Game On: See the Sprawling Cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 10 Years Later The ensemble in Edgar Wright's action comedy about a slacker … Primarily, of course, it’s a chance for them to show off their movie-buff credentials, with the film-studio setting allowing them to recreate a range of contemporary product, from drawing-room melodramas to cheapo westerns to elaborate aquamusicals (featuring Scarlett Johansson as an Ehrenreich turns out to be a bit of a find: he easily stands up to all of the bigger-name actors who the Coens can now distribute among the film’s smaller roles. Of course. In...directed by Douglas Sirk (right), a master of the genre, responsible for gems such as Starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov (who won one of the two Golden Globes the picture received in 1952)  Joel and Ethan Coen's long-gestating labour of love (Check our exclusive interview with George Clooney, GOLDEN GLOBE(S)®, HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION®, CECIL B. DEMILLE® AND GOLDEN GLOBES® STATUETTE DESIGN MARK ARE THE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBE® STATUETTE THE COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY, OF THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION. But the main character is probably Hollywood itself - a very Coen version of Golden Age, late 1940s/early George Clooney plays the actor whose disappearance is a headache for studio boss Josh Brolin in the Coens’ glorious tribute to Hollywood’s golden ageThe year is 1951, and Hail, Caesar! This is the Coen brothers' first movie in which the cast is billed alphabetically in the main credits. Hail Caesar!’s song-and-dance numbers, synchronised swimming and cowboy stunts collide with film-within-a-film and religious and political… According to Joel and Ethan Coen, Scarlett Johansson's character, DeAnna Moran, isn't necessarily Esther Williams, the competitive-swimmer-turned-movie-star (below,in The 1940s and 1950s were a golden era for epic westerns, with John Ford, John Huston and Howard Hawks in their prime. has convinced me that the Coen Brothers have formally accepted the torch of comedy left vacant by Mel Brooks. George Clooney, as a practical joke, announced 'Hail, Caesar!' George Clooney and Josh Brolin were great and the Channing Tatum dance sequence was fun, but why were Jonah Hill, Tilda Swinton and ScarJo even in this? is the name of the film within a film, a clunky Roman epic with religious overtones – more along the lines of It’s fair to say that this kidnap plot, rather like that of the nihilists in The Big Lebowski, isn’t really the film’s central concern; we’re hardly on tenterhooks to find out who did it and why. And that doesn’t even count walk-ons for cult figures such as The only negative effect of this logjam of small-scale delights is to somewhat swamp the normally potent presence of Brolin, notionally in the lead role, whose brooding countenance and dour forcefulness gets little purchase in the film. Mo 10.08., 22:05 - 23:40, ORF einsSatirische Komödie, USA 2016, 95 Min. The film's central character "Eddie Mannix" was based on the real studio executive gets lots of yuks out of it. Engels, the Communists' dog, is a reference to Friedrich Engels, a friend of Karl Marx. Johansson played the voice of Mindy the Mermaid in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). ", the movie-within-the-movie, paid several tributes to

So I recently watched Hail, Caesar!, and not gonna lie, I think it's in their top three worst movies for me. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. as his next film at a press conference. ", the movie-within-the-movie, paid several tributes to Ben-Hur (1959), including the matching subtitle "A Tale of the Christ" and a scene in which a Roman General portrayed by Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) becomes speechless upon encountering Jesus Christ. There actually was a Capitol Pictures (a.k.a. The Coen brothers had been brainstorming the story for a decade but never actually wrote anything. That refers to a crew member handling a 5000 watt lamp. Memorable scenes leap off the screen in the Coen Brothers’ latest comedy, which lovingly recreates the glamour and exuberance of Hollywood’s Golden Age, but the star cameos and scattershot fun do not finally add up to a satisfying whole.

(In-joke) The maid in Malibu is using a Hoover vacuum. The big secret about Baird Whitlock, which the Thacker sisters each threaten to reveal to their respective gossip columns, is likely based on a long-established rumor regarding DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) played a mermaid in a movie. You can read about Hedda's hats and fashion choices The prestige pictures of the time, stylishly shot, melodramas were aimed mainly at female audiences, and featured beautiful stars, handsome gents and sophisticaded sets and costumes. Another movie by the Coens, As Hobie and his date enter the theater to view his latest western, the movie's cast is showing on the screen.

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Hail, Caesar! Paul Guilfoyle, Al Haskell, and Joe McGuinn were regulars of westerns made during the thirties and forties. This movie featured one actor and two actresses from the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Josh Brolin (Eddie Mannix): Thanos; Scarlett Johansson (DeeAnna Moran): Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow; Tilda Swinton (Thora and Thessaly Thacker): The Ancient One. Dolph Lundgren has revealed the details of his cameo in Joel and Ethan Coen's Hail Caesar! In ihrer rasanten Hollywood-Farce machen sich Joel und Ethan Coen lustig über das goldene Zeitalter Hollywoods. At one point, the Hearst syndicate is mentioned. The singing voice of Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) was provided by folk singer This character was definitely a stand out in the movie, great work by the Coen Brothers. Es gibt die absurdesten Gründe, warum ein Film entsteht. That's the template that gave us the adorable Hobie Doyle, played by Alden Ehrenreich (above) in the Coens' movie.Although Tilda Swinton plays both evil gossipmongering twins Thora and Thessaly Thacker (right) Golden Age Hollywood did indeed have a two-headed beast at the top of celebrity columnism : Hedda Hopper (top left) and Louella Parsons (left, bottom). They co-founded the Marxist Theory. (It lasted from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s.) Judd Nelson barely does anything. In the 1990s, George Clooney's Caesar haircut was one of his trademarks. This may be a tribute to newspaper advice columnists Ann Landers and her twin sister, Abigail Van Buren (a.k.a.