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| THE MOVIE: Shutter |
| Sunday, March 23, 2008 |
 THE STARS:
Josh Jackson • Rachael Taylor
DIRECTOR: Masayuki Ochiai
U.S. RELEASE: March 21 2008, Nationwide
THE CONCEPT:
Photographer Benjamin Shaw (Jackson), and his new wife Jane (Taylor) are in Tokyo for a lucrative fashion shoot. While driving on a mountain road their car crashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized from nowhere, but after they regain consciousness they cannot find any trace of the girl. When Ben begins his fashion shoot, mysterious white blurs, eerily evocative of a Human form, begin to materialize in all of his photos, and Jane believes the blurs are the dead girl from the accident.
THE COMMENT:
RACHAEL TAYLER on doing a Horror film:
 “You’re dealing with fairly complex human issues and the spectrum of emotions you play are potentially wider, you’re dealing with ideas of revenge and death, deceit and betrayal and all that stuff. I find that kind of pleasurable as an actor. It gives you more to play with and you’re exploring things that you probably wouldn’t get to explore on a daily basis, like the Supernatural.”
JOSH JACKSON:
 “What attracted me to Shutter was playing the character. In a straight ahead drama, generally the arc and the transition that the character goes through, while it may be internally severe, it is sort of [limiting]. When you’re doing a Horror film you have the potential of doing something much broader and a much more shocking shift, so for me to be able to start here and then end up as somebody totally different was fun for me.”
TAYLOR:
“I was a big fan of the original film. I didn’t use it in terms of performance, but it was one of the main reasons I wanted to make this movie. It’s an excellent movie and it was a great jumping off point. Our version is different; it’s more of a reinterpretation than a remake, because we shift the perspective a lot. What I wanted to bring to it was a strong female story. I’m not interested in making a film about a blonde girl in a ghost house having horrible things happen to her. What I wanted the story to be about, and what I really fought to occur, is that she would be very proactive and be a strong female character trying to figure out this mystery, and interpret these supernatural events rather than things happening to her.”
JACKSON on whether he believes in spiritual photography:
“I’ve never had the experience of it. I don’t really work on absolutes, I think it’s impossible to say absolutely yes or no to just about anything. It’s like my issues with faith, I’m not a man of faith, I have a real hard time when people of faith tell me something is absolutely correct, but then it would be hypocritical for me to say it’s absolutely incorrect. So I’ve never had a ghost moment, I’ve never had a ghost in my [camera] but I don’t deny that it’s possible.”
TAYLOR:
“I think [ghosts are] really interesting, it’s a real phenomenon which is really cool. There actually are photographs that have inexplicable images in them, whether or not you want to consider them as supernatural images is up to you. There are photographs that you can’t explain the element in the picture, it’s not a watermark or a technical problem, so it’s fascination. And I like what it represents, which is that it’s how a supernatural being can articulate something that they really need to say if the emotion is potent and strong enough, and it’s about their finding a way to get their message across to us, and in this case it is using the medium of photography.”
JACKSON on working with Japanese director Masayuki Ochiai:
 “There were certainly moments of difficulty, because I think when we would get into the meat of a language heavy scene, it was difficult for him to follow along because he understands only a little bit of English. But in terms of communicating with the actors, or the rest of the Westerners on set, he had a phenomenal translator who was able to not only translate correctly the words, but had lived in the States so could contextualize this is not what I’m saying but how I’m saying it that’s important.”
