All Good Things
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Ryan Gosling has a hard time getting dates. Or at least that’s what movie makers would like us to believe of his characters. For instance, in the seminal Nicholas Sparks flick, “The Notebook,” Ryan’s Noah Calhoun dangles precariously from a Ferris wheel, risking life and limb, simply to convince Rachel McAdams’ Allie Hamilton to accept a date. (We’d never make you go to those lengths, Ryan!) While there are no zipping carnival rides to be found in this exclusive clip from Ryan’s upcoming film “Blue Valentine,” it does look as though he’ll once again have to turn on the Gosling charm to win the girl.
Ryan Gosling teams up with his BFF bandmate Zach Shields for their band Dead Man’s Bones‘ new video for “Pa Pa Power”.
The 29-year-old actor performed in a retirement home with a children’s choir for the video, which clocks in at just over twelve minutes!
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LA Times reported that Magnolia Pictures has acquired the American rights to “All Good Things”. The first plans of release is December, and it will push the movie for Oscar consideration.
Jarecki and financier Groundswell Productions initially had planned to release “All Good Things” through the Weinstein Co., but Jarecki and the cash-strapped distributor disagreed about the film’s domestic release strategy. Earlier this year, Jarecki bought the domestic “All Good Things” rights back from the Weinstein Co., which will still handle the film internationally and is currently selling foreign territories.
Starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, the film is loosely adapted from the real life story of real estate heir Robert Durst, who was linked to the disappearances and deaths of three people, including an elderly Texas neighbor whose body he admitted hacking up.
The big screen adaptation of James Sallis’ 2005 novel Drive is finally going before cameras after years in development hell.
Deadline reports that Ryan Gosling is set to star, replacing original lead Hugh Jackman, and that filming begins next month under the direction of Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising, Bronson, Pusher). John Palermo and Marc Platt will produce.
The film also stars Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston.
According to Drive’s publisher Poisoned Pen Press, Sallis said his book is “about a guy who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. In classic noir fashion, he is double-crossed and, though before he has never participated in the violence (‘I drive. That’s all.’), he goes after the ones who doublecrossed and tried to kill him.”
Good news! It turns out that I don’t hate the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts. After a recently witnessing a complete failure of a show at the out-of-the-way venue, I was worried that the venue only occasionally offered relevant shows for a reason. But Dead Man’s Bones, the musical project of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields, is not something that comes around every day. In fact, the group (which also includes the Silver Lake Children’s Conservatory Choir) played one of the best shows I have ever been to during their last stop in town, which was on Halloween appropriately enough. But a little research into this two-night event made it clear that I was not getting the same show I had previously enjoyed. In fact, I was not going to see a show like anything I had previously seen. It is amazing what looking at a flyer or website or literally any advanced media before going to a show can do for your expectations (this goes out to the angry and confused Notebook fans who apparently didn’t bother to read anything about this ahead of time.).
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Call them actors if you must, but Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields are performers. And with their band, Dead Man’s Bones, they are proving that there is a difference.
This weekend at Eagle Rock’s Center for the Arts the band—joined by magician and former Possum Dixon front man Rob Zabrecky—will stage its second series of L.A. shows (after the October release of its self-titled debut album on Anti) in what Gosling and Shields hope to cultivate into an ongoing series of vaudeville-style special events featuring a rotating cast of characters, music and supernatural art forms.
They’ll play their music—a dark and murky-sweet stew of 1950s-style do-wop singed with the organ-heavy longing of early ‘60s lo-fi acts like the Zombies, and flavored with a dash of the aching minimalism harnessed by the traveling minstrels of the ‘30s. (Click here to read more…)
So far Andrew Jarecki’s All Good Things has been good at one thing: not getting seen by anybody. The film’s been completed for awhile now and originally had a release date set for last summer, but The Weinstein Company–until recently in control of all distribution rights–has kept the movie tucked away. Jarecki recently bought back the US distribution rights with his own money, but the Weinsteins still own the international rights to the film. It’s unclear when we’ll ever see this flick hit the big screen in the states, but the international trailer has hit the web.
All Good Things , starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, is based on the true story of Robert Durst, the heir to a New York real estate fortune whose neighbors, friends and wives all suffered untimely demises. Durst was never convicted of any murders but death and mystery sort of followed this guy around. His neighbor was murdered execution-style, his wife just mysteriously vanished and body parts of his business partner were found floating in Galveston Bay. Suffice to say, it didn’t pay to know Durst. He eventually went on the run as a fugitive, but was arrested when he stole a sandwich from a convenience store (even though he had $500 in his pocket).
Gosling plays David Marks, the character based on Durst, and Dunst is his wife Katie McCarthy (Durst’s first wife’s name was Kathleen McCormack) who has entered a marriage with a guy she clearly knows nothing about. Though, as the trailer suggests, she begins catching on that all isn’t right in with her high-society husband. The film takes place in the 1980’s, and looks like a dark and ominous production. Makes sense considering Gosling plays a lunatic.