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Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters): Actress Anna Faris has been tickling the funny bones of audiences in films such as The House Bunny and on TV shows like Friends since the late 1990s. She has also shown versatility in movies like Brokeback Mountain and programs such as Entourage.

This week, Faris stars in adult-oriented comedy What's Your Number? She plays Ally Darling, a single woman on a quest to marry, but having slept with 19 men she feels like one more would make her ``unmarriageable.'' Soon, Ally learns marriage is not about numbers and love is closer than she thought.

Faris, 34, spoke with Reuters about the film, working in adult-oriented comedies, and co-starring with her real-life husband, Chris Pratt.

Ally feels like one more guy in her bed means no ring on her finger. Is 20 too high or too low?

When this script was at another studio, they thought 20 was too high. They wanted to make it 16. To me, I don't know if 20 is high enough! Don't you feel like it should be 70 or something? (laughs)

Hmmm, what are you saying? Or, more importantly, what are you implying about yourself?

(Laughs) I didn't get out into the world early enough. Plus I had (orthodontic) head gear. If you want your child to stay a virgin, put them in headgear. That's guaranteed to keep your number down!

Your real-life husband, Chris Pratt, who is on TV's Parks And Recreation is also in the film as one of your past lovers. How was it working with him?

We worked on Take Me Home Tonight a few years back and then we worked again on this. He plays Disgusting Donald, who is sort of the catalyst to my character's journey. It was a blast working with him. He makes me laugh all the time. But it's also scary. I felt a little more vulnerable doing our scenes together because I'm always concerned about what he thinks. When it's somebody who's really close to you, you care about their opinion a little bit more.''

Out of all your character's past boyfriends, Ally's storyline with Disgusting Donald was the most chaste.

Yeah. He's the one engaged to a really hot girl! (laughs) I'm like, 'Wait, you guys are going to kiss, again?'

Ah, but Ally has plenty of bedroom scenes with numerous men. How does your husband feel about you shooting those?

He's really supportive and so proud. As actors, we don't show up on the days when the other is supposed to be intimate with another person. I wouldn't want my husband sitting behind the cameras while I'm in bed with Zach Quinto or Joel McHale. Chris is so great about that.

You executive produced this movie. What did that entail, other than being able to cast your husband?

It means I also get to pick out what kind of donuts the crew is going to eat. (Laughs) It was a really collaborative process. I was always asked my opinion. They asked me about my choice of directors, actors, wardrobe -- everything. I have a lot of trust in people who are more experienced than I am.

What's Your Number is rated R in the United States. After successes with other R-rated, adult-oriented, female comedies this past summer like Bridesmaids with Kristen Wiig and Bad Teacher with Cameron Diaz, are you feeling pressure to keep that streak going?

It's always terrifying. Kristin Wiig and I are friends, and I'm so proud of her. I'm so excited that there's now this gang of female comediennes. Conventional wisdom in Hollywood was that women (moviegoers) wanted to see something specific out of women. What this summer has done is flip that on it's head. You can't define a gender's sense of humor.

When you were shooting What's Your Number? did you know there would be this wave or R-rated, woman comedies?

When we shot this last summer, the R-rated female comedy was still dangerous territory. In the past when I've pitched comedies, the first question from the studio was always, 'What's it rated? It's got to be PG-13.' Now the conversation is completely changing.

Ironically, the movie that put you on the map over 10 years ago was the R-rated Scary Movie. Are you comfortable in this niche or do you long to break out of it?

Quick -- somebody put me in a biopic, please! (laughs) It was really hard for me to break out of the Scary Movie genre, and I used to feel like I needed to do something dramatic or some weird, dark independent film to be taken seriously. But I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

Catch The Three Musketeers on us

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 02:47 AM PDT

In the 17th-century, famed Musketeers Athos, Aramis and Porthos steal highly coveted airship designs from a high-security vault, but their sweet taste of success is short-lived. Their beautiful partner-in-crime, Milady drugs the trio and sells the designs to a higher bidder, the ultra-cool Englishman, Buckingham. It's a major blow to the famed swordsmen and leaves disheartened. A year passes and the devil-may-care young D'Artagnan journeys to Paris to realize his dream of becoming a Musketeer, but he finds them a shadow of their former selves, working menial jobs and seeking a cause worth serving.

And that 'cause' soon comes when they have to save the kingdom as the conniving Cardinal Richelieu hatches a deadly plot to overthrow the young King Louis with the help of the double agent, Milady.

Catch The Three Musketeers in cinemas this month. eCentral and Golden Screen Cinemas are giving away tickets to a special screening of The Three Musketeers.

We have 40 pairs of tickets to give away. To get a free pair of tickets, print this page and exchange it for the tickets. See details of redemption and screening below.

