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Cannes: James Franco Shot As I Lay Dying in Split Screen

Kyle Buchanan,Jada Yuan — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:17 -0400

William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying is one of those books that’s routinely called unfilmable, and with good reason: The relentlessly bleak story of a family beset by constant injury and misfortune on a quest to bury their dead matriarch, this less-than-mainstream tale is also narrated by fifteen ... More »

Cannes: Damon, Soderbergh on the Bared Souls and Butts in Behind the Candelabra

Kyle Buchanan — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:40:46 -0400

Michael Douglas couldn’t speak. Seated on the dais at a Cannes press conference for Behind the Candelabra, he looked at his creative collaborators — including co-star Matt Damon, director Steven Soderbergh, and producer Jerry Weintraub — and suddenly went silent in the middle of his sentence. When he began speaking ... More »

Star Trek: A GIF History of People Getting Tossed Around the Bridge

Adam K. Raymond,Lindsey Weber — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:30:37 -0400

No matter the year it was made, the actors it starred, or the size of screen it was filmed for, every era of Star Trek includes a variation of the same scene: The ship is in trouble. Enemy lasers or unfriendly space terrain threatens the exterior. And inside the crew careens around the bridge, ... More »

Fast 6’s Michelle Rodriguez on Coming Back From the Dead and the Women of the Franchise

Bryan Hood — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:15:53 -0400

With a franchise as long-running as The Fast and the Furious, it’s not unusual to see characters come and go from film to film — unless they’ve been killed off. Michelle Rodriguez’s character, Letty Ortiz, seemingly perished at the end of the series’ fourth installment, but that didn't stop the ... More »

Anna Chlumsky Does Not Shower in the Park

Vanita Salisbury — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:35:34 -0400

Name: Anna Chlumsky Age: 32 Neighborhood: Bushwick Occupation: Actress, currently in Veep on HBO. Tomorrow, May 22, you can catch her telling tales of romance and disaster alongside Wyatt Cenac, Michael Ian Black, Simon Rich, and more at Symphony Space's Selected Shorts. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?Stephen Sondheim. What's the best ... More »

Steven Spielberg Is Making a Halo TV Show

Margaret Lyons — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:20:49 -0400

Steven Spielberg will executive produce a live-action TV series based on the video-game franchise Halo, he announced today at an Xbox event. The show, World of Halo, is for Xbox Live — which means Microsoft is getting into the original programming game, too. On the one hand, hey, anyone would kill ... More »

Seitz Asks: What’s Your Favorite ‘Drug Interlude’ Episode?

Matt Zoller Seitz — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:30:00 -0400

Seitz Asks: What’s your favorite Drug Interlude episode? Seitz Answers: “Hash,” Barney Miller The Mad Men episode “The Crash” was the latest in a subgenre of TV episodes that I call the Drug Interlude. The premise is simple: Take characters whose behaviors are well established, put them under the influence ... More »

Quiz: Can You Name Daft Punk’s Most Iconic Songs in Just Three Notes?

Jesse David Fox,Justin McCraw,Justin Wright — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:25 -0400

Daft punk, with their ever-shifting style, were built to instantly stand out within a D.J.'s set. Their robot vocals, bass thumps, bleeps, and bloops are definitive: You just know a Daft Punk song when you hear one. But how quickly do you know it? In honor of Random Access Memories' release, ... More »

Find Tobias in an Arrested Development Where’s Waldo

Vulture Editors,Nethery Engblom — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:10:53 -0400

To commemorate Arrested Development's triumphant return, we’ve come up with a few opportunities for our fine readers (YOU) to earn yourself some sweet AD swag. (Sorry, not a Cornballer: too dangerous.) We're calling it Bluth's Clues: Every day from May 21 to May 23 we'll feature a different interactive game ... More »

Mad Men: How ‘The Crash’ Retells ‘My Old Kentucky Home’

Margaret Lyons — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:04 -0400

Mad Men is a claustrophobic show. It's set in Manhattan, which contributes to the boxed-in aesthetic, and mostly takes place in high-rises, an even more constricted environment. And it's about hitting a very small target, trying to give people what they want and what you want at the same time. ... More »

Zooey Deschanel Has No Respect for M. Ward’s Coffee Time

Amanda Dobbins — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 -0400

Have you ever watched the long version of the New Girl credits and thought, I wish this involved a sixties movie-musical dance sequence, and also maybe Zooey Deschanel talking to a stuffed duck? You are in luck! Because the Deschanel-directed video for "I Could've Been Your Girl" features all of ... More »

From Around the Web: Jennifer Lawrence Blued Herself Again for X-Men

Vulture Editors — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:03 -0400

We are all interconnected here on the World Wide Web, and all of us entertainment sites operate on a friendly basis. So what are Vulture's preferred partners excited about today? Jennifer Lawrence's X-Men: Days of Future Past getup, the real life Bling Ring, and Zahara Jolie-Pitt's thoughts on PDA. Read ... More »

Arrested Development’s 20 Most Meta Meta-Moments

Jesse David Fox — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:15:00 -0400

The unveiling of the fourth season of Arrested Development is less than a week away. It’s easy to picture the first episode starting off with a wink at the show’s long hiatus and cancellation, because that kind of self-knowing joke is what the show always did: Arrested Development was not ... More »

Cannes: Justin Timberlake Met a Reporter Who Didn’t Realize He Had a New Album

Jada Yuan — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400

Up until last year, journalists, and Vulture in particular, hounded Justin Timberlake for seemingly forsaking music for acting. He finally answered fans’ call this year with The 20/20 Experience, a two-part album whose second half drops on September 30. And now, before heading out on a summer tour, he stopped ... More »

An A-to-Z Guide to Celine and Jesse’s Conversations in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset

Patti Greco — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:35:37 -0400

What do passionate people talk about when they walk around Vienna, then Paris, on two exceptionally romantic dates? So many things! Here's your A-to-Z guide to the topics covered in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, including quotes from Celine and Jesse that you can steal for your next big date. ... More »