast of Night’ | Anatomy of a Scene

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      “I’m Andrew Patterson, and I’m the director of ‘The Vast of Night.’ So the actress here is Sierra McCormick, and she’s playing Fay, who is all by herself with the 500 members of her town all at a basketball game. So the movie is set in November of 1958, and the setting is in a fictional town of Cayuga, New Mexico.” [STRANGE SOUND] “And the first thing that happens in this scene is you hear a very new sound. We wanted the sound in particular to be new in cinema. And so we worked pretty hard at mixing a number of elements together, and then Fay responds to it in a way that initially is— it frames it as a viewer. Like you see that she doesn’t understand it, and even though she’s not threatened by it, she certainly starts taking immediate action.” “Hello? Hello? Hello?” “Listen, ma’am, can you disconnect and then try again? It’s all—” ””— calling, and it’s a strange, large object holding over my land off and on, like a tornado. Please send the police.” “Ma’am, is this an emergency?” “All of that frames your relationship to the sound. All of that kind of creates a tension that is a setup in this scene. And hopefully as a viewer you’re looking for the resolution just like Fay, the switchboard operator, is. And what we were aiming to do was, in her performance, not go to the extreme that you would probably expect in this scene from if you were watching a horror film or you were watching a different kind of genre. We wanted her to be very grounded and continue to be the stand-in for the viewer. And we worked on that by heavily rehearsing her performance. This is actually the scene Sierra chose to audition with. And from the time that she auditioned with it to the night when we got this shot, we pulled it way, way, way back because we knew that the film itself, we didn’t want to steal away the magic of where the film was going to go by having a large performance here. On set, there is no sound being played. The sound was a year away from being created at that point. And so she’s just playing to an AD reading lines very dryly in the room but not necessarily in a way that you can play off of as an actor. So it truly was both the sound and the people on the other end of the line were yet to be cast and yet to be created. So there’s no— Sierra had to very much do this on her own, reading against someone that has no training in acting.” ”—went away. I just wanted to see if it—” “Just call Everett” “Well, I don’t want to disturb—” “I think the only thing I told her as a director was this is something that is entrancing. It’s mesmerizing. It’s not scary. It’s not threatening. And if anything, it’s the thing that’s going to take you down the rabbit hole.” [STRANGE SOUND] More

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      Keanu Reeves Unintentionally Changed the Original 'John Wick' Title

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      Summit Entertainment

      Screenwriter Derek Kolstad reveals that the ‘The Matrix’ star failed to refer to the film properly in interviews, prompting filmmakers to make altercation to the film’s title.
      May 29, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Keanu Reeves’ struggle to nail the title of the first “John Wick” movie prompted filmmakers to change the title.
      The 2014 blockbuster revenge tale, which centers on Reeves’ titular action hero, was initially called “Scorn” but “The Matrix” star failed to refer to the film properly in interviews.
      “The only reason it’s called ‘John Wick’ is that Keanu kept referring to it as ‘John Wick’,” screenwriter Derek Kolstad told ComicBook.com. “Marketing was like, ‘Dude, that’s four to five million dollars in free advertising so far, so it’s ‘John Wick’ instead of ‘Scorn’.’ I can’t imagine it being ‘Scorn’ now.”
      The change seems to have worked out, with the film becoming a huge hit spawning three sequels, including “John Wick: Chapter 4”, which is set to be released next year (21).

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