Christian Bale
Summary
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. In addition to starring roles in big budget Hollywood films, he has long been heavily involved in films produced by independent producers and art houses. Bale first caught the public eye when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun at the age of 13, playing an English boy who is separated from his parents and subsequently finds himself lost in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Since then, he has portrayed a wide range of characters. Bale is especially noted for his cult following: the tenth anniversary issue of Entertainment Weekly hailed him as one of the "Top 8 Most Powerful Cult Figures of the Past Decade", citing his cult status on the Internet.
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Would You Watch a 13-Minute Infomercial for 'The Dark Knight Rises'?
It's as much a celebration of director Chris Nolan as a "making of" promotion, but it's hard not to be sucked in by the spectacles glimpsed.
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Bad Rehab
John Landgraf, president and general manager at FX Networks, sat with his team in the glass-walled conference room of the network’s Los Angeles offices last October to hear a pitch for a new series from Bruce Helford, veteran TV writer, producer and co-creator of The Drew Carey Show, and his newest creative partner, Charlie Sheen.
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Herman Cain's bunny-busting tax code metaphor | Lizz Winstead
At least, I think it's a metaphor. With Cain, it can be hard to tell.
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Trailer Mash 12-23-11
Against the odds, the first teaser for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was rather thrilling. Against the odds because by the time it appeared this fall, who wasn't bored to death of Lispeth Salander after three novels and three foreign-language movie versions of a story whose notoriety rested largely on one episode early on in the first book? Despite this ennui, the teaser set a frantically cut sequence of snowy postcards from the book to Trent Reznor's crackling cover of "Immigrant Song" and punched it through with texts that owed much to the title sequences of Gaspar Noe films.
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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting, Dec. 16
What the NFL deal means for cable bills, Christian Bale assaulted in China, Rick Perry Tebows in Iowa and two notable deaths: Christopher Hitchens and Joe Simon.
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The Breakfast Meeting, Dec. 16
What the NFL deal means for cable bills, Christian Bale assaulted in China, Rick Perry Tebows in Iowa and two notable deaths: Christopher Hitchens and Joe Simon.
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Newsies (1992)
Before Christian Bale became Batman, he was Jack Kelly, a newspaper boy with a dream in his heart and calluses on his feet, in the Disney musical Newsies. Yes! Kelly was a superhero of sorts, too—a singing, dancing, teenaged labor agitator who led a band of agile young news vendors in their efforts to extract better wages from the news.
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Netflix nabs another exclusive deal ahead of cable
Netflix is continuing its content acquisition spree, announcing Tuesday that it has licensed exclusive rights to future films from indie studio Open Road Films. The deal, which will ensure that Netflix is the only place viewers can watch Open Road Films’ movies during the pay TV window, follows the streaming subscription company’s recent habit of locking down titles from independent producers.
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For Netflix, a Risky Bet on Original Programming
Netflix is reportedly in talks to score its first original programming, bidding against cable networks like HBO for the rights to a new project called House of Cards that would star Kevin Spacey and be directed by David Fincher. According to Deadline, which first reported the news Tuesday, Netflix would commit to two seasons — or 26 episodes — of the program, a pretty unprecedented amount for a show that no one’s seen.
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And the winners will be…
I’ll probably be live-tweeting some of the Oscars tonight, so I wanted to post my predictions before hand.
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