Posts Tagged ‘Jeff Bridges’
American Masters – Jeff Bridges on becoming a movie star
American Masters 25th Anniversary season premieres on January 12th with the Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges. Jeff spoke of his family and his career at the TV Critics Association tour and here is what he had to say…
Country Strong – Garrett Hedlum sings for his supper
2010 was a very big year for Garrett Hedlund. He just finished shooting On the Road opposite Kristen Stewart and Sam Riley, based on Jack Kerouac’s novel; he co-starred with Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy and his new movie Country Strong opened…
True Grit – How the Coen Brothers made an exotic western
The brothers have now moved into the Western genre with their adaptation of Charles Portis classic novel, True Grit, which was originally made into a movie in 1969, winning an Academy Award for its lead actor, John Wayne. Ethan and Joel tell about making this exotic story…
True Grit – Jeff Bridges gets dirty
After seeing Jeff Bridges in True Grit all I can say is, move over Duke, the Dude owns this role now! Jeff spoke with us about this new accomplishment in his career…
True Grit – Why Hailee Steinfeld tried to have fun on her first movie
The casting directors spent months seeing thousands of young girls across America for the role of Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine who is out to avenge her father’s murder. Then, right under their noses, 13-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, from Los Angeles, walked into their office. Here Hailee gives her story…
Tron: Legacy – Garrett Hedlund on hanging out with the Jeff Bridges
Garrett Hedlund wasn’t even born when Walt Disney’s ground-breaking sci fi movie Tron opened in 1982. Almost thirty years later, the young actor gets to be a part of the franchise playing Sam Flynn, the grown up son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world’s leading tech visionary, who disappeared when Sam was seven-years-old…
Tron: Legacy – Three featurettes videos
The three featurettes in this post are:- The World of Tron which includes comments by Production Designer Darren Cliford; Style of Tron features Garrett Hedlund who plays Sam Flynn; The third is about Clu. Clu is a hacker program played by Jeff Bridges…
Tron: Legacy – How Jeff Bridges can play himself at any age now!
In 1982, Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges starred as Kevin Flynn, a genius video game developer who got sucked into his own creation, in Tron. In the movie Jeff Bridges is the first actor in cinematic history to play opposite a young version of himself. Here Jeff gives his story…
Tron: Legacy – Release dates, trailer and image gallery
This is a Sci-Fi action adventure from Director Joseph Kosinski. The trailer, in this post, is full of great visuals but of course we have to wait and see how well it squares up to the original 1982 film Tron that this sequal is based on…
Tron: Legacy – The cast and crew preview the upcoming sequel
One of the most highly-anticipated films of the year is Disney’s Tron Legacy, a 3D high-tech follow-up to the groundbreaking 1982 film, Tron, which opens December 17, 2010. Read the full post for the cast and crew previewing the upcoming sequel…