The first fifteen or so minutes of this movie will fuck up your eyeballs so bad you’ll need to see a priest afterwards to cleanse them. Bodies ripped apart, young bodies screwing, old bodies humping… oh my. DEATH IN LOVE is about what happens when you love a monstrous Nazi scientist and how it’ll mind-screw you and your kids 50 years later.
Josh Lucas plays a character who just turned forty and this landmark point has him reflecting on life and what it all means. He feels his flesh letting go, he smells himself going sour and is obsessed with the sweetness of youth that he is losing and his continual disconnection from the world around him. He makes love to women like a vampire, absorbing their vigor, then emotionally and mentally tortures them afterward until they can’t stand him anymore. He’s numb, and getting worse every day. In essence, he’s losing the point of it all and misery loves company.
His home life might have something to do with this as we see him visit his parent’s apartment where his 35 year old brother (Lukas Haas) still abides. His brother is a far worse mirror of what he could have become… crazy, out of work, asexual, unable to even eat without inane ritual. His father is an enabler of his abusive mother who has violent outbursts towards her children that you get the impression are not anything new. Throughout the story we see glimpses of the mother’s grisly history and how her past as a young woman in a Nazi camp has had serious repercussions on herself and her family. Also, someone from this past has also come back to haunt her as some of her “friends” start dropping around her like flies when death comes back to claim his love.
Outside of his family life we see that Lucas’s character is also an accomplished con man of sorts. He works for a “talent agency” that is nothing more than a con business that collects money from women with stardust in their eyes. But there is something sad to the work he does because when he teaches his acting classes, that are basically there just to con more money out of the hopeful future models/stars, he does it with real passion and knowledge… as if in another life he could have actually been more than a false prophet. A new agent is brought into the business (Adam Brody) and his love for life, honesty and optimism is so fresh to Lucas that he can’t help but be attracted to him like a mean old crow would be to a bright and shiny new object. But one wonders if the sins of his mother’s first love will destroy even this moment of happiness in his life.
DEATH IN LOVE is a very complex film, that at times makes it feel a little slow so I wouldn’t suggest it for anyone with attention deficit. But the stories that are woven here about a dysfunctional family trying to salvage itself and searching for some kind of point to the world around you resonated with me. It’s beautifuly directed and shot by director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans) and Danish cinematographer Frederik Jacobi, both of which I’d love to see work together again. It’s a very dark drama not for the faint of heart or the prudish. There are a lot of very graphic details in this film that I think are an important part of it to express the gravity of what the character’s are feeling and where their particular points of view come from, but I’m sure will offend quite a few. But for me, I want my films about the point of it all and previous sins coming back to haunt you to be offensive and gritty, because life is pretty dirty at points and I’m glad DEATH IN LOVE didn’t pull any punches.
Source: Aint It Cool
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 A break from Adam news for a few seconds. I’m sure most of you, if not all, have heard about the passing of the talented actor, Heath Ledger. I just want to say that I, and also Linds, really and truly admired his work. Not only was he a gifted actor, but he was also an amazing individual. He hadn’t even reached his prime.
He will be greatly missed and from Adam Brody Online’s small little staff, Linds and I of course, his family and friends will be in our thoughts and prayers. May he rest in peace.
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Bad news…
“Justice League” is no longer moving faster than a speeding bullet.
Warner Bros. has let the options lapse on the young cast that director George Miller chose to play DC superhero staples. The move made it clear that the project is no longer eyeing a spring start. It most likely won’t get underway until late summer or fall at the earliest.
Castmembers were informed late Tuesday that their options would not be exercised, but they were also told that the studio is determined to make the film, with them in it. Unfortunately, there were insurmountable problems that made a delay the best option. The studio’s reasons included not getting the official response it needed on tax breaks from shooting in Australia. And while WB execs like the script they got from Kieran and Michele Mulroney, it would benefit from a little more work, something that isn’t possible because of the writer’s strike.
Some were surprised that the studio didn’t exercise cast options anyway. The deals gave WB the flexibility to exercise the deals immediately, or in July, and the actors will be making salaries in the low six-figure range. While Adam Brody, cast as The Flash, has a track record, most of the cast is comprised of newcomers like Armie Hammer Jr., who plays Batman, and Megan Gale, who will play Wonder Woman.
The studio now risks losing them to other film jobs. But it is likely most if not all of the cast will make sure to be available starting late summer and fall, just in case. That’s because of the starmaking potential of “Justice League.”
Studio had set this week as the deadline to greenlight the superhero tentpole, which it was racing to get into production for 2009 release. That was always considered a dicey proposition, particularly when the writers went on strike, and because the film needs to be completed before the SAG deal expires in June.
With “Justice League” on indefinite hold, the studio has a superhero gap on its 2009 slate, for the status of the next “Superman” pic is also uncertain.
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PORT Fairy is still buzzing after Hollywood star Adam Brody made a surprise stopover in the town.
Brody and a woman believed to be his new Aussie girlfriend Teresa Palmer were spotted dining at Ramella’s Cafe Restaurant on Bank Street.
