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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:40 AM PDT

Irish actor Colin Farrell had the time of his life chomping on necks in his latest movie.

WHEN he was first offered the part of Jerry Dandridge, the sinister, murderous vampire in this year's remake of the 1985 horror classic Fright Night, Colin Farrell was hesitant. He wasn't keen on doing a remake of a cult classic of which he is a fan.

Remakes, reckoned Farrell, could go disastrously wrong and after suffering several epic setbacks in movies that didn't go well – namely Alexander (2004) and Miami Vice (2006) – Farrell wanted to stay under the radar. He didn't want to do another movie that could lead him to the firing squad again, even though he redeemed himself in Martin McDonagh's In Bruges in 2008.

"This was a remake of something that I knew and loved and held in such nostalgic esteem," he's been quoted as saying, on online movie portal, collider.com. "When I watched it for the first time, I was 10 or 11 and I loved it. I've seen it maybe 20 times since. I was worried about the notion of being involved. The ego doesn't want to be involved in remakes because then people go, 'Remakes? That's unoriginal ... uncool'."

But Farrell is Jerry in the recently released horror flick directed by Craig Gillespie. What changed?

"Well, I needed a job. I'd not been working for six months and I needed work," he half-jokes during a telephone interview recently. "I should probably say that I liked it too."

The truth is, Farrell had fun reading the script by Marti Noxton (of Buffy The Vampire Slayer). "I can't work on a movie if I don't like the script and this one was really fun to read. I also spoke to Craig Gillespie and I really liked what he had planned for the movie. He had a really clear idea of how he wanted to tell the story. I'd seen Lars And The Real Girl (Gillespie's earlier movie starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Mortimer) and loved it. Craig has the ability to strike a balanced tone between the absurd and comedic elements," shares Farrell, 35.

In the 3D update of Fright Night, Farrell plays a sinister vampire who moves in next door to Charley Brewster, a naive high school student (played by Anton Yelchin), and his mother (Toni Collette). A series of incidences makes Charley suspect his neighbour may be a vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths. But no one believes him. So, he enlists Peter Vincent (David Tennant), a self-proclaimed vampire killer and Las Vegas magician to help him take down Jerry.

Being involved in Fright Night and Horrible Bosses (another movie opportunity that came along around the same time) was a welcome respite for Farrell after having portrayed many dramatic characters in the past.

"I was looking for something a little lighter. They (the previous roles) were a lot of fun but they were heavy jobs, you know, and I wanted something light. What could be more fun than playing a vampire and killing people?" says the charming actor who is from Castleknock, a district in Dublin, Ireland.

Apart from In Bruges (for which he won a best male performance Golden Globe), Farrell was last seen in Triage (2009) a drama in which he plays a photojournalist who has just returned from war and Ondine (2009), a romantic drama which features him as a fisherman in love with a mermaid.

Farrell made his acting debut in Ballykissangel, a popular BBC TV drama set in Ireland, but was first discovered while acting on stage at the Donmar Warehouse in London by actor Kevin Spacey who recommended him for a role in the crime drama Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000). This led to him being cast in director Joel Schumacher's war movie Tigerland (2000). Playing the cocky young Texas soldier Boz in Tigerland turned out to be Farrell's breakout role – he was cast in five other movies almost consecutively after that stellar performance.

After American Outlaws (2001), Hart's War (2002), Phone Booth (2002), The Recruit (2003) and Daredevil (2003), Farrell soon became Hollywood's new leading man. Unfortunately, his quick rise to fame came with complications. It wasn't long before he fell victim to addiction.

The brash Irish actor began making headlines not for his acting accomplishments, but his party-boy ways. Alcohol, drugs and dalliances with numerous women (which resulted in two sons, seven-year-old James and Henry, two) were his all-consuming pursuits.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Farrell described described himself as going through a stage of "profound arrested development" at the time.

He was falling into a downward spiral and things only got worse when Alexander (Oliver Stone's RM465mil "pet" project ) bombed at the box office worldwide. Farrell was gutted.

"That was a strong one," Farrell was quoted saying later. "But if you're going to fail, fail spectacularly. Which is kind of what that film did, critically, creatively, financially."

The fact that Miami Vice was also fraught with problems didn't help the actor's confidence – the film went over schedule, over budget and director Michael Mann reportedly kept changing the script, leading to chaos on set. Worse, lead star Jamie Foxx walked off the set in the Dominican Republic after someone got shot by a security officer (who was reportedly a gang member), and the cast and crew had to deal with unsafe weather conditions (hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma all happened during the filming).

It was all a little too much and after filming completed, Farrell checked himself into rehab.

It's been six years and the determined star seems to have his life back on track. He's moved on from party boy to ... erm, vampire?

"I think every boy actor wants to play a vampire or a boxer," says Farrell about his role as the blood-sucking Jerry. "I've loved vampire films since I was young."

Because he is such a huge fan of vampire films, Farrell found himself having to go through a ritual before he went on set – he'd do a Dracula impression before each scene.

