Watch Out, Ben Affleck! Here Comes Angelina Jolie
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"It came really natural to her," Graham King, Blood and Honey's Oscar-winning producer, told us at last night's premiere of his latest flick, The Rum Diary.
"For her first time on set, she'd go on that set, she knew how to act to the crew, she knew the shots she wanted, she got rehearsals out of the actors. She did a really, really great job."
Angie's flick, a love story set during the Bosnian War, is "extremely real," King said. "That's what Angelina wanted to portray."
No surprise, but King is confident that Jolie is well on her way of becoming the next big acting-directing double threat.
"I honestly think she's fantastic at both," he said. "Ben Affleck did it in The Town, right? He acted and directed and stuff. So who knows?"
Jolie's famous family was in tow.
"The kids were around," he said. "Brad [Pitt] was around...It was a real kind of independent movie which means a family atmosphere."
Others at The Rum Diary premiere, which also served as the launch of the Film Independent at LACMA Film Series, included the movie's stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart and Amber Heard along with guests like Hugh Hefner.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Drive' producer Graham King addresses trailer lawsuit
The producer tells Metro what he thinks of a moviegoer's claim that the Ryan Gosling film's trailer was misleading.
NED EHRBAR
A Michigan woman is suing the distributor of the critically acclaimed
Ryan Gosling film “Drive” because the film wasn’t what she expected
based on its marketing. Sarah Deming is suing the film’s distributor,
FilmDistrict, and Emagine Novi Theater because the movie "bore very
little similarity to a chase, or race action film ... having very little
driving in the motion picture," according to the filing. Deming, who
claims the distributor and theater violated Michigan’s Consumer
Protection Act, wants "an end to misleading trailers" — and a refund.
Metro caught up with film producer Graham King, co-founder of FilmDistrict, to get his thoughts on the lawsuit. “That’s amazing, right? You cut trailers and TV spots to get people in the theater. It’s called marketing, you know?” he says. “If she wins that lawsuit, we’re all in trouble.”
But King isn’t too worried about that happening. As a producer for the likes of Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio, he’s grown accustomed to attention of the litigious sort. “I can’t tell you the amount of lawsuits we’ve had from people. There’s nothing you can say about it, you just have to go through it and put your legal on it,” he says.
“There’s always crazy people coming at you. I had a woman who claimed she was Howard Hughes’ girlfriend — she was about 85 years old when she called me,” King remembers. “And my lawyer’s calling me while I’m on the set shooting [‘the Aviator’] with Marty and Leo and asked, ‘What do you want me to do?’ You deal with it. Especially when you make biopics, you’re always going to find someone coming out of the woodwork somewhere.”
Metro caught up with film producer Graham King, co-founder of FilmDistrict, to get his thoughts on the lawsuit. “That’s amazing, right? You cut trailers and TV spots to get people in the theater. It’s called marketing, you know?” he says. “If she wins that lawsuit, we’re all in trouble.”
But King isn’t too worried about that happening. As a producer for the likes of Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio, he’s grown accustomed to attention of the litigious sort. “I can’t tell you the amount of lawsuits we’ve had from people. There’s nothing you can say about it, you just have to go through it and put your legal on it,” he says.
“There’s always crazy people coming at you. I had a woman who claimed she was Howard Hughes’ girlfriend — she was about 85 years old when she called me,” King remembers. “And my lawyer’s calling me while I’m on the set shooting [‘the Aviator’] with Marty and Leo and asked, ‘What do you want me to do?’ You deal with it. Especially when you make biopics, you’re always going to find someone coming out of the woodwork somewhere.”
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Anyone want to take me to next week's sreening of In the Land of Blood & Honey?
