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Post by dzero on Mar 7, 2005 15:42:36 GMT -5
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Post by Aerie on Mar 7, 2005 16:43:09 GMT -5
It's a cool little trailer. The more I see of this film the more I'm looking forward to it. "Sin City" looks dark and damn interesting. Something different from everything else out there. This might bring the noir genre back to films. noir A genre of crime literature featuring tough, cynical characters and bleak settings.
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 14, 2005 23:40:33 GMT -5
Jessica's 'Sin City' Striptease March 14, 2004 JESSICA ALBA is poised to hit the big screen big time this year with three blockbuster movies ready to break: ''Into the Blue' (July 15), 'Fantastic Four' (July 8) and 'Frank Miller's Sin City,' first out of the gate on April 1. While she may sport a sexy bikini in 'Blue' and disappear completely as the Invisible Girl in 'Four,' only in 'Sin City' will you find the former "Dark Angel" doing a striptease, film-noir style, for BRUCE WILLIS. "Honestly, audiences are going to be blown away," says Jessica about her stylish new flick. "I play an exotic dancer who was kidnapped when she was a kid. If, in her wildest dreams, her knight in shining armor ever comes back, she's ready for him." Based on the cult series of graphic novels created, written and illustrated by FRANK MILLER, the highly-stylized film contains three stories that take place in the titular, fictional city, translated from Miller's Sin City, The Big Fat Kill and That Yellow Bastard. Bruce and Jessica star in the translation of Bastard, which follows the story of a cop on the verge of retirement who takes on one final case to save a young girl who has been kidnapped by a lunatic. Some of Hollywood's hottest faces were clamoring to be a part of this ambitious project, and those who made the cut include CLIVE OWEN, BENICIO DEL TORO, ROSARIO DAWSON, MICKEY ROURKE, JOSH HARTNETT, NICK STAHL, BRITTANY MURPHY and ELIJAH WOOD. "When we started casting all these parts, strange things started happening; people showed up who looked like my drawings," says Miller. "In a lot of ways this movie's quite literally like having a dream come true." A giant in the comic book/graphic novel world, Miller is credited with single-handedly reinventing the superhero genre with Batman: The Dark Night Returns and his subsequent takes on Daredevil and other well-known superheroes, including Elektra (embodied earlier this year by JENNIFER GARNER in her own adventure). 'Frank Miller's Sin City' is co-directed by ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, the man who brought audiences the 'El Mariachi' trilogy (including 'Desperado' and 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' with ANTONIO BANDERAS) and the 'Spy Kids' trilogy. The film is also co-directed by Miller and "special guest director" QUENTIN TARANTINO, a long-time pal and collaborator with Rodriguez (they first teamed up on the GEORGE CLOONEY vampire-fest 'From Dusk 'Til Dawn'). 'Sin City' was shot entirely with green screens (a process requiring no sets, only actors on a stage with props), and Rodriguez wanted to involve Miller with every aspect of the production, including sharing the directing. "This is the first time a graphic novel will be treated with absolute respect in how it is brought to life," says Rodriguez, who pitched the idea to Miller of "translating" rather than adapting his story to the big screen. "If you look at [Miller's] books, you see that in a way they are already the best written, shot and directed 'movies' never seen in a theater." Upon seeing the initial test footage of the movie -- which even included his name in the title credits -- a pre-cast Willis says, "I started watching it and about a minute in I said, 'Whatever else I see on this, I just want you to know I'm in; I want to do this.'" Watch ET all week for some serious 'Sin City' exclusives! us.ent4.yimg.com/et.tv.yahoo.com/lib/images/celebs/2005/03/11/163_jalba_sincity_050303_dim.jpg[/img]us.ent4.yimg.com/et.tv.yahoo.com/lib/images/movies/2004/05/18/163_jalba_bwillis_sincity_040518_df.jpg [/img] us.ent4.yimg.com/et.tv.yahoo.com/lib/images/celebs/2005/03/11/163_jalba_bwillis_sincity_050303_dim.jpg[/img]Here's the link, et.tv.yahoo.com/celebrities/2004/03/14/sincitytrailer/
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 17, 2005 0:29:33 GMT -5
Here's a link to Zap2it.com's "Sin City" photo gallery, tv.zap2it.com/photos/index/0,1237,zp_fromThumb|94088|,00.html 27 slides or pictures are included.
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Post by dzero on Mar 20, 2005 13:22:31 GMT -5
Here is a link www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/story/291231p-249303c.html to a NY Dailey News story about Sin City. There is a nice quote from Frank Miller about JA and her character. "At first, Jessica came in thinking that Nancy was just a stripper," Miller says. "I explained to her that the idea is that someone might come into the place thinking they're going to see some hard-bodied, sad woman. Instead, what they see is this honest-to-goodness angel. And Jessica worked hard to give Nancy the grace and magic the character required."