Farrell explains: "There is so much vampire lore embedded in my brain ... from Nosferatu (1922) to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) to Fright Night and the Count in Sesame Street. There was this voice in my head that I just had to get out of my system so that I wouldn't take it into my scenes. I had to get it out, that's all."

Farrell has said in previous interviews that his portrayal of Jerry is very different from the original version.

He says: "This vampire was designed in a very specific way ... as a sexual predator, a survivalist, as kind of the ultimate example of carnivorous existence. Someone that reacts without compunction or remorse or even contemplation.

"It was less appealing to me than the kind of vampire initially designed. I found him kind of oppressive so I asked: 'Does he have to pick her up in the night club? Can we not have the seduction anymore? Can we do this, can we do that?' and two weeks into the film, Craig was like 'Colin, you're fighting the wrong fights. You address what's in the script but bring something new to it.'

"And so, I had to engage myself with this animal, this beast and then after deliberation, I started to enjoy walking around in his shoes, engaging with that cruel sense of power that Jerry carries with himself throughout the whole film. He so gets off on his own power and also, he's really bored. He's bored and he's so sick of these humans because they're so dull and he needs them to feed. And if he can get some sport out of them, that's all well and good."

Filming, says Farrell, was a lot of fun.

"We shot most scenes in Rio Rancho, (a desert community northwest of Albuquerque) New Mexico, in the United States. It was a really beautiful town ... quite romantic. I had a blast on the set ... we worked really long hours, maybe 10 to 12 hours a day but it was a blast. I mean, I was chomping on a couple of necks every day!

"No ... it was a great cast and everyone was on the same page," he said.

Having taken on the challenge of acting in the remake of an iconic movie with a considerable fan base, Farrell says he wasn't necessarily anxious when playing the re-imagined Jerry but he does hope that Fright Night fans enjoy the film.

"I kind of always feel pressure when I do any film," he says. "I know that the original was held very highly by a lot of people and I just hope they watch this with an open mind."

> Fright Night is now playing in cinemas nationwide.

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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:10 AM PDT

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Desperate, Adnan has no choice but to train two bumbling fools to become champions in the upcoming tournament. Starring Rosyam Nor, Scha Al-Yahya, Johan and Fadzly Kamarulzaman.

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Taylor Lautner sees new dawn with Abduction

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:50 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters): To legions of teenage girls and fans of the Twilight films, Taylor Lautner will always be known as Jacob Black, the werewolf who competes with a vampire for the love of a young woman.

But today, the boyishly handsome actor with the six-pack strong abdomen hopes to broaden his appeal to wider audiences, headlining movie marquees on his own for the very first time in action thriller Abduction.

Lautner, 19, finds himself the sole person on the movie's poster with his name above the title -- a major fete for any actor in Hollywood. And he must prove not only that he can draw audiences to box offices, but also that Lautner -- like Cruise or Pitt or Clooney before him -- can be a powerful brand name.

Abduction marks the inaugural film of his production company Quick Six, which he runs with his father, Dan Lautner, and the hope is that there will be many more to come.

"I'd be lying if I said I did not feel any pressure whatsoever right now," Lautner confessed to Reuters. "But I'm trying not to focus on that."

Directed by John Singleton, the film sees Lautner portray a teenager named Nathan who learns that his parents aren't really his and that his life has been a lie.

When he's targeted by trained assassins for reasons unknown to him, Nathan goes on the run with his neighbor Karen (Lilly Collins). While evading capture, he and Karen must piece together the truth of his life, while protecting themselves from certain death.

Though Lautner has been working consistently in films and on TV for over 10 years -- including roles in The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl 3-D and Cheaper By The Dozen 2 -- he said it wasn't' until the media began buzzing about New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight franchise, that he started being approached for other projects.

He was drawn to Abduction because he "fell in love with the character, the journey he went on, and I knew it would be challenging for me physically and emotionally."

Lautner -- who is a martial arts champion -- was eager to take on the stunts required for the action-packed movie.

"I was excited to use my martial arts and some of my athleticism in this, but there were some new things I had never done before," he said. "I never boxed before and motorcycling was new."

But acting is more than stunts, and Lautner said he found it challenging to relate to Nathan when the young character learns the life he has led is in fact, a lie.

"If that happened to me, I have no idea what I would do and that's exactly what Nathan is dealing with," said Taylor. "Abduction stretched me as an actor and challenged me emotionally way more than I've ever been challenged before."

In fact, Lautner said working on Abduction -- which he shot before going back to work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part One) and Part Two -- made him that much better of an actor to return to the Jacob Black role.

Lautner said that in Breaking Dawn, Jacob starts out as the same immature character viewers have come to know, but when he realizes the girl he loves has married the vampire, "he's forced to finally mature, to step up and be a man and deal with those emotions."

He said that with the Twilight movies now wrapped, "It's weird knowing that we're not going back to these characters we've lived with for the past four years.

"It was sad when we finished because we had all become so close. The biggest thing I've taken away are the relationships."

And Taylor's sentiments are not just confined to his co-stars, but to the Twilight fans, as well.

"I really do owe them everything," he said. "Those who have supported us for the last four years are the reason I was able to make this movie, so I definitely made Abduction for them."

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Khamis, 22 September 2011

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