[017] October 16th – Mercedes-Benz Spring 2006 L.A. Fashion Week – Louis Verdad
[011] October 16th – Mercedes-Benz Spring 2006 L.A. Fashion Week – Louis Verdad – After Party
[031] November 9th – 3rd Annual Timeless Style Awards
[025] December 11th – The Howard Fine Acting Studio 2005 Winter Wonderful Benefiting Toys For Tots
[009] February 6th – The Pink Panther New York Premiere
[003] March 3rd – W Magazine Retreat – Day 1
[047] March 5th – 2006 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
[021] June 11th – 2006 A Time For Heroes Celebrity Carnival
[005] June 19th – The Devil Wears Prada New York Premiere
[058] June 26th – 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival – The Lather Effect Premiere & Q & A
[017] August 17th – Snakes on a Plane Los Angeles Premiere
[013] September 14th – Olympus Fashion Week Spring 2007 – Calvin Klein – After Party
[010] September 27th – Cast of Off-Broadway’s Suddenly Last Summer in Their New York City Rehearsal Hall
[004] October 11th – Heartbreak House Opening Night
[037] December 17th – Night at the Museum New York City Premiere
A little over a week ago, MTV spoke with Zack Snyder and his wife/producer Deborah about the conversion of his upcoming movie Sucker Punch to 3D. At the time, Snyder didn’t seem convinced that they could do the movie’s visuals justice with the current conversion process.
At a terrific roadshow event for the couple’s other upcoming movie, the 3D animated adventure Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole–look for our coverage of that very soon–ComingSoon.net spoke with Deborah for a bit, and when we asked her whether Sucker Punch was still going to be in 3D, she essentially said “No,” for many of the reasons they mentioned to MTV a few weeks back. Essentially, the Snyders had been working with another company to do the conversion, who then got pulled into finishing up another movie. The most recent results of the 3D conversion tests they’d been doing haven’t met up to Snyder’s infamously scrutinous standards. Deborah told us (and we’re paraphrasing here) that what Zack has filmed and edited together looks so great in 2D already, they didn’t want to take away from it with a weak 3D conversion. In other words, they’re deliberately bucking the current knee-jerk trend to turn everything into 3D. Their next movie Legend of the Guardians is a very different story, because it was entirely conceptualized and visualized to be in 3D from the very beginning.
To be honest, the Snyders and Warner Bros. still have more than enough time to decide if converting to 3D will be feasible without taking away from what Zack is trying to do with his first entirely original film (as opposed to being adapted from other source material). After all, the movie isn’t scheduled for release until March 25, 2011. Warner Bros., who originally announced that Sucker Punch would be in 3D during the height of “Avatar-mania” earlier this year must be well aware of the recent backlash to weak last-minute 3D conversions from their own Clash of the Titans to M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. We’ve also been seeing the percent of box office grosses of 3D to 2D drop quite dramatically over the past few releases, maybe because audiences are becoming dubious that 3D is necessary for every moviegoing experience, not to mention the added cost for tickets.
In the meantime, the Snyders will be bringing Sucker Punch to Comic-Con International in San Diego next week, and undoubtedly, the topic of 3D will arise and hopefully be addressed more directly by Zack (who we didn’t speak to about the conversion) and of course, Warner Bros. themselves.
Carla Gugino will bring the sex to “Californication’s” legal briefs.
The actress, who recently played a porn actress in the South by Southwest debut of “Electra Luxx,” will guest star as a defense attorney for the series’ fourth season, the network announced Thursday (April 15).
Gugino will appear in 10 of the 12 episodes for the comedy.
Novelist Hank Moody (David Duchovny) is in trouble yet again thanks to his rampant horndog tendencies. That fling he had with then-underage fake stepdaughter Mia (Madeline Zima)? Well, she’s gone public and that’s never a good thing. Abby (Gugino) the lawyer is just what he needs to keep him from life behind bars, but can he for once keep it in his pants?
[015] January 12th – Stella McCartney Honors Abbie Cornish’s Performance In Bright Star
[004] January 15th – Golden Globes Party Hosted by T Magazine & Dom Pérignon
Carla Gugino has signed on to the revenge thriller Faster, a co-production of CBS Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group. The announcement was made today by Amy Baer, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Films, the feature film division of CBS Corporation. The project, which started principal photography in early February, is being directed by George Tillman, Jr. (Notorious, Men of Honor, Soul Food) and stars Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and newcomer Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Scripted by Joe and Tony Gayton, Faster follows an ex-con (Johnson) as he sets out to avenge his brother’s murder with a deadly to-do list. Gugino plays Cicero, a detective who is hot on his trail as she diligently connects details of this recent crime spree with those of the brother’s decade-old killing.
The film is being produced by Castle Rock Entertainment’s Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer, a longside Tony Gayton and Robert Teitel. Joe Gayton and Dara Weintraub are executive producers.