Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone (“Platoon,” “Wall Street”) will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award along with Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy Award-winning actress Lily Tomlin (“9 to 5,” “All of Me”) at the 14th annual Savannah Film Festival. The festival, which will take place Oct. 29 to Nov. 5, will also honor Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy and Tony award-winning actress Ellen Barkin (“The Big Easy,” “Ocean’s Thirteen”) with an Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award and actor James Marsden (“27 Dresses,” “X-Men”) will receive a Spotlight Award.

Films to receive special gala screenings will include David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method;” Drake Doremus’ “Like Crazy,” winner of the Grand Jury and Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist” winner of the Best Actor Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival; Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” winner of the Little Golden Lion Prize at the Venice Film Festival; and Sam Levinson’s “Another Happy Day,” starring festival honoree Ellen Barkin. The festival will also screen Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness,” Famke Janssen’s “Bringing Up Bobby,” Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk about Kevin,” Mark and Jay Duplass’ “Jeff, Who Lives at Home” and Ralph Fiennes’ “Coriolanus.”

Special guests currently scheduled to attend are Alec Baldwin, Universal Pictures President Ron Meyer, James Toback and Famke Janssen.

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Jimmy attended The Cinema Society screening of “Straw Dogs” with Kate Bosworth at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City yesterday. I’ve uploaded 39 HQ photos from this event and 12 HQ photos from The Cinema Society with Dior Homme & GQ after-party for “Restless” on September 14th to the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
Public Appearances > [2011.09.15]The Cinema Society Premiere of “Straw Dogs” in New York City (HQ)
Public Appearances > [2011.09.14]The Cinema Society with Dior Homme & GQ afterparty for “Restless” (HQ)

Jimmy recently attended the Tommy Hilfiger Men’s Spring 2012 fashion show and the after-party hosted by Tommy Hilfiger and Interview Magazine. I’ve uploaded some HQ photos to the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
Public Appearances > [2011.09.09]Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Tommy Hilfiger Men’s Spring 2012 Fashion Show (HQ)
Public Appearances > [2011.09.09]Tommy Hilfiger Celebrates Spring 2012 Collections with Interview Magazine (HQ)

James Marsden is having one of the most unusual years for a leading man in some time. We asked the star of this Fall’s Straw Dogs remake about making the transition from acting opposite a CGI rabbit to a gang of bloodthirsty rednecks

Here’s a hypothesis: No leading man in the long history of cinema has ever starred in two more outrageously opposite movies in a single year than James Marsden. First movie of 2011: Hop, a zany Easter flick for kids in which he stars alongside a tiny CGI bunny. The second: Straw Dogs, a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s ultraviolent home-invasion rape-and-kill-fest, in which Marsden burns off James Woods’s face with a pot of scalding hot water. “I made Straw Dogs first,” he says, “and now I think you know why I did Hop. I needed to do some goofy pratfalls and talk to a rabbit for a few months.”

In the 1971 Straw Dogs, Dustin Hoffman played David, a nebbishy mathematician who goes Seal Team Six on a pack of local lowlifes after they rape his wife. Marsden’s rakishly handsome David? A “Hollywood screenwriter.” This isn’t the only break with the original, and Marsden, 37, is already bracing for the critique that sanding away Peckinpah’s more provocative sexual politics leaves nothing more than an exploitative southern-gothic bloodbath.

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Jimmy was photographed when filming his new movie “Bachelorette” in New York recently. Be sure to check out the HQ photos we’ve got!

GALLERY LINK:
Movie Productions > Bachelorette > On The Set (August 26, 2011)

Jimmy did a new photoshoot for the September 2011 issue of GQ Magazine. Thanks to Boy Culture for the scans!

GALLERY LINK:
Magazine Scans > 2011 Scans > GQ (September 2011)

Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Casey Wilson and Lizzie Caplan are set to star in a feature film adaptation of Leslye Headland’s off-Broadway hit Bachelorette, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Headland has penned the screenplay and will direct. Production is currently underway in New York.

Bachelorette follows a group of twentysomething women who come together in a lavish hotel on the eve of their friend’s wedding. The girls however have always disliked the bride-to-be, who they’ve known since high school, and spend their drug and booze-fueled night ridiculing her, while partying with a pair of guys they meet outside the hotel.

Dunst (Spider-Man) will play the bride, Regan, with Caplan (TV’s Party Down, Mean Girls) and Fisher (Wedding Crashers) as strung-out roommates Gena and Katie. Wilson (TV’s Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live) will take on the role of the maid of honor, Becky. The cast also features James Marsden (Hairspray) as Trevor, Adam Scott (TV’s Parks and Recreation) as Clyde and Kyle Bornheimer (TV’s Perfect Couples) as Joe. (The play featured only two male roles, Jeff and Joe.)

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Universal Pictures has just released DVD and Blu-ray Disk of “Hop” both in Australia and Hong Kong. For me it’s really exciting to see the Hong Kong edtion contains Mandarin and Cantonese languages. There’re also two special edtions for Australian fans, a Triple Play Edtion (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) and a 2-Disc Limited Edtion including bonus games disc.

The DVD region codes for Hong Kong and Australian DVD are 3 and 4, and Blu-ray Disc region codes are A and B. More information about DVD region can be found here. But if you’ve got a region free DVD/Blu-ray player, there’s no need to worry about it.

Hong Kong Edtion DVD (Region 3) Order (Hong Kong title: 復活反斗王)
Hong Kong Edtion Blu-ray (Region A) Order
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Australian Edtion DVD (Region 4)Order
Australian Edtion Blu-ray (Region B) Order
Australian 2-Disc Limited Edition DVD (Region 4) Order
Australian Triple Play Edtion Blu-ray (Region B) Order

The DVD/BD will be released in UK and Italy in a few weeks as well. Now you can pre-order them on HMV, DVD.it or other online stores.

I’ve uploaded some photos of Jimmy filming the movie “Loft” in New Orleans recently.

GALLERY LINK:
Movie/TV Productions > Loft > On The Set (June 6th, 2011)
Movie/TV Productions > Loft > On The Set (June 13th, 2011)

James Marsden and Claire Danes will star in “As Cool as I Am,” an independent film that will shoot in New Mexico next month, TheWrap has confirmed.

Writer-director Max Mayer, who directed Danes’s husband, Hugh Dancy, in “Adam,” is directing the movie, which is based on Pete Fromm’s coming-of-age novel.

“As Cool as I Am” is the story of Lucy Diamond, the teen daughter of self-centered parents who married when they were teens. Marsden and Danes play the parents. The role of Lucy has not yet been cast.

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