Daily entertainment news covering Willem Dafoe en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/11/09/trailer_talk_this_week_in_movies_2012_pi Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:52:36 EST Entertainment News 143515@http://www.starpulse.com/news At some point this week I hope to catch the wacky comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats." While I have read some bad reviews of the film, I believe my tendency to disagree with the mainstream, could be a wild card for my own appraisal of the movie.

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The holidays are approaching, and if people are not busy running around thinking of Christmas or Hanukkah gifts, they're considering what to do with their family when they actually have to entertain everyone.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/10/27/trailer_talk_this_week_in_movies_this_is Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:37:17 EST Entertainment News 142350@http://www.starpulse.com/news As a Bostonian I'm quite excited about the release of the Boston based sequel "Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day." As a huge fan of the original, I've waited years to see a sequel come to fruition.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/10/21/cirque_du_freak_may_be_the_most_overstuf Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:16:12 EST Entertainment News 141790@http://www.starpulse.com/news NEW YORK (AP) — It's getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/21/willem_dafoe_prefers_evil_roles_ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:21:05 EST Entertainment News 85020@http://www.starpulse.com/news Willem Dafoe prefers playing bad guys on film, because they give him the chance to be more creative. The actor plays a cop in new movie Anamorph, but has made his name taking on big screen villains - from a blood sucker in 2000's Shadow of the Vampire, to comic book villain The Green Goblin in the Spider-Man series.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/16/notes_aamp_quotes_brinkley_on_johansson_ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:00:00 EST Entertainment News 84490@http://www.starpulse.com/news Next year's Oscar nominations will be announced on a Thursday, not the traditional Tuesday-- so as not to clash with the presidential inauguration. The Academy Award nods were due to be read on January 20 but Oscar bosses have been forced to move the date because it fell on the new U.S. President's first day in office. Next year's Oscars will take place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on February 22.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/16/willem_dafoe_attacks_money_mad_hollywood Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:35:32 EST Entertainment News 84500@http://www.starpulse.com/news Willem Dafoe has hit out at Hollywood's obsession with making money at the expense of great art. Despite starring in Spider-Man - one of the most commercially lucrative franchises of recent years - Dafoe insists films are too often judged on their box office receipts.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/16/willem_dafoe_is_no_longer_a_vegetarian Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:10:54 EST Entertainment News 84493@http://www.starpulse.com/news Spider-Man star Willem Dafoe has urged fans not to believe everything they read about him on the internet - because he's no longer a vegetarian. The actor admits he's often saluted for his meat-free stance, but confesses he's no longer a veggie, despite the fact he's still labeled as such in internet articles and biographies.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/07/movie_sequels_a_list_of_the_best_aamp_wo Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:40:04 EST Entertainment News 77178@http://www.starpulse.com/news It seems every year we are inundated with dozens of sequels to films we love and those we've already forgotten about. But what are the best? What are the worst? What shouldn't have been made and what beat the original?