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Post by Cate on Mar 21, 2005 0:22:28 GMT -5
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Post by Cate on Mar 21, 2005 0:56:06 GMT -5
Okay, I just downloaded the trailer. There is very little of JA in it, but you get a better idea of the storyline.
Plus, they have given the release date as April 1st!
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 21, 2005 1:05:30 GMT -5
"Sin City" director expresses interest in a possible "Sin City" sequel here. Rodriguez also said he'd be interested in a Sin City sequel. "Yeah, I would do another Sin City. We'll see how the first one does, and if they want another one, we'll do another one."
Here's the link, www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8852
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 22, 2005 19:11:21 GMT -5
Three Women of Sin City Source: Andrew Weil March 22, 2005 Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, and Brittany Murphy star in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City, opening April 1st. ComingSoon.net discussed many aspects of the visually arresting movie with the women. The film places women in a power position, which Rosario Dawson believes is the reason women will flock to see the film. "Are women going to want to see it specifically for that reason? I think absolutely. When she's standing there and he actually punches her across the face, and she actually tries to chop his pecker off... all the women working in Old Town - we take care of ourselves. We are very in control of what we are. We know what our assets are. We make money off of it. We call the shots, which I think is really powerful. It's a very even keel sort of strength between the men and the women. The guys get their balls ripped off and the girls get to do it and will. It's a pretty tough town on both sides." Jessica Alba and Dawson found it refreshing to work in front of a green screen for the entire shoot. "I'm not very experienced in theater," said Alba. "The only training I really had was David Mamet's theater company, the Atlantic Theater company. And all I did was go on these little stages and imagine things, but they were in small rooms so the difference is you still had to shout and project your voice, but everything was little bit bigger and the same with Robert, it's very specific. He fine-tunes your performance so its kind of a marriage of film and theater I felt." "It was just incredible," said Dawson. "You're standing there in this outfit, just completely naked and vulnerable to everything and this crazy dialogue. With Robert's experience - I was kind of lucky because I came out on the very last segment of shooting, so I was there three months into it and actually saw a lot of other footage, so I got the benefit of being able to look at it and go - okay, this does look really amazing, I'm just going to do whatever he tells me to do." Alba's character, Nancy, appears completely nude in the comic book, but Alba decided to opt out for the film. "I looked at the graphic novel and all the pictures. I then found out she was a stripper and was bottomless and topless and, nudity was an option. We could have done it if we wanted to, it absolutely was an option. Robert said that we could do it if we wanted to and obviously it would have been more authentic. I just felt like dancing around with a lasso and chaps was going to be sexy enough, I think being nude, for me, would have been distracting and I really couldn't be bottomless for my dad. He would disown me and freak out." Brittany Murphy and Dawson both work with Clive Owen in the film. "Clive's a stunning actor," said Murphy. "Benicio and Clive were the only actors who were actually in the room with me when I was there. What a joy to work with Clive Owen, I mean really. Any girl…or any boy would. He's an extraordinarily talented man and I learned a lot from him. "It was wonderful," said Dawson. When I saw (Clive) in 'Closer' afterwards, I completely understood because your sense of humor is just wicked. I just had so much fun working with you. It was such a crazy character, such crazy dialogue. We both laughed about it then went gung-ho for it. It was funny. The first time I walked out in my outfit, I had this robe on and everyone was being really good about covering up. I remember, I was taking it off and you're like 'Okay, so I've got to act with that?' and I'm like, 'Yeah, exactly, I've got to act with this as well.' We're doing these scenes and he's backhanding me across the face and it was so amazing. He was so game. I was so game. It was awesome." Here's the link, superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=2761The following is a link to a brief article about some "Sin City" promotion that Best Buy is doing. superherohype.com/news/sincitynews.php?id=2756The following link is to an interview with "Sin City" director Robert Rodriguez, superherohype.com/news.php?id=2759
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Post by dzero on Mar 23, 2005 16:25:30 GMT -5
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Post by dzero on Mar 26, 2005 17:03:23 GMT -5
from canoe.ca
HOLLYWOOD -- Jessica Alba has left the dark side, but she's still somebody's angel. The raven-haired beauty of TV's Dark Angel is now the bottle blond angel of Robert Rodriguez's comic book movie Sin City, which opens Friday.
She plays stripper Nancy Callahan who Sin City's creator Frank Miller calls "the purest, sweetest girl in Sin City. That's the reason she's up on stage performing and not down in the pit serving drinks."
When Miller drew the images of Nancy gyrating on stage for the male patrons of Katie's Club Pecos, it was quite some dance.
Alba, 23, had no idea how racy the images were until after she signed on to play Nancy.
"When I finally looked at the graphic novels I saw the pictures and I then found out that Nancy was a stripper and that she danced not only topless, but bottomless."
It was then Alba had a talk with her director.
"Robert said that the nudity was an option and, obviously, it would have been more authentic to the novels if we'd done it, but I felt that dancing around with a lasso and chaps was going to be sexy enough."