Redemption Details

Date: 5 October 2011 (Wednesday)

Time: 11am to 1pm

Venue: Lobby of Menara Star, Star Publications, 15 Jln 16/11, Section 16, 46350 Petaling Jaya

Screening Details

Date: 6 October 2011 (Thursday)

Time: 9.30pm

Venue: GSC Berjaya Times Square

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Produce a short movie

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:07 PM PDT

The 48 Hour Film Project is back, challenging you to make a short movie in two days.

EVERYONE'S heard this one before: "I want to make a film, a short film, but I don't have the time. I never have the time." But there are short films, and even feature films, made in one day, and with almost zero budget. One just has to get off her or his butt and do it.

That's basically what The 48 Hour Film Project is all about. Come up with a story, write the script, shoot the film, edit it, complete the post-production, all in a span of two days. And it all takes place during one weekend, a time when most people do not have to work their day jobs.

At this time in Malaysia, while our mainstream film industry is churning out more than 40 films a year and cramming up the queue for "Wajib Tayang" (compulsory screening), short-film competitions are also jamming up the calendar. In fact, The 48 Hour Film Project press conference took place on the same day as this year's instalment of the BMW Shorties. Perhaps after this, we will be seeing Kuala Lumpur crammed with film crews running around competing for shooting locations.

The 48 Hour Film Project is into its second instalment this year, having more than met the competition's producers' expectations.

Shahril Fahazmi Musa and Elly Marlina Zainal Abidin had expected at most 24 films to be made last year, but they ended up with a total 39 entries, out of which the winner of that inaugural competition was a film by a bunch of students from Mara University Of Technology. Titled Skodeng: Kebenaran Yang Nakal, it was made by the student team that called themselves Produksi Enjitsemut.

The competition not only requires filmmakers to make a short film in just two days, it also provides a set of genres for them to choose from and a few "elements" that have to be included in the film. Last year, contestants had to work a golf ball and a salesperson into their stories.

Shahril said they were more than happy with the results.

"We easily found our 10 best films, including both student and professional entries," he said. "I'm not saying the other 29 are not good. It's just that we had to select the best of the best. Overall, we can compete with the rest of the world. I've seen the films from the other parts of the world."

What he meant was that The 48 Hour Film Project is a competition that is franchised to about 100 cities around the world. It started in 2001 when founder and Washington DC-based filmmaker Mark Ruppert decided to try and make a film in 48 hours.

Last year, Linktree Sdn Bhd decided to bring the competition to KL. All the winning films from around the world then go on to compete at the finale festival known as Filmapalooza that takes place in the United States.

Next year's Filmapalooza will happen at the Taos Shortz Film Festival in New Mexico. Last year, the 14 best films at Filmapalooza were screened at the Cannes International Film Festival's Short Film Corner. Incidentally, this year is also the 10th anniversary of The 48 Hour Film Project.

"Even though we don't have the best equipment here, that doesn't stop us from producing good films," said Shahril. "In fact, last year's winner was shot by students using a handycam."

With the technology available today, it is even easier to make a film. A lot of filmmakers use DSLR cameras to make even feature films. Even an established, internationally renowned director such as South Korea's Park Chan-wook shot a 30-minute thriller using an iPhone 4.

"Something shot on an iPhone 4 is already SD (standard definition), and is good enough by broadcast standards," said Shahril. "We don't want the filmmakers to limit themselves. They can use whatever equipment they choose, as long as the film is submitted in standard definition so that it can be shown on a big screen."

That is one of the promises the organisers make to the contestants. Every completed film will be screened. Last year, a team shot their film on 16mm, but was unfortunately disqualified because they were five minutes late in submitting their entry. But the film was still screened to audiences in a cinema.

This year the judges will be filmmakers James Lee, Woo Ming Jin and Amir Muhammad; filmmaker and actor Abdul Mannaan Abdullah (aka M. Subash); and Primeworks Studios' associate creative director Eddy Lim.

This year's competition, at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, will start at 9pm on Oct 28 and the completed films have to be dropped off at 9pm on Oct 30. The registration fee is RM400, with a special early-bird fee of RM350 until Oct 3.

The awards night will be held at Zouk Club KL on Nov 10.

All the completed films will be screened at TGV KLCC from Nov 1 to 4, depending on the number of submissions.

"We do realise that now we have a lot of short-film competitions," said Shahril. "But our competition is slightly different from the rest. You need to write, shoot, edit and do everything within 48 hours. It's definitely more fun. We have it on a weekend because we want them to have an enjoyable weekend."

For more details, visit www.kl48hourfilm.com. Red FM, operated by The Star, is one of the media partners of the competition.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Rabu, 28 September 2011

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