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We Interview Rachel Blanchard on a New York City Subway

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Apr 30th 2010 3:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Video, Tribeca Film Festival
Doing interviews at press junkets or over the phone is fun and all, but in honor of the Tribeca Film Festival, we wanted to mix it up a little and do something that felt a bit more .... New York. And what's a more distinct Gotham experience than spending some QT underground with the "straphangers" (and vermin) in the New York City transit system?

'Open House' star Rachel Blanchard -- the Canadian beauty best known for movies like 'Road Trip' and 'Snakes on a Plane,' and Atom Egoyan fare like 'Where the Truth Lies' -- agreed to be one helluva sport and take a quick commute with us. Blanchard told us all about 'Open House,' a psychological thriller in which she plays a woman held captive in her house for sale by a deranged man posing as a prospective buyer.

Take a ride with Blanchard and us in the video below. And please forgive the shaky cam -- we were on a moving train, after all.
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5 Questions from Tribeca With Ice Cube

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Apr 24th 2010 2:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Tribeca Film Festival
For a guy who's already achieved legendary status as a hip-hop star, starred in over 25 major motion pictures across all genres -- from drama ('Boyz N the Hood') to comedy ('Friday') to action ('XXX 2') to family ('Are We There Yet') -- and tried his hand at directing ('The Player's Cub'), what's one more (black and silver) hat?

Ice Cube crosses into the wide world of sports with 'Straight Outta L.A.,' a highly personal documentary he directed about the connection between the "gangsta rap" movement (namely, his seminal group N.W.A.) and the Los Angeles-turned-Oakland Raiders, produced for ESPN Films. We chilled with Ice Cube for a bit at the Tribeca Film Festival's press headquarters.
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15 Movie Posters Re-Imagined With the Stars Originally Cast

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:00PM
Filed under: Features, Movie Photos
Not to say it wouldn't be the contemporary classic that it is today, but 'The Matrix' would've taken us down a whole different rabbit hole had Will Smith not passed on the role of Neo, opening the door for Keanu Reeves to don the dark trench coat. Can anyone really imagine The Fresh Prince uttering lines like "Whoa, déjà vu" with the same sense of stunned bewilderment?

How about if Ralph Macchio went time-traveling as Marty McFly, or Tom Cruise danced his heart out as Ren McCormack?

Rarely does a project in Hollywood start and finish with the same lead actors attached. Just see this summer's thriller 'Salt,' where the role of Angelina Jolie's wrongly accused spy Evelyn Salt was originally to be played by Cruise (as EDWIN Salt, natch).

We thought it'd be amusing to give these 15 casting fun facts -- actors (reportedly) originally attached or offered the roles you see below -- some visual representation.
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Dueling Interviewers With Christopher Mintz-Plasse

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Apr 15th 2010 1:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Video
He was introduced to the world as McLovin, the badass, fake ID-wielding rebel without a cause in the raunchy high school comedy 'Superbad.' Next he sliced and diced his way through medieval battlefields in 'Role Models.' Now, Christopher Mintz-Plasse takes the next logical step in his Hollywood trajectory: he plays a superhero/antagonist, Red Mist, in 'Kick-Ass.'

Moviefone sat down with the rising star Mintz-Plasse for an exclusive chat -- but unfortunately once again we were paired with a reporter from Asylum.com, AOL's men's lifestyle site (though judging from the questions of one Anthony Layser, mostly centered around dating in Hollywood, you'd think the guy slung ink for InTouchWeekly ... or LameQuestionsMonthly).

Deep insight into a young actor's career -- and a three-way chest-bump -- ensued.
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'Kick-Ass' Stars: Believe the Hype (Exclusive Video Q&A)

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Apr 14th 2010 7:30PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Video
Long before becoming the toast of festivals and fan events like SXSW and WonderCon, the superhero comedy 'Kick-Ass' was viewed by Hollywood studios as something more akin to kryptonite than gold. Comic book creator Mark Millar has said that every distributor in town passed on it, forcing director Matthew Vaughn ('Layer Cake') to raise its reported $30 million budget on his own (before then selling it back to a studio, Lionsgate).

Now, the buzz surrounding the film -- and its 13-year-old, ass-kicking anti-ingénue Chloe Moretz, especially -- couldn't be any louder.

We caught up with Moretz and co-stars Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Clarke Duke as they made the publicity rounds at San Francisco's WonderCon to discuss, among other things, whether the film is in danger of nearing levels of overhype ("What, like 'Snakes on a Plane'?" Duke shot back.)
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Superheroes, Slashers & Skydivers: WonderCon 2010 Report

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Apr 4th 2010 6:00PM
Filed under: Features, Movie News
It doesn't quite yet have the Hollywood pull of ComicCon, its Southern California cousin, but WonderCon continues to grow and attract more lucrative movie offerings with every year. Held Friday through Sunday at San Francisco's Moscone Center, "The Con" fueled hype and elevated buzz for high-profile releases like 'Kick-Ass,' 'Tron Legacy,' 'The Losers,' 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Toy Story 3' and 'Prince of Persia.'

While light on major announcements or surprise appearances (the only movie-related one, really, was Christopher Nolan popping up to introduce the 'Inception' trailer) -- both guarantees at the annual San Diego Con -- the feel inside the venue was practically indistinguishable. Stormtroopers, Spocks and the occasional Smurf abounded (no Furries have been spotted as of press time). Long lines formed outside of the Esplanade, the 3,500-person capacity main room. And crowds went bonkers over the introductions of stars like Jake Gyllenhaal, Zoe Saldana, Nicolas Cage (twice!), Jackie Earle Haley, Milla Jovovich ... and John Ratzenberger.
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Dueling Interviewers With Craig Robinson

By Kevin Polowy (Subscribe to Kevin Polowy's posts), Posted Mar 24th 2010 1:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Video
In January, we landed in a somewhat awkward position when we were forced to share the short amount of time we'd been allocated to interview 'Youth in Revolt' star Michael Cera with Anthony Layser, a reporter from the "men's lifestyle site" Asylum.com.

Despite Layser's clear lack of film knowledge and general, overall unpleasantness -- not to mention his casual and, quite frankly, disrespectful choice of wardrobe -- people seemed to enjoy the results.

So we return with another installment of Dueling Interviewers (DUI).

This time, we took the show on the road to Lake Tahoe, where we shared a cozy fireside chat with the hilarious (and physically intimidating) Craig Robinson, who's cracked up audiences in Judd Apatow fare like 'Knocked Up' and on TV's 'The Office,' and now shines brightly as one-fourth of the lead quartet in 'Hot Tub Time Machine.'
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