Alba explained to Rodriguez that "dancing around topless would be distracting for me and dancing bottomless would make my dad freak out."
Hence, the stripper Nancy keeps her clothes on for this visit to Sin City.
Another dicey issue for Alba was dealing with the fact her character is 19, but desires a relationship with Hartigan, the hard-boiled policeman played by Bruce Willis.
To the film's credit, Hartigan tries to fend off her advances and his desires by explaining he's old enough to be her grandfather.
"Nancy doesn't think of him as a father. She thinks of him as her knight-in-shining-armour."
Hartigan rescued Nancy from a serial child rapist when she was 11.
"I looked at it from the point of view that she waited until she was old enough to really be in love with him and have that relationship completely. I think Nancy always looked at Hartigan as her soul mate so I don't think the relationship is creepy at all."
Rodriguez admits he felt a little strange when he started directing Alba in her sensuous pole dancing sequence. "I first met Jessica when she auditioned for me for The Faculty. She was 16, cute and kind of dorky. Suddenly I'm asking her to be really sexy. I felt a little like Hartigan when he first encounters Nancy after those eight years and sees how much of a woman she has become."
Alba thought she was going to get the assistance of a choreographer, but recalls that Rodriguez "said for me just to feel it. He said he was just going to play some music and have me dance to it.
"He said that's what he'd got Salma Hayek to do for From Dusk to Dawn."
That was the wrong thing to tell Alba.
"That's the sexiest dance I've seen on camera ever. There hasn't been a sexier dance ever and he was asking me to think I could do the same."
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Post by Flyin11 on Mar 26, 2005 22:18:10 GMT -5
I was just checking the Scifi channel website cause I heard something about a Sin City thingy on next Sun night at 9PM on Scifi? Didn't see anything in the TVGuide listings on their site but saw this article on Sin City: www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=30690Edited 11:31PM: Found out my info from before : Tomorrow night, 9PM EST on Scifi during the showing of The Phantom they are going to have a special Scifi Insider look into Sin City where various cast members will be talking about the movie and then they will be showing a never before seen clip of the movie...Just heard it on the commercial Maybe Jessica will say something..Who knows Don't know if you have to make it through out the whole movie and they might just say stuff during commecrials or what, cause The Phantom was terrible and I'd hate to have to watch the whole movie like that LOL
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Post by dzero on Mar 27, 2005 8:47:59 GMT -5
More Sin City stuff from www.nypost.com/entertainment/41741.htm , there is more to the article on the other girls but this is JA's part. JESSICA ALBA IS NAUGHTY AND NICE AS NANCY... "I'm not someone who goes out clubbing and to raves," Jessica Alba tells The Post. "I'm not really a dancer." But Robert Rodriguez wanted Alba to come up with her own exotic dance for "Sin City," just like Salma Hayek did in his 1996 movie "From Dusk Till Dawn." "And that's the sexiest woman's dance ever put onscreen!" says Alba, 23, who plays the lovely but unattainable strip-club angel Nancy. "Those are big shoes to fill." So Alba plunged into research, including several nights spent watching pros perform at strip clubs in L.A. and New York. On the "Sin City" set in Austin, she learned how to twirl a lasso from real-life cowboys, and there were plenty of mishaps along the way. "I was practicing on everybody," she recalls. "Bruce Willis would walk by, and I'd say, 'Wait, Bruce, can I lasso you? Just close your eyes and put your hands over your face.' "I hit a lot of people in the head. I felt bad about it." In the end, Alba improvised the strip dance in front of a green screen, listening to CD of music she had brought in, "with everything from Emmylou Harris to Kylie Minogue." (Rodriguez added different music for the final cut.) Alba says she didn't actually learn that much from the pro strippers she watched. "All they're doing," she says, "is trying to get tips." And she isn't in a hurry to get back to one of their clubs. "The only person it would be appropriate to go with is my boyfriend," Alba says, referring to Cash Warren, the 25-year-old Yale grad she met last year on the set of this summer's "Fantastic Four," where he was an assistant to the director and she was playing the Invisible Woman. "But I don't want Cash looking at other people," she says. "I want him to think about me naked - not some woman he can throw money at."
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Post by mattjay on Mar 28, 2005 0:24:19 GMT -5
I think this looks well done, and I will definetly be going to see it.
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Post by Flyin11 on Mar 28, 2005 19:24:42 GMT -5
Caught the behind the scenes look at Sin City last night...It had the cast of Sin City answering questions that viewrs had submitted from before...It also has a exclusive never seen clip of Sin City that only Sci Fi had put out. Jessica is in it answering questions as well...So I just went through and editied it all into 1 video clip so it came out to be 4:46 long at 11.9MB...I'd have to say myself, that it was pretty cool seeing the stuff in it Plus, I haven't seen anyone else talking about it so it is in it's own way a exclusive LOL Enjoy... Sci Fi - Inside Sin City
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