The star of the now-defunct Channel Ten melodrama The O.C. told autograph-hunters he was just passing through Port Fairy.
Ramella’s waitress Leah Habel, of Koroit, was among the first to spot Brody when he entered the restaurant on Wednesday night.
“I didn’t (recognise) him straight away but after I served him I recognised him,” Ms Habel, 18, said.
The O.C. fan said it was the actor’s laugh that confirmed his identity.
“I did get to talk to him, which was a bit intimidating.
“We were just talking about the food. He ordered the crispy barramundi.”
Ms Habel eventually plucked up the courage to ask for an autograph and Brody obligingly signed the back of her docket book.
“I think it’s pretty cool. I rang all my friends afterwards and they were screaming.
“It was a bit strange. A few people didn’t believe me but I have the proof.
“A few young people were getting autographs from him.
“He was really friendly and really nice.”
Ms Habel said she had long been a fan of The O.C. and although Brody’s character Seth wasn’t her favourite character, he probably would be now.
More at the source.
You can find the picture of the autograph at the source! And in honor of today’s release of The Ten on DVD, here’s a deleted scene from Adam’s part of the movie.
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Normally I don’t post information/gossip like this on the main site, but I know it will interest a few fans since it somewhat has to deal with Adam’s rumoured role in the Justice League movie.
Brody, who became a pin-up to millions of girls playing Seth Cohen in the Orange County-based drama, has started a professional and personal relationship with Palmer, his co-star in the upcoming flick Justice League of America.
While she’s set to kill his character, Wall West aka The Flash, in the superhero blockbuster, it was all sweet lovin’ for the off-screen couple, who held hands and cuddled up over dinner at Lotus restaurant in Potts Point on Saturday night.
Onlookers who contacted Confidential yesterday were stunned to see the celebrity duo, who sat in a party of six, going largely unnoticed for the duration of their meal.
“They were just the sweetest couple and couldn’t stop holding each others hand the whole time,” our nosh spot spy said.
“He signed a menu for a waiter and they posed for a pic but otherwise they were just really cool about being there together.”
Palmer’s last public affair was believed to be with her leading man in the unreleased feature film Kids In America, Topher Grace.
They began dating after meeting on the set, with Palmer dumping her then AFL star boyfriend Stuart Dew to pursue a romance with the Spiderman 3 actor.
With Justice League understood to be on hold as producers try to tweak the script, the couple were last spotted heading off into the night together in a taxi and overheard planning sight-seeing in Port Stephens.
Source.
So if this is true, not the mention of Palmer and Brody dating, Adam should be in Australia now. And after doing some more “searching” someone mentioned in comments at the Superman Homepage that Brody is indeed in Australia rehearsing for an unknown movie. Hmm…
ANYWAY, The Ten DVD drops into stores and shelves tomorrow. So if you’ve been wanting to see the movie, make sure you pick it up! It features an all-star cast, from Jessica Alba to Ken Marino, it is a must see film for any Adam fan!
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Death in Love
Premieres
U.S.A., 2007, 100 mins, Color
Director(s): Boaz Yakin
Screenwriter(s): Boaz Yakin
Producers: Boaz Yakin, Joseph N. Zolfo
Coproducer: Alma Har’el
Cinematographer: Frederik Jacobi
Editor: John Lyons
Production Designer: Dara Wishingrad
Costume Designer: Sue Gandy
Cast: Josh Lucas, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Adam Brody
Summary: What burdens do the survivors of those who survived carry? A young woman in a Nazi concentration camp saves her life by seducing the young doctor who performs medical experiments on prisoners. Cut to decades later, when that same woman (played by Jacqueline Bisset) is living in New York City and married with two grown sons.
The two siblings have developed differently under a mother with a long history of erratic behavior. The younger one can’t cope at all, and the older one copes too well. Portrayed by Josh Lucas, he is now 40 years old and hides out in psychosexual escapades and a job at a fraudulent modeling agency scamming the young and hopeful. He is good at them both–too good. So why is he growing increasingly frightened? Is he losing his game? His sexual prowess and intellectual diatribes no longer make him feel better. He will have to change to survive.
Boaz Yakin returns to Sundance with a wonderfully insightful, yet personal, film about family, guilt, ambition, lust, and the impossible task of trying to live without them. The detailed performances of the talented cast capture the subtleties of characters maneuvering through a minefield of family relationships. Death in Love reminds us that no matter how much we wish it weren’t so, our actions reverberate and affect others in monumental ways, especially those who love us.
Screenings:
Tue. January 22, 6:15pm, Eccles Theatre, Park City
Wed. January 23, 11:30am, Library Center Theatre, Park City
Fri. January 25, 9:00pm, Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Sat. January 26, 4:30pm, Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
ETA: I just found out the film now also has a myspace, check it out! Myspace.Com/DeathInLoveTheFilm
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Adam returned back to LA for New Years and possibly the holidays. Anyway, he was out seen getting his jeans drycleaned, probably for late night partying, and I have added the images to the gallery a few days ago. Check them out!
   
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