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  1. Fracking Group Buys Ads to Run in Front of Matt Damon's 'Promised Land'

    Fri, 4 Jan 2013

    our little movie...They're pretty impressive at what they do," Schamus said in a statement to ABC News. " Gus ( Van Sant ), Matt (Damon), and John (Krasinski) made a wonderful and entertaining film about what happens when big money

  2. Oscar Contender 'On the Road' Burns the Candle on Both Ends

    Tue, 25 Dec 2012

    bought the rights in 1979, the project went through several iterations, with directors like Jean-Luc Goddard and Gus Van Sant proposed, and actors like Ethan Hawke and Brad Pitt attached. The production that finally succeeded after so many

  3. ‘Twilight’ Star in Gay Flap Gets Apology

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    the sexuality of two of his Hollywood colleagues. The article mentions that Lautner recently had dinner with director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, both of whom worked on the Sean Penn film Milk and are gay. When the writer asked

  4. Hollywood's It Girls: Nine Rising Stars

    Tue, 2 Feb 2010

    Upcoming roles include everything from the lead in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" to a turn as the love interest in Gus Van Sant 's next film. Evan Rachel Wood Evan Rachel Wood, 24, mesmerized audiences in Catherine Hardewicke's "Thirteen

  5. Seven Rising Hollywood Stars to Watch in 2010

    Mon, 4 Jan 2010

    and Annette Bening, who together set out to find her biological father. And she's set to act in "Milk" director Gus Van Sant 's still unnamed next project. "The fact that a serious director like Van Sant is interested in her speaks to her

  6. Alfred Hitchcock: Watch the Classics, Skip the Remakes

    Wed, 12 Aug 2009

    most influential. Homages to this horror classic can be found from "Scream" to "The Simpsons" . In 1998, director Gus Van Sant directed a shot-for-shot remake of the 1960 film, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche. This experimental take

News

  1. Octuplet Mom, Barry Bonds to Princess Diana: People and Events That Changed History

    Mon, 16 Feb 2009

    the halls of Congress to the aisles of movie theaters in films like Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" and Gus van Sant 's "Elephant." What drove Klebold, 18, and Harris, 17, to kill 15 people -- including themselves -- and injure

  2. Golden Globe Nods: Top 10 Movies Scoring Oscar Buzz

    Wed, 10 Dec 2008

    Golden Globe nominations, including one for Streep's performance. It opens Dec. 12 in limited release. 'Milk' Gus Van Sant 's epic about 1970s gay rights leader Harvey Milk has been at the top of critics' lists since Sean Penn was picked

  3. Can Macho, Non-Metro Actors Play Gay?

    Tue, 2 Dec 2008

    A-list actors who can open a film. "It was hard to find gay actors who were out," the film's openly gay director Gus Van Sant told Reuters. "There really aren't [many] . You could do it, but they would be unknowns and that would be fine

  4. Josh Brolin Channels the President in 'W.'

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    that ... it must have landed like a ton of bricks," he said. What About 'Goonies II?' Next up for Brolin is Gus Van Sant 's "Milk," which will be out next month. He plays Dan White, who fatally shot San Francisco councilman Harvey

  5. Portland is a hub for the car-free and carefree

    Fri, 15 Aug 2008

    evolution from an industrial landfill and stomping ground for hustlers and junkies — local indie filmmaker and resident Gus Van Sant shot 1989's Drugstore Cowboy here — to a trendy loft and condo-laced enclave. The Pearl is still home to much-beloved

  6. Portland is a hub for the car-free and care-free

    Thu, 14 Aug 2008

    evolution from an industrial landfill and stomping ground for hustlers and junkies — local indie filmmaker and resident Gus Van Sant shot 1989's Drugstore Cowboy here — to a trendy loft and condo-laced enclave. The Pearl is still home to much-beloved

  7. 'Pineapple' Star Franco Digs Deep, Plays Stoner and Serious

    Mon, 4 Aug 2008

    Saul going on the lam with his equally obtuse customer Dale (Seth Rogen). And in November, he romances Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant 's Milk, a biopic of San Francisco's first openly gay elected official. "Who would have thought I'd play a

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  1. This Season's Oscar Hopefuls?

    Fri, 29 Aug 2008

    the twinkie defense that was I'm sorry I ate these twinkies and I went crazy with revenge I didn't premeditated. Gus Van Sant directs it Sean Penn is almost just a few years away from winning the Oscar for Mystic River from what I've seen this

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  1. PHOTO At 51, Madonna rocks the cover and inside pages of Interview magazine. The ever-fit Queen of Pop dishes to film director, Gus Van Sant on early inspirations, recent film projects and trips to ...

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