Thumbsucker News

The buzz for Up in the Air , the new film starring George Clooney, has been building for months.

Walter Kirn's Up in the Air is flying high on Oscar buzz - but it almost never made it to the screen.

Up in thge Air ½ David Wildman Jason Reitman needed another brainy, funny-but-edgy heartstring-tugging hit like Juno.

When Walter Kirn wrote Up In The Air in 2001, he had a vision: "I ... wanted to create a character who's comfortable with all the things that the intelligentsia in America is not comfortable with," Kirn tells host Terry Gross.

Here's a bit of casting news to start the day. Ray Winstone has jumped onto Red Snow , a "serial killer thriller" in which Winstone will be "an ex-SAS officer tracking down his missing daughter in the snow forests of a remote town in north Canada." Script and direction are by Stuart St.

Goran Visnjic has joined Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurent and Christopher Plummer in the indie drama "Beginners" for Olympus Pictures and Parts and Labor.

Originally printed 10/29/2009 Ewan McGregor to star in a gay movie ... again Romeo's still waiting for the long-delayed homo romantic comedy "I Love You, Philip Morris" to finally open in U.S. theaters, but Ewan McGregor has already lined up a role in yet another gay-themed movie.

Just the other night, the Cyclones were losing 2-1. Edgar Rodriguez was up for Brooklyn with two out, bases empty, in the bottom of the ninth.

"I am not, and have never been, a thumb sucker," says Keanu Reeves. "But I did everything else." When asked just what "everything else" was, Reeves parries faster than his two-day beard and sleepless face suggests possible: "Come on, man!" You can't blame the guy for being irritated.

We haven't posted a Big Director Small Films column in quite some time. This has happened for a variety of reasons, but mainly due to the fact that we ran through most of the available short films of the big Hollywood directors.

It's been years since Wedding Crashers , and the movies since -- The Break-Up, Fred Claus, Four Christmases -- they sure as shooting have suggested that Mr.

Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer are teaming up to work for Mike Mills. Production Weekly says they're both on board the Thumbsucker director's next feature, a movie called Beginners .

I do think that the choice of Keanu Reeves to play the legendary Doctor Jekyll from the Jekyll and Hyde stories in Nicolas Winding Refn's new film is a bit of a stretch, and it does feel more like a studio requirement than anything, but speaking about the casting Refn sounds rather more positive.

The trailer for Up in the Air starring George Clooney has arrived online, and it's something very different and very refreshing.

For a while there, Lou Taylor Pucci was calling Philadelphia home. In Explicit Ills , the 2008 indie made by his actor buddy Mark Webber , Pucci had one of the key roles - a drug-dealing hipster dude, riding around Northern Liberties on his bike, dispensing pot and pills.

From first-time director John Hindman, comes THE ANSWER MAN, a romantic comedy starring Jeff Daniels , Lauren Graham and Lou Taylor Pucci .... From first-time director John Hindman, comes THE ANSWER MAN, a romantic comedy starring Jeff Daniels , Lauren Graham and Lou Taylor Pucci .

"Hell is other people" Sartre said, although I suspect he never met that many self-help junkies and therefore low-balled it.

SYNOPSIS: From first-time writer-director John Hindman, comes THE ANSWER MAN, a romantic comedy starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham about love and the search for meaning.

HDNet Movies presents a special Sneak Preview of the movie THE ANSWER MAN, starring Jeff Daniels , Lauren Graham and Lou Taylor Pucci , Wednesday, July 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

The quiet, soulful confusion projected by actor Lou Taylor Pucci has turned him into an indie film It-Boy and something of a fixture at the Sundance Film Festival, an actor who has often seemed just on the verge of bigger things.