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First Look At Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz & Jamie Foxx In 'Django Unchained'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • April 26, 2012 8:01 AM
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  • 25 Comments
News
We already know that Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is going to be something special. Centering on slavery and vengeance, but delivering through the conventions of a spaghetti western in a way that only Tarantino knows how, there are few films this year taking as big a risk. And if these first official images from the film indicate anything, it's that the pay off could be something truly memorable.
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More: Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio

First Look At Christoph Waltz As Dr. King Schultz On The Set Of 'Django Unchained'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • April 2, 2012 4:03 PM
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  • 7 Comments
News
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. With filming underway on Quentin Tarantino's slavery/spaghetti wester/vengeance tale "Django Unchained" the production has been keeping everything surrounding the film tightly under wraps, with little leaking out. Until now.
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More: Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz

Watch: Hilarious Trailer For 'Movie: The Movie' Featuring Charlize Theron, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon & Much, Much More

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 27, 2012 11:22 AM
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  • 8 Comments
News
Memo to the Academy: Next year, you might want to get the writing staff of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to write jokes for the show, because this nine-minute bit is funnier than anything that happened at the Oscars last night.
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More: Charlize Theron, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Josh Brolin, Bryan Cranston, Gary Oldman, Tyler Perry, John Goodman, Kevin James, Kate Beckinsale, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Gabourey Sidibe, Christoph Waltz, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Taylor Lautner, Jeff Goldblum, Antonio Banderas

Christoph Waltz Talks Working With Roman Polanski & Playing The "Smuggest Character Ever" In 'Carnage'

  • By Jeff Otto
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  • December 12, 2011 2:35 PM
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  • 0 Comments
Features
Although Christoph Waltz has been working as an actor since the early 1980’s, he was relatively unknown to American audiences before his Academy Award-winning performance as Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.” Waltz’s elevated status catapulted him into a string of Hollywood releases in 2011 that including “The Green Hornet,” “Water for Elephants” and “The Three Musketeers.” But it is Waltz’s smallest role, as Alan Cowan in Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” for which the actor is drawing his greatest acclaim since ‘Basterds.’
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More: Carnage, Christoph Waltz, Roman Polanski, Interviews, Interview

2011's Potential Oscar Nominees For Acting, Directing & Writing Get Together To Talk At THR's Awards Roundtable

  • By Ryan Sartor
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  • December 9, 2011 2:33 PM
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  • 9 Comments
News
One of the necessities for any Oscar candidate is to do a lot of smiling, gladhanding interviews where they answer the same questions over and over again. An antidote to this madness is the annual Hollywood Reporter Roundtable Interviews. They’re awesome. You take six leading Oscar potentials in the categories of writers, directors, actresses and actors, put them in a room for an hour and see how they interact.
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More: Glenn Close, Charlize Theron, Carey Mulligan, Michelle Williams, Viola Davis, George Clooney, Albert Brooks, Gary Oldman, Christopher Plummer, Christoph Waltz, Nick Nolte, Alexander Payne, Mike Mills, Jason Reitman, Steve McQueen, Bennett Miller, Michel Hazanavicius, Aaron Sorkin, Steve Zaillian, Pedro Almodovar, Dustin Lance Black, Oren Moverman, Eric Roth

M.C. Gainey To Play Big John Brittle In Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • October 4, 2011 2:14 AM
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  • 6 Comments
Christoph Waltz Is Injured During Pre-ProductionAs usual, the casting for Quentin Tarantino's next movie is a mix of big-name stars, respected character actors and random people we totally forgot about. And there is also a fourth category: "Hey, it's that's guy." Which brings right to M.C. Gainey, whose familiar face Variety is reporting is in talks for "Django Unchained" in the role of Big John Brittle.
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More: Films, Actors, Genre Films, Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Venice '11 Review: 'Carnage' Is Fun While It Lasts, But Insubstantial & Anonymous

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • September 1, 2011 12:22 PM
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  • 6 Comments
Compared to his last film, Roman Polanski's "Carnage" must have been a breeze. Not that the shoot for "The Ghost Writer" was "Fitzcarraldo" or anything, but, famously, the project hit a major speed bump in September 2009, while the film was in post-production, when the helmer was arrested in Zurich, and deportation proceedings were begun against him for the statutory rape case that has overshadowed the last thirty-odd years of his career. The Swiss authorities decided not to hand Polanski over, but he still spent months in prison, and was forced to complete post on his Robert Harris adaptation from there.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Review, Roman Polanski, Carnage, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Venice

New Looks At The Leads Of Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’

  • By Sam Price
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  • July 12, 2011 1:40 AM
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Update: Another new "Carnage" pic has fluttered online over at Italian site ComingSoon. Check it below.Update #2: Fotogramas also has a new pic from "Carnage." Check it out below.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Roman Polanski, Carnage, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet

First Poster Arrives For 'The Three Musketeers;' Which Cast Member Is Humiliated The Most?

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • June 9, 2011 1:41 AM
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  • 11 Comments
Currently in a tight neck-and-neck race with Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous" to be the stupidest movie of the fall, "The Three Musketeers," which sees "Resident Evil" director Paul W.S. Anderson cunningly reboot Alexandre Dumas' legendary characters for the 21st century by trying to make it look as much like "Resident Evil" as humanly possible, is looming on the release schedule. We've already seen one truly terrible trailer for the film, and now, with the film's October release date coming closer, Summit have released the first one-sheet for the film, via Yahoo.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Paul W.S. Anderson, The Three Musketeers, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz, Luke Evans, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Juno Temple

We Read It: Casting Quentin Tarantino's Slavery/Spaghetti Western Epic 'Django Unchained'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 5, 2011 4:28 AM
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  • 31 Comments
You’ll recall in 2008 we did, what we thought, was a very good job of casting Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” (some of us are still convinced our picks were better than Q.T.’s, but that’s another story). And unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Tarantino has recently finished his latest script, one entitled “Django Unchained.” So yes, we’re at it again.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Genre Films, Samuel L. Jackson, Jonah Hill, Anthony Mackie, Danny McBride, Christoph Waltz, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Viola Davis, Zoe Saldana, Uma Thurman, Christina Hendricks, Paula Patton, Django Unchained

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