The Italian actress, who played the Mirror Queen in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy, admitted filming was halted because she couldn’t stop laughing as the couple shot their sex scene.

“I just found him so funny, it actually helped though – when you have love scenes with someone that you’ve never met before, it’s difficult,” she told the Daily Mirror.

“You have to create a nice situation, a good sensibility. With him it was easy. He just made me laugh.”

Monica – who stars in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage – admitted sparks flew for the wrong reasons when she first met husband Vincent Cassel on the set of L’appartement.

“It was not love at first sight – in fact, it was the opposite,” she recalled.

“I thought, ‘This guy is very pretentious. Who does he think he is?’ But we got to know each other over time and I realised that he was not as he seemed.”

Source: AP

Through extensive research and interviews with financial insiders and politicians, they can trace the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics and regulation.

Inside Job is directed by American documentarian Charles Ferguson, of the Oscar nominated doc No End in Sight previously. Before starting his filmmaking career, Ferguson was a software developer who also kept an interest in film, attending numerous festivals every year. This premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this summer. Sony Pictures Classics will be bringing Inside Job to limited theaters on October 8th this fall.

Damon appeared in the fourth season finale as Carol, a pilot who Liz (Tina Fey) believes is the man of her dreams.

Shepherd, who plays Angie, has now revealed on her Twitter page that Damon will be reprising his role in a future episode.

“OMG!” she wrote. “I’m on set at 30 Rock sat next to Tina Fey and Matt Damon is sitting behind me! I went over and said hi – think I just got pregnant!”

She later added: “Everybody’s here on 30 Rock! Just passed [Keith Powell] and Judah Friedlander and [have] got a scene with Chris Parnell – whew this is fun! Action!”

30 Rock returns on September 23 on NBC.

Source: Digital Spy

The much anticipated trailer for Matt and Emily’s new movie has finally been released. It looks good and with John Slattery, I couldn’t be anymore excited!

Hereafter is written by Peter Morgan, who penned the screenplays for The Queen and Frost/Nixon.

The movie, which also stars Belgian actress Cecile de France, is part of a line-up of 28 feature films.

David Fincher’s movie The Social Network will open the festival, which starts on 24 September.

Shakespearean romance The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren, will serve as the centerpiece film for the 17-day event.

Eastwood’s latest offering follows a succession of films that have scored box office success and critical acclaim, including Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima and Changeling.

Herefter explores the intertwined lives of people connected to experiences of death or the afterlife.

Eastwood, 80, leads several veteran directors who have been selected to show their films at the festival, including Mike Leigh, 67, Jean-Luc Godard, 79, and Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira who is 101.

Source: BBC News

Damon would play Benjamin Mee who, along with his children, balanced caring for his terminally ill wife, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.

The project is based on Mee’s memoir of the same name.

“Zoo” would mark a departure for Damon, who tends to make more dramatic or action-oriented thrillers. He next stars in the supernatural thriller “The Adjustment Bureau.”

“Zoo” with its blend of animals and heartstrings, may occupy similar terrain as Fox’s 2008 “Marley & Me.” And with the input of Crowe, making his first film since 2005’s “Elizabethtown,” the movie could end up juggling light moments with drama like “Jerry Maguire.”

Source: Reuters

Universal announced Wednesday morning that it was pushing the “The Adjustment Bureau,” the Philip K. Dick-derived sci-fi romance in which Damon plays a politician opposite Emily Blunt’s mysterious ballerina, from its initial Sept. 17 date to March 4.

Damon will instead concentrate on his two other fall films: the Coen brothers’ “True Grit” remake (which Scott Rudin is producing and which will no doubt demand some serious awards-season promotion time, as Scott Rudin films are wont to demand) and the Clint Eastwood thriller “Hereafter.” The latter comes out in December; the former in October.

In fact, the pattern is remarkably similar to last year, when Damon had an awards-season auteur movie (Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant”) and a Clint Eastwood film (“Invictus”) take pride of place over a Universal play. Damon and his wife are also expecting a child in the early fall, so he’s cutting back to just two movies for the season.

Universal’s “Adjustment” adjustment set off/was part of a flurry of other scheduling moves by the studio. Few others were of great consequence, though the James Cameron-produced underwater adventure “Sanctum” will now come out a month earlier, on Feb. 4, (it had been set for the March 4 slot). And the studio has moved from February to September “Devil,’ a claustrophobic horror film that’s produced by the company of the airbender, M. Night Shyamalan (and had been commonly referred to as “The Night chronicles,” the name of a series).

Incidentally, the Damon switch means that it’s the second movie of the fall-spring season about mystical events surrounding a ballerina. Darren Aronofsky follows up his tour de force “The Wrestler” with “Black Swan,’ about mysterious goings-on at the New York ballet, in a likely fall release. And they say Hollywood has abandoned the highbrow.

Source: LA Times

In other release news, Universal’s sci-fi flick SKYLINE will arrive on November 12 and Rogue Pictures’ SANCTUM 3D will hit theaters on February 4, 2011.

Source: Animation World Network