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 "I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garnerwhen I met her at the Oscars and apologize if I made her uncomfortable." — Gary Busey, apologizing for awkwardly embracing Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month. "To some extent she is her own worst enemy. She has an explosive and volatile character." — Hugh Bennett, a British judge, in his ruling on Heather Mills' bitter divorce from Paul McCartney. Bennett awarded Mills a $48.6 million settlement after her four-year marriage to the former Beatle, and said her $250 million claim "is and was unreasonable, indeed exorbitant." "He was a sweet, warm, bright and funny man who was interested in everything from football to opera, films, music, literature, people and most of all his family whom he adored and to whom I send my thoughts and love. I shall miss him hugely." — Jude Law, in a statement following the death of Anthony Minghella. The Oscar-winning filmmaker died of a hemorrhage Tuesday at age 54. "The story is a lie. It is beyond ridiculous and completely false. Neither (the late rapper Notorious B.I.G.) nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during or after it happened. ... I am shocked that the Los Angeles Times would be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and completely untrue story." — Sean "Diddy" Combs, denying a report by the Los Angeles Times that his associates were responsible for the 1994 robbery and shooting of Tupac Shakur at a New York recording studio, and that he knew about the attack in advance. "It's a dichotomy, I understand. I understand that people think I am a ditzy moron." — Mariah Carey, on how her indisputable talent clashes with her sexed-up image as a "ditz." "I fully plan to, like, bring an iPod in my sport jacket and run the headsets up to where they can't see it into my ears so I won't even hear half of it. But I will tell you right now: I'm not going to invite my mom or anything like that. I have a feeling it's gonna be way over the edge for someone like that to be there." — Matt Lauer, on preparing to be humiliated when "Today" show colleagueAl Roker roasts him at the Friars Club later this year. "I hadn't planned on mentioning this. But I still have stitches and you'll no doubt notice them. ... Don't want you to think I got into a fistfight with Charlie Rose." — CNN's Anderson Cooper, blogging about minor surgery he had this week to remove a cancerous mole from underneath his left eye. "It was a no-brainer. I heard George (Clooney) was making a movie and I said, 'When?' If he had asked me to make peanut-butter sandwiches for the catering, I would have said, 'Crunchy or smooth?'" — Renee Zellweger, telling In Style magazine about taking a role in Clooney's new film "Leatherheads." |
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| Even the Britney biz is in recession |
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 Under her dad’s supervision, she doesn’t offer as many crazy photo ops
Britney Spears’ second release from the hospital was a gold mine for the paparazzi.
Between tabloids, her recording career and her life in general, the revenue generated from all things Spears brought in up to $120 million in the past year. But now that she is staying home, is the business of Spears in a recession?
“Since her father has her under his control, we certainly haven’t seen the number of photos that we used to see coming in of Britney,” X-17 co-owner Brandy Navarre told “Access Hollywood.” “The subject of the photo is just not as interesting as it once was, so the prices do go down.” X-17 saw a 10 percent increase in overall profits with the help of exclusive photos like bald Spears, which made them a half-million dollars.
Now, with the pop star’s recent cleaned-up behavior, the amount of Spears pictures are way down — from more than 1,000 a day to a couple hundred, forcing the photo agency to change focus.
“It’s a different game now,” Navarre explained. “It’s a different challenge. We’re moving on to other celebrities like Brad (Pitt) and Angelina (Jolie and) Jamie Lynn Spears. We’ve moved on to Britney’s sister.”
Needless to say, Spears has shifted in priority.
“We had as many as maybe 10 photographers chasing after her. Now we have probably three or four photographers working on her at any given time,” she said.
And Spears’ gated community is empty these days. The main road once littered with paparazzi is a much different scene now that Britney’s dad, Jamie, has taken charge.
“After he took over the conservatorship, it got really, really slow for us,” Spears’ trusted paparazzo friend Felipe said.
He was scheduled to follow Spears daily, from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., but has since undergone a dramatic shift change.
“She’s not going out at night as much as she used to … you know I started working the daytime between 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.,” he said.
OK! magazine features editor Rob Chilton has noticed the change in his magazine’s focus, as well.
“There are fewer shots now of Britney doing crazy things,” Chilton told “Access.” “Now we’re seeing a more stable, more calm Britney so there are less shocking stories about Britney these days.”
As for Us Weekly, Spears was only on the cover once in the last six weeks, a far cry from last September through mid-February. Then, around the time of her custody battle and hospitalizations, Spears was Us Weekly’s hot topic in 23 out of 24 issues.
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