Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Moviefone Exclusive: Watch Julia Roberts Play Doting Mother to the Future Ryan Reynolds in First Fireflies in the Garden

After premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008, 'Fireflies in the Garden' will finally get released on Oct. 14 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Austin with an expanded roll-out to follow. The film follows three generations of a family and how their domineering father (Willem Dafoe) shaped them over the years. Set in the present day with flashbacks, 'Garden' stars Julia Roberts as the family matriarch and Ryan Reynolds as her grown-up son. In the first clip from the film, Roberts consoles the future Reynolds after a particularly rough quabble with his father. Watch ahead.

Moviefone Exclusive: See Michelle Williams and Emma Watson in First Photos from My Week With Marilyn

Just in time for the highly anticipated premiere of 'My Week With Marilyn' at the Centerpiece Gala of the New York Film Festival, Moviefone is proud to debut four new images from the film. Starring two-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams as Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe, 'My Week With Marilyn' focuses on Monroe's trip to England in the summer of 1956 to film 'The Prince and The Showgirl' opposite Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). There, she meets an eager production assistant named Colin Clark (Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne), who helps her escape the Hollywood hustle and bustle, if only for a week. Directed by Simon Curtis and released by The Weinstein Company, 'My Week With Marilyn' arrives in theaters on Nov. 4. Check out some gorgeous stills of Williams, Redmayne, Branagh and co-star Emma Watson ahead.

John Travolta Movie May Have Run Out of Money

It's hard to make a film when you don't have any money to pay your actors. 'Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father,' starring John Travolta, Al Pacino, Ben Foster and possibly Joe Pesci, has been put on hold because there is "no money to move forward." According to ShowBiz411, producer Marc Fiore has been unable to raise the necessary funds for the project. It looks like that meeting John Travolta had with John Gotti's wife didn't make much of a difference.

It Like Sherlock Holmes Meets Watch the Trailer for The Raven

You might not have thought a movie about a serial killer mimicking the works of Edgar Allen Poe would make for great cinema, but the trailer for 'The Raven' is here to prove otherwise. What initially seemed like a joke-y conceit -- John Cusack is Edgar Allen Poe -- looks kinda great. Or at least better than 'From Hell' and 'Sleepy Hollow.' Watch ahead.

Is Real Steel the Best Bad Movie You Can See This Year?

'Real Steel,' a movie about robots that box, opens today at a theater near you. The very-popular Hugh Jackman stars, but there's a catch: To watch 'Real Steel', a pre-set amount of your nation's legal tender will have to be exchanged with a representative of your local theater for admittance. Legal tender that was earned, most likely, at a place that you don't enjoy spending time. Will you enjoy spending time watching 'Real Steel'? As a service, here's an answer for every question that you could possibly have about 'Real Steel.'

Five Chapters in the Origin Story of George Clooney

George Clooney directs and co-stars in this weekend's new political thriller 'The Ides of March.' Before George Clooney was a Very Famous Person, he used to spend his time on a show called 'E/R.' (I promise: the 'E/R' that we are talking about is not at all the 'ER' that you're thinking of right now.) After that he would go on to hang out with Joe Polniaczek on 'The Facts of Life.' Even a Very Famous Person like George Clooney has an origin, and sometimes that origin has you starring in 'Return of the Killer Tomatoes!'

Director of Judge Dredd Remake Reportedly Gets Fired

It's rare that a director gets fired from a production after filming wraps, but according to the LA Times that's just what happened to 'Dredd' director Pete Travis. Per the Times, creative disagreements between producers and executives reached a boiling point recently, causing Travis's ouster. Writer-producer Alex Garland ('28 Days Later') is now taking over post-production tasks and may even seek a co-directing credit for all the work he has put in over the course of the movie. If you're still trying to figure out why a remake was even considered for Sylvester Stallone's cheesy futuristic cop drama 'Judge Dredd,' this news certainly doesn't offer any answers.

At NYFF: Is Shame the Most Taboo Movie of the Year?

Since its much-buzzed about debut at the Venice Film Festival in August, 'Shame' has become the source of much discussion among Oscar cognoscenti -- though not in the way you might think. After all, there is little debate about star Michael Fassbender's lead performance in the Steve McQueen-directed film about a sex-addicted New Yorker: he's towering, brilliant, heartbreaking and pretty much guaranteed to earn one of the five slots in this year's Best Actor derby. This despite playing a guy who may have had an incestuous relationship with his sister.