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/18/point_counterpoint_should_hollywood_stop Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:45:24 EST Entertainment News 74895@http://www.starpulse.com/news Over the years many classic movies have been remade. Don't get me wrong, some of those remakes have been really good. But the majority of the movies have been really bad.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/10/25/and_the_scariest_celebrity_faces_are_ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:25:48 EST Entertainment News 65254@http://www.starpulse.com/news New York socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein has beaten Donatella Versace and former Kiss star Ace Frehley in a new "Scariest Celebrity Faces" poll. Wildenstein, dubbed "The Cat Woman" for her feline-like cosmetic surgery-enhanced features, topped Maxim.com's Halloween-flavored list.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/20/film_review_atkinson_s_bean_takes_cute_b Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:42:03 EST Entertainment News 56552@http://www.starpulse.com/news The idea of Mr. Bean - the simpering, near-silent king of the British twits - always seems a bit funnier than the reality.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/26/ethan_hawke_to_play_vampire Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:15:00 EST Entertainment News 49006@http://www.starpulse.com/news Ethan Hawke is set to sink his teeth into a new vampire role opposite Willem Dafoe. The Before Sunset star is growing his hair in preparation for the neck-biting role in Daybreakers, which he'll shoot in Australia.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/22/denis_leary_mistaken_for_willem_dafoe_ge Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:23:53 EST Entertainment News 48383@http://www.starpulse.com/news Actor Denis Leary was delighted to be granted free entry to a New York strip club recently - because the doorman thought he was Willem Dafoe. Leary was looking at potential locations for his television show Rescue Me, when the fortunate mix-up occurred.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/17/colin_farrell_to_star_in_iraq_film Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:30:00 EST Entertainment News 34178@http://www.starpulse.com/news Irish movie star Colin Farrell has signed to star in a new movie about the war in Iraq. Farrell will appear alongside Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes and Willem Dafoe in The Hurt Locker, which tells the story of an ill-fated bomb disposal unit.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/01/14/willem_dafoe_and_gael_garcia_bernal_to_j Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:30:00 EST Entertainment News 26054@http://www.starpulse.com/news Actors Willem Dafoe and Gael Garcia Bernal will be part of the jury at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. The two film stars, along with jury president Paul Schrader, German actor Mario Adorf, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, film producer Nansun Shi from Hong Kong and Danish film editor Molly Malene Stensgaard, will decide who takes home the prestigious Golden Bear and the Silver Bears at the festival in the German capital next month.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/20/willem_dafoe_aamp_jeff_goldblum_team_up_ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:20:36 EST Entertainment News 24302@http://www.starpulse.com/news Willem Dafoe and Jeff Goldblum will star in a new film about the horrors of the Holocaust based on Yoram Kaniuk's acclaimed novel "Adam Resurrected." Goldblum will play a former circus clown who is spared the gas chamber so he can entertain Jews as they march to their deaths. After the war, he then becomes a leader at a center for survivors of the Holocaust.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/06/02/willem_dafoe_enjoyed_making_film_with_wi Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:59:10 EST Entertainment News 7694@http://www.starpulse.com/news Willem Dafoe adores being directed by his wife Giada Colagrande because the sexual tension makes filming a powerfully intense experience. The star's upcoming movie "Before It Had A Name" is a team effort between the twosome - not only did they write it together, they star alongside each other too.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/05/12/oliver_stone_to_get_special_mgm_award_at Fri, 12 May 2006 10:52:50 EST Entertainment News 6871@http://www.starpulse.com/news Oliver Stone will receive the first annual Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Leo The Lion Award on May 21 at the Cannes Film Festival. The award has been established to recognize and encourage artistic excellence in individuals who, through significant contributions to filmmaking, have made an indelible impact on the overall value and merit of the library of MGM released films as well as on the world's movie going public.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/24/dennis_quaid_didn_t_recognize_willem_daf Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:13:27 EST Entertainment News 6019@http://www.starpulse.com/news Willem Dafoe was stunned when he met his American Dreamz co-star Dennis Quaid for the first time because the star was so rude. Dafoe shaved his head and donned a hairpiece and a prosthetic belly to portray the Vice President Dick Cheney-esque White House Chief of Staff in the new comedy, leaving him virtually unrecognizable.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/21/new_in_theaters_this_weekend_american_dr Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:00:00 EST Entertainment News 5769@http://www.starpulse.com/news In American Dreamz, The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years, and when his Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) determines to get the Commander in Chief out of his pajamas and back into the spotlight, the stage is set for a talent contest that the nation will never forget.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/19/opens_april_21_american_dreamz Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:19:42 EST Entertainment News 5875@http://www.starpulse.com/news The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years, and when his Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) determines to get the Commander in Chief out of his pajamas and back into the spotlight, the stage is set for a talent contest that the nation will never forget.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/03/25/woody_harrelson_to_star_in_american_gigo Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:00:00 EST Entertainment News 4753@http://www.starpulse.com/news Woody Harrelson is to play gay as an ageing bisexual escort in what is being touted as the follow-up to cult 1980 film American Gigolo. The star will pick up where Richard Gere's seedy character left off, playing an escort of Washington, D.C., socialites with a gay lover waiting for him at home.

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