August 10, 2011
Morgan Freeman Says Now You See Me
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He joins Jesse Eisenberg, Amanda Seyfried, and Mark Ruffalo in the Louis Leterrier picture about an unpopular ex-magician.
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August 10, 2010
Mélanie Laurent Talks The Concert
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From "The Concert" to "Inglourious Basterds," it's been an exciting few years for Mélanie Laurent. She discusses her journey in a new interview with Collider.
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August 18, 2009
Exclusive: Inglourious Basterds - The Cast Discuss Their Characters
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Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's unique take on the Second World War, blasts into cinemas on Friday. Following our interview with the maverick director last week, RT sat down for exclusive chats with Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Melanie Laurent, Til Schweiger, Daniel Brühl and Michael Fassbender to learn more about their characters and the Tarantino experience, with additional comments from the director himself. Join us as we discover Tarantino's original plans to play Pitt's character himself, Diane Kruger's desire to record a song in character and how Eli Roth came to replace Adam Sandler. Inglourious Basterds is released in the UK on 19th August, in Australia on 20th August and in the US on 21st August.
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August 11, 2009
Quentin Tarantino talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview
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With his sixth film, Quentin Tarantino has fashioned the ultimate in pulp fiction, a Second World War epic set in Nazi-occupied France that sees two parallel assassination plots vying to kill off the Big Four: Adolf Hitler, Martin Borman, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. Now, this might suggest that Inglourious Basterds is the pop-culture king's most serious film to date, and though it probably is, it's far from heavy, with outstanding, dry-comedic turns - notably from Brad Pitt as the Tennessee-born Lieutenant Aldo Raine - and an effervescent black humour. Sitting down exclusively with Rotten Tomatoes, he discusses his wartime adventure, over ten years in the making...
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May 20, 2009
Cannes 2009: Tarantino Talks Basterds
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The stars were out in full force to support Inglorious Basterds in Cannes this morning, with writer/director Quentin Tarantino and cast members Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger and Michael Fassbender (amongst others) facing the press on the Croisette. The film follows the efforts of a team of Jewish-American soldiers, nicknamed 'The Basterds', to venture behind enemy lines to capture, maim and kill as many Nazis as possible, and is Tarantino's tribute to the 'men on a mission' movies popularised in the 1960s and '70s. Eli Roth, who plays the baseball bat-wielding Basterd Donnie Donowitz in the movie, called it "kosher porn" for Jews, claiming that murdering Nazis, "is something that I've fantasised about since I was a kid."
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September 9, 2008
Tarantino's Bastards Has Its Female Lead?
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French actress Melanie Laurent has reportedly joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards," apparently as "Shoshanna Dreyfus, a French Jewish girl who flees the Nazis as a teenager."
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